Session 12B |
| | Tropical Cyclone Observations I |
| | Moderator: Shirley T. Murillo, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
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| 8:00 AM | 12B.1 | Capture and Characterization of Near-Surface Wind-Driven Rain during Hurricane Ike (2008)
 Recorded presentation
Jennifer Haydt, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and F. Masters and R. A. Black |
| 8:15 AM | 12B.2 | Measuring sea spray changes in hurricanes via measurements of salt concentrations in rain using a salinity/conductivity sensor on a NOAA research aircraft
Recorded presentation
James Robert Lawrence, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and H. Hoefmeister, J. A. Smith, and J. H. Roles |
| 8:30 AM | 12B.3 | Surface heat fluxes of tropical cyclones from satellite data sets and reanalyses
Carol Anne Clayson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and J. A. Curry and J. Liu |
| 8:45 AM | 12B.4 | Near-surface temperature and moisture observations from tropical cyclones between 1975-2007: Axisymmetric and asymmetric structural analysis
Recorded presentation
Joseph J. Cione, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and J. Zhang and E. W. Uhlhorn |
| 9:00 AM | 12B.5 | Validation of Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) data using GPS dropsondes in tropical cyclone environments
Recorded presentation
Edward Hildebrand, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL |
| 9:15 AM | 12B.6 | A comparison of atmospheric infrared sounder (AIRS) temperature and moisture profiles with dropsonde observations over tropical oceans: the bias correction and impact on numerical simulation of tropical cyclones
Lei Zhang, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu |
| 9:30 AM | 12B.7 | Adaptive sounding arrays for tropical regions 
Recorded presentation
Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK |