| Sunday, 5 August 2007 |
| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Lobby
Registration Opens |
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| Monday, 6 August 2007 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday, Lobby
Registration continues throughout the conference |
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| 7:35 AM-9:00 AM, Monday, Main Dining Room
Breakfast |
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| 8:40 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Waterville Room
Session 1 Mesoscale Predictability |
Chair: Fuqing Zhang, College Station, TX
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| 8:40 AM | | Introductory Remarks
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| 8:45 AM | 1.1 | Moist convection and mesoscale predictability
Richard Rotunno, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 9:15 AM | 1.2 | Origin of the Precursors to both Extra-tropical Cyclogenesis & Orographically-influenced Heavy Precipitation Events
H. C. Davies, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and O. Martius and S. Kew |
| 9:30 AM | 1.3 | Probabilistic analysis of the dynamics and predictability of tropical cyclogenesis
Jason Sippel, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
| 9:45 AM | 1.4 | On the predictability of mesoscale convective systems
Matthew S. Wandishin, Univ. of Arizona and NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. Stensrud, L. J. Wicker, and S. L. Mullen |
| 10:00 AM | 1.5 | Storm of the Century? Insights from a massive ensemble forecast experiment  
Peter S. Dailey, AIR-Worldwide, Boston, MA; and R. G. Fovell |
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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday, White Mountain Room
Coffee Break |
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| 10:45 AM-12:15 PM, Monday, Waterville Room
Session 2 Theoretical and Idealized Modeling Studies of Mesoscale Processes |
Chair: Gregory J. Tripoli, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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| 10:45 AM | 2.1 | The propagation speed of gravity currents in a deep anelastic atmosphere
George H. Bryan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Rotunno |
| 11:00 AM | 2.2 | Regimes of dry and moist convective plumes above forest fires: Idealized numerical simulations and dimensional analysis
Michael T. Kiefer, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. -. L. Lin and J. J. Charney |
| 11:15 AM | 2.3 | Factors influencing the generation of turbulence above deep convection
Todd P. Lane, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia; and R. D. Sharman |
| 11:30 AM | 2.4 | Generation and Propagation of Gravity Waves from Jets
Shuguang Wang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and F. Zhang, C. Epifanio, C. Snyder, R. Plougonven, and D. J. Muraki |
| 11:45 AM | 2.5 | Mesoscale convective vortex formation in environments with differnt values of shear and CAPE
Robert Conzemius, Windlogics, Inc., Grand Rapids, MN; and M. T. Montgomery |
| 12:00 PM | 2.6 | Moist vortex resiliency in vertical shear flow
Paul D. Reasor, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Young |
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| 12:15 PM-1:45 PM, Monday, Main Dining Room
Lunch Break |
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| 1:45 PM-3:30 PM, Monday, White Mountain Room
Poster Session 1 Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
| | P1.1 | Comparison of turbulence closure schemes in the simulation of terrain-disrupted airflow
P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China |
| | | Poster P1.2 has been moved. New Paper number 3.6A
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| | | Poster P1.3 has been moved. New paper number 6.3A
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| | P1.3A | Three-dimensional characteristics of mountain waves during T-REX
James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and Q. Jiang, W. A. Cooper, V. Grubisic, J. B. Jensen, and R. B. Smith |
| | P1.4 | The mesoscale characteristics of tropical oceanic precipitation during Kelvin waves and mixed-Rossby gravity waves
Christopher Thomas Holder, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. E. Yuter, A. H. Sobel, and A. R. Aiyyer |
| | P1.5 | The role of microphysical cooling processes in mesoscale convective system morphology
Brian F. Jewett, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. M. Rauber and G. McFarquhar |
| | P1.6 | Using analysis uncertainty estimates from the Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis in the verification of grid-based forecasts
David Myrick, NOAA/NWS, Western Region, Scientific Services Division, Salt Lake City, UT |
| | P1.7 | The flooding of Hurricane Ivan: How far ahead can we predict?
