Session 14A |
| | Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change I: Observational and Theoretical Studies |
| | Chair: Kerry Emanuel, MIT, Cambridge, MA
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| 10:15 AM | 14A.1 | A critique of Emanuel's hurricane model and potential intensity theory 
Roger K. Smith, Department of Physics, University of Munich, Munich, Germany; and M. T. Montgomery and S. Vogl |
| 10:30 AM | 14A.2 | Estimating the atmospheric and SST memory of tropical cyclones
Robert Hart, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. Maue and M. C. Watson |
| 10:45 AM | 14A.3 | Is tropical cyclone intensity change related to the strength of its convective precipitation features? Using 9 years of TRMM data to find an answer
Haiyan Jiang, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Zipser |
| 11:00 AM | 14A.4 | A Statistical Analysis of JTWC NWPAC Intensity Trends 
Stephen J. Barlow, 17th Operational Weather Squadron/Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Pearl Harbor, HI |
|  | 14A.5 | An Observational Study of Environmental Dynamical Control of Tropical Cyclone Intensity in the Atlantic
Zhihua Zeng, Shanghai Typhoon Institute, Shanghai, China; and L. Chen and Y. Wang |
| 11:15 AM | 14A.6 | A retrospective study of the Interaction of the Saharan Air Layer with Atlantic basin tropical cyclones
Evan B. Forde, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and J. P. Dunion |
| 11:30 AM | 14A.7 | Verification of deterministic tropical cyclone intensity forecasts: Moving beyond mean absolute error
Jonathan R. Moskaitis, MIT, Cambridge, MA |