Session 4 |
| | Convective Boundary Layers (Bls) |
| | Organizers: Bert Holtslag, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen Netherlands; Bjorn Stevens, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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| 10:15 AM | 4.1 | Airborne radar observations of convective plumes in the boundary layer
David Leon, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY |
| 10:30 AM | 4.2 | Observations of the altitude dependence of the logarithmic width of the distribution of the refractive-index structure parameter in the convective boundary layer
Andreas Muschinski, CIRES/University of Colorado and NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and S. A. McLaughlin |
| 10:45 AM | 4.3 | Observations of the afternoon transition
Alison W. Grimsdell, CIRES/University of Colorado, and NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and W. M. Angevine |
| 11:00 AM | 4.4 | Scalar Budgets in the Convective Boundary Layer
Kenneth J. Davis, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN; and C. Yi, B. W. Berger, R. J. Kubesh, and P. S. Bakwin |
| 11:15 AM | 4.5 | Characteristic length scales for reactants in a convective boundary layer
Jordi Vila-Guerau de Arellano, Wageningen University, Wageningen and KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and H. J. J. Jonker |
| 11:30 AM | 4.6 | Adjoint Retrieval of Wind and Temperature Fields from a Simulated Convective Boundary Layer
Ching-Long Lin, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research and University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and T. Chai and J. Sun |
| 11:45 AM | | Discussion
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| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | 4.7 | Estimating the convective mixed layer height from surface-layer variables
Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and Y. L. Pichugina and C. J. Senff |
| 1:45 PM | 4.8 | Modification of atmospheric surface-layer structure by large-scale convective wind gusts
D. Keith Wilson, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD |
| 2:00 PM | 4.9 | Convective Transport Theory and Counter-Difference Fluxes
Roland B. Stull, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and E. Santoso |
| 2:15 PM | 4.10 | Interactions of Deep Cumulus Convection and the Boundary Layer over the Southern Great Plains
Steven K. Krueger, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. M. Lazarus, Y. Luo, and K. M. Xu |
| 2:30 PM | 4.11 | Post-frontal air mass modification
Jeffrey M. Freedman, SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. R. Fitzjarrald and K. E. Moore |
| 2:45 PM | 4.12 | Using the CASES-97 Data to model land surface heterogeneity
Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Yates, H. Nagai, M. A. LeMone, R. L. Grossman, and K. Ikeda |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 4.13 | A simple model of the convective internal boundary layer and its application to surface heat flux estimates within polynyas
Ian A. Renfrew, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and J. C. King |
| 3:45 PM | 4.14 | A model for Convective Boundary Layer development in an alpine valley
Dino Zardi, University of Trento, Trento, Italy; and A. Spoladore and M. Tubino |
| 4:00 PM | 4.15 | A Lagrangian Footprint Model for Stratifications Ranging from Stable to Convective
Natascha Kljun, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; and M. W. Rotach and H. P. Schmid |
| 4:15 PM | 4.16 | An Advection-Diffusion scheme for the convective boundary layer: description and 1d-results
A. Pier Siebesma, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands; and J. Teixeira |
| 4:30 PM | 4.17 | An evaluation of MM5 surface fluxes and mixing depths during the Nashville Southern Oxidants Studies
Robert J. Zamora, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. -. W. Bao, A. B. White, and M. Trainer |