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Sunday, 16 August 2009
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Orion Registration Opens
Monday, 17 August 2009
	7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday, Orion Registration Continues throughout the Conference
	8:45 AM-10:00 AM, Monday, The Canyons Session 1 Mesoscale precipitation systems I
Chair: S. B. Trier, NCAR, Boulder, CO
8:45 AM Welcoming Remarks   9:00 AM 1.1 Dynamic Tropopause Mesoscale Disturbances as Triggers of Warm Season Severe Weather Episodes in the Southwest   Lance F. Bosart, SUNY - University at Albany, Albany, NY; and J. E. Matusiak, T. J. Melino, S. R. Sukup, and E. Pytlak 9:15 AM 1.2 Repeating patterns of precipitation and surface pressure evolution in midlatitude mesoscale convective vortices   Eric P. James, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. H. Johnson 9:30 AM 1.3 The dependence of high-precipitation supercells on preexisting airmass boundaries: a targeted modeling study   Jennifer M. Laflin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and A. L. Houston 9:45 AM 1.4 Mesoscale precipitation features and dynamics of a winter storm in Central Oklahoma   Jana Lesak Houser, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK ; and H. B. Bluestein 10:00 AM 1.5 Radar reflectivity as a proxy for convective mass transport   Gretchen L. Mullendore, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and A. J. Homann, C. Schumacher, and K. Bevers
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday, Arches/Deer Valley Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, The Canyons Session 2 Mesoscale precipitation systems II
Chair: Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
10:30 AM 2.1 Maintenance of mesoscale convective systems over Lake Michigan   Nicholas D. Metz, Univ. at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart 2.2 Development and propagation of a narrow cold frontal rain band in the Sierra Nevada of Northern California   K.C. King, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. L. Kaplan and C. Smallcomb 10:45 AM 2.3 Convection-permitting simulations of the diurnal cycle of warm-season precipitation in the lee of the Rocky mountains   S. B. Trier, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. A. Davis and D. A. Ahijevych 11:00 AM 2.4 Mesoscale convective systems crossing the Appalachian Mountains   Casey E. Letkewicz, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and M. D. Parker 11:15 AM 2.5 A climatology of convective systems over the Northeast U.S. and their structural evolution from the lee of the Appalachians to the Atlantic Coast   Kelly Lombardo, Stony Brook University/SUNY, Stony Brook, NY NY; and B. A. Colle 11:30 AM 2.6 A radar-based climatology of high precipitation events in the European Alps: 2000-2007   James V. Rudolph, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and K. Friedrich and U. Germann
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Wasatch Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, The Canyons Session 3 Mesoscale precipitation systems III
Chair: Gretchen L. Mullendore, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
1:30 PM 3.1 A climatology of high lapse rates and their influence on the occurrence (or non-occurrence) of severe weather over the central United States   Jason M. Cordeira, Univ. of Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and T. J. Galarneau and L. F. Bosart 1:45 PM 3.2 Convective initiation ahead of squall lines involving small hills   Seung-hee Kim, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and R. G. Fovell 2:00 PM 3.3 The response of simulated nocturnal convective systems to a low-level jet   Adam J. French, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and M. D. Parker 2:15 PM 3.4 Comparison of the level of neutral buoyancy observed from soundings and radar   Amanda J. Homann, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and G. Mullendore, J. S. Tilley, and S. T. Jorgenson
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Arches/Deer Valley Coffee Break with Poster Viewing
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Arches/Deer Valley Poster Session 1 Poster Session I
CoChair: Sandra E. Yuter, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Chair: Robert Fovell, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
