The Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes Seminar Series is hosted in the National Weather Center by the the School of Meteorology on Tuesdays at 2:00pm (central time).
Convener: Elizabeth Smith (elizabeth.smith@noaa.gov)
Due to COVID-19, all seminars since 11 March 2020 have been delivered virtually. Recordings are available on our YouTube Channel.
Info for enrolled students here
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Past Seminars
(*recording available on our Youtube Channel)
11/17/20 – Dr. Elizabeth Smith*: Pushing the Boundary (Layer): An Initiative for Boundary-Layer Research in the National Weather Center Community
11/10/20 – Christopher Rattray*: Nocturnal Low-Level Jet: Making the Atmosphere Unstable Again
10/20/20 – Francesca Lappin*: Low-level buoyancy as a tool to characterize the atmospheric boundary layer
04/28/20 – Stuart Edris*: Climatological Analysis of Flash Drought Criteria
04/21/20 – Robert Van Kleeck*: The Effects of Urban Geometry on Point-Source Scalar Plume Statistics: A Large Eddy Simulation Study
04/14/20 – Qingyu Wang*: GHGs comparisons between WRF-VPRM and tower observations in urban scale
04/07/20 – Qing Niu*: Distributions of Condensation Nuclei, Cloud Condensation Nuclei and Cloud Properties over the Southern Ocean: Primary Results from MARCUS
03/31/20 – Dylan Reif*: Initiation mechanisms of nocturnal convection without nearby surface boundaries
03/24/20 – Brian Greene*: Characterizing Turbulence in Arctic Stable Boundary Layers During ISOBAR 2018
03/10/20 – Tyler Bell: Toward Improving Wind Speed Estimates from an Ascending Rotary-Wing UAS
03/03/20 – Jordan Laser: Evaluation of the Warn-on-Forecast System with Doppler Lidar and Radiosonde Observations from TORUS2019
02/18/20 – Ryann Wakefield: Did anomalously wet soils actually aid the inland maintenance of Tropical Storm Bill during 2015?
11/22/19 – Dr. Jeremy Gibbs: Three Simple Ways to Add More Structure (Functions and Parameters) to Your Life
11/15/19 – Dr. Brad Illston: Variability of In-Situ Observations and the Resulting Impacts in Meteorological Applications
11/01/19 – Dr. Greg Blumberg: Ongoing Activities to Pick the PBL Fruit at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility
10/25/19 – Dr. Inanc Senocak: New insights into stratified atmospheric flows from studying idealized slope flows
08/23/19 – Dr. Xiaolin Li: Characteristics of terrestrial CO2 fluxes, concentrations, and budget in Northeast China during 2016
05/10/19 – Dr. William Anderson: Numerical simulation of inertia-dominated turbulent flows
05/03/19 – Dr. Liz Pillar-Little: Toward understanding the formation and aging of aerosol: an experimental and observational approach
04/26/19 – Briana Lynch: The Influence of Urban Form and Vegetation on Near-Source Dispersion in a Realistic Urban Canopy
04/19/19 – Brian Greene: Recent Advances and Applications of Utilizing Unmanned Aircraft Systems for Atmospheric Research
04/05/19 – Ryann Wakefield: CTP/”Bye”: When the Rainfall Departs, and Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks Arrive: How Coupling Contributes to Flash Drought Behavior
03/29/19 – Dr. Grace Yan: Making Tornado Alley a Better (and Safer) Place to Live
03/08/19 – Tyler Bell: Confronting the Boundary Layer Data Gap: Evaluating New and Existing Methodologies of Probing the Lower Atmosphere
03/01/19 – Dylan Reif: On the vertical velocity at the leading edge of density currents
02/22/19 – Dr. Xiao-ming Hu: Meteorological Conditions During an Ozone Episode in Dallas‐Fort Worth, Texas, and Impact of Their Modeling Uncertainties on Air Quality Prediction
11/16/18 – Hristo Chipilski and Sam Degelia: Assimilation of Boundary Layer Profilers: Implications for the Prediction of Nocturnal Convection Initiation and Atmospheric Bores
11/09/18- Qingyo Wang: Atmospheric Variations in Column Integrated CO2 on Synoptic and Seasonal Time Scale over the U.S.
11/02/18 – John D’Alessandro: Phase partitioning of Southern Ocean boundary layer clouds: comparisons of airborne in situ measurements and CAM5 simulations
10/19/18 – Dr. Scott Salesky: Large-scale motions in convective boundary layers: effects of buoyancy and implications for land-atmosphere interactions
09/07/18 – Dr. Alan Shapiro: An analytical model of an urban heat island circulation in calm conditions
04/27/18 – Tyler Bell: Analysis of Flow and Thermodynamic Characteristics at a Complex Site
04/20/18 – Joshua Gebauer: Determining the Optimal Smoothing Parameter for Spatially Variable Advection Correction
04/13/18 – Dylan Reif: An investigation of initiation mechanisms of nocturnal convection using WRF
04/06/18 – Ryann Wakefield: A 16-year Observational Study of Land Atmosphere Coupling in Oklahoma Using Oklahoma Mesonet and North American Regional Reanalysis Data
03/30/18 – Brian Greene: Boundary Layer Profiling Using Rotary-Wing Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Filling the Atmospheric Data Gap
03/12/18 – Dr. Haroldo Fraga de Campos Velho: Transition boundary layer modeling: decay and growth of the convective boundary layer
03/09/18 – Greg Blumberg: Demystifying the 6 o’clock Magic Phenomenon: Observations and Simulations of Water Vapor Changes During Sunset in the Southern Great Plains
01/26/18 – Dr. Howard Bluestein: On the Anomalous Counterclockwise Turning of the Surface Wind with Time in the Plains of the United States
12/08/17 – Elizabeth Smith: Evolution of the nocturnal low-level jet and the nocturnal boundary layer during PECAN
12/01/17 – Dr. Nathan Dahl: Using High-Resolution Simulations to Quantify Errors in Radar Estimates of Tornado Intensity
11/28/17 – Dr. Dimitri Mironov: Turbulence Kinetic Energy – Scalar Variance Turbulence Parameterization Scheme for NWP Models
09/08/17 – Dr. Cedrick Ansorge: Scale-Dependence of MOST: Sampling Convergence and Surface-Layer Closure
04/28/17 – Jinxin Wang: Urban Heat Island in the Dallas-Fort Worth during Dry and Wet Summers: An Evaluation of Single-layer and Multi-layer Urban Canopy Models
04/21/17 – Elizabeth Smith: The Great Plains low-level jet during PECAN: observations, simulations, and ongoing analyses
04/14/17 – Kevin Haghi: Bores: Naughty by Nature
03/24/17 – Joshua Gebauer: Examining the cause of heterogeneous Great Plains low-level jets
03/24/17 – Larissa Reames: Influence of a Great Plains urban environment on a simulated supercell
03/10/17 – Greg Blumberg: Observations of Moisture Increases During the Southern Great Plains Afternoon to Evening Transition
12/09/16 – Dr. Mohammed Osman: Observation of water vapor turbulence profiles in stationary and well mixed convective boundary layers over the ARM Tropical Western Pacific site
11/18/16 – Hayden Mahan: In-Situ measurements and remotely sensed estimations of surface fluxes over the Southern Great Plains of the United States
09/16/16 – Dr. Nathan Dahl: Simulated near-surface behavior of tornado-like vortices in a Fiedler chamber with resolved turbulence
09/09/16 – Dr. Alan Shaprio: Ascent in a nocturnal low-level jet
05/05/16 – Brad Illsoton: Near Surface Atmospheric Impacts Resulting from a Developing Metropolitan Area
04/22/16 – Joshua Gebauer: The Role of the Nocturnal Low-Level Jet in Convection Initiation on 1-2 June 2015
04/15/16 – Jinxin Wang: A Study of Urban Heat Island Intensity Trends in the Dallas-Fort Worth Region during Wet and Dry Summers
04/01/16 – Greg Blumberg: Towards Understanding the Capabilities of High-Temporal Resolution Soundings in Convective Environments
03/25/16 – Dr. Sukanta Basu: Quasi-universal scaling of boundary-layer wind speeds in mesoscale regime
12/11/15 – Elizabeth Smith: WRF model study of the Great Plains low-level jet: effects of grid spacing and boundary layer parameterization
12/04/15 – Ethan Cook: Ekman Revisited: The case of the phantom PGF
11/06/15 – Dr. Phillip Chilson: CLOUD-MAP: Advancing Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics Through Unmanned Aerial Systems
10/15/15 – Dr. Jeremy Gibbs: Sensitivity of turbulence statistics in the lower portion of a numerically simulated stable boundary layer to parameters of the Deardorff subgrid turbulence closure model
09/18/15 – William Anderson: Large-eddy simulation of rough wall turbulence: effects of complex topography, evidence of inner-outer effects, and the role of turbulence in aeolian systems
08/26/15 – Cedrick Ansorge: Conditional analyses of the very stable boundary layer
05/06/15 – Paul Flanagan: The Dryline, Convective Initiation, and Rapid Evolution of Drought in Oklahoma During 2011
05/01/15 – William (Greg) Blumberg: Ground-Based Infrared Thermodynamic Sounders: A Fresh Look at the Enivornments Supporting Deep Convection
04/24/15 – Ethan Cook: A very basic model for velocity statistics of an Ekman-like neutral turbulent layer
04/10/15 – Jinxin Wang: Urban heat island of Dallas Fort-Worth during July 2011 North-Central Texas drought: WRF-SLUCM model verification and sensitivity study of UHI’s dependence on land-use category.
