Session 10D |
| | Tropical Convection IV |
| | Chair: Stefan N. Tulich, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO
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| 3:30 PM | 10D.1 | Spectral retrieval of latent heating profiles from TRMM PR data.: Algorithm improvement and heating estimates over tropical ocean regions  
Shoichi Shige, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Sakai, Osaka, Japan; and Y. N. Takayabu, W. -. K. Tao, and C. L. Shie |
| 3:45 PM | 10D.2 | Relating radar-derived cloud populations and the vertical structure of heating in equatorial waves
Andrew D. Denno, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND |
| 4:00 PM | 10D.3 | Vertical distributions of clouds and radiative heating rates in the tropical western Pacific
James H. Mather, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. A. McFarlane |
| 4:15 PM | 10D.4 | A statistical study on the relationship between rain top heights and lightning activity over the global tropics utilizing TRMM PR2A25 and LIS data
Yukari N. Takayabu, University of Tokyo/ Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan; and C. Yokoyama and T. Ushio |
| 4:30 PM | 10D.5 | Estimation of precipitation and latent heating distributions in tropical convection from a combined analysis of passive microwave and spaceborne radar observations
William S. Olson, JCET/Univ of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Grecu, C. L. Shie, and S. A. Braun |
| 4:45 PM | 10D.6 | Simulated convective systems using a cloud resolving model: Impact of large-scale temperature and moisture forcing using observations and GEOS-3 reanalysis
Chung-Lin Shie, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt and Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. Tao, A. Y. Hou, and X. Lin |
|  | 10D.7 | Application of a new multiscale data assimilation: Estimation of local aerosol fluxes on a two-dimensional atmospheric boundary
Yu Zou, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |