A54F
Tropical and Midlatitude Convective Storm Systems and Their Roles in Weather and Climate III

Friday, 18 December 2015: 16:00-18:00
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
16:00
The Variable Nature of Convection in the Tropics and Subtropics: A Legacy of 16 Years of the TRMM Satellite (70501)
Robert Houze1, Kristen Lani Rasmussen2, Manuel D Zuluaga3 and Stella R Brodzik1, (1)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Seattle, WA, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Universidad Nacional de Colombia,, Medellin, Colombia
16:15
Large-scale and Convective-scale Updraft Profiles from Satellite Observations (Invited) (58527)
Hirohiko Masunaga, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan and Zhengzhao Johnny Luo, City College of New York, CUNY, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, New York, NY, United States
16:30
Estimates of geographic variability in vertical motion profile bottom-heaviness (83484)
Larissa E Back, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States
16:45
Vertical Motions in Convective Clouds Over Darwin, Australia (75515)
Holly Mallinson, University of Louisiana Monroe, Monroe, LA, United States, Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States and Fiaz Ahmed, Texas A&M University, Bryan, TX, United States
17:30
Global Distribution of Deep Convection Penetrating Tropopause (64971)
Liu Nana, Texas A & M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
17:45
The Role of Gravity Waves from Severe US Convection in Driving the Brewer-Dobson Circulation Using a Model with Realistic Thermodynamic Sources (82439)
Claudia C. Stephan, University of Colorado at Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States and M Joan Alexander, NorthWest Research Associates Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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