P1.1 Study of microphysical and thermodynamic structures within supercell thunderstorms   Katja Friedrich, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. Wurman and K. A. Kosiba   P1.2 Megers between isolated supercells and quasi-linear convective systems: a preliminary study   Adam J. French, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and M. D. Parker   P1.3 Mobile sounding measurements of the near storm environment during VORTEX2   Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and A. J. French, C. E. Letkewicz, M. J. Morin, K. Rojowsky, D. Stark, and G. H. Bryan   P1.4 NRL COAMPS Real-Time Forecast during VOCALS-Regional Experiment   Shouping Wang, NRL, Monterey, CA; and Q. Jiang, L. W. O'Neill, X. Hong, H. Jin, W. T. Thompson, and X. Zheng   P1.5 A spatial and temporal distribution of convection over the Northeast U.S. during the warm season   John Murray, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle   P1.6 Sensitivities of storm divergence and stratiform rain production to microphysics and cumulus parameterizations   Larry J. Hopper Jr., Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. Schumacher   P1.7 Possible stretching mechanisms producing the tornado vortex in the mid-level   Masahisa Nakazato, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and O. Suzuki, K. Kusunoki, H. Yamauchi, and H. Y. Inoue   P1.8 Diurnal cycle of monsoon thunderstorms in Arizona and New Mexico from spaceborne and surface-based radar   Christina Wall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. J. Zipser and C. Liu   P1.9 Mesoscale Convective Systems along the Mei-Yu Front Over South China Sea and Taiwan   Weixin Xu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Zipser   P1.10 Structure of Subtropical Mesoscale Convective Vortex during SoWMEX/TiMREX   Hsiao-Wei Lai, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. A. Davis and B. J. D. Jou   P1.11 Numerical investigation of internal wave-vortex interactions   Tyler D. Blackhurst, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; and J. C. Vanderhoff   P1.12 Simulations of internal gravity waves approaching a critical level   Brian Patrick Casaday, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; and J. C. Vanderhoff   P1.13 A Case Study of a Large-Amplitude Inertia–Gravity Wave over the Southeast   James Ruppert, SUNY/University at Albany, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart   P1.14 An intercomparison of T-REX mountain wave simulations   James Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Gabersek, L. R. Bernardet, J. M. Brown, A. Doernbrack, E. Filaus, V. Grubisic, Q. Jiang, D. J. Kirshbaum, O. Knoth, S. Koch, I. Stiperski, S. Vosper, and S. Zhong   P1.15 Three-dimensional characteristics of stratospheric mountain waves during T-REX   James Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and Q. Jiang, R. B. Smith, W. Cooper, V. Grubisic, and J. B. Jensen   P1.16 The Complex Bora Flow in the Lee of Southern Velebit   Ivana Stiperski, Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Zagreb, Croatia; and B. Ivancan-Picek and V. Grubisic   P1.17 Beyond Long's solution: a Newton solver for nonlinear mountain waves with rotation   Kevin C. Viner, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. C. Epifanio   P1.18 Whistler Mountain climatology: Temperature lapse rates in complex terrain   Lisa N. Erven, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and I. McKendry   P1.19 Influence of turbulence and dynamics on dust transport in Owens Valley   Qingfang Jiang, UCAR Visiting Scientist, NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. Liu and J. Doyle   P1.20 Statistics and dynamics of aircraft encounters of turbulence over Greenland   Todd P. Lane, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and J. D. Doyle, R. D. Sharman, M. A. Shapiro, and C. D. Watson   P1.21 High resolution modeling of convective outflow in complex terrain   Andrew J. Newman, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. H. Johnson   P1.22 Interaction of a mountain lee wave with a basin cold pool   George Young, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and B. Gaudet, N. L. Seaman, and D. R. Stauffer   P1.23 Structure and evolution of numerically simulated misocyclones along a snowband over the Shonai region on 25 January 2008   Wataru Mashiko, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and S. Hayashi, K. Kusunoki, H. Y. Inoue, K. Bessho, S. Hoshino, M. Nakazato, and H. Yamauchi   P1.24 Snow-to-liquid ratio variability and prediction at a high-elevation site in Utah's Wasatch Mountains   Trevor I. Alcott, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh   P1.25 Climatology of Fronts and Associated Surface Baroclinic Zones in the Great Lakes Region   Neil Laird, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and M. Payer, R. Maliawco, and E. G. Hoffman   P1.26 A study of the effect of the Great Lakes on deep convective systems   Thomas E. Workoff, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich   P1.27 Summer midtropospheric perturbations over the U.S. northern plains: Climatology and NAM forecasts   Shih-Yu Wang, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and T. C. Chen
	4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Monday, The Canyons Session 4 Mesoscale precipitation systems IV
Chair: David B. Mechem, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
