Session 4B |
| | Tropical Cyclones: Past, Present and Future Part I |
| | Chair: Michael C. Kruk, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC
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| 8:30 AM | 4B.1 | How intense were they? - A sampling study on how recent Category 5 hurricanes would be depicted in the historical record
Christopher W. Landsea, NOAA/NWS/TPC/NHC, Miami, FL; and C. Carrasco and A. B. Hagen |
| 8:45 AM | 4B.2 | The Impact of SST Boundary Condition on Tropical Cyclone Track, Intensity, and Structure
Henry R. Winterbottom, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and E. Chassignet |
| 9:00 AM | 4B.3 | Modeling Future Changes in Atlantic Hurricane Activity
Steven M. Quiring, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. D. Guikema, R. Nateghi, and A. B. Schumacher |
| 9:15 AM | 4B.4 | AIRS impact on precipitation analysis and forecast of Tropical Cyclone Nargis in a global data assimilation and forecast system
Yaping Zhou, Morgan State University, Greenbelt, MD; and W. K. M. Lau and O. Reale |
| 9:30 AM | 4B.5 | Quantifying inter-agency differences in tropical cyclone best track wind speed estimates 
Michael C. Kruk, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and K. R. Knapp |