| Saturday, 10 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday
Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only |
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| Sunday, 11 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Annual Meeting Registration Begins |
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| 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Northballroom A
Weatherfest
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| Monday, 12 January 2009 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open |
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| 8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Ballroom ABC
Presidential Forum |
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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Room 132A
Tim Oke Symp Luncheon |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Hall 4
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception |
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| Tuesday, 13 January 2009 |
| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program) |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Joint Poster Session 2 Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data) |
Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
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| | JP2.1 | Observations of fronts from the Helsinki Testbed mesoscale observing network
David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and M. Leskinen |
| | JP2.2 | Development and Implementation of Multi-Scale Urban Test Beds
Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and W. D. Bach and W. R. Pendergrass |
| | JP2.3 | Diagnostic studies of extreme temperature events using modern reanalysis datasets
Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. Miller and J. C. Furtado |
| | JP2.4 | Weathering the tropical cyclone: Improving public assistance via vulnerability assessment for the older population of New Hanover county, North Carolina
Rachel L. Godwin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC |
| | JP2.5 | The importance of elevated mixed layers in urban heat eave events east of the Rockies
Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. M. Cordeira and L. F. Bosart |
| | JP2.6 | Analysis of air transport patterns bringing dust storms to El Paso, Texas 
Nancy Ivette Rivera Rivera, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and K. A. Gebhart, T. E. Gill, J. L. Hand, D. J. Novlan, and R. M. Fitzgerald |
| | JP2.7 | Analysis of extreme rainfall events near Austin, TX and Coffeyville, KS, during summer 2007
Kevin H. Goebbert, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and N. Snook, C. M. Shafer, and A. D. Schenkman |
| | JP2.8 | Development of a detailed database of flash flood observations
Jessica Marie Erlingis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, T. Smith, and K. L. Ortega |
| | JP2.9 | The Phoenix Rainfall Index (PRI)
Paul M. Iñiguez, NOAA/NWS, Tempe, AZ |
| | JP2.10 | An evaluation of brightness temperatures simulated by various WRF-ARW microphysical algorithms for an atmospheric river event affecting the California coast
Isidora Jankov, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and M. Sengupta, L. Grasso, D. Coleman, D. Zupanski, M. Zupanski, L. Daniel, and R. Brummer |
| | JP2.11 | Southwest Florida warm season tornado development
Jennifer M. Collins, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and C. H. Paxton, D. G. Noah, and A. N. Williams |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 124A
Joint Session 2 Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions (Joint between the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, and the Impacts of 2008) |
Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
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| 1:30 PM | J2.1 | (Invited Talk) Fire at the Urban Interface: The San Diego County Wildfires of October 2007 
Jim Purpura, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA |
| 2:00 PM | J2.2 | Evolution of severe convection in the New York City Metropolitan Region
Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY ; and K. Lombardo and J. Murray |
| 2:15 PM | J2.3 | An observational study of the movement of Lake Breeze Fronts in the vicinity of Chicago, IL
Jason M. Keeler, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich |
| 2:30 PM | J2.4 | An observational and modeling study of a rare tornadic storm in a major central business district: Possible linkages to drought and urban land cover
Dev Niyogi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and M. J. Shepherd, M. Lei, W. O. Shem, and J. Entin |
| 2:45 PM | J2.5 | Meteorological conditions associated with major storm surge events at New York City
Katherine Rojowsky, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and F. Bounaiuto |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 123
Session 1 Severe Storms Impacts on the Urban Environment: Modeling and Observations |
Chair: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada
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| 3:30 PM | 1.1 | The dramatic effect of tornadic severe weather on a rapidly growing urban interface
Ivory J. Small, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA; and T. Mackechnie and S. Vanderburg |
| 3:45 PM | 1.2 | Extreme microburst events in the Phoenix metropolitan area
Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Howard, D. P. Jorgensen, C. Dempsey, and G. D. Green |
| 4:00 PM | 1.3 | High resolution WRF and ADCIRC simulations of hurricane Gloria (1985) for the New York City Metropolitan Region
Tom DiLiberto, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and F. Bounaiuto |
| 4:15 PM | 1.4 | The Use of Mesoscale Models for Analysis of High Impact Weather Events
Alfred M. Klausmann, TRC, Lowell, MA |
| 4:30 PM | 1.5 | Urban growth and aerosol effects on convection over Houston
Gustavo Carrió, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Y. Cheng, W. R. Cotton, and S. M. Saleeby |
| 4:45 PM | 1.6 | Development and deployment of a mesoscale weather and outage prediction service for electric utility operations
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Systems and Technology Group, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. P. Praino, H. Li, E. Novakovskaia, and J. M. Drexel |
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| Wednesday, 14 January 2009 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 126B
Joint Session 8 Forecasts, Nowcasts and Warning Systems in Urban Areas (Joint between the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH
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| 8:30 AM | J8.1 | (Invited Speaker)The Hydrology and Hydrometeorology of Flash Floods in Urban Environments
James A. Smith, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| 8:45 AM | J8.2 | Convective storm nowcasting using the Space-Time Meso Analysis System
Steven Koch, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and Y. Xie, J. A. Mcginley, and S. Albers |
| 9:00 AM | J8.3 | Considerations for Urban Floods Monitoring using X-band Dual-polarization Radar Network
V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and M. Maki, Y. Wang, and K. Nakane |
| 9:15 AM | J8.4 | Assessment of urban hydrologic prediction accuracy using radar
John M. Imgarten, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. E. Vieux |
| 9:30 AM | J8.5 | The extreme wind warning and its role in improving public preparation and response to extreme landfalling hurricane winds in the urban environment
Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL |
|  | J8.6 | Heat and Health warnings in the Netherlands
Robert Mureau, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 126B
Poster Session 1 Modeling, Forecasting, and Impacts of Urban High Impact Weather |
Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
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| | P1.1 | High-resolution modeling analysis of hazardous winds associated with mesoscale disturbances for the safety of railway transportation system in a coastal area
Tetsuya Takemi, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto, Japan |
| | P1.2 | Preliminary Study on Mechanism of â Mmesoscale Rainstorm Forming in Beijing City
Yun Chen, National Meteorological Center, CMA, Beijing, China; and Q. Li, T. Chen, Z. Li, B. Bi, and L. He |
| | P1.3 | Urban Flood Forecasting using an Integrated Hydrometeorological System
Jonas Cordazzo, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and U. Mello, E. Novakovskaia, D. Rude, L. Treinish, and A. Praino |
| | P1.4 | The downtown Atlanta, Georgia, EF-2 tornado of 14 March 2008
Steven E. Nelson, NOAA/NWS, Peachtree City, GA; and L. Rothfusz |
| | P1.5 | The Determination of Optimal Thresholds of Tropical Cyclone Incremental Wind Speed Probabilities to Support Expressions of Uncertainty in Text Forecasts
Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and D. Sharp, M. DeMaria, and S. Kiser |
| | P1.6 | Urban climate impact and prioritization of essential climates variables
Shane Forsythe-Newell, STG, Inc., Asheville, NC; and K. Roberts and B. R. Barkstrom |
| | P1.7 | A Spatial Model for the Prediction of Electrical Power Outages Caused by Severe Storms
Hongfei Li, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish |
| | P1.8 | A comparison of NWS IMET and SMG operations with respect to future operations in Decision Support Meteorology
Kurt M. Van Speybroeck, NOAA/NWS Spaceflight Meteorology Group, Houston, TX; and M. Fox, C. Simms, and J. W. Zeitler |
| | P1.9 | Societal vulnerability and response to hurricanes in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Isabelle Ruin, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. G. Estupiñán, B. S. Goldsmith, M. H. Hayden, C. Brown, J. P. Koval, K. Strebe, and O. Sobrevilla Blanco |
| | P1.10 | Post processing high resolution modelling data to provide an Extreme Rainfall Alert service to emergency responders
P. A. Davies, Met Office UK, Exeter, England, United Kingdom |
| | P1.11 | Central Florida smoke and fog - carnage on Interstate 4
Jennifer M. Collins, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and C. H. Paxton, R. J. Davis, N. M. Petro, and A. N. Williams |
| | P1.12 | The morphological characteristic and spatial behavior of the meteorological disaster event
Hu Haibo Hu, Institute of Urban Meteorology, CMA, Beijing 100089, Beijing, CO, China |
| | P1.13 | An assessment of anthropogenic effects on precipitation in and near the Phoenix, Arizona, Metropolitan Area
Paul M. Iñiguez, NOAA/NWS, Tempe, AZ |
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| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Hall 4
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Northballroom
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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