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Program Chairpersons:
Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma
Anthony James Brazel, Arizona State University
Julie K. Lundquist, LLNL
Jon Davis, Chesapeake Energy Corporation

Compact View of Conference

Saturday, 10 January 2009
	7:30 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only
Sunday, 11 January 2009
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Annual Meeting Registration Begins
	12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Northballroom A Weatherfest
Monday, 12 January 2009
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Registration Open
	8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Ballroom ABC Presidential Forum
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Room 124A Joint Session 8 T.R. Oke Symposium: Urban scales, urban systems and the urban heat island (Joint between the Timothy R. Oke Symposium and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment)
Chairs: James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON Canada; H. P. Schmid, Research Center Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
10:45 AM J8.1 Interactions between urban areas and weather and climate models; the Oke contribution   Martin Best, Met Office, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom   J8.2 has been moved. New paper number 1.1A (8Urban)   11:00 AM J8.2A Newly developed “thermal climate zones” for defining and measuring urban heat island “magnitude” in the canopy layer   Iain Stewart, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and T. Oke 11:15 AM J8.3 Seeing the city for all the buildings   H. P. Schmid, Research Center Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany 11:30 AM J8.4 The Need to Establish Protocols in Urban Heat Island Work   Tim Oke, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday, Room 132A Keynote Session 1 Oke Symposium Luncheon (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
Speaker: Gerald Mills, University College Dublin, Dublin Ireland Chairs: James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON Canada; H. P. Schmid, Research Center Karlsruhe, Garmisch-Partenkirchen Germany
12:00 PM KS1.1 Luke Howard, Tim Oke and the study of urban climates   Gerald Mills, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 124A Joint Session 9 Urban Energy Balance (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
Chair: Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London United Kingdom
J9.1 The Suburban Energy Balance in Shunyi, Beijing City   Junxia Dou, Institute of Urban Meteorology/CMA, Beijing, China; and W. Liu, C. Su, and Y. Wang 1:30 PM J9.1A The EPiCC Vancouver Experiment—how do urban vegetation characteristics and garden irrigation control the local-scale energy balance?   Andreas Christen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and B. Crawford, N. R. Goodwin, R. Tooke, N. Coops, S. Grimmond, T. R. Oke, and J. A. Voogt 1:45 PM J9.2 Wintertime energy budget along an urbanisation gradient in Montreal, Canada   Onil Bergeron, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada; and I. B. Strachan 2:00 PM J9.3 Evaluation of the TEB model under cold and snowy conditions for the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (MUSE) 2005   Aude Lemonsu, CNRM, Météo France, Toulouse, France; and S. Bélair, J. Mailhot, and S. Leroyer 2:15 PM J9.4 The urban surface energy budget during the early spring period of the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (2006)   Sylvie Leroyer, McGill Univ., Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, QC, Canada; and J. Mailhot, S. Bélair, A. Lemonsu, and I. B. Strachan
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 124B Joint Session 10 Urban Precipitation Patterns (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
Chair: Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore Singapore
1:30 PM J10.1 Can satellite-derived rainfall really detect urban rainfall anomalies?   Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and S. Burian and M. Jin 1:45 PM J10.2 An investigation of warm season spatial rainfall variability in Oklahoma City: Possible linkages to urbanization and prevailing wind   Lauren Hand, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and M. Shepherd 2:00 PM J10.3 An anthropogenic signal in Phoenix, Arizona winter precipitation   Bohumil M. Svoma, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and R. C. Balling 2:15 PM J10.4 Long-term change and spatial anomaly of warm season afternoon precipitation in Tokyo   Fumiaki Fujibe, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and H. Togawa and M. Sakata
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5 Joint Poster Session 3 Urban Climate Studies—Poster Session (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
JP3.1 has been moved. New paper number J11.5A     JP3.2 High resolution surface temperature and urban thermal anisotropy simulations : validation against airborne remote sensing TIR data over Toulouse city (France)   Aurelien Henon, UMR CNRS, Nantes, France; and J. P. Lagouarde, P. G. Mestayer, and D. Groleau   JP3.3 Undercanopy and below ground microclimate patterns at the North Desert Village   Chris A. Martin, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ   JP3.4 Evolution of snow properties over the winter 2007-2008 in urban and suburban Montreal, Canada   Eric Christensen, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada; and O. Bergeron and I. B. Strachan   JP3.5 Sensible, Latent and Ground Heat Flux Model   Yanyan Zhang, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac and S. M. Lee   JP3.6 The dynamics of urban growth of Kolkata, India and its influence on precipitation   Chandana Mitra, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and M. Shepherd   JP3.7 Development of a Mesoscale Thermal Model for Urban Climate   Humberto Ramon Silva Jr., National Center of Excellence, Tempe, AZ; and P. Phelan and J. Golden   JP3.8 Urban climates and the urban surface: a review of T.R. Oke's contributions arising from conceptual representations of the urban surface   James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and S. Grimmond, S. Krayenhoff, S. M. Roberts, M. Roth, J. A. Salmond, and H. P. Schmid
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5 Joint Poster Session 4 Urban Heat Islands—Poster Session (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
