A53O:
Observations, Predictions, and Predictability of the Atmosphere over Complex Terrain II

Session ID#: 2429

Friday, 19 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
3012 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Harindra Joseph Fernando, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Primary Convener:  Joshua Hacker, Jupiter, Boulder, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Index Terms:

3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3329 Mesoscale meteorology [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A53O-01
Atmospheric Predictability: Why Butterflies Are Not Important (Invited) (3830)
Dale R Durran, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Atmospheric and Climate Science, Seattle, United States and Mark Gingrich, Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA, United States
A53O-02
Deepwave2014; Observing Gravity Waves from the Troposphere to the Mesosphere (Invited) (18667)
Ronald B Smith1, David C Fritts2, James D Doyle3, Stephen D Eckermann4, Michael J Taylor5, Andreas Dörnbrack6, Michael Uddstrom7, Alison D Nugent8 and Christopher Kruse1, (1)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)Global Atmospheric Technologies and Sciences (GATS), Boulder, United States, (3)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States, (4)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States, (5)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, (6)German Aerospace Center DLR, Oberphaffenhofen, Germany, (7)NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (8)Yale University, New Haven, United States
A53O-03
Exploring Gravity Wave Predictability and Dynamics in Deepwave (8248)
James D Doyle1, David C Fritts2, Ronald B Smith3, Stephen D Eckermann4, Michael J Taylor5, Andreas Dörnbrack6, Michael Uddstrom7, Carolyn A Reynolds8, Patrick Alexander Reinecke9 and Qingfang Jiang8, (1)U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States, (2)Global Atmospheric Technologies and Sciences (GATS), Boulder, United States, (3)Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, (4)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States, (5)Utah State Univ, Logan, UT, United States, (6)German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, (7)NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand, (8)NRL, Monterey, CA, United States, (9)Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States
A53O-04
Mixing Induced By Slope and Valley Flow Collisions in Complex Terrain (7355)
Harindra Joseph Fernando1, Christopher M Hocut2, Quiang Zhong2, Sebastian W Hoch3, Laura Sandra Leo4, Silvana Di Sabatino2, Eric Pardyjak5 and Charles D Whiteman3, (1)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (2)Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (3)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (4)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (5)University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
A53O-06
Near-Surface Wind Predictions in Complex Terrain with a CFD Approach Optimized for Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows (8168)
Natalie Wagenbrenner1, Jason Forthofer1, Bret Butler1 and Kyle Shannon2, (1)Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT, United States, (2)Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States
A53O-07
Evaluation and Advancement of Similarity Scalings for a Steep Alpine Slope (21524)
Holly J Oldroyd1, Eric Pardyjak2, Chad W Higgins3 and Marc B Parlange1,4, (1)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (4)University of British Columbia, Civil Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada
A53O-08
Development of Satellite-based Climatology of Low-level Cloud and Fog in Mountain Terrain (16712)
Yajuan Duan, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States and Ana Paula Barros, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
A53O-09
Characteristics of the frequency and distribution of fog events over the Salt Lake and Heber Valleys (20485)
Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Derek Hodges, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
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