Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment (Expanded View)

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Program Chairpersons:
Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma
Anthony James Brazel, Arizona State University
Julie K. Lundquist, LLNL
Jon Davis, Chesapeake Energy Corporation

Compact View of Conference

Saturday, 10 January 2009
7:30 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday
Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only
 
Sunday, 11 January 2009
7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration
 
9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Annual Meeting Registration Begins
 
12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Northballroom A
Weatherfest
 
Monday, 12 January 2009
7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open
 
8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Ballroom ABC
Presidential Forum
 
10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
 
10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Room 124A
Joint Session 8 T.R. Oke Symposium: Urban scales, urban systems and the urban heat island (Joint between the Timothy R. Oke Symposium and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment)
Chairs: James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON Canada; H. P. Schmid, Research Center Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
10:45 AMJ8.1Interactions between urban areas and weather and climate models; the Oke contribution   wrf recording
Martin Best, Met Office, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
 J8.2 has been moved. New paper number 1.1A (8Urban)  
11:00 AMJ8.2ANewly developed “thermal climate zones” for defining and measuring urban heat island “magnitude” in the canopy layer  extended abstract wrf recording
Iain Stewart, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and T. Oke
11:15 AMJ8.3Seeing the city for all the buildings   wrf recording
H. P. Schmid, Research Center Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
11:30 AMJ8.4The Need to Establish Protocols in Urban Heat Island Work   wrf recording
Tim Oke, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Room 132A
Keynote Session 1 Oke Symposium Luncheon (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
Speaker: Gerald Mills, University College Dublin, Dublin Ireland
Chairs: James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON Canada; H. P. Schmid, Research Center Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
12:00 PMKS1.1Luke Howard, Tim Oke and the study of urban climates  extended abstract wrf recording
Gerald Mills, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 124A
Joint Session 9 Urban Energy Balance (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
Chair: Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London United Kingdom
J9.1The Suburban Energy Balance in Shunyi, Beijing City  
Junxia Dou, Institute of Urban Meteorology/CMA, Beijing, China; and W. Liu, C. Su, and Y. Wang
1:30 PMJ9.1AThe EPiCC Vancouver Experiment—how do urban vegetation characteristics and garden irrigation control the local-scale energy balance?  extended abstract wrf recording
Andreas Christen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and B. Crawford, N. R. Goodwin, R. Tooke, N. Coops, S. Grimmond, T. R. Oke, and J. A. Voogt
1:45 PMJ9.2Wintertime energy budget along an urbanisation gradient in Montreal, Canada   wrf recording
Onil Bergeron, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada; and I. B. Strachan
2:00 PMJ9.3Evaluation of the TEB model under cold and snowy conditions for the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (MUSE) 2005  
Aude Lemonsu, CNRM, Météo France, Toulouse, France; and S. Bélair, J. Mailhot, and S. Leroyer
2:15 PMJ9.4The urban surface energy budget during the early spring period of the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (2006)   wrf recording
Sylvie Leroyer, McGill Univ., Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, QC, Canada; and J. Mailhot, S. Bélair, A. Lemonsu, and I. B. Strachan
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 124B
Joint Session 10 Urban Precipitation Patterns (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
Chair: Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore Singapore
1:30 PMJ10.1Can satellite-derived rainfall really detect urban rainfall anomalies?   wrf recording
Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and S. Burian and M. Jin
1:45 PMJ10.2An investigation of warm season spatial rainfall variability in Oklahoma City: Possible linkages to urbanization and prevailing wind   wrf recording
Lauren Hand, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and M. Shepherd
2:00 PMJ10.3An anthropogenic signal in Phoenix, Arizona winter precipitation  extended abstract wrf recording
Bohumil M. Svoma, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and R. C. Balling
2:15 PMJ10.4Long-term change and spatial anomaly of warm season afternoon precipitation in Tokyo  extended abstract wrf recording
Fumiaki Fujibe, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Togawa and M. Sakata
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 3 Urban Climate Studies—Poster Session (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
 JP3.1 has been moved. New paper number J11.5A  
 JP3.2High resolution surface temperature and urban thermal anisotropy simulations : validation against airborne remote sensing TIR data over Toulouse city (France)  
Aurelien Henon, UMR CNRS, Nantes, France; and J. P. Lagouarde, P. G. Mestayer, and D. Groleau
 JP3.3Undercanopy and below ground microclimate patterns at the North Desert Village  
Chris A. Martin, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ
 JP3.4Evolution of snow properties over the winter 2007-2008 in urban and suburban Montreal, Canada  
Eric Christensen, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada; and O. Bergeron and I. B. Strachan
 JP3.5Sensible, Latent and Ground Heat Flux Model  extended abstract
Yanyan Zhang, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac and S. M. Lee
 JP3.6The dynamics of urban growth of Kolkata, India and its influence on precipitation  
Chandana Mitra, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and M. Shepherd
 JP3.7Development of a Mesoscale Thermal Model for Urban Climate  
Humberto Ramon Silva Jr., National Center of Excellence, Tempe, AZ; and P. Phelan and J. Golden
 JP3.8Urban climates and the urban surface: a review of T.R. Oke's contributions arising from conceptual representations of the urban surface  
James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and S. Grimmond, S. Krayenhoff, S. M. Roberts, M. Roth, J. A. Salmond, and H. P. Schmid
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 4 Urban Heat Islands—Poster Session (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
 JP4.1Urban effects on intense convective precipitation in Mexico City- an update  
Ernesto Jauregui Sr., NOAA/CAC, Mexico City, Mexico
 JP4.2Atlanta's urban heat island under extreme heat conditions  
Yan Zhou, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and M. Shepherd
 JP4.3Assessment of Urban Land Surface Thermal Field Using Integrated Remote Sensing and Ancillary Information  
Ying Zhang, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and B. Guindon, L. Sun, and Y. Yang
 JP4.4The urban heat island in Hong Kong: analyses of spatial variability and exposure  
Melissa A. Hart, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and D. J. Sailor
 JP4.5Winter and summer temperatures in an European medium-sized city. Frost and hot nights trends  
Albert Garcia-Manuel, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; and M. C. Moreno-García and J. Martín-Vide
 JP4.6Observed characteristics of the urban heat island during the harmattan and monsoon in Akure Nigeria  extended abstract
Ahmed Balogun, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and I. A. Balogun, A. A. Abatan, and E. A. Adefisan
 JP4.7Urban southern California heat waves are becoming more frequent and longer  extended abstract
Arbi Tamrazian, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. LaDochy, P. Ramirez, J. Willis, and W. C. Patzert
 JP4.8Summertime urban heat Island in Newark, NJ and its relationship with urban particulate matter  
Christopher Thuman, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
 
