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Sunday, 20 June 2004
	7:00 AM, Sunday Sun June 20
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday 1 Conference Registration
Monday, 21 June 2004
	7:00 AM, Monday Mon June 21
	7:30 AM, Monday Conference Registration continues Through Friday June 25
	8:30 AM-8:45 AM, Monday Welcoming Remarks
	8:45 AM-10:30 AM, Monday Session 1 MOUNTAIN WAVES
Organizer: James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA
8:45 AM 1.1 The Temporal Evolution of Mountain Waves, Lee Vortices and Orographic Blocking   Dale R. Durran, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. C. Chen and G. J. Hakim 9:00 AM 1.2 Mountain Wave Momentum Flux in a Slowing Evolving Flow   Chih-Chieh Chen, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran and G. J. Hakim 9:15 AM 1.3 Resonant drag regimes in linear stratified flow past isolated mountains and ridges   Miguel A. C. Teixeira, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; and P. M. A. Miranda and M. A. Valente 9:30 AM 1.4 Sensitivity of orographic drag to model resolution   Samantha A. Smith, Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom; and A. Brown, J. D. Doyle, and S. Webster 9:45 AM 1.5 Improving the specification of sub-grid orography in NWP drag parametrizations.   Stuart Webster, Met Office, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom 10:00 AM 1.6 A few surprises in 2D nonlinear flow over topography   David J. Muraki, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; and C. C. Epifanio and C. Snyder 10:15 AM 1.7 Interaction between lee-waves and a planetary boundary layer   Qingfang Jiang, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Doyle and R. B. Smith
	10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Monday Coffee Break
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday Session 2 ROTORS
Organizer: Dale R. Durran, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
11:00 AM 2.1 Sierra Rotors and the Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment (T-REX)   Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. P. Kuettner 11:15 AM 2.2 On the structural characteristics and dynamics of sub-rotors   James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. R. Durran 11:30 AM 2.3 Observations of rotors and downslope winds in the Falkland Islands   Peter Sheridan, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and S. Vosper and S. Mobbs 11:45 AM 2.4 Characteristics of rotor streaming in the Falkland Islands   Rita Cardoso, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and S. Mobbs, R. Burton, S. Vosper, and P. Sheridan
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Monday Session 3 Gap winds and foehn
Organizer: Reinhold Steinacker, Institute of Meteorolgy and Geophysics, Vienna Austria
1:30 PM 3.1 The Mistral at the exit of the Rhône valley   Philippe J. Drobinski, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace/Service d'Aéronomie, Palaiseau, France; and S. Bastin, V. Guénard, J. L. Caccia, B. Campistron, U. Corsmeier, A. M. Dabas, P. Delville, F. Lohou, A. Protat, O. Reitebuch, and C. Werner 1:45 PM 3.2 North foehn in the Alpine Inn Valley - an example of foehn on the windward side of the Alpine crest   Günther Zängl, University of Munich, Munich, Germany 2:00 PM 3.3 The dynamics of pulsations in the bora flow   Danijel Belusic, Andrija Mohorovicic Geophysical Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and M. Pasaric, Z. Pasaric, and M. Orlic 2:15 PM 3.4 Observational and numerical case study of the Adriatic bora   Alexander Gohm, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and G. J. Mayr 2:30 PM 3.5 Mountain-valley flow observations with a boundary layer wind profiler   Stephen A. Cohn, NCAR, Boulder, CO
	3:00 PM, Monday Coffee Break
	3:15 PM-5:00 PM, Monday Session 4 WAKES AND LEE SIDE PHENOMENA
Organizer: Richard Rotunno, NCAR, Boulder, CO
3:15 PM 4.1 The dynamics of orographic wake formation in flows with upstream blocking   Craig C. Epifanio, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Rotunno 3:45 PM 4.2 Local winds, drag and wakes in idealized orographic flow at low Rossby number   G. N. Petersen, Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and Univ. of Iceland, Oslo, Iceland; and H. Ólafsson and J. E. Kristjánsson 4:00 PM 4.3 High-resolution observations of separated flow in the lee of steep orography: Gaudex 2003   Huw W. Lewis, Institute for Atmospheric Science, School of the Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and S. D. Mobbs, M. Lehning, B. Brooks, M. Hill, and N. Raderschall 4:15 PM 4.4 The Use of an Effective Froude Number in Non-Uniform Flow   P. Alexander Reinecke, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran 4:30 PM 4.5 Idealized Three-Dimensional Simulations of Fronts Interacting With the U.S. West Coast Topography   Joseph B. Olson, Stony Brook University / SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle 4:45 PM 4.6 Origin and propagation of a disturbance associated with an African Easterly Wave as a precursor of Hurricane Alberto (2000)   Yuh-Lang Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and K. E. Robertson and C. M. Hill
