Session 8 |
| | MOUNTAIN BOUNDARY LAYERS III: INVERSIONS AND THERMALLY DRIVEN FLOWS |
| | Organizer: André S. H. Prévôt, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen-PSI Switzerland
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| 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 |