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Sunday, 16 June 2002
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday Conference Registration
Monday, 17 June 2002
	7:30 AM, Monday Conference Registration Continues through Friday 21 June
	8:30 AM-8:45 AM, Monday Welcoming Remarks
	8:45 AM-10:45 AM, Monday Session 1 PBL Structure and Circulations I
Organizer: Shiyuan Zhong, PNNL, Richland, WA
8:45 AM 1.1 Vertical Transport and Mixing: Scientific Challenges and Field Programs (Invited presentation)   J. C. Doran, PNNL, Richland, WA 9:15 AM 1.2 Down-basin drainage jet observed during VTMX: Large-scale controls and effects on local-scale flows   Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and L. S. Darby and B. W. Orr 9:30 AM 1.3 The interaction of down-valley and canyon flows and their effect on mean vertical motions in the Salt Lake Valley   Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and L. S. Darby and R. M. Banta 9:45 AM 1.4 Katabatic flows on a low-angle slope in the Salt Lake Valley—overview of the VTMX 2000 slope experiment   C. David Whiteman, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Zhong and R. Mayr 10:00 AM 1.5 Circulations in the Salt Lake City Basin: the influence of air exchanges with adjacent basins and canyons   Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 10:15 AM Coffee Break
	10:45 AM-1:30 PM, Monday Session 2 PBL Structure and Circulations II
Organizer: C. David Whiteman, PNNL, Richland, WA
10:45 AM 2.1 Relationship between tracer behavior in downtown Salt Lake City and basin-scale wind flow   Lisa S. Darby, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and K. J. Allwine and R. M. Banta 2.2 Effects of mountain drainage flows on urban dispersion in Salt Lake City, Utah   David DeCroix, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. Stalker 10:59 AM 2.2a Gap flow and vertical mixing at the southern end of the GSL Basin (formerly paper P1.11)   James O. Pinto, Univ. of Colorado and NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. B. Parsons, W. O. J. Brown, S. Cohn, N. Chamberlain, and B. Morley 11:14 AM 2.3 An evaluation of fine-scale MM5, RAMS, and Meso Eta simulations using VTMX field campaign data in the Salt Lake Valley   Shiyuan Zhong, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. D. Fast 11:29 AM 2.4 Field Measurements of Vertical Pollution Transport in a High Alpine Valley in Southern Switzerland   Stephan Henne, Paul Scherrer Instiut, Villigen, Switzerland; and A. S. H. Prévôt, M. Furger, and S. Nyeki 11:44 AM 2.5 The relation between slope flow systems and convective boundary layers in steep terrain   Christian Reuten, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and D. G. Steyn, K. B. Strawbridge, and P. Bovis 11:59 AM Lunch Break   1:09 PM Daily Weather Briefing
	1:30 PM-2:44 PM, Monday Session 3 PBL Structure and Circulations III
Organizer: Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 3.1 The bulk momentum budget in Katabatic Flow: observations and Hydraulic model results   Thomas Haiden, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria; and C. D. Whiteman 1:45 PM 3.2 Further investigations of the "Ora del Garda" valley wind   Massimiliano de Franceschi, University of Trento, Trento, Italy; and G. Rampanelli and D. Zardi 3.3 Diurnal winds in the Himalayan Kali Gandaki valley: remotely piloted aircraft soundings   Joseph Egger, University of Munich, Munich, Germany 1:59 PM 3.3a Stable boundary-layer flow over hills in the wind tunnel (formerly paper P1.2)   Samantha Jane Arnold, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and I. Castro, S. Mobbs, A. Robins, A. Ross, and S. B. Vosper 2:14 PM 3.4 On the spatial variability of atmospheric radiation in an alpine valley   Nicolas Matzinger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; and E. van Gorsel, R. Vogt, A. Ohmura, and M. W. Rotach 2:29 PM 3.5 Observations and numerical modeling of the daytime boundary layer structure in the Riviera Valley, Switzerland   Stephan F. J. De Wekker, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and D. G. Steyn, M. W. Rotach, J. D. Fast, and S. Zhong
	2:45 PM-4:15 PM, Monday Poster Session 1 PBL Processes and Modeling (with Coffee Break)
