Session 14B Numerical and Observational Studies: Microscale and Mesoscale Processes over Complex Terrain

Thursday, 16 January 2020: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
258B (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (WAF)/26th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
Cochairs:
Bruce Telfeyan, 557 Weather Wing, Offutt AFB, NE; Heather A. Holmes, University of Nevada, Reno, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Reno, NV and Holly J. Oldroyd, Univ. of California, Davis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Davis, CA

Atmospheric processes occurring over complex terrain pose many challenges for hydrological and meteorological prediction.  These processes are 3-D, multi-scale, and affected by terrain slope, heterogeneous surface roughness, and other land-cover characteristics.  Understanding the physics associated with these processes is critical to predicting a large number of geophysical phenomena (e.g., the timing of snow melt and runoff, glacier-mass balance and retreat, fire weather, etc.).

Papers:
3:30 PM
14B.1
Extreme Events across New Mexico during the 2018 North American Monsoon
Daniel Pagliaro, Pagcore Solutions LLC, Albuquerque, NM; and J. Torres
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.3 MB)

3:45 PM
14B.2
Initializing the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model in Complex Coastal Regions
Eric Allen, Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE; and D. E. Veron
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM
14B.3
Influences of Orography on Banded and Cellular Lake- and Sea-Effect Systems in Idealized Simulations
Thomas M. Gowan, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
14B.4
Improving the Maintenance of Simulated Mountain-Valley Cold Pools within Complex Terrain y Better Representation of Cloud–Radiative Interactions and Turbulent Mixing
Joseph B. Olson, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and J. Kenyon, J. Brown, W. M. Angevine, M. D. Toy, Y. Pichugina, L. Bianco, I. V. Djalalova, and K. Lantz
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
14B.5
Influence of Terrain and Environment on Cold Pools during RELAMPAGO
Holly M. Mallinson, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Urbana, IL; and M. Grover and R. J. Trapp
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
14B.6
Including Advection in Boundary Condition Models of Momentum and Heat for Heterogeneous Stratified Boundary Layers
Jeremy A. Gibbs, NOAA/OAR National Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman, OK; Univ. of Oklahoma, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, Norman, OK; and R. Stoll, G. Q. Torkelson, and T. Harman
Recorded Presentation

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