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 124B
Joint Session 11 Urban Canopy and Roughness Sublayers (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee)
Chair: Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM
4:00 PMJ11.1Measurements of concentration and dispersion in model urban canopies  
Pablo Huq, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and L. White and S. Dharmavaram
4:15 PMJ11.2Estimates of air and pollutant exchange for street canyon in combined wind-buoyancy driven flow using the RANS renormalized group k-e turbulence model  extended abstract wrf recording
Chun-Ho Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong; and W. C. Cheng and D. Y. C. Leung
4:30 PMJ11.3Urban canyon data analysis using a surface stress which incorporates the effects of canyon walls  extended abstract wrf recording
Cheryl L. Klipp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
4:45 PMJ11.4LES analysis of turbulent boundary-layer flow over urban-like building arrays with various spatial arrangement and height distribution  extended abstract
Hiromasa Nakayama, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Naka-gun, Ibaraki, Japan; and T. Takemi and N. Haruyasu
J11.5Temporal and spatial variability of the vertical transport of heat and carbon dioxide in the urban roughness sublayer  
Jennifer A. Salmond, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; and S. Bhatia, G. Pigeon, D. Legain, and V. Masson
5:00 PMJ11.5AEight stable urban environment characteristics  extended abstract
Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM
5:15 PMJ11.6Coherent structures within a North American street canyon   wrf recording
Sean C. Arms, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. M. Klein
 
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 124A
Joint Session 12 Urban Heat Islands (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
Chair: Tim Oke, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
4:00 PMJ12.1Urban heat island in Phoenix: An emergent property of rapid urbanization  extended abstract wrf recording
H. J. S. Fernando, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and K. Park
4:15 PMJ12.2Phoenix Urban Heat Island experiment: Micrometeorological aspects  extended abstract
Brent C. Hedquist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and A. J. Brazel, S. Di Sabatino, W. Carter, and H. J. S. Fernando
4:30 PMJ12.3Phoenix Urban Heat Island Experiment: Effects of Built Elements  extended abstract
Silvana Di Sabatino, Universita' del Salento, Lecce, Italy; and B. C. Hedquist, W. Carter, L. S. Leo, and H. J. S. Fernando
 J12.4 has been moved. New paper number J8.2A (Oke/8Urban)  
4:45 PMJ12.4AAnnual spatio-temporal variability of Toulouse urban heat island  extended abstract wrf recording
Grégoire Pigeon, CNRM-GAME, CNRS Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and V. Masson
5:00 PMJ12.5Estimating thermal responsiveness of local-scale climate 'zones' with a numerical modeling approach  extended abstract
Scott Krayenhoff, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and I. Stewart and T. Oke
5:15 PMJ12.6Impact of urbanization and land use changes on climate trends   wrf recording
Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Cai
 
5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Hall 4
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception
 
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 1 Measurements in the Urban Environment (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data)
Cochairs: Henry Revercomb, SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL, Pasadena, CA
8:30 AMJ1.1An Overview of the Oklahoma City Micronet  extended abstract wrf recording
Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey and University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. G. Illston, C. Fiebrich, R. McPherson, J. P. Bostic, P. Browder, D. Demko, C. Morgan, and K. Kessler
8:45 AMJ1.2Development of a NYC Meteorological Network with emphasis on vertical wind profiles in support of meteorological and dispersion models  extended abstract wrf recording
Mark Arend, City College of New York, New York, NY; and D. Santoro, B. Gross, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, and S. Abdelazim
9:00 AMJ1.3Urban meteorological observations in Helsinki, Finland   wrf recording
David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and W. F. Dabberdt, J. Damski, E. Gregow, L. Järvi, J. Koskinen, A. Meskanen, J. Poutiainen, H. Turtiainen, T. Vesala, and Y. Viisanen
9:15 AMJ1.4The Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities (EPiCC) network   wrf recording
James A. Voogt, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and T. R. Oke, O. Bergeron, N. R. Goodwin, S. Leroyer, B. R. Crawford, E. Christensen, B. E. Nanni, R. Tooke, D. van der Kamp, D. Aldred, S. Bélair, F. Chagnon, A. Christen, N. Coops, J. Mailhot, I. McKendry, I. B. Strachan, J. Wang, M. Benjamin, S. Grimmond, A. Lemonsu, and V. Masson
9:30 AMJ1.5Phoenix Urban Flash Flood Study (PUFFS)  
Kenneth Howard, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. V. Vasiloff, C. Langston, J. Zhang, D. P. Jorgensen, and C. Dempsey
 
8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 124B
Session 1 Urban Heat Islands - Part II
Chair: Anthony Brazel, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
8:30 AM1.1ATim Oke and the extension of urban heat island observations upwards into the PBL   wrf recording
R. Bornstein, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and J. C. Hunt
 1.1 has been moved. New paper number J12.4A (8Urban/Oke)  
8:45 AM1.2Using UrbaNet data to quantify the nocturnal heat islands of US cities  extended abstract wrf recording
Mark Hoekzema, AWS/WeatherBug, Germantown, MD; and B. B. Hicks
9:00 AM1.3A Numerical Study of “Urban Heat Islands” over the Washington-Baltimore Region   wrf recording
Da-Lin Zhang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Shou
9:15 AM1.5Urban heat island effect of large Central European cities using satellite measurements of surface temperature  extended abstract
Rita Pongrácz, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, Z. Dezső, and E. Lelovics
1.4The Relation between land-cover and the Urban Heat Island in Northeastern Puerto Rico  extended abstract
David J. R. Murphy, SUNY, Syracuse, NY; and C. Hall, M. Hall, G. M. Heisler, S. Stehman, and C. Anselmi-Molina
9:30 AM1.4AObserved characteristics of the urban heat island during the harmattan and monsoon in Akure, Nigeria  extended abstract wrf recording
Ahmed Balogun, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and I. A. Balogun, A. A. Abatan, and E. A. Adefisan
 
