Session 1C Tropical Cyclone Genesis I

Monday, 16 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:
Paul Reasor, NOAA, AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
Papers:
  8:15 AM
Planetary Vorticity Effects on Cyclogenesis
Michael G. McGauley, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

  8:30 AM
Global Omega Equation: Its Derivation and Use in Tropical Cyclogenesis
John F. Dostalek, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO; and W. H. Schubert and M. DeMaria

  8:45 AM
The importance of low deformation vorticity in tropical cyclone formation
Kevin J. Tory, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia; and R. A. Dare, N. E. Davidson, J. L. McBride, and S. Chand

  9:00 AM
Tropical Cyclogenesis and Vertical Shear in a Moist Boussinesq Model
Leslie M. Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and Q. Deng and A. J. Majda

  9:30 AM
Streamwise Evolution of African Easterly Waves
Anantha Aiyyer, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and M. Diaz

  9:45 AM
What Controls the Decadal Variation of Tropical Cyclone Genesis Frequency over the Western North Pacific?
Jinhua Yu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Techonology, Nanjing, China; and Y. Wang