A53I
Tropical and Midlatitude Convective Storm Systems and Their Roles in Weather and Climate II

Friday, 18 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
3006 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, CUNY City College, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Susan C van den Heever1, Graeme L Stephens2 and Jessica L. Neu2, (1)Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States(2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Chairs:  Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States; CUNY-NOAA CREST, New York, NY, United States and Susan van den Heever, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, CUNY City College of New York, New York, NY, United States; CUNY-NOAA CREST, New York, NY, United States
13:40
Tropical convective onset statistics and establishing causality in the water vapor-precipitation relation (Invited) (59694)
J David Neelin1, Yi-Hung Kuo1, Kathleen A. Schiro2, Baird Langenbrunner1, Carlos R Mechoso1, Sandeep Sahany3 and Diana N Bernstein1,4, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)National Environment Agency Singapore, Singapore, Singapore, (4)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
13:55
Convective and Stratiform Components of the Precipitation-Water Vapor Relationship (62925)
Fiaz Ahmed, Texas A&M University, Bryan, TX, United States and Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, United States
14:10
Significant Contribution from Organized Deep Convection on Observed Changes in Tropical Rainfall (Invited) (58806)
Jackson Tan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA, United States; Oak Ridge Associated Universities Inc., Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Christian Jakob, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, William B Rossow, CREST Institute/CCNY, New York, NY, United States and George Tselioudis, NASA/GISS, New York, NY, United States
14:25
Convective Cloud Ice Water Content Distribution in the Upper Tropical Troposphere (83309)
Melody A Avery, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
14:40
Satellite-Based Analysis of a Warm Conveyor Belt in a Marine Extratropical Cyclone (65282)
Juan Crespo and Derek J Posselt, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
14:55
Cold Pool and Surface Flux Interactions in Different Environments (75366)
Leah D Grant, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Susan C van den Heever, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
15:10
On the Sizes and Lifetimes of Cold Pools (75296)
David M Romps and Nadir Jeevanjee, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States
15:25
A Simplified Model of Tropical Cyclone Intensification (Invited) (74717)
Wayne H Schubert, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
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