4:00 PM 4.1 Distant effects of recurving tropical cyclones on rainfall production in midlatitude convective systems   Russ S. Schumacher, NCAR, Boulder, CO, and Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and T. J. Galarneau and L. F. Bosart 4:15 PM 4.2 An analysis of the pre-storm environment of intense convective systems in West Africa   Stephen D. Nicholls, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and K. I. Mohr 4:30 PM 4.3 Numerical simulations of the evolution of long-lived episodes of organized convection in Africa   A. G. Laing, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. A. Davis 4.4 PAPER WITHDRAWN   4:45 PM 4.4A Mesoscale Radiatively-Induced Anvil Spreading   Steven K. Krueger, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. A. Zulauf
	5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Monday, The Canyons Session 5 Transferring research results to operations
Chair: Russ S. Schumacher, NCAR, Boulder, CO
5:00 PM 5.1 Evaluation of WRF model forecasts of environmental parameters for severe-weather forecasting from the NOAA HWT Spring Experiments   Michael C. Coniglio, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Elmore, J. S. Kain, S. J. Weiss, M. Xue, and M. L. Weisman 5:15 PM 5.2 A Prototype future hurricane prediction system: Realtime cloud-resolving ensemble data assimilation and forecasting during the 2008 Atlantic season   Yonghui Weng, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and F. Zhang, J. Gamache, and F. D. Marks 5:30 PM 5.3 Assessing the total mountain drag in the Met Office weather forecast model: how sensitive is it to horizontal resolution?   Stuart Webster, Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and S. Vosper, A. Brown, and S. Smith 5:45 PM 5.4 Utilizing high-resolution WRF model output to improve NWS forecasts in complex terrain   Brett E. McDonald, NOAA/NWSFO, Riverton, WY
Tuesday, 18 August 2009
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, The Canyons Session 6 Theoretical and modeling studies of mesoscale processes I
Chair: Craig Epifanio, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
8:00 AM 6.1 Cooked boundaries: results from numerical experiments   Anthony E. Reinhart, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and A. L. Houston 8:15 AM 6.2 An idealized comparison of one-way and two-way grid nesting   Lucas M. Harris, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran 8:30 AM 6.3 The life cycle of an undular bore and its interaction with a shallow, intense cold front   Daniel C. Hartung, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. A. Otkin, J. E. Martin, and D. D. Turner 8:45 AM 6.4 The numerical simulation of infrasound generated by convective storms   David A. Schecter, NorthWest Research Associates, Redmond, WA; and M. E. Nicholls 9:00 AM 6.5 Horizontal scale selection associated with mesoscale gravity wave/convection coupling   Todd P. Lane, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and F. Zhang 9:15 AM 6.6 Gravity wave propagation through time-dependent shear   Julie C. Vanderhoff, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 9:30 AM 6.7 Predictability and dynamics of a squall line and bow echo event during BAMEX   Christopher Melhauser, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and F. Zhang, M. Weisman, and D. P. Jorgensen 9:45 AM 6.8 Assessment of the vertical exchange of heat, moisture, and momentum above a wildland fire using observations and mesoscale simulations   Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and M. T. Kiefer and D. Keyser
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday, Arches/Deer Valley Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, The Canyons Session 7 Theoretical and modeling studies of mesoscale processes II
Chair: H. Dawn Reeves, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
10:30 AM 7.1 has been moved. New paper number 4.4 A   10:45 AM 7.2 Aerosol indirect effects on cold pools and the feedbacks to subsequent convective development   Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 11:00 AM 7.3 Modeling aerosol impacts on convective storms in different environments   Rachel L. Storer, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. C. van den Heever and G. Stephens 11:15 AM 7.4 The role of cumulus congestus in the tropical western Pacific   David B. Mechem, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and A. J. Oberthaler 11:30 AM 7.5 A Coastally Trapped Wind Reversal Along the Gulf of Alaska   Emily L. Niebuhr, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Hitchman 11:45 AM 7.6 A Framework for Understanding and Modeling Mesoscale Weather Systems Using the Ensemble of Multiple Parameterizations of Physical Processes at the Land Surface and in the Atmosphere   Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and G. Y. Niu and X. Jiang
	12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Tuesday, Wasatch Lunch Break
	1:15 PM-1:45 PM, Tuesday, The Canyons Session 8 Invited lecture
CoChair: Sandra E. Yuter, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Lecturer: Roger M. Wakimoto, NCAR, Boulder, CO Chair: Robert Fovell, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
	1:45 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, The Canyons Session 9 Theoretical and modeling studies of mesoscale processes III
Chair: George H. Bryan, NCAR, Boulder, CO
