Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes joint with the Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment (10-13 September 2007)

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Joint Session J1

Plenary: Coastal-Urban Interactions and Vulnerabilities in the Areas of Weather, Climate, and Air Quality

Location: 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: Bob Bornstein, San Jose State University; Julie Pullen, NRL

8:45 AM

J1.1A

Introductory Remarks

Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA, Research Triangle park, NC

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J1.1

Climate change impacts on coastal urban areas

Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/GISS, New York, NY

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

10:15 AM

J1.3

Environmental Impacts of Urbanization in Tropical Coastal Zones

Jorge E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J1.5 moved. New paper number J2.9

Lunch Break

Session 1

Human Dimensions, Urban Climate, Planning, and Biometeorology I

Location: Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Anthony J. Brazel, Arizona State University; Jay Golden, Arizona State Univ.

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

Presentation PDF (353.2 kB)

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

Joint Session J2

Characterizing the Urban and Coastal Climate: Thermal and Boundary Layer Structure and Atmospheric Responses

Location: 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: Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; T.R. Oke, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia

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

Presentation PDF (1.3 MB)

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 Sr.

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (851.8 kB)

1:45 PM

J2.4

Investigating the relationship between urban landuse and precipitating convective systems over the Atlanta region

Willis Otieno Shem, ORNL, Oak RIDGE, TN; and M. J. Shepherd

Presentation PDF (1023.8 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (919.3 kB)

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

Presentation PDF (595.9 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.4 MB)

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, NASA, Huntsville, AL; and M. G. Estes Jr., M. Al-Hamdan, H. Johnson, J. Hodgson, R. Thom, and D. Woodruff

Recorded Presentation

Sessions Adjourn for the Day

Coffee Break

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Session 2

Human Dimensions, Urban Climate, Planning, and Biometeorology II

Location: Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Jay Golden, Arizona State Univ.; Anthony James Brazel, Arizona State University

3:45 PM

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

2.5

Regional Climate Change Induced by Land-Use Change and Implications for Air Quality in the Pearl River Delta, China

4:45 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

Presentation PDF (487.0 kB)

5:00 PM

2.6

Land use and Urban Heat Island Effect on Surface Air Temperature Change in Northeast China

Qingxiang Li, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China; and P. Si

5:15 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

Presentation PDF (394.0 kB)

Session 3

Energy Exchange, Water Balances and Anthropogenic Fluxes

Location: Kon Tiki Ballroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, King's College London; James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (439.0 kB)

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

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (236.6 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (625.1 kB)

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

Icebreaker Reception and Formal Poster Viewing (Cash Bar)

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Poster Session P1

7Coastal Posters

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Chair: Christopher N. K. Mooers, RSMAS, University of Miami

P1.1 has been moved. New paper J6.3A

P1.2

Developing a simple 2D ocean model for the evaluation of the MM5 results over Bodega Bay

Adam Kochanski, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. Koracin and C. E. Dorman

Handout (629.7 kB)

P1.3

The sea/land breeze hodographs along the northern Croatian coast

Maja Telišman Prtenjak, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and B. Grisogono

Handout (517.3 kB)

P1.4

Etesians vs. sea-land breezes over the eastern Adriatic

Zvjezdana B. Klaic, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and Z. Pasarić

P1.5

Verification of LES warm rain microphysics and observational uncertainty

Yefim L. Kogan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Corrao and H. Gerber

Handout (208.9 kB)

P1.6

Two way interactive air-sea coupling - setup and case study

Sasa Gaberšek, UCAR, Monterey, CA; and S. Chen, T. Campbell, P. May, H. Jin, R. Hodur, and R. Allard

P1.7

Synoptic characteristics of fogs over the Incheon International Airport area in Korea

Kim Chang Ki, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and S. S. Yum

P1.8

Resonantly coupled devastating air-sea event in the east Adriatic: The atmospheric component

Danijel Belusic, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and B. Grisogono and Z. B. Klaic

Handout (838.2 kB)

P1.9

Influences of orography on the Adriatic sirocco wind

Danijel Belusic, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and Z. Pasaric and Z. B. Klaic

Handout (676.4 kB)

P1.10

The coastal boundary layer diurnal cycle along north-central Chile: observations and model sensitivities

Ricardo Muñoz, Univ. of Chile, Santiago, Chile; and R. Garreaud

Handout (594.4 kB)

P1.11

Mesoscale model predictions of typhoon structure and motion in the western Pacific during October 2004

