Session 14 VORTEX2 Results II

Thursday, 8 November 2012: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Symphony I and II (Loews Vanderbilt Hotel)
Host: 26th Conference on Severe Local Storms
Chair:
James N. Marquis, Pennsylvania State Univ., Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA

Papers:
  10:30 AM
GBVTD-retrieved near-surface axisymmetric vortex structure in a tornado and tornado-like vortices observed by a W-band radar during VORTEX2
Robin L. Tanamachi, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. B. Bluestein, K. Orzel, S. J. Frasier, and M. Xue
  10:45 AM
Multi-scale analysis of the 26 May 2010 supercell observed during VORTEX2
Michael A. Bowlan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. I. Biggerstaff, D. P. Betten, C. L. Ziegler, G. D. Carrie, and K. J. Thiem
  11:00 AM
High-Resolution In-Situ Verification of Simulated Supercell Cold Pools
Anthony E. Reinhart, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and C. C. Weiss and D. C. Dowell
  11:15 AM
Cold pool forcing of the 9 June 2009 Greensburg, KS supercell during VORTEX2
Conrad L. Ziegler, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and M. I. Biggerstaff, L. J. Wicker, D. W. Burgess, E. R. Mansell, C. M. Schwarz, P. M. Markowski, Y. P. Richardson, and C. C. Weiss

  11:30 AM
Characterizing rain drop size distributions in supercell hook echoes: results from VORTEX2
Daniel T. Dawson II, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and G. H. Bryan, G. Romine, and K. Friedrich
  11:45 AM
Drop-size distributions in thunderstorms measured by optical disdrometers during VORTEX2
Katja Friedrich, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and E. A. Kalina, F. J. Masters, and C. Lopez
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