Session 14C Convection IV

Friday, 20 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:
Todd P. Lane, The University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences & ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Melbourne, Victoria
Papers:
  8:00 AM
14C.1
**On the Importance of the Nontraditional Coriolis Terms in Large-Scale Motions Associated with Cumulus Convective Forcing in the Tropics: Forced Response Problem**
Hayashi Michiya, Kyushu University, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan; and I. Hisanori

Recorded PresentationRecorded Presentation Manuscript (582.8 kB)

  8:15 AM
14C.2
Characteristics of Extreme Summer Convection in the Tropical Americas
Manuel D. Zuluaga, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. A. Houze Jr.

Handout (6.2 MB)

  8:30 AM
14C.3
Relationships between TRMM precipitation characteristics and large-scale vertical motions in four reanalysis datasets over the tropical Pacific
Chie Yokoyama, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Zipser and C. Liu

Recorded Presentation

  8:45 AM
14C.4
Ground-based observations of overshooting convection during the Tropical Warm Pool-International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE)
Muhammad E. Hassim, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and T. P. Lane and P. T. May

Recorded PresentationRecorded Presentation

  9:00 AM
14C.5
Seasonal evolution and interannual-intraseasonal variability of the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) during the austral summer half year
Colene M. Haffke, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and G. Magnusdottir

Recorded Presentation

  9:15 AM
14C.6
Satellite Observed Atmospheric Variability over the Life Cycle of Tropical Convective Systems
Hirohiko Masunaga, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

Recorded Presentation

  9:30 AM
14C.7
An Observational and Multi-Scale Modeling Framework (MMF) Depiction of the Transition from Light Rain to Deep Convection on Sub-Daily Timescales
Gregory Elsaesser, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. D. Kummerow

Recorded Presentation

  9:45 AM
14C.8
Tropical Cloud Cluster Variability and Genesis Productivity
Christopher C. Hennon, Univ. of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC; and P. P. Papin, C. M. Zarzar, and C. N. Helms

Recorded Presentation

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