Session 12A GRIP II

Thursday, 19 April 2012: 10:30 AM-12:15 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:
Edward J. Zipser, Univ. of Utah, Meteorology, Salt Lake City, UT
Papers:
  10:30 AM
Observations of C-band brightness temperatures and ocean surface wind speed and rain rate from the Hurricane Imaging Radiometer (HIRAD) during GRIP
Timothy L. Miller, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. W. James, J. B. Roberts, C. D. Buckley, L. Jones, S. Biswas, C. May, C. S. Ruf, E. W. Uhlhorn, R. Atlas, P. G. Black, and C. M. Albers

  10:45 AM
Results and Lessons Learned from the First Flights of the HIWRAP on the Global Hawk During GRIP
Gerald M. Heymsfield, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Guimond, L. Tian, L. Li, M. Mclinden, M. Perrine, and A. E. Reynolds

  11:00 AM
**Analysis of Hurricane Eye Slope Using Reflectivity Data From Airborne Doppler Radar: Composites and Case Studies**
Andrew Todd Hazelton, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and R. E. Hart

  11:15 AM
Development of the SMARTS Climatology for Upper Ocean Thermal Structure Estimation
Patrick C. Meyers, Univ. of Maryland, Riverdale Park, MD; and J. K. Brewster and L. K. Shay

  11:30 AM
Tropical Cyclone Inner-Core Structure from Conically Scanning Airborne Doppler Radar: IWRAP and HIWRAP
Stephen Guimond, NASA / GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. M. Heymsfield and S. Frasier