Session 10B Monsoon

Wednesday, 18 April 2012: 1:30 PM-3:45 PM
Champions AB (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

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

Chair:
Johnny C. L. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Guy Carpenter Asia-Pacific Climate Impact Centre, School of Energy and Environment, Hong Kong
Papers:
  1:30 PM
Impact of the Tibetan Plateau on the Asian monsoon. I: Formation of the Meiyu front
Simona Bordoni, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and H. S. Park

  1:45 PM
Extratropical-Tropical Interaction during Heavy Rainfall Events “Cloudbursts” Observed over Himalayan Region
Archana Shrestha, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison,, WI; and L. E. Back and G. Tripoli

  2:00 PM
Space time variation of lightning activity over Bangladesh
Mohommad Iqbal Tinmaker, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, Maharashtra, India

  2:15 PM
Changes in Global Monsoon Precipitation under Global Warming
Pang-chi Hsu, International Pacific Research Center, Honolulu, HI; and T. Li, B. Wang, J. J. Luo, H. Murakami, A. Kitoh, and M. Zhao

  2:30 PM
Local summer monsoon precipitation patterns in the Western Ghats
Wendilyn J. Flynn, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and S. W. Nesbitt

  2:45 PM
Interannual teleconnection between Ural-Siberian blocking and East Asian winter monsoon
Ho Nam Cheung, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and W. Zhou

  3:15 PM
Pulse of WNP Subtropical High Shaping Monsoon and Tropical Cyclone
Bin Wang, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Xiang

  3:30 PM
A polarimetric radar analysis of convection observed during NAME and TiMREX
Angela K. Rowe, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Rutledge