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

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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 AM J1.1A Introductory Remarks   Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA, Research Triangle park, NC 9:15 AM J1.1 Climate change impacts on coastal urban areas   Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/GISS, New York, NY 9:45 AM J1.2 Challenges 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 AM J1.3 Environmental Impacts of Urbanization in Tropical Coastal Zones   Jorge E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 10:45 AM J1.4 Developing 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 AM J1.5A Mesoscale 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 PM J2.1 Comparison of the urban heat island signatures of two Texas cities: Dallas and Houston   Lisa S. Darby, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. Senff 1:15 PM J2.2 1984-2005 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 PM J2.3 Assessing causes in spatial variability in urban heat island magnitude   Melissa Hart, Portland State University, Portland, OR; and D. J. Sailor 1:45 PM J2.4 Investigating the relationship between urban landuse and precipitating convective systems over the Atlanta region   Willis Otieno Shem, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and M. J. Shepherd 2:00 PM J2.5 Climate Change and New York City   Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and R. M. Horton 2:15 PM J2.6 A comparison of modeled and observed urban surface temperatures in Toulouse, France   Mark Moscicki, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and J. A. Voogt 2:30 PM J2.7 Empirical modeling and mapping of below-canopy air temperatures in Baltimore, MD and vicinity   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 PM J2.8 Impacts of low land use on a Tropical Montane Cloud Forest under a Changing Coastal Climate   Isaac Torres, University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Mayaguez, PR; and J. E. Gonzalez and D. E. Comarazamy 3:00 PM J2.9 Urban Growth Impacts on Submerged Aquatic Vegetation, Restoration and Health in the Mobile Bay, Alabama Area (Formerly J1.5)   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 PM 1.1 The 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 PM 1.2 Using 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 PM 1.3 Climate Conditions Associated with Heat Related Emergency Dispatches   Donna A. Hartz, Arizona State Univ., Scottsdale, AZ; and A. Brazel and J. Golden 2:00 PM 1.4 Preliminary 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 PM 1.5 A 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 PM 1.6 Urban Heat Island Mitigation and Life Cycle CO2 Reduction by Installation of Urban Heat Island Countermeasures   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 PM 1.7 Million 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 PM 1.8 Mesoscale 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 PM 2.2 Beyond 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 PM 2.3 Urban climate and building design strategies for indoor comfort   Suryadevara Sachi Devi, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India; and A. V. Ramani 2.4 Suburbanization, Land Use Policy, and Heat Islands: A Case Study of the NY-NJ-CT Metropolitan Region   Jennifer Cox, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY 2.5 Regional 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 PM 2.5A Large trees as a barrier between solar radiation and sealed surfaces: their capacity to ameliorate urban heat if planted strategically to shade pavement   Anita Walz, Marshall University, Huntington, WV; and W. H. Hwang 4:30 PM 2.6 Land 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 PM 2.7 Urban 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   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 PM 3.1 Thermo-radiative modeling and energy balance of the urban canopy: relations between simulated and measured temperatures   Aurélien Hénon, Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides, UMR CNRS 6598, NANTES, France; and P. G. Mestayer and D. Groleau 4:00 PM 3.2 Application 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 PM 3.3 A 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 PM 3.4 Contribution 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 PM 3.5 Interdisciplinary study of coupled water-biophysical-climate systems in a semi-arid urban environment   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 PM 3.6 A bottom-up approach for estimating latent and sensible heat emissions from anthropogenic sources   David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR; and A. Brooks, M. Hart, and S. Heiple 5:15 PM 3.7 Estimation 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
