UNSTABLE Presentations

The 43rd CMOS Congress, Halifax, NS, 4 June 2009

At the 43rd annual CMOS (Canadian Meteorological and Oceanic Society) Congress two special sessions were devoted to UNSTABLE and other related research. Some presentations from those sessions are available here.

Session 1

The Understanding Severe Thunderstorms and Alberta Boundary Layers Experiment (UNSTABLE) 2008: Operations Overview (Taylor et al.)

Mesonet observations during the UNSTABLE 2008 pilot (Sills et al.)

Moisture cycling and urban dry islands in thunderstorm environments (Strong et al.)

Exploring surface linkages to convection and convective boundary layer thermal characteristics on the Canadian Prairies (Hanesiak et al.)

Evaluating GEM-LAM precipitable water vapour output using the Southern Alberta GPS Network during UNSTABLE 2008 (Smith et al.)

Characterization of the Dryline in Alberta on 13 July 2008 Using Observational Data from UNSTABLE 2008 (Taylor et al.)

Session 2

Triggering mechanisms for the 17 July 2008 hailstorms (Brown et al.)

A convective wind event over Southeastern Alberta on 15 July 2008 (Knott and Wielki)

Modeling maximum hail size for Alberta storms (Reuter et al.)

Mixing heights and convective cloud base heights (Stachowiak and Reuter)

Lightning climatology at 20 km^2 and 1 km^2 resolution for Canada from CLDN observations (Burrows)

Using GEM REG output for forecasts of convective initiation on the Canadian Prairies (Taylor and Burrows)