Session: Tropical Cyclone Structure I (2006

Session 1B
	Tropical Cyclone Structure I
	Chairperson: Yuqing Wang, International Pacific Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
	8:00 AM	1B.2	Potential vorticity rings and eye subsidence Wayne H. Schubert, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. K. Taft, C. M. Rozoff, B. D. McNoldy, J. P. Kossin, and S. R. Fulton
	8:15 AM	1B.3	Interactions between simulated tropical cyclones and an environment with a variable coriolis parameter Elizabeth A. Ritchie, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and W. M. Frank
	8:30 AM	1B.4	Phase space-based evaluation of numerical forecasts of cyclone structure evolution Jenni L. Evans, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA; and J. M. Arnott and F. Chiaromonte
	8:45 AM	1B.5	Energetics of idealized hurricane-like vortices Young C. Kwon, Penn State Univ, University Park, PA; and W. M. Frank
	9:00 AM	1B.6	Formation of the Hurricane Eye Jonathan Vigh, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
	9:15 AM	1B.7	A Study of Current Data Sets for Outer Wind Radii Adam Moyer, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and J. L. Evans
	9:30 AM	1B.8	Objective identification of annular hurricanes using GOES and reanalysis data Thomas A. Cram, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and J. A. Knaff, M. M. DeMaria, and J. P. Kossin

Monday, 24 April 2006: 8:00 AM-9:45 AM, Regency Grand BR 1-3

Session 1B