Session 15A Tropical Cyclone Structure IV (Parallel with Sessions 15B and 15C)

Friday, 26 May 2000: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Host: 24th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
Organizer:
Chris Velden, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Papers:
3:30 PM
15A.1
A Study of the Rain Distribution in Tropical Cyclones Using TRMM/TMI
Manuel Lonfat, RSMAS/Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and F. D. Marks Jr. and S. S. Chen

3:45 PM
15A.2
Structure of tropical clouds and precipitation as inferred from TRMM data
Guosheng Liu, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and J. A. Curry and W. B. Rossow

4:00 PM
15A.3
Multi-satellite tropical cyclone structure (SSM/I & TMI)
Jeffrey D. Hawkins, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. F. Lee, F. J. Turk, K. L. Richardson, C. Sampson, and J. Kent

4:15 PM
15A.4
An objective method for estimating tropical cyclone intensity and structure from NOAA-15 Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit (AMSU) data
Julie L. Demuth, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and M. DeMaria, J. A. Knaff, and T. H. Voner Haar

4:30 PM
15A.5
Tropical Cyclone Research using Large Infrared Image Data Sets
Raymond M. Zehr, NOAA/NESDIS, Fort Collins, CO

4:45 PM
15A.6
Use surface adjusted GOES low-level cloud-drift winds to improve the estimation of tropical cyclone outer wind radii
Jason P. Dunion, NOAA/AOML/HRD, Miami, FL; and S. H. Houston, M. D. Powell, C. S. Velden, and P. G. Black

5:00 PM
15A.7
Validation of QuikScat Tropical Cyclone Winds
Deborah Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and C. Mears, C. Gentemann, and F. Wentz

5:15 PM
15A.8
Relationships Between The Multi-Layered Wind Field And The Intensity Of Hurricane Floyd
John A. Knaff, NOAA and CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and C. S. Velden

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