Session 9 |
| Mesoscale Modeling |
| Chair: Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB Canada
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| 8:30 AM | 9.1 | Meso-scale spectral model simulations over the San Jacinto Mountain region Shyh-Chin Chen, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and F. Fujioka, J. Benoit, and H. M. Juang |
| 8:45 AM | 9.2 | Further Oklahoma field evaluations of PB-Piedmont, a mesoscale model for nighttime smoke dispersion J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and G. L. Achtemeier |
| 9:00 AM | 9.3 | Progress made towards including wildfires in real-time cloud resolving forecasts at NOAA/ESRL and examining its impact upon weather and air quality Steven E. Peckham, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Grell, T. G. Smirnova, S. G. Benjamin, S. A. McKeen, M. Stuefer, S. R. Freitas, and K. Longo |
| 9:15 AM | 9.4 | Verification of short-range ensembles for fire threat days over the Northeast U.S Brian A. Colle, Stony Brook University / SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and J. Pollina and J. J. Charney |
| 9:30 AM | 9.5 | The impact of mesoscale PBL parameterizations on the evolution of mixed-layer processes important for fire weather Joseph J. Charney, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and D. Keyser |
| 9:45 AM | 9.6 | Impact of smoke from the ALASKA 2004 wildfires on radiation and cloud microphysics using WRF-Chem Georg A. Grell, NOAA ESRL, and CIRES, Boulder, CO; and S. Freitas, M. Steufer, K. Longo, A. Kutchinsky, and S. E. Peckham |