Session 5 Boundary Layer Physics and Coupling

Tuesday, 30 April 2013: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
South Room (Renaissance Seattle Hotel)
Host: 12th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Chair:
John J. Cassano, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Papers:
8:30 AM
5.1
Impacts of Surface Fluxes on the Mixed Layer Depth Evolution in the Southern Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf
Somayeh Nahavandian Esfahani, INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique), Quebec City, QC, Canada; and L. Prieur and Y. Gratton
8:45 AM
5.2
9:00 AM
5.3
Spatial Correlation of Surface-Level Variables over Arctic Sea Ice
Edgar L. Andreas, NorthWest Research Associates, Inc., Lebanon, NH; and R. E. Jordan
9:15 AM
5.4
Evaluating Arctic Lower Tropospheric Stability in Transpose AMIP Models
Neil P. Barton, DeVine Consulting, Inc., Monterey, CA; and S. Klein and J. Boyle
9:30 AM
5.5
9:45 AM
5.6
Polar Specific Humidity Inversions in Five Reanalyses
Michael A. Brunke, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. T. Stegall and X. Zeng
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