Session 11C Convection I

Thursday, 19 April 2012: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Champions FG (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

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

Chair:
Robert Korty, Texas A&M, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, TX
Papers:
 
11C.1
Latent heating profiles and the self-amplification of deep convection

  8:45 AM
  9:00 AM
  9:15 AM
**Estimating Vertical Motion Profile Shape within Tropical Weather States**
Zachary Handlos, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI; and L. E. Back

  9:30 AM
**Initiation of orographic moist convection in the tropics**
Alison D. Nugent, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CO; and R. B. Smith

  9:45 AM
Using the stochastic multicloud model to improve tropical convective parameterization: A paradigm example
Yevgeniy Frenkel, New York University, New York, NY; and A. J. Majda and B. Khouider