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lead to flash flooding in the CMR canyons w hen t he orientat ion is “optimum.” Thissensitivity to the detaile d features of the Taiwan topography suggest a limitedpredictability of the rainfall at specific sites in the CMR.Acknowledgments. This wor kshop was hosted by TTRFI and sponso red by theTaiwan National Sc ience Council and Nationa l Applied Research Laboratories .Additional support was provi ded by the Central Weather Bureau, Institut Francias deTaipei, and the National C enter for High-Performance Co mputing. The permission ofvarious people for permission t o publish t heir resear ch and for providing figures isgratefully acknowledged. T he participation of Russell Elsberry is funded by the U.S.Office of Naval Research Marine Meteorology section. Mrs. P enny Jones skillfullyprepared the manuscript.REFERENCES Hong, C.-C., M.-Y. Lee, H.-H. Hsu, and J.-L. Kuo, 2010: Role of submonthly disturbanceand 40–50 day ISO on the ext reme rainfa ll event associated with TyphoonMorakot (2009) in Southern Taiwan. Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L08805,doi:10.1029/2010GL042761.Maddox, R. A. 1980: Mesoscale convective complexes. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 61,1374-1387.Tang, Y.-S., 2010: The mesosc ale characteri stics of rainband from radar analys es:Typhoon Morakot (2009). Masters thesis, Department of Atmospheric Sciences,National Central University, 82 pp (In Chinese).Wang, T.- C., Y.-S. Tang, C.-H. Wei, P.-L. Lin, Y.-C. Liou, W.-Y. Chang, C. B. Chou, B.-T. Ji, and C.-Y. Lin, 2010: Precipitation characte ristics of Ty phoon Mor akot(2009) from radar analyses. Science report of Typhoon Morakot, NationalScience Council, Taipei, Taiwan, 192 pp (In Chinese).Yeh, T.-C., and C.-P. Chang, 20 09: Terrain effects on the tropical cyclone rainfall overTaiwan. Presentation, Second International Workshop on Tropical CycloneLandfall Processes, Shanghai, China, 19-23 October 2009. All references not shown are from International Conference on Typhoon Morakot (2009) and thepowerpoints are available at www.ttfri.narl.org.tw/workshop/morakot/index.php-66-