Recent Conference Participation
February 19-24, 2007  WRF Verification Workshop, Boulder, Colorado: Sukanta Basu
May 22-25, 2007 AGU Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico: Sukanta Basu
June 3-6, 2007 WindPower 2007, Los Angeles, California: Brandon Storm
June 11-14, 2007 8th  WRF User's Workshop, Boulder, Colorado: Brandon Storm
June 19-21, 2007 GABLS Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden: Sukanta Basu
June 25-29, 2007 AMS 18th Conference on NWP, Park City, Utah: Brandon Storm
July 1-6, 2007 12th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Cairns, Australia: Will Anderson
January 14-16, 2008  DOE-Wind Resource Characterization Workshop, Broomfield, Colorado: Sukanta Basu
January 20-24, 2008  AMS Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Lousiana: Julie Phillipson and Rachel Rogers

Recent Publications
Storm, B., Dudhia, J., Basu, S., Swift, A., and Giammanco, I. (2008). "Evaluation of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model on forecasting low-level jets: Implications for wind energy", Wind Energy (accepted)
Basu, S, Vinuesa, J-F, Swift, A (2008). "Dynamic LES modeling of a diurnal cycle", Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology (in press)
Basu, S., Holtslag, AAM, van de Wiel, BJH, Moene, A., and Steeneveld, G.-J. (2007). "An inconvenient 'truth' about using sensible heat flux as a surface boundary condition is models under stably stratified regimes", Acta Geophysica - Special issue in The Latest Topics in Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 56, DOI: 10.2478/s11600-007-0038-y
Basu, S., Foufoula-Georgiou, E., Lashermes, B., and Arnéodo, A. (2007). "Estimating intermittency exponent in neutrally stratified atmospheric surface layer flows: A robust framework based on magnitude cumulant and surrogate analyses", Physics of Fluids19, 115102.
Vinuesa, J-F, Basu, S, and Galmarini, S (2007). "The diurnal evolution of 222Rn and its progeny in the atmospheric boundary layer during the Wangara experiment", Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 7, 5003-5019
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.net/7/5003/2007/acp-7-5003-2007.pdf
Anderson, WC, Basu, S, and Letchford CW (2007). "Comparison of dynamic subgrid-scale models for simulations of neutrally buoyant shear-driven atmospheric boundary layer flows", Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 7, 195-215
http://www.springerlink.com/content/a034233586182671/

Student Internships
Brandon Storm: Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology Division, NCAR (Fall 2006)
Julie Phillipson: National Weather Service, Lubbock (Summer 2007)
Rachel Rogers: Texas Weather Modification Association, White Deer (Summer 2007)
Padriac Fowler: 3Tier, Seattle (Spring 2008)

Distinguished Visitors
February 25-26, 2007 Prof. S. Lakshmivarahan (U. Oklahoma)
March 21-23, 2007 Dr. Ted Yamada (YSA Corp.)
September 5-9, 2007 Prof. Bert Holtslag (Wageningen U., The Netherlands) 
April 17-19, 2008 Dr. Jimy Dudhia (NCAR)