P1.1 Modelling wind tunnel experiments of stable boundary-layer flow over hills   An Ross, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and S. J. Arnold, S. B. Vosper, and S. D. Mobbs   P1.2 Paper has been moved to Session 3, new paper number 3.3A     P1.3 Numerical Modeling of airflow in the Vicinity of the Jordan Narrows in the Salt Lake Valley   Ying Chen, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and R. L. Street and L. Ludwig   P1.4 Perfluorocarbon tracer experiments during VTMX 2000   Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and K. J. Allwine, J. C. Torcolini, and R. N. Dietz   P1.5 An evaluation of the sigma and step-mountain vertical coordinates in the Meso Eta model at sub-kilometer grid spacing   Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Zhong   P1.6 Radar and acoustic observations during VTMX field-campaign   Paco Lopez Dekker, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and A. N. Bajaj and S. J. Frasier   P1.7 Simulations of the canyon drainage flow and its interaction with the stable air of the Salt Lake basin   James R. Stalker, LANL, Los Alamos, NM P1.8 Nocturnal boudary layer dynamics in the Salt Lake Basin during VTMX   Rolf F. Hertenstein, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and G. S. Poulos   P1.9 Variations in surface tubulence characteristics over the Salt Lake Valley during VTMX2002   J. C. Doran, PNNL, Richland, WA   P1.10 Boundary Layer Observations of Cold Air Pools in a Mountain Basin   Elford G. Astling, West Desert Test Center, Dugway, UT; and C. A. Biltoft, D. Storwold, and S. A. McLaughlin   P1.11 Paper has been moved to Session 2, new paper number 2.2A     P1.12 How well can mesoscale models capture Katabatic flows observed in a large valley   Shiyuan Zhong, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. D. Whiteman and T. Haiden   P1.13 Thermally driven flows in California's Central Valley: A comprehensive analysis using data from a dense wind profiler network   Shiyuan Zhong, PNNL, Richland, WA; and X. Bian, C. D. Whiteman, and S. Tanrikulu   P1.14 Evolution of Elevated stratified Layer during VTMX   Richard L. Coulter, ANL, Argonne, IL; and M. S. Pedour and T. J. Martin   P1.15 Along-valley Structure of Daytime Valley Flows in the Wipptal   Magdalena Rucker, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. M. Banta and D. G. Steyn   P1.16 Analysis of IOP2b land-sea breeze case during the ESCOMPTE experiment   Sophie Bastin, Service d'Aéronomie, Paris, France; and P. Drobinski, A. M. Dabas, O. Reitebuch, P. Delville, C. Werner, A. Delaval, C. Boitel, H. Hermann, E. Nagel, B. Romand, J. Streicher, B. Bénech, O. M. Bock, J. L. Caccia, P. Durand, and V. Guénard   P1.17 Circulation caused by surface heating in a valley: a PIV experiment   Liu Huizhi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and S. Jianguo and Z. Boyin   P1.18 Climate of the Mountain Top Station "Sonnblick" in Comparison with Radiosonde Data   Matthias Ratheiser, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria; and S. Schneider, C. Häberli, R. Steinacker, W. Pöttschacher, and W. Gepp   P1.19 A sinkhole field experiment in the Eastern Alps   Reinhold Steinacker, Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and M. Dorninger, S. Eisenbach, A. M. Holzer, B. Pospichal, and C. D. Whiteman   P1.20 Identification of thermal structure from airborne measurements in an alpine valley with Kriging technique   Gabriele Rampanelli, Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy; and D. Zardi   P1.21 Large-eddy simulationof downslope flows   Eric D. Skyllingstad, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR   P1.22 Temperature inversions in a Limestone sinkhole in the Alps   Stefan Eisenbach, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria; and A. M. Holzer, M. Dorninger, and R. Steinacker   P1.23 Inversion layer in steep valleys and the Effects of Topographic Shading   Augustin Colette, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; and R. L. Street P1.24 The Generation and Evolution of Cold-Air Pooling Events in the Middle Park Region of Colorado   Clark W. King, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO   P1.25 Multi-scale flow interactions in complex terrain   Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. L. Winterkamp, D. L. Langley, and J. E. Bossert
	4:15 PM-5:30 PM, Monday Session 4 Boundary Layer Turbulence and Diffusion
Organizer: J. Christopher Doran, PNNL, Richland, WA
4:15 PM 4.1 Eddy correlation flux measurements in an Alpine valley under different mesoscale circulations   Marco Andretta, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; and A. W. Weigel and M. W. Rotach 4:30 PM 4.2 Structure of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer in the Central Salt Lake Valley during the Afternoon-to-evening Transition   William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. M. Hubbe 4:45 PM 4.3 Waves and turbulence observed over two consecutive VTMX nights   Carmen J. Nappo, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Oak Ridge, TN; and R. Doboay and E. J. Dumas 5:00 PM 4.4 Turbulence and mixing in the nocturnal boundary layer over a slope—VTMX field program results   Marko Princevac, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and P. Monti, H. J. S. Fernando, T. A. Kowalewski, and E. R. Pardyjak 5:15 PM 4.5 Direct Numerical Simulation of Evolving Turbulence using Surface Heat Fluxes derived from VTMX Measurements   James C. Barnard, PNNL, Richland, WA; and W. J. Shaw
	5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Monday Ice Breaker Reception—Cosponsored by Campbell Scientific, Inc.
Tuesday, 18 June 2002
	8:00 AM-9:00 AM, Tuesday Session 5 Orographically Modified Cyclone Evolution
Organizer: David M. Schultz, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
8:00 AM 5.1 Large-amplitude gravity-wave breaking over the Greenland lee and the subsequent formation of downstream synoptic-scale tropopause folding and stratospheric-tropospheric exchange   Melvyn A. Shapiro, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and S. Low-Nam, H. Olafsson, J. D. Doyle, and P. K. Smolarkiewicz 8:15 AM 5.2 Cyclone Tracks in the vicinity of Greenland—Aspects of an interaction process   Cornelia B. Schwierz, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and H. C. Davies 8:30 AM 5.3 Flow in the Lee of Greenland-size mountains   G. N. Petersen, Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and Univ. of Iceland, Iceland; and H. Ólafsson and J. E. Kristjánsson 8:45 AM 5.4 Analysis of an Orographically Modified Cyclone over the Western United States during IPEX IOP3   Jason C. Shafer, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh and J. A. W. Cox
	9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Tuesday Session 6 Orographic Precipitation I
Organizer: Bradley F. Smull, NOAA/NSSL, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
9:00 AM 6.1 Dual-Doppler analysis of the kinematic structure of a Wasatch Mountain winter storm   Justin A. W. Cox, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh and D. E. Kingsmill 9:15 AM 6.2 The IMPROVE-2 field program over the central Oregon Cascades, Part I: motivation and experimental design   Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. V. Hobbs, M. T. Stoelinga, R. A. Houze, B. A. Colle, J. D. Locatelli, B. Colman, and N. A. Bond 9:30 AM 6.3 Sensitivity of orographic precipitation to changing ambient conditions: an idealized modeling perspective   Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 9:45 AM Coffee Break
	10:15 AM-1:29 PM, Tuesday Session 7 Orographic Precipitation II
Organizer: Reinhold Steinacker, Institute of Meteorolgy and Geophysics, Vienna Austria
10:15 AM 7.1 Comparison of orographic precipitation in MAP and IMPROVE II (Invited Talk)   Robert A. Houze, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Medina 10:45 AM 7.2 Role of topography in MM5 precipitation forecast for the MAP SOP   Rossella Ferretti, University of L'Aquila, Coppito-L'Aquila, Italy; and R. Rotunno and T. Paolucci 11:00 AM 7.3 How the Alpine topography induces a climatological precipitation maximum of in autumn over the Lago Maggiore area   Francois Gheusi, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and H. C. Davies and J. Stein 11:15 AM 7.4 Multiple Expressions of Upstream Orographic Blocking During MAP   Olivier Bousquet, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and B. F. Smull 11:30 AM 7.5 Airflow within major Alpine river valleys: The concept of wet drainage flow   Matthias Steiner, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and O. Bousquet, R. A. Houze, and B. F. Smull 7.6 Moisture inflow over the Po Valley and orographic precipitations during MAP IOP 8: analysis using GPS network, satellite observations and weather prediction model simulations   Olivier M. Bock, IPSL/CNRS, Paris, France; and C. N. Flamant, E. Richard, J. Tournadre, and J. R. Pelon 11:44 AM Lunch Break   1:09 PM Daily Weather Briefing
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday Session 8 Orographic Precipitation III
Organizer: Rossela Ferretti, University of L'Aquila, Coppito-L'Aquila Italy
1:30 PM 8.1 Orographic Precipitation and Airmass Transformation: An Alpine Example   Ronald B. Smith, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and Q. Jiang, M. G. Fearon, P. Tabary, M. Dorninger, J. D. Doyle, and R. Benoit 1:45 PM 8.2 The Relevance of Instabilities with Heavy Orographic Rainfall during MAP IOP-2B   Sen Chiao, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. L. Lin 2:00 PM 8.3 Intercomparison of the simulated precipitation fields of the MAP/IOP2b with different high-resolution models   Evelyne Richard, CNRS/UPS, Toulouse, France; and N. Asencio, R. Benoit, A. Buzzi, R. Ferretti, P. Malguzzi, S. Serafin, G. Zaengl, and J. -. F. Georgis 2:15 PM 8.4 Orogenic squall line observed with Doppler Polarimetric radars during the MAP experiment   Pierre Tabary, Meteo France, Trappes, France; and G. Scialom, E. Richard, Y. Seity, and S. Soula 2:30 PM 8.5 Cloud-to-ground lightning flash production during IOP 2a of MAP: Correlation with dynamics and microphysics   Y. Seity, Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, France; and S. Soula, P. Tabary, and G. Scialom 2:45 PM 8.6 Moist airflow regimes over more or less smooth mountains   Joel Stein, CNRM and Meteo France, Toulouse, France
	3:00 PM, Tuesday Utah Olympic Park Venue Tour (Tenative Event/Details Pending)
	8:00 PM, Tuesday Panel Discussion 1 Panel Discussion: Weather Monitoring and Prediction for the 2002 Salt Lake and 2006 Torino Olympic Winter Games
Panelists: Thomas D. Potter, Salt Lake Olympic Committee Weather Director, Salt Lake City, UT; Lawrence B. Dunn, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; John D. Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; W. James Steenburgh, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; James F. Bowers, US Army Dugway Proving Grounds, Dugway, UT; Renata Pelosini, 2006 Torino Winter Olympics; Dan Risch, KSL Event Forecast Team; Pete Stoll, KSL Event Forecast Team
