A51D:
Observations, Predictions, and Predictability of the Atmosphere over Complex Terrain I Posters

Session ID#: 5272

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  Joshua Hacker, Jupiter, Boulder, United States and James D Doyle, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States
Primary Convener:  Joshua Hacker, Jupiter, Boulder, United States
Co-conveners:  Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Harindra Joseph Fernando, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Joshua Hacker, Jupiter, Boulder, 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:

 
Simulation of Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows Using a Lattice Boltzmann Method (9764)
Yansen Wang, US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States, Benjamin MacCall, US Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD, United States, Christopher M Hocut, US Army Research Laboratory, Wsmr, NM, United States and Harindra Joseph Fernando, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States
 
Simulations of Santa Barbara Sundowner Winds (8237)
Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States and Leila V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States
 
High Resolution Modeling of the Orographically Forced Vertical Motion on the Island of Oahu (9071)
Dr. Thomas E Robinson Jr, PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Meteorology, Honolulu, United States and Steven Businger, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Atmospheric Sciences, Honolulu, United States
 
WRF Model Simulations of Terrain-Driven Atmospheric Eddies in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds (9920)
Bradley M. Muller, Christopher G. Herbster and Frederick R. Mosher, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ, Daytona Beach, FL, United States
 
Inter-Comparison of WRF Model Simulated Winds and MISR Stereoscopic Winds Embedded within Mesoscale von Kármán Wake Vortices (22616)
Christopher G. Nunalee, North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Akos Horvath, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany and Kevin Joseph Mueller, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
 
Synoptic Flow Interactions in Complex Terrain (17144)
Christopher M Hocut1, Zachariah Silver2, Yansen Wang3, Edward D Creegan4, Melvin Felton1, Sebastian W Hoch5, Harindra Joseph Fernando6, Silvana Di Sabatino2,7, Laura Sandra Leo2, Reneta Dimitrova8,9, Tamas Zsedrovits10, Eric Pardyjak11 and Giap Huynh1, (1)US Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD, United States, (2)University of Notre Dame, Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (3)US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States, (4)US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile, NM, United States, (5)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (6)University of Notre Dame, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (7)University of Salento, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies Micrometeorology Laboratory, Lecce, Italy, (8)National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Sofia, Bulgaria, (9)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, United States, (10)Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Budapest, Hungary, (11)University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
WRF Modeling of Synoptic Flow Cases of MATERHORN Spring Field Campaign (27358)
Zachariah Silver1, Christopher M Hocut2, Reneta Dimitrova3, Tamas Zsedrovits4, Harindra Joseph Fernando5, Yansen Wang6, Edward D Creegan7, Melvin Felton8, Silvana Di Sabatino1 and Laura Sandra Leo1, (1)University of Notre Dame, Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (2)US Army Research Laboratory, Wsmr, NM, United States, (3)National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Sofia, Bulgaria, (4)Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Budapest, Hungary, (5)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (6)US Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States, (7)US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile, NM, United States, (8)US Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD, United States
 
Atmospheric Residual Layers: WRF/HYSPLIT Modeling for Better Understanding in Complex Terrain (26731)
Frank Freedman, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States and Sen Chiao, Howard University, Physics, San Jose, United States
 
A WRF sensitivity study for summer ozone and winter PM events in California (13273)
Zhan Zhao1, Jianjun Chen1, Abdullah Mahmud1, Pingkuan Di1, Jeremy Avise2,3, John DaMassa1 and Ajith P Kaduwela1,4, (1)California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, United States, (2)California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, United States, (3)California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sacramento, United States, (4)UC-Davis Air Quality Research Center, Davis, CA, United States
 
Fine-scale WRF-CMAQ Modeling for the 2013 DISCOVER-AQ Campaign in California (25549)
Robert Chad Gilliam, US EPA, Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, Jonathan E Pleim, Center for Environmental Measurement & Modeling, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA, Research Triangle Park, United States and Wyat Appel, Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States
 
Forecast Verification for North American Mesoscale (NAM) Operational Model over Karst/Non-Karst regions (17396)
Zachary Sullivan and Xingang Fan, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, United States
 
WRF simulations of extreme snowfall events associated with extratropical cyclones over the Himalayas. (27991)
Jesse Norris1, Leila V Carvalho2, Charles Jones3 and Forest Cannon1, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States, (3)University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Geography, Santa Barbara, United States
 
Modeling and Prediction of Wintertime Precipitation over Northwest India: Search for an Explicit Solution (11286)
Pushpraj Tiwari, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India, S. C. Kar, National Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, India, Ministry Of Earth Sciences, Government of India, Noida, India, U. C. Mohanty, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India and Sagnik Dey, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Center for Atmospheric Science, New Delhi, India
 
Rainfall Variability in Multi-Source Observations and Simulation over the Uttarakhand Himalaya,India (16217)
Sneh Joshi1,2, Krushna Chandra Gouda3, Kireet Kumar1, Bimal Pande2 and Prashant Goswami3, (1)G.B. Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development Kosi-Katarmal, Watershed Processes and Management, Almora, India, (2)Kumaun University, Nainital, Department of Physics, Nainital, India, (3)CSIR CENTRE FOR MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND COMPUTER SIMULATION, CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT MODELLING, BANGALORE, India
 
Observations and Modeling of the Near Surface Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere in the Southern Appalachians during the Integrated Precipitation and Hydrology Experiment (IPHEx) Extended Observing Period (19718)
Anna Maria Wilson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes (CW3E), La Jolla, United States and Ana Paula Barros, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
 
Factors Influencing the Variability of Mountain Gap Wind Events over the Gulf of Tehuantepec (30657)
Emily Foshee, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Udaysankar S Nair, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Investigating Terrain Effects on Nearshore Cloud Evolution in Deepwave through Time-Lapse Photogrammetry (25610)
Tashiana C. Osborne and Brian J. Billings, St. Cloud State University, Atmospheric and Hydrologic Sciences Department, St. Cloud, MN, United States
 
Satellite-observed Characteristics of Mesoscale Convective Systems over the Tibetan Plateau in Warm Season (22940)
Donghai Wang1,2 and Wei Fu1, (1)Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, United States
 
What is the source of the stratospheric gravity wave belt in austral winter? (16939)
Eric A Hendricks, Naval Research Lab Monterey, Monterey, CA, United States, James D Doyle, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, United States, Stephen D Eckermann, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, United States, Qingfang Jiang, NRL, Monterey, CA, United States and Patrick Alexander Reinecke, Naval Research Laboratory, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA, United States
 
Observations of the evening transition processes on opposing slopes of a north-south oriented mountain (27880)
Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Anisotropy of Atmospheric Surface Layer Turbulence During the MATERHORN Experiment (31734)
Cheryl L Klipp, US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile, NM, United States
 
Soil Moisture Dynamics and Evaporation in Arid Intermountain Environments (9890)
Chaoxun Hang, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Daniel Nadeau, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Canada, Derek D Jensen, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Sebastian W Hoch, University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States