Dale R. Durran Professor and Chair of Atmospheric Sciences Adjunct Professor of Applied Mathematics Atmospheric Sciences Box 351640 University of Washington Seattle, WA  98195-1640 telephone : (206) 543-7440 facsimile:  (206) 543-0308 email:  durrand@atmos.washington.edu
Research Interests Mesoscale Dynamic Meteorology Numerical Methods Mountain Meteorology Atmospheric Waves The Mesoscale Alpine Programme MAP-GAP Data   (password required)
		Mountain-wave-induced cirrus over the Sierra Nevada

Curriculum Vitae

Textbook: Numerical Methods for Wave Equations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Animated Course Notes: Introduction to Weather for Non-Science Majors (ATM S 101)

Flow visualization software: The Interactive Visualization Environment (IVE)

Errata for Introduction to Dynamic Meteorology, 4th Edition, by James Holton.

Fluid Dynamics Animations

• Comparison of streamlines and trajectories
• Vertically propagating internal gravity waves generated by a isolated source
  

Laboratory Demonstration

• Comparing the rate of heat transfer by convection and conducton.

Coriolis Force Articles

• Is the Coriolis Force Really Responsible for the Inertial Oscillation (1993: BAMS, 74, 2179-2184) © Copyright 1993 AMS.
• An Apparatus for Demonstrating the Inertial Oscillation (1996: BAMS, 77, 557-559) © Copyright 1996 AMS.

Publications in the New Millenium

• Reinecke, P.A., and D. R. Durran, 2008: The over-amplification of gravity waves in numerical solutions to flow over topography. Mon. Wea. Rev., submitted.

• Harris, L.M. and D.R. Durran, 2008: Lee vortices in evolving large-scale flows. J. Atmos. Sci., accepted subject to revision.

• Minder, J.R., D.R. Durran, G.H. Roe and A.M. Anders, 2008: The climatology of small-scale precipitation over the Olympic mountains: Patterns and processes. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., in press.

• Maric, T. and D.R. Durran, 2008: Observations of gap flow in the Wipp Valley on 20 October 1999: are they consistent with the shallow-water model. J. Atmos. Sci., accepted subject to revision.

• Blossey, P.N. and D.R. Durran, 2008: Selective monotonicity preservation in scalar advection. J. Computational Physics, 227, 5160-5183..

• Durran, D.R., 2008: A physically motivated approach for filtering acoustic waves from the equations governing compressible stratified flow. J. Fluid Mech., 601, 365-379. © Copyright 2008 Cambridge University Press.

• Reinecke, P.A., and D. R. Durran, 2008: Estimating topographic blocking using a Froude number when the static stability is non-uniform. J. Atmos. Sci., 65, 1035-1048. © Copyright 2007 AMS.

• Durran, D.R., and A. Arakawa, 2007: Generalizing the Boussinesq Approximation to Stratified Compressible Flow. Comptes Rendus Mecanique, 355, 655-664 (DOI: 10.1016/j.crme.2007.08.010)

• Doyle , J.D., and D.R. Durran, 2007: Rotor and Sub-Rotor Dynamics in the Lee of Three-Dimensional Terrain. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 4202-4221. © Copyright 2007 AMS.

• Chen, C.-C., G.J. Hakim, and D.R. Durran 2007: Transient Mountain Waves and Their Interaction with Large Scales. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 2378-2400.© Copyright 2007 AMS.

• Anders, A.M., G.H. Roe, D.R. Durran and J.R. Minder, 2007: Small-scale spatial gradients in climatological precipitation on the Olympic Pennisula. J. Hydrometeorology, 8, 1068-1081. © Copyright 2007 AMS.
  
  
• Mayr, G.J., L. Armi, A. Gohm, G. Zangl, D.R. Durran, C. Flamant, S. Gabersek, S. Mobbs, A. Ross and M. Weissmann, 2007: Gap flows: results from the Mesoscale Alpine Programme MAP. Q. J. R. Meteor. Soc., 133, 881-896. © Copyright 2007 Royal Meteorological Society

• Kirshbaum, D.J., G.H. Bryan, R. Rotunno, and D.R. Durran, 2007: The triggering of orographic rainbands by small-scale topography. J. Atmos. Sci., 64, 1530-1549.© Copyright 2007 AMS.

• Stiperski, I., I. Kavcic, B. Grisogono, and D.R. Durran, 2007: Including Coriolis effects in the Prandtl model for katabatic flow. Q. J. R. Meteor. Soc., 133, 101-106. © Copyright 2007 Royal Meteorological Society

• Gabersek, S.A. and D.R. Durran, 2006: The dynamics of gap flow over idealized topography: Part II. Effects of rotation and surface friction. J. Atmos. Sci., 63, 2720-2739. © Copyright 2006 AMS.

