Contributions to the AMS MMC/MAP Meeting 17-21 2002 June Park City, UT, USA

For the first time this year the MAP community embedded the annual meeting in the AMS Mountain Meteorology Conference. Since extended abstracts are already contained in the AMS Preprints, this fall issue of the MAP newsletter will be unusually slim: only titles and authors of the presentations are listed. If you do not have the Preprint Volume you can access program, abstracts, and, if available, extended abstracts online at: http://ams.confex.com/ ams/10Mountain/10MntMet/program.htm

 

SESSION 1: PBL STRUCTURE AND CIRCULATIONS I 

1.1VERTICAL TRANSPORT AND MIXING: SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES AND FIELD PROGRAMS (INVITED PRESENTATION). J. C. Doran, PNNL, Richland, WA 

1.2 DOWN-BASIN DRAINAGE JET OBSERVED DURING VTMX: LARGE-SCALE CONTROLS AND EFFECTS ON LOCAL-SCALE FLOWS. Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and L. S. Darby and B. W. Orr 

1.3 THE INTERACTION OF DOWN-VALLEY AND CANYON FLOWS AND THEIR EFFECT ON MEAN VERTICAL MOTIONS IN THE SALT LAKE VALLEY. Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and L. S. Darby and R. M. Banta 

1.4 KATABATIC FLOWS ON A LOW-ANGLE SLOPE IN THE SALT LAKE VALLEY: OVERVIEW OF THE VTMX 2000 SLOPE EXPERIMENT. C. David Whiteman, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Zhong and R. Mayr 

1.5 CIRCULATIONS IN THE SALT LAKE CITY BASIN: THE INFLUENCE OF AIR EXCHANGES WITH ADJACENT BASINS AND CANYONS. Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM  

 

SESSION 2: PBL STRUCTURE AND CIRCULATIONS II 

2.1 RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TRACER BEHAVIOR IN DOWNTOWN SALT LAKE CITY AND BASIN- SCALE WIND FLOW. Lisa S. Darby, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and K. J. Allwine and R. M. Banta 

2.2A GAP FLOW AND VERTICAL MIXING AT THE SOUTHERN END OF THE GSL BASIN (FORMERLY PAPER P1.11). James O. Pinto, Univ. of Colorado and NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. B. Parsons, W. O. J. Brown, S. Cohn, N. Chamberlain, and B. Morley 

2.3 AN EVALUATION OF FINE-SCALE MM5, RAMS, AND MESO ETA SIMULATIONS USING VTMX FIELD CAMPAIGN DATA IN THE SALT LAKE VALLEY. Shiyuan Zhong, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. D. Fast 

2.4 FIELD MEASUREMENTS OF VERTICAL POLLUTION TRANSPORT IN A HIGH ALPINE VALLEY IN SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND. Stephan Henne, Paul Scherrer Instiut, Villigen, Switzerland; and A. S. H. Prévôt, M. Furger, and S. Nyeki 

2.5 THE RELATION BETWEEN SLOPE FLOW SYSTEMS AND CONVECTIVE BOUNDARY LAYERS IN STEEP TERRAIN. Christian Reuten, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and D. G. Steyn, K. B. Strawbridge, and P. Bovis n 

 

SESSION 3: PBL STRUCTURE AND CIRCULATIONS III 

3.1 THE BULK MOMENTUM BUDGET IN KATABATIC FLOW: OBSERVATIONS AND HYDRAULIC MODEL RESULTS. Thomas Haiden, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria; and C. D. Whiteman 

3.2 FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS OF THE "ORA DEL GARDA" VALLEY WIND. Massimiliano de Franceschi, University of Trento, Trento, Italy; and G. Rampanelli and D. Zardi 

3.3A STABLE BOUNDARY-LAYER FLOW OVER HILLS IN THE WIND TUNNEL (FORMERLY PAPER P1.2). Samantha Jane Arnold, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and I. Castro, S. Mobbs, A. Robins, A. Ross, and S. B. Vosper

3.4 ON THE SPATIAL VARIABILITY OF ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION IN AN ALPINE VALLEY. Nicolas Matzinger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; and E. van Gorsel, R. Vogt, A. Ohmura, and M. W. Rotach 

3.5 OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL MODELING OF THE DAYTIME BOUNDARY LAYER STRUCTURE IN THE RIVIERA VALLEY, SWITZERLAND. Stephan F. J. De Wekker, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and D. G. Steyn, M. W. Rotach, J. D. Fast, and S. Zhong n 

 

POSTER SESSION 1: PBL PROCESSES AND MODELING 

P1.1 MODELLING WIND TUNNEL EXPERIMENTS OF STABLE BOUNDARY-LAYER FLOW OVER HILLS. An Ross, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and S. J. Arnold, S. B. Vosper, and S. D. Mobbs 

P1.2 PAPER HAS BEEN MOVED TO SESSION 3, NEW PAPER NUMBER 3.3A.

