Session 4 Gravity Wave, Mechanically Forced Flows and Orographic Precipitation (INVITED)

Monday, 3 August 2015: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Republic Ballroom AB (Sheraton Boston )
Host: 16th Conference on Mesoscale Processes
Cochairs:
Todd P. Lane, The University of Melbourne, School of Earth Sciences & ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, Melbourne, Victoria and Alison D. Nugent, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO

Papers:
4:00 PM
4.1
Gravity waves in moist baroclinic jet-front systems: characterization, dynamics, and their impacts on momentum transport, convective initiation/modulation, and mesoscale predictability (INVITED)
Fuqing Zhang, Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and J. Wei and Y. Sun
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
4.2
An investigation of a midlatitude lower stratospheric gravity wave “valve layer”
Christopher G. Kruse, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
4.3
Simulations of Convectively-Induced Turbulence based on a Radar-Based Climatology of Tropical Storm Types
Katelyn Barber, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and G. Mullendore and M. Poellot
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM
4.4
Evaluating the influence of ice microphysics on an idealized simulation of orographic precipitation
Annareli Morales, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Posselt and S. A. Tushaus
Recorded Presentation

4.5
Could artificial mountains enhance precipitation in a subtropical desert climate?

5:15 PM
4.5A
Which of internal dynamics or radiation effect dominates diurnal variability of mature Hurricane Edouard (2014)?
Xiaodong Tang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China; and F. Zhang, E. B. Munsell, C. Melhauser, and Y. Weng
Recorded Presentation

Handout (3.9 MB)

5:30 PM
4.6
Factors Influencing Orographic Precipitation for Uniform Flow over a Two-Dimensional Mountain: Variations in Basic Flow Speed and CAPE
Gökhan Sever, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC; and Y. L. Lin
Recorded Presentation

5:45 PM
4.7
Large-eddy simulations of diurnally heated airflow over idealized terrain
Daniel J. Kirshbaum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Recorded Presentation

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