Session 4D Numerical Modeling II: Uncoupled TC Structure and Intensity Studies

Monday, 16 April 2012: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Masters E (Sawgrass Marriott)
Sponsor: 30th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology

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

Chair:
Eric Hendricks, NRL, Monterey, CA
Papers:
  4:00 PM
4D.1
Characteristics of the Variability and Predictability of Idealized Hurricanes in Steady State
Bonnie R. Brown, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and G. J. Hakim

Recorded Presentation

  4:15 PM
4D.2
Assessing the predictability of Tropical Storm Erika (2009) through an analysis of environmental factors
Erin B. Munsell, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and D. P. Stern and F. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

  4:30 PM
4D.3
Tropical Cyclone Kinetic Energy and Structure Evolution in the HWRF Model
Katherine S. Maclay, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria and T. H. Vonder Haar

Recorded Presentation

  4:45 PM
4D.4
The Role of Convective Heating in Tropical Cyclone Vortex Evolution - Idealized Three-Dimensional Full-Physics Model Simulations
Ho-Hsuan Wei, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. C. Wu

  5:00 PM
4D.5
A numerical study of roll vortices in the hurricane boundary layer
Kun Gao, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI; and I. Ginis

Recorded Presentation

  5:15 PM
4D.6
Helical convective vortices in the hurricane boundary layer simulated with the University of Wisconsin Nonhydrostatic Modeling System (UW-NMS)
Zachary Gruskin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. J. Tripoli, W. E. Lewis, J. Zhang, and F. D. Marks Jr.

Recorded Presentation

  5:30 PM
4D.7
Tropical Cyclone Energy Energetics and Intensity Prediction
Gregory J. Tripoli, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI

Recorded Presentation

  5:45 PM
4D.8
Dynamics and energetics in the early development of Super Typhoon Megi (2010)
Juan Fang, Nanjing University, Najing, China; and F. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

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