26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 6B: Convection, waves, and precipitation IV

Tuesday, 4 May 2004: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Napoleon I Room (Deauville Beach Resort)
Chair:  B. E. Mapes, CIRES
Papers:
  10:15 AM
Tropical convection and surface wind convergence using spacebased data
W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie

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  10:30 AM
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
Convective and Stratiform Rain Variations from TRMM Observations
Song Yang, George Mason University, greenbelt, MD; and K. -. S. Kuo and D. Sidla

  11:00 AM
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
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
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