Session: Analysis and Forecasting of Mesoscale Weather Phenomena - II (100th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, 15 January 2020: 3:00 PM-4:00 PM

151A (Boston Convention and Exhibition Center)

Chair:

Andrew C. Winters, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Boulder, CO

Description:

This session will be hosted by the 30th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting (30WAF). We welcome abstracts on phenomena including (but not limited to) snow-banding, drylines and associated circulations, bores, density currents, etc. -- as well as their upscale influence on the larger environment.

Papers:

3:00 PM

10B.1

Mesoscale Modification of Precipitation During Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers by Frontal Cyclogenesis

Andrew C. Martin, Portland State University, Portland, OR; Portland State University, Portland, OR; and A. C. Michaelis

3:15 PM

10B.2

Diabatic Contributions to the Formation and Evolution of Mesoscale Frontal Waves in Atmospheric River Events Along the U.S. West Coast

Allison C. Michaelis, SIO/Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes, La Jolla, CA; and A. C. Martin, B. K. Kawzenuk, and F. M. Ralph

3:30 PM

10B.3

A Case Study of the Physical Processes Associated with the Atmospheric River Initial Condition Sensitivity from an Adjoint Model