Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment (Expanded View)

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Program Chairpersons:
Jason Ching, NOAA/ARL
Robert Bornstein, San Jose State University
David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ.

Compact View of Conference

Sunday, 9 September 2007
5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration
 
Monday, 10 September 2007
7:30 AM-5:00 PM, Monday
Registration continues through Thursday, 13 September
 
8:45 AM-11:30 AM, Monday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Joint Session J1 Plenary: Coastal-Urban Interactions and Vulnerabilities in the Areas of Weather, Climate, and Air Quality (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes)
Cochairs: Bob Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; Julie Pullen, NRL, Monterey, CA
8:45 AMJ1.1AIntroductory Remarks  
Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA, Research Triangle park, NC
9:15 AMJ1.1Climate change impacts on coastal urban areas  
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/GISS, New York, NY
9:45 AMJ1.2Challenges in Coupled Air-Sea-Land Modeling of Hurricanes and Applications in Coastal and Urban Environment  
Shuyi S. Chen, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
10:15 AMJ1.3Environmental Impacts of Urbanization in Tropical Coastal Zones  
Jorge E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
10:45 AMJ1.4Developing an Integrated Ocean Observing System for Improved Mitigation of the Impacts of Coastal Hazards and Climate Change on Coastal Communities  
Thomas C. Malone, Univ. of Maryland, Arlington, VA
11:15 AMJ1.5AMesoscale Disturbances Over Manila and Adjacent Coastal Areas Due to Diurnal heating of the Ground  
Mariano A. Estoque, Manila Observatory, Quezon City, Philippines
 J1.5 moved. New paper number J2.9  
 
11:30 AM-1:00 PM, Monday
Lunch Break
 
1:00 PM-3:00 PM, Monday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Joint Session J2 Characterizing the Urban and Coastal Climate: Thermal and Boundary Layer Structure and Atmospheric Responses (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes)
Cochairs: Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY; T.R. Oke, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
1:00 PMJ2.1Comparison of the urban heat island signatures of two Texas cities: Dallas and Houston  extended abstract
Lisa S. Darby, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. Senff
1:15 PMJ2.21984-2005 UHI trend over Montreal, Canada, using high resolution Landsat imagery and surface station data  
Philippe Martin Sr., EC, Montreal, QC, Canada; and Y. Baudouin and M. Beauchemin
1:30 PMJ2.3Assessing causes in spatial variability in urban heat island magnitude  extended abstract wrf recording
Melissa Hart, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and D. J. Sailor
1:45 PMJ2.4Investigating the relationship between urban landuse and precipitating convective systems over the Atlanta region  extended abstract
Willis Otieno Shem, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and M. J. Shepherd
2:00 PMJ2.5Climate Change and New York City  
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and R. M. Horton
2:15 PMJ2.6A comparison of modeled and observed urban surface temperatures in Toulouse, France  extended abstract wrf recording
Mark Moscicki, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and J. A. Voogt
2:30 PMJ2.7Empirical modeling and mapping of below-canopy air temperatures in Baltimore, MD and vicinity  extended abstract
Gordon M. Heisler, USDA Forest Service, Syracuse, NY; and J. Walton, I. Yesilonis, D. Nowak, R. Pouyat, R. H. Grant, S. Grimmond, K. Hyde, and G. Bacon
2:45 PMJ2.8Impacts of low land use on a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest under a Changing Coastal Climate  extended abstract wrf recording
Isaac Torres, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR; and J. E. Gonzalez and D. E. Comarazamy
3:00 PMJ2.9Urban Growth Impacts on Submerged Aquatic Vegetation, Restoration and Health in the Mobile Bay, Alabama Area (Formerly J1.5)   wrf recording
Dale A. Quattrochi, MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. G. Estes, M. Al-Hamdan, H. Johnson, J. Hodgson, R. Thom, and D. Woodruff
 
