Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences (IMAGe)

Theme of the Year Workshop 3
 
A G E N D A
Locations:
Foothills Laboratory, Building 2, Main Auditorium and Mesa Laboratory, Main Seminar Room
 
Chartered Bus
Schedule  Hotel - Venue - Hotel  
 

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 Foothills Laboratory 2 Main Auditorium

 
8:30 - 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00 - 9:20 Introduction and Logistics
Doug Nychka
Annick Pouquet
Larry Cornman, NCAR
 
1. Measurements to Support Applications
 
9:20 - 10:20 Keynote  
In situ and remote sensing for wind energy [Abs] | [Lecture]
Jakob Mann
RISØ DTU, Denmark
10:20 - 11:00 In situ and remote sensing of turbulence in support of the aviation community [Abs] | [Lecture]
Larry Cornman
NCAR Research Applications Laboratory,USA
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10 Turbulence measurements in support of dispersion modeling for air quality and national security applications
Jeff Weil
CU CIRES and NCAR MMM, USA
12:10 - 1:40 Lunch
 
2. Measurements to Support Modeling
 
1:40 - 2:40 Keynote  
Laboratory Experiments of the Convective Boundary Layer

Harm Jonker
Department of Multi-Scale Physics
Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
2:40 - 3:20 Using HATS Databases to Evaluate Subfilter-Scale Rate Equations for LES [Abs] | [Lecture]
Peter Sullivan
NCAR MMM, USA
3:20 - 3:40 Break
3:40 - 4:20 Combining wind tunnel modeling and numerical simulation to study turbulence and dispersion in planetary boundary layer flows [Abs] | [Lecture]
Evgeni Fedorovich
School of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, USA
4:20 - 5:00 Blending field studies, wind tunnel and numerical models to understand and predict stable flows on forested hills
John Finnigan
CSIRO Centre for Complex System Science, Australia
5:00 - 6:30 ICEBREAKER (Cafe Atrium)
 

Thursday, May 29 Mesa Laboratory Main Seminar

 
8:30 - 9:00am Coffee
 
3. Measurements to Support Phenomenological Studies
 
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote  
Measurement of Atmospheric Turbulence by Means of Light, Sound and Radio Waves [Abs] | [Lecture]
Andreas Muschinski
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA
10:00 - 10:40 Laboratory Studies of the influence of Turbulence on Accumulation and Settling Velocity of Inertial Droplets
Alberto Aliseda
Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington
10:40 - 10:55 Break
10:55 - 11:35 Wave-induced Turbulence in the Lower Troposphere: A T-REX Perspective
Vanda Grubisic
Division of Atmospheric Sciences/Desert Research Institute
11:35 - 12:15 Observations for Improving the Understanding of Turbulent Processes in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere  [Abs] | [Lecture]
Bob Sharman
NCAR Research Applications Laboratory
12:15 - 3:00 Group Photo, Lunch and Hike
3:00 - 3:40 Identifying Vortical Structures and Their Impact from Laboratory Studies of Wall Turbulence  [Abs] | [Lecture]
Ken Christensen
Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
 
4. Sampling Strategies
 
3:40 - 4:40 Keynote  
Out of Kansas: Meaningful Turbulence Measurements in Non-Ideal Conditions  [Abs] | [Lecture]
Hans Peter Schmid
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Research Center Karlruhe (FZK/IMK-IFU)
5:30 - 9:30 RECEPTION at Millennium Harvest House
 

Friday, May 30 Foothills Laboratory 2 Main Auditorium

 
8:30 - 9:00am Coffee
9:00 - 9:40am Turbulence measurements for Surface-layer Micrometeorological studies over sea and sea-ice  [Abs] | [Lecture]
Chris Fairall and Andrey Grachev
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
9:40 - 10:20 Acoustic tomography techniques for observing atmospheric turbulence [Abs] | [Lecture]
Keith Wilson
ERDC-CRREL, USA
10:20 - 10:50 Break
10:50 - 11:30 Measurements of Turbulence Profiles with Scanning Doppler Lidar for Wind Energy Applications  [Abs] | [Lecture]
Rod Frehlich
CU CIRES and
NCAR Research Applications Laboratory
11:30 - 1:00pm Lunch
 
5. Technology
 
1:00 - 2:00pm Keynote  
Technology Infusion for Atmospheric Boundary Layer Research: Observations and Experiments on Multi-scale Turbulence Phenomena

Harindra (Joe) Fernando
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research
Arizona State University, Tempe, USA
2:00 - 3:00pm Panel Discussion
  Harindra (Joe) Fernando
Introductory comments.

Mike Loudiana, The Boeing Company, Wa
" Instrument array in observing upper atmosphere, especially the Airborne platforms; challenging issues for such observations, including those related to the Airborne Laser Program."  [Abs] | [Lecture]

Tom Horst, NCAR/EOL, Boulder, CO
"Observing ABL turbulence using complex instrument arrays especially in the context of evaluating and refining models."  [Abs] | [Lecture]

Andreas Muschinski, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
"Optical and radar instruments."

Walter Bach, Army Research Office, Durham, NC
"Overarching problems related to probing flow in the Atmospheric Boundary Layers, especially, stable boundary layer, and some futuristic instrumentation concepts."  [Abs] | [Lecture]
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30 Panel Discussion continued
4:30 Workshop Adjourns