A42A:
Atmospheric Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence II

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States and Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
Primary Conveners:  Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Co-conveners:  Marcelo Chamecki, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States and Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Marcelo Chamecki, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
The Modification of a Thermally Induced Mesoscale Circulation By Deep Moist Convection
Malte Rieck1, Cathy Hohenegger1 and Pierre Gentine2, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
10:35 AM
 
Wind Shear and Buoyancy Reversal at the Stratocumulus Top
Juan Pedro Mellado and Bjorn B Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
10:50 AM
 
Large-eddy simulations with a dynamic explicit vegetation model
Gil Bohrer1, Kyle Maurer1, Efthalia Chatziefstratiou1 and David Medvigy2, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Civil, Environmental & Geodetic Engineering, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
11:05 AM
 
Air Parcel Residence Times within Tropical Forest Canopies and Implications for Reactive Gases
Tobias Gerken1, Marcelo Chamecki2 and Jose D Fuentes1, (1)Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States
11:20 AM
 
Observation of environmental boundary layers at miltiple scales
Chad W Higgins1, Eric Pardyjak2, Heather Holmes3, David Blunck1, Ziru Liu1 and Marc Calaf2, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)University of Nevada Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Physics, Reno, NV, United States
11:35 AM
 
Co-spectrum and mean velocity in turbulent boundary layers
Gabriel George Katul, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, Amilcare M Porporato, Duke Univ, Durham, NC, 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, MD, United States
11:50 AM
 
The evolution of atmospheric surface layer heat and momentum flux co-spectra with increasing flux Richardson number
Dan Li1, Gabriel George Katul2 and Elie Bou-Zeid1, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
12:05 PM
 
How well do we need to simulate cloud radiative effects to simulate stratocumulus?
Gilles Bellon, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
 
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