1:45 PM 9.1 Observations and simulations of a long-lived tornadic mesocyclone that formed in a low-CAPE environment with PV banners spawned by the Colorado Front Range   Bart Geerts, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and T. Andretta, J. Vogt, Y. Wang, and S. Luberda 2:00 PM 9.2 Importance of horizontally inhomogeneous environmental initial conditions to very short range thunderstorm forecasts   David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Gao 2:15 PM 9.3 Some Lessons on the Predictability of Convective Systems over a 36 h Timeframe   Morris L. Weisman, NCAR, Boulder, CO ; and K. Manning and D. Dowell 2:30 PM 9.4 Aircraft measurements and numerical simulations of gravity waves in the extratropical UTLS region during the START08 field campaign   Fuqing Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and M. Zhang, K. P. Bowman, L. Pan, and E. Atlas 2:45 PM 9.5 Observations of tropospheric, convectively generated gravity waves from atmospheric profiling platforms   Daniel R. Adriaansen, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. J. Alexander and G. L. Mullendore 3:00 PM 9.6 Generation of inertia-gravity waves from jets within vortex dipoles   Shuguang Wang, Columbia University, New York, NY; and F. Zhang 3:15 PM 9.7 Mechanisms for spontaneous gravity-wave generation within a dipole vortex   Chris Snyder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Plougonven and D. J. Muraki
	3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday, Arches/Deer Valley Coffee Break
	4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, The Canyons Session 10 Results from recent field research programs
Chair: Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
4:00 PM 10.1 Overview of SoWMEX/TiMREX   Wen-Chau Lee, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. J. D. Jou and C. R. Chen 4:15 PM 10.2 Preliminary results from the SoWMEX/TiMREX sounding network   Richard H. Johnson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. E. Ciesielski, Z. Finch, and A. J. Newman 4:30 PM 10.3 What is the difference between orographic precipitation in the Europe Alps and Taiwan?   Katja Friedrich, University of Colorado - Boulder, Boulder, CO; and T. M. Weckwerth, W. C. Lee, U. Germann, and L. Panziera 4:45 PM 10.4 A numerical study of the evolving convective boundary layer and orographic circulation around the Santa Catalina Mountains in Arizona. Part I: circulation without deep convection   Cory Demko, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and B. Geerts and Q. Miao 5:00 PM 10.5 A re-evaluation of the role of subsidence in valley and basin warming   Thomas Haiden, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria 5:15 PM 10.6 Unexpectedly strong convection under an inversion-topped marine boundary layer   Sandra E. Yuter, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and D. B. Mechem, C. W. Fairall, and W. A. Brewer 5:30 PM 10.7 Characteristics of tropical cyclogenesis predictability: Perspectives from T-PARC/TCS08   James Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. M. Amerault, C. A. Reynolds, and H. Jin 5:45 PM 10.8 HYMEX, an experimental program dedicated to the hydrological cycle in the Mediterranean   Philippe J. Drobinski, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace/Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Palaiseau, France; and V. Ducrocq and P. Lionello
	6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday, The Canyons Gathering for HyMeX Meeting
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, The Canyons Session 11 Orographic, coastal and other thermally driven mesoscale circulation systems I
Chair: C. David Whiteman, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
8:00 AM 11.1 Urban land-use and pollution impacts on mesoscale circulations and convection over Houston   Gustavo Carrió, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton 8:15 AM 11.2 Mesoscale analysis and WRF model verification of a low-level jet, bay breeze, and undular bore at the Howard University Beltsville Research Site   Kevin Vermeesch, SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Weldegaber, B. B. Demoz, and D. Venable 8:30 AM 11.3 Large-eddy simulation of sea and lake breezes and sensitivity to forcing mechanisms   Erik T. Crosman, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel 8:45 AM 11.4 Warm-season MCS initiation and development influenced by land/lake thermodynamic contrasts near the Great Lakes   Alan F. Srock, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart 9:00 AM 11.5 Dynamics of Diurnal Variation of Stratus Clouds in Monterey Bay Area   Shouping Wang, NRL, Monterey, CA; and Y. Jin, Q. Jiang, and Q. Wang 9:15 AM 11.6 A mesoscale model intercomparison of coastal refractivity   Tracy Haack, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. Wang, S. Garrett, A. Glazer, and R. E. Marshall 9:30 AM 11.7 Impact of the Andes Cordillera on a mid-latitude cold front   Bradford S. Barrett, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD 9:45 AM 11.8 Orographic effects on coastal cyclogenesis in New England   Thomas E. Robinson Jr., University of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA; and F. P. Colby
