Session 9D |
| | Convection I |
| | Chair: Edward J. Zipser, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
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| 8:00 AM | 9D.1 | Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC) – Addressing the Challenge of Multi-Scale, Organized Convection 
Duane Edward Waliser, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. W. Moncrieff |
| 8:15 AM | 9D.2 | A modified precipitation efficiency and its application on warm rain processes
Chung-Hsiung Sui, National Central Univ., Jhongli City, Taiwan; and X. Li and M. J. Yang |
| 8:30 AM | 9D.3 | The influence of vertical wind shear on deep convection in the tropics 
Ulrike Wissmeier, Department of Physics, University of Munich, Munich, Germany; and R. A. Goler |
| 8:45 AM | 9D.4 | Spectral retrieval of latent heating profiles from TRMM PR Data: Comparisons of lookup tables from two- and three-dimensional simulations
Shoichi Shige, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Sakai, Osaka, Japan; and Y. N. Takayabu, S. Kida, W. K. Tao, and X. Zeng |
| 9:00 AM | 9D.5 | Polarimetric radar analysis of convection in northwestern Mexico
Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and A. Rowe, S. A. Rutledge, and R. Cifelli |
| 9:15 AM | 9D.6 | Predecessor rain events in tropical cyclones
Matthew R. Cote, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart, D. Keyser, and M. L. Jurewicz |
| 9:30 AM | 9D.7 | The QBO's influence on lightning production in the Tropics
Celina A. Hernandez, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. Schumacher |