Session 2 MAP: Gravity Waves and PV Banners

Tuesday, 8 August 2000: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Host: Ninth Conference on Mountain Meteorology
Organizer:
Dale R. Durran, Univ. of Washington, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA

Papers:
1:30 PM
2.1
Gravity Waves over Mt. Blanc
Robert B. Smith, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT; and S. T. Skubis, J. D. Doyle, A. S. Broad, H. Volkert, and C. Kiemle

1:45 PM
2.2
Lee Waves Generation over Complex Topography
James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. B. Smith, S. T. Skubis, and G. S. Poulos

2:00 PM
2.3
Observations of potential vorticity banners during the Mesoscale Alpine Programme
Louisa B. Nance, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. L. Attie, B. Benech, B. R. Colman, J. D. Doyle, C. N. Flamant, V. Grubisic, J. Pelon, F. M. Ralph, R. Rotunno, C. Schär, R. B. Smith, and R. Steinacker

2:15 PM
2.4
Comparison of in-situ PV banner observations against high-resolution numerical simulations during MAP
Christoph Schär, Federal Institute of Technology, Climate Research, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and M. Sprenger, D. Lüthi, R. Benoit, and Q. Jiang

2:30 PM
2.5
Bora driven PV banners over the Adriatic
Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV

2:45 PM
2.6
The Mystery of the Mistral
Qingfang Jiang, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith and J. D. Doyle

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