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Program Chairpersons:
Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ.
Brian Lamb, Washington State University

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
	3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130 First-Time Attendee Briefing
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Hall 5 Fellows Reception
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 127A Session 1 Field, laboratory, and modeling studies of air quality—I
Cochairs: J. R. Arnold, NOAA/ARL and USEPA/ORD/NERL, Seattle, WA; Crystal C. Reed, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX
10:45 AM 1.1 A transboundary air quality study of pollution over the Gulf of Aqaba   Aiman Soleiman, Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, Aqaba, Jordan; and M. Abu-Allaban, B. Bornstein, M. Luria, and A. Gertler 11:00 AM 1.2 Ozone Profiles at Dakar Senegal during the summer of 2008   Gregory Jenkins, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and S. Ndiaye, M. Gueye, R. Fitzhugh, and J. Smith 11:15 AM 1.3 Mapping small scale air pollution distribution using satellite observations in a large Canadian city   Natividad Urquizo, City of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and D. Sptizer and W. Pugsley 11:30 AM 1.4 Numerical simulation of atmospheric loadings of mercury from a coal fired power plant to Lake Erie   Sreerama M. Daggupaty, EC, Downsview, ON, Canada; and P. Blanchard, C. Banic, and P. Cheung 11:45 AM 1.5 Urban ozone over North America from soundings: Mixed influences from pollution, stratosphere, lightning and convection   Anne M. Thompson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. M. Luzik, S. K. Miller, J. C. Witte, G. Morris, S. J. Oltmans, B. Rappenglueck, D. W. Tarasick, J. E. Yorks, and E. Joseph
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 127A Session 2 Field, laboratory, and modeling studies of air quality—II
Chair: Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
1:30 PM 2.1 The role of ship emissions for atmospheric composition and input in South Alaska National Parks   Stacy E. Porter, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and N. Mölders 1:45 PM 2.2 Multiscale Comparison of Air Quality Modeling for the 1996 Paso Del Norte Ozone event   Duanjun Lu, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and R. S. Reddy, D. R. M. Fitzgerald, W. R. Stockwell, Q. L. Williams, and P. B. Tchounwou 2:00 PM 2.3 Sensitivity of gaseous and aerosol predictions to aerosol treatments in three-dimensional atmospheric models   Ying Pan, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Zhang 2:15 PM 2.4 Improving chemical mechanisms through the analysis of Mid-Atlantic measurements of volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides   Tatiana Gonzalez, Howard University, Washington, DC; and W. R. Stockwell, W. S. Goliff, J. D. Fuentes, A. M. Thompson, D. Wang, E. Joseph, and B. F. Taubman
	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 1 Air quality modeling and evaluation (Joint between the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry and the Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions)
Cochairs: Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA
JP2.1 Effect of Marine Biogenic Organic Aerosols on Cloud Properties: Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) Study   Jun Xu, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and N. Meskhidze, Y. Zhang, B. Gantt, S. Ghan, A. Nenes, X. Liu, R. Easter, and R. Zaveri   JP1.1 An investigation of positive and negative sampling artifacts for organic carbon in IMPROVE samplers   Ashley D. Mefferd, University of California, Davis, CA; and J. R. Turner and A. M. Dillner JP1.13 Evaluation of 2002 multi-pollutant modeling platform using satellite measurements   Kai Wang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Phillips, C. Jang, Y. Zhang, N. Possiel, and T. Fox   JP1.2 Satellite Data for Assessing Air Quality from the Atmospheric Science Data Center   Nancy A. Ritchey, SSAI, Hampton, VA   JP1.3 Comparisons of observed and simulated atmospheric boundary layer diurnal cycle   Sara A. Michelson, NOAA/ESRL/PSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and I. V. Djalalova and J. W. Bao   JP1.4 Ice-core evidence of a pyrocumulonimbus wildfire in 1950   Robert Field, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. W. K. Moore, G. Holdsworth, and C. Tymstra JP1.6 Sensitivity of Aerosol Impact on Regional Meteorology to Simulated Aerosol Number and Size Distributions in East Asia   Yaosheng Chen, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. Zhang and C. J. Jang   JP1.5 Examining the Governing Processes and Export of O3 and PM2.5 in the U.S.:   Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and X. Y. Wen, K. Wang, and K. Vijayaraghavan   JP1.7 An Environmental Chamber Study of Atmospheric Reactions Involving Hydrogen Oxides and Nitrogen Oxides   Amber