25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 5C: Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change III (Parallel with Sessions 5A, 5B, & 5D)

Tuesday, 30 April 2002: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Organizer:  Cynthia Palmer, University Of Hawaii
Papers:
  11:00 AM
Symmetric and asymmetric contributions to the intensification of Hurricane Opal in a GFDL model forecast
J. Dominique Möller, University of Munich, Munich, Germany; and L. J. Shapiro

  11:30 AM
On the intensification and recurvature of tropical cyclone Tracy (1974)
Noel E. Davidson, CAWCR, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

Poster PDF (93.2 kB)
  11:45 AM
Comparison of Hurricane intensity as realized in an axisymmetric model with MPI theory
John Persing, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and M. T. Montgomery

Poster PDF (582.5 kB)
  12:00 PM
An application of Atmospheric Thermodynamics to Tropical Cyclone/Hurricane Activity
R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and P. R. Remata and R. L. Miller

 
5C.6
The tropical cyclone-jet streak interaction: A numerical study of the role of pre-existing outflow channels in tropical cyclone intensification