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Sunday, 29 August 2010
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Monument Peak Registration Opens
Monday, 30 August 2010
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday, Monument Peak Registration Continues Throughout the Conference
	9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 1 Weather and the Sierras
Chair: C. David Whiteman, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
9:00 AM Welcoming Remarks by John Horel   9:15 AM 1.1 (Invited Talk) Water Quality Management in Lake Tahoe (CA-NV): The Role of Atmospheric Deposition and Climate Change   Recorded presentation John Reuter, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and S. H. Hackley, S. G. Schladow, G. B. Sahoo, and A. C. Heyvaert 9:45 AM 1.2 A seven-year wind profiler-based climatology of the windward barrier jet and precipitation distributions along California's northern Sierra Nevada   Recorded presentation Paul J. Neiman, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and E. Sukovich, F. M. Ralph, M. Hughes, and J. D. Lundquist 10:00 AM 1.3 Relationships between barrier Jet heights, precipitation distributions, and streamflow in the northern Sierra Nevada   Recorded presentation Jessica D. Lundquist, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. J. Neiman, J. R. Minder, and E. Sukovich 10:15 AM 1.4 High resolution measurement of precipitation in the Sierra   Recorded presentation John Hallett, DRI, Reno, NV
	10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Monday, Alpine Ballroom Foyer Coffee Break
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 2 Orographic Precipitation Part I
Chair: Paul J. Neiman, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
11:00 AM 2.1 The importance of riming for orographic precipitation as revealed by the development of a new bulk microphysical parameterization   Recorded presentation Brian A. Colle, Stony Brook University / SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and Y. Lin 11:15 AM 2.2 Seasonal impact of cloud nucleating aerosols on orographic snowfall   Recorded presentation Stephen M. Saleeby, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton 11:30 AM 2.3 Mesoscale controls on the mountainside rain-snow line   Recorded presentation Justin R. Minder, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran and G. H. Roe 11:45 AM 2.4 Wintertime precipitation in the Australian Alpine Region: Insights from an airmass climatology   Recorded presentation Thomas H. Chubb, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; and S. T. Siems and M. J. Manton
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Silver Peak MountMet Committee Luncheon
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Monday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 3 Orographic Precipitation Part II
Chair: Allen B. White, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 3.1 Application of theory to observed cases of orographically forced convective rainfall   Recorded presentation M. M. Miglietta, Italian National Council of Research/Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Lecce, Italy; and R. Rotunno 1:45 PM 3.2 Under what conditions does embedded convection enhance orographic precipitation?   Recorded presentation Dirk Cannon, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and D. J. Kirshbaum 2:00 PM 3.3 An extension of Smith's linear theory of orographic precipitation—a two layer approach   Recorded presentation Idar Barstad, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway; and F. Schüller 2:15 PM 3.4 Orographic Precipitation in the Tropics: The Dominica Experiment (DomEx)   Recorded presentation Ronald Smith, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT; and D. Kirshbaum 2:30 PM 3.5 Orographic precipitation in the tropics: understanding the convective environment and rainfall statistics   Recorded presentation Alison D. Nugent, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith 2:45 PM 3.6 Measurements of Orographic Cloud and Precipitation over Southern Baffin Island during STAR   Recorded presentation Shannon Elizabeth Fargey, Centre for Earth Observation Science, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; and J. Hanesiak, R. Martin, J. W. Strapp, and M. Wolde
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday, Alpine Ballroom Foyer Coffee Break
	3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Monday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 4 Boundary Layers and Turbulence in Complex Terrain
Chair: Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA
3:30 PM 4.1 An analytic solution for periodic thermally driven flows over an infinite slope—Defant (1949) revisited   Recorded presentation Dino Zardi, University of Trento, Trento, Italy; and S. Serafin 3:45 PM 4.2 Aspects of the surface—and boundary layer structure over a mountain top   Recorded presentation Stephan F.J. De Wekker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and T. Lee, Z. Vecenaj, and M. Kossmann 4:00 PM 4.3 The angle of near-surface wind-turning in weakly stable boundary layers   Recorded presentation Branko Grisogono, Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Croatia; and L. Enger 4:15 PM 4.4 Large eddy simulations of atmospheric vortex streets   Recorded presentation Rieke Heinze, Leibniz University Hanover, Hanover, Germany; and S. Raasch 4.5 Gravity current intrusion originating on a slope   Charles Retallack, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and R. Calhoun and H. J. S. Fernando 4:30 PM 4.5A Daytime heat transfer processes related to slope flows and turbulent convection in an idealized mountain valley   Recorded presentation Stefano Serafin, University of Trento, Trento, Italy; and D. Zardi 4.6 Empirical method for the prediction of mountain wave turbulence   R. D. Sharman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. L. Keller 4:45 PM 4.6A Upstream propagating modes in moist and dry flow over topography   Recorded presentation T. L. Keller, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Steiner, R. D. Sharman, and R. Rotunno 5:00 PM 4.7 The Granite Mountain Atmospheric Sciences Testbed (GMAST): A facility for complex terrain airflow studies   Recorded presentation John C. Pace, U.S Army, Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and C. D. Whiteman and S. Hoch
