Session 3C Tropical Cyclone Genesis III

Monday, 16 April 2012: 1:30 PM-3:30 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:
David S. Nolan, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL
Papers:
  1:30 PM
Large Scale Circulation Patterns Favorable to Tropical Cyclogenesis over the Western North Pacific
Tao Feng, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and G. Chen and X. Shen

  1:45 PM
Mesoscale Features of Tropical Cyclone Formations Associated with the Trade Wind Surges in the Western North Pacific
Lung-Yao Chang, Taiwan Typhoon and Flood Research Institute, National Applied Research Laboratories, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. S. Lee

  2:15 PM
The Comparison of Developing and Non-developing Waves during the NAMMA Experiment
Yi-Chin liu, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA; and S. H. Chen

  2:45 PM
**African Easterly Wave Convection and Tropical Cyclogenesis: A Lagrangian Perspective**
Kenneth D. Leppert II, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and D. J. Cecil