Ramesh Vellore, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. R. Koracin and J. Lewis

Handout (285.4 kB)

P1.12

Low-level clouds in the Southern California Bight: Sensitivity studies in mesoscale models

Gretchen L. Mullendore, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and A. Hall, X. Qu, and J. C. McWilliams

P1.13

Simulation of transport and dispersion of pollutants from elevated point sources in Mississippi Gulf coast using a Mesoscale atmospheric dispersion modeling system

Venkata Srinivas Challa, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and J. Indracanti, L. D. White, C. Patrik, J. H. Young, R. I. Huge, and A. Yerramilli

Handout (1.1 MB)

P1.14

Analysis of offshore deep convection within landfalling hurricanes just prior to tornadogenesis

Matthew D. Eastin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC; and M. C. Link and H. B. Anderson

Handout (973.4 kB)

P1.15

The Quiberon 2006 experiment : description and first results on the sea-breeze local behaviour

Sophie Barré, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France; and I. Calmet, O. Herlédant, P. Iachkine, J. M. Kobus, P. G. Mestayer, C. De Nomazy, T. Piquet, O. Quillard, and J. M. Rosant

Handout (601.2 kB)

Poster Session P1

Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment Poster Session 1

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Chair: David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ.

P1.1

Development and evaluation of a vegetated urban canopy model for use in mesoscale models

Sang-Hyun Lee, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; 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

Handout (301.6 kB)

P1.3

Evaluation of the TEB urban model over Montreal in late winter and spring conditions

Aude Lemonsu, CNRM, CNRS-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

Handout (1006.1 kB)

P1.5

Combining sub-facet scale urban energy balance and sensor-view models to investigate the dependence of effective thermal anisotropy on city structure

Scott Krayenhoff, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. A. Voogt

Handout (672.7 kB)

P1.6

A numerical study on flow in street canyons using a second-order turbulence closure model

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

Handout (609.3 kB)

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

Handout (713.8 kB)

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

Handout (158.8 kB)

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

Handout (941.1 kB)

P1.16

The Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities (EPiCC) Network

James A. Voogt, Univ. 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

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

Joint Session J3

Plenary: Advancing our Modeling Capabilities (Tools)

Location: 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; David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ.

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

Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA

J3.4

Real time modeling of coastal urban areas

10:30 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

Presentation PDF (512.9 kB)

Coffee Break

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Coffee Break

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Session 1

Advancing our modeling capabilities/tools: coastal regions—I

Location: Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

CoChair: John Cook, NRL

11:00 AM

1.1

(Invited Talk) Problems in operational prediction of return flow

John Lewis, NOAA/NSSL and DRI, Norman, OK

11:30 AM

1.2

(Invited Talk) A Coupled Air-Sea Mesoscale Data Assimilation and Prediction System for U.S. Navy Operations

John Cook, NRL, Monterey, CA; and M. Frost, G. Love, J. Pullen, Q. Zhao, R. Allard, T. Campbell, J. Dykes, P. Martin, P. Posey, C. Rowley, D. A. Geiszler, J. Kent, S. Potts, D. Martinez, P. May, and L. N. McDermid

Session 4

Advanced Multiscale Urban Modeling

Location: Toucan (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas; Aurore Porson, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (334.6 kB)

11:15 AM

4.2

Evaluation of the Canadian urban modeling system over Oklahoma City

Aude Lemonsu, CNRM, CNRS-Météo France, Toulouse, France; and S. Bélair and J. Mailhot

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.9 MB)

11:45 AM

4.4

An improved WRF for urban-scale and complex-terrain applications

Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO; and F. K. Chow, J. D. Mirocha, and K. A. Lundquist

Presentation PDF (261.0 kB)

Keynote Speaker Session KS1

Award, Recognition and Guest Luncheon Speaker

Location: 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 )

Moderator: David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ.

