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
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 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 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
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
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
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