Session 15 |
| | Boundary Layers over Heterogeneous Surfaces |
| | Organizer: Walter D. Bach, Jr., Army Research Office, Research Triangle Park, NC
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| 8:30 AM | 15.1 | Fluxes over a heterogeneous land surface: Results and perspectives of the LITFASS program
Frank Beyrich, German Meteorological Service, Lindenberg, Germany; and S. H. Richter, U. Weisensee, H. -. J. Herzog, H. A. R. de Bruin, and W. M. L. Meijninger |
| 8:45 AM | 15.2 | Flow and drag mechanisms resulting from the interaction of gravity waves with a turbulent boundary layer 
Maria Athanassiadou, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. R. Brown |
| 9:00 AM | 15.3 | Dependence of regional mixing-height differences on boundary-layer wind speed
Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and A. B. White and W. M. Angevine |
| 9:15 AM | 15.4 | Landscape heterogeneity and regional climatic variability in the east central Amazon region
David R. Fitzjarrald, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and O. L. L. Moraes, R. K. Sakai, R. M. Staebler, O. C. Acevedo, M. Czikowsky, and R. da Silva |
| 9:30 AM | 15.5 | Turbulent and radiative flux divergences in cold pools that form within a high-elevation basin
C. David Whiteman, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. B. Clements and J. D. Horel |
| 9:45 AM | 15.6 | Local scaling of turbulence in the stable internal boundary layer around a coastal headland
Stefan Söderberg, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden; and I. M. Brooks and M. Tjernström |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 15.7 | LES of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer over Heterogeneous Surfaces using a Dynamic Lagrangian SGS Model
Elie Bou-Zeid, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and M. Parlange and C. Meneveau |
| 10:45 AM | 15.8 | Large-eddy simulations of thermally induced oscillations in the convective boundary layer
Marcus Oliver Letzel, Univ. of Hannover, Hannover, Germany; and S. Raasch |
| 11:00 AM | 15.9 | The influence of large-scale soil moisture heterogeneity on wetting and drying planetary boundary layers
Edward G. Patton, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. P. Sullivan and C. H. Moeng |
| 11:15 AM | 15.10 | Using fine scale vegetation, soil and satellite mapping to investigate the impact of heterogeneous land surfaces in CSIRO climate models
Peter J. Lawrence, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| 11:30 AM | 15.11 | Statistical Properties and Characteristics of Boundaries in the ABL
Haldun Karan, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp |
| 11:45 AM | 15.12 | Turbulent Properties of Momentum Transfer Within the Urban Roughness Sublayer
Ehud Gavze, IIBR, Nes-Ziona, Israel; and E. Fattal and S. Pistinner |
| 12:00 PM | 15.13 | Effects of land-use change on local energy, water and carbon balances in an Amazonian pasture
Ricardo K. Sakai, SUNY, Albany, NY; and D. R. Fitzjarrald, O. L. L. Moraes, O. C. Acevedo, M. Czikowsky, R. Silva, R. Staebler, K. E. Moore, and D. Spiess |