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday, Arches/Deer Valley Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, The Canyons Session 12 Orographic, coastal and other thermally driven mesoscale circulation systems II
Chair: Scott A. Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
10:30 AM 12.1 Climatological and dynamical evolution of a warm-season coastal jet in the New York Bight region   Brian A. Colle, Stony Brook University / SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and D. R. Novak 10:45 AM 12.2 Characteristics and dynamic aspects of Chilean coastal jet   Qingfang Jiang, UCAR Visiting Scientist, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Wang and L. W. O'Neill 11:00 AM 12.3 Multi-season observational study of precipitation structures along the Oregon Cascade windward slope   Justin A. Crouch, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. E. Yuter 11:15 AM 12.4 The detection and significance of diurnal pressure and Potential Vorticity anomalies east of the Rockies   Yanping Li, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith 11:30 AM 12.5 Isothermalcy in a basin atmosphere produced by nocturnal cold air intrusions   C. David Whiteman, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. W. Hoch and M. Lehner 11:45 AM 12.6 Linear theory calculations for the sea breeze in a background wind: The equatorial case   Tingting Qian, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and C. C. Epifanio and F. Zhang
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday, Sundance Committee Luncheon
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday, Wasatch Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, The Canyons Session 13 Mountain waves and obstacle flows
Chair: Michael Coniglio, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
1:30 PM 13.1 Forecasts of persistent valley cold pools in the Bonneville Basin by a mesoscale model   H. Dawn Reeves, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud 1:45 PM 13.2 Observations and modeling of breaking waves in the lee of the Medicine Bow Mountains   Jeffrey R. French, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and S. Haimov, V. Grubisic, M. Xiao, and L. D. Oolman 2:00 PM 13.3 Trapped Lee Wave Interference in Presence of Surface Friction   Ivana Stiperski, Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia; and V. Grubisic 2:15 PM 13.4 Resonant wave-wave instability in rotating and nonhydrostatic mountain waves   Kevin C. Viner, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and C. C. Epifanio and D. J. Muraki
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Arches/Deer Valley Coffee Break with Poster Viewing
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Arches/Deer Valley Poster Session 2 Poster session II
CoChair: Robert G. Fovell, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA Chair: Sandra E. Yuter, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
P2.1 Simulations of environmental conditions conducive to formation of lake-to-lake bands   Joanna T. George, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and M. R. Hjelmfelt, W. J. Capehart, and D. A. R. Kristovich   P2.2 Numerical simulation of impacts of the Great Lakes on cold frontal passages   Timothy S. Axford, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and M. R. Hjelmfelt, W. J. Capehart, and D. A. R. Kristovich   P2.3 Mesoscale GEM-LAM modeling of atmospheric refractivity in coastal environments   Anna Glazer, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and T. Haack, J. Mailhot, and S. Gaudreault   P2.4 Assessment of Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) observations   Xia Dong, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; and J. D. Horel   P2.5 Sensitivity of surface temperature analyses to background and observation errors   Daniel Tyndall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel   P2.6 DART/WRF: A community mesoscale ensemble data assimilation facility   Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Collins, J. Hacker, G. S. Romine, C. Snyder, H. Liu, T. Hoar, D. C. Dowell, and R. Torn   P2.7 Design of artificial rain system by means of sea water vapor equipment heated by sunlight   Hideyo Murakami, Tohwa University, Fukuoka-City, Japan   P2.8 Proposal for sunlight shield system to decrease cyclone power   Hideyo Murakami, Tohwa University, Fukuoka-City, Japan   P2.9 A numerical study of the evolving convective boundary layer and orographic circulation around the Santa Catalina Mountains in Arizona. Part II: Interaction with deep convection   Cory Demko, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and B. Geerts   P2.10 Observations of spatially-variable lake-breeze movement in the vicinity of Chicago, IL   Jason M. Keeler, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich   P2.11 The mesoscale kinetic