Session 6B |
| | Convection, waves, and precipitation IV |
| | Chair: B. E. Mapes, CIRES, Boulder, CO
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| 10:15 AM | 6B.1 | Tropical convection and surface wind convergence using spacebased data
W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie |
| 10:30 AM | 6B.2 | Small-scale variability of rainfall in the tropical and sub-tropical regions  
A. K. Varma, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and G. Liu |
| 10:45 AM | 6B.3 | Convective and Stratiform Rain Variations from TRMM Observations
Song Yang, George Mason University, greenbelt, MD; and K. -. S. Kuo and E. A. Smith |
| 11:00 AM | 6B.4 | Spectral retrieval of latent heating profiles from TRMM PR data: Comparison of look-up tables
Shoichi Shige, Japan Exploration Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and Y. N. Takayabu, W. K. Tao, D. E. Johnson, and C. L. Shie |
| 11:15 AM | 6B.5 | Latent heating retrieval from TRMM observations using a simplified thermodynamic model
Mircea Grecu, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and W. S. Olson |
| 11:30 AM | 6B.6 | Evaluation of satellite-based latent heating profile estimation methods
William S. Olson, JCET/University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and M. Grecu, S. Yang, and W. K. Tao |