Session 15A |
| | Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change II: Rapid Intensification |
| | Chair: Michelle Mainelli, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/Tropical Prediction Center/National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL, Miami, FL
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| 1:15 PM | 15A.1 | Rapid tropical cyclone transitions to major hurricane intensity: structural evolution of infrared imagery  
John A. Knaff, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO |
| 1:30 PM | 15A.2 | Signs of Rapid Intensification as Depicted in the Microwave Imagery
Roger T. Edson, NOAA/NWS, Barrigada, Guam |
| 1:45 PM | 15A.3 | “Optimal” Conditions for Rapid Intensifications of Tropical Cyclones with Limited Factors
Ruixin Yang, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and J. Tang and M. Kafatos |
| 2:00 PM | 15A.4 | Vortical hot towers in a rapidly intensifying mature hurricane: observations and implications
Kelly C. Smith, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC; and M. D. Eastin |
| 2:15 PM | 15A.5 | The rapid intensification of Guillermo (1997)
Gary M. Barnes, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and M. Sitkowski |
| 2:30 PM | 15A.6 | Thermodynamic precursors to rapidly intensifying Atlantic Basin hurricanes
Richard G. Henning, 46th Weather Squadron, Eglin AFB, FL |
| 2:45 PM | 15A.7 | A revised rapid intensification index for the Atlantic and E. Pacific basins
John Kaplan, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and M. DeMaria |