Session 4 Convective Boundary Layers (Bls)

Wednesday, 9 August 2000: 10:15 AM-4:45 PM
Host: 14th Symposium on Boundary Layer and Turbulence
Organizers:
Bert Holtslag, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen and Bjorn Stevens, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Papers:
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
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

12:00 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

12:15 PM
4.9
Convective Transport Theory and Counter-Difference Fluxes
Roland B. Stull, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and E. Santoso

12:30 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

12:45 PM
4.11
Post-frontal air mass modification
Jeffrey M. Freedman, SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. R. Fitzjarrald and K. E. Moore

1:00 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

1:15 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

1:30 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

1:45 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

2:00 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

2:15 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

2:30 PM
4.6a
Discussion

2:45 PM
4.12a
Coffee Break

3:15 PM
4.6b
Lunch Break

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