Session 9 Orographic, Coastal and Other Thermally Driven Mesoscale Circulation Systems

Wednesday, 8 August 2007: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Waterville Room (Waterville Valley Conference & Event Center)
Host: 12th Conference on Mesoscale Processes
Chair:
Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, NV

Papers:
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
Recorded Presentation

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

Presentation PDF (752.4 kB)

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
Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (333.4 kB)

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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
Recorded Presentation

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