25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Poster Session 1: Tropical Cyclones, Large-scale Dynamics and Convection

Monday, 29 April 2002: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Papers:
 
P1.1
Regional damage assessment of U.S. landfalling tropical cyclones with a focus on North Carolina

 
Surface observations of landfalling hurricanes along the United States Gulf and Atlantic coastline (Formerly Paper 8A.1)
Gary D. Skwira, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX; and R. E. Peterson, D. A. Smith, C. -. B. Chang, and A. L. Doggett

 
Anomalous Intensification of the Remnants Tropical Storm Allison over land
Kwan-yin Kong, City College of New York, New York, NY

 
A Coastal Internal Boundary Layer within a Tropical Cyclone
J. Rob Howard, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and J. L. Schroeder

Poster PDF (109.9 kB)
 
Inland tropical cyclone wind forecasts for peninsular Florida
Scott M. Spratt, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and R. F. Morales Jr.

 
Orographic Influences on Rainfall and Track Associated with the Passage of Tropical Cyclones
Yuh-Lang Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and D. B. Ensley, S. Chiao, C. M. Hill, and C. Y. Huang

Poster PDF (68.5 kB)
 
Aspects of the Tropical Cyclone Program of NOAA/NESDIS
Michael A. Turk, NOAA/NESDIS, Washington, DC; and S. J. Kusselson

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/NWAOct2001a.ppt

Poster PDF (64.8 kB)
 
P1.11
Typhoon track prediction using a barotropic global-DFS-spectral model

 
The Impact of Dropsonde Data on Forecasts of Hurricane Debby by the Met Office Global Model
Julian T. Heming, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and X. Qu

 
How the NCEP tropical cyclone tracker works
Timothy P. Marchok, SAIC at NCEP/GFDL, Princeton, NJ

Poster PDF (139.3 kB)
 
Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting
Shuyi S. Chen, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and M. Lonfat, J. E. Tenerelli, R. F. Rogers, and F. M. Horsfall

 
Modeliong Track Deflection For Tropical Cyclones Passing Over a Mesoscale Mountain and its Potential Application to Track Prediction
Yuh-Lang Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and N. C. Witcraft and S. Y. Chen

Poster PDF (68.0 kB)
 
The application and use of UW-CIMSS specialized satellite products in Tropical analysis
Jamie R. Rhome, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/TPC, Miami, FL; and C. S. Velden

 
An Evaluation of CIMSS and CIRA AMSU Tropical Cyclone Intensity Estimation Algorithms
Julie Demuth, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria, J. A. Knaff, C. Velden, and K. F. Brueske

 
UW-CIMSS Satellite Products: Recent Research and Developments
Christopher S. Velden, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Poster PDF (23.3 kB)
 
P1.19A
Steering dynamics of hurricanes based on satellite-derived far field winds (Formerly Paper Number 2D.1)

 
Operational uses of satellite products at La Réunion
Anne-Claire Fontan, La Reunion Tropical Cyclone Center, Meteo-France, La Reunion, France

Poster PDF (143.8 kB)
 
Microwave satellite retrievals for tropical cyclone forecasting and research
Chelle L. Gentemann, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and D. K. Smith and F. J. Wentz

 
The enhanced role of the polar orbiter constellation in tropical system monitoring in the wake of a geostationary platform failure
Steven D. Miller, NRL, Monterey, CA; and F. J. Turk, T. F. Lee, K. Richardson, and J. D. Hawkins

Poster PDF (486.2 kB)
 
Examining the Eight-Day Evolution of Upper Level Winds in Hurricane Floyd
John A. Knaff, NOAA/CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and C. S. Velden

Poster PDF (40.1 kB)
 
Additional Insights into Hurricane Gust Factors
John L. Schroeder, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and M. R. Conder and J. R. Howard

Poster PDF (103.4 kB)
 
Operational use of QuikSCAT over tropical cyclones
Roger T. Edson, Anteon Corporation, Univ. of Guam, Mangiliao, Guam; and M. A. Lander, C. E. Cantrell, J. L. Franklin, P. S. Chang, and J. D. Hawkins

Poster PDF (153.6 kB)
 
Simulations of Hurricane Erin (2001) with MM5: sensitivity to microphysics
Greg M. McFarquhar, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and J. Dudhia and H. Zhang

 
A Cyclone phase space Derived from Thermal wind and thermal asymmetry
Robert Hart, Penn State University, University Park, PA

http://eyewall.met.psu.edu/cyclonephase

Poster PDF (315.7 kB)
 
Case Study of an Australian Subtropical Cyclone from March 2001
Paul J. McCrone, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE

Poster PDF (449.1 kB)
 
P1.30
Limitation of tropical cyclone intensification by vertical shear induced structure changes

 
From Asymmetric Heating to Axisymmetric Intensification
David S. Nolan, Princeton University, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and M. T. Montgomery

Poster PDF (90.5 kB)
 
Western North Pacific "Tropical Cyclogenesis" in an AGCM
Suzana J. Camargo, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Palisades, NY; and A. H. Sobel

Poster PDF (57.9 kB)
 
The interaction of a tropical-cyclone-like vortex and a front in a barotropic model
Martin Juckes, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom; and S. C. Jones

Poster PDF (512.3 kB)
 
Sensitivities of modeled tropical cyclones to surface friction and the Corolis Parameter
Winston C. Chao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Chen and W. K. Tao

Poster PDF (241.2 kB)
 
A grid sensitivity study for vertical sigma levels in idealized hurricane simulations
F. Carroll Dougherty, Univ. of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and J. Hayes and S. K. Kimball

Poster PDF (167.5 kB)
 
Precipitation structures observed in CAMEX hurricanes
Daniel J. Cecil, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and G. M. Heymsfield, F. J. LaFontaine, M. G. Bateman, E. J. Zipser, and F. D. Marks Jr.

