Presentations from the VTMX Workshop in Salt Lake City

Presentations from the VTMX Workshop
Salt Lake City
September 17-19, 2002

The following presentations (pdf format in most cases) were made at the VTMX meeting in Salt Lake City:

"Profiling Performance and New Developments" (pdf format) -- William Brown, National Center for Atmospheric Research/Atmospheric Technology Division
"Simulations in the Jordan Narrows" (pdf format) -- Ying Chen and R. L. Street, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
"Lidar-Derived Integral Length Scales and the Monin-Obukhov Length" (pdf format) -- Daniel Cooper, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Model Simulations of the Influence of Synoptic Conditions on Vertical Motions in the Salt Lake City Region" (pdf format) -- Keeley Costigan, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Simulations of Flow Interactions Near Los Alamos" (pdf format) -- Keeley R. Costigan, Judith L. Winterkamp, James E. Bossert, and David L. Langley, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Turbulence and Drainage Flow Interactions Along the Eastern Sidewall" (html format) -- Richard L. Coulter, Atmospheric Research Section, Argonne National Laboratory
"ETL Doppler Lidar Backscatter and Radial Velocity Measurements: What Can They Tell Us About Tracer Behavior?" (pdf format) -- Lisa Darby, Robert Banta, and Joanne George, NOAA/ETL (with thanks to Jerome Fast and Jerry Allwine for providing tracer data, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
"Production of Turbulent Kinetic Energy" (pdf format) -- Ronald Dobosy, NOAA Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
"Parameterization of Intermittent Turbulence" (pdf format) -- J. Christopher Doran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Dispersion of Perfluorocarbon Tracers within the Salt Lake Valley" (pdf format) -- Jerome D. Fast, K. Jerry Allwine, and Joel C. Torcolini, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Russel N. Dietz, Brookhaven National Laboratory
"An Evaluation of Mesoscale Model Predictions of Turbulence Kinetic Energy and Dissipation" (pdf format) -- Jerome D. Fast and William J. Shaw, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Pooling and Inversion Break Up in Complex Terrain: Modeling and Analysis of VTMX Data" (pdf format) -- H.J.S. Fernando, J. Anderson, M. Princevac, and A. Mills, Environmental Fluid Dynamics Program, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University
"Analytical Modeling of Slope Flows" (pdf format) -- Thomas Haiden, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria, and C. David Whiteman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
"Representatives of MesoWest Observations and Other VTMX-Related Issues" (html format) -- John D. Horel and David Myrick, Department of Meteorology, University of Utah; Mike Splitt and Steven Lazarus, Florida Institute of Technology; Lacey Holland, NCEP; and Alex Reinecke, University of Washington
"High Resolution Radar/RASS Measurements Validation and Preliminary Results" (pdf format) -- Paco López-Dekker and Stephen J. Frasier, University of Massachusetts
"Analysis of VTMX Data for Characteristic Flow Patterns" (html format) -- F. L. Ludwig and R. L. Street, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
"Gap Flow and Vertical Mixing at the Southern End of the GSL Basin during VTMX" (pdf format) -- J. Pinto, D. Parsons, W. Brown, S. Cohn, N. Chamberlain, and B. Morley, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Technology Division
"Downslope Gravity Flows: LES and Mesoscale Results" (pdf format) -- Eric Skyllingstad (with help from Craig Smith), Oregon State University
"Subfilter-Scale Modeling for ARPS" (pdf format) -- F. K. Chow and R. L. Street, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stanford University
"Slope Flows and Cold Air Pools" (pdf format) -- C. David Whiteman, Shiyuan Zhong, and Xindi Bian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Thomas Haiden, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics, Vienna, Austria
"Numerical Modeling of Slope Flows Observed during the VTMX Slope Experiment" (pdf format) -- S. Zhong and C. D. Whiteman, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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Presentations from the VTMX WorkshopSalt Lake CitySeptember 17-19, 2002

Presentations from the VTMX Workshop
Salt Lake City
September 17-19, 2002