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

Friday, 19 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Joshua Hacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and James D Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Joshua Hacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Co-conveners:  Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Harindra Joseph Fernando, Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Joshua Hacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Simulation of Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer Flows Using a Lattice Boltzmann Method
Yansen Wang1, Benjamin MacCall1, Christopher M Hocut2 and Harindra Joseph Fernando3, (1)US Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD, United States, (2)US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile, NM, United States, (3)Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
 
Simulations of Santa Barbara Sundowner Winds
Charles Jones and Leila V Carvalho, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
High Resolution Modeling of the Orographically Forced Vertical Motion on the Island of Oahu
Thomas E Robinson Jr, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Meteorology, Honolulu, HI, United States and Steven Businger, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
 
WRF Model Simulations of Terrain-Driven Atmospheric Eddies in Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
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
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
Christopher M Hocut1, Zachariah Silver2, Yansen Wang1, Edward Creegan3, Melvin Felton1, Sebastian Hoch4, Harindra Joseph Fernando2, Silvana Di Sabatino2,5, Laura Leo2, Reneta Dimitrova2,6, Tamas Zsedrovits7, Eric Pardyjak8 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, White Sands Missile, NM, United States, (4)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)University of Salento, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies Micrometeorology Laboratory, Lecce, Italy, (6)National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Sofia, Bulgaria, (7)Pazmany Peter Catholic University, Faculty of Information Technology and Bionics, Budapest, Hungary, (8)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
WRF Modeling of Synoptic Flow Cases of MATERHORN Spring Field Campaign
Zachariah Silver1, Christopher M Hocut2, Reneta Dimitrova3, Tamas Zsedrovits4, Harindra Joseph Fernando5, Yansen Wang6, Edward Creegan2, Melvin Felton6, Silvana Di Sabatino1 and Laura Leo1, (1)University of Notre Dame, Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (2)US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile, 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)Univ of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (6)US Army Research Lab, Adelphi, MD, United States
 
Atmospheric Residual Layers: WRF/HYSPLIT Modeling for Better Understanding in Complex Terrain
Frank Freedman and Sen Chiao, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, United States
 
A WRF sensitivity study for summer ozone and winter PM events in California
Zhan Zhao1, Jianjun Chen1, Abdullah Mahmud1, Pingkuan Di1, Jeremy Avise1,2, John DaMassa1 and Ajith P Kaduwela1,3, (1)California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, United States, (2)Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States, (3)UC-Davis Air Quality Research Center, Davis, CA, United States
 
Fine-scale WRF-CMAQ Modeling for the 2013 DISCOVER-AQ Campaign in California
Robert Chad Gilliam1, Jonathan E. Pleim1 and Wyat Appel2, (1)US EPA, Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (2)Environmental Protection Agency Research Triangle Park, Raleigh, NC, United States
 
Forecast Verification for North American Mesoscale (NAM) Operational Model over Karst/Non-Karst regions
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.
Jesse Norris, Leila V Carvalho, Charles Jones and Forest Cannon, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
 
Modeling and Prediction of Wintertime Precipitation over Northwest India: Search for an Explicit Solution
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, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, School of Earth Ocean and Climate Sciences, Bhubaneswar, India and Sagnik Dey, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, 110, India
 
Rainfall Variability in Multi-Source Observations and Simulation over the Uttarakhand Himalaya,India
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
 
Factors Influencing the Variability of Mountain Gap Wind Events over the Gulf of Tehuantepec
Emily Foshee and Udaysankar S Nair, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Investigating Terrain Effects on Nearshore Cloud Evolution in Deepwave through Time-Lapse Photogrammetry
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
Donghai Wang1,2 and Wei Fu1, (1)Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
 
What is the source of the stratospheric gravity wave belt in austral winter?
Eric A Hendricks1, James D Doyle2, Stephen D Eckermann3, Qingfang Jiang2 and Alex Reinecke2, (1)Naval Research Lab Monterey, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)NRL, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States
 
Observations of the evening transition processes on opposing slopes of a north-south oriented mountain
Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
Anisotropy of Atmospheric Surface Layer Turbulence During the MATERHORN Experiment
Cheryl L Klipp, US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile, NM, United States
 
Soil Moisture Dynamics and Evaporation in Arid Intermountain Environments
Chaoxun Hang1, Eric Pardyjak1, Daniel F Nadeau2, Derek D Jensen1 and Sebastian Hoch3, (1)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, Canada, (3)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
 
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