Chairs: Marcelo Chamecki, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, 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: Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States and Marcelo Chamecki, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology, University Park, PA, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
The characteristic averaging time for the surface-layer fluxes
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)EPFL, Ecublens (Vaud), Switzerland
The Ergodic Structure of Passive Scalar Turbulence Statistics within Dense Canopies
Khaled Ghannam1, Davide Poggi2, Amilcare M Porporato3 and Gabriel George Katul3, (1)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Idraulica, Trasporti ed Infrastrutture Civili, Torino, Italy, (3)Duke Univ, Durham, NC, United States
A Large Eddy Simulation to determine the effect of trees on wind and turbulence over a suburban surface
Pascal Emanuel Egli1, Marco Giovanni Giometto1, Thoreau Rory Tooke2, Scott Krayenhoff3, Andreas Christen3 and Marc B Parlange4, (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, Civil Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada
A velocity-dissipation stochastic trajectory model for dispersal of heavy particles inside canopies
Tomer Duman1, Ana Trakhtenbrot1, Davide Poggi2, Massimo Cassiani3 and Gabriel George Katul1, (1)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Politecnico di Torino, Dipartimento di Idraulica, Trasporti ed Infrastrutture Civili, Torino, Italy, (3)NILU, Kjeller, Norway
A Comparison of Explicit Algebraic Turbulence Models and the Energy-Flux Budget (EFB) Closure in Gabls
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