Session 15 |
| | Mesoscale And Synoptic-Scale Processes And Severe Convection I |
| | Organizers: Henry E. Fuelberg, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; William A. Gallus, Jr., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA
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| 1:30 PM | 15.1 | Topographic and synoptic influences on cold season California severe weather: regional patterns in convective storms
Jeffrey N. Brown, California State Univ., Northridge, CA; and S. LaDochy |
| 1:45 PM | 15.2 | The role of synoptic patterns and temperature and moisture distribution in determining the locations of strong and violent tornado episodes in the north central United States: a preliminary examination
Robert H. Johns, NOAA/NWS/SPC, Norman, OK; and C. Broyles, D. Eastlack, H. Guerrero, and K. Harding |
| 2:00 PM | 15.3 | Eta model forecasts of return moisture flow
Geoffrey S. Manikin, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell and S. J. Weiss |
| 2:15 PM | 15.4 | A potential vorticity streamer and its role in the development of a week-long series of mesoscale convective systems, part II: mesoanalysis of a prominent storm in the series
Fernando Caracena, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and A. Marroquin and E. I. Tollerud |
| 2:30 PM | 15.5 | Representation of the 12–14 March 1993 "Storm of the Century" in a high resolution and dynamically adjusted version of the ECHAM4 General Circulation Model
Hans-Stefan Bauer, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany; and L. Bengtsson |
| 2:45 PM | 15.6 | Impact of Graupel on the Structure and Bulk Microphysical Aspects of a Vigorous Narrow Cold-Frontal Rainband in 3-D Simulation Experiments
Robert E. Schlesinger, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |