Session 16 NWP and data assimilation in complex terrain

Thursday, 21 August 2014: 3:45 PM-6:00 PM
Kon Tiki Ballroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)
Host: 16th Conference on Mountain Meteorology
Chair:
Zhaoxia Pu, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Papers:
3:45 PM
16.1
Ensemble sensitivity analysis: performance and mitigation over mesoscale complex terrain
Josh Hacker, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. Lei
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM
16.2
Sub-kilometer simulation of terrain-disrupted airflow at the Hong Kong International Airport – Aviation applications and inter-comparison with LIDAR observations
K.K. Hon, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and P. W. Chan
Recorded Presentation

Paper 16.3 moved to Poster 83

4:15 PM
16.3A
Predictability and error growth in medium-range forecasts of the 1 December 2011 Wasatch Windstorm
John Lawson, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and J. Horel
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
16.4
Application of the WRF-IBM model to mountainous terrain
Jingyi Bao, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and F. K. Chow and K. A. Lundquist
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
16.5
Simulations of meso-gamma-scale circulations near Granite Peak, Utah with NCAR's WRF-based 4DWX system and assimilated airborne lidar data from the MATERHORN 2012 field campaign
Jason Knievel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Liu, S. F. J. De Wekker, W. Y. Y. Cheng, Y. Liu, and J. C. Pace
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM
16.6
Development of an orographic rain enhancement parameterisation
Samantha Smith, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and S. Vosper and P. Field
Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM
16.7
Improvements in modeling California's Tule Fog
Travis Wilson, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and R. Fovell
Recorded Presentation

5:30 PM
16.8
A comparison of surface-layer implementations over steep terrain
Craig C. Epifanio, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and Y. Li, J. I. Barnum, and C. Renaud

5:45 PM
16.9
Developing sub-domain verification methods based on Geographical Information System (GIS) tools
Jeffrey A. Smith, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, WSMR, NM; and T. A. Foley and J. W. Raby
Manuscript (839.7 kB)

Handout (4.7 MB) Handout (4.7 MB)

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