	5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Monday, Alpine Ballroom B Formal Poster Viewing and Reception
	5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Monday, Alpine Ballroom B Poster Session 1 Monday Poster Session
P1.1 Lagrangian characterization of terrain induced turbulence based on LIDAR observations: flow characteristics and airplane approaches at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA)   Wenbo Tang, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and G. Haller and P. W. Chan   P1.2 The use of an instrumented aircraft in studying the characteristics of terrain-disrupted airflow at the Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA)   P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China   P1.3 The dynamic diagnosis on easterwards moving characteristics and developing mechanism of two Tibetan Plateau Vortex processes   Guangbi He, China Meteorological Academy, Chengdu, SiChuan, China   P1.4 Characteristics of energy transfer and micrometeorology in the atmosphere surface layer over the alpine meadow at Litang on eastern slop of the Tibetan Plateau   Xingbing Zhao, Institute of Plateau Meteorology, China Meteorology Administration, Chengdu, China; and Y. Li   P1.5 Characteristics of the precipitation over the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau   Yueqing Li, Chengdu Institute of Plateau Meteorology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China   P1.6 A Climatology of Snow-to-Liquid Ratio Across The Burlington, Vermont County Warning Area   Conor Lahiff, NOAA/NWSFO Burlington, VT, South Burlington, VT   P1.7 Quantifying lake effect precipitation in the Great Salt Lake Basin   Kristen N. Yeager, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Steenburgh, T. I. Alcott, and N. Laird   P1.8 Orographic processes in Great Salt Lake-Effect snowstorms   Trevor I. Alcott, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh   P1.9 Quantitative comparison of 3-D operational radar observations and model output over the Oregon Cascades   Jeffrey Cunningham, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. E. Yuter and B. A. Colle   P1.10 Cold air damming impacts on snowfall distribution along the eastern Wind River Mountains   Christopher N. Jones, NOAA/NWS, Riverton, WY; and B. E. McDonald and D. A. Wesley   P1.11 An intense spring snowfall event over the northern Colorado mountains   Michael P. Meyers, NOAA/NWS, Grand Junction, CO; and P. Frisbie, J. D. Colton, M. Aleksa, and A. Strautins   P1.12 Upper level trough with tropopause dynamic anomaly from South on Venetian Alps. Difficulties for unsettled weather forecast between two sectors: Dolomites and Pre-Alps   Thierry Robert-Luciani Sr., Agenzia Regionale per la Prevenzione e la Protezione Ambientale, Arabba, Italy   P1.13 Chilean winter precipitation: an exercise in interpolating sparse data onto a national grid   Dominique F. Bastine, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and B. S. Barrett   P1.14 A numerical study of deep three-dimensional mountain waves over the Southern Andes and Drake Passage   Qingfang Jiang, UCAR Visiting Scientist, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Doyle, R. B. Smith, and S. D. Eckermann   P1.15 Characteristics of flow upstream of the central Chilean Andes: an examination of radiosonde data from 2007   Caroline P. Barlow, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD; and B. S. Barrett   P1.16 A Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) rainfall climatology west of the Chilean Andes   Bradford S. Barrett, U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD   P1.17 Development of a new mountain drag parametrization scheme   Helen Wells, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and S. Vosper   P1.18 A simple model for the convective boundary layer development in a mountain valley   Dino Zardi, Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy   P1.20 Beyond Long's solution: exploring the rotating and nonhydrostatic mountain wave regimes   Kevin C. Viner, National Research Council, Monterey, CA; and C. C. Epifanio and J. D. Doyle   P1.19 has been moved. New number 4.6A     P1.21 Effects of surface heat fluxes on downslope wind storms with elevated inversions   Eric D. Skyllingstad, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and C. M. Smith   P1.22 The complex bora flow in the lee of southern Velebit   Ivana Stiperski, Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Zagreb, Croatia; and B. Ivancan-Picek and V. Grubisic   P1.23 Comparison of two windstorm events during the Sierra Rotors Project and Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment   Brian J. Billings, National Research Council, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle   P1.24 Preliminary analysis of a strong mid-Adriatic bora event   Kristian Horvath, Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Zagreb, Croatia; and Z. Vecenaj and B. Grisogono   P1.25 Climatology of bora wind derived from high-frequency wind measurements   Zeljko