1:00 PM-3:00 PM, Monday, Boardroom
Session 1 Human Dimensions, Urban Climate, Planning, and Biometeorology I
Cochairs: Anthony J. Brazel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Jay Golden, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
1:00 PM1.1The use of the Airborne Thermal/Visible Land Application Sensor (ATLAS) to Determine the Surface Energy Response for Urban Areas  
Jeffrey C. Luvall, MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and D. Rickman and D. A. Quattrochi
1:30 PM1.2Using DyMSiM to model the response of important disease vectors to urban environments and climate in Tucson, Arizona  
Cory W. Morin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. C. Comrie
1:45 PM1.3Climate Conditions Associated with Heat Related Emergency Dispatches  
Donna A. Hartz, Arizona State Univ., Scottsdale, AZ; and A. Brazel and J. Golden
2:00 PM1.4Preliminary assessment of the air quality effects of trees: An urban forestry-based SIP measure in Sacramento, California  
James R. Simpson, USDA Forest Service, Davis, CA; and E. G. McPherson
2:15 PM1.5A Decision Support System for Human Health Vulnerability to Urban Climate Change  
Jay Golden, School of Sustainability & National Center of Excellence at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
2:30 PM1.6Urban Heat Island Mitigation and Life Cycle CO2 Reduction by Installation of Urban Heat Island Countermeasures  extended abstract
Tomohiko Ihara, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and Y. Kikegawa, K. Oka, K. Yamaguchi, Y. Endo, and Y. Genchi
2:45 PM1.7Million trees LA canopy cover assessment  
E. Gregory McPherson, Center for Urban Forest Research, US Forest Service, Davis, CA; and J. R. Simpson, Q. Xiao, and C. Wu
3:00 PM1.8Mesoscale and meso-urban modeling of heat islands and control: Evaluation of potential ozone air-quality impacts in California (Formerly 2.1)  
Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc., Martinez, CA; and R. Bornstein
 
3:15 PM-3:45 PM, Monday, Macaw/Cockatoo
Coffee Break
 
3:45 PM-5:00 PM, Monday, Boardroom
Session 2 Human Dimensions, Urban Climate, Planning, and Biometeorology II
Cochairs: Jay Golden, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; Anthony James Brazel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
 Paper 2.1 moved. New paper 1.8  
3:45 PM2.2Beyond the Standards: Designer air quality in 2050  
Farhan Akhtar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. E. Chang and A. G. Russell
4:00 PM2.3Urban climate and building design strategies for indoor comfort  
Suryadevara Sachi Devi, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India; and A. V. Ramani
2.4Suburbanization, Land Use Policy, and Heat Islands: A Case Study of the NY-NJ-CT Metropolitan Region  
Jennifer Cox, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
2.5Regional Climate Change Induced by Land-Use Change and Implications for Air Quality in the Pearl River Delta, China  
Xuemei Wang, Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; and F. Chen, C. Wiedinmyer, A. Guenther, M. Tewari, and Z. Chai
4:15 PM2.5ALarge trees as a barrier between solar radiation and sealed surfaces: their capacity to ameliorate urban heat if planted strategically to shade pavement  extended abstract
Anita Walz, Marshall University, Huntington, WV; and W. H. Hwang
4:30 PM2.6Land use and Urban Heat Island Effect on Surface Air Temperature Change in Northeast China  
Qingxiang Li Sr., China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China; and P. Si
4:45 PM2.7Urban design and thermal comfort: assessment of open spaces in Barra Funda, a brownfield site in São Paulo, by means of site measurements and predictive simulations  extended abstract
Denise Duarte, USP - University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil; and J. Gonçalves and L. Monteiro
 
3:45 PM-5:45 PM, Monday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Session 3 Energy Exchange, Water Balances and Anthropogenic Fluxes
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London United Kingdom; James A. Voogt, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, ON Canada
3:45 PM3.1Thermo-radiative modeling and energy balance of the urban canopy: relations between simulated and measured temperatures  extended abstract wrf recording
Aurélien Hénon, Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides, UMR CNRS 6598, NANTES, France; and P. G. Mestayer and D. Groleau
4:00 PM3.2Application of a sea-breeze index to evaluate the impact on urban energy balance fluxes  
Aurore Porson, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom; and S. Grimmond and D. G. Steyn
4:15 PM3.3A microscale three-dimensional urban energy balance model for studying surface temperatures  
E. Scott Krayenhoff, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. A. Voogt
4:30 PM3.4Contribution of snow melt to the surface energy budget observed during the 2005 Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (MUSE)  
Stéphane Bélair, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and A. Lemonsu, J. Mailhot, and F. Chagnon
4:45 PM3.5Interdisciplinary study of coupled water-biophysical-climate systems in a semi-arid urban environment  extended abstract wrf recording
Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Pardyjak, C. Forster, S. Bush, I. Jeyachandran, P. Ramamurthy, M. Jensen, and N. Augustus
5:00 PM3.6A bottom-up approach for estimating latent and sensible heat emissions from anthropogenic sources  extended abstract wrf recording
David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR; and A. Brooks, M. Hart, and S. Heiple
5:15 PM3.7Estimation of urban heat fluxes in Shanghai from an airborne hyperspectral image: comparison of two models  
Weidong Xu, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Wooster and S. Grimmond
 