	5:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday Session 5 MODELING AND PARAMETERIZATION
Organizer: Tomaz Vrhovec, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana Slovenia
5:00 PM 5.1 Trying to achieve the no flow condition in MC2   Michel Desgagné, Recherche en Prevision Numerique and MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and C. Girard 5:15 PM 5.2 Nonhydrostatic simulations of orographic flows and some effects of time integration schemes   Raffaele Salerno, Centro Epson Meteo, Cinisello Balsamo (MI), Italy
	5:29 PM, Monday sessions end for the day
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Ice Breaker Reception with a Formal Poster viewing
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 1 Waves and Rotors
P1.1 Linear prediction of mountain wave drag in the case of generic wind profiles   Miguel A. C. Teixeira, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; and P. M. A. Miranda and M. A. Valente   P1.2 On Rotors, Internal Waves and Hydraulic Jumps in Simulated Stably-Stratified Flows in Utah's Salt Lake Valley   Ying Chen, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and R. L. Street and F. L. Ludwig   P1.3 Wave propagation and PV-pulses from diurnal mountain convection   Yanping Li, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith   P1.4 Inversion effects on mountain lee waves   Simon Vosper, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and P. Sheridan   P1.5 Mountain waves forced by narrow topography in the presence of vertical shear   James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and Q. Jiang   P1.6 Evaluation of mountain wave simulations using COAMPS and WRF-EM   James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and Q. Jiang, W. C. Skamarock, and P. Tsai   P1.7 Observations and Simulation of Downslope Windstorms and Gravity Waves over Northwest-Iceland   Haraldur Ólafsson, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland; and H. Ágústsson   P1.8 Temporal Oscillations of Pressure and Wind Speed in a Windstorm over Complex Terrain   Haraldur Ólafsson, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland; and H. Ágústsson   P1.9 Sierra Rotors Project: Preliminary findings   Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and S. A. Cohn   P1.10 Applicability of the Reduced Gravity Shallow Water Model to Gap Flow   Tomislav Maric, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 2 Wakes, instability, and Lee Cyclogenesis
P2.1 How does your model generate potential vorticity banners? Proposal for a model intercomparison project   Jürg Schmidli, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and J. Doyle, O. Fuhrer, and C. Schaer P2.2 Secondary Alpine potential vorticity banners: Sensitivity to model resolution   Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV   P2.3 A Study of Qinghai-Xizang Plateau Lee wave Rainstorm   lin Biyuan Sr., Weather Bureau of Hunnan province, Changsha, China; and S. Hong, L. Xiaolu, C. Zhou, H. Ouyan, and M. Lv   P2.4 Synoptic scale response to breaking mountain gravity waves   Armel Martin, Ecole Normale Supérieure - CNRS, Paris Cedex 05, France; and F. Lott   P2.5 Understanding the effects of complex terrain on Intermountain cyclogenesis   Gregory West, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Shafer and J. Steenburgh   P2.6 Wind Lidar Observations in the Lee of Greenland   Andreas Dörnbrack, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany; and M. Weissmann, S. Rahm, O. Reitebuch, R. Simmet, R. Busen, and H. Ólafsson
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 3 Gap wind, Foehn and Barrier Jets
P3.1 Foehn analysis in the Rhine Valley with a FM-CW boundary layer Radar-RASS during the MAP experiment   Siegfried Vogt, Institut f. Meteorologie u. Klimaforschung , Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany   P3.2 Barrier Jets in the Gulf of Alaska - A satellite climatology   George Young, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and K. Loescher, N. S. Winstead, and B. A. Colle
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 4 Mountain Boundary Layer
