D2: Severe Weather Systems (IAMAS)

First Convener: Ronald Stewart, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Burnside Hall, Room 945, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2K6, Canada; Tel: +1-514-398-3764; Fax: +1-514-398-6115; ronald.stewart@mcgill.ca
Co-conveners:

Co-conveners:
Yoshio Kurihara, Frontier Research System for Global Change, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, 236-0001 Japan; Tel: +81-45-778-5612; Fax: +81-45-778-2293; ykuri@jamstec.go.jp
Johnny C. L. Chan, Laboratory for Atmospheric Research, Dept. of Physics & Mat. Sci., City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Ave., Kowloon, Hong Kong, China; Tel: 852-2788-7820; Fax: 852-2788-7830; Johnny.Chan@cityu.edu.hk
Yunqi Ni, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, No.46, Zhongguancun South Road, 100081 Beijing, China; Tel: +86-10-6840-6456; Fax: +86-10-6217-5931; niyunqi@cams.cma.gov.cn

 

Tuesday, 9 August

Session 1: Tropical Systems and Associated Troughs: Part I
Chair: Johnny Chan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Johnny.Chan@cityu.edu.hk

14:00-14:15

Francia Avila

Forecasting Tropical Cyclone Precipitation in the Philippines using MM5

14:15-14:30

Tetsuo Nakazawa

Estimating TC Intensity over NWP by AMSR-E/AMSR Data

14:30-14:45 

Yuqing Wang

A Numerical Study of Tropical Cyclone Concentric Eyewalls

14:45-15:00 

Johnny Chan

Asymmetric convection and tropical cyclone intensity change

15:00-15:15

Da-Lin Zhang Cloud-Resolving Simulations of Typhoon Nari (2001)

15:15-15:30 

Ying Han

Application of Shearing Wind Helicity and Thermal Wind Helicity in the Research of Hurricane

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-16:15 

Juan Fang

The Effect of the Surface Friction on the Development of the Tropical Cyclone

16:15-16:30 

Xiaodong Tang

The Dynamic Boundary-layer Wind Structure in Landfalling Tropical Cyclone

16:30-16:45

Masahiro Sawada

Roles of Cloud Physics in Development of Tropical Cyclones

16:45-17:00

Kang Pomjin

Typhoon Track NWP Using Variable Resolution Model

17:00-17:15

Yunfei Fu

Characteristics Of Thermal Convective Rainfall System In The Center Of Western Subtropical Pacific High As Viewed by TRMM PR And IR

17:15-17:30

Haiguang Zhou

3-D Structure of meso-¦Âand ¨C¦Ã-scale of MCSs and Their Interaction on Meiyu Front by Dual-Doppler Radar

Wednesday, 10 August

Session 2: Tropical Systems and Associated Troughs: Part II

Chair: Yunqi Ni (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, China; niyunqi@cams.cma.gov.cn)

08:30-08:45

Jie Tang

Structure and activity of the Multicell in 98 Wuhan Meiyu Front Rainstorm

08:45-09:00

Zugang Zhou

The Influences of Moist Physics Process Parameterization Schemes on Simulation of Yangtse River Basin Heavy Rainfall

09:00-09:15

Kekuan Chu

4DVAR of Rainfall Observations in the Study of a Heavy Rainfall Event in the Meiyu Season

09:15-09:30

Kuranoshin Kato

Characteristics of Typhoon Tracks and Large-scale Atmospheric Fields Associated with the Typhoon Approach to the Japan Islands in Early Summer

09:30-09:45

Ayako Seiki

The Intraseasonal Variation, ENSO, and Energy Budget in the Generation of Westerly Wind Bursts

09:45-10:00

Jose A. Marengo

The Catarina Phenomenon: An Example of a Weather Extreme That may be Signal of Climate Change

Session 3: Middle and High Latitude Systems

Chair: Ronald Stewart (Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Canada; ronald.stewart@mcgill.ca)

10:00-10:15

Ji-Hyun Ha

Improvement of Heavy Rainfall Forecast over Korea using Ensemble Methods

10:15-10:30

Mark Rodwell

The Prediction of Severe Weather in Europe

 

10:30-11:00 Break

Session 3 continued:

11:00-11:15

Olivia Martius

Stratospheric Intrusions and Heavy Precipitation along the Alpine South-Side-a Climatological Analysis

11:15-11:30

Mladjen Curic

Temporal and Spatial Hailfall Distribution from a Severe Hailstorm Moving along a Valley

 

Session 4: Poster Presentations

Chair: Ronald Stewart (Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Canada; ronald.stewart@mcgill.ca)

11:30-11:33

Johnny Chan

Tropical Cyclone Motion in Response to Land Surface Friction

11:33-11:36

Leiming Ma

Initialization with Rainfall Defined Diabatic Heating

11:36-11:39

Rui Cheng

Preliminary Simulation of Typhoon Rananim with AREM

11:39-11:42

Chiharu Takahashi

Relationships between Tropical Cyclone Activity and Intraseasonal Variability in the Australian Region during the Southern Summer

11:42-11:45

Raquel Olalia Nieto

Climatological Validation of the Conceptual Model of Cut-off Low Systems, Relationship with Major Modes of Climate Variability and Effects over Weather Events.

11:45-11:48

Dianli Gong

Numerical Study of a Severe Mesoscale Convective System in the North of China on 23 August 2001

11:48-11:51

Ken-ichi Shimose

Numerical Simulation of the Supercell Storm Generating Tornadoes in Saga Prefecture on 27 June 2004

11:51-11:54

Tetsuya Kawano

Organization Modes of Mesoscale Convective Systems during the Baiu Season

11:54-11:57

Pedro M. M. Soares

The EDMF Scheme Results for the ARM and BOMEX cases

 

Session 3 continued:

14:00-14:15

Akira Yoshida

Numerical Study for the Explosively Deepening Extratropical Cyclones in the Northwestern Pacific Region

14:15-14:30

Wenqing Yao

The Vertical Aerodynamic and Thermal Characteristics of Lower Urban Boundary Layer Atmosphere and its Aerosol Concentration Variation in Severe Weather

14:30-14:45 

Shouting Gao

The Moist Potential Vorticity Anomaly with Mass Forcing and Its Application in the Torrential Rain Systems

14:45-15:00

Anne Pirnach

Modeling Severe Weather Events Connected with Heavy Rainfalls

15:00-15:15

Yoshio Asuma

Severe Winds Associated with Typhoon 200418 in the Higher Latitudes

15:15-15:30

Ronald Stewart

Hazardous Icing Storms and Their Precipitation

1530-1600 Break

Session 5: Model and Theoretical Developments

Chair: Yoshio Kurihara (Frontier Research System for Global Change, Japan; ykuri@jamstec.go.jp)

16:00-16:15 

Qiu-shi Chen

A Splitting Mesoscale Diagnostic Method and its Application

16:15-16:30 

Mariane Coutinho

Moist Baroclinic Growth of Optimal Perturbations: Implications for Short-Range Forecasting

16:30-16:45

Yun Wang

Interaction of Inertio-Gravity Waves with a Vortex in Two-dimension

16:45-17:00

Yoshihiro Tomikawa

An Interpretation of Tropopause Disturbances from a Wave Perspective  

17:00-17:15

Jian Sun

Physics Package in GRAPES & Cases Study

17:15-17:30

Hongliang Zhang

A New Profile used in the Grapes Model of CMA

 

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