Session 18C |
| | Tropical Cyclone Structure VI: Concentric Eyewalls |
| | Chair: Hugh E. Willoughby, Florida International University, Miami, FL
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| 10:15 AM | 18C.1 | Atlantic reconnaissance vortex message climatology and composites and their use in characterizing eyewall cycles 
David Joseph Piech, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. Hart |
| 10:30 AM | 18C.2 | The Role of Vortex Rossby Wave Dynamics on the Early Stage of Concentric Eyewall Formation
Yosvany H. Martinez, Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and G. Brunet and M. K. Yau |
| 10:45 AM | 18C.3 | Some dynamical aspects of tropical cyclone concentric eyewalls
Christopher M. Rozoff, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and W. H. Schubert and J. P. Kossin |
| 11:00 AM | 18C.4 | Interaction Between Two Concentric Potential Vorticity Rings – Implications to the Evolution of Hurricane Concentric Eyewall
Jia Hu, Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii at Manoa,, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Wang |
| 11:15 AM | 18C.5 | Secondary eyewall formation in two idealized, full-physics modeled hurricanes
Wesley D. Terwey, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and M. T. Montgomery |
| 11:30 AM | 18C.6 | Hurricane Katrina's eyewall replacement cycle over the northern Gulf and accompanying double eyewalls at landfall: A key to the storm's huge size and devastating impact over a three-state coastal region
Keith G. Blackwell, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and A. Wimmers, C. Velden, P. J. Fitzpatrick, and B. Jelley |
| 11:45 AM | 18C.7 | Western north Pacific typhoons with concentric eyewalls
H.-C. Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. -. P. Chang |