Session: Plenary: Advancing our Modeling Capabilities (Tools) (Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes joint with the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment (10-13 September 2007))

Tuesday, 11 September 2007: 8:30 AM-10:30 AM

Kon Tiki Ballroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Hosts: (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, MARIINE METEOROLOGY DIVISION, Monterey, CA and David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Mechanical Engineering Department, Portland, OR

Papers:

8:30 AM

J3.1

An overview of advanced urbanization of mesoscale models

Alberto Martilli, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales and 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. K. Ching, and H. Kusaka

9:30 AM

J3.3

Urbanized mesoscale coastal modeling and ensemble approaches