P4.1 Sea breeze case study using a combination of observations and numerical simulation in complex terrain in Southern France: contribution to matter transport.   S. Bastin, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace/ Service d'Aeronomie, Palaiseau cedex, France; and P. Drobinski, A. M. Dabas, P. Delville, O. Reitebuch, and C. Werner   P4.2 The role of the Topographic Amplification Factor in the breakup of the nocturnal inversions in Yosemite Valley, Sierra Nevada   Craig Clements, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and S. Zhong   P4.3 Surface drag and heat flux conditions for atmospheric models with steep terrain   Craig C. Epifanio, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX   P4.4 Low-level-jet-induced pumping in the atmopsheric boundary layer in the lee of the Alps during a north foehn event   Cyrille Flamant, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Paris, France; and E. Richard   P4.5 Mechanisms of wind channeling in the Hudson Valley, NY.   Ricardo K. Sakai, SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. R. Fitzjarrald, M. Czikowsky, and J. M. Freedman   P4.6 Simulations of the turbulence and dispersion processes in a coastal region   Danijel Belusic, Andrija Mohorovicic Geophysical Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and D. Koracin, I. Kos, A. Jericevic, and K. Horvath   P4.7 Rotational effects on flow around idealised mountain ridges   Helen Wells, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and S. Webster and A. R. Brown
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 5 Climate and Climate Change
P5.1 An analysis of the 1932-2004 air temperature record from the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, USA   Andrea N. Grant, Mount Washington Observatory, North Conway, NH; and A. A. P. Pszenny   P5.2 Construction of the wind climate by idealized flow past real orography   Haraldur Ólafsson, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland; and Ó. Rögnvaldsson
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 6 Observational Techniques
P6.1 Measurement of micro weather in valley cross section   Koji Tamai, Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Japan   P6.2 Validation of precipitable water from ECMWF model with GPS data during the MAP SOP   Olivier M. Bock, IPSL/CNRS, Paris, France; and C. Flamant, E. Richard, C. Keil, and M. N. Bouin
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 7 Anabatic and Katabatic flows
P7.1 The gap and katabatic contributions for the MAP IOP 15 Mistral windstorm.   Vincent Guénard, Laboratoire de Sondages Electromagnétiques de l'Environnement Terrestre, La Garde, France; and P. Drobinski, G. Tédeschi, and J. L. Caccia   P7.2 A modeling study of katabatic flows over slopes with changing slope angle   Craig M. Smith, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and E. D. Skyllingstad   P7.3 The sensitivity of thermally-driven mountain flows to land cover change.   Justin A. W. Cox, NOAA Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction and Department of Meteorology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh and G. Poulos
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 8 OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION
P8.1 Quantitative precipitation forecasting of wintertime storms in the Sierra Nevada   Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and R. Vellore and A. Huggins   P8.2 An investigation of record heavy lee side orographic snowfall during the great western storm of March 16-20, 2003   Gregory S. Poulos, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Snook, D. A. Wesley, M. P. Meyers, and E. J. Szoke   P8.3 Verifying modeled precipitation in mountainous region for heavy precipitation cases   Tomaz Vrhovec, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and G. Skok and R. Zabkar   P8.4 PARAMETERS CONTROLLING PRECIPITATION ASSOCIATED WITH A CONDITIONALLY UNSATURATED UNSTABLE FLOW OVER A TWO-DIMENSIONAL MESOSCALE MOUNTAIN   S.-H. Chen, U.C.