Poster PDF (161.6 kB)
 
In situ measurements of particle size distributions in Hurricane Humberto
Aaron R. Bansemer, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. J. Heymsfield and P. T. Willis

 
Supersaturation in tropical storms measured during CAMEX-3 and CAMEX-4
Robert L. Herman, JPL, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and A. J. Heymsfield, L. Pfister, T. P. Bui, and J. Dean-Day

 
The relationship of tropical cyclone convective intensity to passive microwave observations
Robbie E. Hood, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and F. J. LaFontaine, D. J. Cecil, A. Guillory, G. M. Heymsfield, and R. Blakeslee

 
A mesoscale climate model for the tropics
Edward K. Vizy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and B. N. Belcher and K. H. Cook

Poster PDF (119.6 kB)
 
A fifty year history of subtropical cyclones
David M. Roth, Hydrometeorological Prediction Center, Camp Springs, MD

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)
 
A climatology of intense tropical cyclones in the south-west Indian Ocean
Karl Hoarau, Cergy-Pontoise University, Cergy-Pontoise, France; and R. Robert and J. P. Hoarau

 
Spectral retrieval of latent heating profiles From TRMM PR data: Algorithm development with a cloud-resolving model
Shoichi Shige, National Space Development Agency of Japan, Tokyo, Japan; and Y. N. Takayabu, W. -. K. Tao, and D. E. Johnson

Poster PDF (386.1 kB)
 
A Climatology of Rapidly Intensifying Tropical Cyclones in the North Atlantic Basin, 1975-2000
Chris C. Robbins, NOAA/AOML/NHC/TPC, Miami, FL; and S. R. Stewart

 
The ENSO signal in tropical tropospheric temperature
Adam H. Sobel, Columbia University, New York, NY; and I. M. Held and C. S. Bretherton

http://www.columbia.edu/~ahs129/pubs.html

Poster PDF (12.8 kB)
 
Stability of the relationship between regional rainfall in Africa and ENSO
Sylwia Trzaska, CNRS/Univ. de Bourgogne, Dijon, France; and N. Fauchereau, I. Poccard, P. Camberlin, Y. Richard, and N. Philippon

Poster PDF (201.3 kB)
 
Spring to summer contrasted transitions in the West African monsoon
Bernard Fontaine, CNRS/Univ. de Bourgogne, Dijon, France; and N. Philippon, S. Trzaska, C. Frelin, and P. Roucou

Poster PDF (89.2 kB)
 
 
Numerical study of a sahelian synoptic weather system: Initiation and Mature stage of Convection and its interactions with the large scale dynamics
Aida Diongue, CNRM, Toulouse, paris, United Kingdom; and J. P. Lafore, J. L. Redelsperger, and R. Roca

Poster PDF (468.6 kB)
 
Impact of greenhouse warming on the variability of easterly waves, rainfall and convection over West Africa
Arona Diedhiou, LTHE/IRD, Grenoble, France; and J. F. Royer, I. Poccard, and T. Lebel

Poster PDF (129.1 kB)
 
Sensitivities of Cloud and Radiation to Changes in SST over the Tropical Eastern Pacific: Results from Cloud-Resolving Simulations
Donghai Wang, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and E. Deckter, T. Wong, and B. A. Wielicki

Poster PDF (78.4 kB)
 
A General Theory of Monsoon Regulation in the Context of a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System
Peter J. Webster, PAOS, Univ. Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. Chirokova, W. Han, and J. Loschnigg

 
P1.56
Mean water vapor fluxes over the Gulf of California from routine and special radiosonde data

 
Diagnosis and prediction of some extreme rain events over southeast Asia
Noel E. Davidson, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and E. A. Adug, W. A. W. Hassan, P. T. Nguyen, and M. R. Prabowo

Poster PDF (62.0 kB)
 
How much "skill" was there in forecasting the strong 1997-98 El Nino and 1998-2001 La Nina events?
Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and J. A. Knaff

 
An independent assessment of ENSO-CLIPER seasonal prediction skill 1987–2001
Paul Rockett, University College London, Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom; and M. A. Saunders

 
Seasonal prediction of sea surface temperature and trade wind anomalies over the tropical north Atlantic and Caribbean Sea
Mark A. Saunders, University College London, London, United Kingdom; and P. Rockett

 
Climatological study of the gulf stream's impact on tropical cyclone intensity
Robert J. Bright, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and L. Xie and L. J. Pietrafesa

Poster PDF (15.7 kB)