25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 14B: Climate Processes in the Americas and Eastern Pacific II (Parallel with Sessions 14A, 14C, and 14D)

Thursday, 2 May 2002: 2:00 PM-3:15 PM
Organizer:  Walter Peterson, Colorado State University
Papers:
  2:00 PM
Onset of the rainy season over Tropical Brazil in Observationsand A general Circulation Model Simulation
Brant Liebmann, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and D. Allured, A. Seth, and S. J. Camargo

Poster PDF (113.8 kB)
  2:15 PM
Observational Study of the mid summer drought during the Climate Experiment in the Americas warm pools
Ernesto Caetano, National Autonomous Univ. of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; and V. Magaña

Poster PDF (36.5 kB)
  2:30 PM
Study of the factors that induced an unusual drought in Guadeloupe (FWI)
Christian Asselin de Beauville, Université des Antilles et de la Guyane, Pointe à Pitre, Guadeloupe; and F. Pagney, A. Bonneton, B. Dudon, and C. A. Pontikis

 
14B.4
Gulf surges: mean characteristics from 9 years of radiosonde data and NCEP real analyses

  2:45 PM
Central American cold surges and precipitation
Teresa M. Bals-Elsholz, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN

  3:00 PM
Ocean model simulations of a gap wind event in the Gulf of Tehuantepec
Jon M. Schrage, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and C. A. Clayson, D. M. Schultz, and R. J. Machtmes

Poster PDF (234.7 kB)