Vanda Grubišić

Visiting Scientist
TIIMES - Desert Research Institute
Gravity Waves

Contact Information:
PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000
Office: FL2 - 3082
Telephone: 303-497-8280 | DRI: 775-674-7031
Email: vanda.grubisic@dri.edu
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Project Summary:

I have been the ASP Faculty Fellow visitor in TIIMES since January 2007. During my visit to TIIMES I have been involved in gravity wave (GW) research as part of my post-field-campaign T-REX data analysis work. Also during my visit, I have been involved in the formulation of the proposal for the GW strategic initiative headed by Hanli Liu and Yaga Richter, and have participated in the proposal for CONCORDIASI led by Dave Parsons.

The core of my research this year has been devoted to the analysis of T-REX observational data including in situ aircraft, ground-based remote sensing, and in situ surface sensors from the T-REX wave and rotor events. The analysis has been focused on the lower tropospheric wave response and, of course, rotors. We have also pursued an idealized numerical study of lee wave generation over double bell-shaped orography. These results point to the existence of a special non-linear resonant lee wave response over double bell-shaped orography for atmospheric profiles of wind and stability and mountain profiles resembling those found in the T-REX experimental activity area.

Community Service:

• UCAR Unidata Policy Committee

• NSF/NCAR Observing Facilities Assessment Panel (OFAP)

• NSF Facilities 1st Users’ Workshop, Program Committee Member

• NSF/NCAR High-altitude Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER - GV) Science Advisory Committee

• University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), President’s Advisory Committee on University Relations (PACUR)

• AMS Committee on Mesoscale Processes

Presentations:

• Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment: New Insights into the Structure of Atmospheric Rotors, TIIMES Seminar Series, National Center for Atmospheric Research, October 2007

• Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment: New Insights into the Structure of Atmospheric Rotors, Stratospheric Gravity Waves, and Boundary-Layer Flows within a Deep Valley, AMS 12th Conference on Mesoscale Processes, Waterville Valley, NH, August 2007, Invited Conference Presentation

• Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment: Insights into the Structure of Atmospheric Rotors, 29th International Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM), Chambéry, France, June 2007, Invited Conference Presentation

• T-REX: Exploration of Atmospheric Rotors, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Colorado-Boulder, February 2007

Publications:

Grubišić, V., J. D. Doyle, J. Kuettner, S. Mobbs, R. B. Smith, C. D. Whiteman, R. Dirks, S. Czyzyk, S. A. Cohn, S. Vosper, M. Weissmann, S. Haimov, S. DeWekker, L. Pan, F. K. Chow, 2007: The Terrain-induced Rotor Experiment: An overview of the field campaign and some highlights of special observations. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Submitted.

Smith, R. B., B. K. Woods, J. Jensen, W. A. Cooper, J. D. Doyle, Q. Jiang, and V. Grubišić, 2007: Mountain waves entering the stratosphere. J. Atmos. Sci., Submitted.

Grubišić, V., and B. J. Billings, 2007: Climatology of the Sierra Nevada mountain wave events. Mon. Wea. Rev., In press.

Grubišić, V., and B. J. Billings, 2007: The intense lee-wave rotor event of Sierra Rotors IOP 8. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 4178–4201.

Grubišić, V., and M. Orlić, 2007: Early observations of rotor clouds by Andrija Mohorovičić. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 88, 693–700.