P1.1 Development 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   P1.2 Urban Application of an Alternative Flux Estimation Method   Christopher A. Biltoft, Adiabat Meteorological Services, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak   P1.3 Evaluation 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   P1.4 A coordinate system independent surface stress   Cheryl L. Klipp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD   P1.5 Combining sub-facet scale urban energy balance and sensor-view models to investigate the dependence of effective thermal anisotropy on city structure   E. Scott Krayenhoff, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. A. Voogt P1.6 A 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   P1.7 Study 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   Tsuchiya Takashi, the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Ooka, H. Chen, and H. Huang   Poster P1.8 Moved. New Paper 11.5A     P1.9 Airflow, building height diference and wind tunnel test   Alessandra Rodrigues Prata, FAUUSP-Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and A. B. Frota   P1.10 Implementation of a building energy model in an urban canopy parameterization   Francisco Salamanca, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and A. Krpo, A. Martilli, and A. Clappier   P1.11 An 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   P1.12 A 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     P1.15 Using autocorrelation to evaluate persistence forecasts for discrete wind vector fields in the National Capital Region   Christoph A. Vogel, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and W. R. Pendergrass   P1.16 The 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   P1.17 UrbaNet: publc/private partnership   William R. Pendergrass, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Oak Ridge, TN; and B. B. Hicks and R. S. Artz P1.18 A knowledge-based mesonet siting/installation strategy in an urban, coastal setting   James Titlow III, WeatherFlow Inc., Poquoson, VA   P1.19 Investigation 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 AM J3.1 An overview of advanced urbanization of mesoscale models   Alberto Martilli, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain 9:00 AM J3.2 Challenges 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 AM J3.3 Urbanized mesoscale coastal modeling and ensemble approaches   Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA J3.4 Real time modeling of coastal urban areas   Alexander Baklanov, Danish Meteorological Institute, København, Denmark 10:00 AM J3.4A High-resolution simulations of the urban atmosphere in sea-breeze conditions   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 AM 4.1 Progress Towards a Coupled Mesoscale and Microscale Modeling Capability   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 AM 4.2 Evaluation of the Canadian urban modeling system over Oklahoma City   Aude Lemonsu, CNRM, Météo France, Toulouse, France; and S. Bélair and J. Mailhot 11:30 AM 4.3 Preliminary results of CFD simulations for the scenario of a recent field study in an urban area   Ronald M. Cionco, Retired Meteorologist, Las Cruces, NM; and A. Huber and W. Tang 11:45 AM 4.4 An improved WRF for urban-scale and complex-terrain applications   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 PM KS1.1 Landsberg Award Presentation to Tim Oke   David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR 12:15 PM KS1.2 Recognition to Mariano A. Estoque   David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR 12:30 PM KS1.3 A Perfect Storm?—Population Growth, Climate Change and the Urban Environment   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
5.1 Hybrid 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 PM 5.2 Evaluation of the inner-scaling similarity of turbulence over urban-like roughness derived from an outdoor scale model experiment   Atsushi Inagaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda 1:45 PM 5.3 Implementation of an Urban Canopy Parameterization in WRF-chem. Preliminary results   Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and R. Schmitz 2:00 PM 5.4 Development and assessment of the second generation National Building Statistics Database   Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and N. Augustus, I. Jeyachandran, and M. J. Brown 2:15 PM 5.5 Observed and simulated effects of urban canopy on air temperatures in summer Tokyo   Yukihiro Kikegawa, Meisei University, Tokyo, Japan; and Y. Ohashi and H. Kondo 2:30 PM 5.6 Profile 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 PM 5.7 A 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 PM 6.1 National urban database and access portal tools (NUDAPT), a project overview   Jason Ching, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC 4:00 PM 6.2 Database features of the National Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (NUDAPT)   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 PM 6.3 Functional Demonstration of the National Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (NUDAPT)   Torrin Hultgren, Computer Sciences Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC 4:30 PM 6.4 UCP / MM5 Modeling in conjunction with NUDAPT: Model requirements, updates, and applications   Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc., Martinez, CA; and J. K. S. Ching 4:45 PM 6.5 Effects 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 6.6 Influence 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 PM 6.7 Automated 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 6.8 Fine 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 PM 6.9 Microscale aspects of NUDAPT   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
P2.1 A comparison of CO2 fluxes at two sites within the urbanized Salt Lake Valley   Prathap Ramamurthy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak P2.2 Quantifying the urban water supply impacts of climate change   Jeffrey K. O'Hara, Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc., Chicago, IL; and K. P. Georgakakos   P2.3 Progress 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   P2.4 The relation between land-cover and the urban heat island in Northeastern Puerto Rico   David J. R. Murphy, SUNY - College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY; and M. Hall, C. Hall, G. M. Heisler, and S. Stehman   P2.5 A study on the building wind impact assessment in Seoul, Korea   Kyoo-seock Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea; and J. C. Kim   P2.6 Impacts 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   P2.7 Techniques to estimate urban canopy parameters using satellite data   Indumathi Jeyachandran, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. Burian, P. E. Dennison, G. Nash, and B. Dudley-Murphy   P2.8 Morning peak of air pollutant concentrations in urban areas: effect of time lag between emissions and turbulence   Ricardo Muñoz, Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile; and R. Schmitz   P2.9 Does 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     P2.11 Study 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   P2.12 Gulf coastal urban forest hazard assessment and remote sensing efforts after hurricanes Katrina and Rita   Kamran K. Abdollahi, SU Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Baton Rouge, LA; and Z. H. Ning, D. Collins, F. Namwamba, and A. Negatu   P2.13 Investigating 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     P2.15 Modeling the Effect of Iodide Distribution on Ozone Deposition to Seawater Surface (Formerly J6.4)   In-Bo Oh, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and D. W. Byun, H. C. Kim, S. Kim, and B. Cameron   P2.17 Nocturnal 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 AM J4.1A Observations of atmospheric processes in urban coastal regimes   Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom 9:00 AM J4.2 DCNet: National Capital Region testbed   William R. Pendergrass, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Oak Ridge, TN; and B. B. Hicks 9:30 AM J4.3 The 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 AM J4.4 Sea 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 AM 7.1 The importance of multiscale measurements for urban test beds   Samuel P. Williamson, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and W. D. Bach, W. R. Pendergrass, and D. S. Andrus 11:15 AM 7.2 Urban Dispersion Program: Urban measurements applied to emergency response   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 7.3 PAPER WITHDRAWN   11:30 AM 7.3A Precipitation Averages, Seasonality, Volatility and Trends in U.S. Cities   Dave Friedberg, WeatherBill Inc., San Francisco, CA 11:45 AM 7.4 Comparison 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 PM 8.1 Evaluation of a Comprehensive Meteorological/Dispersion Model with Data from a Shoreline Urban Field Study   Wenjun Qian, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA; and A. Venkatram and T. Zhan 1:45 PM 8.2 Using NEXRAD wind retrievals as input to atmospheric dispersion models   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 PM 8.3 Impact of Sea Surface Temperature on Sea Air Temperature in Tokyo Bay   Ryoko Oda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda and R. Moriwaki 8.4 Year-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 PM 8.5 Comparison of the time evolved spatial distribution of urban PM2.5 concentrations during burning and wind-blown high PM events in Yuma, AZ   Heather A. Holmes, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. O. Speckart and E. R. Pardyjak 2:30 PM 8.6 C2-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 PM 9.1 Similarity relations seen in Manhattan turbulence observations   Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and Y. Zhou 3:45 PM 9.2 A Comparison of Roughness Parameters for Oklahoma City from Different Evaluation Methods   Sam Chang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and G. Huynh 4:00 PM 9.3 A 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 PM 9.4 Effects 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 9.5 A 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 PM 9.5A Atmospheric flow decoupling and its effects on urban plume dispersion   Dennis Finn, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and R. G. Carter, J. Rich, and K. L. Clawson 4:45 PM 9.6 Incident 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   Akshay Gowardhan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and S. U. Pol and M. Brown 5:00 PM 9.7 Elastic backscatter lidar observations of a gust front passage over Washington DC on 7 May 2004   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 AM J5.1 Perspective 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 AM J5.2 Physical 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 AM J5.3 Modeling high ozone episodes in the Houston-Galveston area: Lessons learned and remaining problems   Daewon W. Byun, University of Houston, Houston, TX 10:00 AM J5.4 Transport 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 AM J6.1 (Invited Talk) Emergency Response Modeling for Coastal Cities – NCAR Activities   Thomas Warner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Swerdlin 11:15 AM J6.2 (Invited Talk) Mixing heights, mixing strength, and surface fluxes over Galveston Bay and Gulf of Mexico   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 AM J6.3A Investigation 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 AM J6.4A New 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 AM 10.1 Evaluation of the HPAC dispersion model with the Joint Urban-2003 (JU2003) tracer observations   Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and J. Chang, J. M. White, and J. F. Bowers 11:15 AM 10.2 Evaluation study of building-resolved urban dispersion models   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 AM 10.3 Toward understanding the sensitivity of a fast response dispersion modeling system to real input data   Tony Favaloro, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak and M. Brown 11:45 AM 10.4 The effects of uncertainties in boundary layer heights on urban dispersion during the daytime in Oklahoma City   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 PM 11.1 Development of an immersed boundary method to resolve complex terrain in the Weather Research and Forecasting model   Katherine A. Lundquist, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and F. K. Chow, J. K. Lundquist, and J. D. Mirocha 1:45 PM 11.2 A 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 PM 11.3 Stochastic event reconstruction of atmospheric contaminant dispersion   Inanc Senocak, Boise State University, Boise, ID; and N. W. Hengartner, M. B. Short, and B. W. Daniel 2:15 PM 11.4A RAMS, 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 11.4 Meteorological 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 PM 11.5A Tests of a coupled diagnostic wind model and a Lagrangian stochastic dispersion model using the JU2003 data sets   Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and D. Garvey, L. Luces, and D. Knapp 2:45 PM 11.6 Simulations 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 PM 11.7 Contaminant 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 PM 12.1 Evaluation of the QUIC-URB Wind Model using Wind-Tunnel Data for Step-Up Street Canyons   Bhagirath Addepalli, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. J. Brown, E. Pardyjak, and I. Senocak 1:45 PM 12.2 Investigation of Reynolds stresses in a 3D idealized urban area using large eddy simulation   Akshay Gowardhan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and E. Pardyjak, I. Senocak, and M. J. Brown 2:00 PM 12.3 Large-eddy simulation of flow field and pollutant transport inside urban street canyons of hight aspect ratios   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 PM 12.4 Modeling flow and pollutant dispersion in an urban cubical cavity   Younghee Ryu, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and J. J. Baik 2:30 PM 12.5 Building-Resolving Simulations of Dense Gas Dispersion   Branko Kosovic, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and G. Loosmore, S. Chan, and M. Jeffrey 2:45 PM 12.6 Evaluation of a fast-response pressure solver for a variety of building shapes and layouts   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 PM 13.1 Improved subfilter turbulence modeling for large eddy simulation using WRF   Jeffrey D. Mirocha, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and F. K. Chow, J. K. Lundquist, and K. A. Lundquist 3:45 PM 13.2 Mean flow pattern through a simple mock urban array – water channel experiments and modeling   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 PM 13.3 Comparison between LES and RANS computations for the study of contaminant dispersion in the MUST field experiment   Anne Dejoan, CIEMAT Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain; and J. L. Santiago, A. Pinelli, and A. Martilli 4:15 PM 13.4 Spatial averaged properties of turbulent flow over staggered arrays of cubes with different packing densities: Analysis of the sectional drag coefficients   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   14.1A Operational 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 PM 14.2 Using video gaming technology to achieve low-cost speed up of emergency response urban dispersion simulations   Eric R. Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and B. Singh, A. Norgren, and P. Willemsen 3:45 PM 14.3 An operational event reconstruction tool used with biological agent collectors for source inversion applications   Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. D. Williams and G. E. Streit 4:00 PM 14.4 Numerical Simulation of Air Pollution over Kanto area in Japan using the MM5/CMAQ Model -Comparison of Air Pollution Concentration between two different climatic days   Hong Huang, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Ooka, M. Khiem, and H. Hayami 4:15 PM 14.5 Relation 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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