6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, Macaw/Cockatoo
Icebreaker Reception and Formal Poster Viewing (Cash Bar)
 
6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Monday, Macaw/Cockatoo
Poster Session P1 Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment Poster Session 1
Chair: David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
 P1.1Development and evaluation of a vegetated urban canopy model for use in mesoscale models  
Sang-Hyun Lee, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. U. Park and J. J. Baik
 P1.2Urban Application of an Alternative Flux Estimation Method  extended abstract
Christopher A. Biltoft, Adiabat Meteorological Services, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak
 P1.3Evaluation of the TEB urban model over Montreal in late winter and spring conditions  
Aude Lemonsu, CNRM, Météo France, Toulouse, France; and S. Bélair and J. Mailhot
 P1.4A coordinate system independent surface stress  extended abstract
Cheryl L. Klipp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
 P1.5Combining sub-facet scale urban energy balance and sensor-view models to investigate the dependence of effective thermal anisotropy on city structure  extended abstract
E. Scott Krayenhoff, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. A. Voogt
P1.6A numerical study on flow in street canyons using a second-order turbulence closure model  
Young-San Park, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and J. J. Baik
 P1.7Study on the Effects of Various Relaxation Measures for Outdoor Thermal Environment in the Different Present Urban Blocks Using Coupled Simulation of Convection, Radiation and Conduction  extended abstract
Tsuchiya Takashi, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Ooka, H. Chen, and H. Huang
 Poster P1.8 Moved. New Paper 11.5A  
 P1.9Airflow, building height diference and wind tunnel test  extended abstract
Alessandra Rodrigues Prata, FAUUSP-Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and A. B. Frota
 P1.10Implementation of a building energy model in an urban canopy parameterization  extended abstract
Francisco Salamanca, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and A. Krpo, A. Martilli, and A. Clappier
 P1.11An investigation of thermal effects on flow and dispersion in an idealized urban area using LES  
Akshay Gowardhan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and E. Pardyjak, I. Senocak, and M. Brown
 P1.12A fast urban dispersion model - evaluation and application  
Rory P. Donnelly, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia; and T. J. Lyons
 Poster P1.14 Moved. New Paper 14.1A  
 P1.15Using autocorrelation to evaluate persistence forecasts for discrete wind vector fields in the National Capital Region  extended abstract
Christoph A. Vogel, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and W. R. Pendergrass
 P1.16The Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities (EPiCC) Network  
James A. Voogt, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and T. R. Oke, S. Bélair, M. Benjamin, A. Christen, N. Coops, S. Grimmond, A. Lemonsu, J. Mailhot, V. Masson, I. McKendry, and J. Wang
 P1.17UrbaNet: publc/private partnership  
William R. Pendergrass, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Oak Ridge, TN; and B. B. Hicks and R. S. Artz
P1.18A knowledge-based mesonet siting/installation strategy in an urban, coastal setting  
James Titlow III, WeatherFlow Inc., Poquoson, VA
 P1.19Investigation of the Flow Structure around Step-Up, Step-Down, Deep Canyon and Isolated Tall Building Configurations using Wind-Tunnel PIV Measurements  
Bhagirath Addepalli, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. J. Brown, E. R. Pardyjak, and I. Senocak
 
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
8:30 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Joint Session J3 Plenary: Advancing our Modeling Capabilities (Tools) (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes)
Cochairs: William T. Thompson, NRL, Monterey, CA; David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
8:30 AMJ3.1An overview of advanced urbanization of mesoscale models  
Alberto Martilli, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain
9:00 AMJ3.2Challenges in developing advanced urban parameterization schemes for the community WRF model  
Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Tewari, S. Miao, Y. Liu, B. Bornstein, J. Ching, and H. Kusaka
9:30 AMJ3.3Urbanized mesoscale coastal modeling and ensemble approaches  
Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA
J3.4Real time modeling of coastal urban areas  
Alexander Baklanov, Danish Meteorological Institute, København, Denmark
10:00 AMJ3.4AHigh-resolution simulations of the urban atmosphere in sea-breeze conditions  extended abstract
Isabelle Calmet, Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides, Nantes, France; and S. Leroyer and P. G. Mestayer
 