JP4.1 Urban effects on intense convective precipitation in Mexico City- an update   Ernesto Jauregui Sr., NOAA/CAC, Mexico City, Mexico   JP4.2 Atlanta's urban heat island under extreme heat conditions   Yan Zhou, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and M. Shepherd   JP4.3 Assessment of Urban Land Surface Thermal Field Using Integrated Remote Sensing and Ancillary Information   Ying Zhang, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and B. Guindon, L. Sun, and Y. Yang   JP4.4 The urban heat island in Hong Kong: analyses of spatial variability and exposure   Melissa A. Hart, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and D. J. Sailor   JP4.5 Winter and summer temperatures in an European medium-sized city. Frost and hot nights trends   Albert Garcia-Manuel, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; and M. C. Moreno-García and J. Martín-Vide   JP4.6 Observed characteristics of the urban heat island during the harmattan and monsoon in Akure Nigeria   Ahmed Balogun, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and I. A. Balogun, A. A. Abatan, and E. A. Adefisan   JP4.7 Urban southern California heat waves are becoming more frequent and longer   Arbi Tamrazian, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. LaDochy, P. Ramirez, J. Willis, and W. C. Patzert   JP4.8 Summertime urban heat Island in Newark, NJ and its relationship with urban particulate matter   Christopher Thuman, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 124B Joint Session 11 Urban Canopy and Roughness Sublayers (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee)
Chair: Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM
4:00 PM J11.1 Measurements of concentration and dispersion in model urban canopies   Pablo Huq, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and L. White and S. Dharmavaram 4:15 PM J11.2 Estimates of air and pollutant exchange for street canyon in combined wind-buoyancy driven flow using the RANS renormalized group k-e turbulence model   Chun-Ho Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong; and W. C. Cheng and D. Y. C. Leung 4:30 PM J11.3 Urban canyon data analysis using a surface stress which incorporates the effects of canyon walls   Cheryl L. Klipp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD 4:45 PM J11.4 LES analysis of turbulent boundary-layer flow over urban-like building arrays with various spatial arrangement and height distribution   Hiromasa Nakayama, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Naka-gun, Ibaraki, Japan; and T. Takemi and N. Haruyasu J11.5 Temporal and spatial variability of the vertical transport of heat and carbon dioxide in the urban roughness sublayer   Jennifer A. Salmond, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; and S. Bhatia, G. Pigeon, D. Legain, and V. Masson 5:00 PM J11.5A Eight stable urban environment characteristics   Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM 5:15 PM J11.6 Coherent structures within a North American street canyon   Sean C. Arms, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. M. Klein
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 124A Joint Session 12 Urban Heat Islands (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium)
Chair: Tim Oke, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada
4:00 PM J12.1 Urban heat island in Phoenix: An emergent property of rapid urbanization   H. J. S. Fernando, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and K. Park 4:15 PM J12.2 Phoenix Urban Heat Island experiment: Micrometeorological aspects   Brent C. Hedquist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and A. J. Brazel, S. Di Sabatino, W. Carter, and H. J. S. Fernando 4:30 PM J12.3 Phoenix Urban Heat Island Experiment: Effects of Built Elements   Silvana Di Sabatino, Universita' del Salento, Lecce, Italy; and B. C. Hedquist, W. Carter, L. S. Leo, and H. J. S. Fernando   J12.4 has been moved. New paper number J8.2A (Oke/8Urban)   4:45 PM J12.4A Annual spatio-temporal variability of Toulouse urban heat island   Grégoire Pigeon, CNRM-GAME, CNRS Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and V. Masson 5:00 PM J12.5 Estimating thermal responsiveness of local-scale climate 'zones' with a numerical modeling approach   Scott Krayenhoff, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and I. Stewart and T. Oke 5:15 PM J12.6 Impact of urbanization and land use changes on climate trends   Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Cai
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Hall 4 Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 124A Joint Session 1 Measurements in the Urban Environment (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data)
Cochairs: Henry Revercomb, SSEC/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL, Pasadena, CA
8:30 AM J1.1 An Overview of the Oklahoma City Micronet   Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey and University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. G. Illston, C. Fiebrich, R. McPherson, J. P. Bostic, P. Browder, D. Demko, C. Morgan, and K. Kessler 8:45 AM J1.2 Development of a NYC Meteorological Network with emphasis on vertical wind profiles in support of meteorological and dispersion models   Mark Arend, City College of New York, New York, NY; and D. Santoro, B. Gross, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, and S. Abdelazim 9:00 AM J1.3 Urban meteorological observations in Helsinki, Finland   David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and W. F. Dabberdt, J. Damski, E. Gregow, L. Järvi, J. Koskinen, A. Meskanen, J. Poutiainen, H. Turtiainen, T. Vesala, and Y. Viisanen 9:15 AM J1.4 The Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities (EPiCC) network   James A. Voogt, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and T. R. Oke, O. Bergeron, N. R. Goodwin, S. Leroyer, B. R. Crawford, E. Christensen, B. E. Nanni, R. Tooke, D. van der Kamp, D. Aldred, S. Bélair, F. Chagnon, A. Christen, N. Coops, J. Mailhot, I. McKendry, I. B. Strachan, J. Wang, M. Benjamin, S. Grimmond, A. Lemonsu, and V. Masson 9:30 AM J1.5 Phoenix Urban Flash Flood Study (PUFFS)   Kenneth Howard, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. V. Vasiloff, C. Langston, J. Zhang, D. P. Jorgensen, and C. Dempsey
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 124B Session 1 Urban Heat Islands - Part II
Chair: Anthony Brazel, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
