Session 15C |
| Tropical Cyclone Structure IV: Vertical Structure |
| Chair: David S. Nolan, University of Miami, Miami, FL
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| 1:15 PM | 15C.1 | Relationship betwen tropical cyclone size and diabatic heating profile ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Masahiro Sawada, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; and T. Iwasaki |
| 1:30 PM | 15C.2 | Extreme helicity and intense convective towers in Hurricane Bonnie (1998) ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) John E. Molinari, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. Vollaro |
| 1:45 PM | 15C.3 | Vertical Profiles of Mean and Perturbation Structure of the Hurricane Boundary Layer from the GPS dropsondes ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Jun A. Zhang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and W. Drennan and P. G. Black |
| 2:00 PM | 15C.4 | Upshear-downshear variations in tropical cyclones from dropsondes Kay L. Shelton, SUNY, Albany, NY |
| 2:15 PM | 15C.5 | Effects of Vertical Wind Shear on Intensity and Rainfall Asymmetries of Strong Tropical Storm Bilis (2006) ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Jinhua Yu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Techonology, Nanjing, China; and Z. Tan |
| 2:30 PM | 15C.6 | Moist vortex resiliency in vertical shear flow ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Paul D. Reasor, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Young and M. D. Eastin |
| 2:45 PM | 15C.7 | The vertical structure of tangential winds in tropical cyclones: theory, observations, and models ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Daniel P. Stern, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan |