Problem Set #4, Part II
Advanced Mesoscale Meteorology
METR 6413, Sec. 1
Howie “Cb” Bluestein
Handed out: Fri., 16 Oct. 2015
Due: Tues., 20 Oct. 2015
1. Consider the sounding from Reno, NV at 1200 UTC, 13 Nov. 2000 below. Assume the
upstream Sierra-Nevada mountain range is oriented in a north-south manner.
(a) Calculate the Scorer parameter (l) as a function of height up to 150 hPa.
Include both terms in the calculation of l; could the one involving the vertical
derivative of U have been neglected?
(b) If the orography is an infinite, sinusoidally varying set of mountain ranges
separated in the east-west direction by 300 km, how does l compare to k as a
function of height?