M. Ortega, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and W. Brune   JP1.8 Modeling Dispersion of Buoyant Releases in an Urban Area   Qiguo Jing, University of California, Riverside, CA; and D. Pankratz, M. Princevac, and A. Venkatram   JP1.9 Simulating Air Quality in the Southeastern U.S.: Process Analyses and Responses to Future-Year Emissions   Xiao-Huan Liu, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and K. Olsen, Y. Zhang, and W. X. Wang   JP1.10 WRF-Fire: A fire-atmosphere dynamics module for air quality modeling   Kara Yedinak, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and J. L. Coen and B. Lamb   JP1.11 Research Experiences for Students in Senegal: Investigating Saharan Dust/Tropospheric Ozone Measurements during June 2008   Rachel Fitzhugh, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and G. Jenkins   JP1.12 Identifying Trends in 8-Hour “Background” and “Locally Contributed” Ozone in Houston, Texas Controlling for Meteorological Conditions   James Tobin, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 127A Session 3 The use of surface and remote sensing measurements for air quality model evaluation
Cochairs: Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; Raymond Hoff, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
4:00 PM 3.1 Enhancements in tropospheric CO from biogenic VOC emissions over North America and the western Atlantic Ocean using TES and MOPITT measurements   Yunsoo Choi, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and G. Osterman, A. Eldering, Y. Wang, and E. Edgerton 4:15 PM 3.2 Ozone Episodes in U.S.-Mexico Border Cities: Can Fusion of Satellite Information Improve Accuracy of Predictions?   Chune Shi, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and H. J. S. Fernando, E. Y. W. Seto, and J. P. Muller 4:30 PM 3.3 Increased availability of satellite remote sensing data for model evaluation through 3D-AQS   Raymond M. Hoff, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and A. I. Prados, H. Zhang, M. Kacenelenbogen, R. Delgado, S. Kondragunta, J. Szykman, F. Dimmick, B. Johns, C. Kittaka, J. A. Al-Saadi, J. Engel-Cox, S. Weber, A. Huff, A. Wimmers, and S. A. Ackerman 4:45 PM 3.4 Refined analysis of satellite tropospheric products for evaluation and improvement of the AIRPACT-3 air quality forecast system   Farren Herron-Thorpe, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan, G. Mount, L. Emmons, and B. Lamb 5:00 PM 3.5 Meteorological, physical and numerical issues in modeling the long-range transport of mercury   Dorothy A. Durnford, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and A. Dastoor and D. Figueras-Nieto 5:15 PM 3.6 Evaluation of Smoke Plume Dispersion in Complex Terrain Using a Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Model Driven by WRF Output   Luke Thomas Peffers, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg and P. A. Rao
	5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Monday Sessions Adjourn for the Day
	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
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program)
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday Exhibits Open
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4 Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Sessions Adjourn for the Day
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 126A Joint Session 6 Lightning and Atmospheric Chemistry—I (Joint between the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data and the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry)
Chair: Kenneth E. Pickering, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
8:30 AM J6.1 The influence of lightning NOx emissions on the summertime North American upper tropospheric ozone maximum   Owen R. Cooper, CIRES Univ. of Colorado/NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO 9:00 AM J6.2 Deep convective clouds and chemistry (DC3): Description of the field campaign and modeling of lightning NOx in the DC3 study areas   Mary C. Barth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Cantrell, S. A. Rutledge, W. Brune, C. Barthe, W. C. Skamarock, and M. Weisman 9:30 AM J6.3 Lightning and anthropogenic NOx sources over the U.S. and the western North Atlantic Ocean: Impact on tropospheric O3 from space borne observations   Yunsoo Choi, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and A. Eldering, G. Osterman, Y. Wang, D. Cunnold, Q. Yang, E. Bucsela, and K. E. Pickering 9:45 AM J6.4 NOx Production by Laboratory Simulated TLEs   Harold Peterson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. P. Bailey, J. Hallett, and W. Beasley
	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 126A Joint Session 8 Lightning and Atmospheric Chemistry—II (Joint between the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data and the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry)
Chair: Timothy J. Lang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