8:30 AM 1.1A Tim Oke and the extension of urban heat island observations upwards into the PBL   R. Bornstein, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and J. C. Hunt   1.1 has been moved. New paper number J12.4A (8Urban/Oke)   8:45 AM 1.2 Using UrbaNet data to quantify the nocturnal heat islands of US cities   Mark Hoekzema, AWS/WeatherBug, Germantown, MD; and B. B. Hicks 9:00 AM 1.3 A Numerical Study of “Urban Heat Islands” over the Washington-Baltimore Region   Da-Lin Zhang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Shou 9:15 AM 1.5 Urban heat island effect of large Central European cities using satellite measurements of surface temperature   Rita Pongrácz, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, Z. Dezső, and E. Lelovics 1.4 The Relation between land-cover and the Urban Heat Island in Northeastern Puerto Rico   David J. R. Murphy, SUNY, Syracuse, NY; and C. Hall, M. Hall, G. M. Heisler, S. Stehman, and C. Anselmi-Molina 9:30 AM 1.4A Observed characteristics of the urban heat island during the harmattan and monsoon in Akure, Nigeria   Ahmed Balogun, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and I. A. Balogun, A. A. Abatan, and E. A. Adefisan
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program)
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5 Joint Poster Session 1 Measurements in the Urban Environment (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee, and the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations)
Cochairs: Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
JP1.1 Ecosystem respiration of suburban lawns and its response to varying management and irrigation regimes   Kate Liss, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and B. Crawford, A. Christen, C. Siemens, and R. Jassal   JP1.2 Observations of carbon dioxide concentrations in the greater Vancouver region   Ben Crawford, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. Christen   JP1.3 A Preliminary Study on the Response of Land Surface Temperatures to Changing Ocean Temperature Gradients along the New York City Area   J.E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and A. Greenbaum and A. Bharth   JP1.4 Spectral characteristics of turbulence from rooftop meteorological stations in Washington, DC   Christoph A. Vogel, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and W. R. Pendergrass   JP1.5 Spatial structure and scale feature of the atmospheric pollution source impact of city agglomeration   Xiangde Xu Sr., Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and Z. Meng, G. Ding, X. Zhou, and X. Shi   JP1.6 2008 roadway sound barrier atmospheric tracer study   Kirk L. Clawson, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and R. Eckman, T. Pierce, R. Carter, D. Finn, S. Perry, and V. Isakov   JP1.7 Observing the urban mesoscale envronment: The Citizen Weather Observing Program   Gerald J. Creager, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and R. B. Chadwick, D. Helms, P. A. Miller, M. F. Barth, P. Gladstone, and S. S. Dimse   JP1.8 Design and deployment of traffic signal stations within the Oklahoma City Micronet   Bradley G. Illston, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and P. Browder, K. Kesler, and J. B. Basara   JP1.9 Improvement of Aerosol Retrieval and Resolution using a refined Surface Albedo Model based on Simultaneous MODIS and Sunphotometer Measurements   Min Min Oo, Optical remote Sensing Lab City College of New York, New York, NY; and M. Jerg, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed   JP1.10 The Characteristics Study on the Precipitable Water Vapor measured by the Ground-Based 12 –Channel Microwave Radiometer in Beijing   Hongyan Liu, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China   JP1.11 Temperature correction algorithm for Geonor weighing gauge with three transducers   Harry H. Lamb, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and B. Persaud and H. Mouradian
	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
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
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 124A Joint Session 13 Joint Session on Air Quality Measurements in Coastal Cities (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, and the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations)
Chair: Martin Best, Met Office, Wallingford, Oxfordshire United Kingdom
11:00 AM J13.1 Observations of carbon dioxide fluxes in two suburban neighborhoods in Vancouver, Canada   Ben Crawford, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. Christen, T. R. Oke, J. A. Voogt, and S. Grimmond 11:15 AM J13.2 Characterization of local sources of atmospheric pollution in the megacity of São Paulo, Brazil   Maria de Fatima Andrade, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 11:30 AM J13.3 Dependence of peak daily ozone concentrations in Houston, Texas on the sea breeze and meteorological variables   Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and C. J. Senff, R. J. Alvarez, D. D. Parrish, M. K. Trainer, T. B. Ryerson, L. S. Darby, R. M. Hardesty, B. Lambeth, J. A. Neuman, W. M. Andevine, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, S. P. Sandberg, A. O. Langford, and A. B. White 11:45 AM J13.4 Carbon dioxide concentration and fluxes in a tropical city   Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; and C. Jansson and M. Rahiz
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 124B Session 2 Urban Energy and Water Balances
Chair: David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
11:00 AM 2.1 Climate and urban form effects on the water and energy budgets in a residential area of Salt Lake City, Utah   Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Pardyjak, I. Jeyachandran, N. Augustus, P. Ramamurthy, C. Forster, and B. Skousen 11:15 AM 2.2 Quantifying anthropogenic moisture emissions and their potential impact on the urban climate   David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR; and A. Brooks 11:30 AM 2.3 The evolution of urban heat island and water demand   Christopher A. Scott, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. Halper, S. Yool, and A. Comrie 11:45 AM 2.4 Variability of the surface energy balance in and around Oklahoma City   Kodi L. Nemunaitis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	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
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
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 124B Joint Session 14 Dense Gas Dispersion (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
Chair: Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME
