Ninth Conference on Mountain Meteorology
    

Session 6

 Lee-side phenomena: Wakes and Downslope Winds
 Organizer: Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV
1:30 PM6.1Regimes of orographic flow and direction of the drag couple on the rotating earth  
Haraldur Ólafsson, Univ. of Iceland, Icelandic Meteorological Office and Institute for Meteorological Research, Reykjavík, Iceland
1:45 PM6.2Lee vortex formation in stratified flow over 3d ridges  
Craig C. Epifanio, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. R. Durran
2:00 PM6.3Simulation of transient eddies and flow separation over the Isle of Arran  
Jutta Thielen, UMIST, Manchester, United Kingdom; and A. Gadian, S. Vosper, and S. Mobbs
2:15 PM6.4Observation of Terrain-Induced Windshear around Hong Kong International Airport under stably stratified conditions  
S.Y. Lau, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong; and C. M. Shun
6.5Gap winds and downslope winds  
Eugene Petrescu, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran
2:30 PM6.5AMeasurement of the mountain drag on South Georgia  
Stephen Mobbs, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and P. Anderson
2:44 PM6.6A Mountain Wave Event West of the Colorado Park Range  
Christopher N. Jones, NOAA/NWS, Grand Junction, CO; and J. D. Colton, R. McAnelly, and M. P. Meyers
2:59 PMCoffee Break  
3:14 PM6.7Forecasting downslope windstorms at Boulder, Colorado: The empirical-statistical approach revisited  
Pete Leptuch, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. M. Brown, H. B. Bluestein, E. Thaler, and M. Richman
3:29 PM6.8Diurnally Driven Summertime Winds in the Lee of the Sierra: the Washoe Zephyr  
David Kingsmill, DRI, Reno, NV
3:44 PM6.9Sundowners: Santa Ynez Mountains Downslope Lee Heating Wind Events  
Erik Klimczak, San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA; and C. E. Dorman

Wednesday, 9 August 2000: 1:30 PM-3:59 PM

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