Session 6A |
| | Ocean-atmosphere interactions and influences on tropical and extratropical storms: Part 1 |
| | Chair: Ernesto Muñoz, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL
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| 1:30 PM | 6A.1 | Climate Changes and Atlantic Hurricane Activity 
Chunzai Wang, NOAA/AOML, Miami, FL; and S. K. Lee |
| 2:00 PM | 6A.2 | The possible role of hurricanes in the climate system
Aixue Hu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Meehl |
| 2:15 PM | 6A.3 | Spray-mediated enthalpy flux to the atmosphere and salt flux to the ocean in high winds 
Edgar L. Andreas, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Lebanon, NH |
| 2:30 PM | 6A.4 | Impact of a warm ocean eddy's circulation on hurricane-induced sea surface cooling with implications for hurricane intensity
Richard M. Yablonsky, University of Rhode Island, Narragansett, RI; and I. Ginis |
| 2:45 PM | 6A.5 | A Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Model for Tropical Cyclone Studies – Boundary Layer Interactions and the Response to Tropical Cyclone Passage
Henry R. Winterbottom, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson and E. Chassignet |