-Davis, Davis, CA; and Y. L. Lin   P8.5 Impact study of MAP IOP2B observations on the mesoscale numerical simulation   Yong Wang, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria; and E. Bazile   P8.6 Numerical simulations of the August 2002 flooding event in the Elbe catchment area   Günther Zängl, University of Munich, Munich, Germany   P8.7 Orographic modulation of precipitation and rainfall rate in the mountains of western Maine   Stephanie A Lane, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA; and R. W. Stimets   P8.8 Oxygen isotope ratios of recently fallen snow over the Wasatch Mountains of northern Utah   Scott A. Hynek, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh and G. S. Poulos   P8.9 Precipitation over concave terrain   Qingfang Jiang, UCAR Visiting Scientist, NRL, Monterey, CA   P8.10 Simulations of precipitation in the complex terrain of Iceland and comparison with glaciological observations   Ólafur Rögnvaldsson, Universtity of Bergen, Institute for Meteorological Research, Reykjavik, Iceland; and H. Ólafsson   P8.11 Atmospheric response to the orography during cases of precipitation extremes in Iceland   Haraldur Ólafsson, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland; and T. Jónsson   P8.12 Connections between the low-level airflow and the increase of precipitation with altitude   Haraldur Ólafsson, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland; and Ó. Rögnvaldsson   P8.13 Electrical conductivity of supercooled cloud water at Mt. Washington, NH   Charles C. Ryerson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab., Hanover, NH; and G. G. Koenig, D. A. Meese, J. A. Nagle, and J. H. Cragin
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 9 Mountain Weather Forecasting
P9.1 A conceptual model of warm season excessive rainfall used to warn for flooding of 12 June 2002 across northern Vermont   Scott L Whittier, NOAA/NWS, South Burlington, VT; and G. A. Hanson and R. E. Bell   P9.2 A method for the objective prediction of foehn events in the Wipp Valley   Susanne Drechsel, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Innsbruck, Austria; and G. J. Mayr   P9.3 Forecasting an extreme precipitation event in Norway   Einar Magnús Einarsson, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland; and H. Ólafsson   P9.4 Does increasing the resolution of numerical forecasts improve forecast accuracy over fine-scale Intermountain topography?   Kenneth A. Hart, NOAA/CIRP and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Steenburgh and D. J. Onton
Tuesday, 22 June 2004
	7:00 AM, Tuesday Tue June 22
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday Session 6 MOUNTAIN BOUNDARY LAYERS I: TURBULENCE AND MIXING
Organizer: C. David Whiteman, PNNL, Richland, WA
8:30 AM 6.1 On the turbulence structure over highly complex terrain: key findings from the MAP-Riviera project   Mathias W. Rotach, Swiss Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology, Zurich, Switzerland; and M. Andretta, P. Calanca, A. P. Weigel, and R. Vogt 9:00 AM 6.2 High-resolution large-eddy simulations of the Riviera Valley: methodology and sensitivity studies   Fotini Katopodes Chow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and A. P. Weigel, R. L. Street, M. W. Rotach, and M. Xue 9:15 AM 6.3 Stable mixing and transport in complex terrain: A challenge for measurement and modeling studies   Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO 9:30 AM 6.4 High-resolution large-eddy simulations of the Riviera Valley: assessment of the flow structure and the heat and moisture budgets   Andreas P. Weigel, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and F. K. Chow, M. W. Rotach, R. L. Street, and M. Xue 9:45 AM 6.5 Examining nocturnal jets in the Hudson valley during HVAMS   David R. Fitzjarrald, SUNY, Albany, NY; and R. K. Sakai, J. M. Freedman, and M. Czikowsky
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday Session 7 MOUNTAIN BOUNDARY LAYERS II: TRANSPORT AND DISPERSION
Organizer: Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO
10:30 AM 7.1 The Alpine mountain-plain circulation: Airborne Doppler lidar measurements and numerical simulations using MM5 and LM   Martin Weissmann, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Wessling, Germany; and F. Braun, L. Gantner, G. Mayr, S. Rahm, and O. Reitebuch 10:45 AM 7.2 First climatological analysis of mountain venting using water vapour profiles up-wind and down-wind of the Alps   Stephan Henne, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland; and A. S. H. Prévôt and M. Furger 11:00 AM 7.3 Meteorological controls on ozone at Mount Washington, the highest peak in the northeastern United States   Emily V. Fischer, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and R. W. Talbot, J. E. Dibb, J. L. Moody, and G. Murray 11:15 AM 7.4 Evolution of convective boundary layer in deep valley for air quality modeling   Charles Chemel, Laboratoire des Ecoulements Géophysiques et Industriels, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France; and J. P. Chollet, G. Brulfert, and E. Chaxel 11:30 AM 7.5 Thermally driven wind systems and high-altitude ozone concentrations in Yosemite National Park   Craig Clements, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and S. Zhong and J. Burley 11:45 AM 7.6 Toward explaining the cause of large-amplitude variations in basin-scale flow and how they impact vertical transport and turbulent mixing   James O. Pinto, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. B. Parsons, W. O. J. Brown, B. Morley, and R. M. Banta