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program)
 
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 1 Measurements in the Urban Environment (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee, and the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations)
Cochairs: Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
 JP1.1Ecosystem respiration of suburban lawns and its response to varying management and irrigation regimes  extended abstract
Kate Liss, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and B. Crawford, A. Christen, C. Siemens, and R. Jassal
 JP1.2Observations of carbon dioxide concentrations in the greater Vancouver region  
Ben Crawford, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. Christen
 JP1.3A Preliminary Study on the Response of Land Surface Temperatures to Changing Ocean Temperature Gradients along the New York City Area  
J.E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and A. Greenbaum and A. Bharth
 JP1.4Spectral characteristics of turbulence from rooftop meteorological stations in Washington, DC  extended abstract
Christoph A. Vogel, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and W. R. Pendergrass
 JP1.5Spatial structure and scale feature of the atmospheric pollution source impact of city agglomeration  
Xiangde Xu Sr., Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and Z. Meng, G. Ding, X. Zhou, and X. Shi
 JP1.62008 roadway sound barrier atmospheric tracer study  
Kirk L. Clawson, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and R. Eckman, T. Pierce, R. Carter, D. Finn, S. Perry, and V. Isakov
 JP1.7Observing the urban mesoscale envronment: The Citizen Weather Observing Program  
Gerald J. Creager, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. B. Chadwick, D. Helms, P. A. Miller, M. F. Barth, P. Gladstone, and S. S. Dimse
 JP1.8Design and deployment of traffic signal stations within the Oklahoma City Micronet  extended abstract
Bradley G. Illston, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and P. Browder, K. Kesler, and J. B. Basara
 JP1.9Improvement of Aerosol Retrieval and Resolution using a refined Surface Albedo Model based on Simultaneous MODIS and Sunphotometer Measurements  extended abstract
Min Min Oo, Optical remote Sensing Lab City College of New York, New York, NY; and M. Jerg, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed
 JP1.10The Characteristics Study on the Precipitable Water Vapor measured by the Ground-Based 12 –Channel Microwave Radiometer in Beijing  
Hongyan Liu, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China
 JP1.11Temperature correction algorithm for Geonor weighing gauge with three transducers  extended abstract
Harry H. Lamb, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and B. Persaud and H. Mouradian
 
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 2 Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data)
Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
 JP2.1Observations of fronts from the Helsinki Testbed mesoscale observing network  
David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and M. Leskinen
 JP2.2Development and Implementation of Multi-Scale Urban Test Beds  
Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and W. D. Bach and W. R. Pendergrass
 JP2.3Diagnostic studies of extreme temperature events using modern reanalysis datasets  
Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. Miller and J. C. Furtado
 JP2.4Weathering the tropical cyclone: Improving public assistance via vulnerability assessment for the older population of New Hanover county, North Carolina  
Rachel L. Godwin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC
 JP2.5The importance of elevated mixed layers in urban heat eave events east of the Rockies  
Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. M. Cordeira and L. F. Bosart
 JP2.6Analysis of air transport patterns bringing dust storms to El Paso, Texas  extended abstract
Nancy Ivette Rivera Rivera, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and K. A. Gebhart, T. E. Gill, J. L. Hand, D. J. Novlan, and R. M. Fitzgerald
 JP2.7Analysis of extreme rainfall events near Austin, TX and Coffeyville, KS, during summer 2007  
Kevin H. Goebbert, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and N. Snook, C. M. Shafer, and A. D. Schenkman
 JP2.8Development of a detailed database of flash flood observations  extended abstract
Jessica Marie Erlingis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, T. Smith, and K. L. Ortega
 JP2.9The Phoenix Rainfall Index (PRI)  extended abstract
Paul M. Iñiguez, NOAA/NWS, Tempe, AZ
 JP2.10An evaluation of brightness temperatures simulated by various WRF-ARW microphysical algorithms for an atmospheric river event affecting the California coast  
Isidora Jankov, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and M. Sengupta, L. Grasso, D. Coleman, D. Zupanski, M. Zupanski, L. Daniel, and R. Brummer
 JP2.11Southwest Florida warm season tornado development  extended abstract
Jennifer M. Collins, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and C. H. Paxton, D. G. Noah, and A. N. Williams
 
11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 13 Joint Session on Air Quality Measurements in Coastal Cities (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, and the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations)
Chair: Martin Best, Met Office, Wallingford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom
11:00 AMJ13.1Observations of carbon dioxide fluxes in two suburban neighborhoods in Vancouver, Canada  extended abstract wrf recording
Ben Crawford, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. Christen, T. R. Oke, J. A. Voogt, and S. Grimmond
11:15 AMJ13.2Characterization of local sources of atmospheric pollution in the megacity of São Paulo, Brazil  
Maria de Fatima Andrade, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
11:30 AMJ13.3Dependence of peak daily ozone concentrations in Houston, Texas on the sea breeze and meteorological variables  extended abstract wrf recording
Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. J. Senff, R. J. Alvarez, D. D. Parrish, M. K. Trainer, T. B. Ryerson, L. S. Darby, R. M. Hardesty, B. Lambeth, J. A. Neuman, W. M. Andevine, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, S. P. Sandberg, A. O. Langford, and A. B. White
11:45 AMJ13.4Carbon dioxide concentration and fluxes in a tropical city   wrf recording
Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; and C. Jansson and M. Rahiz
 
