26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 5B: CONVECTION, waves, and precipitation III

Tuesday, 4 May 2004: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM
Napoleon I Room (Deauville Beach Resort)
Chair:  Christopher S. Bretherton, University of Washington
Papers:
  8:00 AM
Variability of convective structure and lightning activity in tropical easterly waves
Walter A. Petersen, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. J. Boccippio

  8:15 AM
Convective variability across the east Pacific: A comparison of precipitation structure in the TEPPS and EPIC domains
Robert Cifelli, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. Nesbitt, S. A. Rutledge, W. A. Petersen, and S. Yuter

  8:30 AM
The tropical vertical structure of clouds and precipitation as observed by radar
Paquita Zuidema, CIRES/NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. Lin and C. Fairall

  9:15 AM
Characteristics of oceanic tropical convection at Kwajalein
Jasmine Cetrone, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. A. Houze Jr.