Session 2 Severe Storm Processes II: Supercells and Tornadoes

Monday, 5 November 2012: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Symphony I and II (Loews Vanderbilt Hotel)
Host: 26th Conference on Severe Local Storms
Chair:
George H. Bryan, NCAR, MMM Division, Boulder, CO

Papers:
  10:30 AM
2.1
Can a gust front tilt horizontal vortex lines to produce a tornado?
Robert Davies-Jones, Emeritus, National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK; and P. Markowski
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.3 MB)

  10:45 AM
2.2
Numerical Simulations of Supercell Tornadogenesis: The Structure and Evolution of Vortex Lines within Low-Level Mesocyclones and Tornadoes
Wataru Mashiko, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Recorded Presentation

  11:00 AM
2.3
Baroclinic and Barotropic Vorticity in Simulated Near-surface Mesocyclones
Johannes M. L. Dahl, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and M. D. Parker and L. J. Wicker
Recorded Presentation

  11:15 AM
2.4
Toy model simulations of horizontal momentum surges in supercells
Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. M. L. Dahl
Recorded Presentation

  11:30 AM
2.5
The sensitivity of mesocyclonic near-surface vertical vorticity to the low-level shear: A theory based on an analytic density current solution
Adam Houston, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
Recorded Presentation

  11:45 AM
2.6
A Detailed Analysis of Tornadogenesis in a High-Resolution Simulation of the 8 May 2003 Oklahoma City Tornadic Supercell
Alexander D. Schenkman, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue and M. Hu
Recorded Presentation

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