Session 13D |
| | Convection II |
| | Chair: Stephen W. Nesbitt, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
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| 10:15 AM | 13D.1 | Year of tropical convection (YOTC): status and research agenda
 Recorded presentation
Duane Edward Waliser, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. W. Moncrieff |
| 10:30 AM | 13D.2 | Identifying the ITCZ in satellite data using Markov Random Fields: Overview and interannual variability in the east Pacific
Gudrun Magnusdottir, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and C. Bain, J. De Paz Rodrigues, J. Kramer, P. Smyth, and H. Stern |
| 10:45 AM | 13D.3 | Correlations between lightning and characteristics of convective cells in tropical thunderstorms
Recorded presentation
Chuntao Liu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. J. Zipser |
| 11:00 AM | 13D.4 | Global Distribution of Convection in Tropical Cyclones Based on 11 yr of TRMM Data
Recorded presentation
Haiyan Jiang, Florida International University, Miami, FL |
| 11:15 AM | 13D.5 | Rain on small tropical islands
Recorded presentation
Casey Burleyson, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and A. H. Sobel and S. E. Yuter |
| 11:30 AM | 13D.6 | Inter and intraseasonal variations of cloud and precipiation characteristics over the Amazon Basin, observed with TRMM PR and Cloudsat CPR data
Yukari N. Takayabu, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan; and H. Higuchi |
| 11:45 AM | 13D.7 | Clouds associated with the MJO: A new perspective from CloudSat
Recorded presentation
Emily M. Riley, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and B. E. Mapes |