Poster Session 2 Mountain Waves, Rotors, Foehn, Wakes and Blocking

Tuesday, 29 August 2006: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Ballroom North (La Fonda on the Plaza)
Host: 12th Conference on Mountain Meteorology
Chair:
Reinhold Steinacker, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, University of Vienna, Vienna

Papers:
P2.1
Numerical simulations of mountain waves and rotors observed during T-REX
Simon Vosper, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and P. Sheridan, S. Mobbs, and R. Burton

P2.2
Moisture and Sierra Waves: Observations and modeling
Qingfang Jiang, UCAR Visiting Scientist, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. D. Doyle

P2.3
UK FAAM BAe-146 research flights during T-REX
Simon Vosper, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and P. Sheridan, P. Brown, D. Kindred, S. Mobbs, R. Burton, J. McQuaid, B. Brooks, A. Woolley, and R. Purvis

P2.4
Sierra Rotors: A comparative study of three mountain wave and rotor events
Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and B. J. Billings

Handout (2.6 MB)

P2.5
Operational forecast support by National Weather Service Forecast Office in Las Vegas, Nevada during the Terrain-Induced Rotor Experiment
Stanley Czyzyk, NOAA/NWSFO, Las Vegas, NV; and K. Runk

Handout (502.3 kB)

P2.6
Hydraulic-jump rotors: Favorable environments for their formation
Rolf F. Hertenstein, Northwest Research Associates CoRA Division, Boulder, CO; and J. P. Kuettner

Handout (835.2 kB)

P2.7
The signature of waves and rotors in wind profiler observations
Stephen A. Cohn, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. O. J. Brown, V. Grubisic, and B. Billings

P2.8
Climatology of westerly wind events in the lee of the Sierra Nevada
Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and M. Xiao

Handout (2.6 MB)

P2.9
The roles of surface heating and cooling in rotor formation
Victoria H. Smith, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and W. Thurston and S. D. Mobbs

P2.10
Observations and high-resolution simulations of a severe turbulence and downslope windstorm event
James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and N. A. Bond and Q. Jiang

P2.11
Three Dimensional Structure of Rotors During T-REX
James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and Q. Jiang

P2.12
A look at the ensemble-mean structure of a breaking mountain wave
Tingting Qian, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and C. C. Epifanio

P2.13
Climatology of mountain waves over eastern Canada
Ivan Dube, MSC, Montreal, QC, Canada

P2.14
Is severe Adriatic bora associated with tropopause fold?
Zvjezdana Bencetic Klaic, Univ. of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and D. Belusic

Handout (1.1 MB)

P2.15
Lee vortex shedding in vertically non-uniform flows
Lucas M. Harris, NOAA/OAR/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and D. R. Durran and G. J. Hakim

P2.16
A Numerical Study of an in-situ Adriatic Mesocyclone: Formation and Development
Kristian Horvath, Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia; and Y. L. Lin and B. Ivancan-Picek

P2.17
Assessing the frictional and baroclinic contributions to stratified wake formation
Jamie B. Smith, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and C. C. Epifanio and T. Qian

P2.18
Application of a microwave radiometer to study terrain-induced airflow disturbances at the Hong Kong International Airport
P. W. Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong, China; and C. M. Shun

Handout (1.5 MB)

P2.19
Synoptic response to mountain gravity waves encountering directional critical levels
Armel Martin, CNRS, Paris, France; and F. Lott

P2.20
The Influence of Transient Mountain Waves on a Localized Barotropic Jet
Dale R. Durran, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. C. Chen and G. J. Hakim

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