A43A:
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence III Posters

Session ID#: 5306

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  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
Primary Convener:  Prof. Elie Bou-Zeid, Ph.S., Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States
Co-conveners:  Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States and Marcelo Chamecki, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Prof. Elie Bou-Zeid, Ph.S., Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, 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 characteristic averaging time for the surface-layer fluxes (16423)
Marc Calaf1, Valerio Iungo2, Holly J Oldroyd3, Marco Giovanni Giometto4 and Marc B Parlange3, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Texas at Dallas, School of Engineering and Computer Sciences, Dallas, TX, United States, (3)EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, (4)Columbia University, Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, New York, United States
 
The Ergodic Structure of Passive Scalar Turbulence Statistics within Dense Canopies (6949)
Khaled Ghannam, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Boston, MA, United States, Davide Poggi, Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Idraulica, Trasporti ed Infrastrutture Civili, Torino, Italy, Amilcare M Porporato, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States and Gabriel George Katul, Duke University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, United States
 
A mass-spring-damper model for unsteady Ekman boundary layers (16841)
Prof. Elie Bou-Zeid, Ph.S., Princeton University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, United States and Mostafa Momen, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Turbulent flow over an interactive alternating land-water surface (22084)
Chiel van Heerwaarden and Juan Pedro Mellado, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
 
A Large Eddy Simulation to determine the effect of trees on wind and turbulence over a suburban surface (28579)
Pascal Emanuel Egli1, Marco Giovanni Giometto1, Thoreau Rory Tooke2, Eric Scott Krayenhoff3, Andreas Christen4 and Marc B Parlange5, (1)École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lausanne, Switzerland, (2)University of British Columbia, Forest Resources Management, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (3)University of British Columbia, Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (4)University of British Columbia, Geography / Atmospheric Science Program, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (5)University of British Columbia, Civil Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
Land-atmosphere interaction effect on convective available potential energy during the initiation of moist convection (30770)
Jun Yin, Duke University, Durham, United States, Amilcare M Porporato, Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, James Rigby, USDA Agricultural Research Service Oxford, Oxford, MS, United States and John D Albertson, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
 
A One-dimensional Stochastic Model of Turbulence within Plant Canopies (19937)
Livia S. Freire, Federal University of Parana, Brazil and Marcelo Chamecki, University of California, Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
 
A velocity-dissipation stochastic trajectory model for dispersal of heavy particles inside canopies (25352)
Tomer Duman, University of New Mexico, Department of Biology, Albuquerque, United States, Ana Trakhtenbrot, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, Davide Poggi, Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Idraulica, Trasporti ed Infrastrutture Civili, Torino, Italy, Massimo Cassiani, NILU, Kjeller, Norway and Gabriel George Katul, Duke University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, United States
 
The effect of Rossby number on the characteristics of superstructures and their impact on interscale energy exchange in the atmospheric boundary layer (31860)
Mohammad Ahsanuzzaman Khan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Rob Stoll II, University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
A Comparison of Explicit Algebraic Turbulence Models and the Energy-Flux Budget (EFB) Closure in Gabls (3972)
Werner MJ Lazeroms1, Eric Bazile2, Geert Brethouwer1, Stefan Wallin1,3, Arne V Johansson1 and Gunilla Svensson4, (1)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Linné FLOW Centre / Mechanics, Stockholm, Sweden, (2)Météo-France, CNRM/GMAP/PROC, Toulouse, France, (3)FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm, Sweden, (4)Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology, Stockholm, Sweden
 
A New Diagnostic Turbulence Parameterization Scheme for Representing Diurnal Variations of the Boundary Layer Wind Speed PDF and Clouds in CANAM4 SCM (4072)
Yanping He1, Norman McFarlane1,2 and Adam H Monahan1, (1)University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, (2)Canadian� Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, BC, Canada
 
Characterization of Mesoscale Variability in WRF - a Coastal Low-Level Jet Case Study (7061)
Ken Tay1,2, Julie K Lundquist3, Martin Skote1 and Tieh-Yong Koh1, (1)Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore, (2)U. of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Colorado Boulder, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, United States
 
Sensitivity of PBL Schemes of WRF-ARW Model in Simulating Mesoscale Atmospheric Flow-Field Parameters over a Complex Terrain (8463)
Srikanth Madala1, A.N.V. Satyanarayana1, C.V. Srinivas2 and Rahul Boadh1, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India, (2)Indira Gandhi center for Atomic Research, Radiological Safety Division, Kalpakkam, India
 
Large-eddy simulation of street canyons and urban microclimate using Uintah:MPMICE (11050)
Arash Nemati Hayati1, Rob Stoll II2, Todd Harman1 and Eric Pardyjak3, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Utah, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Numerical Study on urban parameterization using a CFD model (14365)
JaeJin Kim, Pukyong National University, Department of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Busan, South Korea and Hankyung Lee, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
A Numerical Study on Characteristics of Flow and Reactive Pollutant Dispersion in Step‒up Street Canyons (14395)
JaeJin Kim, Pukyong National University, Department of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Busan, South Korea and Eun-Ryoung Kim, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South)
 
Numerical Study on Sensitivity of Pollutant Dispersion on Turbulent Schmidt Number in a Street Canyon (14870)
Jangwoon WANG, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea, Republic of (South) and JaeJin Kim, Pukyong National University, Department of Environmental Atmospheric Sciences, Busan, South Korea
 
A Semi-Analytical Model for Short Range Dispersion From Ground Sources (15060)
Ehud Gavze, Eyal Fattal and Rivka Reichman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
 
Dispersion Simulations Using Inline WRF-HYSPLIT for Atmospheric Studies in Complex Terrain (ASCOT) Experiment (18049)
Fong Ngan, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, Ariel F Stein, NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, College Park, United States and Roland R Draxler, NOAA, College Park, MD, United States