10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Macaw/Cockatoo
Coffee Break
 
11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Toucan
Session 4 Advanced Multiscale Urban Modeling
Cochairs: Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid Spain; Aurore Porson, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading United Kingdom
11:00 AM4.1Progress Towards a Coupled Mesoscale and Microscale Modeling Capability  extended abstract wrf recording
William Coirier, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL; and S. Kim, S. Marella, J. Mayes, F. Chen, J. Michalakes, M. Bettencourt, and S. Miao
11:15 AM4.2Evaluation of the Canadian urban modeling system over Oklahoma City  
Aude Lemonsu, CNRM, Météo France, Toulouse, France; and S. Bélair and J. Mailhot
11:30 AM4.3Preliminary results of CFD simulations for the scenario of a recent field study in an urban area  extended abstract wrf recording
Ronald M. Cionco, Retired Meteorologist, Las Cruces, NM; and A. Huber and W. Tang
11:45 AM4.4An improved WRF for urban-scale and complex-terrain applications  extended abstract
Julie K. Lundquist, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and F. K. Chow, J. D. Mirocha, and K. A. Lundquist
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Keynote Session KS1 Award, Recognition and Guest Luncheon Speaker (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes)
Moderator: David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
12:00 PMKS1.1Landsberg Award Presentation to Tim Oke  
David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
12:15 PMKS1.2Recognition to Mariano A. Estoque  
David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
12:30 PMKS1.3A Perfect Storm?—Population Growth, Climate Change and the Urban Environment   wrf recording
Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc., Boulder, CO
 
1:30 PM-3:15 PM, Tuesday, Toucan
Session 5 Advanced Multiscale Urban Modeling II
Cochairs: Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid Spain; Aurore Porson, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading United Kingdom
5.1Hybrid method of LES and meso-scale meteorological model for heat island analysis in coastal urban area  
Tetsuro Tamura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan; and Y. Okuda and J. Nagayama
1:30 PM5.2Evaluation of the inner-scaling similarity of turbulence over urban-like roughness derived from an outdoor scale model experiment  extended abstract wrf recording
Atsushi Inagaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda
1:45 PM5.3Implementation of an Urban Canopy Parameterization in WRF-chem. Preliminary results  extended abstract wrf recording
Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and R. Schmitz
2:00 PM5.4Development and assessment of the second generation National Building Statistics Database  extended abstract wrf recording
Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and N. Augustus, I. Jeyachandran, and M. J. Brown
2:15 PM5.5Observed and simulated effects of urban canopy on air temperatures in summer Tokyo  extended abstract wrf recording
Yukihiro Kikegawa, Meisei University, Tokyo, Japan; and Y. Ohashi and H. Kondo
2:30 PM5.6Profile conserving extension of an high-complexity urban surface exchange parametrization  
Clive Muller, ETH, Lausanne, Switzerland; and O. Fuhrer, G. Fontannaz, and A. Clappier
2:45 PM5.7A New Approach for the Urbanization in the Unified Model  
Aurore Porson, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology, Reading, United Kingdom; and P. Clark, I. N. Harman, and S. E. Belcher
 
3:15 PM-3:45 PM, Tuesday, Macaw/Cockatoo
Coffee Break
 
3:45 PM-5:45 PM, Tuesday, Toucan
Session 6 National Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (NUDAPT)
Cochairs: Jason Ching, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; Steve Burian, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
3:45 PM6.1National urban database and access portal tools (NUDAPT), a project overview  extended abstract wrf recording
Jason Ching, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC
4:00 PM6.2Database features of the National Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (NUDAPT)  extended abstract wrf recording
Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Brown, D. J. Sailor, R. M. Cionco, R. Ellefsen, M. Estes, and T. Hultgren
4:15 PM6.3Functional Demonstration of the National Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (NUDAPT)  
Torrin Hultgren, Computer Sciences Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
4:30 PM6.4UCP / MM5 Modeling in conjunction with NUDAPT: Model requirements, updates, and applications  
Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc., Martinez, CA; and J. K. S. Ching
4:45 PM6.5Effects of high-resolution building and urban data sets on the WRF/urban coupled model simulations for the Houston-Galveston areas  
Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Tewari and J. Ching
6.6Influence of urban effects on air quality in Phoenix urban area simulated by modified MM5/Urbanized  
Kyungsun Park, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and H. J. S. Fernando
5:00 PM6.7Automated urban land use and land cover classification for mesoscale atmospheric modeling over Canadian cities  
Alexandre Leroux, Meteorological Service of Canada, Environmental emergency response division, Dorval, QC, Canada; and A. Lemonsu, J. Mailhot, and S. Belair
6.8Fine scale CMAQ modeling driven by urbanized MM5 and WRF models  
Jason Ching, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and H. Taha and F. Chen
5:15 PM6.9Microscale aspects of NUDAPT  extended abstract wrf recording
Ronald M. Cionco, Retired, Las Cruces, NM; and R. Ellefsen
 
