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Whiteman/Hoch/Lehner Research Group Jeglum Stiperski Lehner Feigenwinter Hills Capabilities/Interests: Visiting scientists: Ivana Stiperski (Innsbruck) Iris Feigenwinter (Uni Basel/ CH) Bianca Adler (KIT) & Nortbert Kalthoff (KIT/Germany) Mountain meteorology Thermally driven flows, Dynamic flows, Climatology, Air quality, Instrumentation, and Field Studies Work presently underway: METCRAX II (with Rich Rotunno and Ron Calhoun) Wintertime PM2.5 Air Pollution Study (with Horel and Zhong) MATERHORN (with Jim Steenburgh, Zhaoxia Pu, Eric Pardyjak) Lake Bed Dust Study (with Kevin Perry & Erik Crosman) Dischmatal Experiment (Davos / CH) Teaching Mountain Meteorology: Atmos 3200 & 5250, also 6250

Ice Mushrooms of Patagonia Paine Grande, Patagonia Fall semester 2016: Will be working as a visiting scientist at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, collaborating with Drs. Manuela Lehner and Iva Stiperski

Persistent Cold-Air Pools / Air quality Salt Lake Valley inversion from Snowbird Installing HOBOs on Grandeur Peak Salt Lake City, “undercast” Winter 2015-2016: Collaboration with DAQ.

Bingham Canyon Mine Experiment

Second Meteor Crater Experiment Meteor Crater, Arizona Hydraulic flow over Meteor Crater rim, focus of October 2013 experiment

MATERHORN / MATERHORN-FOG Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations Program Matt Jeglum Amélie Klein (visiting from France) launching radiosonde at MATERHORN, Granite Mountain in background

Observations Dual-Doppler Lidar retrieval, METCRAX-II Other instrumentation: Sodar/ Surface Energy Balance / RS / …

Numerical modeling Manuela Lehner Simulations of waves and downslope-windstorm-type flows in the Meteor Crater: Simulations of cold-air pool development in a small Austrian sinkhole “Grünloch”: Matt Hills Lowest recorded minimum temperature in central Europe: -52.6˚C