Session 9D | 
|   | Tropical Convection III | 
|   | Chair: Brian Mapes, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL 
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 | 1:30 PM | 9D.1 | A Rational Approach to Cumulus Parameterization      David J. Raymond, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM | 
 | 1:45 PM | 9D.2 | A numerical study of convection in easterly waves using the "Relax to Balance" approximation      Sharon L. Sessions, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and D. Raymond | 
 | 2:00 PM | 9D.3 | Sensitivities of explicity simulated tropical cloud ensembles to their large-scale setting    Stefan N. Tulich, CIRES-NOAA/ESRL PSD Climate Diagnostics, Boulder, CO; and B. Mapes | 
 | 2:15 PM | 9D.4 | Testing convective parameterizations against tropical measurements of CO, HNO3, O3, and H2O    Ian A. Folkins, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada; and B. M. Sinnhuber | 
 | 2:30 PM | 9D.5 | Multicloud parametrizations for convectively coupled tropical waves    Boualem Khouider, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; and A. Majda |