Email: moeng@ucar.edu
Phone: 303-497-8911
Postal Address: P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000
Shipping Address: 3450 Mitchell Lane, Boulder, CO, 80307-3000

Professional Interests

* Large-eddy simulation (LES) technique and its applications to the PBL
* Coherent structure and transport properties of PBL turbulence
* PBL parameterizations and closures for mesoscale and climate models
* Entrainment, radiation, evaporation, turbulence, and their interactions in stratocumulus-topped PBLs
* Applications of Lagrangian particle modeling and LES to air pollution problems
* Interaction of PBL turbulence with the Earth's surface
* Subfilter-scale modeling in LES

Recent Publications

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Lin, M., Moeng, C., Tsai, W., Sullivan, P. P., Belcher, S. E., 2008: Direct numerical simulation of wind-wave generation processes. Journal of Fluid Mechanics.

Ackerman, A. S., vanZanten, M., Stevens, B., Savic-Jovcic, V., Bretherton, C. S., Jiang, H., Khairourdinov, M., Krueger, S. K., Lewellen, D. C., Lock, A., Moeng, C., Nakamura, K., Petters, M. D., Snider, J. R., Weinbrecht, S., Zulauf, M., 2008: Large-eddy simulations of a drizzling, stratocumulus-topped marine boundary layer. Monthly Weather Review. (In Press).

Kim, S., Moeng, C., Weil, J. C., Barth, M. C., 2007: Comment on "Fumigation of pollutants in and above the entrainment zone into a growing convective boundary layer: A large-eddy simulation". Atmospheric Environment, 41, doi: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2007.07.017, 7679-7682.

Moeng, C., Dudhia, J., Klemp, J., Sullivan, P., 2007: Examining the two-way grid nesting for large-eddy simulation of the PBL using the WRF model. Monthly Weather Review, 135, doi: 10.1175/MWR3406.1, 2295-2311.

Tsai, W., Chen, S., Moeng, C., 2005: A numerical study on the evolution and structure of a stress-driven free-surface turbulent shear flow. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 545, 163-192.

Selected Presentations

JHU Presentation 2003

JHU Talk (Powerpoint)

Movie files (download into same directory as Powerpoint file, above):

NCU Presentation 2003

NCU Talk (Powerpoint)