Session 15C Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change IV

Friday, 20 April 2012: 10:30 AM-12:30 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:
Mark DeMaria, NOAA/NESDIS, Ft. Collins, CO
Papers:
  10:30 AM
Another Look at the Use of Maximum Potential Intensity of Tropical Cyclones
Andrea B. Schumacher, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria and J. Knaff

  11:00 AM
Relationship of Environmental Relative Humidity with Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Intensification Rate
Hui Su, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and L. Wu, J. T. Shen, R. G. Fovell, B. H. Kahn, S. Hristova-Veleva, B. Lambrigtsen, and E. Fetzer

  11:15 AM
Tropical Upper-Tropospheric Troughs and Tropical Cyclones: Past, Present, and Future
Owen H. Shieh, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. Wang, M. Fiorino, and M. E. Kucas

  11:45 AM
Analysis of Interaction of Three Typhoons through 3-D Vorticity Tubes
Zhiying Ding, Pacific Typhoon Research Center, KLME, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

  12:00 PM
Cyclone Fences around Humberto (2001)
Gary M. Barnes, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and K. P. Dolling

  12:15 PM
An Observational Study of Tropical Cyclone Spin-Up in Supertyphoon Jangmi (2008) and Hurricane Georges (1998)
Neil Thomas Sanger, Air Force Weather, Barksdale Air Force Base, LA; and M. T. Montgomery, R. K. Smith, and M. M. Bell