Wednesday, 19 June 2002
	8:00 AM-9:15 AM, Wednesday Session 9 Orographic Precipitation IV
Organizer: Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
8:00 AM 9.1 Influence of Synoptic and Mesoscale Environments on Heavy Orographic Rainfall Associated with MAP IOP-2B and IOP-8   Yuh-Lang Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. A. Thurman and S. Chiao 8:15 AM 9.2 Numerical analysis of MAP IOP 15 cyclogenesis and associated precipitation   Andrea Buzzi, ISAO-CNR, Bologna, Italy; and M. D'Isidoro and S. Davolio 8:30 AM 9.3 Prefrontal and frontal precipitation events during MAP IOP 5   Joze Rakovec, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and G. Gregoric, T. Vrhovec, and N. Pristov 8:45 AM 9.4 Comparison of some frontal stratiform precipitation events over the Alpine chain during MAP   Stephanie Pradier, Laboratoire d'Aerologie, Toulouse, France; and M. Chong and F. Roux 9:00 AM 9.5 Effects of moist convection on flow past 2D-topography   Oliver Fuhrer, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Schaer
	9:15 AM-11:00 AM, Wednesday Poster Session 2 Orographic Precipitation/Operational and Numerical Weather Prediction (with Coffee Break)
P2.1 Paper has been moved to Session 11, new paper number 11.4A     P2.2 Tracking cloud patterns by rapid scan imagery in the Alpine region   Martin Bolliger, MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland; and P. Binder and A. Rossa   P2.3 Study of the convection over Monte Rosa using S-pol obervations and fine scale Meso-NH simulations   Nicole Asencio, CNRM and Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and J. Stein and M. Chong   P2.4 A rain episode related to a mesoscale gravity wave during MAP   Renzo Richiardone, Univ. of Torino, Torino, Italy; and M. Manfrin   P2.5 Heavy Precipitation in SE Alps during IOP 8, 9, 10, 11   Uros Strajnar, Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and A. Poredos and T. Vrhovec   P2.6 Low level flow patterns associated with two heavy rainfall events during MAP   James A. Thurman, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. L. Lin   P2.7 Impact of the time and space high resolution observations on the weather forecast of IOP2b   Claudia Faccani, CETEMPS, Coppito-L'Aquila, Italy; and R. Ferretti   P2.8 High-resolution simulations of the convective line observed during MAP IOP2a : Sensitivity to the microphysical parameterization   Evelyne Richard, Laboratoire d'Aerologie, Toulouse, France; and J. P. Pinty, P. Tabary, F. Lascaux, and G. Scialom P2.9 Intercomparison of limited area models operating during the MAP-SOP   Giulio Contri, Centro Meteo-Idrologico Regione Liguria, Genova, Italy; and R. Benoit, P. Binder, A. Buzzi, M. Damonte, T. Haiden, D. Sacchetti, and E. Trovatore P2.10 Probabilistic forecast of MAP cases using two different limited-area models   Andrea Montani, ARPA, Bologna, Italy; and C. Marsigli, F. Nerozzi, D. Cesari, and T. Paccagnella   P2.11 Finescale orography and the MC2 dynamics kernel   Robert Benoit, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and C. Girard, M. Desgagné, S. Chamberland, and W. Yu   P2.12 Regional precipitation variability in the European Alps 1803–1998 from homogenised instrumental time series   Reinhard Böhm, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria; and I. Auer, W. Schöner, M. Brunetti, M. Maugeri, C. Huhle, and T. Nanni   P2.13 The IMPROVE-2 field program over the central Oregon Cascades, part II: summary of IOPs   Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and C. F. Mass, M. T. Stoelinga, P. V. Hobbs, J. D. Locatelli, R. A. Houze, N. A. Bond, and B. F. Smull   P2.14 Microphysical Structure of Orographic Precipitation Along the Wasatch Mountains during IPEX   David E. Kingsmill, DRI, Reno, NV; and H. Cai, J. A. W. Cox, and W. J. Steenburgh   P2.15 Structure and Evolution of a Tornadic Cold Front in the Intermountain West   David M. Schultz, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK   P2.16 Regional scale modeling for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games   Daryl J. Onton, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. J. Siffert, L. Chang, W. J. Steenburgh, and B. Haymore P2.17 Topographical Influences on Meteorological Conditions in the Persian Gulf   Tracy Haack, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. Westphal, M. Liu, S. Chen, and S. Burk   P2.18 Thunderstorms of the Mt. Everest Region: Spring 1999, 2000   Kamal Thapa, City University of New York, New York, NY; and E. E. Hindman and Y. N. Rosoff   P2.19 A COMPARISON OF PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES OVER THE HIMALAYAS AND ANDES   Stephen W. Nesbitt, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and G. V. Mota   P2.20 Initiation of Mesoscale Convective Complexes over Ethiopian Highlands: A Precursor to Tropical Cyclogenesis   Christopher M. Hill, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. L. Lin   P2.21 Quantitative precipitation forecasting of wintertime precipitation in the Sierra Nevada   Ramesh K. Vellore, DRI, Reno, NV; and V. Grubisic and A. W. Huggins   P2.22 Mountaintop and radar measurements of snow growth and snowfall rate   Randolph