Session: Urban Air Quality and Dispersion Studies (Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes joint with the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment (10-13 September 2007))

Thursday, 13 September 2007: 11:00 AM-5:00 PM

Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs:

Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston, Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality Studies, Houston, TX and Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME

Papers:

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.2 MB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.4 MB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (498.2 kB)

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