26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 13A: Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change II: Environmental Factors

Thursday, 6 May 2004: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Le Jardin Room (Deauville Beach Resort)
Chair:  John Molinari, University at Albany/SUNY
Papers:
  10:15 AM
Large scale flow patterns and the rapid intensification of western north Pacific tropical cyclones
Justin D. Ventham, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang

Poster PDF (156.2 kB)
  10:30 AM
Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change in A Uniform Flow
Joey H. Y. Kwok, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; and J. C. L. Chan

  10:45 AM
The Saharan Air Layer—Insights from the 2002 and 2003 Atlantic hurricane seasons
Jason P. Dunion, NOAA/AOML/HRD and Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and C. S. Velden, J. D. Hawkins, and J. R. Parrish

  11:00 AM
The tropical cyclone—jet interaction
Eric D. Rappin, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. J. Tripoli and M. C. Morgan

  11:15 AM
Negative entropy flow and its effect on the organization of tropical cyclones
Chongjian Liu, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and Y. Liu

Poster PDF (49.4 kB)
  11:30 AM
An ensemble approach to tropical cyclone intensity forecasting
Jonathan R. Moskaitis, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and J. A. Hansen and K. A. Emanuel