A41M:
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence I
Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs: Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-conveners: Pierre Gentine1, Marcelo Chamecki2 and Marcelo Chamecki2, (1)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States(2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
8:00 AM
The impact of variable building height on drag, flow and turbulence over a realistic suburban surface
Marco Giovanni Giometto, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Andreas Christen, University of British Columbia, Geography, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Marc Calaf, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Marc B Parlange, University of British Columbia, Civil Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada
8:15 AM
Formation of nocturnal low-level jets and structure of the nocturnal boundary layer in the Southern Great Plains
Petra Maria Klein1, Timothy A Bonin1, Jennifer Frances Newman1, Charlotte E Wainwright1, William G Blumberg1, David D Turner2, Phillip B Chilson1 and Sonia Wharton3, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)NOAA Norman, Norman, OK, United States, (3)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
8:45 AM
A closer look at boundary layer inversion in large-eddy simulations and bulk models
Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, Gilles Bellon, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand and Chiel Van Heerwaarden, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
9:00 AM
Application of Stable Isotope Tracers to Determine Latent Heat Exchange in Stable and Condensing Boundary Layers
David C Noone1,2, Adriana Raudzens Bailey1, Max B Berkelhammer3, Christopher Cox4 and Aleya Kaushik5, (1)University of Colorado, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (4)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Dept Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
9:30 AM
Scaling Properties of Turbulent Mixing for Scalars Measured at Arctic Terrestrial Sites
Andrey A Grachev1,2, Taneil Uttal1, Ola P.G. Persson1,2, Sara Crepinsek1,2, Chris W Fairall1, Robert Albee1,3, Alexander Makshtas4, Vasily Yu. Kustov4, Irina Repina5 and Arseniy Yu. Artamonov5, (1)NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Science and Technology Corporation, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Arctic & Antarctic Research Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, (5)Inst Atmospheric Physic, Moscow, Russia