 P1.3 NUMERICAL MODELING OF AIRFLOW IN THE VICINITY OF THE JORDAN NARROWS IN THE SALT LAKE VALLEY. Ying Chen, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; and R. L. Street and L. Ludwig 

P1.4 PERFLUOROCARBON TRACER EXPERIMENTS DURING VTMX 2000. Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and K. J. Allwine, J. C. Torcolini, and R. N. Dietz 

P1.5 AN EVALUATION OF THE SIGMA AND STEP-MOUNTAIN VERTICAL COORDINATES IN THE MESO ETA MODEL AT SUB-KILOMETER GRID SPACING. Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Zhong 

P1.6 RADAR AND ACOUSTIC OBSERVATIONS DURING VTMX FIELD-CAMPAIGN. Paco Lopez Dekker, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; and A. N. Bajaj and S. J. Frasier 

P1.7 SIMULATIONS OF THE CANYON DRAINAGE FLOW AND ITS INTERACTION WITH THE STABLE AIR OF THE SALT LAKE BASIN. James R. Stalker, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 

P1.9 VARIATIONS IN SURFACE TUBULENCE CHARACTERISTICS OVER THE SALT LAKE VALLEY DURING VTMX2002. J. C. Doran, PNNL, Richland, WA 

P1.10 BOUNDARY LAYER OBSERVATIONS OF COLD AIR POOLS IN A MOUNTAIN BASIN. Elford G. Astling, West Desert Test Center, Dugway, UT; and C. A. Biltoft, D. Storwold, and S. A. McLaughlin 

P1.12 HOW WELL CAN MESOSCALE MODELS CAPTURE KATABATIC FLOWS OBSERVED IN A LARGE VALLEY. Shiyuan Zhong, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. D. Whiteman and T. Haiden 

P1.13 THERMALLY DRIVEN FLOWS IN CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL VALLEY: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS USING DATA FROM A DENSE WIND PROFILER NETWORK. Shiyuan Zhong, PNNL, Richland, WA; and X. Bian, C. D. Whiteman, and S. Tanrikulu 

P1.14 EVOLUTION OF ELEVATED STRATIFIED LAYER DURING VTMX. Richard L. Coulter, ANL, Argonne, IL; and M. S. Pedour and T. J. Martin 

P1.15 ALONG-VALLEY STRUCTURE OF DAYTIME VALLEY FLOWS IN THE WIPPTAL. Magdalena Rucker, Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and R. M. Banta and D. G. Steyn

P1.16 ANALYSIS OF IOP2B LAND-SEA BREEZE CASE DURING THE ESCOMPTE EXPERIMENT. Sophie Bastin, Service d'Aéronomie, Paris, France; and P. Drobinski, A. M. Dabas, O. Reitebuch, P. Delville, C. Werner, A. Delaval, C. Boitel, H. Hermann, E. Nagel, B. Romand, J. Streicher, B. Bénech, O. M. Bock, J. L. Caccia, P. Durand, and V. Guénard 

P1.17 CIRCULATION CAUSED BY SURFACE HEATING IN A VALLEY: A PIV EXPERIMENT. Liu Huizhi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and S. Jianguo and Z. Boyin P1.18 CLIMATE OF THE MOUNTAIN TOP STATION "SONNBLICK" IN COMPARISON WITH RADIOSONDE DATA. Matthias Ratheiser, University of Vienna, Wien, Austria; and S. Schneider, C. Häberli, R. Steinacker, W. Pöttschacher, and W. Gepp 

P1.19 A SINKHOLE FIELD EXPERIMENT IN THE EASTERN ALPS. Reinhold Steinacker, Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and M. Dorninger, S. Eisenbach, A. M. Holzer, B. Pospichal, and C. D. Whiteman 

P1.20 IDENTIFICATION OF THERMAL STRUCTURE FROM AIRBORNE MEASUREMENTS IN AN ALPINE VALLEY WITH KRIGING TECHNIQUE. Gabriele Rampanelli, Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy; and D. Zardi 

P1.21 LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONOF DOWNSLOPE FLOWS. Eric D. Skyllingstad, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR 

P1.22 TEMPERATURE INVERSIONS IN A LIMESTONE SINKHOLE IN THE ALPS. Stefan Eisenbach, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria; and A. M. Holzer, M. Dorninger, and R. Steinacker 

P1.23 INVERSION LAYER IN STEEP VALLEYS AND THE EFFECTS OF TOPOGRAPHIC SHADING. Augustin Colette, Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA; and R. L. Street 

P1.25 MULTI-SCALE FLOW INTERACTIONS IN COMPLEX TERRAIN. Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. L. Winterkamp, D. L. Langley, and J. E. Bossert 

 

SESSION 4: BOUNDARY LAYER TURBULENCE AND DIFFUSION 

4.1 EDDY CORRELATION FLUX MEASUREMENTS IN AN ALPINE VALLEY UNDER DIFFERENT MESOSCALE CIRCULATIONS. Marco Andretta, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland; and A. W. Weigel and M. W. Rotach 

4.2 STRUCTURE OF THE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER IN THE CENTRAL SALT LAKE VALLEY DURING THE AFTERNOON-TO-EVENING TRANSITION. William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. M. Hubbe 

4.3 WAVES AND TURBULENCE OBSERVED OVER TWO CONSECUTIVE VTMX NIGHTS. Nappo, C. J., NOAA/ERL/ARL, Oak Ridge, TN; and R. Doboay and E. J. Dumas, Jr. 

