26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 3D: Tropical cyclone observations and structure I

Monday, 3 May 2004: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Napoleon III Room (Deauville Beach Resort)
Chair:  Roger T. Edson, Anteon Corp., Univ. of Guam
Papers:
  1:30 PM
Toward a correction for precipitation scattering effects in satellite-based passive microwave tropical cyclone intensity estimation
Robert S. Wacker, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. S. Velden and G. W. Petty

Poster PDF (43.8 kB)
  1:45 PM
The NRL tropical cyclone R&D web page upgrades
Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. F. Lee, F. J. Turk, K. L. Richardson, C. R. Sampson, and J. E. Kent

  2:00 PM
Satellite-based center-fixing of tropical cyclones: new automated approaches
Anthony Wimmers, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. S. Velden

  2:15 PM
Public release of a tropical cyclone microwave scatterometer and radiometer data archive
Deborah K. Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and M. Brewer and F. J. Wentz

 
3D.6
Characterization of hurricane structure using unsupervised classification of passive microwave observations and comparison with cloud resolving simulations