11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 124B
Session 2 Urban Energy and Water Balances
Chair: David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
11:00 AM2.1Climate and urban form effects on the water and energy budgets in a residential area of Salt Lake City, Utah   wrf recording
Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Pardyjak, I. Jeyachandran, N. Augustus, P. Ramamurthy, C. Forster, and B. Skousen
11:15 AM2.2Quantifying anthropogenic moisture emissions and their potential impact on the urban climate   wrf recording
David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR; and A. Brooks
11:30 AM2.3The evolution of urban heat island and water demand  extended abstract wrf recording
Christopher A. Scott, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. Halper, S. Yool, and A. Comrie
11:45 AM2.4Variability of the surface energy balance in and around Oklahoma City   wrf recording
Kodi L. Nemunaitis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 2 Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions (Joint between the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, and the Impacts of 2008)
Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
1:30 PMJ2.1(Invited Talk) Fire at the Urban Interface: The San Diego County Wildfires of October 2007   wrf recording
Jim Purpura, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA
2:00 PMJ2.2Evolution of severe convection in the New York City Metropolitan Region   wrf recording
Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY ; and K. Lombardo and J. Murray
2:15 PMJ2.3An observational study of the movement of Lake Breeze Fronts in the vicinity of Chicago, IL   wrf recording
Jason M. Keeler, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich
2:30 PMJ2.4An observational and modeling study of a rare tornadic storm in a major central business district: Possible linkages to drought and urban land cover  
Dev Niyogi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and M. J. Shepherd, M. Lei, W. O. Shem, and J. Entin
2:45 PMJ2.5Meteorological conditions associated with major storm surge events at New York City   wrf recording
Katherine Rojowsky, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and F. Bounaiuto
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 124B
Joint Session 14 Dense Gas Dispersion (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
Chair: Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME
1:30 PMJ14.1Source emissions and transport and dispersion models for Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) released in cities  extended abstract wrf recording
Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and R. Britter, J. Leung, O. R. Hansen, R. I. Sykes, P. Drivas, J. C. Weil, and D. Strimaitis
1:45 PMJ14.2Modeling of releases of flashing liquids around buildings  extended abstract wrf recording
Mathieu Ichard, GexCon, Bergen, Norway; and O. Hansen and J. Melheim
2:00 PMJ14.3Issues with use of toxicity values for emergency response   wrf recording
Timothy J. Bauer, NSWCDD, Dahlgren, VA
2:15 PMJ14.4Review and assessment of chlorine mammalian lethality data and the development of a human estimate   wrf recording
Douglas R. Sommerville, US Department of Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; and J. J. Bray, S. A. Reutter-Christy, R. E. Jablonski, and E. E. Shelly
2:30 PMJ14.5Large-eddy simulations of density currents over complex terrain  
Branko Kosovic, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. D. Mirocha
2:45 PMJ14.6Shallow water model for dense gas simulation in urban areas: a new approach  extended abstract wrf recording
Sara Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; and M. D. Williams, A. Gowardhan, D. Manca, and M. J. Brown
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
 
3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 3 Measurements in the Urban Environment—II (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, and the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee)
Cochairs: Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
3:30 PMJ3.1Development of an Innovative Laboratory for Research and Education in Urban Meteorology: An Overview of the NSF Career Project: ILREUM   wrf recording
Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. C. Arms and J. M. Galvez
3:45 PMJ3.2Scintillometry applied to urban studies: evaluation of scintillometer measurements made at a sub-urban site   wrf recording
Jose M. Galvez, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. M. Klein and S. Arms
4:00 PMJ3.3An Analysis of the July and August 2008 Heat Wave Using Oklahoma City Micronet Observations  extended abstract wrf recording
Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, B. G. Illston, and A. J. Schroeder
4:15 PMJ3.4An analysis of observations from portable temperature and humidity sensors deployed across Oklahoma City   wrf recording
Amanda J. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara
4:30 PMJ3.5Outdoor scale model experiment to evaluate the complete urban surface temperature  extended abstract
Sarah M. Roberts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. A. Voogt and T. R. Oke
4:45 PMJ3.6Atmospheric stability in urban areas detected by ultrasonic anemometers   wrf recording
Martin Piringer, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria
5:00 PMJ3.7Measuring meteorology in urban areas—some progress and many problems  extended abstract wrf recording
Ekaterina Batchvarova, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Sofia, Bulgaria; and S. E. Gryning
 J3.8 has been moved. New paper number J9.1A  
 
3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 124B
Joint Session 15 Dispersion and Air Quality in Cities—DAPPLE Experiment (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
Chair: Stephen E. Belcher, University of Reading, Reading, Berks. United Kingdom
3:30 PMJ15.1Wind tunnel experiments in support of the DAPPLE project   wrf recording
Alan Robins, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom; and P. Hayden and J. Barlow
3:45 PMJ15.2Wind field observations during the DAPPLE 2004 campaign in London, UK   wrf recording
Janet Barlow, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and A. Dobre, R. Smalley, S. Arnold, A. Tomlin, and S. Belcher
4:00 PMJ15.3Measurements of flow and turbulence within and above an urban intersection in central London (DAPPLE 2007 campaign)   wrf recording
Ahmed Balogun, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and A. Tomlin, C. R. Wood, J. Barlow, S. Belcher, R. Smalley, J. Lingard, S. Arnold, A. Dobre, A. Robins, and D. Martin
4:15 PMJ15.4An overview of methods of full-scale urban dispersion in experiments during DAPPLE   wrf recording
Damien Martin, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; and D. Shallcross, C. R. Wood, S. Arnold, A. Balogun, J. Barlow, S. E. Belcher, R. Britter, A. Robins, F. Petersson, J. Tate, and A. Tomlin
4:30 PMJ15.5Line source tracer release experiments in central London (DAPPLE project)   wrf recording
James Tate, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and C. R. Wood, D. Martin, S. Arnold, A. Balogun, J. Barlow, S. E. Belcher, R. Britter, J. J. N. Lingard, C. Oates, A. Robins, D. E. Shallcross, and A. Tomlin
4:45 PMJ15.6A numerical study of the flow and exchange processes within a complex urban geometry: the DAPPLE case study   wrf recording
Marina K.-A. Neophytou, Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; and Y. Panayiotou, D. Hamlyn, and R. Britter
5:00 PMJ15.7Pathways for dispersion in urban areas revealed by the DAPPLE experiments   wrf recording
Stephen E. Belcher, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. Arnold, A. Balogun, J. Barlow, R. E. Britter, H. Cheng, A. Dobre, J. J. N. Lingard, D. Martin, M. K. –. Neophytou, F. Petersson, A. Robins, D. E. Shallcross, R. Smalley, J. Tate, A. Tomlin, I. R. White, and C. R. Wood
5:15 PMJ15.8Fast response measurements for the dispersion of nanoparticles in vehicle wake and street canyon  extended abstract wrf recording
Prashant Kumar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; and A. Robins and R. Britter
 
