Session 4A Boundary Layer Parameterizations in Models at All Scales IV

Tuesday, 12 June 2018: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Ballroom E (Renaissance Oklahoma City Convention Center Hotel)
Host: 23rd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence
Chair:
Branko Kosovic, NCAR, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO

Talks 19-26 Tuesday early morning

Papers:
8:00 AM
4A.1
Parameterizing the Vertical Motion of Small Insects in the Convective Boundary Layer
Charlotte E. Wainwright, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. R. Reynolds, P. M. Stepanian, and A. Reynolds
Recorded Presentation

8:15 AM
4A.2
Turbulence Spectra in the Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Yu Cheng, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and Q. Li, S. Argentini, C. Sayde, and P. Gentine
Audio File
Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.5 MB)

8:30 AM
4A.3
Errors in Turbulence Statistics: The Hurst Phenomenon Approach
Bianca L. Crivellaro, Federal Univ. of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil; and N. L. Dias and M. Chamecki
Audio File
Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.2 MB)

8:45 AM
4A.4
The Role of Return-to-Isotropy in Wall-Bounded Flows with Buoyancy
Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and X. Gao, C. Ansorge, and G. G. Katul
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
4A.5
Evaluation of an Algebraic Turbulence Closure Scheme for the Simulations of Dry and Moist Atmospheric Boundary Layers
Xiaoming Shi, Univ. of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and R. M. Enriquez, R. L. Street, F. K. Chow, and G. H. Bryan
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
4A.6
Towards a Solution of the Closure Problem for Non-Homogeneous and Anisotropic Turbulence: Non-Gaussian Closures for Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer Turbulence Based on an Analytically Solvable Multivariate Delta-PDF Model.
Vladimir M. Gryanik, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany; and J. Hartmann
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
4A.7
Sensitivity to Turbulent Prandtl Number, Background Diffusivity, and Interaction of TKE with Cumulus Convection in a TKE-Based EDMF Vertical Turbulent Mixing Scheme
Jongil Han, SRG at NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD
Audio File
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
4A.8
The Performance of Seven WRF Planetary Boundary Layer/Surface Layer Physics Schemes over Complex Terrain
Richard S. Penc, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, WSMR, NM; and J. A. Smith, J. W. Raby, and R. E. Dumais Jr.
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (834.8 kB)

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