Vecenaj, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and D. Belusic and B. Grisogono   P1.26 Enhancement of Santa Ana Winds due to wildfire smoke   Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA   P1.27 An overview of the California State University- Mobile Atmospheric Profiling System (CSU-MAPS) for research and education in mountain meteorology   Craig B. Clements, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and A. J. Oliphant P1.28 Dependence of variational 2-m temperature analyses on synoptic situation and underlying terrain   Daniel Tyndall, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel and T. Haiden   P1.28A Mobile radar projects in Colorado mountains   Steven Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Howard, D. J. Gochis, J. Busto, G. Romine, K. Friedrich, M. Meyers, and D. Kann   P1.29 Extratropical control of monsoonal surges into the northern Great Basin   Andrew Joros, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. T. Abatzoglou, J. Favors, B. Tan, and M. L. Kaplan   P1.30 Precipitation efficiency of the Colorado mountains under warmed climate   Rita Nogherotto, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and V. Grubisic, R. M. Rasmussen, C. Liu, K. Ikeda, D. Gochis, D. Yates, F. Chen, M. Tewari, M. Barlage, J. Dudhia, W. Yu, K. Miller, K. Arsenault, G. Thompson, and E. Gutmann   P1.31 An overview of barrier winds off southeastern Greenland during the Greenland Flow Distortion experiment   G. N. Petersen, University of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom; and I. A. Renfrew and G. W. K. Moore   P1.32 Comparative Study of ARIMA, Artificial Neural Network and Wavelet Transform for Electricity Daily Demand Forecasting   Mahdi Zolfaghari, WHOI, Tehran, Iran; and H. Sadeghi   P1.33 Atmospheric transport modelling in mountainous regions using very high resolution meteorological simulations   Delia Arnold, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria; and I. Schicker and P. Seibert   P1.34 Factors affecting wind power production in mountainous terrain   Mark Zagar, Vestas Wind Systems, A/S, Randers, Denmark; and A. Hald Collins, L. Gulstad, S. Hahn, Y. Hristov, C. H. Hu, T. Maric, S. Holm Mogensen, and G. S. Oxley   P1.35 The WINDEX measurement experiment   Kristian Horvath, Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Zagreb, Croatia; and Z. Vecenaj, D. Tomsic, L. Horvath, B. Grisogono, A. Bajic, Z. Zibrat, B. Ivancan-Picek, N. Karadza, A. Bacan, and D. Koracin   P1.36 Lateral acceleration zones in complex terrain   Doug Wesley, Compass Wind, LLC, Denver, CO   P1.37 Wind forecasting challenges in the Canadian Arctic due to terrain effects   Pieter Spyker, EC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and D. Schmidt
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 5 Mountain Waves and Rotors
Chair: Stephan DeWekker, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
8:00 AM 5.1 Trapped lee wave interference over double ridges   Recorded presentation Vanda Grubisic, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and I. Stiperski 8:15 AM 5.2 The T-REX valley wind model intercomparison project: Lessons learned   Recorded presentation Jürg Schmidli, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and B. J. Billings, F. K. Chow, J. D. Doyle, V. Grubisic, T. R. Holt, Q. Jiang, K. A. Lundquist, P. Sheridan, S. Vosper, S. F. J. De Wekker, C. D. Whiteman, A. A. Wyszogrodzki, and G. Zaengl 8:30 AM 5.3 Resonant instability in steady mountain waves: nonconstant background states and nonhydrostatic effects   Recorded presentation Kevin C. Viner, National Research Council, Monterey, CA; and C. C. Epifanio and J. D. Doyle 8:45 AM 5.4 Momentum transport and low-level drag generated by trapped gravity lee waves   Recorded presentation Matthew O. G. Hills, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran 9:00 AM 5.5 Stratospheric mountain waves generated by the southern Andes   Recorded presentation Simon Vosper, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and G. Shutts 9:15 AM 5.6 Inferring Stratospheric Mountain Wave Breaking through Observations at the Tropopause   Recorded presentation Bryan Woods, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. Smith 9:30 AM 5.7 Overview of the Southern Andes—ANtarctic GRavity wave InitiAtive (SAANGRIA)   Recorded presentation David C. Fritts, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and R. B. Smith, J. D. Doyle, and S. Eckermann 9:45 AM 5.8 Sensitivity analysis and predictability characteristics of gravity waves over the Southern Andes   Recorded presentation James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and P. A. Reinecke
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday, Alpine Ballroom Foyer Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 6 Foehn, Boras, and Windstorms
Chair: P. Alexander Reinecke, NRL, Monterey, CA
10:30 AM 6.1 An inversion based instability mechanism for downslope windstorms   Recorded presentation Craig M. Smith, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and E. D. Skyllingstad 10:45 AM 6.2 Comparison of the bora turbulence derived from airborne in-situ measurements with the WRF-ARW simulations   Recorded presentation Zeljko Vecenaj, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and D. Belusic, V. Grubisic, and B. Grisogono 11:00 AM 6.3 Meteorological conditions contributing the crash of a Boeing 737 at DIA   T. L. Keller, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. D. Hall, S. B. Trier, L. B. Cornman, and R. D. Sharman 11:15 AM 6.4A Winds on horizontal scans from Doppler lidar during T-REX   Recorded presentation Aditya Choukulkar, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and R. Calhoun 6.4 WRF simulations of north flow across the Alaska Peninsula: general characteristics of wakes, jets and mountain waves   john M. Papineau, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK 11:30 AM 6.5 An Aleutian Island Wind Event   Recorded presentation Emily Niebuhr, NOAA/NWS, Anchorage, AK 11:45 AM 6.6 The 1962 severe Windstorm in Yorkshire, England   Recorded presentation Ralph Burton, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and S. D. Mobbs