Michael P. Erb, National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center (NEMAC), Winston-Salem, NC; and D. K. Miller |
| | P1.8 | Dynamics of rainfall distribution patterns associated with tropical cyclones affected southern Appalachians
Y.-L. Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Harville and C. M. Cassell |
| | P1.9 | Sensitivity of downslope windstorms to model initial conditions
P. Alexander Reinecke, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran |
| | P1.10 | The spacing of orographic rainbands triggered by small-scale topography
Daniel Kirshbaum, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. Rotunno and G. H. Bryan |
| | P1.11 | A comparison of compressible and anelastic models of deep dry convection
Jonathan W. Smith, Penn State University, Universtiy Park, PA; and P. R. Bannon |
| | P1.12 | Moisture and Sierra waves: Observations and modeling
Qingfang Jiang, UCAR Visiting Scientist, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Doyle |
| | P1.13 | Impact of the windward Cascade ridges and Oregon coastal range on the precipitation distribution during 4-5 December 2001 of IMPROVE-2
Brian A. Colle, Stony Brook University / SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and Y. Lin, S. Medina, and B. Smull |
| | P1.14 | The influence of solar wind on extratropical cyclones: Wilcox effect revisited
Paul Prikryl, Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and V. Rusin and M. Rybanský |
| | P1.15 | High resolution simulations of boundary layer behavior in California's Owens Valley using the WRF-ARW model during T-REX 2006
Robert E. Dumais Jr., U.S. Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and E. Colon, S. Chiao, and T. Henmi |
| | P1.16 | Microphysical influences on hurricane track and intensity in idealized simulations
Robert G. Fovell, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and H. Su |
| | P1.17 | Convective episodes in the east-central United States
Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and D. A. Ahijevych |
| | P1.18 | An Evaluation of Cloud Microphysics Schemes in a Mesoscale Model Using Microwave Measurements
Mei Han, GEST/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and S. A. Braun, W. S. Olson, P. O. G. Persson, and J. -. W. Bao |
| | P1.19 | Convective initiation via outflow boundary interaction with quasi-stationary thermal circulations
Timothy A. Coleman, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. Knupp |
| | P1.20 | Simulation of precipitating shallow convective cloud systems using LES with explicit microphysics
Yefim L. Kogan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| | P1.21 | Mesoscale convective systems in frontal systems observed by Meteosat-8 infrared imagery
Jose Fenollar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; and E. Posmentier, M. Vazquez, and G. Maqueda |
| | P1.22 | Convective initiation and evolution approaching the southern New England coast and Long Island
Kelly Lombardo, Stony Brook University - SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and J. Murray and B. A. Colle |
| | P1.23 | Convective initiation ahead of squall lines: observations and simulations
Seung-hee Kim, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and R. G. Fovell and G. L. Mullendore |
| | P124 | Tropical cyclone genesis and surges in the Saharan Air Layer
Gregory J. Tripoli, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. P. Dunion and T. Hashino |
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Waterville Room
Session 3 Numerical weather prediction, data assimilation |
Chair: James Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA
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|  | 3.1 | Ensemble approaches to mesoscale predictability and dynamics
Gregory J. Hakim, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 3:30 PM | 3.1A | Data Assimilation in the Age of Cloud-Resolving NWP
William E. Lewis, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 4:00 PM | 3.2 | Ensemble-based data assimilation and prediction for Hurricanes: Impacts of assimilating Doppler radar observations
Fuqing Zhang, College Station, TX; and Y. Weng, Z. Meng, and Y. Chen |
| | 3.3 | Mesoscale FDDA Experiments with ACARS Data
Chia-bo Chang, Texas Tech University, lubbock, TX, Texas; and R. Dumais |
| 4:15 PM | 3.4 | Surface data assimilation using an ensemble Kalman filter: Forecast results from spring 2007
