Session 7B |
| | Climatological Studies of Severe Storms |
| | Organizers: John P. Monteverdi, San Francisco State Univ., San Francisco, CA; Eugene W. McCaul, Jr., USRA, Huntsville, AL
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| 4:30 PM | 7B.1 | Climatological aspects of convective parameters from the NCAR/NCEP reanalysis  
Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. R. Anderson |
| 4:45 PM | 7B.2 | Proposals for modernizing definitions of tornado and severe thunderstorm outbreaks
Roger Edwards, SPC/NWS/NOAA, Norman, OK; and R. L. Thompson, C. Crosbie, J. A. Hart, and C. A. Doswell |
| 5:00 PM | 7B.3 | Leveling the field for tornado reports through time: Inflation-adjustment of annual tornado reports and objective identification of extreme tornado reports
Stephanie M. Verbout, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie, H. E. Brooks, and S. L. Bruening |
| 5:15 PM | 7B.4 | A preliminary climatology of tornado events with closed cold core 500 mb lows in the central and eastern United States
Jonathan M. Davies, Wichita, KS; and J. L. Guyer |
| 5:30 PM | 7B.5 | The Tornadoes in Ontario Project (TOP)
David M. L. Sills, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and S. J. Scriver and P. W. S. King |
| 5:45 PM | 7B.6 | Lower Michigan MCS Climatology: Trends, Pattern Types, and Marine Layer Impacts
Randy Graham, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. L. Bentley, J. A. Sparks, B. Dukesherer, and J. S. Evans |