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, Silver Peak ICAM Steering Committee lunch
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch
	1:30 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 7 Air Quality & Fire
Chair: Ron Calhoun, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1:30 PM 7.1 Ozone plume transport patterns across mountain barriers in California and Colorado   Recorded presentation Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. J. Senff, R. J. Alvarez, A. O. Langford, R. M. Hardesty, and S. P. Sandberg 1:45 PM 7.2 The Effect of Thermally-Driven Flows on Anthropogenic and Biogenic Aerosols along the Sierra Nevada Mountains   Recorded presentation Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and W. Shaw, L. Berg, W. Gustafson Jr, R. A. Ferrare, C. Hostetler, and R. Zaveri 2:00 PM 7.3 Pollutant Tansport and Dispersion in Highly Complex Terrain with a NWP – Particle Dispersion Model Combination   Recorded presentation Mathias W. Rotach, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and B. Szintai and P. Kaufmann 2:15 PM 7.4 Vertical transport of ozone by the mountain chimney effect   Recorded presentation A.O. Langford, NOAA/ESRL/CSD, Boulder, CO; and C. J. Senff, R. J. Alvarez II, R. M. Banta, and R. M. Hardesty 2:30 PM 7.5 Frontal impacts on carbon dioxide concentrations at a forested site in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains   Recorded presentation Temple Lee, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and S. DeWekker 2:45 PM 7.6 A dust storm over the elevated Black Rock Desert in northwestern Nevada   Recorded presentation Michael L. Kaplan, DRI, Reno, NV; and R. K. Vellore and J. Lewis 3:00 PM 7.7 The Grass Fires on Slopes Experiment   Craig B. Clements, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and W. E. Heilman 3:15 PM 7.8 Fire behavior observed during a valley wind reversal   Recorded presentation Daisuke Seto, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and C. B. Clements and W. E. Heilman
	3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday, Alpine Ballroom Foyer Coffee Break
	4:00 PM-5:45 PM, Tuesday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 8 Mountain Hydrometeorology
Chair: Richard Rotunno, NCAR, Boulder, CO
8.1 has been moved. New Poster number P1.28A   4:00 PM 8.2 Enhanced precipitation analysis in Alpine catchments by combining a meteorological analysis and nowcasting system with a hydrological model   Recorded presentation Benedikt Bica, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria; and M. Herrnegger, A. Kann, T. Haiden, and H. P. Nachtnebel 4:15 PM 8.3 Sublimation of drifting snow in an Alpine catchment   C.D. Groot Zwaaftink, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Davos, Switzerland; and M. Lehning 4:30 PM 8.4 The characterization of snow coverage ablation patterns in the subalpine forest of the Niwot ridge long-term ecological research site   Heather M. McIntyre, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. G. Barry 4:45 PM 8.5 Meteorological observations of rain/snow transition made on Whistler Mountain during SNOW-V10   Recorded presentation T.D. Fisico, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada; and I. Gultepe, J. M. Thériault, K. L. Rasmussen, A. Laplante, R. E. Stewart, P. I. Joe, G. Isaac, and J. A. Milbrandt 5:00 PM 8.6 Observing, Analyzing and Simulating Snow Surface Temperature for Cross-Country Ski Racing Courses   Recorded presentation Wendy Wagner, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel 5:15 PM 8.7 An alternative approach to predicting snowfall across the Sierra Nevada   Recorded presentation Mark S. Raleigh, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. D. Lundquist
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 9 Climate Change and Terrain-Flow Interactions
Chair: Fotini Katopodes Chow, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA
8:00 AM 9.1 Implications of global climate change over mountain areas of western North America   Recorded presentation Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and R. C. Steed and E. Salathe 8:15 AM 9.2 Simulation of annual snowfall over Colorado using a high resolution mesoscale model and some impacts of climate change using the pseudo climate simulation method   Recorded presentation Roy M. Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Ikeda, C. Liu, D. J. Gochis, J. Dudhia, G. Thompson, D. Yates, F. Chen, M. Barlage, M. Tewari, W. Yu, K. Miller, E. Gutmann, V. Grubisic, and K. R. Arsenault 8:30 AM 9.3 Extreme precipitation events across the Colorado Front Range in future climates   Recorded presentation Kelly M. Mahoney, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. A. Alexander, J. D. Scott, and J. Barsugli 8:45 AM 9.4 Dynamics of Heat Lows over elevated terrain   Recorded presentation Thomas Spengler, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and R. K. Smith 9.5 Equatorial mountain torques and cold surges preconditionning   Sylvain Mailler, CNRS / École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Paris, France; and F. Lott 9:00 AM 9.6 The effects of orography on tropical cyclone structure   Recorded presentation Brian J. Billings, National Research Council, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle 9:15 AM 9.7 The sensitivity of sea and lake breezes to variations in surface and atmospheric state in large-eddy simulations   Recorded presentation Erik T. Crosman, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel 9:30 AM 9.8 Seabreeze Circulations and Offshore Waves Induced by Heating over High Coastal Topography   Recorded presentation Qingfang Jiang, UCAR Project Scientist, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Doyle
