Session 17A |
| | Tropical cyclone air-sea interaction |
| | Chair: Robbie Berg, NOAA/Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL
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| 10:15 AM | 17A.1 | Vertical Profiles of Thermodynamic Variables in Hurricanes Bonnie (1998) and Mitch (1998): Implications for Energy Transport in the Inflow Layer  
Gary Barnes, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Schneider and S. Houston |
| 10:30 AM | 17A.2 | The Intensification of Supertyphoon Maemi (2003) with a Warm Ocean Eddy
I-I Lin, National Center for Ocean Research, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. C. Wu, K. A. Emanuel, W. T. Liu, and I. H. Lee |
| 10:45 AM | 17A.3 | The impact of SST cold wake induced by Typhoon Rusa (2002) on the intensity evolution of Typhoon Sinlaku (2002)
Treng-Shi Huang, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. C. Wu and I. I. Lin |
|  | 17A.4 | Mesoscale Model Investigation of Air-sea Interactions and Associated Tropical Cyclone Activity over the Gulf of Mexico
R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State University, 39217, Jackson, MS; and A. Schwartz |
| | 17A.5 | Forecast performance of a coastal wave model during Hurricane Isabel
Patrick T. Welsh, NOAA/NWSFO, Jacksonville, FL; and E. Rogers |
| 11:00 AM | 17A.6 | A new ocean data assimilation and initialization procedure for the coupled GFDL/URI hurricane prediction system.
Aleksandr Falkovich, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and I. Ginis and S. Lord |