D. Borys, Storm Peak Laboratory, Steamboat Springs, CO; and D. H. Lowenthal, S. Cohn, and W. O. J. Brown   P2.23 The Climate of the South American Altiplano   René D. Garreaud, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile   P2.24 Description of the seasonal cycle of low-level flows flanking the Andes and their interannual variability   Lee A. Byerle, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Paegle   P2.25 Orographic Clouds and Precipitation: A Study of Indian Monsoon and Its impact on cloud dynaamics and precipiation in Western Ghats of India   Shanmuganandan Samarajalingam, Madurai Kamaraj Univ., Madurai, India   P2.26 Orographic Effects on a Conditionally Unstable Flow over an Idealized Three-Dimensional Mesoscale Mountain   Shu-Hua Chen, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and Y. L. Lin   P2.27 A linear time-delay model for orographic precipitation   Ronald B. Smith, Yale University, New Haven, CT   P2.28 Some Common Ingredients for heavy Orographic Rainfall and their Potential Application for Prediction   Yuh-Lang Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Chiao, J. A. Thurman, D. B. Ensley, and J. J. Charney   P2.29 Some Challenges of Using Graphical Forecast Editor(GFE) Operationally in Diverse Terrain   Paul G. Wolyn, NOAA/NWSFO, Pueblo, CO; and D. Metze and K. Torgerson   P2.30 Evaluation of MC2 Simulations for a Case of Significant Upstream Blocking During MAP   Bradley F. Smull, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK and University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and O. Bousquet and D. Luethi   P2.31 Simulation of Snow Drift and Snow Deposition in Steep Terrain   Michael Lehning, ETH, Davos, Switzerland; and J. Doorschot, N. Raderschall, and T. Exner   P2.32 Understanding orographic precipitation mechanisms using polarization radar and in situ techniques   Sabine Goeke, NCAR, Boulder, CO   P2.33 A Case Study Analysis and Model Simulation of a Columbia Gorge Gap Flow Event   Justin Sharp, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. F. Mass   P2.34 Cellularity in Orographic Convection   Daniel Kirshbaum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran
	11:00 AM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Session 10 Orographic Precipitation V
Organizer: Peter Binder, Meteorological Institute, Zurich Switzerland
11:00 AM 10.1 Precipitation over multiscale terrain   Qingfang Jiang, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT 11:15 AM 10.2 Mt. Everest, 10 May 1996: Study of a high elevation thunderstorm   Yolanda N. Rosoff, City College of New York, New York, NY; and E. E. Hindman 11:30 AM 10.3 The Impact of a Prominent Rain Shadow on Flooding in California's Coastal Mountains: A CALJET Case Study and Sensitivity to the ENSO Cycle   F. Martin Ralph, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and P. J. Neiman, D. E. Kingsmill, E. D. Andrews, and R. C. Antweiler 11:45 AM 10.4 The Influence of Land-falling Low-level Jets on Rain Rate in California's Coastal Mountains during CALJET   Paul J. Neiman, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and F. M. Ralph, A. B. White, D. E. Kingsmill, and P. O. G. Persson 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:10 PM Daily Weather Briefing
	1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday Session 11 Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting
Organizer: John D. Horel, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1:30 PM 11.1 Predictability issues in high-resolution numerical prediction of stratiform and convective precipitation   Andre Walser, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and D. Luethi and C. Schaer 1:45 PM 11.2 Landfalling cyclone forecast sensitivity to varying data assimilation methods in a mesoscale model   Wendell A. Nuss, NPS, Monterey, CA; and D. K. Miller 2:00 PM 11.3 Downscaling precipitation fields over complex terrain   Reinhold Steinacker, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and M. Ratheiser, M. Dorninger, and F. Wimmer 11.4 Performances of a global and a limited-area Ensemble Prediction System on MAP cases   Chiara Marsigli, ARPA-SMR, Bologna, Italy; and A. Montani, F. Nerozzi, and T. Paccagnella 2:14 PM 11.4A Selecting the best forecast out of an ensemble by using satellite image matching for MAP IOP2B (formerly paper P2.1)   Arnold Tafferner, DLR/IPA, Wessling, Bavaria, Germany; and H. Mannstein, T. Paccagnella, C. Marsigli, A. Montani, and F. Nerozzi 2:29 PM 11.5 Precipitation forecasts versus analysis for selected IOP wet cases   Manfred Dorninger, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and R. Steinacker, M. Ratheiser, and I. Groehn 11.6 Variational assimilation of convective precipitation for mesoscale forecasting   Robert Benoit, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and L. Fillion, W. Yu, and S. Chamberland 2:43 PM 11.7 Simulations of Extreme Precipitation Events in the Colorado Rocky Mountains   William R. Cotton, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and R. L. McAnelly and C. T. Ashby 11.8 Application of the rainfall-runoff model TOPKAPI for the entire basin of the po river as part of the European project EFFS   Jens C. Bartholmes, University Bologna, Bologna, Italy; and E. Todini 2:57 PM Coffee Break
