Session 12 |
| | Treatment of Orography in GCMs and NWP Models |
| | Organizer: Melinda S. Peng, NRL, Monterey, CA
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| 10:15 AM | 12.1 | The Parameterization of Drag Induced by Stratified Flow over Anisotropic Orography
John F. Scinocca, Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; and N. A. McFarlane |
| 10:30 AM | 12.2 | Towards a formulation of the impact of mesoscale orographic variability on a cloud-topped PBL for use in GCMs.
Rafael Terra, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and A. Arakawa and C. R. Mechoso |
| 10:45 AM | 12.3 | A new terrain-following vertical coordinate suited for high-resolution NWP models over complex topography
Christoph Schär, Federal Institute of Technology, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 11:00 AM | 12.4 | Model sensitivities affecting long-term simulations of precipitation
Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. E. Bossert, J. R. Stalker, and D. L. Langley |
| 11:15 AM | 12.5 | Surface pressure data analysis in complex terrain
Michael E. Splitt, NOAA/Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and T. Blazek |
| 11:30 AM | 12.6 | Sensitivity experiments with a high resolution data assimilation scheme
Carol M. Ciliberti, NOAA/Cooperative Institute for Regional Prediction and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; and J. D. Horel and S. M. Lazarus |