Session 11C Tropical Cyclones at Landfall

Wednesday, 30 April 2008: 1:15 PM-3:00 PM
Palms H (Wyndham Orlando Resort)
Host: 28th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
Chair:
David Sharp, NOAA/NWS, WFO Melbourne/MLB, Melbourne, FL

Papers:
1:15 PM
11C.1
Probability distributions of gust factors in land-falling hurricanes
Francis J. Merceret, NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (273.2 kB)

1:30 PM
11C.2
Simulating Hurricane Pre-Landfall and Post-Landfall Intensity Changes
Martin L. M. Wong, Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL; and S. K. Kimball and K. G. Blackwell

Presentation PDF (282.7 kB)

1:45 PM
11C.3
The impact of Louisiana's levees and wetlands on Katrina's storm surge
Pat J. Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State Univ., Stennis Space Center, MS; and N. Tran, Y. Lau, and Y. Li
Recorded presentation

2:00 PM
11C.4
Development of a new storm surge index for prediction of storm surge associated with landfalling tropical cyclones
Mark R. Jordan II, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. Luneva and C. A. Clayson
Recorded presentation

2:15 PM
11C.5
Analysis of tropical storm-tornadoes and their environments
Lori A. Schultz, University of Alabama at Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and D. J. Cecil and C. C. Crowe
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (186.8 kB)

2:30 PM
11C.6
Hurricanes that do and do not spawn tornado outbreaks: Offshore traits and their evolution at landfall
Dale E. Unruh Jr., Department of Meteorology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and G. M. Barnes
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (1.5 MB)

2:45 PM
11C.7
Treating hurricanes as Mesoscale Convective Systems - A paradigm shift for WFO landfall operations
Scott M. Spratt, NOAA/NWSFO, Melbourne, FL; and B. C. Hagemeyer and D. W. Sharp
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (974.2 kB)

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