Orals STORM

STORM

Storms, supercells and tornadoes
Orals
 / Thu, 17 Sep, 09:00–12:45  / Room Ballroom

Thursday, 17 September 2015
Room Ballroom
Chairperson: B. Antonescu
09:00–09:45
Confronting the effects of surface drag on severe storms using numerical simulations by George Bryan

09:45–10:00
ECSS2015-95 | presentation
How does surface drag affect the development of near-surface vertical vorticity in supercell thunderstorms?
Paul Markowski and Yvette Richardson
10:00–10:15
ECSS2015-22 | presentation
Origin of Vertical Vorticity in Misocyclones along a Tornadic Narrow Cold Frontal Rainband in the United Kingdom
Kelsey Mulder and David Schultz
10:15–10:30
ECSS2015-99
Upscale feedbacks associated with supercellular thunderstorms sampled during MPEX
Robert Trapp and Joseph Woznicki
10:30–10:45
ECSS2015-111 | presentation
Barotropic and baroclinic contributions to the mid-level mesocyclone
Johannes Dahl
Discussion

Coffee break
11:30–11:45
ECSS2015-163
Microphysical Pathways to Heavy Convective Rainfall
Sonia Lasher-Trapp, Alan Blyth, Jeff French, and David Leon
11:45–12:00
ECSS2015-103 | presentation
High-frequency Mobile Radar Measurements of Tornado Boundary Layer Flow
Christopher Weiss, Timothy Cermak, Anthony Reinhart, and Patrick Skinner
12:00–12:15
ECSS2015-176 | presentation
The senstivity of convection initiation to the wind shear, lapse rate, and relative humidity in the active cloud-bearing layer
Adam Houston
12:15–12:30
ECSS2015-96 | presentation
Topography and vertical velocity of air in relation to severe storms near the Southern Andes Mountains
Alejandro de la Torre, Horacio Pessano, Rodrigo Hierro, Jorge Ruben Santos, Pablo Llamedo, and Pedro Alexander
12:30–12:45 ECSS2015-190
Formation of intense atmospheric vortices: evidence from idealized numerical simulation (withdrawn)
Luke Odell, Gregory Tripoli, Scott Trevorrow, and Marcus Buker
Discussion