15th Conference on Boundary Layer and Turbulence

Session 15: Boundary Layers over Heterogeneous Surfaces

Friday, 19 July 2002: 8:30 AM-12:15 PM
Organizer:  Walter D. Bach Jr., Army Research Office
Papers:
  8:30 AM
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
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

Poster PDF (204.1 kB)
  9:00 AM
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

Poster PDF (79.9 kB)
  9:15 AM
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

Poster PDF (116.3 kB)
  9:30 AM
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
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

Poster PDF (326.0 kB)
  10:00 AM
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

http://www.jhu.edu/~dogee/mbp/index.html

Poster PDF (140.9 kB)
  10:15 AM
Large-eddy simulations of thermally induced oscillations in the convective boundary layer
Marcus Oliver Letzel, Univ. of Hannover, Hannover, Germany; and S. Raasch

http://www.muk.uni-hannover.de/~raasch/PALM_group

Poster PDF (216.3 kB)
  10:30 AM
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

Poster PDF (141.1 kB)
  10:45 AM
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

http://www.ecology.uq.edu.au/plawrence.htm

Poster PDF (253.8 kB)
  11:00 AM
Statistical Properties and Characteristics of Boundaries in the ABL
Haldun Karan, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. R. Knupp

  11:15 AM
Turbulent Properties of Momentum Transfer Within the Urban Roughness Sublayer
Ehud Gavze, IIBR, Nes-Ziona, Israel; and E. Fattal and S. Pistinner

http://

Poster PDF (303.6 kB)
  11:30 AM
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

Poster PDF (140.7 kB)
  11:45 AM
Coffee Break