Session 16D Ocean Observations & Air-Sea Interaction

Friday, 20 April 2012: 2:00 PM-3:30 PM
Champions DE (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

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

Chair:
Mark Powell, NOAA/AOML/HRD, NOAA Hurricane Research Division - AOML, Tallahassee, FL
Papers:
  2:00 PM
Experimental Deployment of AXBTs during Operational Hurricane Reconnaissance Flights
Elizabeth R. Sanabia, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and P. G. Black, J. L. Kerling, S. Chen, and J. Cummings

  2:15 PM
An Upper Ocean Thermal Field Metrics Dataset
James E. Peak, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. R. Sampson, J. Cummings, J. A. Knaff, M. DeMaria, and W. H. Schubert

  2:45 PM
Spatial variation of surface drag coefficient in tropical cyclones
Mark Powell, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Tallahassee, FL; and L. Holthuijsen and J. Pietrzak

  3:00 PM
Rain modification of scatterometer radar cross section due to changes in surface roughness
Mark A. Bourassa, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and D. E. Weissman