Session 12A Tropical cyclone structure I (Parallel with Sessions 12B and 12C)

Friday, 26 May 2000: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Host: 24th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
Organizer:
Hugh E. Willoughby, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL

Papers:
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

8:45 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. Braun

9:00 AM
12A.5
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

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