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday Session 12 Numerical Modeling and Data Assimilation
Organizer: Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
3:30 PM 12.1 Evaluation of the GPS PW impact using the 3DVAR for the MAp IOPs   Claudia Faccani, CETEMPS, Coppito-L'Aquila, Italy; and R. Ferretti, D. Barker, R. Pacione, and C. Sciarretta 3:45 PM 12.2 A new sub-gridscale orographic drag parametrization for the Met Office Unified Model   Stuart Webster, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom 4:00 PM 12.3 Hydrostatic vs. nonhydrostatic simulations in a complex orography environment   Raffaele Salerno, Centro Epson Meteo, Sesto San Giovanni, Italy; and A. Borroni 4:15 PM 12.4 High resolution data assimilation in complex terrain   Carol M. Ciliberti, NOAA and CIRP/Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; and J. D. Horel 4:30 PM 12.5 Boundary layer wind field over steep, snow covered, high alpine topography   Norbert Raderschall, Swiss Federal Institue for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland; and M. Lehning and J. Doorschot 4:45 PM 12.6 On the ECMWF Re-Analysis of the MAP SOP   Christian Keil, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and C. Cardinali
	6:00 PM, Wednesday Conference Banquet
Thursday, 20 June 2002
	8:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday Session 13 Gap Winds and Foehn I
Organizer: Stephen Mobbs, University of Leeds, Leeds United Kingdom
8:00 AM 13.1 Foehn research in the Rhine Valley during MAP: objectives, concepts and first results (Invited Presentation)   Hans Richner, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and R. Steinacker 8:30 AM 13.2 Foehn and a stable airmass in the Rhine valley   Guillaume Beffrey, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and A. M. Dabas and G. Jaubert 8:45 AM 13.3 Unstationary and inhomogeneity aspects of the MAP IOP 12 south foehn event in the Rhine valley   Philippe Drobinski, Service d'Aéronomie, Paris, France; and C. Haeberli, E. Richard, B. Bénech, H. Berger, A. M. Dabas, P. H. Flamant, M. Furger, M. Lothon, and R. Steinacker 9:00 AM 13.4 Dynamic airflow channelling effects in bent valleys   Meinolf Kossmann, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; and A. P. Sturman 9:15 AM 13.5 Gap Winds Forced by Flows with Simple Vertical Structure   Sasa Gabersek, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran 9:30 AM 13.6 Physically based foehn wind detection   Johannes M. Vergeiner, Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria; and S. D. Mobbs and G. J. Mayr 9:45 AM 13.7 On the identification of gap flow features and dynamics from ground-based measurements   Georg J. Mayr, Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and A. Gohm and J. M. Vergeiner 10:00 AM Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday Session 14 Gap Winds and Foehn II
Organizer: Peter Jackson, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC Canada
10:30 AM 14.1 Applying single-layer shallowwater theory to gap flows occurring in the Brenner pass region   Alexander Gohm, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and G. J. Mayr 10:45 AM 14.2 On the Dynamics of Gap Flow in the Wipptal on 20–21 October 1999   Tomislav Maric, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran 11:00 AM 14.3 The spatial and temporal characteristics of the 30 October 1999 gap flow event in the Wipptal   Louisa B. Nance, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta 11:15 AM 14.4 An Intercomparison of Lidar and P3 Wind Measurements in the Wipp Valley During MAP   Dale R. Durran, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and T. Maric, R. M. Banta, and L. S. Darby 11:30 AM 14.5 Measurements of flow in a cross-section of the Brenner Pass   Stephen D. Mobbs, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and S. J. Arnold, A. Gohm, and J. M. Vergeiner 11:45 AM 14.6 Stably stratified flow through a mountain pass—idealised simulations   An Ross, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and S. B. Vosper and S. D. Mobbs 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:10 PM Daily Weather Briefing
	1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Thursday Session 15 Rotors
Organizer: Evelyne Richard, CNRS/UPS, Toulouse France
1:30 PM 15.1 Observations of mountain induced rotors and related hypotheses: A review (Invited Presentation)   Joachim Kuettner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. F. Hertenstein 2:00 PM 15.2 Simulations of rotors using steep lee-slope topography   Rolf F. Hertenstein, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and J. Kuettner 2:15 PM 15.3 Numerical simulations of lee-wave rotors   Simon B. Vosper, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. D. Mobbs 2:30 PM 15.4 Rotor generation in the lee of three-dimensional ridges   James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. R. Durran
	2:45 PM-4:30 PM, Thursday Poster Session 3 Topographic Flows (with Coffee Break)
