A42A:
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence II

Session ID#: 5305

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3002 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Prof. Elie Bou-Zeid, Ph.S., Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States and Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Primary Convener:  Prof. Elie Bou-Zeid, Ph.S., Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States
Co-conveners:  Marcelo Chamecki, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Marcelo Chamecki, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • AMS - American Meteorological Society
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • H - Hydrology
  • NG - Nonlinear Geophysics
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1843 Land/atmosphere interactions [HYDROLOGY]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3379 Turbulence [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No
Swirl Theme: Convection and circulation across scales

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Modification of a Thermally Induced Mesoscale Circulation By Deep Moist Convection (9854)
Malte Rieck1, Cathy Hohenegger1 and Pierre Gentine2, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Wind Shear and Buoyancy Reversal at the Stratocumulus Top (Invited) (3836)
Juan Pedro Mellado and Bjorn B Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Large-eddy simulations with a dynamic explicit vegetation model (15762)
Gil Bohrer1, Kyle Maurer2, Efthalia Chatziefstratiou2 and David Medvigy3, (1)The Ohio State University, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, United States, (2)Ohio State University Main Campus, Civil, Environmental & Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, (3)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Air Parcel Residence Times within Tropical Forest Canopies and Implications for Reactive Gases (9754)
Tobias Gerken, The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States, Marcelo Chamecki, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Jose D Fuentes, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States
Observation of environmental boundary layers at miltiple scales (Invited) (6516)
Chad W Higgins1, Eric Pardyjak2, Heather Holmes3, David Blunck4, Ziru Liu4 and Marc Calaf5, (1)College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University, Biological and Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Nevada Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Physics, Reno, NV, United States, (4)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Co-spectrum and mean velocity in turbulent boundary layers (18874)
Gabriel George Katul, Duke University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, United States, Amilcare M Porporato, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States, Costantino Manes, University of Southampton, Water and Environmental Engineering Unit, School of Engineering and the Environment, Southampton, United Kingdom and Charles Vivant Meneveau, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, United States
The evolution of atmospheric surface layer heat and momentum flux co-spectra with increasing flux Richardson number (19713)
Dan Li, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States, Gabriel George Katul, Duke University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, United States and Prof. Elie Bou-Zeid, Ph.S., Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States
How well do we need to simulate cloud radiative effects to simulate stratocumulus? (20749)
Gilles Bellon, University of Auckland, Department of Physics, Auckland, New Zealand