6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Tuesday, Macaw/Cockatoo
Reception and Formal Poster Viewing (Cash Bar)
 
6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Tuesday, Macaw/Cockatoo
Poster Session P2 Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment Poster Session 2
Chair: Jason Ching, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC
 P2.1A comparison of CO2 fluxes at two sites within the urbanized Salt Lake Valley  extended abstract
Prathap Ramamurthy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak
P2.2Quantifying the urban water supply impacts of climate change  
Jeffrey K. O'Hara, Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc., Chicago, IL; and K. P. Georgakakos
 P2.3Progress in Understanding How Human Activity in Cities Affects Precipitation  
J. Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and S. Burian, M. Jin, W. O. Shem, L. Hand, and C. Mitra
 P2.4The relation between land-cover and the urban heat island in Northeastern Puerto Rico  extended abstract
David J. R. Murphy, SUNY - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY; and M. Hall, C. Hall, G. M. Heisler, and S. Stehman
 P2.5A study on the building wind impact assessment in Seoul, Korea  extended abstract
Kyoo-seock Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea; and J. C. Kim
 P2.6Impacts of urbanization in the coastal tropical city of San Juan, Puerto Rico  
Daniel E. Comarazamy, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; and J. E. Gonzalez, J. C. Luvall, and D. Rickman
 P2.7Techniques to estimate urban canopy parameters using satellite data  extended abstract
Indumathi Jeyachandran, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. Burian, P. E. Dennison, G. Nash, and B. Dudley-Murphy
 P2.8Morning peak of air pollutant concentrations in urban areas: effect of time lag between emissions and turbulence  extended abstract
Ricardo Muñoz, Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile; and R. Schmitz
 P2.9Does the restoration of an inner-city stream in Seoul affect local climate?  
Yeon-Hee Kim, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, South Korea; and H. J. Koo, K. R. Kim, B. C. Choi, and J. J. Baik
 Poster P2.10 has been moved. New Paper 2.5A  
 P2.11Study on air temperature fall by sea breeze and a simple evaluation method of urban heat island measure technology using upper weather data  
Hideki Takebayashi, Department of Architecture, Graduate school of Engineering, Kobe University, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; and M. Moriyama
 P2.12Gulf coastal urban forest hazard assessment and remote sensing efforts after hurricanes Katrina and Rita  extended abstract
Kamran K. Abdollahi, SU Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Baton Rouge, LA; and Z. H. Ning, D. Collins, F. Namwamba, and A. Negatu
 P2.13Investigating the urban climate – air quality – human response system for a heat/air quality episode in Portland, Oregon  
Melissa Hart, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and B. Bontempo, B. Bornstein, L. George, L. Kalkstein, D. J. Sailor, J. Semenza, H. Taha, and D. Wilson
 Poster P2.14 has been moved. New Paper 11.4A  
 P2.15Modeling the Effect of Iodide Distribution on Ozone Deposition to Seawater Surface (Formerly J6.4)  extended abstract
In-Bo Oh, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and D. W. Byun, H. C. Kim, S. Kim, and B. Cameron
 P2.17Nocturnal Boundary Layer Evolution in Houston during the TexAQS II Campaign  
Bridget M. Day, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and C. B. Clements and B. Rappenglück
 
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
8:30 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Joint Session J4 Plenary: Observations and Forecasting in Urban Coastal Zones (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes)
Cochairs: Darko R. Koracin, DRI, Reno, NV; Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
8:30 AMJ4.1AObservations of atmospheric processes in urban coastal regimes  
Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom
9:00 AMJ4.2DCNet: National Capital Region testbed   wrf recording
William R. Pendergrass, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Oak Ridge, TN; and B. B. Hicks
9:30 AMJ4.3The urban ocean observatory – Urban ocean observations and forecasting in the New York Harbor  
Thomas O. Herrington, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ; and A. Blumberg and M. S. Bruno
10:00 AMJ4.4Sea breeze, coastal front, and urban environment  
Hiroaki Kondo, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
 J4.1 moved to Tues. Luncheon  
 