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 16 Boundary Layer and Turbulence Measurements in the Urban Environment (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee, and the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations)
Chair: Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
8:30 AMJ16.1On the coupling between urban surface wind fields and skimming flow  extended abstract wrf recording
Bruce B. Hicks, Metcorps, Norris, TN; and W. R. Pendergrass, C. A. Vogel, and R. S. Artz
8:45 AMJ16.2On the rooftop micrometeorology and heat islands of Washington and New York City  extended abstract wrf recording
William R. Pendergrass, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and B. B. Hicks and C. A. Vogel
9:00 AMJ16.3Utilizing surface network data in urban dispersion models  extended abstract wrf recording
William Callahan, AWS/WeatherBug, Germantown, MD; and B. B. Hicks, W. R. Pendergrass, and C. A. Vogel
9:15 AMJ16.4Quantifying the effects of rooftop modifications on building thermal environment through field measurements   wrf recording
Anthony Dominguez, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and J. Kleissl
9:30 AMJ16.5Boundary layer dynamics over London as observed using Doppler lidar   wrf recording
Janet Barlow, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and T. M. Dunbar, E. Nemitz, C. R. Wood, M. W. Gallagher, F. Davies, and R. M. Harrison
9:45 AMJ16.6Turbulence Characteristics in Oklahoma City Measured from an 83-meter PseudoTower   wrf recording
Sam Chang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and G. Huynh and D. Tofsted
 
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 124B
Session 3 Weather Forecasting for Urban Areas
Chair: Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London United Kingdom
8:30 AM3.1An international urban surface energy balance model comparison study: first results   wrf recording
Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Blackett and M. Best
 3.2 has been moved. New paper number 3.3A  
8:45 AM3.2AModel Complexity: First results from the international urban surface energy balance model comparison study   wrf recording
Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Blackett and M. J. Best
9:00 AM3.3AHow do initial assumptions for parameters and state variables influence accuracy?   wrf recording
Maggie Hendry, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and M. Best, M. Gouvea, S. Grimmond, and A. Porson
3.3PAPER WITHDRAWN  
9:15 AM3.4Impact of urban parameters on the surface energy balance in urban areas   wrf recording
Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. Porson and S. Belcher
9:30 AM3.5Inclusion of a multi-layer drag approach in urban surface schemes: which benefits ?   wrf recording
Valéry Masson, CNRM/Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and R. Hamdi and G. Pigeon
9:45 AM3.6Simulation of fall and winter surface energy balance over a dense urban area using the TEB scheme  extended abstract wrf recording
Grégoire Pigeon, CNRS Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and M. Moscicki, J. A. Voogt, and V. Masson
 
10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 4 Modeling and Forecasting Urban Areas (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Chair: Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA
10:30 AMJ4.1Regional and Global Perspectives of Megacity Air Pollution   wrf recording
Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA
10:45 AMJ4.2GURME—the WMO GAW Urban Research Meteorology and Environment Project   wrf recording
Liisa Jalkanen, WMO/AREP, Geneva, Switzerland; and G. R. Carmichael
11:00 AMJ4.3Regional modeling and prediction of the extreme smoke episode in Buenos Aires, 15–20 April 2008   wrf recording
Ernesto Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay and H. Ciappesoni
11:15 AMJ4.4How well can we model the Houston area for air pollution studies?  extended abstract wrf recording
Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Zagar and J. Brioude
J4.5Modeling of TexAQS–II Urban Air Quality Events  
Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multi-dimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and F. Ngan, H. C. Kim, S. T. Kim, and D. Lee
11:30 AMJ4.6NOAA-EPA's National Air Quality Forecast Capability: Recent Progress in Providing Guidance for Cities  
Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. McQueen, R. Mathur, R. Draxler, R. A. Wayland, and I. Stajner
 
10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 124B
Session 4 Biometeorology and Public Health In Urban Areas
Chair: Gordon M. Heisler, USDA Forest Service, Syracuse, NY
10:30 AM4.1Human thermal comfort in summer in different urban quarters of a mid-size central European city (Freiburg, Germany)  extended abstract wrf recording
Helmut Mayer, Meteorological Institute, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, , Germany; and J. Holst and F. Imbery
10:45 AM4.2Physiologically equivalent temperature and climate change in Freiburg  extended abstract
Andreas Matzarakis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, , Germany; and C. Endler
11:00 AM4.3Urban climate and human heat-stress values during the July 2006 Portland, Oregon heat wave   wrf recording
Andrew Melford, San Joe State University, San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein
11:15 AM4.4Analysis of daily climate-suicide relationships in Mississippi   wrf recording
P. Grady Dixon, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and D. M. Brommer
11:30 AM4.5Reconstruction of the airborne emissions by inverse dispersion modelling and generation of synthetic emission data by a Monte Carlo model   wrf recording
Gunther Schauberger, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and M. Piringer, E. Petz, W. Knauder, and K. Baumann-Stanzer
11:45 AM4.6Heat waves, urban heat stress and mortality: a satellite surveillance system  
Benedicte Dousset, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. Gourmelon, E. Giraudet, K. Laaidi, K. Zeghnoun, and P. Bretin
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 17 Building—Resolving Modeling and Forecasting in Urban Areas (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment)
Chair: H.J.S. Fernando, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1:30 PMJ17.1Model- and Application-Specific Validation Data for LES-Based Transport and Diffusion Models  extended abstract wrf recording
M. Y. Lee, NRL, Washington, DC; and F. Harms, T. R. Young, B. Leitl, and G. Patnaik
J17.2LES studies on pedestrian level ventilation in Hong Kong  
Carolin Weinreis, Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany; and M. O. Letzel, S. Raasch, E. Ng, and L. Katzschner
1:45 PMJ17.2AA successive downscaling LES simulation of local-scale weather circulations   wrf recording
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Wu, J. Beohnert, G. Roux, T. T. Warner, and S. P. Swerdlin
2:00 PMJ17.3Impact Assessment on Local Meteorology due to the Land Use Changes During Urban Development in Seoul  extended abstract
Hae-Jung Koo, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, South Korea; and K. R. Kim, Y. J. Choi, T. H. Kwon, Y. H. Kim, and C. Y. Choi
2:15 PMJ17.4Modeling of Urban Canyon with Three Dimensional Radiation and its Impact to Urban Weather   wrf recording
Keiko Takahashi, JAMSTEC, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan; and R. Onishi, T. Sugimura, and Y. Baba
 
