Session 4B |
| | Hurricanes and Climate II: Data Issues |
| | Chair: Eric S. Blake, NOAA/AOML/NHC/TPC, Miami, FL
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| 3:30 PM | 4B.1 | Wind speed time averaging conversions for tropical cyclone conditions  
Bruce A. Harper, Systems Engineering Australia Pty Ltd, Brisbane, Australia; and J. Kepert and J. Ginger |
| 3:45 PM | 4B.2 | A comparison of typhoon best-track data in the western North Pacific: irreconcilable differences
Mark A. Lander, University of Guam, Mangilao, Guam |
| 4:00 PM | 4B.3 | Developing a unified "SuperSet" in quantifying ambiguities among tropical cyclone best track data for the western North Pacific
Michael R. Lowry, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS) / Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and J. J. O'Brien and M. Griffin |
| 4:15 PM | 4B.4 | Hurricane Satellite (HURSAT) data sets: Low-Earth orbit infrared and microwave data
Kenneth R. Knapp, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 4:30 PM | 4B.5 | The utility of the ERA40 Cyclone Phase Space in Trend Diagnosis and North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Reanalysis
Danielle Manning, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. Hart |
| 4:45 PM | 4B.6 | Rescuing data from a black hole: Consolidation of tropical cyclone data sets into an information repository for improved data access
Margaret E. Kieper, Independent Consultant, Burnsville, MN |
| 5:00 PM | 4B.7 | A reanalysis of twelve U.S. landfalling major hurricanes
Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/NWS/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL; and M. Dickinson and D. Strahan |