03/14/15 – Larissa Reames: Boundary Layer and Urban Scheme Performance for a nested 500m WRF simulation
03/07/15 – Jennifer Newman: Optimizing Lidar Scanning Strategies for Wind Energy Turbulence Measurements
01/16/15 – Dr. Alan Shapiro: A Unified Theory for the Great Plains Nocturnal Low-Level Jet
12/12/14 – Chiel van Heerwaarden: A comparison of heterogeneously heated convective boundary layers with fixed flux and fixed temperature boundary conditions
11/21/14 – Cedrick Ansorge: Study of Stabily Stratified Bounday Layers using Turbulent Ekman Flow
10/31/14 – Tim Bonin: Thermal and Turbulence Characteristics of the Southern Great Plains Nocturnal Boundary Layer
10/24/14 – Mike Buban: The formation of small-scale atmospheric vortices via horizontal shearing instability
10/17/14 – Dr. Alan Shapiro: On the lower boundary condition for pressure in numerical simulations of boundary layer flows driven by surface buoyancy variations
09/26/14 – Dr. Jeremy Gibbs: Step Brothers 2: Revisiting Surface Heat-Flux and Temperature Boundary Conditions in Models of Stably Stratified Boundary-Layer Flows
04/25/14 – Stephen Castleberry: Evaluation of a Microwave Radiometer Thermodynamic Retrieval Algorithm
04/18/14 – Charlotte Wainwright: Sampling the boundary layer with a sodar simulator
04/11/14 – Jinxin Wang: Urban effects on precipitation: a literature review and climatology study for Dallas-Fort Worth
04/04/14 – Kerstin Schaefer: Validation of the mesoscale transport and fluid model METRAS for Berlin based on a measurement campaign in summer 2012
03/28/14 – Nathan Anderson: Vertical Velocity Turbulence Profiles Measured by Two Horizontally Separated Doppler Lidars
02/21/14 – Larissa Reames: The WRF-simulated effects of the Oklahoma City urban area on its environment on the dynamics of a simulated supercell thunderstorm
02/14/14 – Dr. Alan Shapiro: New similarity model solutions for boundary-layer flows
01/31/14 – Dr. Petra Klein: Scaling of Mean Flow and Turbulence in the Urban Canopy Layer
01/17/14 – Jennifer Newman: Optimizing Lidar Scanning Strategies for Turbulence Measurements
12/2/13 – Dr. Robert M. Banta: Generalized Relationships in the Stable Boundary Layer Derived from High-Resolution Doppler Lidar and Instrumented Tower Data
11/15/13 – Subhashree Mishra: Raman Lidar Observations from the ARM Site in Darwin, Australia: A Water Vapor and Aerosol Climatology
11/08/13 – Kodi Monroe: Sensitivity of the modeled urban heat island to rooftop parameters
11/01/13 – Nathan Anderson: Vertical Velocity Turbulence Profiles Measured by Two Horizontally Separated Doppler Lidars
10/07/13 – Dr. Tristan Quaife: Integrating satellite data with models of the land surface
10/04/13 – Hayden Mahan: Impacts of Vegetation and Precipitation on Throughfall Heterogeneity in a Tropical Pre-Montane Transitional Cloud Forest
09/06/13 – Dr. Alan Shapiro: A Boundary-Layer Scaling for Turbulent Katabatic Flow
05/03/13 – Jennifer Newman: Using Ground-Based Measurements to Improve Wind Power Forecasts
04/19/13 – Greg Blumberg: Developing a Statistical Thermodynamic Retrieval for Ground-Based Infrared Spectrometers
04/05/13 – Tim Bonin: Observed Characteristics of Low-Level Jets During the Lower Atmospheric Boundary Layer Experiment
03/08/13 – Charlotte Wainwright: Virtually Sampling the Developing Boundary Layer
02/08/13 – Xiaoming Hu: Simulations of thet Low-Level Jet with WRF
01/25/13 – Dr. Petra Klein: Impact of the Low-Level Jet on Urban Heat Island Intensity and Nocturnal Ozone Concentrations in OKC