1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 124B
Joint Session 18 Urban Transport and Dispersion Modeling—Part I (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
Chairs: Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
1:30 PMJ18.1Quantitative probabilistic model for urban dispersion  extended abstract wrf recording
Eugene Yee, Defence R&D Canada - Suffield, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada; and B. C. Wang
1:45 PMJ18.2Urban HPAC/SCIPUFF and a simple urban dispersion model compared with the Madison Square Garden 2005 (MSG05) tracer observations in New York City  extended abstract wrf recording
Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and R. I. Sykes, J. Chang, J. M. White, and E. Baja
2:00 PMJ18.3Development of a vegetation deposition model for a fast response urban Lagrangian dispersion model   wrf recording
Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and U. N. Amatul, M. A. Nelson, and M. J. Brown
2:15 PMJ18.4The importance of terrain and building definitions for transport and dispersion CFD simulations of pollutants  
Fernando E. Camelli, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and D. Wong, M. Sonwalkar, and R. Lohner
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 5 Modeling Tools for Urban and Complex Terrain Environments Including Energy Applications—Posters (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the The Energy Committee)
 JP5.1A WRF and MM5-based weather analysis and forecasting system for supporting wind energy prediction  
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Warner, F. Chen, W. Wu, and S. P. Swerdlin
 JP5.2Improved large-eddy simulation over complex terrain using the Weather Research and Forecasting model  
Jeffrey D. Mirocha, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. K. Lundquist, B. Kosovic, and F. K. Chow
 JP5.3 has been moved. New paper number J22.1A  
 JP5.4Application of an operational meso-scale modelling system for commercial/industrial plant operations  
Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish
 JP5.5Advances in AERMOD for urban and complex terrain applications  
Roger W. Brode, EPA/OAQPS/AQAD/AQMG, Research Triangle Park, NC
 JP5.6Statistical relationships between temperature and electricity load forecasts for New York City and State  
Eric E. Wertz, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and A. A. Small, III and G. S. Young
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Poster Session 1 Modeling and Forecasting in Urban Area—Poster Session
P1.1Heat ventilation efficiency of urban surfaces using Large-Eddy Simulation  
M. Cristina L. Castillo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda and M. O. Letzel
 P1.2Observational and numerical study of the Great Salt Lake breeze  
Erik T. Crosman, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel
 P1.3Application of an Adaptive Nudging Scheme in Air Quality Forecasting in China  extended abstract
Xu Xiangde Sr., Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and X. Lian and C. Xinghong
 P1.4A sensitivity study on anthropogenic heat release and building / street aspect ratio using a mesoscale model in Tokyo Metropolitan area, Japan  
Toshinori Aoyagi, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan; and N. Seino
 P1.5Urban effects on summer monsoon convection in the Phoenix (Arizona, USA) metropolitan area  
Susanne Grossman Clarke, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and Y. Liu, J. A. Zehnder, and M. Ge
 P1.6Verification of three storm surge models over the New York Bight and Long Island regions  
Tom DiLiberto, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle, F. Bounaiuto, and M. J. Bowman
 P1.7Modeling hilly urban canopy using immersed boundary method in large eddy simulation  
Long Sun, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and J. Kleissl
 P1.8Formation of horizontal convective rolls in urban areas  
Shiguang Miao, Institute of Urban Meteorology, CMA, Beijing, China; and F. Chen
 P1.9Characterization of PM2.5 over the El Paso-Juarez Airshed using the CMAQ model  
Juan Gustavo Arias, SACNAS, UTEP, El Paso, TX; and M. Güereque, R. M. Fitzgerald, D. Lu, and W. R. Stockwell
 P1.10Aerosol characterization in a city influenced by both rural and urban regions  
Angel E. Esparza, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and J. Polanco and R. M. Fitzgerald
 P1.11Characterization of aerosols over the El Paso-Juarez Airshed using the CMAQ model  
Juan Gustavo Arias, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and M. Guereque, R. M. Fitzgerald, D. Lu, and W. R. Stockwell
 P1.13Factors involved in the formation and development of severe weather conditions over the megacity of São Paulo  extended abstract
Edmilson D. Freitas, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; and P. L. Silva Dias, V. S. B. Carvalho, C. R. M. Rocha, L. D. Martins, J. A. Martins, and M. D. F. Andrade
P1.12Real-time forecasting for New York City and its surroundings, with emphasis on sea breezes and other coastal circulations  
Jason C. Knievel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. L. Rife and J. A. Grim
 
2:35 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 6 Dispersion and Air Quality in Cities—Poster Session (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
 JP6.1A Weekend Effect in Diurnal Temperature Range and its Association with Aerosol Radiative Effects in Korea  
Byung-Gon Kim, Kangnung National University, Gangnung, South Korea; and Y. J. Kim, S. H. Eun, and M. H. Choi
 JP6.2Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Flow and Gas Diffusion in the Recirculation cavity behind an Isolated Building  
Mohamed F. Yassin, Department of Environmental Technology Management, Kuwait, Safat , Kuwait
 JP6.3Plume Rise and Ground-Level Concentration of Emission from a Distributed Power Generation Unit: Field Observations and Water Channel Modeling  extended abstract
Xiangyi Li, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA; and S. Chen, M. Princevac, A. Venkatram, D. Pankratz, and C. Bartolome
 JP6.4Evaluation of an Urban Vegetative Canopy Scheme and Impact on Plume Dispersion  extended abstract
Matthew A. Nelson, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. D. Williams, D. Zajic, E. R. Pardyjak, and M. J. Brown
 JP6.5Urban transport & dispersion model sensitivity to wind direction and source location  
Luna M. Rodriguez, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and P. Bieringer
JP6.6Meteorological, photochemical, and radiative-forcing feedback modeling of emission and anthropogenic heating reductions in the greater Portland OR region  
Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc., Martinez, CA; and D. J. Sailor
 
