Second International IHOP_2002 Science Workshop

14-17 June 2004; Toulouse, France

Workshop Presentations:

• The International H2O Project (IHOP_2002) -- Two years Later (Parsons)

Convection Initiation:

• IHOP Convection Initiation and Storm Evolution Studies (Wilson)
• Assessment of Environmental Stability and RUC10 Forecasts of Storm Initiation (Roberts)
• Observations of convection initiation "failure" from the 12 June 2002 IHOP deployment (Markowski)
• Convection Initiation on 12 June 2002 (Weckwerth)
• Observations of the 11 June 2002 Dryline during IHOP - A Null Case for Convection Initiation (Cai)
• Analysis and Prediction of Convective Initiation on 24 May 2002 (Xue)
• The dryline on 19 June 2002 during IHOP: Thin Line Structure and Convection Initiation (Murphey)
• Analyses of the 10 June and 19 June 2002 IHOP Convection Initiation Cases (Richardson)

Atmospheric Boundary Layer:

• The Effects of Surface Heterogeneity on Boundary-Layer Structure and Fluxes (Lemone)
• Observations (and simulations) of ABL and land surface heterogeneity during IHOP (Davis)
• Highlights of Refractivity Observations by Radar (and Some More) during IHOP_2002 (Fabry)
• First attempt to identify sources of water vapor variability during the 29 May boundary layer heterogeneity mission (Bastin)
• Water vapour variability within the growing convective boundary layer of 14 June 2002 with large eddy simulations and observations (Couvreux)
• High Resolution Airborne DIAL Measurements of Water Vapour and Vertical Humidity Fluxes during IHOP (Kiemle)
• Part I: Fine-scale structure of a cold front. Part II: Vertical structure of the fair-weather continental convective boundary layer. (Geerts)

Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting:

• Diurnal Variations in Southern Great Plains during IHOP -- data and NCAR/CAM (Wang)
• Evaluation of the ability of Numerical Weather Prediction models run in support of IHOP to predict the evolution of Mesoscale Convective Systems (Koch)
• Multiscale Analyses of Moisture Transport by the Central Plains Low-Level Jet during IHOP (Tollerud)

Comparisons:

• Long-Term Refractivity Comparisons: Radar vs. Surface Station Measurements (Park)
• Radar refractivity: validation and application to forecasting (Pettet)
• Evaluation of Dropsonde Humidity and Temperature Sensors using IHOP and DYCOMS-II data (Wang)

Data Management:

• IHOP_2002 Data Management Update (Williams)

Bores:

• The Structure and Dynamics of Solitons and Bores in IHOP (Koch)
• Modeling of a Bore Observed on June 04 during IHOP_2002 (Pagowski)
• The Life Cycle of a Bore Event over the US Southern Great Plains during IHOP_2002 (Flamant)
• Bores During IHOP_2002 and Speculation on Nocturnal Convection (Parsons)

Ongoing and Future Projects

• The African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis Project (Redelsperger)
• CSIP: Convective Storms Initiation Project (UK) (Blyth)
• The REFRACTT experiment/demonstration (Roberts)