| 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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| 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
First-Time Attendee Briefing |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Hall 5
Fellows Reception |
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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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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Hall 4
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception |
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| 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
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| 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 |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 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
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| | 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 |
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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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| 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
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| 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 |
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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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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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| 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
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| 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 |
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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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| 5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day |
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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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| Thursday, 15 January 2009 |
| 5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday
AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns |
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