10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Wednesday, Macaw/Cockatoo
Coffee Break
 
11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Session 7 Observing and Monitoring the Urban-Coastal Environment
CoChair: Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc., Boulder, CO
11:00 AM7.1The importance of multiscale measurements for urban test beds  extended abstract wrf recording
Samuel P. Williamson, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and W. D. Bach, W. R. Pendergrass, and D. S. Andrus
11:15 AM7.2Urban Dispersion Program: Urban measurements applied to emergency response  extended abstract wrf recording
K. Jerry Allwine, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA; and K. L. Clawson, J. E. Flaherty, J. H. Heiser, R. P. Hosker, M. J. Leach, and L. W. Stockham
7.3PAPER WITHDRAWN  
11:30 AM7.3APrecipitation Averages, Seasonality, Volatility and Trends in U.S. Cities  
Dave Friedberg, WeatherBill Inc., San Francisco, CA
11:45 AM7.4Comparison of measured and modelled wind and turbulence over London during the 2004 DAPPLE field campaign  
Janet Barlow, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Session 8 Observing and Monitoring the Urban-Coastal Environment II
CoChair: Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc., Boulder, CO
1:30 PM8.1Evaluation of a Comprehensive Meteorological/Dispersion Model with Data from a Shoreline Urban Field Study  extended abstract wrf recording
Wenjun Qian, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA; and A. Venkatram and T. Zhan
1:45 PM8.2Using NEXRAD wind retrievals as input to atmospheric dispersion models   wrf recording
Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. K. Newsom, K. J. Allwine, Q. Xu, P. Zhang, J. H. Copeland, and J. Sun
2:00 PM8.3Impact of Sea Surface Temperature on Sea Air Temperature in Tokyo Bay  extended abstract wrf recording
Ryoko Oda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda and R. Moriwaki
8.4Year-long measurements of C1-C3 halocarbons at an urban background site and their correlation with meteorological parameters  
M. Anwar H. Khan, Atmospheric Chemistry Research Group (ACRG), Bristol, United Kingdom; and D. E. Shallcross, M. I. Mead, I. R. White, B. Golledge, and G. Nickless
2:15 PM8.5Comparison of the time evolved spatial distribution of urban PM2.5 concentrations during burning and wind-blown high PM events in Yuma, AZ  extended abstract wrf recording
Heather A. Holmes, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. O. Speckart and E. R. Pardyjak
2:30 PM8.6C2-C6 Volatile organic compounds associated with traffic in the atmosphere of Ho Chi Minh City  
Oliver Fuhrer, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland; and D. Ho Minh, L. C. Belalcazar, and A. Clappier
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Wednesday, Macaw/Cockatoo
Coffee Break
 
3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Session 9 Urban Turbulence and Boundary Layers
Cochairs: Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; James A. Voogt, Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, ON Canada
3:30 PM9.1Similarity relations seen in Manhattan turbulence observations  extended abstract wrf recording
Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and Y. Zhou
3:45 PM9.2A Comparison of Roughness Parameters for Oklahoma City from Different Evaluation Methods  extended abstract
Sam Chang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and G. Huynh
4:00 PM9.3A conceptual model of turbulent dynamics over groups of buildings  
Omduth Coceal, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and A. Dobre, T. G. Thomas, and S. E. Belcher
4:15 PM9.4Effects of cooling near building roofs on flow and pollutant dispersion in urban street canyons  
Jong-Jin Baik, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and K. H. Kwak and Y. S. Kang
9.5A physical scale model to study urban surface temperatures and radiation  
Sarah M. Roberts, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. A. Voogt, T. R. Oke, J. Carlson, J. Golden, and A. J. Brazel
4:30 PM9.5AAtmospheric flow decoupling and its effects on urban plume dispersion  extended abstract wrf recording
Dennis Finn, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and R. G. Carter, J. Rich, and K. L. Clawson
4:45 PM9.6Incident Wind Direction Effect on Plume Transport and Dispersion and Mean Wind and Turbulence Fields in an Urban Area: Evaluation of Joint Urban 2003 Field Experiment Data  extended abstract wrf recording
Akshay Gowardhan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and S. U. Pol and M. Brown
5:00 PM9.7Elastic backscatter lidar observations of a gust front passage over Washington DC on 7 May 2004  extended abstract
Shane D. Mayor, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. M. Morley, S. M. Spuler, S. C. Himmelsbach, D. Flanigan, T. M. Weckwerth, and T. Warner
 
