Session 1 | 
|   | Nowcasting and Forecasting in the Urban Zone (Room 611) | 
|   | Chair: Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc., Boulder, CO 
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 | 9:00 AM | 1.1 | Highlights and Challenges of Urban Meteorological Modeling    Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and K. C. Craig, A. Martilli, and S. Dupont | 
 | 9:30 AM | 1.2 | Forecasting Adverse Weather in the Baltimore MD -Washington DC Urban Zone: Detection and Predictability Issues      Steven M. Zubrick, NOAA/NWSFO, Sterling, VA | 
 | 10:00 AM | 1.3 |  Nowcasting for urban areas by variational assimilation of Doppler radar and lidar radial wind data      Mei Xu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Crook, J. Sun, T. Warner, and S. Swerdlin | 
 | 10:15 AM |  | Coffee Break in Poster Session Room   
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