Session 5B |
| | Tropical Cyclone Formation: Numerical Models |
| | Chair: Russell L. Elsberry, NPS, Monterey, CA
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| 8:00 AM | 5B.1 | Measuring environmental favorability for tropical cyclogenesis: Genesis parameters and point-downscaling
 Recorded presentation
Michael G. McGauley, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan |
| 8:15 AM | 5B.2 | Numerical studies on the role of mesoscale convective systems during the formation of Typhoon Ketsana (2003)
Xinyan Lu, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and K. K. W. Cheung and Y. Duan |
| 8:30 AM | 5B.3 | Ensemble simulation of cyclone Nargis by a Global Cloud-system-resolving Model -- modulation of cyclogenesis by the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Recorded presentation
Hiroshi Taniguchi, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokohama, Japan; and W. Yanase and M. Satoh |
| 8:45 AM | 5B.4 | Observations and high-resolution modeling of tropical cyclone formation: Developing and non-developing cases over the west Pacific
Recorded presentation
Brandon W. Kerns, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and S. S. Chen |
| 9:00 AM | 5B.5 | Multiscale interactions in the formation of a Tropical Cyclone simulated in a global cloud-system-resolving model
Recorded presentation
Hironori Fudeyasu, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and Y. Wang, M. Satoh, T. Nasuno, H. Miura, and W. Yanase |
| 9:15 AM | 5B.6 | Evolution of multi-scale vortex in the development of Hurricane Dolly (2008)
Recorded presentation
Juan Fang, Nanjing University, China, Nanjing, China; and F. Zhang |
| 9:30 AM | 5B.7a | Application of synthetic GOES imagery to the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project
Recorded presentation
Yi Jin, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA; and L. Grasso |
|  | 5B.7 | Evaluation of tropical cyclogenesis in operational global models and their ensembles
Timothy Marchok, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and R. J. Pasch and H. L. Pan |