10:30 AM J8.1 Development of a lightning NOx algorithm for WRF-Chem   Amanda Hansen, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg, K. E. Pickering, and S. Peckham 10:45 AM J8.2 A NASA Model for Improving the Lightning NOx Emission Inventory for CMAQ   William Koshak, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. Khan, A. P. Biazar, M. Newchurch, and R. T. McNider J8.3 Lightning NOx emissions over the USA investigated using TES, NLDN, LRLDN, IONS data and the GEOS-Chem model   Line Jourdain, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; and S. S. Kulawik, H. M. Worden, K. E. Pickering, J. Worden, and A. M. Thompson 11:00 AM J8.4 Improving techniques for satellite-based constraints on the lightning parameterization in a global chemical transport model   Lee Thomas Murray, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and D. J. Jacob, J. A. Logan, and W. Koshak 11:15 AM J8.5 The Impacts of Lightning NOx on Tropospheric Chemistry   Yuan Wang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and R. Zhang, Y. Diao, and X. Tie 11:30 AM J8.6 Lightning NOx production during the NASA TC4 experiment as observed by Aura/OMI   Kenneth E. Pickering, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and E. Bucsela, T. Huntemann, R. C. Cohen, A. Perring, J. Gleason, R. Blakeslee, D. V. Navarro, I. M. Segura, A. P. Hernández, and S. Laporte-Molina
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 127A Session 4 Biogeochemical Cycling of Trace Gases and Aerosols
Cochairs: José D. Fuentes, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA
10:30 AM 4.1 Influences of in-forest canopy chemical processing on regional air quality   José D. Fuentes, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and W. R. Stockwell, R. Forkel, Y. Zhang, and D. Wang 10:45 AM 4.2 Coupling vegetation, hydrological, and biogenic emission processes to improve modeling of isoprene emission   Anil Kumar, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and F. Chen, D. Niyogi, E. Patton, A. Guenther, X. Wang, and U. Charusombat 11:00 AM 4.3 A Simple Model for Vertical Transport of Reactive Species in the Convective Atmospheric Boundary Layer   Leif Kristensen, Risoe DTU National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy; and D. H. Lenschow and D. Gurarie 11:15 AM 4.4 Factors Controllong CO2 Exchange in a Middle Latitude Forest   Qilong Min, SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. Wu 11:30 AM 4.5 Measuring gaseous losses of nitrogen from irrigated crops   Shelley Pressley, Washington State Univesity, Pullman, WA; and M. Capiral, G. Mount, and B. Lamb 11:45 AM 4.6 Future Trend of Soil Organic Carbon over the U.S. Midwest Cropland   Zaitao Pan, St. Louis Univ., St. Louis, MO; and D. Andrade, J. Wimberley, N. McKinne, M. Segal, and E. Takle
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Wednesday Exhibits Open
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 127A Session 5 Air quality and climate change—I
Chair: Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
1:30 PM 5.1 Absorbing aerosols from agricultural burning and biomass emissions: Climate connections   Jeffrey S. Gaffney, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; and N. A. Marley 1:45 PM 5.2 Formation and transformation of humic-like substances (HULIS) in atmospheric aerosols: Relation to climate forcing   Nancy A. Marley, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR; and J. S. Gaffney 2:00 PM 5.3 Nucleation and Growth of Nano-Sized Particles in the Atmosphere   Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and L. Wang, A. Khalizov, and J. Zheng 2:15 PM 5.4 The meteorology of aerosol particle formation events   David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and L. Sogacheva, S. B. Mazon, and I. Riipinen
	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 2 Aerosol, climate, and biogeochemical cycles (Joint between the 11th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry and the Special Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions)
Cochairs: Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; Steven Peckham, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado & NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO
JP2.2 Chemical apportionment of direct aerosol radiative forcing in Korea   Jiyoung Kim, National Institute of Meteorological Research, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Kim   JP2.3 Modeling the direct aerosol radiative forcing using in-situ, ground and satellite observations   Falguni Patadia, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. Christopher   JP2.4 Regional modeling of particulate chemistry and cloud-aerosol interactions for the VOCALS model assessment   Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and E. G. Chapman, W. Wang, R. Easter, and S. Ghan   JP2.5 Toward assessing the effect of aerosols on deep convection: A numerical study using the WRF-Chemistry model   Wendilyn J. Kaufeld, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and S. W. Nesbitt   JP2.6 A numerical study of aerosol recycling using WRF coupled with a bin microphysics scheme   Lulin Xue, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO; and A. Teller, R. Rasmussen, I. Geresdi, and Z. Pan   JP2.7 Space time variability of clouds, rainfall and aerosols in Central Nepal using satellite data   Prabhakar Shrestha, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. P. Barros   JP2.8 Examining the influence of complex terrain on aerosol transport across the Central Himalayas using a high resolution model   Prabhakar Shrestha, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. P. Barros   JP2.9 Observations of Saharan dust impacts on East Atlantic Convection Intensity and Tropical Cyclogenesis during NAMMA-06   Aaron Pratt, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and G. Jenkins   JP2.10 Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol through Cloud Processing of Anthropogenic VOCs   James W. Hutchings III, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and P. Herckes   JP2.11 An estimation method for male flower production of Japanese Cedar   Motoo Suzuki, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Tonouchi, T. Kanazashi, and S. Fukusima   JP2.12 An analytic model of the vertical carbon dioxide rectifier effect   Vincent E. Larson, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; and H. Volkmer   JP2.13 Use of the MEGAN biogenic emission model on hemispheric and continental US domains for climate change and air quality analyses   Alfredo Arroyo, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and R. Gonzalez, S. Chung, Y. Zhang, E. Salathe, C. Wiedinmyer, A. Guenther, and B. Lamb   JP2.14 Examining the impact of radiative absorption and scattering by atmospheric aerosols on WRF/Chem forecasts   Steven E. Peckham, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Grell, S. A. McKeen, J. D. Fast, W. I. Gustafson, J. C. Barnard, and R. Zaveri   JP2.15 Analysis of Aerosol Number Size Distributions and Hygroscopic Growth Factors as functions of Ambient Relative Humidity during the North American Monsoon   Karina Apodaca, Howard University, Washington, DC; and V. R. Morris
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 127A Session 6 Air quality and climate change—II
Cochairs: Carey J. Jang, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; Jonathan E. Pleim, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC
4:00 PM 6.1 AIRS, OCO and Options for Future Global Greenhouse Gas Observations   Thomas Pagano, JPL and California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and C. E. Miller, S. W. Boland, and M. Chahine 4:15 PM 6.2 CCN Predictions from Global WRF/Chem: Sensitivity to Activation Parameterizations, Gas-Phase Mechanisms, and Aerosol Modules   Xin-Yu Wen, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Pan, Y. Zhang, A. Nenes, S. Ghan, and R. Easter 4:30 PM 6.3 Development of the coupled 2-way WRF-CMAQ system   Jonathan E. Pleim, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and D. Wong, R. Mathur, R. Gilliam, J. Young, T. Otte, S. Roselle, F. Binkowski, and A. Xiu 4:45 PM 6.4 Analysis of current and projected air quality levels in Canada with AURAMS   Veronique S. Bouchet, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Cousineau, L. P. Crevier, A. Duhamel, J. Racine, M. Sassi, and M. Moran 5:00 PM 6.5 Climate Change Impact on Air Quality in High Resolution Simulation for Central Europe in Project CECILIA   Tomas Halenka, Charles Univ., Prague, Czech Republic; and P. Huszar and M. Belda 5:15 PM 6.6 Aerosol Influences on Tornado Genesis   David Lerach, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and B. Gaudet and W. R. Cotton
	5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday Sessions Adjourn for the Day
	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 127A Session 7 Air quality forecasting
Chair: Steven E. Peckham, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM 7.1 Description and application of a state-of-the-art online multi-scale air quality and weather prediction model (WRF/Chem)   Steven E. Peckham, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and G. A. Grell and S. A. McKeen 8:45 AM 7.2 Apply the Air Quality Forecasting system to the Air Pollution caused by the Wildfire in California during the summer of 2008   Hsin-mu Lin, STC, Hampton, VA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Mathur, G. A. Pouliot, and D. Kang 9:00 AM 7.3 Assessments on NAM-CMAQ and the bias-corrected PM2.5 air quality forecast over the continental United States during 2007   Daiwen Kang, Science and Technology Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Mathur, J. Pleim, G. A. Pouliot, S. T. Rao, J. O. Young, D. Wong, K. Schere, D. Tong, H. M. Lin, S. Yu, T. Chai, P. Lee, J. McQueen, M. Tsidulko, and P. Davidson 9:15 AM 7.4 Improving air quality forecasts using CMAQ with satellite observations   Eun-Su Yang, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. Christopher, Y. Wu, and S. Kondragunta 9:30 AM 7.5 Chemical data assimilation with Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model   Tianfeng Chai, Science and Technology Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Mathur, D. Wong, D. Kang, H. M. Lin, and D. Tong