4.4 TURBULENCE AND MIXING IN THE NOCTURNAL BOUNDARY LAYER OVER A SLOPE: VTMX FIELD PROGRAM RESULTS. Marko Princevac, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and P. Monti, H. J. S. Fernando, T. A. Kowalewski, and E. R. Pardyjak 

4.5 DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF EVOLVING TURBULENCE USING SURFACE HEAT FLUXES DERIVED FROM VTMX MEASUREMENTS. James C. Barnard, PNNL, Richland, WA; and W. J. Shaw 

 

SESSION 5: OROGRAPHICALLY MODIFIED CYCLONE EVOLUTION 

5.1 LARGE-AMPLITUDE GRAVITY-WAVE BREAKING OVER THE GREENLAND LEE AND THE SUBSEQUENT FORMATION OF DOWNSTREAM SYNOPTIC-SCALE TROPOPAUSE FOLDING AND STRATOSPHERIC-TROPOSPHERIC EXCHANGE. Melvyn A. Shapiro, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and S. Low-Nam, H. Olafsson, J. D. Doyle, and P. K. Smolarkiewicz 

5.2 CYCLONE TRACKS IN THE VICINITY OF GREENLANDASPECTS OF AN INTERACTION PROCESS. Cornelia B. Schwierz, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and H. C. Davies 

5.3 FLOW IN THE LEE OF GREENLAND-SIZE MOUNTAINS. G. N. Petersen, Univ. of Oslo, Oslo, Norway and Univ. of Iceland, Iceland; and H. Ólafsson and J. E. Kristjánsson 

5.4 ANALYSIS OF AN OROGRAPHICALLY MODIFIED CYCLONE OVER THE WESTERN UNITED STATES DURING IPEX IOP3. Jason C. Shafer, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh and J. A. W. Cox  

 

SESSION 6: OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION I 

6.1 DUAL-DOPPLER ANALYSIS OF THE KINEMATIC STRUCTURE OF A WASATCH MOUNTAIN WINTER STORM. Justin A. W. Cox, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh and D. E. Kingsmill 

6.2 THE IMPROVE-2 FIELD PROGRAM OVER THE CENTRAL OREGON CASCADES, PART I: MOTIVATION AND EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN. Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. V. Hobbs, M. T. Stoelinga, R. A. Houze, B. A. Colle, J. D. Locatelli, B. Colman, and N. A. Bond 

6.3 SENSITIVITY OF OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION TO CHANGING AMBIENT CONDITIONS: AN IDEALIZED MODELING PERSPECTIVE. Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 

 

SESSION 7: OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION II 

7.1 COMPARISON OF OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION IN MAP AND IMPROVE II (INVITED TALK). Robert A. Houze, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Medina 

7.2 ROLE OF TOPOGRAPHY IN MM5 PRECIPITATION FORECAST FOR THE MAP SOP. Rossella Ferretti, University of L'Aquila, Coppito- L'Aquila, Italy; and R. Rotunno and T. Paolucci 

7.3 HOW THE ALPINE TOPOGRAPHY INDUCES A CLIMATOLOGICAL PRECIPITATION MAXIMUM OF IN AUTUMN OVER THE LAGO MAGGIORE AREA. Francois Gheusi, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and H. C. Davies and J. Stein 

7.4 MULTIPLE EXPRESSIONS OF UPSTREAM OROGRAPHIC BLOCKING DURING MAP. Olivier Bousquet, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and B. F. Smull 

7.5 AIRFLOW WITHIN MAJOR ALPINE RIVER VALLEYS: THE CONCEPT OF WET DRAINAGE FLOW. Matthias Steiner, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and O. Bousquet, R. A. Houze, and B. F. Smull 

 

SESSION 8: OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION III 

8.1 OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION AND AIRMASS TRANSFORMATION: AN ALPINE EXAMPLE. Ronald B. Smith, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and Q. Jiang, M. G. Fearon, P. Tabary, M. Dorninger, J. D. Doyle, and R. Benoit 

8.2 THE RELEVANCE OF INSTABILITIES WITH HEAVY OROGRAPHIC RAINFALL DURING MAP IOP- 2B. Sen Chiao, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y.-L. Lin 

8.3 INTERCOMPARISON OF THE SIMULATED PRECIPITATION FIELDS OF THE MAP/IOP2B WITH DIFFERENT HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS. Evelyne Richard, CNRS/UPS, Toulouse, France; and N. Asencio, R. Benoit, A. Buzzi, R. Ferretti, P. Malguzzi, S. Serafin, G. Zaengl, and J.-F. Georgis 

8.4 OROGENIC SQUALL LINE OBSERVED WITH DOPPLER POLARIMETRIC RADARS DURING THE MAP EXPERIMENT. Pierre Tabary, Meteo France, Trappes, France; and G. Scialom, E. Richard, Y. Seity, and S. Soula 

8.5 CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING FLASH PRODUCTION DURING IOP 2A OF MAP: CORRELATION WITH DYNAMICS AND MICROPHYSICS. Y. Seity, Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, France; and S. Soula, P. Tabary, and G. Scialom 

8.6 MOIST AIRFLOW REGIMES OVER MORE OR LESS SMOOTH MOUNTAINS. Joel Stein, CNRM and Meteo France, Toulouse, France

 

SESSION 9: OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION IV 

9.1 INFLUENCE OF SYNOPTIC AND MESOSCALE ENVIRONMENTS ON HEAVY OROGRAPHIC RAINFALL ASSOCIATED WITH MAP IOP-2B AND IOP-8. Yuh-Lang Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. A. Thurman and S. Chiao 