12:00 PM

KS1.1

Landsberg Award Presentation to Tim Oke

David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR

Recorded Presentation

12:15 PM

KS1.2

Recognition to Mariano A. Estoque

David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR

Recorded Presentation

12:30 PM

KS1.3

A Perfect Storm?—Population Growth, Climate Change and the Urban Environment

Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc., Louisville, CO

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Advancing our modeling capabilities/tools: coastal regions—II

Location: Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Chair: Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. Of California

1:30 PM

2.1

Numerical simulation of pulsating bora wind gusts

Danijel Belusic, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and M. Zagar and B. Grisogono

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.9 MB)

1:45 PM

2.2

Interaction of river discharge and salty water intrusion near a river mouth under hurricane wind forcing

Machuan Peng, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and L. Pietrafesa, S. Bao, and H. Liu

2.3

Sea Fog Modelling over the Lunenburg Bay (Atlantic Canada) with GEM: Sensitivity to Microphysics Parameterizations

2:15 PM

2.4

High-resolution air-sea modeling of the Philippines winter monsoon

Julie Pullen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Doyle, P. May, C. Chavanne, and P. Flament

Recorded Presentation

Session 5

Advanced Multiscale Urban Modeling II

Location: Toucan (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas; Aurore Porson, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology

5.1

Hybrid method of LES and meso-scale meteorological model for heat island analysis in coastal urban area

1:45 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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (336.6 kB)

2:00 PM

5.3

Implementation of an Urban Canopy Parameterization in WRF-chem. Preliminary results

Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and R. Schmitz

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (40.7 kB)

2:15 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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (185.8 kB)

2:30 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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.0 MB)

2:45 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

3:00 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

Session 3

Advancing our modeling capabilities/tools: US West Coast

Location: Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Cochairs: Tracy Haack, NRL; Danijel Belusic, Andrija Mohorovicic Geophysical Institute, Department of Geophysics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

2:15 PM

3.1

(Invited Talk) A near real-time, coupled bio-physical model for the US west coast: skill assessment

John C. Kindle, NRL, Stennis Space Center, MS; and I. Shulman, S. DeRada, J. Jolliff, B. Penta, R. Arnone, and S. Anderson

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

3.2

(Invited Talk) The cause of the over water, summer wind speed maximum about the Pt Conception Sharp Coastal Bend

Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. Koracin

Recorded Presentation

3:15 PM

Coffee Break

3:45 PM

3.3

The roles of wind stress and wind stress curl in forcing the ocean dynamics in a coastal bay

Darko Koracin, DRI, Reno, NV; and A. Kochanski, C. E. Dorman, and J. Pringle

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (309.4 kB)

4:00 PM

3.4

The effect of the stability of the atmospheric boundary layer on the coastal upwelling over the California coast

Adam Kochanski, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and D. Koracin, G. Beg Paklar, and C. E. Dorman

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (508.8 kB)

4:15 PM

3.5

Oceanic Circulation in the Southern California Bight

Changming Dong, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and M. Blaas, A. Hall, M. Hughes, and J. C. McWilliams

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

3.6

Air-sea interaction along the California coast and offshore waters

Tracy Haack, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. B. Chelton, J. Pullen, J. Doyle, and M. Schlax

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.7

Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover on Regional Summer Time Coastal Cooling and Inland Warming in Central California

Jorge E. González, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; and B. Lebassi and R. Bornstein

Recorded Presentation

Coffee Break

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Session 6

National Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (NUDAPT)

Location: Toucan (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD; Steve Burian, University of Utah

3:45 PM

6.1

National urban database and access portal tools (NUDAPT), a project overview

Jason Ching, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (800.1 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (366.4 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

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. K. Ching

Recorded Presentation

6.6

Influence of urban effects on air quality in Phoenix urban area simulated by modified MM5/Urbanized

5:15 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

Recorded Presentation

6.8

Fine scale CMAQ modeling driven by urbanized MM5 and WRF models

5:45 PM

6.9

Microscale aspects of NUDAPT

Ronald M. Cionco, Retired, Las Cruces, NM; and R. Ellefsen

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (243.8 kB)

Sessions Adjourn for the Day

Reception and Formal Poster Viewing (Cash Bar)

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Poster Session P2

Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment Poster Session 2

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Chair: Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD

P2.1

A comparison of CO2 fluxes at two sites within the urbanized Salt Lake Valley

Prathap Ramamurthy, The City College of New York, New York, NY; and E. R. Pardyjak

Handout (1.6 MB)

P2.2

Quantifying the urban water supply impacts of climate change

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

Handout (674.1 kB)

P2.5

A study on the building wind impact assessment in Seoul, Korea

Kyoo-seock Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. C. Kim

Handout (2.5 MB)

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

Handout (223.3 kB)

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

Handout (694.7 kB)

P2.9

Does the restoration of an inner-city stream in Seoul affect local climate?