1:30 PM J14.1 Source emissions and transport and dispersion models for Toxic Industrial Chemicals (TICs) released in cities   Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and R. Britter, J. Leung, O. R. Hansen, R. I. Sykes, P. Drivas, J. C. Weil, and D. Strimaitis 1:45 PM J14.2 Modeling of releases of flashing liquids around buildings   Mathieu Ichard, GexCon, Bergen, Norway; and O. Hansen and J. Melheim 2:00 PM J14.3 Issues with use of toxicity values for emergency response   Timothy J. Bauer, NSWCDD, Dahlgren, VA 2:15 PM J14.4 Review and assessment of chlorine mammalian lethality data and the development of a human estimate   Douglas R. Sommerville, US Department of Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD; and J. J. Bray, S. A. Reutter-Christy, R. E. Jablonski, and E. E. Shelly 2:30 PM J14.5 Large-eddy simulations of density currents over complex terrain   Branko Kosovic, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. D. Mirocha 2:45 PM J14.6 Shallow water model for dense gas simulation in urban areas: a new approach   Sara Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; and M. D. Williams, A. Gowardhan, D. Manca, and M. J. Brown
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4 Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 124A Joint Session 3 Measurements in the Urban Environment—II (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, and the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee)
Cochairs: Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
3:30 PM J3.1 Development of an Innovative Laboratory for Research and Education in Urban Meteorology: An Overview of the NSF Career Project: ILREUM   Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. C. Arms and J. M. Galvez 3:45 PM J3.2 Scintillometry applied to urban studies: evaluation of scintillometer measurements made at a sub-urban site   Jose M. Galvez, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. M. Klein and S. Arms 4:00 PM J3.3 An Analysis of the July and August 2008 Heat Wave Using Oklahoma City Micronet Observations   Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, B. G. Illston, and A. J. Schroeder 4:15 PM J3.4 An analysis of observations from portable temperature and humidity sensors deployed across Oklahoma City   Amanda J. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara 4:30 PM J3.5 Outdoor scale model experiment to evaluate the complete urban surface temperature   Sarah M. Roberts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. A. Voogt and T. R. Oke 4:45 PM J3.6 Atmospheric stability in urban areas detected by ultrasonic anemometers   Martin Piringer, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria 5:00 PM J3.7 Measuring meteorology in urban areas—some progress and many problems   Ekaterina Batchvarova, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Sofia, Bulgaria; and S. E. Gryning   J3.8 has been moved. New paper number J9.1A
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 124B Joint Session 15 Dispersion and Air Quality in Cities—DAPPLE Experiment (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
Chair: Stephen E. Belcher, University of Reading, Reading, Berks. United Kingdom
3:30 PM J15.1 Wind tunnel experiments in support of the DAPPLE project   Alan Robins, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom; and P. Hayden and J. Barlow 3:45 PM J15.2 Wind field observations during the DAPPLE 2004 campaign in London, UK   Janet Barlow, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and A. Dobre, R. Smalley, S. Arnold, A. Tomlin, and S. Belcher 4:00 PM J15.3 Measurements of flow and turbulence within and above an urban intersection in central London (DAPPLE 2007 campaign)   Ahmed Balogun, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and A. Tomlin, C. R. Wood, J. Barlow, S. Belcher, R. Smalley, J. Lingard, S. Arnold, A. Dobre, A. Robins, and D. Martin 4:15 PM J15.4 An overview of methods of full-scale urban dispersion in experiments during DAPPLE   Damien Martin, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom; and D. Shallcross, C. R. Wood, S. Arnold, A. Balogun, J. Barlow, S. E. Belcher, R. Britter, A. Robins, F. Petersson, J. Tate, and A. Tomlin 4:30 PM J15.5 Line source tracer release experiments in central London (DAPPLE project)   James Tate, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and C. R. Wood, D. Martin, S. Arnold, A. Balogun, J. Barlow, S. E. Belcher, R. Britter, J. J. N. Lingard, C. Oates, A. Robins, D. E. Shallcross, and A. Tomlin 4:45 PM J15.6 A numerical study of the flow and exchange processes within a complex urban geometry: the DAPPLE case study   Marina K.-A. Neophytou, Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; and Y. Panayiotou, D. Hamlyn, and R. Britter 5:00 PM J15.7 Pathways for dispersion in urban areas revealed by the DAPPLE experiments   Stephen E. Belcher, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. Arnold, A. Balogun, J. Barlow, R. E. Britter, H. Cheng, A. Dobre, J. J. N. Lingard, D. Martin, M. K. –. Neophytou, F. Petersson, A. Robins, D. E. Shallcross, R. Smalley, J. Tate, A. Tomlin, I. R. White, and C. R. Wood 5:15 PM J15.8 Fast response measurements for the dispersion of nanoparticles in vehicle wake and street canyon   Prashant Kumar, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom; and A. Robins and R. Britter
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 124A Joint Session 16 Boundary Layer and Turbulence Measurements in the Urban Environment (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee, and the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations)
Chair: Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM J16.1 On the coupling between urban surface wind fields and skimming flow   Bruce B. Hicks, Metcorps, Norris, TN; and W. R. Pendergrass, C. A. Vogel, and R. S. Artz 8:45 AM J16.2 On the rooftop micrometeorology and heat islands of Washington and New York City   William R. Pendergrass, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and B. B. Hicks and C. A. Vogel 9:00 AM J16.3 Utilizing surface network data in urban dispersion models   William Callahan, AWS/WeatherBug, Germantown, MD; and B. B. Hicks, W. R. Pendergrass, and C. A. Vogel 9:15 AM J16.4 Quantifying the effects of rooftop modifications on building thermal environment through field measurements   Anthony Dominguez, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and J. Kleissl 9:30 AM J16.5 Boundary layer dynamics over London as observed using Doppler lidar   Janet Barlow, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and T. M. Dunbar, E. Nemitz, C. R. Wood, M. W. Gallagher, F. Davies, and R. M. Harrison 9:45 AM J16.6 Turbulence Characteristics in Oklahoma City Measured from an 83-meter PseudoTower   Sam Chang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and G. Huynh and D. Tofsted
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 124B Session 3 Weather Forecasting for Urban Areas