9.2 NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF MAP IOP 15 CYCLOGENESIS AND ASSOCIATED PRECIPITATION. Andrea Buzzi, ISAO-CNR, Bologna, Italy; and M. D'Isidoro and S. Davolio 

9.3 PREFRONTAL AND FRONTAL PRECIPITATION EVENTS DURING MAP IOP 5. Joze Rakovec, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and G. Gregoric, T. Vrhovec, and N. Pristov 

9.4 COMPARISON OF SOME FRONTAL STRATIFORM PRECIPITATION EVENTS OVER THE ALPINE CHAIN DURING MAP. Stephanie Pradier, Laboratoire d'Aerologie, Toulouse, France; and M. Chong and F. Roux 

9.5 EFFECTS OF MOIST CONVECTION ON FLOW PAST 2D-TOPOGRAPHY. Oliver Fuhrer, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Schaer 

 

POSTER SESSION 2: OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION/OPERATIONAL AND NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION 

P2.2 TRACKING CLOUD PATTERNS BY RAPID SCAN IMAGERY IN THE ALPINE REGION. Martin Bolliger, MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland; and P. Binder and A. Rossa 

P2.3 STUDY OF THE CONVECTION OVER MONTE ROSA USING S-POL OBERVATIONS AND FINE SCALE MESO-NH SIMULATIONS. Nicole Asencio, CNRM and Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and J. Stein and M. Chong 

P2.4 A RAIN EPISODE RELATED TO A MESOSCALE GRAVITY WAVE DURING MAP. Renzo Richiardone, Univ. of Torino, Torino, Italy; and M. Manfrin 

P2.5 HEAVY PRECIPITATION IN SE ALPS DURING IOP 8, 9, 10, 11. Uros Strajnar, Environmental Agency of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana, Slovenia; and A. Poredos and T. Vrhovec 

P2.6 LOW LEVEL FLOW PATTERNS ASSOCIATED WITH TWO HEAVY RAINFALL EVENTS DURING MAP. James A. Thurman, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y.-L. Lin 

P2.7 IMPACT OF THE TIME AND SPACE HIGH RESOLUTION OBSERVATIONS ON THE WEATHER FORECAST OF IOP2B. Claudia Faccani, CETEMPS, Coppito-L'Aquila, Italy; and R. Ferretti 

P2.8 HIGH-RESOLUTION SIMULATIONS OF THE CONVECTIVE LINE OBSERVED DURING MAP IOP2A: SENSITIVITY TO THE MICROPHYSICAL PARAMETERIZATION. Evelyne Richard, Laboratoire d'Aerologie, Toulouse, France; and J.-P. Pinty, P. Tabary, F. Lascaux, and G. Scialom 

P2.11 FINESCALE OROGRAPHY AND THE MC2 DYNAMICS KERNEL. Robert Benoit, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and C. Girard, M. Desgagné, S. Chamberland, and W. Yu 

P2.12 REGIONAL PRECIPITATION VARIABILITY IN THE EUROPEAN ALPS 18031998 FROM HOMOGENISED INSTRUMENTAL TIME SERIES. Reinhard Böhm, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria; and I. Auer, W. Schöner, M. Brunetti, M. Maugeri, C. Huhle, and T. Nanni 

P2.13 THE IMPROVE-2 FIELD PROGRAM OVER THE CENTRAL OREGON CASCADES, PART II: SUMMARY OF IOPS. Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and C. F. Mass, M. T. Stoelinga, P. V. Hobbs, J. D. Locatelli, R. A. Houze, N. A. Bond, and B. F. Smull 

P2.14 MICROPHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION ALONG THE WASATCH MOUNTAINS DURING IPEX. David E. Kingsmill, DRI, Reno, NV; and H. Cai, J. A. W. Cox, and W. J. Steenburgh 

P2.15 STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OF A TORNADIC COLD FRONT IN THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST. David M. Schultz, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK 

P2.16 REGIONAL SCALE MODELING FOR THE 2002 OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES. Daryl J. Onton, NOAA/CIRP and Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. J. Siffert, L. Chang, W. J. Steenburgh, and B. Haymore 

P2.18 THUNDERSTORMS OF THE MT. EVEREST REGION: SPRING 1999, 2000. Kamal Thapa, City University of New York, New York, NY; and E. E. Hindman and Y. N. Rosoff 

P2.19 A COMPARISON OF PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES OVER THE HIMALAYAS AND ANDES. Stephen W. Nesbitt, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and G. V. Mota 

P2.20 INITIATION OF MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE COMPLEXES OVER ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS: A PRECURSOR TO TROPICAL CYCLOGENESIS. Christopher M. Hill, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y.-L. Lin 

P2.21 QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTING OF WINTERTIME PRECIPITATION IN THE SIERRA NEVADA. Ramesh K. Vellore, DRI, Reno, NV; and V. Grubisic and A. W. Huggins 

P2.22 MOUNTAINTOP AND RADAR MEASUREMENTS OF SNOW GROWTH AND SNOWFALL RATE. Randolph D. Borys, Storm Peak Laboratory, Steamboat Springs, CO; and D. H. Lowenthal, S. Cohn, and W. O. J. Brown 

P2.23 THE CLIMATE OF THE SOUTH AMERICAN ALTIPLANO. René D. Garreaud, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile 

