Sunday, 14 January 2007 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday, East Registration Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday, East Registration Conference Registration |
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Monday, 15 January 2007 |
| 7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday, East Registration Registration continues through Thursday, 18 January |
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| 9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday Plenary Session for the Presidential Forum (Presidential Forum will then run parallel to other sessions throughout the day) |
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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday, Meeting Room Foyer Coffee Break |
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| 10:45 AM-2:30 PM, Monday, 212A Joint Session 7 Measurements and Modeling of Aerosols (Joint with Ninth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, Forum on Climate Change as Manifested by Changes in Weather, and 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change) |
CoChair: Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
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| 10:45 AM | J7.1 | Improvements to Aerosol Size Distributions in CMAQ Robert A. Elleman, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. S. Covert |
| 11:00 AM | J7.2 | Simulating Secondary Organic Aerosol: Accuracy versus Computational Efficiency Ping Liu, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Zhang |
| ![](http://www.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | J7.4 | Coupling of CB05 gas-phase chemical mechanism with MADRID aerosol module in WRF/Chem Jianping Huang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Zhang, X. Hu, and K. L. Schere |
| 11:15 AM | J7.3 | Size Distribution and Hygroscopic Properties of Agricultural Aerosols ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Naruki Hiranuma, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. D. Brooks, B. W. Auvermann, and R. Littleton |
| 11:30 AM | J7.5 | Evaluation of the aerosol direct effect on a mesoscale simulation Steven E. Peckham, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado & NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Grell, S. A. McKeen, J. D. Fast, R. Zaveri, and S. Chung |
| 11:45 AM | | Recognition of NASA Student Travel Award Winners in the field of Atmospheric Chemistry
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| 12:00 PM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:30 PM | J7.6 | Dust sandstorm dynamics analysis in Northern China by means of atmospheric, emission, dispersion modeling Massimiliano Pasqui, Institute of Biometeorology and National Research Council/IBIMET-CNR, Firenze, FI, Italy; and L. Bottai, C. Busillo, F. Calastrini, G. Gualtieri, F. Guarnieri, P. Scalas, and L. Torriano |
| ![](http://www.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | J7.7 | Episodic particulate matter modeling in a semi-arid/arid area over the U.S./Mexico border: Incorporating a wind-blown dust emissions model into the MODELS-3/CMAQ system Yu-Jin Choi, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and H. J. S. Fernando |
| 1:45 PM | J7.8 | The Instability associated with the Cross-Atlantic Transport of Saharan Dust and its Meteorological Implications ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Sun Wong, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and A. E. Dessler, P. R. Colarco, and A. Da Silva |
| 2:00 PM | J7.9 | Comparison of AEROSE I and AEROSE II Surface Level Ozone Measurements and Ozonesonde Profiles within Saharan Dust and Biomass Burning Plumes ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Michelle D. Hawkins, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and V. R. Morris, N. R. Nalli, and E. Joseph |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall C Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall C Poster Session 1 Atmospheric Chemistry Poster Session 1 |
| | P1.1 | The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program Tandem Differential Mobility Analyzer: Instrument description and summary of 1st year of data Don R. Collins, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and C. Spencer |
| | P1.2 | Investigation of the Saharan air layer (SAL) during NAMMA '06 Tamara L. Battle, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and G. S. Jenkins and B. E. Anderson |
| | P1.3 | Estimating carbonaceous aerosol emissions from fires in boreal forests of North America in July 2004 Mariya Petrenko, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN; and M. Chin, T. Diehl, T. Kucsera, and A. J. Soja |
| | P1.4 | AEROSE: Ongoing field investigations of downwind transport of aerosols from Saharan and Sub-Saharan Africa across the Tropical Atlantic Vernon R. Morris, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and M. Hawkins, N. Nalli, E. Joseph, M. Goldberg, P. J. Minnett, and L. Roldan |
| | P1.5 | The impact of regional meteorology on aerosol concentrations over the Great Lakes region Heather L. Woods, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and T. Holloway and S. N. Spak |
| | P1.6 | The effects of cloud attenuation on air quality: a comparison of model treatments Patrick D. Dolwick, NOAA/OAR/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC |
| | P1.7 | Spatial, vertical, and temporal variability of aerosol concentration and properties in Houston Crystal C. Reed, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and N. F. Taylor, C. Spencer, D. Axisa, and D. R. Collins |
| | P1.8 | Linking light extinction by aerosols to ambient relative humidity during MILAGRO Runjun Li, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and D. R. Collins |
| | P1.9 | Linking chemical changes in soot and polyaromatics to cloud droplet formation Laura E. Mason, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. Brooks |
| | P1.10 | Lagrangian trajectory analysis of episodes during the MILAGRO field campaign Benjamin De Foy, St. Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO; and L. T. Molina |
| | P1.11 | Impacts of anthropogenic aerosols on ice nucleation and cloud formation Adam P. Fornea, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and S. Brooks |
| | P1.12 | Flux measurement of trace gases and aerosols in Mexico City during the MILAGRO 2006 field campaign Rasa Grivicke, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and S. Pressley, B. Lamb, H. Westberg, E. Allwine, T. Jobson, E. Velasco, M. Alexander, J. Jimenez, and E. Nemitz |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday Sessions end for the day |
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Tuesday, 16 January 2007 |
| 8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, 212A Session 1 Initial Results from MILAGRO and Texas2006 |
Cochairs: Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; V. Rao Kotamarthi, ANL, Argonne, IL
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| 8:30 AM | 1.1 | Vertical variation of nocturnal nitrogen chemistry in Mexico City during MILAGRO Jochen Stutz, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and L. Lawrence, O. Pikelnaya, and S. C. Hurlock |
| 8:45 AM | 1.2 | Aerosol Residence Times in Mexico City Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; and N. A. Marley, N. C. Sturchio, and N. Martinez |
| 9:00 AM | 1.3 | Rain Event Impacts on Aerosol Optical Properties: Mexico City 2003 and 2006 Nancy A. Marley, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; and J. S. Gaffney |
| 9:15 AM | 1.4 | Evolution of aerosol hygroscopicity in the Mexico City plume Jason M. Tomlinson, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. Li, R. J. Osborn, and D. R. Collins |
| 9:30 AM | 1.5 | Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar aerosol measurements during MILAGRO and TexAQS/GoMACCS Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and C. A. Hostetler, J. W. Hair, A. L. Cook, D. B. Harper, S. Burton, A. Clarke, P. B. Russell, and J. Redemann |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | 1.6 | Air Quality forecast using WRF/NMM-CMAQ during the TexAQS 2006 ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Pius C. Lee, NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and S. A. McKeen, J. McQueen, D. Kang, M. Tsidulko, S. Lu, H. M. Lin, G. DiMego, N. Seaman, and P. M. Davidson |
| 11:15 AM | 1.7 | Study of high pollution events in the Houston - Galveston area using CMAQ simulations with an extended version of SAPRC99 chemical mechanism Beata Czader, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and D. W. Byun and S. Kim |
| 11:30 AM | 1.8 | Trajectory Analysis for Source-receptor Relation of High O3 events over Houston/Galveston Area during Summer 2005 Fong Ngan, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and D. Byun |
| 11:45 AM | 1.9 | A numerical study to understand impact of meteorological fields on Houston's high O3 problem using CMAQ/MM5 Fang-Yi Cheng, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and S. T. Kim and D. W. Byun |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall D Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break |
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| 12:00 PM-1:45 PM, Tuesday Arakawa Symposium Luncheon |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Tuesday, 212A Joint Session 8 Air Quality and Climate Change (Joint with Ninth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, Forum on Climate Change as Manifested by Changes in Weather, and 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change) |
