Session 9 | 
|   | Theoretical and modeling studies of mesoscale processes III | 
|   | Chair: George H. Bryan, NCAR, Boulder, CO 
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 | 1:45 PM | 9.1 | Observations and simulations of a long-lived tornadic mesocyclone that formed in a low-CAPE environment with PV banners spawned by the Colorado Front Range     Bart Geerts, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and T. Andretta, J. Vogt, Y. Wang, and S. Luberda | 
 | 2:00 PM | 9.2 | Importance of horizontally inhomogeneous environmental initial conditions to very short range thunderstorm forecasts     David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Gao | 
 | 2:15 PM | 9.3 | Some Lessons on the Predictability of Convective Systems over a 36 h Timeframe     Morris L. Weisman, NCAR, Boulder, CO	; and K. Manning and D. Dowell | 
 | 2:30 PM | 9.4 | Aircraft measurements and numerical simulations of gravity waves in the extratropical UTLS region during the START08 field campaign     Fuqing Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and M. Zhang, K. P. Bowman, L. Pan, and E. Atlas | 
 | 2:45 PM | 9.5 | Observations of tropospheric, convectively generated gravity waves from atmospheric profiling platforms      Daniel R. Adriaansen, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. J. Alexander and G. L. Mullendore | 
 | 3:00 PM | 9.6 | Generation of inertia-gravity waves from jets within vortex dipoles     Shuguang Wang, Columbia University, New York, NY; and F. Zhang | 
 | 3:15 PM | 9.7 | Mechanisms for spontaneous gravity-wave generation within a dipole vortex     Chris Snyder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Plougonven and D. J. Muraki |