25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 15A: Tropical Cyclone Observations and Structure IV (Parallel with Sessions 15B and 15D)

Thursday, 2 May 2002: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Organizer:  Peter G. Black, NOAA/AOML/HRD
Papers:
  4:00 PM
Improvements to the NOAA Hurricane Research Division's Surface Reduction Algorithm for Inner Core Aircraft Flight-Level Winds
Jason P. Dunion, NOAA/AOML/HRD and Univ. of Miami/CIAMS, Miami, FL; and M. D. Powell

  4:15 PM
Sensitivity study of HRD's H*WIND surface wind analyses for tropical cyclones
Samuel H. Houston, NOAA/NWS/WFO, Honolulu, HI; and M. D. Powell

Poster PDF (57.7 kB)
  4:30 PM
Low-level thermodynamic structure of hurricanes as seen with the GPS sonde
Gary Michael Barnes, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and D. Wroe

Poster PDF (4.7 kB)
  4:45 PM
Development of the Advanced Objective Dvorak Technique (AODT) - Current progress and future directions
Timothy L. Olander, Univ. of Wisconsin/CIMSS, Madison, WI; and C. Velden and M. A. Turk

Poster PDF (21.8 kB)
  5:00 PM
Daily hurricane variability inferred from GOES infrared imagery
James P. Kossin, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)
  5:15 PM
Regions of intense convection in the core of minimal tropical cyclones
Daniel E. Lipper, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY

Poster PDF (1.0 MB)