Yeon-Hee Kim, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); 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

Handout (210.4 kB)

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

Handout (405.9 kB)

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

Joint Session J4

Plenary: Observations and Forecasting in Urban Coastal Zones

Location: 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: Darko R. Koracin, DRI; Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University

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

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

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

10:30 AM

J4.1 moved to Tues. Luncheon

Coffee Break

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Coffee Break

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Session 5

Coastal ocean and atmosphere forecasting systems—I

Location: Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

CoChair: John Lewis, NOAA/NSSL and DRI

11:00 AM

5.1

(Invited Talk) Prototyping a Real-Time Ocean Forecasting System off the U.S. West Coast

Yi Chao, California Institute of Technology/JPL, Pasadena, Califonia

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.2

(Invited Talk) Some lessons learned with quasi-operational coastal ocean nowcast/forecast systems

Christopher N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and I. Bang, X. Wu, and J. Fiechter

Recorded Presentation

Session 7

Observing and Monitoring the Urban-Coastal Environment

Location: Kon Tiki Ballroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

CoChair: Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc.

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 Jr., W. R. Pendergrass, and D. S. Andrus

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (305.5 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (2.7 MB)

7.3

Urban-rural comparison of carbon dioxide fluxes and concentrations in a coastal urban environment

11:45 AM

7.3A

Precipitation Averages, Seasonality, Volatility and Trends in U.S. Cities

Dave Friedberg, WeatherBill Inc., San Francisco, CA

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM

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

Recorded Presentation

Lunch Break

Session 6

Coastal ocean and atmosphere forecasting systems—II

Location: Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Chair: Robert E. Marshall, Mount Pleasant Meteorology

1:30 PM

6.1

A Nowcast/Forecast System for Circulation in the Strait of Hormuz

Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and T. Clem

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

6.2

A study of the effects of data assimilation on mesoscale meteorological modeling in the Beaufort Sea region

Don Morton, Arctic Region Supercomputing Center / University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and J. R. Krieger, X. Fan, M. Shulski, J. Zhang, and A. Klene

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

6.3

Sea Breeze Circulations Influencing Radio Frequency System Performance around California Baja Sur

Robert E. Marshall, Mount Pleasant Meteorology, Woodford, VA

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (555.9 kB)

2:15 PM

6.4

Study of Meso-Scale Coastal Circulations in Mississippi Gulf coast with Mesonet Observations and Modeling

Venkata Srinivas Challa, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and J. Indracanti, L. D. White, S. Sharma, J. M. Baham, M. K. Rabarison, and A. Yerramilli

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (915.1 kB)

2:30 PM

6.5

(Invited Talk) Toward forecasting and understanding the mechanisms of extremes in urban areas

Keiko Takahashi, JAMSTEC, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan; and M. Ohdaira, R. Onishi, and T. Sugimura

Recorded Presentation

Session 8

Observing and Monitoring the Urban-Coastal Environment II

Location: Kon Tiki Ballroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

CoChair: Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc.

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.0 MB)

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

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1012.0 kB)

8.4

Year-long measurements of C1-C3 halocarbons at an urban background site and their correlation with meteorological parameters

2:30 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, Univ. of Nevada, Reno, NV; and S. O. Speckart and E. R. Pardyjak

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (205.5 kB)

2:45 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

Coffee Break

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Coffee Break

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Session 7

Coastal ocean and atmosphere observations & analyses-1 (MOVED TO SESSION 8)

Host: Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Session 8

Coastal ocean and atmosphere observations & analyses—II

Location: Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Cochairs: Mirko Orlic, Andrija Mohorovicic Geophysical Institute, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb; Keiko Takahashi, JAMSTEC

3:30 PM

8.1A

(Invited Talk) Periodic upwelling/downwelling observed in the Adriatic Sea

Mirko Orlic, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia; and G. Beg Paklar, V. Dadic, N. Leder, H. Mihanovic, M. Pasaric, and Z. Pasaric

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (228.9 kB)

4:00 PM

8.1

Model-based analyses in support of inverse-acoustic sensing of coastal oceans: implications for coupled ocean-acoustic modeling and forecasting

Paul C. Etter, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Baltimore, MD

4:15 PM

8.2

Aircraft observations of a coastally trapped wind reversal off the California coast

David A. Rahn, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.8 MB)

4:30 PM

8.3

The initiation of high speed summer coastal winds along the US West Coast

Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and B. A. Vanhoff and D. Koracin

Recorded Presentation

8.4

Satellite analysis of the Juan de Fuca Eddy, a persistent oceanic feature in the Pacific Northwest

