Session 5A |
| | Climatological studies (Parallel with Session 5b) |
| | Organizers: Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; Thomas P. Grazulis, The Tornado Project, St. Johnsbury, VT
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| 8:00 AM | 5A.1 | Tornadoes in the United States as Related to the Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature
Joseph T. Schaefer, NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK; and C. Marzban |
| 8:15 AM | 5A.2 | Some Mesoscale features in Canadian Lightning Data
Patrick W. S. King, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and W. R. Burrows |
| 8:30 AM | 5A.3 | An Investigation of Population Bias in Tornado Records
John T. Snow, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Richman, K. Nixon, and C. Levision |
| 8:45 AM | 5A.4 | The Climatology of Severe Thunderstorms: What We Can Know
Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK |
| 9:00 AM | 5A.5 | Using Doppler radar vortex detection algorithms to develop synthetic tornado climatologies
Gregory J. Stumpf, NOAA/ERL/NSSL and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. Marzban |
| 9:15 AM | 5A.6 | On the climatological distribution of tornadoes within quasi-linear convective systems
Sarah A. Tessendorf, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. J. Trapp |
| 9:30 AM | 5A.7 | Tornadoes of the Former Soviet Union
Richard E. Peterson, Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX |
| 9:45 AM | 5A.8 | A composite synoptic climatology of Florida peninsular tornado outbreaks
Christopher Mello, NOAA/NWS, Hanford, CA; and C. H. Paxton and C. M. Hartnett |