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday Session 8 MOUNTAIN BOUNDARY LAYERS III: INVERSIONS AND THERMALLY DRIVEN FLOWS
Organizer: André S. H. Prévôt, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen-PSI Switzerland
1:30 PM 8.1 Extreme Temperature Minima in the Gstettneralm Sinkhole with respect to Different Air Masses   Benedikt Bica, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and R. Steinacker and M. Dorninger 1:45 PM 8.2 Processes leading to inversion buildup in small enclosed basins   C. David Whiteman, PNNL, Richland, WA; and T. Haiden 2:00 PM 8.3 Nocturnal boundary layer cooling rates in valleys, basins, and over plains   Stephan F.J. De Wekker, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. D. Whiteman 2:15 PM 8.4 The influence of synoptic conditions on flow between mountain basins   Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 2:30 PM 8.5 The SNaefellsnes EXperment (SNEX) - observations of local winds in a mesoscale mountain ridge   Haraldur Ólafsson, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland 2:45 PM 8.6 Diurnal cycles of thermally driven flows in two adjacent Utah valley systems as revealed by EOF flow patterns   Francis L. Ludwig, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and J. Horel and C. D. Whiteman
	3:00 PM-9:00 AM, Tuesday Session 1 Formal Poster viewing with Coffee Break
	4:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Session 9 MOUNTAIN CLIMATE
Organizer: Hans Volkert, DLR, Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere, Wessling Germany
4:30 PM 9.1 Mass and wind atmospheric angular momentum responses to mountain torques in the 1--25 day band. Links with the Arctic Oscillation.   Francois Lott, CNRS, Paris, France; and F. D'Andrea 4:45 PM 9.2 VERACLIM - A high resolution Reanalysis of the Alpine Atmosphere   Reinhold Steinacker, University of Vienna, Austria, Vienna, Austria; and C. Lotteraner and M. Dorninger 5:00 PM 9.3 A climatology and case study of strong lake-breeze fronts in the Salt Lake Valley   Daniel E. Zumpfe, Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel 5:15 PM 9.4 Changes in upland watershed response to rainfall events during autumn transition   Matthew J. Czikowsky, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. R. Fitzjarrald, R. K. Sakai, and J. M. Freedman
	5:30 PM, Tuesday sessions end for the day
Wednesday, 23 June 2004
	7:00 AM, Wednesday Wed June 23
	8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Wednesday Session 10 ANABATIC AND KATABATIC FLOWS
Organizer: Gregory S. Poulos, NCAR - Atmospheric Technology Division, Boulder, CO
10.1 Water tank modelling of air pollution transport over heated slopes   Christian Reuten, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and D. G. Steyn and S. E. Allen 8:30 AM 10.2 On quantifying waves and turbulence contributions to momentum and buoyancy transports in katabatic flows   Marko Princevac, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and H. J. S. Fernando and P. Monti 8:45 AM 10.3 The decay of convective turbulence during evening transition period   Harindra J.S. Fernando, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and M. Princevac, E. R. Pardyjak, and A. Dato 9:00 AM 10.4 Extension of the Mixed-Layer Concept to Steep Topography   Thomas Haiden, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria 10.5 MM5 simulations of diurnal winds and moisture transport in the Mt. Everest area of the Nepal Himalayas   Yolanda N. Rosoff, City College of New York, New York, NY; and K. Y. Kong and E. E. Hindman 9:15 AM 10.6 The dynamics of drainage flows developed on a low-angle slope in a large valley   Sharon Zhong, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and C. D. Whiteman 9:30 AM 10.7 Temperature and wind velocity oscillations along a gentle slope during sea-breeze events.   S. Bastin, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace/ Service d'Aeronomie, Palaiseau cedex, France; and P. Drobinski
	10:15 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Wednesday Session 11 OBSERVATIONAL TECHNIQUES
Organizer: F. Marty Ralph, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO
