Session: Roughness Sublayer Turbulence: Vegetative Canopies (Joint between 17BLT and 27AgForest) (17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 27th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, and the 17th Conference on Biometeorology and Aerobiology)

Tuesday, 23 May 2006: 8:15 AM-11:15 AM

Kon Tiki Ballroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Hosts: (Joint between the 17th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence; and the 27th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology )

Chair:

Edward G. Patton, NCAR, Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, Boulder, CO

Papers:

8:15 AM

J2.1

Eddy structure near the plant canopy interface

Roger H. Shaw, University of California, Davis, CA; and J. J. Finnigan, E. G. Patton, and L. Fitzmaurice

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (313.6 kB)

8:30 AM

J2.2

Numerical investigation of coherent structures in a forest edge flow

Sylvain Dupont, INRA , UR1263 EPHYSE, Villenave d'Ornon, France; and Y. Brunet

Recorded presentation

8:45 AM

J2.3

Large-Eddy Simulation of the Roughness Sublayer within and above Forest Canopies and Its Transition to the Outer Regions of the Atmospheric Boundary Layers

Hong-Bing Su, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC; and E. G. Patton

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (720.2 kB)

9:00 AM

J2.4

Flow simulation of turbulent and mean advective velocity and scalar fields across a canopy edge

Young-San Park, University of California, Davis, CA; and K. T. Paw U

Presentation PDF (201.7 kB)

9:15 AM

J2.5

Impact of an imposed wall-jet on canopy turbulence and the net ecosystem-atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide

Shaolin Mao, National Institute for Global Environmental Change, and Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA; and E. G. Patton, Z. G. Feng, and E. E. Michaelides

Recorded presentation

9:30 AM

J2.6

The impact of a dense canopy on the wind profile and evolution of the boundary layer

Ian N. Harman, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Canberra, Australia; and J. J. Finnigan

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (313.3 kB)

9:45 AM

J2.7

Flow Structure and Turbulence in a Model Plant Canopy

Weihong Zhu, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and R. van Hout and J. Katz

Presentation PDF (1.1 MB)

10:00 AM

J2.8

Comparing spectra and cospectra in nearly flat terrain with those in the roughness sublayer above the Amazon forest

Osvaldo Luiz Leal De Moraes, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brazil; and D. R. Fitzjarrald, O. C. Acevedo, R. K. Sakai, M. Czikowsky, R. Da Silva, H. Zimermann Sr., and L. E. Medeiros

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (2.3 MB)

10:15 AM

J2.9

A turbulence kinetic energy budget analysis in a windtunnel model canopy

Wusi Yue, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and W. Zhu, C. Meneveau, M. B. Parlange, H. S. Kang, and J. Katz

Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (196.1 kB)