In August 2008, the "Mountain Weather Workshop: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Forecasting" was held in Whistler, BC, Canada. It was sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, UCAR/COMET, and the Meteorological Service of Canada. The workshop brought together researchers, faculty, students, and operational forecasters. Its primary goals were to help provide a better understanding of the state of the science of mountain meteorology from both a research and an operational perspective, and to discuss ways of improving interaction between the research and forecasting communities. The workshop consisted of lectures by distinguished speakers covering numerous topics related to weather in complex terrain. This webcast collection contains recordings of the presentations from the workshop.
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The lectures are intended for meteorologists in both the research and operational communities who have an interest in mountain meteorology. For researchers, the workshop provided a better understanding of the technical needs of today's mountain weather forecasters, including learning about forecast problems and areas requiring more research, and learning about practical limitations of theoretical and numerical models used operationally. For forecasters, the workshop provided training on fundamentals of flows in complex terrain which are notoriously difficult to predict, an understanding of current research challenges, and a description of the latest advancements in theoretical understanding, numerical modeling, and observational techniques of weather in complex terrain.
mountain meteorology, diurnal mountain wind systems, planetary boundary layer, PBL, complex terrain, dynamically-driven winds, orographic precipitation, microphysics, transition regions, precipitation type, remote sensing, observations, data assimilation, spatialization, data quality, mesoscale NWP, large-eddy simulation, LES, gap winds, lee waves, downslope windstorms, barrier jets
