26th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

Session 2B: Convection, waves, and precipitation II

Monday, 3 May 2004: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM
Napoleon I Room (Deauville Beach Resort)
Chair:  George Kiladis, NOAA/AL
Papers:
  10:45 AM
Mean State and Wave Disturbances During Phases I, II, and III of GATE Based on ERA-40
Andreas H. Fink, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany; and D. G. Vincent, P. M. Reiner, and P. Speth

  11:00 AM
African dry-air outbreaks
Jeremy T. Pennington, RSMAS/University of Miami, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang

  11:15 AM
Origins of African dry-air outbreaks
Phoebe Anne Woodworth, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

  11:30 AM
  11:45 AM
Analysis of the African Easterly Jet using aircraft observations from the JET2000 experiment
Douglas J. Parker, School of the Environment, Leeds, United Kingdom; and C. D. Thorncroft, R. R. Burton, and A. Diongue

  12:00 PM
Observations of African easterly waves and MCSs during the JET2000 campaign in August 2000
Chris Thorncroft, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. J. Parker, G. J. Berry, and R. R. Burton