A33Q
Observations and Predictability of the Atmosphere over Complex Terrain I

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 13:40-15:40
3010 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Conveners:  Daniel Nadeau, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada, Harindra Joseph Fernando, University of Notre Dame, Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States and Joshua Hacker, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Chairs:  Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States and Daniel Nadeau, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada
OSPA Liaisons:  Daniel Nadeau, Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada
13:40
A33Q-01
Katabatically Driven Downslope Windstorm-Type Flows on the Inner Sidewall of Arizona's Barringer Meteorite Crater (Invited) (76724)
Charles D Whiteman1, Manuela Lehner2, Sebastian Hoch1, Matthew Hills1, Thomas Haiden3, Iris Feigenwinter4, Martina Grudzielanek5, Mateja Maric6, Norbert Kalthoff7, Roland Vogt4, Jan Cermak5, Richard Rotunno8, Ronald Calhoun9, Nihanth Cherukuru9 and Bianca Adler7, (1)University of Utah, Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasting, Reading, United Kingdom, (4)University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, (5)Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (6)Ruhr Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, (7)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research - Troposphere Research(IMK-TRO), Karlsruhe, Germany, (8)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
13:55
A33Q-02
On the turbulence structure over complex mountainous terrain as observed in the i-Box (Invited) (78495)
Mathias Walter Rotach, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
14:10
A33Q-03
Non-stationary Drainage Flows and Cold Pools in Gentle Terrain (Invited) (61156)
Larry Mahrt, NorthWest Research Associates Redmond, Redmond, WA, United States
14:25
A33Q-04
Thermally driven up-slope flows: state of the art and open questions (Invited) (79457)
Dino Zardi, University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Atmospheric Physics Group, Trento, Italy
14:40
A33Q-05
Scaling thermal convection of stratified fluid over sloping surfaces (82126)
Marco Giovanni Giometto, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
14:50
A33Q-06
Buoyant Turbulence Kinetic Energy (TKE) Production in Katabatic Flow Despite Stable Thermal Stratification (61795)
Holly J Oldroyd, EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Chad W Higgins, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Marc B Parlange, University of British Columbia, Faculty of Applied Science, Department of Civil Engineering, Vancouver, BC, Canada
15:00
A33Q-07
Winds, Mountains, and Wildland Fire: Improved Understanding of Coupled Atmosphere-Topography-Fire Interactions Through Large-Eddy Simulation (82962)
Domingo Munoz-Esparza, Jeremy Sauer and Rodman Linn, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
15:10
A33Q-08
Nocturnal Valley Cold Air Pool Displacement on a Desert Mountain Slope (66457)
Matt Edward Jeglum, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
15:20
A33Q-09
Large-eddy transport in the surface layer over heterogeneous terrain (71785)
Matthias Mauder1, Fabian Eder2, Frederik De Roo3, Peter Brugger3, Hans Peter E Schmid4, Eyal Rotenberg5 and Dan Yakir5, (1)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Geography and Geoecology (IfGG), Karlsruhe, Germany, (3)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (4)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IMK-IFU, KIT-Campus Alpin, Karlsruhe, Germany, (5)Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
15:35
A33Q-10
A Study of the 24-26 March 2015 Rainfall Event over the Atacama Desert (Chile) using WRF Simulations (75158)
Sebastián Felipe Otárola1, Ricardo Alcafuz2, Reneta Dimitrova3, Laura Sandra Leo4, Cristian R Escauriaza1, Rodrigo Arroyo2, Gonzalo Yañez1 and Harindra Joseph Fernando4, (1)Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, (2)Chilean Meteorological Agency, Office of Modeling and Development, Santiago, Chile, (3)National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography, Sofia, Bulgaria, (4)University of Notre Dame, Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States
 
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