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 126A
Joint Session 5 Geographic Effects on Urban Weather and Climate (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data)
Chair: William T. Thompson, NRL, Monterey, CA
4:00 PMJ5.1Assessing sea breeze and heat island interactions using coastal-urban mesoscale ensembles   wrf recording
Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Pullen
4:30 PMJ5.2Urban effects on Sea Breeze Circulation over Huston, TX   wrf recording
Kazuyuki Ota, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair, W. A. Petersen, L. D. Carey, and T. E. Nobis
4:45 PMJ5.3Variable impacts and differential response to flash flooding in the Paso del Norte metroplex (El Paso, Texas, USA / Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico)  extended abstract wrf recording
Thomas E. Gill, University of Texas, El Paso, TX; and T. W. Collins and D. J. Novlan
5:00 PMJ5.4Modeling and forecasting lee side spillover precipitation resulting in major flooding in an urban valley location  extended abstract wrf recording
Michael L. Kaplan, DRI, Reno, NV; and P. J. Marzette, C. S. Adaniya, K. C. King, and S. J. Underwood
5:15 PMJ5.5The evolution of lake-effect clouds and snow across Lake Michigan  extended abstract
Faye E. Barthold, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich
 
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 19 Urban Transport and Dispersion Modeling—Part II (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
Organizers: Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
4:00 PMJ19.1Numerical Simulations of Air Flows and Transport and Diffusion from Wind Tunnel to Terrain Scales  extended abstract wrf recording
Tetsuji Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation, Santa Fe, NM
4:15 PMJ19.2Rapid-response urban CFD simulations using a GPU computing paradigm on desktop supercomputers  extended abstract
Inanc Senocak, Boise State University, Boise, ID; and J. Thibault and M. Caylor
4:30 PMJ19.3The prediction of toxic gas infiltration for a building in an urban area  extended abstract wrf recording
S. Kim, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL
4:45 PMJ19.4Evaluation of the QUIC wind and dispersion models using the Joint Urban 2003 Field Experiment  extended abstract wrf recording
Akshay Gowardhan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. J. Brown, E. R. Pardyjak, M. D. Williams, and M. A. Nelson
5:00 PMJ19.5Integrating a complete Lagrangian dispersion model into an urban GPU-based simulation system  extended abstract wrf recording
Balwinder Singh, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak, A. Norgren, and P. Willemsen
5:15 PMJ19.6The development of a prototype of a Canadian urban flow and dispersion modeling system  extended abstract wrf recording
Richard Hogue, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and N. Benbouta, S. Bélair, J. Mailhot, E. Yee, F. S. Lien, and J. D. Wilson
 
5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Hall 4
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
 
7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Northballroom
AMS Annual Awards Banquet
 
Thursday, 15 January 2009
8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Room 124A
Joint Session 20 Air Quality in Cities—Criteria Pollutants (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
Panelist: Marko Princevac, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
8:30 AMJ20.1Air quality modeling in support of children's health studies  extended abstract wrf recording
Reneta Dimitrova, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and B. C. Hedquist, P. Hyde, H. J. S. Fernando, and J. Anderson
8:45 AMJ20.2A multi-scale framework for assessing the air quality impacts of aviation   wrf recording
Steven R. H. Barrett, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and R. E. Britter and I. A. Waitz
9:00 AMJ20.3Field, Laboratory and Numerical Study on Flow and Dispersion of PM2.5 in Southern Californian Cities  extended abstract wrf recording
Hansheng Pan, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac, R. Edwards, A. Sfazl, M. Boarnet, J. Wu, and R. Lejano
9:15 AMJ20.4Performance evaluation of NOAA-EPA air quality forecasts, 2007 – 2008   wrf recording
Jerry Lee Gorline, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. C. Lee
9:30 AMJ20.5EnviNNet: a Neural Network for hindcasting PM10 in Urban Phoenix  extended abstract
M. C. Mammarella, ENEA, Rome, Italy; and G. Grandoni, P. Fedele, R. A. DiMarco, H. J. S. Fernando, and P. Hyde
 
8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Room 126A
Joint Session 21 Weather and Climate in Coastal Urban Areas—I (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment)
Chair: David H. Levinson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
8:30 AMJ21.1Cooling summer daytime temperatures in two urban coastal California air basins during 1948–2005: observations and implications   wrf recording
R. Bornstein, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and B. Lebassi, E. P. Maurer, P. Switzer, and J. E. Gonzalez
9:00 AMJ21.2Assessment of extreme weather events along the coastal areas of Thailand  extended abstract wrf recording
Atsamon Limsakul, Environmental Research and Training Center, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand; and S. Limjirakan and T. Sriburi
9:15 AMJ21.3Observational Analysis and simulation of the Delaware Sea/Bay Breeze   wrf recording
Dana E. Veron, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and N. P. Barton, A. Satinsky, and E. Geiger
9:30 AMJ21.4Regional Impacts on Energy Demands from a Changing Climate in Coastal California Environments  
J.E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and B. Lebassi, R. D. Bornstein, H. Taha, and R. D. Van Buskirk
 
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Wednesday's program)
 
11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, Room 121A
Joint Session 6 Urban Implications of Climate Change and Population Growth (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change, and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment)
Chair: Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
11:00 AMJ6.1Impact of global climate change on central European cities  
Wilhelm Kuttler, Univ. of Duisburg, Essen, Germany; and S. Weber
11:15 AMJ6.2Impacts of Rapid Development of Urban Environment on City Weather Services in the Shanghai Region   wrf recording
Xu Tang Sr., Shanghai Meteorological Regional Center, CMA, China, Shanghai, China
11:30 AMJ6.3Modeling global climate change in urban areas   wrf recording
Keith Oleson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Feddema, T. Jackson, G. Bonan, O. Wilhelmi, and J. Boehnert
11:45 AMJ6.4Climate Change Scenarios for the New York Metropolitan Region   wrf recording
Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/GISS and the Columbia Earth Institute, New York, NY; and R. M. Horton
12:00 PMJ6.5Scales of perception: public awareness of neighborhood and regional temperature differences   wrf recording
Darren M. Ruddell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and S. L. Harlan, S. Grossman-Clarke, and G. Chowell
 