	10:00 AM-11:30 AM, Wednesday, Alpine Ballroom B Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	10:00 AM-11:30 AM, Wednesday, Alpine Ballroom B Poster Session 2 Wednesday Poster Session
P2.1 Combined use of headwind ramps and gradients based on LIDAR data in the alerting of low-level windshear   P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China; and K. K. Hon and D. K. Shin   P2.2 On the relationships between precipitation changes and circulation types variations in north west of Iran   Pari-sima Katiraie-Boroujerdy Sr., Islamic Azad University North Tehran Branch Iran, Tehran, Iran; and M. S. Najafi   P2.3 Case studies of wintertime orographic precipitation over the Brindabella catchment in South-Eastern Australia   Thomas H. Chubb, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia   P2.4 Climate change in the high Himalaya: Implications for mountaineers and indigenous communities   John Semple, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. W. K. Moore   P2.5 Utilizing a dual-polarization radar in complex terrain   Michael P. Meyers, NOAA/NWS, Grand Junction, CO; and M. C. Schwitzer, B. A. Lawrence, J. D. Colton, J. R. Pringle, S. Vasiloff, K. Howard, D. Gochis, and J. Busto   P2.6 Orographic impacts on snowfall in a narrow mountain gorge   Jeffery D. Colton, NOAA/NWS, Grand Junction, CO; and J. D. Ramey Jr., T. G. Renwick, M. C. Schwitzer, and M. P. Meyers   P2.7 A numerical study of the boundary layer dynamics inside Arizona's Meteor Crater   Michael T. Kiefer, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and S. Zhong   P2.8 has been moved. New number 6.4A     P2.9 COLPEX; cold air pooling over complex terrain   Bradley Colin Jemmett-Smith, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom   P2.10 Radiative Cooling and Heating within Topography—Parametric studies with a 3D Radiative Transfer Model   Sebastian W. Hoch, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. D. Whiteman and B. Mayer   P2.11 Forecasts during persistent valley cold pools in the Bonneville Basin by the North American Mesoscale Model   H. Dawn Reeves, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. L. Elmore, G. S. Manikin, and D. J. Stensrud   P2.12 Interaction of regional scale drainage flows with the nocturnal stable atmosphere in Arizona's Meteor Crater   Sebastian W. Hoch, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. D. Whiteman, M. Lehner, D. Martinez, and M. Kossmann   P2.13 Evaluation of persistent cold season cold air pools in the Salt Lake Valley, Utah   Christopher J. Ander, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel and C. D. Whiteman   P2.14 Structure of the atmospheric boundary layer in the vicinity of a developing upslope flow system: a numerical model study   Stefano Serafin, University of Trento, Trento, Italy; and D. Zardi   P2.15 has been moved. New number 4.5A     P2.16 Mountain Torques and Jet Stream Modulation   Thomas Spengler, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and I. M. Held   P2.17 Observation and theory of the diurnal continental thermal tide   Yanping Li, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. B. Smith   P2.18 The upslope-downslope flow transition on a basin sidewall   Daniel Martinez, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma, Illes Balears, Spain; and C. D. Whiteman, S. W. Hoch, M. Lehner, and J. Cuxart   P2.19 Forecasting near-surface winds in northern Helmand, Afghanistan   Peter Sheridan, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and S. Bedford and S. Vosper   P2.20 Spatial structure of valley winds and aerosols from airborne Doppler lidar data   Stephan F.J. De Wekker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and K. Godwin, Z. Vecenaj, and G. D. Emmitt   P2.21 Development of a simple model for temperature inversion breakup in a mountainous urban valley   Angela M. Rendón, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia; and J. F. Jiménez, C. A. Palacio, and J. F. Salazar   P2.22 Diagnosis of Effect of Southwesterlies on Tibetan Vortex Moving East   ShuHua Yu, Chengdu Institute of Plateau Meteorology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China   P2.23 The impact of entrainment on trade-wind convection over Dominica   Daniel Kirshbaum, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and R. B. Smith   P2.24 An intercomparison of T-REX mountain wave simulations   James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Gabersek, L. R. Bernardet, J. M. Brown, A. Doernbrack, E. Filaus, V. Grubisic, Q. Jiang, D. Kirshbaum, O. Knoth, S. Koch, I. Stiperski, S. Vosper, and S. Zhong   P2.25 Spectral analysis of the T-REX high-frequency towers data   Zeljko Vecenaj, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and S. F. J. De Wekker and V. Grubisic   P2.26 Exploring the Predictability of Mesoscale cyclogenesis in complex terrain using ensemble data assimilation   P. Alexander Reinecke, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. R. Durran and J. D. Doyle   P2.27 Assessment of explicit filtering and reconstruction turbulence models for large-eddy simulation over complex terrain   Bowen Zhou, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and F. K. Chow   P2.28 Typhoon interaction with