CoChair: Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA
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| 1:30 PM | J8.1 | Assessment of Long-Term Impacts of Regional Climate Changes on Air Quality Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and R. Leung |
| 1:45 PM | J8.2 | Global climate change impacts on air quality in North America Efthimios Tagaris, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and K. J. Liao, K. Manomaiphiboon, A. G. Russell, S. He, J. H. Woo, P. Amar, and L. R. Leung |
| 2:00 PM | J8.3 | Impacts of Biogenic and Anthropogenic Emissions on Photochemical Oxidants over the Pearl River Delta Region, China Xuemei Wang, Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; and L. Wenshi and Z. L. Yang |
| 2:15 PM | J8.4 | A comparison of AURA/MLS CO measurement with 2 global chemical models Jonathan Jiang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and L. Neary, J. McConnell, H. Su, and J. Kaminski |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall D Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 5:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday Sessions end for the day |
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Wednesday, 17 January 2007 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, 212A Session 2 Effects of Meteorology on Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality |
Chair: Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multi-dimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston, Houston, TX, Houston, TX
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| 8:30 AM | 2.1 | Using Google Tools to Assimilate Atmospheric Chemistry and Meteorology Data Perry J. Samson, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 8:45 AM | 2.2 | Transition probabilities to characterize synoptic scale dynamics affecting local ozone composition ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Scott Beaver, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and A. N. Palazoglu and S. Tanrikulu |
| 9:00 AM | 2.3 | Lake Breeze Effects on Air Quality in the Southern Ontario Hong Lin, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and Q. Li, D. Sills, J. Brook, L. Alexander, and P. King |
| 9:15 AM | 2.4 | A Numerical Study of Influences of Land-Use Change on Chemical Species over the Pearl River Delta Region, China Xuemei Wang, Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; and . W. Lin, . L. Yang, R. Deng, and Z. L. Yang |
| 9:30 AM | 2.5 | Pacific Northwest regional air quality modeling and analysis of nitrogen, sulfur, ozone, and mercury atmospheric deposition Mathew Porter, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan, J. Chen, J. Avise, and B. Lamb |
| 9:45 AM | 2.6 | Examining the sensitivity of meteorological and chemical predictions to explicit microphysics schemes ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Ashley N. Queen, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Zhang |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday, Meeting Room Foyer Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-2:15 PM, Wednesday, 212A Session 3 Air Quality Forecasting |
Cochairs: Steven E. Peckham, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado & NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; Robert A. Elleman, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
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| 10:30 AM | 3.1 | NOAA-EPA's National Air Quality Forecast Capability: Testing Expanded Capabilities Paula M. Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. T. McQueen, R. Mathur, R. Draxler, R. A. Wayland, N. Seaman, and K. Carey |
| 10:45 AM | 3.2 | Update to and Recent Performance of the NAM-CMAQ Modeling system at NCEP operations Jeffery T. McQueen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and P. C. Lee, M. Tsidulko, S. Lu, G. DiMego, P. M. Davidson, and N. Seaman |
| 11:00 AM | 3.3 | PBL and ozone verification in NAM-CMAQ modeling system at NCEP ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) Marina Tsidulko, SAIC/NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and G. Dimego, M. Ek, J. McQueen, and P. C. Lee |
| 11:15 AM | 3.4 | On the development of linkage in the vertical coordinate between the WRF-NMM and CMAQ models Hsin-mu Lin, STC and NOAA/ARL/ERL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Mathur, T. L. Otte, P. C. Lee, and J. Pleim |
| ![](http://www.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 3.5 | An Examination of WRF/Chem: Physical Schemes, Nesting Options, and Grid Resolutions Chris Misenis, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and X. Hu, Y. Zhang, J. D. Fast, W. I. Gustafson, Jr., G. A. Grell, and S. Peckham |
