Agenda for VTMX Workshop in Salt Lake City to be held September 11-13, 2001

The table below gives the tentative agenda for presentations at the VTMX workshop on September 11-13, 2001. Some of the titles may yet be changed but the topics should be close to those listed. Indicated times are for talks only; additional time will be available for questions and discussions and the schedule will be adjusted as necessary to accommodate them.
Talk # Name Title Time
(min.)
  TUESDAY    
1 Rick Petty General Remarks 10
2 Chris Doran Introduction 10
3 John Horel Mesoscale Circulations During VTMX 15
4 Lacey Holland Downslope Wind Event During IOP2 15
5 Lisa Darby Basin-Scale Flow Structures as Measured by Doppler Lidar 30
6 Howard Hanson Spatial and Temporal Properties of the Near-Surface Nocturnal Boundary Layer from Lidar 20
7 Fransisco Lopez-Dekker / Stephen Frasier Radar and Acoustic Observations of Stable Layers During VTMX 30
8 Richard Coulter Elevated Stable Layer Characteristics During VTMX 20
9 F. L. Ludwig / Ying Chen / R. L. Street Consolidation and Analysis of Meteorological Data from Diverse Sources 20
10 Dave Whiteman / Xindi Bian Intermountain Basin Influences on Cold Pools in the Salt Lake Valley 30
11 Bob Banta Estimates of Cold-Pool Mechanisms Using Doppler Lidar and Other Measurements 20
12 Clark King A Climatology of Cold-Air Pooling Events in the Middle Park Region of Colorado 30
13 Dave Whiteman The Persistent Cold Pool in the Salt Lake Valley in January 2001 15
14 Chris Doran Some Properties of Intermittent Turbulence: Results from CASES 99 and VTMX 2000 20
15 Carmen Nappo Turbulence 20
16 Carmen Nappo Waves 20
17 Will Shaw Measurements of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer During the Afternoon Transition 25
  WEDNESDAY    
18 Jim Barnard Direct Numerical Simulation of Intermittent Turbulence in the Very Stable Ekman Layer 20
19 Dave Whiteman / Shiyuan Zhong Analysis of Slope Flow Structure and Its Evolution 30
20 Thomas Haiden Inclusion of Detrainment in Hydraulic Drainage Flow Modeling 30
21 Eric Skyllingstad Large Eddy Simulation of Slope Flows 20
22 Shiyuan Zhong / Jerome Fast The Use of VTMX Observations to Evaluate and Improve Mesoscale Model Predictions 30
23 Joe Fernando / Jim Anderson Flow and Aerosol Measurements During VTMX and Their Interpretation Using Simple Models 40
24 John Watson / Dan Freeman Effects of Vertical Mixing on Particulate Transport Between the Utah and Salt Lake Valleys 30
25 Kirk Clawson Wind Profile Patterns at the Raging Waters Site and Initial Results from the Mobile Real-time SF6 Analyzers 25
26 Jerry Allwine Status and Initial Findings of the URBAN 2000 Field Study 30
27 Jerome Fast Measurements and Modeling of Convergence/Divergence Patterns in the Salt Lake Valley 30
28 Dave Parsons / Bill Brown NCAR Observation and Modeling Efforts for VTMX 30
  THURSDAY    
29 Greg Poulos An Investigation of a 3-Regime Context for Studying the Salt Lake Basin Atmosphere and Intermittent Behaviour Therein 25
30 Keeley Costigan The Complex Multi-Scale Flow Interactions in a Portion of the Rio Grande Basin 30
31 James Stalker On the Canyon Drainage Flow Interaction with the Stable Boundary-Layer Air within the Salt Lake City Basin 20
32 Jerry Allwine Initial Planning for the 2003 Urban Field Study 5
33 Russell Dietz PFT Analyses from BATS and CATS: Accomplishments and Problems 20
34 Frank Gouveia Data Hub 20

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