David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and N. Yussouf, D. Dowell, and M. C. Coniglio |
| 4:30 PM | 3.5 | Tests of an Ensemble Kalman Filter for Mesoscale and Regional-scale Data Assimilation: Real Data Application in Comparison to 3DVar
Zhiyong Meng, College Station, TX; and F. Zhang |
| | 3.6 | A comparison of the hybrid ensemble-variational and the ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation schemes for hurricane initialization
Xuguang Wang, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO |
| 4:45 PM | 3.6A | Development of the On-Line MM5 Tracer Model and its Applications to Sahara Dust Transport
S.-H. Chen, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and J. Dudhia, J. S. Kain, T. Kindap, and E. Tan |
| 5:00 PM | 3.7 | Improving Precipitation Forecasts by the Operational Nonhydrostatic Mesoscale Model with the Kain-Fritsch Convective Parameterization and Cloud Microphysics
Masami Narita, Japan Meteorological Agency, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan; and S. Ohmori |
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| 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Main Dining Room
Dinner |
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| Tuesday, 7 August 2007 |
| 7:00 AM-8:30 AM, Tuesday, Main Dining Room
Breakfast |
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| 8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, Waterville Room
Session 4 Dynamics and structure of tropical cyclones |
Chair: Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
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| 8:00 AM | 4.1 | Some fundamental aspects of hurricane dynamics
Michael T. Montgomery, NPS, Monterey, CA |
| 8:30 AM | 4.2 | High resolution simulations of tropical cyclogenesis in idealized environments with and without shear
David S. Nolan, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and E. D. Rappin |
| 8:45 AM | 4.3 | High-resolution simulation of the genesis of Tropical Storm Gert (2005)
Scott A. Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. T. Montgomery and K. J. Mallen |
| 9:00 AM | 4.4 | The vertical structure of tangential winds in tropical cyclones: theory vs. observations
Daniel P. Stern, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan |
| 9:15 AM | 4.5 | Life of a 6-hour hurricane
Kay L. Shelton, SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. E. Molinari |
| 9:30 AM | 4.6 | Hurricane Vortices in Shear: Dynamics of Extratropical Transition
Christopher A. Davis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Jones and M. Riemer |
| 9:45 AM | 4.7 | Mechanisms for the intensification and decay of tropical Storm Edouard (2002) in strong vertical shear
Jaclyn D. Frank, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday, White Mountain Room
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Waterville Room
Session 5 Precipitation and microphysics associated with tropical cyclones |
Chair: Scott A. Braun, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 10:30 AM | 5.1 | Isotope Ratios of Rainfall and Water Vapor observed in Typhoon Shanshan
Hironori Fudeyasu, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan; and K. Ichiyanagi, A. Sugimoto, K. Yoshimura, and M. D. Yamanaka |
| 10:45 AM | 5.2 | Predecessor rain events in tropical cyclones
Matthew R. Cote, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart, D. Keyser, and M. L. Jurewicz |
| | 5.3 | The microphysical processes of Typhoon Nari (2001) at landfall
Ming-Jen Yang, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan |
| 11:00 AM | 5.4 | An examination of the evolution of precipitation-enhancing mesoscale features associated with a landfalling tropical cyclone
Alan F. Srock, SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart |
| 11:15 AM | 5.5 | Mesoscale precipitation structures accompanying landfalling and transitioning tropical cyclones in the Northeast United States
Jared R. Klein, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart, D. Keyser, and D. R. Vallee |
| 11:30 AM | 5.6 | NEXRAD in space: A possible solution to the hurricane intensity forecast problem
Gregory J. Tripoli, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and V. Chandrasekar, S. S. Chen, G. J. Holland, E. Im, R. Kakar, W. E. Lewis, F. D. Marks, and E. A. Smith |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, Main Dining Room
