Field measurements and simulations of land-atmosphere interaction

Organiser: Marc Parlange, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (Marc.Parlange@epfl.ch)

This broad session is open to presentations concerning the exchange of heat, mass and momentum at the land-atmosphere interface with particular focus on the development and application of instrumentation for field measurements, observations, new generation models and numerical simulations. Presentations concerning field measurments in support of the development of models for atmospheric turbulent flows (e.g. subgrid scale models for LES), new developments on flow over complex terrain (including plant canopies and urban environments), similarity theory of the atmospheric boundary layer, and flows under stable atmospheric stability are strongly encouraged. In addition technical developments in instrumentation and instrumentation physics that will allow the micrometeorology community to advance their science are most welcome.