Session 3A |
| | Deep Convection: Initiation and Mesoscale Influences |
| | Chair: Christopher C. Weiss, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
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| 1:30 PM | 3A.1 | Sensitivity of convective initiation and subsequent convection based on environmental parameters using 500m resolution WRF ARW 
 Recorded presentation
Justin Schultz, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and C. J. Anderson |
| 1:45 PM | 3A.2 | A convection initiation case study during COPS: 6 August 2007
Recorded presentation
Lindsay J. Bennett, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and T. M. Weckwerth, J. Van Baelen, A. M. Blyth, R. R. Burton, and A. M. Gadian |
| 2:00 PM | 3A.3 | Using Canadian GEM output for forecasts of thunderstorm initiation on the Canadian Prairies
Recorded presentation
Neil M. Taylor, EC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and W. R. Burrows |
| 2:15 PM | 3A.4 | The influence of the elevated mixed layer on record high temperatures and severe weather over the Northeast US in April and May 2010
Recorded presentation
Jason M. Cordeira, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and T. J. Galarneau Jr. and L. F. Bosart |
| 2:30 PM | 3A.5 | Bulk Microphysical Variability of Thunderstorms in Different Climatic Regions: Comparative Predictive Skills of Melting Level, Cloud Base Temperature and Cloud Base Pressure in a Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling Study
Robert E. Schlesinger, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and P. K. Wang |
| 2:45 PM | 3A.6 | Impact of initial environmental velocity profiles on numerical-model-based storm-scale analyses of the 4 May 2007 Greensburg, Kansas cyclic tornadic thunderstorm
Recorded presentation
Robin L. Tanamachi, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK ; and D. C. Dowell, L. J. Wicker, H. B. Bluestein, S. J. Frasier, and K. Hardwick |