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The Houston Urban Heat Island Effect: Motivation and Initial Findings from the 2022 TRACER Field Campaign
Cities and other urban areas commonly exhibit the urban heat island (UHI) effect, where air temperatures within the built-up area are …
Apr 22, 2024 3:00 PM — 4:00 PM NWC 1350 and [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/ybr-pnyv-dhg)
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Evaluation of Flash Drought Identification with Machine Learning Techniques
Droughts are extreme dry events that decrease an ecosystem’s and society’s availability to water resources, leading to impacts on …
Apr 15, 2024 3:00 PM — 4:00 PM NWC 1350 and [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/wnq-hmtm-meu)
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Modeling the Effects of Turbulent Supersaturation Fluctuations in Large Eddy Simulations
Clouds play a significant role in Earth’s climatological and hydrological systems. However, many aspects of collision-coalescence and …
Apr 1, 2024 3:00 PM — 4:00 PM NWC 1350 and [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/wnq-hmtm-meu)
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Introduction to Blowing and Drifting Snow Processes and Their Representation in Numerical Models
In this seminar I will introduce the basic processes of turbulent snow transport and how these processes are represented in models. …
Mar 25, 2024 3:00 PM — 4:00 PM NWC 1350 and [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/wnq-hmtm-meu)
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NCAR ASP Atmospheric Boundary Layer Colloquium Experience
NCAR, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, is a National Science Foundation-funded center meant to provide scientists …
Mar 11, 2024 3:00 PM — 4:00 PM NWC 1350 and [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/wnq-hmtm-meu)
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A Preliminary Analysis of the Impacts of Assimilating UAS Data in NSSL’s Experimental Warn-on-Forecast System
From 24–25 March 2023, a severe weather outbreak occurred across the lower Mississippi River Valley. An isolated supercell produced the …
Mar 4, 2024 3:00 PM — 3:50 PM NWC 1350 and [Google Meet](http://meet.google.com/wnq-hmtm-meu)
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Quantifying the thermodynamic impacts on the atmospheric boundary layer due to the sea breeze in the coastal Houston region
The evolution of the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) is unique in coastal regions because there are kinematic and thermodynamic …
Nov 27, 2023 3:00 PM — 3:50 PM NWC 1350 and [Google Meet](http://meet.google.com/wnq-hmtm-meu)
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Comparisons of Environmental Influences on Boundary Layer Clouds Macro- and Microphysical properties over the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean: Results from COMBLE and MARCUS
The Arctic and Antarctic have large areas of sea ice, providing ideal conditions for frequent and severe cold air outbreaks (CAOs). …
Nov 20, 2023 3:00 PM — 3:50 PM NWC 1350 with online option via [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/wnq-hmtm-meu)
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Revisiting valley winds
Co-author: Matheus Gomes

We introduce a quasi-analytical model of thermally-induced flows in valleys with sloping floors, a feature …
Nov 6, 2023 3:00 PM — 3:50 PM NWC 1350 with online option via [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/wnq-hmtm-meu)
An Early Look into Boundary Layer-Wind Farm Interactions from the American Wake Experiment
Variations in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) due to onshore wind farms have been analyzed in the past, however, many questions …
Oct 23, 2023 3:00 PM — 1:50 PM NWC 1350 and [Google Meet](https://meet.google.com/wnq-hmtm-meu)
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