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Waterville Room
Session 6 T-REX |
Chair: S.-H. Chen, Univ. of California, Davis, CA
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| 1:30 PM | 6.1 | Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment: New Insights into the Structure of Atmospheric Rotors, Stratospheric Gravity Waves, and Boundary-Layer Flows within a Deep Valley
Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV |
| 2:00 PM | 6.2 | Interaction of mountain lee waves with valley flows
Brian J. Billings, DRI, Reno, NV; and V. Grubisic |
| 2:15 PM | | Paper 6.3 has been moved. New poster number P1.3A
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| 2:30 PM | 6.3A | Predictability of windstorms and gravity waves forced by complex terrain: Perspectives from T-REX
James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. M. Amerault and C. A. Reynolds |
| 2:45 PM | 6.4 | MOUNTAIN WAVES FLUXES ACROSS THE TROPOPAUSE
Bryan Woods, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. Smith, J. Jensen, W. Cooper, J. D. Doyle, Q. Jiang, and V. Grubisic |
| 3:00 PM | 6.5 | Numerical simulations of stratospheric gravity waves and turbulence during T-REX IOP 6
David R. Vollmer, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. L. Lin and M. L. Kaplan |
| 3:15 PM | 6.6 | Measurements of Turbulence Parameters and Dissipation in Complex Terrain
Raghavendra Krishnamurthy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and R. Calhoun, H. J. S. Fernando, and G. S. Poulos |
| 3:30 PM | 6.7 | Large-scale influences on mesoscale valley circulations in a deep valley
Juerg Schmidli, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. S. Poulos |
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| 3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday, White Mountain Room
Coffee Break |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, Waterville Room
Session 7 Mountain Waves and Obstacle flows |
Chair: George H. Bryan, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 4:00 PM | 7.1 | Mesoscale Surges Through Coastal Gaps
Cliff Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Warner |
| 4:15 PM | 7.2 | Observations and numerical modeling of mountain waves over the Organ and San Andres Mountains of New Mexico
P. A. Haines, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and D. J. Grove, W. Y. Sun, W. R. Hsu, B. T. MacCall, and S. Aliabadi |
| 4:30 PM | 7.3 | Lee waves over double bell-shaped orography
Ivana Stiperski, Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia; and V. Grubisic |
| 4:45 PM | 7.4 | On the diurnal variation of mountain waves
Qingfang Jiang, UCAR Visiting Scientist, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Doyle |
| 5:00 PM | 7.5 | Wave-turbulence interactions in a breaking mountain wave
Craig C. Epifanio, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and T. Qian |
| | 7.6 | PAPER WITHDRAWN
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| 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday, Main Dining Room
Dinner |
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| Wednesday, 8 August 2007 |
| 7:00 AM-8:30 AM, Wednesday, Main Dining Room
Breakfast |
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| 8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Waterville Room
Session 8 Orographic Precipitation Processes |
Chair: Daniel Kirshbaum, Yale University, New Haven, CT
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| 8:00 AM | 8.1 | Orographic precipitation: Rapid advancements through recent field studies, continuous measurements, and modeling
Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY |
| 8:30 AM | | 8.2 has been moved. New Poster number P2.6A
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| 8:45 AM | 8.3 | Model simulations of extreme orographic precipitation in the Sierra Nevada during the New Year's holiday flood of 2005-06
Phillip J. Marzette, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. L. Kaplan, C. Adaniya, J. Wallmann, and R. Milne |
| 9:00 AM | 8.4 | Orographic precipitation and isotope fractionation
Ronald Smith, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT; and B. Tipple, A. M. Anders, and A. C. Didlake |
| 9:15 AM | 8.5 | Relative Impacts of Orographic Forcing and Pollution Aerosols on Mountain Snowfall
Stephen M. Saleeby, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton, R. D. Borys, D. Lowenthal, and M. A. Wetzel |
