Session 12A Tropical studies using radar

Wednesday, 28 September 2011: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Monongahela Room (William Penn Hotel)
Host: 35th Conference on Radar Meteorology
Chair:
David Leon, University of Wyoming, Department of Atmospheric Science, Laramie, WY

Papers:
10:30 AM
12A.1
Relationships between lightning flash rates over the tropics and subtropics and the vertical structures of precipitation radar reflectivity
Chuntao Liu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
12A.2
Mesoscale convective system anvil cloud structures observed by CloudSat
Jian Yuan, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. A. Houze Jr.

11:00 AM
12A.3
Tropical orographic rainfall regimes according to the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission
Kimberly Reed, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and S. W. Nesbitt
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
12A.4
Causes for collapse of transitioning mesoscale convective systems in the East Atlantic
Amber E. Reynolds, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. M. Heymsfield, G. S. Jenkins, and C. C. Weiss
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
12A.5
A new conceptual model of the tropical marine boundary layer based on 10 cm (S-band) radar Bragg scatter retrievals
Jennifer L. Davison, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. M. Rauber, L. Di Girolamo, and M. A. LeMone
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
12A.6
Radar Climatology of Hong Kong and Its Application to Landfalling Tropical Cyclone Rainfall Estimation
Linus H.Y. Yeung, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China; and S. T. Chan and P. W. Cheng
Manuscript (500.8 kB)

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