P2.24 DESCRIPTION OF THE SEASONAL CYCLE OF LOW-LEVEL FLOWS FLANKING THE ANDES AND THEIR INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY. Lee A. Byerle, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Paegle 

P2.25 OROGRAPHIC CLOUDS AND PRECIPITATION: A STUDY OF INDIAN MONSOON AND ITS IMPACT ON CLOUD DYNAAMICS AND PRECIPIATION IN WESTERN GHATS OF INDIA. Shanmuganandan Samarajalingam, Madurai Kamaraj Univ., Madurai, India 

P2.26 OROGRAPHIC EFFECTS ON A CONDITIONALLY UNSTABLE FLOW OVER AN IDEALIZED THREE-DIMENSIONAL MESOSCALE MOUNTAIN. Shu-Hua Chen, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and Y.-L. Lin 

P2.27 A LINEAR TIME-DELAY MODEL FOR OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION. Ronald B. Smith, Yale University, New Haven, CT 

P2.28 SOME COMMON INGREDIENTS FOR HEAVY OROGRAPHIC RAINFALL AND THEIR POTENTIAL APPLICATION FOR PREDICTION. Yuh-Lang Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Chiao, J. A. Thurman, D. B. Ensley, and J. J. Charney 

P2.29 SOME CHALLENGES OF USING GRAPHICAL FORECAST EDITOR(GFE) OPERATIONALLY IN DIVERSE TERRAIN. Paul G. Wolyn, NOAA/NWSFO, Pueblo, CO; and D. Metze and K. Torgerson 

P2.30 EVALUATION OF MC2 SIMULATIONS FOR A CASE OF SIGNIFICANT UPSTREAM BLOCKING DURING MAP. Bradley F. Smull, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK and University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and O. Bousquet and D. Luethi 

P2.31 SIMULATION OF SNOW DRIFT AND SNOW DEPOSITION IN STEEP TERRAIN. Michael Lehning, ETH, Davos, Switzerland; and J. Doorschot, N. Raderschall, and T. Exner 

P2.32 UNDERSTANDING OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION MECHANISMS USING POLARIZATION RADAR AND IN SITU TECHNIQUES. Sabine Goeke, NCAR, Boulder, CO 

P2.33 A CASE STUDY ANALYSIS AND MODEL SIMULATION OF A COLUMBIA GORGE GAP FLOW EVENT. Justin Sharp, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. F. Mass

P2.34 CELLULARITY IN OROGRAPHIC CONVECTION. Daniel Kirshbaum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran 

 

SESSION 10: OROGRAPHIC PRECIPITATION V 

10.1 PRECIPITATION OVER MULTISCALE TERRAIN. Qingfang Jiang, Yale Univ., New Haven, CT 

10.2 MT. EVEREST, 10 MAY 1996: STUDY OF A HIGH ELEVATION THUNDERSTORM. Yolanda N. Rosoff, City College of New York, New York, NY; and E. E. Hindman 

10.3 THE IMPACT OF A PROMINENT RAIN SHADOW ON FLOODING IN CALIFORNIA'S COASTAL MOUNTAINS: A CALJET CASE STUDY AND SENSITIVITY TO THE ENSO CYCLE. F. Martin Ralph, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and P. J. Neiman, D. E. Kingsmill, E. D. Andrews, and R. C. Antweiler 

10.4 THE INFLUENCE OF LAND-FALLING LOW-LEVEL JETS ON RAIN RATE IN CALIFORNIA'S COASTAL MOUNTAINS DURING CALJET. Paul J. Neiman, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and F. M. Ralph, A. B. White, D. E. Kingsmill, and P. O. G. Persson 

 

SESSION 11: QUANTITATIVE PRECIPITATION FORECASTING 

11.1 PREDICTABILITY ISSUES IN HIGH-RESOLUTION NUMERICAL PREDICTION OF STRATIFORM AND CONVECTIVE PRECIPITATION. Andre Walser, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and D. Luethi and C. Schaer 

11.2 LANDFALLING CYCLONE FORECAST SENSITIVITY TO VARYING DATA ASSIMILATION METHODS IN A MESOSCALE MODEL. Wendell A. Nuss, NPS, Monterey, CA; and D. K. Miller 

11.3 DOWNSCALING PRECIPITATION FIELDS OVER COMPLEX TERRAIN. Reinhold Steinacker, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and M. Ratheiser, M. Dorninger, and F. Wimmer 

11.4A SELECTING THE BEST FORECAST OUT OF AN ENSEMBLE BY USING SATELLITE IMAGE MATCHING FOR MAP IOP2B (FORMERLY PAPER P2.1). Arnold Tafferner, DLR/IPA, Wessling, Bavaria, Germany; and H. Mannstein, T. Paccagnella, C. Marsigli, A. Montani, and F. Nerozzi 

11.5 PRECIPITATION FORECASTS VERSUS ANALYSIS FOR SELECTED IOP WET CASES. Manfred Dorninger, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and R. Steinacker, M. Ratheiser, and I. Groehn 

11.7 SIMULATIONS OF EXTREME PRECIPITATION EVENTS IN THE COLORADO ROCKY MOUNTAINS. William R. Cotton, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and R. L. McAnelly and C. T. Ashby 

 

SESSION 12: NUMERICAL MODELING AND DATA ASSIMILATION 

12.1 EVALUATION OF THE GPS PW IMPACT USING THE 3DVAR FOR THE MAP IOPS. Claudia Faccani, CETEMPS, Coppito-L'Aquila, Italy; and R. Ferretti, D. Barker, R. Pacione, and C. Sciarretta 