Chair: Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London United Kingdom
8:30 AM 3.1 An international urban surface energy balance model comparison study: first results   Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Blackett and M. Best   3.2 has been moved. New paper number 3.3A   8:45 AM 3.2A Model Complexity: First results from the international urban surface energy balance model comparison study   Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Blackett and M. J. Best 9:00 AM 3.3A How do initial assumptions for parameters and state variables influence accuracy?   Maggie Hendry, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and M. Best, M. Gouvea, S. Grimmond, and A. Porson 3.3 PAPER WITHDRAWN   9:15 AM 3.4 Impact of urban parameters on the surface energy balance in urban areas   Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. Porson and S. Belcher 9:30 AM 3.5 Inclusion of a multi-layer drag approach in urban surface schemes: which benefits ?   Valéry Masson, CNRM/Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and R. Hamdi and G. Pigeon 9:45 AM 3.6 Simulation of fall and winter surface energy balance over a dense urban area using the TEB scheme   Grégoire Pigeon, CNRS Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and M. Moscicki, J. A. Voogt, and V. Masson
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 124A Joint Session 4 Modeling and Forecasting Urban Areas (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Chair: Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA
10:30 AM J4.1 Regional and Global Perspectives of Megacity Air Pollution   Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA 10:45 AM J4.2 GURME—the WMO GAW Urban Research Meteorology and Environment Project   Liisa Jalkanen, WMO/AREP, Geneva, Switzerland; and G. R. Carmichael 11:00 AM J4.3 Regional modeling and prediction of the extreme smoke episode in Buenos Aires, 15–20 April 2008   Ernesto Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay and H. Ciappesoni 11:15 AM J4.4 How well can we model the Houston area for air pollution studies?   Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Zagar and J. Brioude J4.5 Modeling of TexAQS–II Urban Air Quality Events   Daewon W. Byun, Institute for Multi-dimensional Air Quality Studies, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and F. Ngan, H. C. Kim, S. T. Kim, and D. Lee 11:30 AM J4.6 NOAA-EPA's National Air Quality Forecast Capability: Recent Progress in Providing Guidance for Cities   Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. McQueen, R. Mathur, R. Draxler, R. A. Wayland, and I. Stajner
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 124B Session 4 Biometeorology and Public Health In Urban Areas
Chair: Gordon M. Heisler, USDA Forest Service, Syracuse, NY
10:30 AM 4.1 Human thermal comfort in summer in different urban quarters of a mid-size central European city (Freiburg, Germany)   Helmut Mayer, Meteorological Institute, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, , Germany; and J. Holst and F. Imbery 10:45 AM 4.2 Physiologically equivalent temperature and climate change in Freiburg   Andreas Matzarakis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, , Germany; and C. Endler 11:00 AM 4.3 Urban climate and human heat-stress values during the July 2006 Portland, Oregon heat wave   Andrew Melford, San Joe State University, San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein 11:15 AM 4.4 Analysis of daily climate-suicide relationships in Mississippi   P. Grady Dixon, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and D. M. Brommer 11:30 AM 4.5 Reconstruction of the airborne emissions by inverse dispersion modelling and generation of synthetic emission data by a Monte Carlo model   Gunther Schauberger, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and M. Piringer, E. Petz, W. Knauder, and K. Baumann-Stanzer 11:45 AM 4.6 Heat waves, urban heat stress and mortality: a satellite surveillance system   Benedicte Dousset, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. Gourmelon, E. Giraudet, K. Laaidi, K. Zeghnoun, and P. Bretin
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 124A Joint Session 17 Building—Resolving Modeling and Forecasting in Urban Areas (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment)
Chair: H.J.S. Fernando, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1:30 PM J17.1 Model- and Application-Specific Validation Data for LES-Based Transport and Diffusion Models   M. Y. Lee, NRL, Washington, DC; and F. Harms, T. R. Young, B. Leitl, and G. Patnaik J17.2 LES studies on pedestrian level ventilation in Hong Kong   Carolin Weinreis, Institute of Meteorology and Climatology, Leibniz Universität, Hannover, Germany; and M. O. Letzel, S. Raasch, E. Ng, and L. Katzschner 1:45 PM J17.2A A successive downscaling LES simulation of local-scale weather circulations   Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Wu, J. Beohnert, G. Roux, T. T. Warner, and S. P. Swerdlin 2:00 PM J17.3 Impact Assessment on Local Meteorology due to the Land Use Changes During Urban Development in Seoul   Hae-Jung Koo, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seoul, South Korea; and K. R. Kim, Y. J. Choi, T. H. Kwon, Y. H. Kim, and C. Y. Choi 2:15 PM J17.4 Modeling of Urban Canyon with Three Dimensional Radiation and its Impact to Urban Weather   Keiko Takahashi, JAMSTEC, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan; and R. Onishi, T. Sugimura, and Y. Baba
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 124B Joint Session 18 Urban Transport and Dispersion Modeling—Part I (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
Chairs: Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
1:30 PM J18.1 Quantitative probabilistic model for urban dispersion   Eugene Yee, Defence R&D Canada - Suffield, Medicine Hat, AB, Canada; and B. C. Wang 1:45 PM J18.2 Urban HPAC/SCIPUFF and a simple urban dispersion model compared with the Madison Square Garden 2005 (MSG05) tracer observations in New York City   Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and R. I. Sykes, J. Chang, J. M. White, and E. Baja 2:00 PM J18.3 Development of a vegetation deposition model for a fast response urban Lagrangian dispersion model   Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and U. N. Amatul, M. A. Nelson, and M. J. Brown 2:15 PM J18.4 The importance of terrain and building definitions for transport and dispersion CFD simulations of pollutants   Fernando E. Camelli, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and D. Wong, M. Sonwalkar, and R. Lohner
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5 Joint Poster Session 5 Modeling Tools for Urban and Complex Terrain Environments Including Energy Applications—Posters (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the The Energy Committee)
JP5.1 A WRF and MM5-based weather analysis and forecasting system for supporting wind energy prediction   Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Warner, F. Chen, W. Wu, and S. P. Swerdlin   JP5.2 Improved large-eddy simulation over complex terrain using the Weather Research and Forecasting model   Jeffrey D. Mirocha, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. K. Lundquist, B. Kosovic, and F. K. Chow   JP5.3 has been moved. New paper number J22.1A     JP5.4 Application of an operational meso-scale modelling system for commercial/industrial plant operations   Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish   JP5.5 Advances in AERMOD for urban and complex terrain applications   Roger W. Brode, EPA/OAQPS/AQAD/AQMG, Research Triangle Park, NC   JP5.6 Statistical relationships between temperature and electricity load forecasts for New York City and State   Eric E. Wertz, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and A. A. Small, III and G. S. Young
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5 Poster Session 1 Modeling and Forecasting in Urban Area—Poster Session
P1.1 Heat ventilation efficiency of urban surfaces using Large-Eddy Simulation   M. Cristina L. Castillo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda and M. O. Letzel   P1.2 Observational and numerical study of the Great Salt Lake breeze   Erik T. Crosman, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel   P1.3 Application of an Adaptive Nudging Scheme in Air Quality Forecasting in China   Xu Xiangde Sr., Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China; and X. Lian and C. Xinghong   P1.4 A sensitivity study on anthropogenic heat release and building / street aspect ratio using a mesoscale model in Tokyo Metropolitan area, Japan   Toshinori Aoyagi, Meteorological Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan; and N. Seino   P1.5 Urban effects on summer monsoon convection in the Phoenix (Arizona, USA) metropolitan area   Susanne Grossman Clarke, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and Y. Liu, J. A. Zehnder, and M. Ge   P1.6 Verification of three storm surge models over the New York Bight and Long Island regions   Tom DiLiberto, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle, F. Bounaiuto, and M. J. Bowman   P1.7 Modeling hilly urban canopy using immersed boundary method in large eddy simulation   Long Sun, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and J. Kleissl   P1.8 Formation of horizontal convective rolls in urban areas   Shiguang Miao, Institute of Urban Meteorology, CMA, Beijing, China; and F. Chen   P1.9 Characterization of PM2.5 over the El Paso-Juarez Airshed using the CMAQ model   Juan Gustavo Arias, SACNAS, UTEP, El Paso, TX; and M. Güereque, R. M. Fitzgerald, D. Lu, and W. R. Stockwell   P1.10 Aerosol characterization in a city influenced by both rural and urban regions   Angel E. Esparza, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and J. Polanco and R. M. Fitzgerald   P1.11 Characterization of aerosols over the El Paso-Juarez Airshed using the CMAQ model   Juan Gustavo Arias, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and M. Guereque, R. M. Fitzgerald, D. Lu, and W. R. Stockwell   P1.13 Factors involved in the formation and development of severe weather conditions over the megacity of São Paulo   Edmilson D. Freitas, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; and P. L. Silva Dias, V. S. B. Carvalho, C. R. M. Rocha, L. D. Martins, J. A. Martins, and M. D. F. Andrade P1.12 Real-time forecasting for New York City and its surroundings, with emphasis on sea breezes and other coastal circulations   Jason C. Knievel, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. L. Rife and J. A. Grim
	2:35 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5 Joint Poster Session 6 Dispersion and Air Quality in Cities—Poster Session (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
JP6.1 A Weekend Effect in Diurnal Temperature Range and its Association with Aerosol Radiative Effects in Korea   Byung-Gon Kim, Kangnung National University, Gangnung, South Korea; and Y. J. Kim, S. H. Eun, and M. H. Choi   JP6.2 Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Flow and Gas Diffusion in the Recirculation cavity behind an Isolated Building   Mohamed F. Yassin, Department of Environmental Technology Management, Kuwait, Safat , Kuwait   JP6.3 Plume Rise and Ground-Level Concentration of Emission from a Distributed Power Generation Unit: Field Observations and Water Channel Modeling   Xiangyi Li, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA; and S. Chen, M. Princevac, A. Venkatram, D. Pankratz, and C. Bartolome   JP6.4 Evaluation of an Urban Vegetative Canopy Scheme and Impact on Plume Dispersion   Matthew A. Nelson, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. D. Williams, D. Zajic, E. R. Pardyjak, and M. J. Brown   JP6.5 Urban transport & dispersion model sensitivity to wind direction and source location   Luna M. Rodriguez, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and P. Bieringer JP6.6 Meteorological, photochemical, and radiative-forcing feedback modeling of emission and anthropogenic heating reductions in the greater Portland OR region   Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc., Martinez, CA; and D. J. Sailor
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 126A Joint Session 5 Geographic Effects on Urban Weather and Climate (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data)
Chair: William T. Thompson, NRL, Monterey, CA
4:00 PM J5.1 Assessing sea breeze and heat island interactions using coastal-urban mesoscale ensembles   Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Pullen 4:30 PM J5.2 Urban effects on Sea Breeze Circulation over Huston, TX   Kazuyuki Ota, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair, W. A. Petersen, L. D. Carey, and T. E. Nobis 4:45 PM J5.3 Variable impacts and differential response to flash flooding in the Paso del Norte metroplex (El Paso, Texas, USA / Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico)   Thomas E. Gill, University of Texas, El Paso, TX; and T. W. Collins and D. J. Novlan 5:00 PM J5.4 Modeling and forecasting lee side spillover precipitation resulting in major flooding in an urban valley location   Michael L. Kaplan, DRI, Reno, NV; and P. J. Marzette, C. S. Adaniya, K. C. King, and S. J. Underwood 5:15 PM J5.5 The evolution of lake-effect clouds and snow across Lake Michigan   Faye E. Barthold, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 124A Joint Session 19 Urban Transport and Dispersion Modeling—Part II (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