P3.1 What can we learn of surface mesonets in foehn valleys?   Reinhold Steinacker, Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and M. Spatzierer, B. Chimani, C. Haeberli, M. Dorninger, and S. Tschannett   P3.2 Use of Wind-Temperature profiler Data to Investigate Foehn Episodes During MAP-FORM   Siegfried Vogt, Institut f. Meteorologie u. Klimaforschung , Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany   P3.3 Mass budgets in the Rhine valley during a foehn event   Genevieve Jaubert, CNRM and Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and J. Stein   P3.4 Analysis of the constant volume balloon flights above the Rhine Valley during foehn events (MAP experiment)   Bruno Bénech, Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, France; and M. Lothon and H. Berger   P3.5 Foehn analysis in the Rhine Valley: from synoptic scale to turbulence one   Marie Lothon, Univ. Paul Sabatier, Campistrous, France; and A. Druilhet, B. Bénech, and B. Campistron   P3.6 Gap flow—upstream and downstream hydraulic models compared with MAP data   Ignaz Vergeiner, Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and G. J. Mayr, A. Gohm, and J. M. Vergeiner   P3.7 Temporal evolution and structure of gap flow in the Wipp Valley on 2 and 3 October 1999   Martin Weissmann, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and R. Banta, G. Mayr, A. Gohm, and L. B. Nance   P3.8 Pressure Gradients in the MAP Brenner Pass Data   Fred J. Kopp, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and C. L. Hartsel and P. Smith   P3.9 The foehn cycle during the MAP-SOP: typical vertical rawinsonde profiles between Milano and Munich   Johannes M. Vergeiner, Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria   P3.10 Case study of the North Foehn in the Eisaktal during MAP   Peter L. Jackson, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada; and G. Geier   P3.11 Propagation and spectral characteristics of Foehn flow in the Brenner Pass region   Stephen D. Mobbs, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and A. Gohm, G. J. Mayr, and J. M. Vergeiner   P3.12 Rotor streaming, hydraulic jumps and flow separation in the Falkland Islands   Stephen D. Mobbs, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and S. J. Arnold, M. K. Hill, S. B. Vosper, and A. M. Gadian   P3.13 Terrain-induced wind shear during the passage of Typhoon Utor near Hong Kong in July 2001   S.Y. Lau, Hong Kong Observatory, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and C. M. Shun   P3.14 Dynamic airflow channelling over the Upper Snake River Plain, Idaho   Meinolf Kossmann, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; and C. D. Whiteman and X. Bian   P3.15 Characterization of the 28 june 2001 Mistral event during the ESCOMPTE field experiment   Philippe Drobinski, Service d'Aéronomie, Paris, France; and O. Reitebuch, A. M. Dabas, P. Delville, C. Werner, A. Delaval, C. Boitel, H. Hermann, E. Nagel, B. Romand, J. Streicher, S. Bastin, J. L. Caccia, P. Durand, and V. Guénard   P3.16 Observations and modeling of the Mistral wind   Qingfang Jiang, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith and J. D. Doyle   P3.17 Experimental and numerical analysis of a Mistral case during MAP experiment in relation with the PV banner observation   Aimé Druilhet, Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, France; and B. Bénech, J. L. Caccia, E. Richard, B. Campistron, C. Flamand, M. Lothon, F. Saïd, C. Caminade, and V. Guenard   P3.18 Transient wake formation by mountains of a barotropic cyclone on a beta-plane   Hung-Cheng Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C. C. Chu and C. C. Chang   P3.19 Mountain waves over the Hohe Tauern   James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. B. Smith   P3.20 Comparison of MAP-sop observations with model analysis and forecasts of gravity wave breaking   Luca Ferrari, State Univ., Milan, Italy; and G. Frustaci   P3.21 Characterization of Wave Activity and Turbulence in the Lower Troposphere over the Swiss Alps   Michael Lehning, ETH, Davos, Switzerland; and J. Lindeman and S. B. Vosper P3.22 The Helvey Stratospheric Mountain Wave Measurements—A Review   L. J. Ehernberger, NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, CA   P3.23 Large-Amplitude stratospheric Gravity Waves above southern Germany   Thomas Birner, DLR German Aerospace Centre, Wessling, Germany; and D. A. Doernbrack   P3.24 Diagnoses and numerical simulations of turbulence in the vicinity of coastal topography   Douglas K. Miller, NPS, Monterey, CA; and D. L. Walters P3.25 In-Flight Turbulence, Winds and Surface Pressures at La Veta Pass, Colorado   Margaret Lamb, Sunshine Aviation Safety Studies, Alamosa, CO   P3.26 Interaction of boundary layer flow and gravity waves over forested hills   Adam Lea, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and S. B. Vosper, S. D. Mobbs, and B. Gardiner P3.27 Interaction of trapped lee waves and the convective boundary layer   Rolf F. Hertenstein, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and G. S. Poulos   P3.28 Modeling turbulent airflow in mountainous regions   John Lindeman, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and S. D. Mobbs and S. B. Vosper   P3.29 Climatology of the Sierra Nevada Mountain-wave clouds   Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and S. Cardon P3.30 Tests of 2-D Simulations for Gust Probability Forecastng in CAT over a Mountainous Region   Daniel Marc Landau, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and R. D. Sharman and L. J. Ehernberger   P3.31 Control Parameters for Track Continuity and Deflection Associated with Tropical Cyclones over a Mesoscale