Session 3A Deep Convection: Initiation and Mesoscale Influences

Monday, 11 October 2010: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Grand Mesa Ballroom F (Hyatt Regency Tech Center)
Host: 25th Conference on Severe Local Storms
Chair:
Christopher C. Weiss, Texas Tech University, Atmospheric Science Group, Lubbock, TX

Papers:
1:30 PM
3A.1
Sensitivity of convective initiation and subsequent convection based on environmental parameters using 500m resolution WRF ARW
Justin Schultz, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and C. J. Anderson
Recorded Presentation

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1:45 PM
3A.2
A convection initiation case study during COPS: 6 August 2007
Lindsay J. Bennett, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, Leeds, U.K.; and T. M. Weckwerth, J. Van Baelen, A. M. Blyth, R. R. Burton, and A. M. Gadian
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
3A.3
Using Canadian GEM output for forecasts of thunderstorm initiation on the Canadian Prairies
Neil M. Taylor, EC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and W. R. Burrows
Recorded Presentation

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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
Jason M. Cordeira, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and T. J. Galarneau Jr. and L. Bosart
Recorded Presentation

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

Presentation PDF (1.3 MB)

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
Robin L. Tanamachi, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK ; and D. C. Dowell, L. J. Wicker, H. B. Bluestein, S. J. Frasier, and K. Hardwick
Recorded Presentation

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