26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 1B: CONVECTION, waves, and precipitation I

Monday, 3 May 2004: 8:30 AM-10:15 AM
Napoleon I Room (Deauville Beach Resort)
Chair:  Walter A. Petersen, University of Alabama
Papers:
  8:30 AM
The generation of intense convection over West Africa during the summer monsoon season.
Dan C. Collins, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster

  8:45 AM
Mesoscale convective systems over sub-Saharan Africa and the tropical east Atlantic
Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. A. Houze Jr.

  9:15 AM
The Significance of African Easterly Waves on Convection
Ademe Mekonnen, North Carolina A & T State University, New York, NC

http://www.atmos.albany.edu/student/ademe/AEW.html

Poster PDF (916.8 kB)
  9:30 AM
Case study of an intense African easterly wave
Gareth J. Berry, Monash University, Melbourne., Victoria, Australia

Poster PDF (330.1 kB)
  10:00 AM
Origin and propagation of a disturbance associated with an Africa Easterly wave as precursors of Hurricane Alberto (2000)
Yuh-Lang Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and K. E. Robertson and C. M. Hill

Poster PDF (342.2 kB)