Mountain   Yuh-Lang Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Y. Chen, C. M. Hill, and C. -. Y. Huang P3.32 The Wasatch downslope wind event of 7 October 2000   Lacey D. Holland, CIRP/Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel   P3.33 Paper has been moved to session 16, new paper number 16.2A     P3.34 SNEX—The SNaefellsnes EXperiment   Haraldur Olafsson, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland; and H. Sigurjonsson and H. Agustsson   P3.35 Mountain-Wave Induced Windstorms West of Westcliffe, Colorado   Paul G. Wolyn, NOAA/NWSFO, Pueblo, CO; and T. Magnuson   P3.36 Data quality control of SOP data in MAP   Inga Groehn, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria; and R. Steinacker, M. Ratheiser, C. Haeberli, and W. Poettschacher   P3.37 Nonlinear Topographic Wave Generation at Finite Rossby Number   David J. Muraki, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada; and C. Epifanio and C. Snyder
	4:30 PM-5:30 PM, Thursday Session 16 Downslope Windstorms
Organizer: Greg Poulos, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO
4:30 PM 16.1 Forced downslope flow over the western side of the subtropical Andes   René D. Garreaud, Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile; and J. Rutllant 16.2 The 7–8 December 2001 wind event: An example of complex flow over the Mogollon Rim of Arizona   Michael Staudenmaier Jr., NOAA/NWS, Bellemont, AZ 4:44 PM 16.2a WSR-88D Ground Clutter signatures associated with Lee-slope wind events (formerly paper P3.33)   Eric Thaler, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and L. B. Nance 4:59 PM 16.3 Observations and numerical simulations of a wake and corner winds in a strong windstorm over Iceland   Haraldur Olafsson, University of Iceland and Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland; and M. A. Shapiro 5:14 PM 16.4 Radar Observations of Downslope Flow at Mount Washington   Brooks E. Martner, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and R. F. Reinking and R. M. Banta
Friday, 21 June 2002
	8:00 AM-9:00 AM, Friday Session 17 Lee-Side Phenomena
Organizer: Dale Durran, University of Wasington, Seattle, WA
8:00 AM 17.1 The Structure of an Alpine PV banner: Observations and numerical Simulations   Christoph Schär, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and M. Sprenger, D. Lüthi, and R. Benoit 8:15 AM 17.2 Comparative study of secondary potential vorticity banners in two MAP IOPs   Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV 17.3 Secondary potential vorticity banners over the Po valley: observation and numerical simulation of their influence on vertical mixing   Cyrille N. Flamant, Service d'Aéronomie, IPSL/CNRS, Paris, France; and E. Richard, M. Sprenger, C. Schär, L. B. Nance, and R. Rotunno 8:30 AM 17.4 Stagnation points and PV generation in moist stratified flow over isolated topography   Juerg Schmidli, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Schaer 8:45 AM 17.5 A case study of flow separation   Volker Horlacher, Institute for Atmospheric Science, Leeds, United Kingdom; and S. D. Mobbs, S. B. Vosper, and S. J. Arnold
	9:15 AM-10:45 AM, Friday Session 18 Mountain Waves: MAP
Organizer: Jim Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA
9:15 AM 18.1 Analysis of a potential vorticity streamer crossing the Alps during MAP IOP-15 on 6 November 1999   Klaus P. Hoinka, DLR Oberpaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany; and G. Poberaj and E. Richard 9:30 AM 18.2 Sensitivity studies and observational analysis of the Sept 20 1999 lee wave case during MAP   Gregory S. Poulos, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO 9:45 AM 18.3 Gravity waves over the Eastern Alps during IOP-10 of MAP: In-situ and remote sensing data compared with a high-resolution simulation   Hans Volkert, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany; and C. Kiemle, J. P. Chaboureau, and E. Richard 10:00 AM 18.4 Aircraft Measurements and Simulations of Mountain Waves over Mont Blanc   Samantha A. Smith, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. S. Broad 10:15 AM Coffee Break
	10:45 AM-12:15 PM, Friday Session 19 Mountain waves, wave breaking, and turbulence
Organizer: Doug Miller, NPS, Monterey, CA
10:45 AM 19.0a Influence of Lateral Shear upon Mesoscale Orographic Flow (formerly paper 19.6)   Matthias Zillig, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and H. C. Davies 11:00 AM 19.1 Internal Wave Generation in the Lee of Topography   Bruce R. Sutherland, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada 11:15 AM 19.2 Evidence for inertia-gravity waves forming polar stratospheric clouds over Scandinavia   Andreas Dörnbrack, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany; and T. Birner, H. Flentje, and A. Fix 11:30 AM 19.3 The impact of the atmospheric boundary layer on mountain forced gravity waves   Adrian S. Broad, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom 11:45 AM 19.4 Large-scale flow response to short mountain waves breaking in a rotating shear flow   Francois Lott, CNRS, Paris, France 12:00 PM 19.5 Jump formation and vortices in stratified flow past ridges   Craig Epifanio, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Rotunno
	12:15 PM, Friday Conference Ends

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