| 9:30 AM | 8.6 | Dynamic forcing and mesoscale variability of heavy precipitation events over the Sierra Nevada mountains
Heather Dawn Reeves, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. L. Lin and R. Rotunno |
| 9:45 AM | 8.7 | Three-dimensional microphysical and dynamical structures of winter storms in the U.S. Pacific Northwest: 3-year radar climatology and comparisons between operational weather radar observations and regional mesoscale model output
Sandra E. Yuter, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and B. A. Colle, M. J. Payne, and Y. Lin |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday, White Mountain Room
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Waterville Room
Session 9 Orographic, Coastal and Other Thermally Driven Mesoscale Circulation Systems |
Chair: Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV
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| 10:30 AM | 9.1 | Explaining the large drying ratios observed in flows past Patagonia
Daniel Kirshbaum, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith |
| 10:45 AM | 9.2 | Mesoscale Modeling of Urban Circulation Forced by Airflow and Urban Heat Island
Albert F. Kurbatskiy, Novosibirsk State University, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia |
| 11:00 AM | 9.3 | Using diurnal surface pressure variations to study valley circulation
Yanping Li, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith and V. Grubisic |
| 11:15 AM | 9.4 | Mesoscale variations in surface heat fluxes over Lake Erie pack ice
David A. R. Kristovich, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and M. L. Spinar, M. R. Hjelmfelt, and W. J. Capehart |
| 11:30 AM | 9.5 | The impact of soil moisture perturbations on the initiation of convection over West Africa
Matthew F. Garvert, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC; and C. Taylor and P. Harris |
| 11:45 AM | 9.6 | Mesoscale circulations driven by subvisible cirrus near the tropical tropopause
Dale Durran, University of Wasington, Seattle, WA; and M. Ammerman |
| 12:00 PM | 9.7 | Boundary-layer energy transport and cumulus development over a heated mountain
Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday, Main Dining Room
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Wednesday, Waterville Room
Session 10 Extratropical Cyclones, winter storms |
Chair: Sandra E. Yuter, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
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| 1:30 PM | 10.1 | Whither the study of midlatitude fronts and cyclones?
Mark T. Stoelinga, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 2:00 PM | 10.2 | Mesoscale analysis of nor'easter of December 9, 2005
Frank P. Colby Jr., Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell, MA |
| 2:15 PM | 10.3 | Mesoscale Aspects of the 2007 St. Patrick's Day Storm
Michael Fitzsimmons, NOAA/NWS, Caibou, ME; and T. Lericos |
| 2:30 PM | 10.4 | A comparison of mesoscale band life cycle during three recent northeast U.S. snowstorms
David R. Novak, NOAA/NWS, Bohemia, NY; and B. A. Colle and S. E. Yuter |
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| 2:45 PM-3:15 PM, Wednesday, White Mountain Room
Coffee Break |
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| 3:15 PM-4:30 PM, Wednesday, Waterville Room
Session 11 Mulitscale processes, atmospheric waves |
Chair: Robert Fovell, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
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| | 11.1 | Case study analysis of convectively-generated gravity waves
Jeffrey M. Chagnon, University of Reading, UK, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and S. Gray |
| 3:15 PM | 11.2 | A closer look at damaging surface winds associated with mesoscale gravity waves
Timothy A. Coleman, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. Knupp |
| 3:30 PM | 11.3 | Multiscale interactions in a lake-effect snowstorm
Michael L. Spinar, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich |
| 3:45 PM | 11.4 | Model simulation and remote sensing of bore and solitary wave mixing processes
Steven Koch, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and M. Pagowski, B. Geerts, and K. M. Bedka |
| 4:00 PM | 11.5 | Do auroral atmospheric gravity waves influence mesoscale processes, extratropical and tropical cyclones?