energy spectrum of a baroclinic life cycle   Michael L. Waite, University of Victoria, Vic., BC, Canada; and C. Snyder P2.12 PAPER WITHDRAWN     P2.13 Air mass characterization at the Whistler Mountain air chemistry site   John P. Gallagher, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and I. G. McKendry   P2.14 Characteristics and Numerical Simulations of Atmospheric boundary layer heights in the arid regions of Northwest China   Minjin Ma, University of Utah and Lanzhou University, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu, S. Wang, and Q. Zhang   P2.15 Preferential Storm Pathways and Mountain Precipitation over the Intermountain West   Matthew E. Jeglum, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh   P2.16 Idealized simulation of a Great Basin cyclone and attendant fronts   Gregory L. West, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh and J. B. Olson   P2.17 Climatology of Lake-Effect Precipitation Systems over the Great Salt Lake, UT and Lake Tahoe, CA/NV   Neil Laird, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and B. Albright, S. Ganetis, J. Popp, and A. Stieneke   P2.18 WRF model simulations of tropical convection observed during the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment (TWP-ICE)   Kathrin Wapler, German Weather Service; and T. P. Lane, P. T. May, C. Jakob, M. J. Manton, and S. T. Siems   P2.19 Mesoscale aspects of tropical cyclogenesis from extratropical precursors over the North Atlantic during 2004–2008   Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Bosart, C. A. Davis, and R. McTaggart-Cowan   P2.20 Effect of cloud processes on hurricane tracks: Idealized simulations and operational forecasts   Robert G. Fovell, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and D. J. Boucher   P2.21 Dynamics and predictability of Hurricane Humberto (2007) revealed from ensemble analysis and forecasting   Jason Sippel, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and F. Zhang   P2.22 Idealized simulations of the impact of dry Saharan Air Layer air on Atlantic hurricanes   Scott Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Sippel and D. S. Nolan
	4:00 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday, The Canyons Session 14 Structure and evolution of tropical and extratropical cyclones I
Chair: Brian A. Colle, Stony Brook University / SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
4:00 PM 14.1 Discrete Frontal Propagation over the Sierra/Cascade Mountains and Intermountain West   W. James Steenburgh, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. R. Neuman, G. L. West, and L. F. Bosart 4:15 PM 14.2 The effects of small-scale turbulence on maximum hurricane intensity   George H. Bryan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Rotunno 4:30 PM 14.3 Comparison of an analytical and a numerical model for hurricane potential intensity   George H. Bryan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Rotunno 4:45 PM 14.4 Hurricane Helene (2006): A case of Saharan Air Layer influence?   Scott Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. L. Shie, J. Sippel, and D. S. Nolan 5:00 PM 14.5 Tropical Storm Debby: Genesis dynamics and the relevance of the Saharan air layer   Jason Sippel, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Braun 5:15 PM 14.6 The impact of Saharan Air Layer on tropical cyclone genesis and intensification   S.-H. Chen, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and C. T. Cheng, S. H. Wang, and J. P. Chen 5:30 PM 14.7 Evolution of tangential and radial flows of Typhoon Nari (2001) at landfall   Ming-Jen Yang, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan; and T. C. C. Wang and C. Y. Weng 5:45 PM 14.8 Do Tropical Cyclones Intensify by WISHE?   Michael T. Montgomery, NPS, Monterey, CA; and R. K. Smith, S. V. Nguyen, and J. Persing
Thursday, 20 August 2009
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday, The Canyons Session 15 Structure and evolution of tropical and extratropical cyclones II
Chair: Jason Sippel, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
8:00 AM 15.1 Sting jets and the diagnosis of conditional symmetric instability   Oscar Martínez-Alvarado, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. L. Gray 8:15 AM 15.2 Life cycle and mesoscale frontal structure of an Intermountain cyclone   Gregory L. West, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh 8:30 AM 15.3 The Overland Reintensification of Hurricane Danny (1997)   Nick P. Bassill, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan 8:45 AM 15.4 Defining the Lifecycle of the Extratropical Transition of Tropical Cyclones using the Deviation Angle Variance Technique for Remotely-Sensed Imagery   David E. Kofron, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. F. Pineros, E. A. Ritchie, and J. S. Tyo 9:00 AM 15.5 Adjoint-derived forecast sensitivity study of the extratropical transition of Floyd (1999)   Michael C. Morgan, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 9:15 AM 15.6 A numerical modeling study of the microphysical processes leading to tropical cyclogenesis under different environmental conditions   Andrew B. Penny, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. A. Ritchie 9:30 AM 15.7 An analysis of tropical cyclone formations in the South China Sea during the late season   Yung-Lan Lin, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. S. Lee 9:45 AM 15.8 Relating Convective Intensity Proxies to Tropical Cyclone Intensity Changes Using 10 Years of TRMM Data   Ellen Ramirez, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and H. Jiang
