25th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 16A: Tropical Cyclone Observations and Structure V (Parallel with Sessions 16B and 16C)

Friday, 3 May 2002: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM
Organizer:  James L. Franklin, NOAA/NWS
Papers:
  8:30 AM
Typhoon Hunter 2001 In Japan
Tetsuo Nakazawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and K. Bessho

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)
  8:45 AM
Application of Aerosondes to Understanding Hurricanes
Brenda Mulac, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. J. Holland and J. Curry

  9:00 AM
High-resolution observations of the eyewall in an intense hurricane: Bret on 21–22 August 1999
Peter P. Dodge, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and M. L. Black, J. L. Franklin, J. F. Gamache, and F. D. Marks Jr.

Poster PDF (191.8 kB)
  9:15 AM
What are Annular Hurricanes?
John A. Knaff, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and J. P. Kossin and M. DeMaria

Poster PDF (493.9 kB)
  9:30 AM
An Improved VTD Algorithm to Resolve Circulations of a Wavenumber Two Tropical Cyclone
Wen-Chau Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. R. Harasti and M. M. Bell

Poster PDF (240.5 kB)
  9:45 AM
POTENTIAL VORTICITY DIAGNOSIS OF A SIMULATED HURRICANE
Xingbao Wang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. L. Zhang

Poster PDF (312.3 kB)
  10:00 AM
An analysis of some tropical cyclone boundary layer wind observations
Jeffrey D. Kepert, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia

Poster PDF (91.4 kB)
  10:15 AM
Radar derived structures of tornadic mesocyclones from Tropical Cyclone (TC) Frances (1998) in Texas and Louisiana
Gandikota V. Rao, St. Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO; and J. W. Scheck and R. Edwards

Poster PDF (130.1 kB)