Session 17B |
| | Convective Processes III (Parallel with Sessions 17A and 17C) |
| | Organizer: Brian Mapes, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO
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| 10:30 AM | 17B.1 | A dynamic and thermodynamic foundation for modeling the moist atmosphere with classical thermodynamics and parameterized microphysics
Katsuyuki V. Ooyama, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL |
| 10:45 AM | 17B.2 | Potential vorticity in a moist atmosphere
Wayne H. Schubert, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Hausman, M. Garcia, K. V. Ooyama, and H. C. Kuo |
| 11:00 AM | 17B.3 | **Generalized moist potential vorticity diagnosed from a nonhydrostatic, axisymmetric tropical cyclone simulation
Scott A. Hausman, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 11:15 AM | 17B.4 | **The effects of a random population of isolated cumulonimbi on the distribution of potential vorticity in the lower troposphere
Stefan N. Tulich, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 11:30 AM | 17B.5 | Mean field theory for tropical precipitation
Adam H. Sobel, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. S. Bretherton |
| 11:45 AM | 17B.6 | Atmospheric convection as an irreversible heat engine
Nilton O. Rennó, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| 12:00 PM | 17B.7 | Simulation of deep tropical clouds using a spectral microphysics cloud model HUCM
Alexander P. Khain, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel; and A. Pokrovsky and M. Pinsky |
|  | 17B.8 | Towards a similarity theory of moist convective updrafts
Olaf Stiller, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and G. C. Craig |