Session 5b Polar Weather Forecasting: Continued (Parallel with Session 5A)

Friday, 18 May 2001: 10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Host: 6th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer:
John Cassano, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Papers:
5b.9
Use of a neural network for a classification of wind regimes in the Central Victoria Land and their relative coupling with the synoptic description provided by the ECMWF model

10:45 AM
5b.10
Katabatic winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica
Thomas H. Nylen, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and A. G. Fountain and P. T. Doran

11:00 AM
5b.11
A simulation of an extreme katabatic wind event
Hubert Gallée, Laboratoire d'étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement, Grenoble, France; and G. Wendler and O. Brasseur

11:15 AM
5b.12
A ceiling and visibility prediction system suitable for Antarctic flight operations
David A. Braaten, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and D. F. Tucker

Presentation PDF (15.9 kB)

11:30 AM
5b.13
A mesoscale model for operative forecast according to ICAO requirement for air navigation: simulation in the Area of Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica
F. Fattori Speranza, National Program Research Antarctica ENEA, Roma, Italy; and P. Coppola, H. Gallée, P. Grigioni, and A. Pellegrini

11:45 AM
5b.14
On the Performance of the AFWA version of the PSU/NCAR MM5 model for short-range forecasting in Alaska, the Western Arctic and North Pacific
Jeffrey S. Tilley, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Long, C. Weatherby, and E. L'Herault

Presentation PDF (87.1 kB)

12:00 PM
5b.15
Climatology and Forecasting Hazaradous Weather in Canada's Northwest Territories and Nunavut
Steve Ricketts, MSC, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and E. Hudson

Presentation PDF (131.9 kB)

12:15 PM
5b.16
Numerical simulation of an Arctic ground blizzard
Stephen J. Déry, McGill University, Montreal, PQ, Canada; and M. K. Yau

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