Session 15 |
| | Forecasting Mountain Weather: Part I |
| | Chair: Michael P. Meyers, NOAA/NWS, Grand Junction, CO
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| 8:30 AM | 15.1 | Climatology of Strong Cold Fronts over the Western United States
W. James Steenburgh, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. C. Shafer |
| 8:45 AM | 15.2 | The mesoscale predictability of terrain induced flows
P. Alexander Reinecke, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran |
| 9:00 AM | 15.3 | Statistical modeling of downslope windstorms in Boulder, Colorado 
Andrew E. Mercer, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. B. Richman, H. B. Bluestein, and J. M. Brown |
| 9:15 AM | 15.4 | An Operational Technique Used to Detect “Mountain Wave Signatures”: A Forecast Methodology for Severe Westerly Winds in the Mountains of West Texas
T. Todd Lindley, NOAA/NWSFO, Lubbock, TX; and C. Lindsey and J. Cupo |
| 9:30 AM | 15.5 | MM5 simulations of diurnal winds and moisture transport in the Mt. Everest area of the Nepal Himalayas: Some initial findings
Yolanda N. Rosoff, City College of New York, New York, NY; and K. Y. Kong and E. E. Hindman |
| 9:45 AM | 15.6 | Influence of Model Resolution in High-Mountain Regions: a Verification against Observations in Selected Case-Studies
Raffaele Salerno, Centro Epson Meteo, Cinisello Balsamo, Italy |