Session 4B |
| | Tropical Cyclone Formation: Physical Processes |
| | Chair: Michael M. Bell, NPS, Monterey, CA
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| 3:30 PM | 4B.1 | Analyses of Ring of maximum Wind, Ring of Maximum Pressure Gradient, Inflow angle and RMW in Tropical Storm 
P. Kumar, MIT College of Engineering, Pune-411029, Maharashtra, India |
| 3:45 PM | 4B.2 | Developing a parameter to detect imminent TC formation based on large-scale flow properties
Kevin J. Tory, CAWCR, Melbourne, Vic, Australia; and R. Dare |
| 4:00 PM | 4B.3 | What are the characteristics of convective systems leading up to tropical cyclogenesis? A multisatellite investigation
 Recorded presentation
Jonathan Zawislak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Zipser |
| 4:15 PM | 4B.4 | The creation of an equivalent potential temperature reservoir in the eye of a deepening tropical cyclone
Recorded presentation
Gary M. Barnes, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and K. Dolling |
| 4:30 PM | 4B.5 | Microphysical properties of developing versus non-developing cloud clusters during tropical cyclogenesis
Recorded presentation
Nathan D. Johnson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and W. C. Conant and E. A. Ritchie |
| 4:45 PM | 4B.6 | Pre-depression vortex development from “unspectacular” convection: A genesis case study of tropical storm Gert (2005)
Kevin J. Mallen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. A. Davis, M. T. Montgomery, S. A. Braun, and P. D. Reasor |
| 5:00 PM | 4B.7 | A spatial filter approach to determining the role of convection on the evolution of a mesoscale vortex
Recorded presentation
Glenn Creighton, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL |