Session 4 |
| | Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion in Urban Areas |
| | Chair: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA
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| 3:30 PM | 4.1 | Observed tracer concentrations in downtown Oklahoma City and Manhattan – variations with downwind distance and ratios of rooftop to surface concentrations 
 Recorded presentation
Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and R. Britter and J. Chang |
| 3:45 PM | 4.2 | Linkage of an operational mesoscale model to an urban emergency assessment system for prediction of windborne contaminants
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Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. P. Boris, G. Patnaik, D. A. Geiszler, W. T. Thompson, and J. Cook |
| 4:00 PM | 4.3 | A large eddy simulation study of pollutant dispersion in urban areas
Recorded presentation
Valentina Stocca, University of Trieste, Italy, Trieste, Italy; and V. Armenio |
| 4:15 PM | 4.4 | Analysis of spatial representativeness of urban monitoring stations using steady CFD-RANS simulations
Recorded presentation
Jose Luis Santiago, CIEMAT Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain; and M. A. Parra, A. Martilli, F. Martin, and J. M. Santamaria |
| 4:30 PM | 4.5 | Development of a coupled CFD-photochemistry model and its use in studying reactive pollutant dispersion in street canyons
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Kyung-Hwan Kwak, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and J. J. Baik |
| 4:45 PM | 4.6 | Effects of Thermal Stratifications on the Flow and Pollutant Dispersion in Urban Street Canyons: a Large-Eddy Simulation Approach
Recorded presentation
Wai Chi Cheng, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, , Hong Kong; and C. H. Liu |
| 5:00 PM | 4.7 | Urban form optimization for air quality applications using simulated annealing and genetic algorithms
Recorded presentation
Bhagirath Addepalli, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Pardyjak, P. Willemsen, and D. E. Johnson |