7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday
Conference Banquet on the William D. Evans Sternwheeler Cruise (Departs from the Hotel Dock / Cash Bar Onboard)
 
Thursday, 13 September 2007
8:30 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Joint Session J5 Plenary: Modeling for Emergency Response and Air Quality in Urban-Coastal Areas (Joint between the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes)
Chair: Jason Ching, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC
8:30 AMJ5.1Perspective on Air Quality and Dispersion Modeling Tools for Advanced Urban and Coastal Applications  
Roger W. Brode, EPA/OAQPS/AQAD/AQMG, Research Triangle Park, NC
9:00 AMJ5.2Physical modeling and its role towards improving understandings of transport and dispersion as relevant to urban -coastal area  
Petra Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. Leitl and M. Schatzmann
9:30 AMJ5.3Modeling high ozone episodes in the Houston-Galveston area: Lessons learned and remaining problems  
Daewon W. Byun, University of Houston, Houston, TX
10:00 AMJ5.4Transport and dispersion modeling for emergency response in urban-coastal areas  
Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM
 
10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Macaw/Cockatoo
Coffee Break
 
11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Joint Session J6 Coastal and Urban Dispersion and Air Quality (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment)
Cochairs: Darko R. Koracin, DRI, Reno, NV; Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
11:00 AMJ6.1(Invited Talk) Emergency Response Modeling for Coastal Cities – NCAR Activities  extended abstract wrf recording
Thomas Warner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Swerdlin
11:15 AMJ6.2(Invited Talk) Mixing heights, mixing strength, and surface fluxes over Galveston Bay and Gulf of Mexico  extended abstract wrf recording
Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and S. C. Tucker, C. W. Fairall, L. Bariteau, D. E. Wolfe, M. Zagar, and W. A. Brewer
 J6.3 moved. New paper number J3.4  
11:30 AMJ6.3AInvestigation of a sea breeze front in an urban environment  
William T. Thompson, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Pullen and T. R. Holt
 J6.4 moved. New paper number P2.15  
11:45 AMJ6.4ANew parameterizations of Pasquill-Gifford atmospheric dispersion parameters in Gaussian models for coastal and complex terrain (Formerly 11.5)  
Kyungsun Park, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
 
11:00 AM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Boardroom
Session 10 Urban Air Quality and Dispersion Studies
Cochairs: Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME
11:00 AM10.1Evaluation of the HPAC dispersion model with the Joint Urban-2003 (JU2003) tracer observations  extended abstract wrf recording
Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and J. Chang, J. M. White, and J. F. Bowers
11:15 AM10.2Evaluation study of building-resolved urban dispersion models  extended abstract wrf recording
Julia E. Flaherty, PNNL, Richland, WA; and K. J. Allwine, M. Brown, W. J. Coirier, S. C. Ericson, O. R. Hansen, A. Huber, S. Kim, M. J. Leach, J. D. Mirocha, R. K. Newsom, G. Patnaik, and I. Senocak
11:30 AM10.3Toward understanding the sensitivity of a fast response dispersion modeling system to real input data  extended abstract wrf recording
Tony Favaloro, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak and M. Brown
11:45 AM10.4The effects of uncertainties in boundary layer heights on urban dispersion during the daytime in Oklahoma City  extended abstract wrf recording
John M. White, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and S. R. Hanna and J. F. Bowers
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Session 11 Urban Air Quality and Dispersion Studies II
Cochairs: Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME
1:30 PM11.1Development of an immersed boundary method to resolve complex terrain in the Weather Research and Forecasting model  extended abstract wrf recording
Katherine A. Lundquist, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and F. K. Chow, J. K. Lundquist, and J. D. Mirocha
1:45 PM11.2A urban boundary layer and dispersion parameterization for the LLNL NARAC modeling system: preliminary tests with the Joint Urban 2003 Field Project data set  
Luca Delle Monache, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. C. Weil, M. Leach, J. M. Leone, and G. A. Loosmore
2:00 PM11.3Stochastic event reconstruction of atmospheric contaminant dispersion  extended abstract
Inanc Senocak, Boise State University, Boise, ID; and N. W. Hengartner, M. B. Short, and B. W. Daniel
2:15 PM11.4ARAMS, MM5, and CAMx simulations of Middle-East ozone transboundary-transport  
Erez Weinroth, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and S. Kasakseh and R. D. Bornstein
11.4Meteorological characteristics important in emergency response  
Julia E. Flaherty, PNNL, Richland, WA; and K. J. Allwine and J. P. Rishel
 11.5 moved. New paper number J6.4A  
2:30 PM11.5ATests of a coupled diagnostic wind model and a Lagrangian stochastic dispersion model using the JU2003 data sets   wrf recording
Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and D. Garvey, L. Luces, and D. Knapp
2:45 PM11.6Simulations for a Houston ozone episode and the NYC DHS MSG tracer study with an urbanized version of MM5  
Robert Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and R. Balmori, E. Weinroth, and H. Taha
3:00 PM11.7Contaminant transport and dispersion modeling in urban areas using two way coupling between mesoscale (WRF) and urban-scale (EULAG) models (Formerly 14.1)  
Andrzej A. Wyszogrodzki, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen and S. Miao
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Boardroom
Session 12 Physical and Fine-Scale Modeling
Cochairs: Petra Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM
1:30 PM12.1Evaluation of the QUIC-URB Wind Model using Wind-Tunnel Data for Step-Up Street Canyons  extended abstract wrf recording
Bhagirath Addepalli, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. J. Brown, E. Pardyjak, and I. Senocak
1:45 PM12.2Investigation of Reynolds stresses in a 3D idealized urban area using large eddy simulation  extended abstract wrf recording
Akshay Gowardhan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and E. Pardyjak, I. Senocak, and M. J. Brown
2:00 PM12.3Large-eddy simulation of flow field and pollutant transport inside urban street canyons of hight aspect ratios  extended abstract wrf recording
Xianxiang Li, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong; and C. H. Liu and D. Y. C. Leung
2:15 PM12.4Modeling flow and pollutant dispersion in an urban cubical cavity  
Younghee Ryu, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and J. J. Baik
2:30 PM12.5Building-Resolving Simulations of Dense Gas Dispersion  
Branko Kosovic, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and G. Loosmore, S. Chan, and M. Jeffrey
2:45 PM12.6Evaluation of a fast-response pressure solver for a variety of building shapes and layouts  extended abstract wrf recording
Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and A. Gowardhan and E. Pardyjak
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Macaw/Cockatoo
Coffee Break
 
3:30 PM-4:30 PM, Thursday, Boardroom
Session 13 Physical and Fine-Scale Modeling II
CoChair: David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
3:30 PM13.1Improved subfilter turbulence modeling for large eddy simulation using WRF  extended abstract wrf recording
Jeffrey D. Mirocha, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and F. K. Chow, J. K. Lundquist, and K. A. Lundquist
3:45 PM13.2Mean flow pattern through a simple mock urban array – water channel experiments and modeling  extended abstract wrf recording
Hansheng Pan, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA; and X. Li, M. J. Brown, J. J. Baik, S. B. Park, and M. Princevac
4:00 PM13.3Comparison between LES and RANS computations for the study of contaminant dispersion in the MUST field experiment  extended abstract wrf recording
Anne Dejoan, CIEMAT Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain; and J. L. Santiago, A. Pinelli, and A. Martilli
4:15 PM13.4Spatial averaged properties of turbulent flow over staggered arrays of cubes with different packing densities: Analysis of the sectional drag coefficients  extended abstract
Jose Luis Santiago, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and O. Coceal, A. Martilli, and S. E. Belcher
 
3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Kon Tiki Ballroom
Session 14 Urban Air Quality and Dispersion Studies III
Cochairs: Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME
 14.1 moved. New Paper 11.7  
14.1AOperational generation of urban wind fields to support transport and dispersion modeling  
Jeffrey H. Copeland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Bieringer, R. S. Sheu, and M. Brown
3:30 PM14.2Using video gaming technology to achieve low-cost speed up of emergency response urban dispersion simulations  extended abstract
Eric R. Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and B. Singh, A. Norgren, and P. Willemsen
3:45 PM14.3An operational event reconstruction tool used with biological agent collectors for source inversion applications  extended abstract wrf recording
Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. D. Williams and G. E. Streit
4:00 PM14.4Numerical Simulation of Air Pollution over Kanto area in Japan using the MM5/CMAQ Model -Comparison of Air Pollution Concentration between two different climatic days  extended abstract wrf recording
Hong Huang, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Ooka, M. Khiem, and H. Hayami
4:15 PM14.5Relation between fog formation and the number concentration of aerosol for Delhi, India  
Swagata Payra, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India; and M. Mohan
 

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