Session 8A DYNAMO/CINDY2011 II

Wednesday, 18 April 2012: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Champions DE (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

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

Chair:
Charles N. Long, PNNL, Climate Physics Group, Richland, WA
Papers:
  8:00 AM
The DYNAMO/CINDY Atmospheric Sounding Array: Its Performance and Plans for Quality Control
Paul E. Ciesielski, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. H. Johnson

  8:15 AM
DYNAMO/CINDY Sounding Network – Performance and Preliminary Scientific Results
Richard H. Johnson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. E. Ciesielski

  8:30 AM
Spatial Variability of Tropospheric Water Vapor and Convective Cloud Systems in DYNAMO
Shuyi S. Chen, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. Lee, F. Judt, B. Kerns, and E. Ryan

  8:45 AM
Moisture Variations observed over the Tropical Indian Ocean during CINDY2011
Kazuaki Yasunaga, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan; and M. Katsumata and K. Yoneyama

  9:00 AM
Continuous Estimates of GPS Precipitable Water Vapor During the DYNAMO Field Experiment
John J. Braun, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Van Hove, W. O. J. Brown, T. M. Weckwerth, and T. Lim

 
8A.6
Time Series of Remotely-Sensed Humidity Vertical Profiles and Lower-Tropospheric Humidity and Liquid Water Content Fields at DYNAMO's S-Pol Site

  9:45 AM
Moisture mode theory: the role of horizontal moisture advection in the MJO
Adam H. Sobel, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and E. D. Maloney