Session 4B Severe Storm Processes III: Environmental Impacts on Tornadoes and Deep Convection

Monday, 5 November 2012: 4:15 PM-5:45 PM
Symphony II (Loews Vanderbilt Hotel)
Host: 26th Conference on Severe Local Storms
Chair:
Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State University, Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, Raleigh, NC

Papers:
  4:15 PM
4B.1
Effects of Topography on Tornado Dynamics: A Simulation Study
David C. Lewellen, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown, WV
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.4 MB)

  4:30 PM
4B.2
Understanding Terrain Impacts on Tornado Flow through Tree-fall Analysis of the Joplin and Tuscaloosa-Birmingham Tornadoes of 2011 and through Numerical and Laboratory Vortex Simulations
Christopher D. Karstens, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus Jr., P. Sarkar, B. D. Lee, and C. A. Finley
Recorded Presentation

  4:45 PM
4B.3
Environmental Factors Influential to the Duration and Intensity of Tornadoes in Simulated Supercells
Jason Naylor, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND ; and M. S. Gilmore
Recorded Presentation

  5:00 PM
4B.4
ARW-WRF Simulations of Thermodynamic Destabilization Supporting MCS Initiation in Differing Warm-Season Meteorological Regimes
Stanley B. Trier, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. A. Davis, D. A. Ahijevych, and K. W. Manning
Recorded Presentation

  5:15 PM
4B.5
Two contrasting evolutions of quasi-linear convective systems encountering the northeastern U.S. coastal marine environment
Kelly Lombardo, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle
Recorded Presentation

  5:30 PM
4B.6
What is RKW Theory?
George H. Bryan, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (352.9 kB)

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