12.2 A NEW SUB-GRIDSCALE OROGRAPHIC DRAG PARAMETRIZATION FOR THE MET OFFICE UNIFIED MODEL. Stuart Webster, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom 

12.3 HYDROSTATIC VS. NONHYDROSTATIC SIMULATIONS IN A COMPLEX OROGRAPHY ENVIRONMENT. Raffaele Salerno, Centro Epson Meteo, Sesto San Giovanni, Italy; and A. Borroni 

12.4 HIGH RESOLUTION DATA ASSIMILATION IN COMPLEX TERRAIN. Carol M. Ciliberti, NOAA and CIRP/Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah; and J. D. Horel 

12.5 BOUNDARY LAYER WIND FIELD OVER STEEP, SNOW COVERED, HIGH ALPINE TOPOGRAPHY. Norbert Raderschall, Swiss Federal Institue for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland; and M. Lehning and J. Doorschot 

12.6 ON THE ECMWF RE-ANALYSIS OF THE MAP SOP. Christian Keil, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and C. Cardinali 

 

SESSION 13: GAP WINDS AND FOEHN I 

13.1 FOEHN RESEARCH IN THE RHINE VALLEY DURING MAP: OBJECTIVES, CONCEPTS AND FIRST RESULTS (INVITED PRESENTATION). Hans Richner, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and R. Steinacker 

13.2 FOEHN AND A STABLE AIRMASS IN THE RHINE VALLEY. Guillaume Beffrey, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and A. M. Dabas and G. Jaubert 

13.3 UNSTATIONARY AND INHOMOGENEITY ASPECTS OF THE MAP IOP 12 SOUTH FOEHN EVENT IN THE RHINE VALLEY. Philippe Drobinski, Service d'Aéronomie, Paris, France; and C. Haeberli, E. Richard, B. Bénech, H. Berger, A. M. Dabas, P. H. Flamant, M. Furger, M. Lothon, and R. Steinacker 

13.4 DYNAMIC AIRFLOW CHANNELLING EFFECTS IN BENT VALLEYS. Meinolf Kossmann, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; and A. P. Sturman 

13.5 GAP WINDS FORCED BY FLOWS WITH SIMPLE VERTICAL STRUCTURE. Sasa Gabersek, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran 

13.6 PHYSICALLY BASED FOEHN WIND DETECTION. Johannes M. Vergeiner, Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria; and S. D. Mobbs and G. J. Mayr 

13.7 ON THE IDENTIFICATION OF GAP FLOW FEATURES AND DYNAMICS FROM GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENTS. Georg J. Mayr, Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and A. Gohm and J. M. Vergeiner 

 

SESSION 14: GAP WINDS AND FOEHN II 

14.1 APPLYING SINGLE-LAYER SHALLOWWATER THEORY TO GAP FLOWS OCCURRING IN THE BRENNER PASS REGION. Alexander Gohm, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and G. J. Mayr 

14.2 ON THE DYNAMICS OF GAP FLOW IN THE WIPPTAL ON 2021 OCTOBER 1999. Tomislav Maric, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran 

14.3 THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 30 OCTOBER 1999 GAP FLOW EVENT IN THE WIPPTAL. Louisa B. Nance, CIRES/ Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. M. Banta 

14.4 AN INTERCOMPARISON OF LIDAR AND P3 WIND MEASUREMENTS IN THE WIPP VALLEY DURING MAP. Dale R. Durran, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and T. Maric, R. M. Banta, and L. S. Darby 

14.5 MEASUREMENTS OF FLOW IN A CROSS-SECTION OF THE BRENNER PASS. Stephen D. Mobbs, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and S. J. Arnold, A. Gohm, and J. M. Vergeiner 

14.6 STABLY STRATIFIED FLOW THROUGH A MOUNTAIN PASSIDEALISED SIMULATIONS. An Ross, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and S. B. Vosper and S. D. Mobbs 

 

SESSION 15: ROTORS 

15.1 OBSERVATIONS OF MOUNTAIN INDUCED ROTORS AND RELATED HYPOTHESES: A REVIEW (INVITED PRESENTATION). Joachim Kuettner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. F. Hertenstein 

15.2 SIMULATIONS OF ROTORS USING STEEP LEE-SLOPE TOPOGRAPHY. Rolf F. Hertenstein, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO; and J. Kuettner 

15.3 NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF LEE-WAVE ROTORS. Simon B. Vosper, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. D. Mobbs 

15.4 ROTOR GENERATION IN THE LEE OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL RIDGES. James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. R. Durran 

 

POSTER SESSION 3: TOPOGRAPHIC FLOWS 

P3.1 WHAT CAN WE LEARN OF SURFACE MESONETS IN FOEHN VALLEYS?. Reinhold Steinacker, Univ. of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and M. Spatzierer, B. Chimani, C. Haeberli, M. Dorninger, and S. Tschannett 

P3.2 USE OF WIND-TEMPERATURE PROFILER DATA TO INVESTIGATE FOEHN EPISODES DURING MAP-FORM. Siegfried Vogt, Institut f. Meteorologie u. Klimaforschung , Forschungszentrum, Karlsruhe, Germany 