• Chen, C.-C., D.R. Durran and G.J. Hakim, 2005: Mountain-wave momentum flux in an evolving synoptic-scale flow. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 3213-3231. © Copyright 2005 AMS.

• Kirshbaum, D. J.,  and D. R. Durran, 2005: Atmospheric factors governing banded orographic convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 3758-3774. © Copyright 2005 AMS.

• Kirshbaum, D. J.,  and D. R. Durran, 2005: Observations and modeling of banded orographic convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 62, 1463-1479. © Copyright 2005 AMS.

• Mullendore, G.L., D.R. Durran and J. R. Holton, 2005: Cross-tropopause tracer transport in midlatitude convection. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D06113, doi:10.1029/2004JD005059.

• Durran. D.R. and C. Bretherton, 2004: Comments on "The roles of the horizontal component of the Earth's angular velocity in nonhydrostatic linear models. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 1982-1986 © Copyright 2004 AMS.

• Gabersek, S.A. and D.R. Durran, 2004: The dynamics of gap flow over idealized topography: Part I. Forcing by large-scale winds in the nonrotating limit. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 2846-2862. © Copyright 2004 AMS.

• Doyle, J.D., and D.R. Durran, 2004: Recent Developments in the Theory of Atmospheric Rotors. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 85, 11-16. © Copyright 2004 AMS.

• D.R. Durran and P.A. Reinecke, 2004: Instability in a class of explicit two-time level semi-Lagrangian schemes. Q. J. R. Meteor. Soc., 130, 365-369. © Copyright 2004 Royal Meteorological Society

• Kirshbaum, D. J.,  and D. R. Durran, 2004: Factors Governing Cellular Convection in Orographic Precipitation. J. Atmos. Sci., 61, 682-698. © Copyright 2004 AMS.

• Durran, D.R., T. Maric, R.M. Banta, L.S. Darby,  and R.M. Hardesty, 2003: A comparison of ground-based Doppler lidar and airborne in situ wind observations above complex terrain. Q. J. R. Meteor. Soc., 129, 693-713. © Copyright 2004 Royal Meteorological Society

• Doyle, J.D., and D.R. Durran, 2002: The Dynamics of Mountain-Wave Induced Rotors.  J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 186-201. © Copyright 2002 AMS.

• Epifanio, C.C., and D.R. Durran, 2002: Lee vortex formation in free-slip stratified flow over ridges. Part I: Comparison of weakly nonlinear inviscid theory and fully nonlinear viscous simulations. J. Atmos. Sci.,  59, 1153-1165. © Copyright 2002 AMS.

• Epifanio, C.C., and D.R. Durran, 2002: Lee vortex formation in free-slip stratified flow over ridges. Part II: Mechanisms of vorticity and PV production in nonlinear viscous wakes.  J. Atmos. Sci., 59, 1166-1181. © Copyright 2002 AMS.

• Durran, D.R., 2001: Open Boundary Conditions: Fact and Fiction. IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics, P.F. Hodnett, Ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 1-18. (postscript version)

• Piani, C., and D. Durran, 2001: A numerical study of stratospheric gravity waves triggered by squall lines observed during the TOGA-COARE and COPT-81 experiments. J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 3702-3721. © Copyright 2001 AMS.

• Epifanio, C.C., and D.R. Durran, 2001: Three-dimensional effects in high-drag-state flows over long ridges.  J. Atmos. Sci., 58, 1051-1065. © Copyright 2001 AMS.

• Durran, D.R., 2000: Small-amplitude coastally trapped disturbances and the reduced-gravity shallow-water approximation. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 126, 2671-2689. © Copyright 2004 Royal Meteorological Society

• Piani, C., D. Durran, M.J. Alexander and J.R. Holton, 2000: A numerical study of three dimensional gravity waves triggered by deep tropical convection. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 3689-3702. © Copyright 2000 AMS.

• Durran, D.R., 2000: Wave propagation in quadratic-finite-element approximations to hyperbolic equations J. Comp. Phys., 159, 448-455

• Pandya, R.E., D.R. Durran and M.L. Weisman, 2000: The influence of convective thermal forcing on the mesoscale circulation around three-dimensional squall lines. J. Atmos. Sci., 57, 29-45, © Copyright 2000 AMS.

Selected Conference Presentations

• Orographic Precipitation and the form of mountain ranges.  18th Conference on Hydrology. American Meteorological Society: Seattle, WA; 11-15 January 2004 (Durran's participation in this research supported by NSF grant ATM-0137335)

• 13th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction. American Meteorological Society: Denver, Colorado; 13-17 September 1999 (research supported by NSF grant ATM-9530662)