Paul Prikryl, Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and D. B. Muldrew and G. J. Sofko |
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| 4:30 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday, White Mountain Room
Poster Session 2 Poster Viewing/reception |
| | P2.1 | Atmospheric waves associated with a valley of Lantau Island: observation, theory and numerical simulation
P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China |
| | P2.2 | Cross-mountain airflow as observed from flight data recorder (FDR) data of transport category commercial aircraft
P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China |
| | P2.3 | Impact of the Southern Appalachian Mountains on the SEMPE IOP-4 event
Douglas K. Miller, Univ. of North Carolina, Asheville, NC; and C. J. McCall |
| | P2.4 | The historic Christmas 2004 south Texas snow event: Diagnosis of the heavy snow band
Ronald F. Morales Jr., NOAA/NWS, Corpus Christi, TX |
| | P2.5 | The 8 December, 2006 banded snow event
John W. Cannon, NOAA/NWS, Gray, Maine |
| | P2.6A | On rainfall distribution in areas of complex topography
Mimi Hughes, UCLA DAOS, Los Angeles, CA; and A. Hall |
| | P2.6 | Orographically-induced stratospheric turbulence in complex upper-level jet structures
Chad J. Ringley, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and M. L. Kaplan and Y. L. Lin |
| | P2.7 | Observed and simulated kinematic, thermodynamic, and microphysical structure of generating cells in a wide cold-frontal rainband
P. Ola G. Persson, CIRES and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and J. W. Bao, D. P. Jorgensen, E. Sukovich, D. E. Kingsmill, S. A. Braun, and M. Han |
| | P2.8 | Synoptic-scale and Mesoscale environments conducive to forest fires during the October 2003 extreme fire event in southern California
Chenji Huang, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; and Y. L. Lin and M. L. Kaplan |
| | P2.9 | Mesoanalysis of the Interactions of Precipitating Convection and the Boundary Layer
Ruiyu Sun, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. K. Krueger |
| | P2.10 | Impact of topographic variations on mountain waves and rotors
James Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and Q. Jiang |
| | P2.11 | Lake-Effect Precipitation Bands associated with Small Lakes
Neil F. Laird, Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY; and J. Desrochers, N. Hodas, M. Payer, and R. Sobash |
| | P2.12 | Explaining microphysical and thermodynamic variation in BAMEX MCSs using high-resolution radar and optical array probe measurements
Andrea M. Smith, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. M. Rauber, G. McFarquhar, B. F. Jewett, and J. A. Grim |
| | P2.13 | The imperfect relationship between dryline intensity and mesoscale confluence
Christopher C. Weiss, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and D. M. Schultz |
| | P2.14 | Storm structures and precipitation characteristics of snow events in the southern Appalachian Mountains
Sandra E. Yuter, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and L. B. Perry |
| | P2.15 | An observational study of thermally-forced, orographic energy transport and cumulus development
Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and C. Demko, Q. Miao, and L. Oolman |
| | P2.16 | Resonant wave-wave instability and wave breaking in flows past simple and complex terrain profiles
Craig C. Epifanio, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and D. J. Muraki |
| | P2.17 | Performance of the WRF-ARW in the Complex Terrain of Salt Lake City
Jeffrey E. Passner, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM |
| | P2.18 | The Influence of the Great Lakes on Northwest Snowfall in the Southern Appalachians
Robbie Martin Munroe, the University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville, NC; and D. Miller, B. Holloway, D. G. Lackmann, L. B. Perry, and C. E. Konrad |
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| 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Wednesday, Main Dining Room
Dinner |
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| Thursday, 9 August 2007 |
| 7:00 AM-8:30 AM, Thursday, Main Dining Room
Breakfast |
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| 8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday, Waterville Room
Session 12 BAMEX |
Chair: David Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
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| 8:00 AM | 12.1 | The long-lived MCV of 10–13 June 2003: A possible example of an incipient tropical disturbance over land?
Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart |
| 8:15 AM | 12.2 | Mesovortices Formed within Bow Echoes: Their Genesis and Sensitivity to the Environment and System Cold Pool
Nolan T. Atkins, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT; and M. St. Laurent |
| 8:30 AM | 12.3 | Derecho and MCS Interactions During BAMEX
Nicholas D. Metz, Univ. at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart |
| 8:45 AM | 12.4 | Gravity waves trapped under the leading anvil of an MCS during BAMEX
Benjamin C. Baranowski, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and M. D. Parker and B. A. Storm |
| 9:00 AM | 12.5 | High-resolution observations of the rapid development and decay of the 29 June 2003 squall line during BAMEX
Joseph A. Grim, Univ. of Illinois, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Rauber, G. M. McFarquhar, B. F. Jewett, and D. P. Jorgensen |