P3.3 MASS BUDGETS IN THE RHINE VALLEY DURING A FOEHN EVENT. Genevieve Jaubert, CNRM and Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and J. Stein 

P3.4 ANALYSIS OF THE CONSTANT VOLUME BALLOON FLIGHTS ABOVE THE RHINE VALLEY DURING FOEHN EVENTS (MAP EXPERIMENT). Bruno Bénech, Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, France; and M. Lothon and H. Berger 

P3.5 FOEHN ANALYSIS IN THE RHINE VALLEY: FROM SYNOPTIC SCALE TO TURBULENCE ONE. Marie Lothon, Univ. Paul Sabatier, Campistrous, France; and A. Druilhet, B. Bénech, and B. Campistron

P3.6 GAP FLOWUPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM HYDRAULIC MODELS COMPARED WITH MAP DATA. Ignaz Vergeiner, Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and G. J. Mayr, A. Gohm, and J. M. Vergeiner 

P3.7 TEMPORAL EVOLUTION AND STRUCTURE OF GAP FLOW IN THE WIPP VALLEY ON 2 AND 3 OCTOBER 1999. Martin Weissmann, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria; and R. Banta, G. Mayr, A. Gohm, and L. B. Nance

P3.8 PRESSURE GRADIENTS IN THE MAP BRENNER PASS DATA. Fred J. Kopp, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and C. L. Hartsel and P. Smith 

P3.9 THE FOEHN CYCLE DURING THE MAP-SOP: TYPICAL VERTICAL RAWINSONDE PROFILES BETWEEN MILANO AND MUNICH. Johannes M. Vergeiner, Univ. of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria 

P3.10 CASE STUDY OF THE NORTH FOEHN IN THE EISAKTAL DURING MAP. Peter L. Jackson, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada; and G. Geier 

P3.11 PROPAGATION AND SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS OF FOEHN FLOW IN THE BRENNER PASS REGION. Stephen D. Mobbs, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and A. Gohm, G. J. Mayr, and J. M. Vergeiner 

P3.12 ROTOR STREAMING, HYDRAULIC JUMPS AND FLOW SEPARATION IN THE FALKLAND ISLANDS. Stephen D. Mobbs, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and S. J. Arnold, M. K. Hill, S. B. Vosper, and A. M. Gadian 

P3.13 TERRAIN-INDUCED WIND SHEAR DURING THE PASSAGE OF TYPHOON UTOR NEAR HONG KONG IN JULY 2001. S.Y. Lau, Hong Kong Observatory, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and C. M. Shun 

P3.14 DYNAMIC AIRFLOW CHANNELLING OVER THE UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN, IDAHO. Meinolf Kossmann, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; and C. D. Whiteman and X. Bian 

P3.15 CHARACTERIZATION OF THE 28 JUNE 2001 MISTRAL EVENT DURING THE ESCOMPTE FIELD EXPERIMENT. Philippe Drobinski, Service d'Aéronomie, Paris, France; and O. Reitebuch, A. M. Dabas, P. Delville, C. Werner, A. Delaval, C. Boitel, H. Hermann, E. Nagel, B. Romand, J. Streicher, S. Bastin, J. L. Caccia, P. Durand, and V. Guénard 

P3.16 OBSERVATIONS AND MODELING OF THE MISTRAL WIND. Qingfang Jiang, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and R. B. Smith and J. D. Doyle 

P3.17 EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF A MISTRAL CASE DURING MAP EXPERIMENT IN RELATION WITH THE PV BANNER OBSERVATION. Aimé Druilhet, Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Toulouse, France; and B. Bénech, J. L. Caccia, E. Richard, B. Campistron, C. Flamand, M. Lothon, F. Saïd, C. Caminade, and V. Guenard 

P3.18 TRANSIENT WAKE FORMATION BY MOUNTAINS OF A BAROTROPIC CYCLONE ON A BETA- PLANE. Hung-Cheng Chen, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and C.-C. Chu and C.C. Chang 

P3.19 MOUNTAIN WAVES OVER THE HOHE TAUERN. James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and R. B. Smith 

P3.20 COMPARISON OF MAP-SOP OBSERVATIONS WITH MODEL ANALYSIS AND FORECASTS OF GRAVITY WAVE BREAKING. Luca Ferrari, State Univ., Milan, Italy; and G. Frustaci 

P3.21 CHARACTERIZATION OF WAVE ACTIVITY AND TURBULENCE IN THE LOWER TROPOSPHERE OVER THE SWISS ALPS. Michael Lehning, ETH, Davos, Switzerland; and J. Lindeman and S. B. Vosper 

P3.23 LARGE-AMPLITUDE STRATOSPHERIC GRAVITY WAVES ABOVE SOUTHERN GERMANY. Thomas Birner, DLR German Aerospace Centre, Wessling, Germany; and D. A. Doernbrack

 P3.24 DIAGNOSES AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF TURBULENCE IN THE VICINITY OF COASTAL TOPOGRAPHY. Douglas K. Miller, NPS, Monterey, CA; and D. L. Walters 

P3.26 INTERACTION OF BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW AND GRAVITY WAVES OVER FORESTED HILLS. Adam Lea, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom; and S. B. Vosper, S. D. Mobbs, and B. Gardiner 

P3.28 MODELING TURBULENT AIRFLOW IN MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS. John Lindeman, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and S. D. Mobbs and S. B. Vosper 