10:30 AM 11.1 Smart Sensor Arrays For Advanced Complex Terrain Observations of the Boundary Layer   Lynette Laffea, NCAR - Atmospheric Technology Division, Boulder, CO; and G. S. Poulos and D. Carlson 10:45 AM 11.2 LIDAR Observations of Wind Shear Induced by Mountain Lee Waves   Chi Ming Shun, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and S. Y. Lau, C. M. Cheng, O. S. M. Lee, and H. Y. Chiu 11:00 AM 11.3 Observations of turbulence and waves near Mt Washington and Mauna Kea using direct-detection lidar and the thermosonde   John P McHugh, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH; and I. Dors, G. Y. Jumper, and R. John 11:15 AM Introduction to the Mount Washington Observatory, Ken Rancourt
	11:30 AM, Wednesday sessions end for the day
	7:00 PM, Wednesday Banquet: Moat Mountain Brewery and Smokehouse
Thursday, 24 June 2004
	7:00 AM, Thursday Thur June 24
	8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Thursday Session 12 Orographic PRECIPITATION I - MAP
Organizer: Evelyne Richard, CNRS/UPS, Toulouse France
8:30 AM 12.1 Progress in the atmospheric sciences during the past ten years: What did MAP contribute?   Hans Volkert, DLR, Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere, Wessling, Germany 9:00 AM 12.2 Precipitation in the South East Alps - MAP scientific conclusions review   Tomaz Vrhovec, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and R. Joze, G. Gregoric, S. Pradier, F. Roux, M. Chong, and S. Micheletti 9:15 AM 12.3 Numerical simulations of microphysical processes involved during three MAP cases (IOP8, IOP2A and IOP3)   Franck Lascaux, CNRS/UPS, Toulouse, France; and E. Richard 9:30 AM 12.4 Analysis of convective situations over the Alps during the MAP SOP   Fabrice Arnal, CNRM, 31057 Toulouse Cedex, France; and J. STEIN and N. Asencio 9:45 AM 12.5 Multimodel ensemble forecasts of precipitation using mesoscale models over the Alpine region during the MAP - Special Observing Period.   Federico Ceccarelli, University of Genova, Genova, Italy; and T. N. Krishnamurti, B. Mackey, and C. F. Ratto 10:00 AM 12.6 Comparison of the down-valley flow for the MAP IOP8 and IOP3 with the numerical laboratory Mesonh model.   N. Asencio, Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and J. Stein and M. Chong
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Thursday Coffee Break
	10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday Session 13 OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION II - THEORY
Organizer: Haraldur Olafsson, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik Iceland
10:45 AM 13.1 Effects of diabatic cooling on the formation of convective systems upstream of the Apennines during MAP IOP-8   Heather Dawn Reeves, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. -. L. Lin 11:00 AM 13.2 Effect of moist processes on the flow of air within complex terrain   Matthias Steiner, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and R. Rotunno 11:15 AM 13.3 Embedded cellular convection in three-dimensional moist flow past two-dimensional topography   Oliver Fuhrer, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Schär 11:30 AM 13.4 Simulations of nearly moist neutral flow past a two-dimensional ridge   M. Marcello Miglietta, CNR-ISAC, Lecce, Italy; and R. Rotunno 11:45 AM 13.5 Characteristics of Orographic Precipitating Systems - tests with two models   Idar Barstad, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith and P. K. Smolarkiewicz
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday Session 14 OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION III – CLIMATOLOGY
Organizer: Ronald B. Smith, Yale Univeristy, New Haven, CT
1:30 PM 14.1 Precipitation shadows in the Hudson Valley   Jeffrey M. Freedman, Atmospheric Information Services, Albany, NY; and D. R. Fitzjarrald, R. K. Sakai, and M. J. Czikowsky 1:45 PM 14.2 Orographic precipitation and Oregon's climate transition   Ronald B. Smith, Yale Univeristy, New Haven, CT; and I. Barstad and L. Bonneau 2:00 PM 14.3 Mean characteristics of kinematic and thermodynamic profiles in low-level jets over the eastern Pacific: Dropsonde data from CALJET-1998 and PACJET-2001   F. Martin Ralph, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and P. J. Neiman and R. Rotunno 2:15 PM 14.4 Orographic precipitation and the form of mountain ranges   Alison M. Anders, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and G. H. Roe and D. R. Durran 2:30 PM 14.5 A Step Towards Understanding the Climatological Precipitation Maximum Over the Eastern Alps   Sasa Gabersek, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and R. Zabkar and J. Rakovec 2:45 PM 14.6 Radar Observations of Orographic Precipitation Over Coastal Northern California   Curtis N. James, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and R. A. Houze