the Taiwan topography during the Tropical Cyclone Structure—2008 (TCS-08) experiment   Brian J. Billings, National Research Council, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle   P2.29 Initiation of deep convection at marginal instability in an ensemble of mesoscale models: A case study from COPS   Christian Barthlott, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and R. R. Burton, D. J. Kirshbaum, K. E. Hanley, E. Richard, J. P. Chaboureau, J. Trentmann, B. Kern, H. S. Bauer, T. Schwitalla, C. Keil, Y. Seity, A. Gadian, A. M. Blyth, S. D. Mobbs, C. Flamant, and J. Handwerker   P2.30 Observation of Convection Initiation Processes with a Suite of State-of-the-Art Research Instruments during COPS IOP8b   Andreas Behrendt, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany; and S. Pal, F. Aoshima, M. Bender, A. Blyth, U. Corsmeier, J. Cuesta, G. Dick, M. Dorninger, C. N. Flamant, P. Di Girolamo, T. Gorgas, Y. Huang, N. Kalthoff, S. Khodayar, H. Mannstein, K. Träumner, A. Wieser, and V. Wulfmeyer   P2.31 The impact of surface and boundary-layer conditions on convection-related parameters over mountainous terrain   Norbert Kalthoff, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany; and M. Kohler, C. Barthlott, U. Corsmeier, B. Adler, K. Träumner, L. Krauß, S. Khodayar, S. Mobbs, T. Foken, R. Eigenmann, and P. Di Girolamo   P2.32 Sensitivity of precipitation forecast to the radiative impact of Saharan dust during COPS   Jean-Pierre Chaboureau, University of Toulouse and CNRS, Toulouse, France; and E. Richard, J. P. Pinty, C. Flamant, P. Di Girolamo, C. Kiemle, A. Behrendt, H. Chepfer, M. Chiriaco, and V. Wulfmeyer   P2.33 Initiation of convection over the Black Forest mountains on 12 August 2007 during COPS   Lindsay J. Bennett, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and A. M. Blyth, R. R. Burton, A. M. Gadian, T. M. Weckwerth, A. Behrendt, P. Di Girolamo, M. Dorninger, S. J. Lock, V. H. Smith, and S. D. Mobbs   P2.34 The simulation of a deep convective cloud in complex orography: the 15 July 2007 case from COPS   Ralph Burton, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and A. Gadian, A. M. Blyth, and S. D. Mobbs   P2.35 Aviation Forecast Support for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games   Daryl G. Pereira, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and T. S. Gaines and D. B. Whittle   P2.36A Predictability of orographic convection: high-resolution ensembles from the Unified Model   Kirsty E. Hanley, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and D. Kirshbaum, S. E. Belcher, N. Roberts, and P. A. Clark P2.36 Forecasting mountainside temperature profiles on Whistler Mountain   Lisa N. Erven, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and I. McKendry   P2.37 Inflow and outflow through the Sea-to-Sky Corridor in February 2010: lessons learned from SNOW-V10   Ruping Mo, Environment Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. Zhong, C. Yu, and K. Kwok
	11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Wednesday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 10 Numerical modeling
Chair: James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA
11:30 AM 10.1 Numerical errors in flow over of steep topography: analysis and alternatives   Recorded presentation Katherine A. Lundquist, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and F. K. Chow and J. K. Lundquist 11:45 AM 10.2 Evaluation of the Operational Multiscale Model with Grid Adaptivity (OMEGA) for use in wind energy potential assessment in the Great Basin of Nevada   Recorded presentation K.C. King, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. L. Kaplan, A. Joros, M. Liddle, and E. Uher 12:00 PM 10.3 Comparison of MM5 and WRF models for application to sub-kilometer dynamical downscaling over the complex terrain   Recorded presentation Kristian Horvath, Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Zagreb, Croatia; and D. Koracin, R. Vellore, R. Belu, and T. McCord 12:15 PM 10.4 A case study of very high resolution meteorological modelling in Alpine landscapes using MM5 and WRF   Recorded presentation Irene Schicker, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria; and D. Arnold and P. Seibert 12:30 PM 10.5 Two-dimensional simulations of flow over idealized topography using a spectral element model   Recorded presentation Sasa Gabersek, UCAR/NRL, Monterey, CA; and F. X. Giraldo and J. Doyle 12:45 PM 10.6 High Resoution Modeling of the Apline Flows Using Anelastic Model EULAG   Recorded presentation Bogdan Rosa, Institute of Meteorology and Water Management, Warsaw, Poland; and M. J. Kurowski and M. Ziemianski
	1:00 PM-1:05 PM, Wednesday Sessions end for the day
	7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Sun & Spa Deck Outdoor Barbeque Buffet
Thursday, 2 September 2010
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 11 Cold-Air Pools
Chair: Simon Vosper, Met Office, Exeter United Kingdom
