Session 5A Climatological studies (Parallel with Session 5b)

Wednesday, 13 September 2000: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Host: 20th Conference on Severe Local Storms
Organizers:
Harold E. Brooks, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK and Thomas P. Grazulis, The Tornado Project, St. Johnsbury, VT

Papers:
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

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