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday, Arches/Deer Valley Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:30 PM, Thursday, The Canyons Session 16 Structure and evolution of tropical and extratropical cyclones III
Chair: Jim Steenburgh, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
10:30 AM 16.1 Impact of lapse rates upon low-level rotation in idealized storms   Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC 10:45 AM 16.2 The development of surface signatures of mesoscale convective vortices   Christopher A. Davis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. J. Galarneau 11:00 AM 16.3 The development and intensification of multiple misocyclones in shallow cumulus convection over the warm ocean during winter cold outbreak   Tetsuya Takemi, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan; and H. Y. Inoue, K. Kusunoki, and K. Bessho 11:15 AM 16.4 Microphysical-dynamical interactions in an idealized tropical cyclone simulation   Steve Herbener, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton 11:30 AM 16.5 Application of adjoint-derived sensitivity gradients to tropical cyclone intensification   Brett T. Hoover, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan 11:45 AM 16.6 Multi-scale vortex interaction during genesis of Hurricane Dolly (2008)   Juan Fang, Nanjing University, China, Nanjing, China; and F. Zhang 12:00 PM 16.7 Top-down vs bottom-up genesis of tornadoes and tropical cyclones   William R. Cotton, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 12:15 PM 16.8 The genesis and maintenance of a strong tornadic vortex through the process of vorticity confinement   Gregory J. Tripoli, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. L. Buker
	12:30 PM-1:45 PM, Thursday, Wasatch Lunch Break
	1:45 PM-3:15 PM, Thursday, The Canyons Session 17 Mesoscale predictability and data assimilation I
Chair: S.-H. Chen, Univ. of California, Davis, CA
1:45 PM 17.1 A statistical analysis on the predictability of tropical cyclogenesis   Dianna N. Nelson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Morgan 2:00 PM 17.2 Assessing the impact of Airborne Doppler Lidar wind profiles on hurricane track and intensity forecasts   Lei Zhang, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and Z. Pu and B. Gentry 2:15 PM 17.3 Error and uncertainty in ensemble predictions of tropical storms   Jeffrey Anderson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Snyder, H. Liu, and J. Hacker 2:30 PM 17.4 Application of a WRF mesoscale ensemble data assimilation system to severe weather events during spring 2009   Dustan M. Wheatley, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Coniglio and D. J. Stensrud 2:45 PM 17.5 The impact of assimilating retrieved total precipitable water and sounding data from AIRS and MODIS on severe weather simulations   Yi-Chin Liu, University of California, Davis, CA; and S. H. Chen 3:00 PM 17.6 Examination of the impact of variable terrains on surface data assimilation   Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
	3:15 PM-3:45 PM, Thursday, Arches/Deer Valley Coffee Break
	3:45 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, The Canyons Session 18 Mesoscale predictability and data assimilation II
Chair: Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
3:45 PM 18.1 Modeling extremely cold stable boundary layers over interior Alaska using a WRF FDDA system   Brian J. Gaudet, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and D. R. Stauffer, N. L. Seaman, A. Deng, J. E. Pleim, R. Gilliam, K. Schere, and R. A. Elleman 4:00 PM 18.2 Impact of the variations of precipitation particle parameters within the same microphysics scheme in radar data assimilation using EnKF data assimilation technique   Nusrat Yussouf, CIMMS, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud 18.3 Error growth at the convective scale   Giovanni Leoncini, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and R. S. Plant and S. Gray 4:15 PM 18.4 Flow-dependent, inexpensive, high-resolution ensembles for Coupled Ensemble Prediction   Xiaodong Hong, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. Bishop, T. R. Holt, J. Doyle, P. Martin, and Q. Jiang 4:30 PM 18.5 Exploring the predictability of mesoscale cyclogenesis using ensemble data assimilation   P. Alexander Reinecke, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. Durran and J. Doyle
	4:45 PM-4:50 PM, Thursday Conference Ends

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