Session 1 Severe Storm Processes I: Tornado Dynamics

Monday, 5 November 2012: 8:45 AM-10:00 AM
Symphony I and II (Loews Vanderbilt Hotel)
Host: 26th Conference on Severe Local Storms
Chair:
David C. Lewellen, West Virginia Univ., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Morgantown, WV

Papers:
  8:45 AM
1.1
The Fluid Dynamics of Tornadoes
Richard Rotunno, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

 
1.2
Numerical simulation of three-dimensional vortical interactions within an idealized tornado
Gregory J. Tripoli, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. L. Büker

  9:15 AM
1.2A
Observed 1st-Order Tornadogenesis Mechanisms in Observationally Initialized Numerical Simulations
S.T. Trevorrow, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI; and G. Tripoli, R. D. Hildner, and M. L. Buker
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (4.8 MB)

  9:30 AM
1.3
The effects of low-level stability and nonlinear vortex interactions on tornadogenesis
Marcus L. Büker, Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL; and G. J. Tripoli
Recorded Presentation

  9:45 AM
1.4
Three-dimensional instabilitites in tornado-like vortices with secondary circulations
David S. Nolan, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.8 MB)

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