8:00 AM 11.1 Nonstationary drainage flows and the valley cold pool   Recorded presentation Larry Mahrt, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and N. L. Seaman, S. Richardson, and D. R. Stauffer 8:15 AM 11.2 The impact of basin topography on surface layer turbulence - an observational study   Recorded presentation Sharon Zhong, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and P. J. Fu, X. Bian, C. D. Whiteman, and T. Horst 8:30 AM 11.3 The impact of asymmetric solar heating on the cross-basin circulation in Arizona's Meteor Crater   Recorded presentation Manuela Lehner, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and C. D. Whiteman and S. W. Hoch 8:45 AM 11.4 Preliminary results from the COLPEX field campaign   Recorded presentation Peter Sheridan, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and S. Vosper, J. Price, A. N. Ross, and P. A. Clark 9:00 AM 11.5 Cold-air pool detection tools in the Pyrenees valleys   Recorded presentation Josep Ramon Miró, Meteorological Service of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, Spain; and M. Pagès and M. Koßmann 9:15 AM 11.6 Observations of cold air pooling in a narrow mountain valley   Recorded presentation Allison Charland, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and D. Seto and C. B. Clements 9:30 AM 11.7 Atmospheric scale interactions and forecasts on wintertime Intermountain West inversions   Robert Gillies, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and S. Y. Wang, M. Booth, J. H. Yoon, and S. Weaver 9:45 AM 11.8 Persistent Cold-Air Pool Study (PCAPS)—A new field research program to be conducted in Utah's Salt Lake Basin   Recorded presentation C. David Whiteman, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel and S. Zhong
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday, Alpine Ballroom Foyer Coffee Break and Poster Viewing
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 12 Synoptic Climatologies in Complex Terrain
Chair: H. Dawn Reeves, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
10:30 AM 12.1 Climatology, Life Cycle, and Impacts of Intermountain Cyclones   W. James Steenburgh, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and G. L. West, M. E. Jeglum, T. Lee, L. F. Bosart, and T. Painter 10:45 AM 12.2 The Pacific QDO as a natural predictor for the Great Salt Lake elevation   Recorded presentation Shih-Yu Wang, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and R. R. Gillies, J. Jin, and L. E. Hipps 11:00 AM 12.3 A climatology of synoptic forcing for vertical motions over the western United States   Recorded presentation Neil P. Lareau, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel 11:15 AM 12.4 Relationship between radar-estimated precipitation and synoptic weather patterns in the European Alps   Recorded presentation James V. Rudolph, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and K. Friedrich and U. Germann 11:30 AM 12.5 Large-Scale Conditions of Tibet Plateau Vortex Departure   Recorded presentation ShuHua Yu, Chengdu Institute of Plateau Meteorology, Chengdu, Sichuan, China 11:45 AM 12.6 The Greenland plateau jet   Recorded presentation G.W.K. Moore, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and I. A. Renfrew
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday Lunch
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 13 Weather Forecasting
Chair: Michael P. Meyers, NOAA/NWS, Grand Junction, CO
1:30 PM 13.1 Ensemble error growth and the mesoscale predictability of cyclogenesis in the lee of the European Alps   P. Alexander Reinecke, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle 1:45 PM 13.2 Extending atmospheric river research to the Pacific Northwest and rapid response to the Howard Hanson Dam crisis   Recorded presentation Allen B. White, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and G. Carter, F. M. Ralph, C. W. King, I. Jankov, B. R. Colman, L. K. Cook, and H. E. Buehner 2:00 PM 13.3 Forecasting downslope wind storms and spillover precipitation at the Reno, NV National Weather Service forecast office   Recorded presentation Rhett Milne, NOAA/NWSFO, Reno, NV; and C. Smallcomb and J. Wallmann 2:15 PM 13.4 High-resolution weather forecast for an alerting system in the Alps area   Recorded presentation Recorded presentation Raffaele Salerno, Centro Epson Meteo, Cinisello Balsamo, Italy; and A. Perotto, L. De Biase, G. Brusasca, A. Di Guardo, and S. Sterlacchini 2:30 PM 13.5 Predictability and morphology of Great Salt Lake-Effect precipitation   Recorded presentation Trevor I. Alcott, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh and N. Laird 2:45 PM 13.6 Forecast skill of synoptic conditions associated with Santa Ana winds in southern California   Recorded presentation Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and F. M. Fujioka and L. Carvalho
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Alpine Ballroom Foyer Coffee Break
	3:30 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 14 Convection and Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS)
Chair: W. James Steenburgh, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
3:30 PM 14.1 QPF research in low-mountain regions using the COPS data set: Precipitation statistics, predictive skills of models, and the first process study of IOP4b   Recorded presentation Volker Wulfmeyer, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany; and A. Behrendt, H. S. Bauer, and M. Dorninger 3:45 PM 14.2 The role of orography in the regeneration of convection: A case study from the Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study   Recorded presentation Victoria H. Smith, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and S. D. Mobbs, R. R. Burton, M. Hobby, F. Aoshima, V. Wulfmeyer, P. Di Girolamo, R. Bhawar, and E. G. Norton 4:00 PM 14.3 Using the JDC (Joint D-PHASE COPS) observational data set for high resolution analysis and ensemble analysis   Recorded presentation Manfred Dorninger, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and T. Gorgas 4:15 PM 14.5 Characterization of convection dynamics during COPS: A detailed case study and typical cloud structures as seen by satellites   Recorded presentation Hans Volkert, Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany; and K. Schmidt 14.4 Impact of the synoptic situation and topography on the regional atmospheric water budget for the COPS period using COSMO simulations   Romi Sasse, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany; and