| 11:30 AM | 3.6 | Review of 2006 Numerical Air Quality Prediction Performance at Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems John McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC; and D. T. Olerud, W. T. Smith, J. Vukovich, R. E. Imhoff, and C. J. Coats |
| 11:45 AM | | Lunch Break (Cash & Carry Available in the Exhibit Hall)
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| 1:15 PM | 3.7 | Evaluation of the Airpact-3 Regional Air Quality Forecast System for Ozone and Speciated Aerosols Jack Chen, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan, M. Porter, J. Avise, and B. Lamb |
| 1:30 PM | 3.8 | AIRNow-Tech and AIRNow Gateway: A researcher's resource for air quality data Timothy S. Dye, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and N. D. Conatser, A. Chan, S. A. Jackson, J. E. White, and P. Dickerson |
| 1:45 PM | 3.9 | Constraining tropospheric CO using ensemble-based data assimilation Avelino F. Arellano Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Raeder, J. Anderson, and P. Hess |
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| 11:00 AM-6:45 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall D Exhibits Open |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall C Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall C Poster Session 2 Atmospheric Chemistry Poster Session 2 |
| | P2.1 | TES atmospheric chemistry data available from the NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center Linda A. Hunt, NASA Langley Atmospheric Science Data Center, Hampton, VA; and M. T. Ferebee |
| | P2.2 | Remote Measurements of Carbon Monoxide over North America and Europe during Summer-Fall 2004 Vickie S. Connors, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and P. Hopkins, H. Reichle, G. Sachse, and W. McMillan |
| | P2.3 | Ozonesonde Campaign 2005 & 2006 Michael Woodman, Maryland Dept. of the Environment, Baltimore, MD; and D. Nguyen, D. Krask, M. Seybold, E. Joseph, V. Davis, R. M. Hoff, and R. Rogers |
| | P2.4 | Local-scale evaluation of MM5 meteorological fields for various air quality modeling applications Jason Brewer, North Carolina State Univ./ U.S. EPA, Raleigh, NC; and P. D. Dolwick and R. Gilliam |
| | P2.5 | Development of Case Studies of Regional Poor Air Quality Episodes (Ozone) as Tools for Air Quality Forecasting Bridget M. Bixby, Plymouth State Univ., Plymouth, NH; and K. M. Francoeur, L. L. Landry, M. J. Pierce, L. B. Avilés, E. G. Hoffman, S. T. K. Miller, and J. Zabransky |
| | P2.6 | Characterization of surface ozone concentrations in the United States Joseph Pinto, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and M. Rizzo, L. McCluney, and T. Fitz-Simons |
| | P2.7 | Characteristics of Mexico City cloud condensation nuclei Robert J. Osborn, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. Li and D. R. Collins |
| | P2.8 | Analyses of Winds and PM2.5 Concentrations from the ClearSky Ensemble Smoke Dispersion Forecast System Charleston Ramos, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan and B. Lamb |
| | P2.9 | An investigation of loadings to Lake Erie of speciated Hg emissions from a coal fired power plant through Numerical Simulation of air concentration and deposition of Hg species Sreerama M. Daggupaty, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. Blanchard, C. Banic, and P. Cheung |
| | P2.10 | An Analysis of Meteorological Factors that Influence Boundary Layer Ozone Concentrations Using Ozonesonde Data from Valparaiso, Indiana, Pellston, Michigan and Houston, Texas Ashley Mefferd, Valparaiso Univ., Valparaiso, IN; and G. Morris, C. Clark, and B. Johnson |
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| 5:30 PM-6:45 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall D Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 5:30 PM, Wednesday Sessions end for the day |
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| 7:00 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday, Ballroom C123 AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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Thursday, 18 January 2007 |
| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall C Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall D Exhibits Open |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall D Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and Raffle |
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| 3:00 PM, Thursday Registration Desk Closes |
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| 4:00 PM, Thursday Exhibits Close |
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| 5:30 PM, Thursday Conference Ends |
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| 6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Thursday Rasmusson Symposium Banquet |
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