Research presentation explanation posted

[ncweatherwizard]

Presentation has been supplemented with brief written explanations. Check it out again if you like:

http://www.nencweather.com under the tropical weather center section.

If I could receive comment on the high and low points of the work, I'd much appreciate it, particularly from those people who would know a deal of what they're talking about. I'd like primarily to see now if my suspicions of some flaws in the presented information are seen by others.

[cycloneye]

NC that is a great and well written report as you divided all the factors and that is good for the newbie people who may not understand all of that .

[MWatkins]

Hey Scott...

I'm not sure I know what I'm talking about but I do have some questions/thoughts. Do you want me to post here or do you want a PM?

MW

[ncweatherwizard]

Go ahead and send me a PM; thanks.

[wxman57]

Good presentation, Scott. I did notice a typo on slide 5 - "Dry air becomes often becomes entrained within a system ". Note the second "becomes".

I'm currently attending the 26th conference on tropical meteorology in Miami Beach. You'd fit right in here. There are a number of papers being presented on wind shear. You can read the extended abstracts here:

http://ams.confex.com/ams/26HURR/techpr ... ed_212.htm

One paper that I found particularly interesting was:

3:45 PM 4A.1 Tropical cyclones in complex vertical shears
Elizabeth A. Ritchie, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

Here's the link to her extended abstract:
http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/76048.pdf

Liz introduced a concept called "beta shear", which is basically (as I understand it), the shear that is produced by a hurricane's interaction with its environment. This shear is independent of environmental shear. In particular, she studied cases (like Isabel) where beta shear directly contradicts environmental shear, leading to an overall reduction in wind shear around a storm. Such a low-shear storm could grow into an annular hurricane with a large eye - just as Isabel did. The second paper that session was also quite interesting:

4:00 PM 4A.2 The structure and evolution of a hurricane in vertical wind shear: Hurricane Elena (1985)
Kristen L. Corbosiero, SUNY, Albany, NY

http://ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/75523.pdf

And there were many, many more interesting papers yesterday.

CHeck out the full listing of abstracts for those that pertain to your area of interest.

[ncweatherwizard]

Thanks 57; I've actually already helped myself to swimming in many such papers/presentations (where I could find them), including those abstracts that you listed.