Session 12 Treatment of Orography in GCMs and NWP Models

Saturday, 12 August 2000: 10:15 AM-11:45 AM
Host: Ninth Conference on Mountain Meteorology
Organizer:
Melinda S. Peng, NRL, Marine Meteorology Division, Monterey, CA

Papers:
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

- Indicates paper has been withdrawn from meeting
- Indicates an Award Winner