Observational analysis of the URBAN2000 field program IOP-10, 25-26 October 2000
- David S.
In October 2000, the US Department of Energy, along with NOAA and several other government labs and universities, conducted the Vortical Transport and Mixing Experiment (VTMX) and URBAN2000 field programs in Salt Lake City, Utah (Alwine et al., 2082). The VTMX program focused on the basin-scale flow regime, where the URBAN2000 component focused on transport and dispersion in the downtown Salt Lake City area. In this paper, WCI will focus on a specific Intensive Operations Period, IOP-10, which occurred on October 25-26, 2000. IOP-10 was chosen because the winds in the downtown area were fairly weak and variable early in the experiment, and became more windy in the later part of the IOF? The local conditions were influenced by a shortwave ridge, and were cloudy, with a weak and very shallow surface inversion, and light mean southerly flow over the area. In order to prepare initial and boundary conditions for our LES modeling studies of the downtown area, we will present an analysis of some the observations taken during IOP-10.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- OSTI ID:
- 976092
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-02-1086; TRN: US201009%%343
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Submitted to: AMS 4th Symposium on the Urban Environment, Norfolk, VA, May 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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