Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology and Land-Surface Processes

Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes Evaluation of the impacts of land-surface processes on the PBL: A case study on cropland and grassland Qingyu Wang Tuesday, November 30 2:00 PM Join Google Meet: http://meet.google.com/fcr-hokz-ubf Vegetation and soil moisture impact the surface energy partitioning, land-atmosphere feedbacks, and planetary boundary layer (PBL) characteristics. In this study, […]

Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes A Sneak Peek into Techniques for Improving Boundary Layer Height Measurements Arianna Jordan Tuesday, November 16 2:00 PM Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/fcr-hokz-ubf The planetary boundary layer (PBL) is the lowest few kilometers of the atmosphere, where properties like wind velocity, turbulence, and aerosol backscatter vary on timescales shorter […]

Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes   Identification of Flash Drought Events using Machine Learning Techniques   Stuart Edris   Tuesday, November 9 2:00 PM Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/fcr-hokz-ubf Room Code: fcr-hokz-ubf   Drought is a climatological dry extreme that can have a number of impacts on water resources and agricultural output. These impacts […]

Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes Thermally-driven turbulent secondary flows: Prandtl’s secondary flow of the third kind Dr. Scott Salesky Tuesday, October 19 2:00 PM Join Google Meet: http://meet.google.com/fcr-hokz-ubf Turbulent secondary flows are defined as flows where the mean vorticity vector is aligned with the mean wind direction. They are typically classified as Prandtl’s […]

Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes   Dependence of Retrieved Cloud Properties on Environmental Conditions in Cold Air Outbreaks over the North Atlantic: Results from COMBLE   Zeqian(Hazel) Xia   Tuesday, October 12 2:00pm Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/fcr-hokz-ubf Cold-air Outbreaks (CAOs) occur from the equatorward advection of extremely cold polar air masses across the […]

Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes   Large Eddy Simulations of Stable Boundary Layers and Implications for UAS Sampling   Brian R. Greene Tuesday April 20th 1:00 pm   Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/taw-hdgp-cfe   The stable boundary layer (SBL) has significant societal impacts ranging from pollution dispersion to wind energy production. It is therefore […]

Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes Toward optimizing ground-based thermodynamic retrievals with WxUAS Tyler Bell Tuesday, April 13 1:00pm Join Google Meet: https://meet.google.com/taw-hdgp-cfe As increased attention is being given to the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), more instruments and techniques are becoming available to advance understanding of the processes that occur in this region of […]

Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes Seminar   Emergence of a nocturnal low-level jet from a broad baroclinic zone Alan Shapiro Tuesday, April 6th 1:00pm   Join Google Meet: meet.google.com/taw-hdgp-cfe We consider a theory for the generation of a nocturnal low-level jet (NLLJ) within a broad (diffuse) baroclinic zone over flat terrain. The flow […]

Francesca Lappin Low-level buoyancy as a tool to characterize the atmospheric boundary layer 2020/10/20 02:00 PM Boundary Layer, Urban Meteorology, and Land-Surface Processes Abstract: Advancements in remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) introduced a new way to observe the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Adequate sampling of the lower atmosphere is key to improving numerical weather models […]

School of Meteorology Colloquium   The Pacific Decadal Precession and its Relationship to Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability in CMIP6 Models   Matt Rogers  Monday, July 20th at 9:00am Central Time Join Zoom Meeting:   https://oklahoma.zoom.us/j/98532037422?pwd=UmFuTTY3NHpPK0pSYlQzOFZYMW5mUT09   Meeting ID: 985 3203 7422 Password: 18385723 Persistent, multi-year shifts in atmospheric circulations and their associated influence on regional climates […]