Organizers: Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
4:00 PM J19.1 Numerical Simulations of Air Flows and Transport and Diffusion from Wind Tunnel to Terrain Scales   Tetsuji Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation, Santa Fe, NM 4:15 PM J19.2 Rapid-response urban CFD simulations using a GPU computing paradigm on desktop supercomputers   Inanc Senocak, Boise State University, Boise, ID; and J. Thibault and M. Caylor 4:30 PM J19.3 The prediction of toxic gas infiltration for a building in an urban area   S. Kim, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL 4:45 PM J19.4 Evaluation of the QUIC wind and dispersion models using the Joint Urban 2003 Field Experiment   Akshay Gowardhan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. J. Brown, E. R. Pardyjak, M. D. Williams, and M. A. Nelson 5:00 PM J19.5 Integrating a complete Lagrangian dispersion model into an urban GPU-based simulation system   Balwinder Singh, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak, A. Norgren, and P. Willemsen 5:15 PM J19.6 The development of a prototype of a Canadian urban flow and dispersion modeling system   Richard Hogue, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and N. Benbouta, S. Bélair, J. Mailhot, E. Yee, F. S. Lien, and J. D. Wilson
	5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Hall 4 Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Northballroom AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 15 January 2009
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Room 124A Joint Session 20 Air Quality in Cities—Criteria Pollutants (Joint with the Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution Committee)
Panelist: Marko Princevac, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
8:30 AM J20.1 Air quality modeling in support of children's health studies   Reneta Dimitrova, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and B. C. Hedquist, P. Hyde, H. J. S. Fernando, and J. Anderson 8:45 AM J20.2 A multi-scale framework for assessing the air quality impacts of aviation   Steven R. H. Barrett, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and R. E. Britter and I. A. Waitz 9:00 AM J20.3 Field, Laboratory and Numerical Study on Flow and Dispersion of PM2.5 in Southern Californian Cities   Hansheng Pan, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac, R. Edwards, A. Sfazl, M. Boarnet, J. Wu, and R. Lejano 9:15 AM J20.4 Performance evaluation of NOAA-EPA air quality forecasts, 2007 – 2008   Jerry Lee Gorline, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. C. Lee 9:30 AM J20.5 EnviNNet: a Neural Network for hindcasting PM10 in Urban Phoenix   M. C. Mammarella, ENEA, Rome, Italy; and G. Grandoni, P. Fedele, R. A. DiMarco, H. J. S. Fernando, and P. Hyde
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Room 126A Joint Session 21 Weather and Climate in Coastal Urban Areas—I (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment)
Chair: David H. Levinson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
8:30 AM J21.1 Cooling summer daytime temperatures in two urban coastal California air basins during 1948–2005: observations and implications   R. Bornstein, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and B. Lebassi, E. P. Maurer, P. Switzer, and J. E. Gonzalez 9:00 AM J21.2 Assessment of extreme weather events along the coastal areas of Thailand   Atsamon Limsakul, Environmental Research and Training Center, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand; and S. Limjirakan and T. Sriburi 9:15 AM J21.3 Observational Analysis and simulation of the Delaware Sea/Bay Breeze   Dana E. Veron, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and N. P. Barton, A. Satinsky, and E. Geiger 9:30 AM J21.4 Regional Impacts on Energy Demands from a Changing Climate in Coastal California Environments   J.E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and B. Lebassi, R. D. Bornstein, H. Taha, and R. D. Van Buskirk
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Wednesday's program)
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, Room 121A Joint Session 6 Urban Implications of Climate Change and Population Growth (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change, and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment)
Chair: Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
11:00 AM J6.1 Impact of global climate change on central European cities   Wilhelm Kuttler, Univ. of Duisburg, Essen, Germany; and S. Weber 11:15 AM J6.2 Impacts of Rapid Development of Urban Environment on City Weather Services in the Shanghai Region   Xu Tang Sr., Shanghai Meteorological Regional Center, CMA, China, Shanghai, China 11:30 AM J6.3 Modeling global climate change in urban areas   Keith Oleson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Feddema, T. Jackson, G. Bonan, O. Wilhelmi, and J. Boehnert 11:45 AM J6.4 Climate Change Scenarios for the New York Metropolitan Region   Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/GISS and the Columbia Earth Institute, New York, NY; and R. M. Horton 12:00 PM J6.5 Scales of perception: public awareness of neighborhood and regional temperature differences   Darren M. Ruddell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and S. L. Harlan, S. Grossman-Clarke, and G. Chowell
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, Room 124A Joint Session 22 Modeling Tools for Energy Production in Urban and Complex Terrain (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the The Energy Committee)
Chairs: Jon Davis, Chesapeake Energy Corporation, Chicago, IL; Julie K. Lundquist, LLNL, Livermore, CA
J22.1 PAPER WITHDRAWN   11:00 AM J22.1A Application of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model for the planning and operation of wind plants   Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. D. Fast, J. E. Flaherty, W. I. Gustafson, and W. J. Shaw 11:15 AM J22.2 Operational wind generation forecasting   Russell L. Bigley, Xcel Energy, Littleton, CO 11:30 AM J22.3 Research needs for wind resource characterization   William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Schreck and J. K. Lundquist 11:45 AM J22.4 Nesting large-eddy simulations within mesoscale simulations for urban and complex terrain   Julie K. Lundquist, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. D. Mirocha, F. K. Chow, B. Kosovic, and K. A. Lundquist 12:00 PM J22.5 The impacts of wind energy turbines on local meteorology: implications for urban environments   Amanda S. Adams, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; and D. W. Keith 12:15 PM J22.6 Undergraduate forecasting and nowcasting for a major urban public utility   Brian J. Cerruti, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; and S. G. Decker, L. A. Bowers, W. K. Wittman, and J. Carlson
