Session: Recent Field Experiments (Plains Elevated Convection at Night experiment) PECAN II - The Great Plains Nocturnal LLJ (32nd Conf. on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/22nd Symp. Boundary Layers and Turbulence/ Third Conf. on Atmospheric Biogeosciences (20

Friday, 24 June 2016: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Bryce (Sheraton Salt Lake City Hotel)

Host: 22nd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence

Cochairs:

Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES, Univ. of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO and Evgeni Fedorovich, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK

Papers:

10:30 AM

14B.1

WRF Model Study of the Great Plains Low-Level Jet: Effects of Grid Spacing and Boundary Layer Parameterization

Elizabeth N. Smith, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Gibbs, E. Fedorovich, and T. A. Bonin

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (2.0 MB)

10:45 AM

14B.2

Observations of Low-Level Jets during PECAN

Richard D. Clark, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA; and T. D. Sikora, M. McAuliffe, N. Midzak, M. Green, J. Hane, K. Pozsonyi, C. Prestine, V. Hower, N. Strickland, and D. Bludis

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

14B.3

The Role of the Nocturnal Low-Level Jet in Convection Initiation over Eastern Kansas on 2 June 2015

Joshua G. Gebauer, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Shapiro, E. Fedorovich, and P. Klein

11:15 AM

14B.4

Airborne Measurements of the Dynamics of the 03 June 2015 Great Plains Low-Level Jet

Thomas R. Parish, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

11:30 AM

14B.5

Linkages between boundary layer structure and evolution of the nocturnal low-level jet in the U.S. Central Plains