| Session 7 | 
|  | Fundamental studies of turbulence: observations, theory, and models (Parallel with Session 8) | 
|  | Organizer: D. Keith Wilson, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH 
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|  | 8:00 AM | 7.1 | 50 Years of the Monin-Obukhov Similarity Theory    Thomas Foken, University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
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|  | 8:30 AM | 7.2 | Measurements of the von Kármán constant in the atmospheric surface layer—further discussion    Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and K. J. Claffey, C. W. Fairall, A. A. Grachev, P. S. Guest, R. E. Jordan, and P. O. G. Persson
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|  | 8:45 AM | 7.3 | Variability of turbulence in the low-level nocturnal jet during CASES-99    Rod G. Frehlich, University of Colorado/CIRES, Boulder, CO; and Y. Meillier, M. L. Jensen, and B. B. Balsley
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|  | 9:00 AM | 7.4 | The spectral composition of fluxes and variances over land and sea    Donald H. Lenschow, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Sun
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|  | 9:15 AM | 7.5 | Surface layer turbulence during a frontal passage   Mark Piper, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. K. Lundquist
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|  | 9:30 AM | 7.6 | Small scale turbulence modulation by ducted gravity waves above the stable nocturnal boundary layer    Yannick Meillier, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. G. Frehlich, R. M. Jones, and B. B. Balsley
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|  | 9:45 AM | 7.7 | On the Budget of Turbulence Kinetic Energy in the Unstable Atmospheric Surface Layer   K. G. McNaughton, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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|  | 10:00 AM |  | Coffee Break 
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|  | 10:15 AM | 7.8 | On Reynolds averaging and the zero integral scale constraint   George Treviño, CHIRES, Inc, San Antonio, TX; and E. L. Andreas
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|  | 10:30 AM | 7.9 | Nonstationarity of convective boundary layer growth in a heterogeneously stratified, shear-free atmosphere    Evgeni Fedorovich, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. Conzemius and A. M. Shapiro
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|  | 10:45 AM | 7.10 | Mesoscale Model Investigation of Air-sea Interactions and Associated Tropical Cyclone Activity over the Gulf of Mexico    R. Suseela Reddy, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and A. Schwartz
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|  | 11:00 AM | 7.11 | Evaluation of turbulence models for large-eddy simulations of flow over Askervein hill    Fotini Katopodes Chow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and R. L. Street
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|  | 11:15 AM | 7.12 | Coherent vortical structures in large-eddy simulations of buoyant plumes in a crossflow Philip Cunningham, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
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|  | 11:30 AM | 7.13 | Coherent structures and subfilter-scale dissipation in LES: A field study    Matthew A Carper, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; and F. Porté-Agel
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|  | 11:45 AM | 7.14 | A stochastic model for turbulent vertical transport   Scott Wunsch, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA; and A. R. Kerstein
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|  | 12:00 PM | 7.15 | A coarse-grain, quasi-normal model of stably stratified turbulent flows and its implementation in Κ - ε modeling of atmospheric ABLs    Boris Galperin, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL; and S. Sukoriansky and V. Perov
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