Session 17B Convective Processes III (Parallel with Sessions 17A and 17C)

Saturday, 27 May 2000: 10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Host: 24th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
Organizer:
Brian Mapes, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO

Papers:
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

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