Session 3B |
| | Tropical Cyclone Formation: African Easterly Waves |
| | Chair: Sarah C. Jones, Karlsruher Institut fuer Technologie, Karlsruhe Germany
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| 1:15 PM | 3B.1 | The tropical cyclogenesis "hole" in the Caribbean
 Recorded presentation
Kay L. Shelton, SUNY, Albany, NY |
| 1:30 PM | 3B.2 | Genesis of Pre-hurricane Felix (2007) and the Role of the Wave Critical Layer
Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and M. T. Montgomery and T. J. Dunkerton |
| 1:45 PM | 3B.3 | Isentropic descent beneath the Saharan Air Layer and its impact on tropical cyclogenesis 
Recorded presentation
Michael L. Diaz, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC |
| 2:00 PM | 3B.4 | African Easterly Wave Evolution Pre- and Post-tropical Cyclogenesis
Recorded presentation
Bryce Paul Tyner, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC |
| 2:15 PM | 3B.5 | Dynamics of African easterly Wave storm track
Recorded presentation
Anantha Aiyyer, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC |
| 2:30 PM | 3B.6 | Orographic and moisture effects on the evolution of the pre-Debby (2006) African easterly waves-mesoscale convective systems over Africa
Recorded presentation
Guoqing Tang, N. C. A&T State University, Greensboro, NC; and Y. L. Lin, J. Spinks, and W. Jones |
| 2:45 PM | 3B.7 | Probabilistic discrimination between large-scale environments of intensifying and decaying African Easterly Waves
Recorded presentation
Paula A. Agudelo, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and C. D. Hoyos, J. Curry, and P. Webster |