Session 5A PREDICT I

Tuesday, 17 April 2012: 8:00 AM-10:15 AM
Champions DE (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

**Indicates paper is being considered for the Max Eaton Student Prize**

Chair:
Michael T. Montgomery, Naval Postgraduate School, Department of Meteorology, Monterey, CA
Papers:
  8:30 AM
Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Tropical Cyclogenesis in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean
Saska Gjorgjievska, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and D. J. Raymond

  8:45 AM
Observations of the convective environment in developing and non-developing tropical disturbances
Roger K. Smith, Ludwig Maximilian's Univ., Munich, Germany; and M. T. Montgomery

  9:00 AM
  9:15 AM
  9:30 AM
Thermodynamic Aspects of Tropical Cyclone Spin-up
Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

  9:45 AM
  10:00 AM
Moisture Variability in a developing cyclone as measured by airborne GPS radio occultation
Brian J. Murphy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and J. S. Haase, P. Muradyan, J. L. Garrison, S. H. Chen, and Y. C. liu