Session 12A |
| | Tropical cyclone structure I (Parallel with Sessions 12B and 12C) |
| | Organizer: Hugh E. Willoughby, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL
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| 8:00 AM | 12A.1 | Dynamically-Induced Vertical Motion in Hurricane's Inner-Core regions
Da-Lin Zhang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Liu and M. K. Yau |
| 8:15 AM | 12A.2 | Boundary layer structure and dynamics beneath a translating tropical cyclone
Jeffrey D. Kepert, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and Y. Wang |
| 8:30 AM | 12A.3 | Wind Speed Fluctuations on Scale of 10km and less than 1km Observed in Typhoon Violet
Yoshinobu Tanaka, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan |
| 8:45 AM | 12A.4 | Vortex Rossby Waves and vorticity mixing in a MM5 simulation of Hurricane Bob (1991)
John D. Fulton, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. T. Montgomery and S. A. Braun |
| 9:00 AM | 12A.5 | Kinematic and thermodynamic structures of Hurricane Bob (1991) determined from a 1.3-km resolution numerical simulation
Scott A. Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Simpson and W. K. Tao |
| 9:15 AM | 12A.6 | Polygonal eye-walls in barotropic, hurricane-like vortices
Harry C. Weber, University of Munich, Munich, Germany |
| 9:30 AM | 12A.7 | **Observational Evidence for Horizontal Mixing in the Hurricane Near-Core
James P. Kossin, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 9:45 AM | 12A.8 | Synoptic Structure and evolution of a kona low
Ian J. Morrison, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and S. Businger |