Session: Urban Parameterizations in Mesoscale and Regional Models II (29th Conf. on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/19th Symp. on Boundary Layers and Turbulence/Ninth Symp. on the Urban Environment (1-6 August 2010))

Thursday, 5 August 2010: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Crestone Peak I & II (Keystone Resort)

Host: Ninth Symposium on the Urban Environment

Chair:

Alberto Martilli, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales and Tecnológicas, Environment Department, Atmospheric Pollution Group, Madrid

Papers:

10:30 AM

9.1

Coupling of the WRF and ACASA models for urban environments: two case studies

Matthias Falk, University of California, Davis; CMCC, Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change, IAFENT Division, Davis, CA; and R. D. Pyles, S. Marras, D. Spano, R. L. Snyder, and K. T. Paw U

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

9.2

Numerical Simulations of Sea Breeze Circulations and Urban Heat Islands in NYC with a High Resolution Urban-Mesoscale Model (uWRF)

Estatio J. Gutiérrez, City College of New York, New York, NY; and J. E. Gonzalez, R. D. Bornstein, M. Arend, F. Moshary, and A. Martilli

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

9.3

Interactions between city and mesoscale sea-breeze circulations in the Greater Houston area: A study with the coupled WRF-urban model

F. Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Miao, M. Tewari, and H. Kusaka

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM