Session 10A |
| Land Surface and Boundary Layer Effects on Modeling |
| CoChair: Yi Jin, NRL, Monterey, CA
Chair: J. Marc Hidalgo, Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE
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| 1:30 PM | 10A.1 | Convective initiation in a convection permitting simulation: Land surface, PBL, and dynamic forcing James Correia Jr., PNNL, Richland, WA ; and L. R. Leung and R. W. Arritt |
| 1:45 PM | 10A.2 | Idealized simulations of circulations forced by land surface heterogeneity Brian P. Reen, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and D. P. Tyndall, G. S. Young, and D. R. Stauffer |
| 2:00 PM | 10A.3 | Why do long term regional climate simulations have reduced atmospheric moisture and precipitation in the Great Plains? James Correia Jr., PNNL, Richland, WA ; and L. R. Leung |
| 2:15 PM | 10A.4 | An assessment of the North American Mesoscale model forecasts during valley cold pools in the western United States H. Dawn Reeves, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud |
| 2:30 PM | 10A.5 | Sensitivity of a moist PBL turbulence parameterization on the NCEP GFS forecast Jongil Han, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and H. L. Pan |
| 2:45 PM | 10A.6 | Impact of a New Thermal Roughness Length Treatment on the NCEP Global Forecast System (GFS) Helin Wei, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Zheng, J. Meng, M. Ek, K. Mitchell, X. Zeng, and Z. Wang |