G. Schädler and M. Bender 4:30 PM 14.6 Assimilation of airborne lidar water vapor observations during COPS   Recorded presentation Evelyne Richard, University of Toulouse and CNRS, Toulouse, France; and M. Grzeschik, S. Bielli, C. Flamant, C. Champollion, and C. Kiemle   14.7 has been moved. New poster number P2.36A   4:45 PM 14.8 Convective intitiation over a heated mountain: mechanisms and predictability   Recorded presentation Daniel Kirshbaum, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom 5:00 PM 14.9 Mesoscale impacts of effective horizontal resolution in a convection-permitting model   Recorded presentation Wolfgang Langhans, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and J. Schmidli and C. Schär 5:15 PM 14.10 Multi-scale analysis of the impact of increased spatial resolution of soil moisture and atmospheric water vapour on convective precipitation   Samiro Khodayar, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany; and G. Schaedler and N. Kalthoff
Friday, 3 September 2010
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Friday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 15 SNOW-V10. Science and Nowcasting of Olympic Weather for Vancouver 2010 Part I
Chair: Doug Wesley, Compass Wind, LLC, Denver, CO
8:00 AM 15.1 Weather forecasts for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games—pre-Games challenges and user requirements in an el Niño season   Recorded presentation Chris Doyle, EC, Vancouver, BC, Canada 8:15 AM 15.2 Overview and utility of the Vancouver 2010 and Snow-V10 monitoring metwork   Paul Joe, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. A. Isaac, C. Doyle, E. Campos, B. Scott, I. Gultepe, S. G. Cober, J. Mailhot, R. McTaggart-Cowan, and J. Milbrandt 8:30 AM 15.3 The development of mountain weather forecasting expertise and the delivery of forecasts during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics   Recorded presentation Andrew Teakles, Meteorological Service of Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and C. Dierking, C. Emond, and B. J. Snyder 8:45 AM 15.4 Nowcasting winter weather in complex terrain—Experiences from SNOW-V10   George A. Isaac, Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Research Section, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. Joe, J. Mailhot, M. E. Bailey, S. Belair, F. S. Boudala, M. Brugman, E. Campos, R. L. Carpenter, S. G. Cober, B. Denis, C. Doyle, D. E. Forsyth, I. Gultepe, T. Haiden, L. Huang, J. A. Milbrandt, R. Mo, R. M. Rasmussen, T. Smith, R. E. Stewart, and D. Wang 9:00 AM 15.5 Precipitation nowcasting during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics: The impact of Diabatic Cooling of Melting Snow on Precipitation Phase and Intensity   Recorded presentation R. M. Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Mo, M. Brugman, T. Smith, G. A. Isaac, P. Joe, J. Milbrandt, J. Mailhot, and B. Denis 9:15 AM 15.6 Analysis of an experimental integrated model for Nowcasting in complex terrain within a coastal region   Laura Huang, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. Isaac, G. Sheng, J. Milbrandt, J. Mailhot, F. Boudala, and I. Gultepe 9:30 AM 15.7 Cloud formations on the Whistler Mountain slopes during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics: two case studies   Recorded presentation Ruping Mo, Environment Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. M. Rasmussen, G. A. Isaac, M. Brugman, T. Smith, J. Hay, A. Erfani, J. Milbrandt, I. Gultepe, F. Boudala, and P. Joe 9:45 AM 15.8 Dynamics of heavy precipitation during Snow-V10   Recorded presentation Mindy Brugman, Environment Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. A. Milbrandt, G. A. Isaac, P. Joe, R. M. Rasmussen, F. S. Boudala, I. Gultepe, R. Mo, E. F. Campos, R. E. Stewart, T. Smith, C. Doyle, P. A. Bergeron, and J. Hay
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Friday, Alpine Ballroom Foyer Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Friday, Alpine Ballroom A Session 16 SNOW-V10. Science and Nowcasting of Olympic Weather for Vancouver 2010 Part II
Chair: Chris Doyle, EC, Vancouver, BC Canada
10:30 AM Student Awards and ICAM 2011   10:45 AM 16.1 The high-resolution numerical weather prediction system for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics   Jocelyn Mailhot, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and B. Denis, A. Erfani, A. Giguere, N. McLennan, R. McTaggart-Cowan, J. Milbrandt, A. Glazer, G. Isaac, and P. Joe 11:00 AM 16.2 The microphysics scheme in the high-resolution numerical weather prediction system for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics   Anna Glazer, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and J. Milbrandt, J. Mailhot, B. Denis, A. Erfani, A. Giguere, N. McLennan, R. McTaggart-Cowan, G. Isaac, and P. Joe 11:15 AM 16.3 Operational evaluation of GEM-LAM 2.5 km and 1.0 km models during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games   André Giguère, Canadian Meteorological Centre, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and B. Denis, A. Erfani, J. Mailhot, N. McLennan, R. McTaggart-Cowan, and J. A. Milbrandt 11:30 AM 16.4 Winter mountain meteorology below and at the RND site during SNOW-V10 Project   Ismail Gultepe, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. A. Isaac and J. Milbrandt 16.5 Improving on numerical model outputs through the use of conceptual models, pattern recognition and local climatology at the Whistler Alpine venue during the 2010 Olympics   Ivan Dubé, Meteorological Service of Canada, EC, Montreal, QC, Canada
	12:00 PM-12:05 PM, Friday Conference Ends

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