P3.29 CLIMATOLOGY OF THE SIERRA NEVADA MOUNTAIN-WAVE CLOUDS. Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV; and S. Cardon 

P3.31 CONTROL PARAMETERS FOR TRACK CONTINUITY AND DEFLECTION ASSOCIATED WITH TROPICAL CYCLONES OVER A MESOSCALE MOUNTAIN. Yuh-Lang Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S.-Y. Chen, C. M. Hill, and C.-Y. Huang 

P3.34 SNEX: THE SNAEFELLSNES EXPERIMENT. Haraldur Olafsson, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland; and H. Sigurjonsson and H. Agustsson 

P3.35 MOUNTAIN-WAVE INDUCED WINDSTORMS WEST OF WESTCLIFFE, COLORADO. Paul G. Wolyn, NOAA/NWSFO, Pueblo, CO; and T. Magnuson 

P3.36 DATA QUALITY CONTROL OF SOP DATA IN MAP. Inga Groehn, Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria; and R. Steinacker, M. Ratheiser, C. Haeberli, and W. Poettschacher 

P3.37 NONLINEAR TOPOGRAPHIC WAVE GENERATION AT FINITE ROSSBY NUMBER. David J. Muraki, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada; and C. Epifanio and C. Snyder 

 

SESSION 16: DOWNSLOPE WINDSTORMS 

16.1 FORCED DOWNSLOPE FLOW OVER THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE SUBTROPICAL ANDES. René D. Garreaud, Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile; and J. Rutllant 

16.2A WSR-88D GROUND CLUTTER SIGNATURES ASSOCIATED WITH LEE-SLOPE WIND EVENTS (FORMERLY PAPER P3.33). Eric Thaler, NOAA/NWS, Boulder, CO; and L. B. Nance 

16.3 OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF A WAKE AND CORNER WINDS IN A STRONG WINDSTORM OVER ICELAND. Haraldur Olafsson, University of Iceland and Icelandic Meteorological Office, Reykjavik, Iceland; and M. A. Shapiro 

16.4 RADAR OBSERVATIONS OF DOWNSLOPE FLOW AT MOUNT WASHINGTON. Brooks E. Martner, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and R. F. Reinking and R. M. Banta

 

SESSION 17: LEE-SIDE PHENOMENA 

17.1 THE STRUCTURE OF AN ALPINE PV BANNER: OBSERVATIONS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS. Christoph Schär, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and M. Sprenger, D. Lüthi, and R. Benoit 

17.2 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SECONDARY POTENTIAL VORTICITY BANNERS IN TWO MAP IOPS. Vanda Grubisic, DRI, Reno, NV 

17.4 STAGNATION POINTS AND PV GENERATION IN MOIST STRATIFIED FLOW OVER ISOLATED TOPOGRAPHY. Juerg Schmidli, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Schaer 

17.5 A CASE STUDY OF FLOW SEPARATION. Volker Horlacher, Institute for Atmospheric Science, Leeds, United Kingdom; and S. D. Mobbs, S. B. Vosper, and S. J. Arnold 

 

SESSION 18: MOUNTAIN WAVES: MAP 

18.1 ANALYSIS OF A POTENTIAL VORTICITY STREAMER CROSSING THE ALPS DURING MAP IOP-15 ON 6 NOVEMBER 1999. Klaus P. Hoinka, DLR Oberpaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany; and G. Poberaj and E. Richard 

18.2 SENSITIVITY STUDIES AND OBSERVATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE SEPT 20 1999 LEE WAVE CASE DURING MAP. Gregory S. Poulos, Colorado Research Associates, Boulder, CO 

18.3 GRAVITY WAVES OVER THE EASTERN ALPS DURING IOP-10 OF MAP: IN- SITU AND REMOTE SENSING DATA COMPARED WITH A HIGH-RESOLUTION SIMULATION. Hans Volkert, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany; and C. Kiemle, J.-P. Chaboureau, and E. Richard 

18.4 AIRCRAFT MEASUREMENTS AND SIMULATIONS OF MOUNTAIN WAVES OVER MONT BLANC. Samantha A. Smith, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. S. Broad 

 

SESSION 19: MOUNTAIN WAVES, WAVE BREAKING, AND TURBULENCE 

19.0A INFLUENCE OF LATERAL SHEAR UPON MESOSCALE OROGRAPHIC FLOW Matthias Zillig, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and H. C. Davies 

19.1 INTERNAL WAVE GENERATION IN THE LEE OF TOPOGRAPHY. Bruce R. Sutherland, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada 

19.2 EVIDENCE FOR INERTIA-GRAVITY WAVES FORMING POLAR STRATOSPHERIC CLOUDS OVER SCANDINAVIA. Andreas Dörnbrack, DLR Oberpfaffenhofen, Wessling, Germany; and T. Birner, H. Flentje, and A. Fix 

19.3 THE IMPACT OF THE ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYER ON MOUNTAIN FORCED GRAVITY WAVES. Adrian S. Broad, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom 

19.4 LARGE-SCALE FLOW RESPONSE TO SHORT MOUNTAIN WAVES BREAKING IN A ROTATING SHEAR FLOW. Francois Lott, CNRS, Paris, France 

19.5 JUMP FORMATION AND VORTICES IN STRATIFIED FLOW PAST RIDGES. Craig Epifanio, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Rotunno

 



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