| 9:15 AM | 12.6 | WRF simulations of a severe squall line: comparison against high-resolution BAMEX observations
Bryan A. Guarente, Univ. of Illlinois, Urbana, IL; and B. F. Jewett, G. McFarquhar, R. M. Rauber, and D. P. Jorgensen |
| 9:30 AM | 12.7 | Airborne dual-Doppler radar observations of a bow echo over Minnesota on 3 July 2003 during BAMEX
David Lerach, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton |
| 9:45 AM | 12.8 | Environmental conditions that are favorable for severe wind production from elevated/nocturnal convective systems
Morris Weisman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. H. Bryan |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday, White Mountain Room
Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Waterville Room
Session 13 Atmospheric Convection |
Chair: Stanley B. Trier, NCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 10:30 AM | 13.1 | Comparisons of Simulated Convective Clouds between a 1D Cloud Model and the WRF Model
Yang-Cheng Hsiao, National Central University, Chung-Li, Taiwan; and S. -. H. Chen |
| 10:45 AM | 13.1 | Predicting the development of the Hector convective system with WRF and UM models
Charles Chemel, Centre for Atmospheric & Instrumentation Research, Hatfield, Herts, United Kingdom; and M. R. Russo, J. A. Pyle, and R. S. Sokhi |
| | 13.2 | The initiation and maintenance of convection along synoptically-quiescent drylines
Katherine L. Horgan, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and C. C. Weiss |
| 11:00 AM | 13.3 | Environmental atmospheric conditions under which a tornado formed over Hokkaido Island, Japan on 7 Nov. 2006, detected from a supercell reproduced by a cloud-resolving model
Teruyuki Kato, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Niino |
| 11:15 AM | 13.4 | A case study of convectively-induced clear air turbulence
Robert G. Fovell, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and R. D. Sharman and S. B. Trier |
| 11:30 AM | 13.5 | Numerical simulations of tornado-producing supercell storm and tornado associated with Typhoon Shanshan (2006)
Wataru Mashiko, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday, Main Dining Room
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Waterville Room
Session 14 Dynamics and Structure of Mesoscale Precipitation Systems 1 |
Chair: Nolan T. Atkins, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT
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| 1:30 PM | 14.1 | Impact of the initial convective arrangement on simulated MCS development
Israel L. Jirak, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton |
| 1:45 PM | 14.2 | Characteristics of MCS cold pools in Oklahoma
Michael C. Coniglio, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and N. Engerer |
| 2:00 PM | 14.3 | Response of simulated squall lines to low-level cooling
Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC |
| 2:15 PM | 14.4 | Investigation of mesoscale pressure and temperature transients associated with bow echoes
Rebecca D. Adams, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. H. Johnson |
| 2:30 PM | 14.5 | Evolution and maintenance of simulated quasi-stationary mesoscale convective systems
Russ S. Schumacher, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. H. Johnson |
| 2:45 PM | 14.6 | Using high-resolution numerical simulations to understand the role of the Rocky mountain cordillera on the initiation of long-lived precipitation episodes
S. B. Trier, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. A. Davis and R. E. Carbone |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, White Mountain Room
Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Waterville Room
Session 15 Dynamics and Structure of Mesoscale Precipitation Systems 2 |
Chair: Matthew D. Parker, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
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| 3:30 PM | 15.1 | A study of models and microphysical representations using WRF, MM5, and observational data for the December 13-14 IMPROVE-2 event
Robert S. Hahn, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and B. F. Smull, C. F. Mass, M. F. Garvert, and R. C. Steed |
| 3:45 PM | 15.2 | Numerical simulations of the formation of melting-layer cloud
Kazuaki Yasunaga, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change/ Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan; and M. Yoshizaki and A. Hashimoto |
| 4:00 PM | 15.3 | Effects of baroclinicity on stratiform rain production and storm divergence in the subtropics
Larry J. Hopper Jr., Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and C. Schumacher |
| 4:15 PM | 15.4 | Mesoscale environment associated with Mediterranean heavy precipitating events
Didier Ricard, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and V. Ducrocq, R. Bresson, and L. Auger |
| 4:30 PM | 15.5 | An Investigation of Mesoscale Precipitation Distribution Sensitivity to Cyclone Tracks in the Complex Terrain of California
Barrett Smith II, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. -. L. Lin |
| 4:45 PM | 15.6 | Simulation of Monsoon Precipitation over South Asia using RegCM3
Abdul Basit Jilani, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Mexico DF, Mexico; and S. S. Raza and N. Irfan |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday, Main Dining Room
Dinner |
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