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday, Room 131AB Hollingsworth Symp Luncheon
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Room 131A Joint Session 7 Sustainable Urban Design (Joint between the Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions, the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data)
Chair: Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1:30 PM J7.1 The Centrality of Design in the Reduction of Urban Sprawl: A Summary of Issues   Emily Talen, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ 2:00 PM J7.2 Urban climate modeling, heat island mitigation and local knowledge: co-producing science for urban policy   Lily Parshall, Columbia University, New York, NY; and J. Corburn 2:15 PM J7.3 Mitigating urban heat island effects with water and energy sensitive urban designs   Anthony J. Brazel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and P. Gober, S. Grossman-Clarke, S. Myint, S. Grimmond, A. Q. Miller, R. Quay, and S. Rossi 2:30 PM J7.4 Simulations of the London urban climate: the LUCID project   Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. Porson, M. Davies, and S. Belcher 2:45 PM J7.5 Optimization of urban designs for air quality and energy efficiency   Eric Pardyjak, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and P. Willemsen and D. E. Johnson
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Room 124A Joint Session 23 Modeling and Forecasting Urban Areas—II (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment)
Chairs: Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA, Research Triangle park, NC
1:30 PM J23.1 Testing of a multi-layer urban canopy model with two boundary layer schemes in WRF   Alberto Martilli, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain; and S. Grossman Clarke, F. Chen, and J. Dudhia 1:45 PM J23.2 Effects of historical land use changes on near surface meteorological variables in the Phoenix (Arizona, USA) metropolitan area   Susanne Grossman Clarke, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. A. Zehnder 2:00 PM J23.3 Sensitivity of mesoscale urban boundary layer meteorology to uncertainty in the urban morphology   David D. Flagg, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. A. Taylor 2:15 PM J23.4 Relationships between Urban and Suburban Micrometeorological Variables   Wenjun Qian, University of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac and A. Venkatram 2:30 PM J23.5 Results and sensitivities of the Town Energy Budget (TEB) coupled to the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) over Washington DC   Timothy E. Nobis, AWS, Whitesboro, NY; and R. A. Pielke 2:45 PM J23.6 Parameterization of subgrid concentration distributions in CMAQ for urban air quality assessments   Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD, Research Triangle Park, NC; and M. A. Majeed, V. Isakov, and J. A. Herwehe
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Hall 4 Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Room 124A Joint Session 24 Modeling Tools for Urban and Complex Terrain Environments (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the The Energy Committee)
Chairs: Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA, Research Triangle park, NC
3:30 PM J24.1 MM5, WRF and CMAQ using NUDAPT for advanced urban applications   Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD, Research Triangle Park, NC; and F. Chen, H. Taha, M. Tewari, and T. L. Otte 3:45 PM J24.2 Satellite-based approaches to determine urban characteristics: implications for NUDAPT and modeling   Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and I. Jeyachandran, J. M. Shepherd, M. Carter, and M. Jin 4:00 PM J24.3 Application of an integrated WRF/urban modeling system to urban environmental problems   Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Tewari, Y. Liu, J. Dudhia, S. G. Miao, A. Martilli, S. Grossman-Clarke, J. K. Ching, and H. Kusaka 4:15 PM J24.4 Two-way coupling approach between WRF NWP and EULAG LES models for urban area transport and dispersion modeling   Andrzej A. Wyszogrodzki, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, S. G. Miao, and J. Michalakes J24.5 PAPER WITHDRAWN   4:30 PM J24.5A The effect of stratification on the aerodynamic roughness length and displacement height   Sergej Zilitinkevich, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and I. Mammarella, A. Baklanov, and S. Joffre 4:45 PM J24.6 Numerical experiments using WRF/Urban Canopy Model over Houston region   Mukul Tewari, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, K. W. Manning, S. Grimmond, T. Loridan, J. K. Ching, and S. G. Miao
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Room 124B Session 5 Urban Heat Islands—Mitigation Studies
Chair: Jay S. Golden, National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy, Tempe, AZ
3:30 PM 5.1 Relating urban thermal patterns to vegetation distribution at various scales   Anita Walz, Marshall University, Huntington, WV; and W. H. Hwang 3:45 PM 5.2 Tree-cover influences on below-canopy air temperatures in Baltimore, MD   Gordon M. Heisler, USDA Forest Service, Syracuse, NY; and D. Nowak, I. Yesilonis, R. Pouyat, A. Lee, A. Ellis, E. Greenfield, and S. Grimmond 4:00 PM 5.3 Evaluating the surface energy balance of alternative parking lot paving materials in hot arid climates   Joby D. Carlson, National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. H. Jo, K. E. Kaloush, and J. S. Golden 4:15 PM 5.4 Quantifying the direct and indirect benefits of a ‘cool' roof renovation project in hot dry climate zones   Jin Ho Jo, National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations for Urban Climate and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. Carlson, K. S. Bae, H. Bryan, and J. S. Golden 4:30 PM 5.5 The Effect of Heat Transfer from Artificial Turf on the Urban Energy Balance   Neda Yaghoobian, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and J. Kleissl and S. Krayenhoff 4:45 PM 5.6 CUFR tree carbon calculator   James R. Simpson, USDA Forest Service, Davis, CA; and E. G. McPherson
	5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns

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