Session 4 Boundary Layers and Turbulence in Complex Terrain

Monday, 30 August 2010: 3:30 PM-5:15 PM
Alpine Ballroom A (Resort at Squaw Creek)
Host: 14th Conference on Mountain Meteorology
Chair:
Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA

Papers:
3:30 PM
4.1
An analytic solution for periodic thermally driven flows over an infinite slope—Defant (1949) revisited
Dino Zardi, University of Trento, Trento, Italy; and S. Serafin
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM
4.2
Aspects of the surface—and boundary layer structure over a mountain top
Stephan F.J. De Wekker, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and T. Lee, Z. Vecenaj, and M. Kossmann
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM
4.3
The angle of near-surface wind-turning in weakly stable boundary layers
Branko Grisogono, Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, Zagreb, Croatia; and L. Enger
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
4.4
Large eddy simulations of atmospheric vortex streets
Rieke Heinze, Leibniz University Hanover, Hanover, Germany; and S. Raasch
Recorded Presentation

4.5
Gravity current intrusion originating on a slope

4:45 PM
4.5A
Daytime heat transfer processes related to slope flows and turbulent convection in an idealized mountain valley
Stefano Serafin, University of Trento, Trento, Italy; and D. Zardi
Recorded Presentation

4.6
Empirical method for the prediction of mountain wave turbulence

5:15 PM
4.6A
Upstream propagating modes in moist and dry flow over topography
T. L. Keller, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Steiner, R. D. Sharman, and R. Rotunno
Recorded Presentation

5:30 PM
4.7
The Granite Mountain Atmospheric Sciences Testbed (GMAST): A facility for complex terrain airflow studies
John C. Pace, U.S Army, Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and C. D. Whiteman and S. Hoch
Recorded Presentation

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