4:45 PM

8.5

Elastic backscatter lidar and in situ observations of sea-breeze fronts in Dixon, California

Shane D. Mayor, California State University Chico, Chico, CA; and S. M. Spuler, B. M. Morley, S. Himmelsbach, R. A. Rilling, T. M. Weckwerth, E. G. Patton, and D. H. Lenschow

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (2.9 MB)

5:15 PM

8.6

Expanding the NOAA Profiler Network: Technology evalutation and new applications for the coastal environment

Allen B. White, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and F. M. Ralph, J. R. Jordan, C. W. King, D. J. Gottas, P. J. Neiman, L. Bianco, and D. E. White

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (2.4 MB)

Session 9

Urban Turbulence and Boundary Layers

Location: Kon Tiki Ballroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah; James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario

3:30 PM

9.1

Similarity relations seen in Manhattan turbulence observations

Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and Y. Zhou

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.9 MB)

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

Presentation PDF (179.1 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

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, Korea, Republic of (South); and K. H. Kwak and Y. S. Kang

Recorded Presentation

9.5

A physical scale model to study urban surface temperatures and radiation

4:45 PM

9.5A

Atmospheric flow decoupling and its effects on urban plume dispersion

Dennis Finn, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and R. G. Carter, J. Rich, and K. L. Clawson

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (394.5 kB)

5:00 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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (423.9 kB)

5:15 PM

9.7

Elastic backscatter lidar observations of a gust front passage over Washington DC on 7 May 2004

Shane D. Mayor, California State University Chico, Chico, CA; and B. M. Morley, S. M. Spuler, S. Himmelsbach, D. Flanigan, T. M. Weckwerth, and T. Warner

Presentation PDF (2.8 MB)

Sessions Adjourn for the Day

Conference Banquet on the William D. Evans Sternwheeler Cruise (Departs from the Hotel Dock / Cash Bar Onboard)

Joint Session J5

Plenary: Modeling for Emergency Response and Air Quality in Urban-Coastal Areas

Location: 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 )

Chair: Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD

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

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

Coffee Break

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Coffee Break

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Joint Session J6

Coastal and Urban Dispersion and Air Quality

Location: 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: Darko R. Koracin, DRI; Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University

11:00 AM

J6.1

(Invited Talk) Emergency Response Modeling for Coastal Cities – NCAR Activities

Thomas Warner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Swerdlin

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (203.0 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (269.6 kB)

11:30 AM

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

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

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

Session 10

Urban Air Quality and Dispersion Studies

Location: Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston; Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (1.2 MB)

7th Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes Adjourns

Lunch Break

Session 11

Urban Air Quality and Dispersion Studies II

Location: Kon Tiki Ballroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston; Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (316.1 kB)

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, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. C. Weil, M. Leach, J. M. Leone, and G. A. Loosmore

Recorded Presentation

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

Presentation PDF (923.7 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

11.4

Meteorological characteristics important in emergency response

2:45 PM

11.5 moved. New paper number J6.4A

2:45 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

Recorded Presentation

3:00 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

Recorded Presentation

3:15 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

Session 12

Physical and Fine-Scale Modeling

Location: Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Petra Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma; Michael J. Brown, LANL

1:30 PM

12.1

Evaluation of the QUIC-URB Wind Model using Wind-Tunnel Data for Step-Up Street Canyons

Bhagirath Addepalli, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. J. Brown, E. Pardyjak, and I. Senocak

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (733.0 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (255.7 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (575.1 kB)

2:15 PM

12.4

Modeling flow and pollutant dispersion in an urban cubical cavity

Young-Hee Ryu, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South); and J. J. Baik

Recorded Presentation

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (815.3 kB)

Coffee Break

Location: Macaw/Cockatoo (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Session 13

Physical and Fine-Scale Modeling II

Location: Boardroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

CoChair: David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ.

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (304.5 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (791.1 kB)

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

Recorded Presentation

Presentation PDF (706.8 kB)

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

Presentation PDF (318.3 kB)

Session 14

Urban Air Quality and Dispersion Studies III

Location: Kon Tiki Ballroom (Catamaran Resort Hotel)

Host: Seventh Symposium on the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multidimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston; Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants

3:30 PM

14.1 moved. New Paper 11.7

14.1A

Operational generation of urban wind fields to support transport and dispersion modeling

3:45 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

Presentation PDF (284.5 kB)

4:00 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

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4:15 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

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4:30 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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