	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-4:00 PM, Thursday Exhibits Open
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, Room 127A Session 8 The effects of meteorology on air quality
Chair: Nicole Mölders, Universitz of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
11:00 AM 8.1 First Observations of Surface Ozone Concentration on Mount Everest   G.W.K. Moore, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and J. Semple 11:15 AM 8.2 Boundary layer profiling utilizing various techniques for air quality assessments   David DuBois, DRI, Las Vegas, NV; and I. Kavouras and G. Nikolich 11:30 AM 8.3 Investigations on simulating winter inversions causing poor air quality in Fairbanks, Alaska   Nicole Mölders, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and S. Chigullapalli and G. Kramm 11:45 AM 8.4 Meteorologically Adjusted Ozone Trend Analysis in North Carolina   Adrienne M. Wootten, State Climate Office of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC; and K. L. Gore, T. D. Brown, and J. Zheng 12:00 PM 8.5 Impacts on Dispersion Prediction Resulting from Different Types of NWP Ensembles   Jared Lee, Penn State University, State College, PA; and L. J. Peltier, S. E. Haupt, D. R. Stauffer, J. C. Wyngaard, and A. Deng
	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 127A Session 9 Air quality and climate change—III
Cochairs: Bernhard Rappenglueck, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; Barry Gross, City College of New York, New York, NY
1:30 PM 9.1 Aerosols and associated precipitation patterns in Atlanta   Matthew C. Lacke, Jefferson County Department of Health, Birmingham, AL; and T. L. Mote and J. M. Shepherd 1:45 PM 9.2 Using Mie Raman Lidar measurements to explore cloud properties   Barry Gross, City College of New York, New York, NY; and Y. Wu, S. Chaw, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed 2:00 PM 9.3 Seasonal and Spatial Comparisons between Cloud and Aerosol Optical Properties Derived from Satellite Based Remote Sensing in Northeast Asia   Byung-Gon Kim, Kangnung National University, Gangnung, South Korea; and Y. J. Kim, C. H. Ho, and C. K. Song 2:15 PM 9.4 VOCs in Alberta's Industrial Heartland   Rachel Mintz, EC, Edmonton, AB , Canada; and R. D. McWhinney, B. Chaitan, C. Englot, and R. D'amours 2:30 PM 9.5 Analysis of urban online VOC data in Houston, Texas   Bernhard Rappenglueck, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX 9.6 Characterizations of paved road dust in urban area   Pusheng Zhao, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and Y. Feng, Y. Xue, X. Chen, T. Zhu, and X. Zhang
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Hall 4 Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Room 127A Session 10 Air pollution in mega cities in the world
Cochairs: Wallace McMillan, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; Satoru Chatani, Japan Petroleum Energy Center, Aichi-gun Japan
3:30 PM 10.1 Applying the Aerosol Modeling Testbed to assess modal and sectional predictions of particulates and aerosol radiative forcing downwind of a megacity   Jerome D. Fast, PNNL, Richland, WA; and W. I. Gustafson Jr., E. G. Chapman, G. A. Grell, S. Peckham, and R. Schmitz 3:45 PM 10.2 Validation of the 3-D air quality simulation based on OH reactivity over Tokyo metropolitan area   Satoru Chatani, Japan Petroleum Energy Center, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan; and N. Shimo, S. Matsunaga, Y. Kajii, S. Kato, Y. Nakashima, and K. Miyazaki 4:00 PM 10.3 Comparative analysis of air quality models CIT, WRF-Chem and SPM-BRAMS for the second ozone campaign in Metropolitan Area of São Paulo   Vanessa S.B. Carvalho, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; and C. R. Mazzoli, L. D. Martins, M. F. Andrade, and E. D. Freitas 4:15 PM 10.4 Satellite-based assessment of particulate matter air pollution in global mega cities   Pawan Gupta, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher 4:30 PM 10.5 Satellite observations of megacity air pollution, biomass burning emissions, and their long-range transport   Wallace McMillan, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD; and L. Yurganov, A. Krueger, R. Hoff, C. D. Barnet, J. Gleason, E. Celarier, N. Krotkov, X. Liu, T. Kurosu, G. Osterman, and O. Torres 4:45 PM 10.6 An assessment of air quality in the Houston region: investigating the ability to infer surface PM2.5 from remote sensing measurements and examining possible aerosol sources   Amy Sanders, DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA; and R. Legatt, B. Baxley, D. Doddridge, L. Lynaugh, E. Roberts, and R. A. Ferrare
	5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns

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