Session 4A |
| | Extratropical Cyclones and Fronts |
| | CoChair: Fuqing Zhang, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
Chair: Gary M. Lackmann, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
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| 3:30 PM | 4A.1 | The role of streamwise and transverse quasi-geostrophic vertical motions in the mid-latitude cyclone life cycle
Jonathan E. Martin, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 3:45 PM | 4A.2 | A study of coherent tropopause disturbances within the Northern Hemispheric circumpolar vortex
Joseph R. Kravitz, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. Keyser, L. F. Bosart, and A. Aiyyer |
| 4:00 PM | 4A.3 | Hurricane force extratropical cyclones  
Joseph M. Sienkiewicz, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. M. Von Ahn and G. M. McFadden |
| 4:15 PM | 4A.4 | Effects of terrain on the horizontal and vertical structures of fronts over the Intermountain region
Jason C. Shafer, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh |
| 4:30 PM | 4A.5 | The Fiftieth Anniversary of Sanders (1955): A mesoscale model simulation of the cold front of 17-18 April 1953
David M. Schultz, NOAA/NSSL and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. Roebber |