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday Coffee Break
3:00 PM aa
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Thursday Session 15 OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION V – OBS AND MODL
Organizer: Francois Lott, CNRS, Paris France
3:30 PM 15.1 Observations and modeling of banded orographic convection   Daniel J. Kirshbaum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran 3:45 PM 15.2 Cloud Structures, Microphysical Processes and Synergistic Interactions between Frontal and Orographic Forcing of Precipitation   Christopher P. Woods, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. T. Stoelinga, J. D. Locatelli, and P. V. Hobbs 4:00 PM 15.3 High-resolution simulations of precipitation during the Reykjanes Experiment (REX)   Ólafur Rögnvaldsson, Universtity of Bergen, Institute for Meteorological Research, Reykjavik, Iceland; and J. W. Bao and H. Ólafsson 4:15 PM 15.4 Some Comparisons Between IMPROVE-2 and IPEX Kinematic and Precipitation Structures and Bulk Microphysical Verification   Brian A. Colle, Stony Brook University / SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and M. Garvert, J. A. W. Cox, W. J. Steenburgh, D. E. Kingsmill, J. B. Wolfe, and C. P. Woods 4:30 PM 15.5 Impact of the fine-scale initialization on mesoscale simulated precipitation over mountainous areas   Katia Chancibault, LTHE (CNRS, UJF), 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France; and V. Ducrocq and S. Anquetin 4:45 PM 15.6 Anomalously large snowfall variations across small spatial scales in the Rocky Mountain Front Range: the roles of blocking, surface winds, and the associated thermodynamic structure   Douglas A. Wesley, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and G. S. Poulos, J. Snook, and M. P. Meyers 5:00 PM 15.7 Orographic effects of the 1997 Pineapple Express storms in Northern California   Joseph Galewsky, Columbia University, New York, NY; and A. H. Sobel 5:15 PM 15.8 Numerical Studies of Precipitation in Tropical Mountainous Terrain   Ana P. Barros, Duke University, Durham, NC; and S. Chiao
	5:30 PM, Thursday sessions end for the day
Friday, 25 June 2004
	7:00 AM, Friday Friday June 25
	8:15 AM-9:30 AM, Friday Session 16 MOUNTAIN WEATHER FORECSTING I
Organizer: Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
8:15 AM 16.1 Latest developments of the very high resolution Canadian Global Environmental Multiscale (GEM) model limited area version (GEM-LAM) over mountainous terrain   Uwe Gramann, MSC, Kelowna, BC, Canada; and A. Erfani, J. Mailhot, S. Gravel, M. Roch, and L. Lefaivre 8:30 AM 16.2 Verification of mesoscale model products   Manfred Dorninger, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and B. Chimani and R. Steinacker 8:45 AM 16.3 Comparison of cloud-resolving ensemble simulations using LM and MC2 simulations   Cathy Hohenegger, ETH, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland; and C. Schär, A. Walser, and D. Lüthi 9:00 AM 16.4 High-Resolution Numerical Simulations of Windstorms in the Complex Terrain of Iceland   Hálfdán Ágústsson, University of Iceland and The Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavík, Iceland; and H. Ólafsson 9:15 AM 16.5 Multiscale analyses, forecasts and climatologies over complex terrains using the NCAR/ATEC real-time four-dimensional data assimilation and forecast (RTFDDA) system   Yubao Liu, NCAR/RAP, Boulder, CO; and T. Warner, S. Swerdlin, R. Sheu, and D. rife
	9:45 AM-10:15 AM, Friday Coffee Break
	10:15 AM-11:30 AM, Friday Session 17 MOUNTAIN WEATHER FORECASTING II
Organizer: Christoph Schar, ETH, Zurich Switzerland
10:15 AM 17.1 The March 2003 snowstorm in southern Colorado   Paul G. Wolyn, NOAA/NWSFO, Pueblo, CO 10:30 AM 17.2 Verification of NDFD gridded forecasts over complex terrain   David T. Myrick, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel 10:45 AM 17.3 Terrain-influenced tornadogenesis in the Northeastern United States   Lance F. Bosart, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and K. LaPenta, A. Seimon, M. J. Dickinson, and T. J. Galarneau 11:00 AM 17.4 A comparison of an interactive and noninteractive approach to mesoscale forecasting using the IOP-2B of MAP   Sylvie Gravel, MSC, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and A. Erfani and U. Gramann 11:15 AM 17.5 Applying local research to National Weather Service operations – forecasting heavy mountain snowfalls in Vermont and Northern New York   Paul A. Sisson, NOAA/NWSFO, South Burlington, VT; and D. St.Jean, E. Evenson, W. E. Murray, S. F. Hogan, L. Bosart, D. Keyser, and B. Smith
	11:30 AM, Friday Conference Ends

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