11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, Room 124A
Joint Session 22 Modeling Tools for Energy Production in Urban and Complex Terrain (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the The Energy Committee)
Chairs: Jon Davis, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Chicago, IL; Julie K. Lundquist, LLNL, Livermore, CA
J22.1PAPER WITHDRAWN  
11:00 AMJ22.1AApplication of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model for the planning and operation of wind plants  
Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. D. Fast, J. E. Flaherty, W. I. Gustafson, and W. J. Shaw
11:15 AMJ22.2Operational wind generation forecasting  
Russell L. Bigley, Xcel Energy, Littleton, CO
11:30 AMJ22.3Research needs for wind resource characterization   wrf recording
William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Schreck and J. K. Lundquist
11:45 AMJ22.4Nesting large-eddy simulations within mesoscale simulations for urban and complex terrain  
Julie K. Lundquist, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. D. Mirocha, F. K. Chow, B. Kosovic, and K. A. Lundquist
12:00 PMJ22.5The impacts of wind energy turbines on local meteorology: implications for urban environments   wrf recording
Amanda S. Adams, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; and D. W. Keith
12:15 PMJ22.6Undergraduate forecasting and nowcasting for a major urban public utility  extended abstract wrf recording
Brian J. Cerruti, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; and S. G. Decker, L. A. Bowers, W. K. Wittman, and J. Carlson
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday, Room 131AB
Hollingsworth Symp Luncheon
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Room 131A
Joint Session 7 Sustainable Urban Design (Joint between the Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions, the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data)
Chair: Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1:30 PMJ7.1The Centrality of Design in the Reduction of Urban Sprawl: A Summary of Issues   wrf recording
Emily Talen, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ
2:00 PMJ7.2Urban climate modeling, heat island mitigation and local knowledge: co-producing science for urban policy  extended abstract wrf recording
Lily Parshall, Columbia University, New York, NY; and J. Corburn
2:15 PMJ7.3Mitigating urban heat island effects with water and energy sensitive urban designs  extended abstract wrf recording
Anthony J. Brazel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and P. Gober, S. Grossman-Clarke, S. Myint, S. Grimmond, A. Q. Miller, R. Quay, and S. Rossi
2:30 PMJ7.4Simulations of the London urban climate: the LUCID project   wrf recording
Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. Porson, M. Davies, and S. Belcher
2:45 PMJ7.5Optimization of urban designs for air quality and energy efficiency   wrf recording
Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and P. Willemsen and D. E. Johnson
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Room 124A
Joint Session 23 Modeling and Forecasting Urban Areas—II (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment)
Chairs: Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA, Research Triangle park, NC
1:30 PMJ23.1Testing of a multi-layer urban canopy model with two boundary layer schemes in WRF   wrf recording
Alberto Martilli, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain; and S. Grossman Clarke, F. Chen, and J. Dudhia
1:45 PMJ23.2Effects of historical land use changes on near surface meteorological variables in the Phoenix (Arizona, USA) metropolitan area  
Susanne Grossman Clarke, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. A. Zehnder
2:00 PMJ23.3Sensitivity of mesoscale urban boundary layer meteorology to uncertainty in the urban morphology   wrf recording
David D. Flagg, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. A. Taylor
2:15 PMJ23.4Relationships between Urban and Suburban Micrometeorological Variables  extended abstract
Wenjun Qian, University of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac and A. Venkatram
2:30 PMJ23.5Results and sensitivities of the Town Energy Budget (TEB) coupled to the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) over Washington DC   wrf recording
Timothy E. Nobis, AWS, Whitesboro, NY; and R. A. Pielke
2:45 PMJ23.6Parameterization of subgrid concentration distributions in CMAQ for urban air quality assessments   wrf recording
Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD, Research Triangle Park, NC; and M. A. Majeed, V. Isakov, and J. A. Herwehe
 
3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Hall 4
Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle
 
3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Room 124A
Joint Session 24 Modeling Tools for Urban and Complex Terrain Environments (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the The Energy Committee)
Chairs: Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA, Research Triangle park, NC
3:30 PMJ24.1MM5, WRF and CMAQ using NUDAPT for advanced urban applications   wrf recording
Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD, Research Triangle Park, NC; and F. Chen, H. Taha, M. Tewari, and T. L. Otte
3:45 PMJ24.2Satellite-based approaches to determine urban characteristics: implications for NUDAPT and modeling   wrf recording
Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and I. Jeyachandran, J. M. Shepherd, M. Carter, and M. Jin
4:00 PMJ24.3Application of an integrated WRF/urban modeling system to urban environmental problems   wrf recording
Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Tewari, Y. Liu, J. Dudhia, S. G. Miao, A. Martilli, S. Grossman-Clarke, J. K. Ching, and H. Kusaka
4:15 PMJ24.4Two-way coupling approach between WRF NWP and EULAG LES models for urban area transport and dispersion modeling   wrf recording
Andrzej A. Wyszogrodzki, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, S. G. Miao, and J. Michalakes
J24.5PAPER WITHDRAWN  
4:30 PMJ24.5AThe effect of stratification on the aerodynamic roughness length and displacement height   wrf recording
Sergej Zilitinkevich, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and I. Mammarella, A. Baklanov, and S. Joffre
4:45 PMJ24.6Numerical experiments using WRF/Urban Canopy Model over Houston region  
Mukul Tewari, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, K. W. Manning, S. Grimmond, T. Loridan, J. K. Ching, and S. G. Miao
 
3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Room 124B
Session 5 Urban Heat Islands—Mitigation Studies
Chair: Jay S. Golden, National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy, Tempe, AZ
3:30 PM5.1Relating urban thermal patterns to vegetation distribution at various scales  extended abstract wrf recording
Anita Walz, Marshall University, Huntington, WV; and W. H. Hwang
3:45 PM5.2Tree-cover influences on below-canopy air temperatures in Baltimore, MD   wrf recording
Gordon M. Heisler, USDA Forest Service, Syracuse, NY; and D. Nowak, I. Yesilonis, R. Pouyat, A. Lee, A. Ellis, E. Greenfield, and S. Grimmond
4:00 PM5.3Evaluating the surface energy balance of alternative parking lot paving materials in hot arid climates   wrf recording
Joby D. Carlson, National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. H. Jo, K. E. Kaloush, and J. S. Golden
4:15 PM5.4Quantifying the direct and indirect benefits of a ‘cool' roof renovation project in hot dry climate zones   wrf recording
Jin Ho Jo, National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. Carlson, K. S. Bae, H. Bryan, and J. S. Golden
4:30 PM5.5The Effect of Heat Transfer from Artificial Turf on the Urban Energy Balance   wrf recording
Neda Yaghoobian, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and J. Kleissl and S. Krayenhoff
4:45 PM5.6CUFR tree carbon calculator  
James R. Simpson, USDA Forest Service, Davis, CA; and E. G. McPherson
 
5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday
AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns
 

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