Session 10C TC Structure III: Size changes, Surface Wind, and Symmetric/Asymmetric Flow

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

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

Chair:
Hugh E. Willoughby, Florida International University, Department of Earth and Environment, Miami, FL
Papers:
  1:30 PM
10C.1
A comparison of three-dimensional versus axisymmetric tropical cyclones in the Cloud Model CM1
John Persing, NPS, Wellington, CO; and M. T. Montgomery, J. C. McWilliams, and R. Smith

Recorded Presentation

  1:45 PM
10C.2
A Transition Mechanism for the Spontaneous Axisymmetric Intensification of Tropical Cyclones
Yoshiaki Miyamoto, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and T. Takemi

  2:00 PM
10C.3
Tropical-cyclone flow asymmetries induced by a uniform flow revisited
Gerald L. Thomsen, Ludwig Maximilian's University of Munich, Munich, Germany; and R. K. Smith and M. T. Montgomery

Recorded Presentation

  2:15 PM
10C.4
**Equilibrium Tropical Cyclone Size in an Idealized State of Axisymmetric Radiative-Convective Equilibrium**
Daniel R. Chavas, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and K. Emanuel

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (672.4 kB)

  2:30 PM
10C.5
Angular Momentum Transport and Tropical Cyclone Size Changes
Kelvin T. F. Chan, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; and J. C. L. Chan

Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.4 MB)

  2:45 PM
10C.6
**The Importance of Atmospheric Temperature on the Size and Structure of Tropical Cyclones**
Diana R. Stovern, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. A. Ritchie

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (748.3 kB)

  3:00 PM
10C.7
A Study on the Synoptic-Dynamical Characteristics of Compact Tropical Cyclones in the Western North Pacific
Delia Yen-Chu Chen, Taiwan Typhoon and Flood Research Institute, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. S. Lee and K. K. W. Cheung

Recorded Presentation

  3:15 PM
10C.8
Evaluation of Numerical Models surface wind field structure during rapid changes TC cases using H*Wind and HEDAS
Bachir Annane, NOAA/AOML- Univ. Miami/CIMAS, Miami, FL; and A. Aksoy and X. Zhang

  3:30 PM
10C.9
Dynamics of Eyewall Contraction: Deep Convective "Left-Movers"
Wallace Hogsett, NOAA/NWS/NHC, Miami, FL; and S. R. Stewart

Recorded Presentation

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