Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes (Expanded View)

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Program Chairpersons:
Julie Pullen, NRL
Darko R. Koracin, DRI

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
 
3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
First-Time Attendee Briefing
 
5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards
 
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 126A
Session 1 Coastal atmosphere, ocean, and marine biology-I
CoChair: Christopher N. K. Mooers, RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, FL
10:45 AM1.1Summary of IOOS Workshop on Ocean Modeling and Analysis   wrf recording
Christopher N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL
11:00 AM1.2Aggregating remotely-sensed data, observations and model results in a Geospatial Framework   wrf recording
Eoin Howlett, Applied Science Associates, Inc., Narragansett, RI; and C. Beegle-Krause and M. Wholey
11:15 AM1.3Observed and Simulated Temporal and Spatial Variations of Gap Outflow Region   wrf recording
Qing Wang, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; and R. C. Cherrett, S. W. Wang, J. Kalogiros, K. Rados, C. A. Friehe, and D. Khelif
11:30 AM1.4Changes in California Current upwelling water sources with different resolution wind forcing   wrf recording
Hajoon Song, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA
11:45 AM1.5Ocean-atmosphere coupling in the area of orographically-intensified flow in coastal upwelling modeling studies   wrf recording
Natalie Perlin, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and E. Skyllingstad and R. Samelson
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break
 
1:30 PM-2:00 PM, Monday, Room 126A
Session 2 Coastal atmosphere, ocean, and marine biology-II
Chair: Qing Wang, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
1:30 PM2.1NOAA Marine Ecological Forecasting System: From Vision to Reality   wrf recording
Marie C. Colton, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Turner, D. Scheurer, and N. Valette-Silver
1:45 PM2.2Impacts of Atmospheric Corrections on Algal Bloom Detection Techniques  extended abstract wrf recording
Ruhul Amin, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and A. Gilerson, J. Zhou, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed
 
2:00 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 126A
Session 3 Advances in Modeling and Forecasting-I
Chair: James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA
2:00 PM3.1Systematic Error Detection in Dynamical Models: A Framework   wrf recording
S. Lakshmivarahan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Lewis
2:15 PM3.2Evaluation of high resolution forecasts of microwave refractivity in a coastal environment   wrf recording
William T. Thompson, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. Haack
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Poster Session 1 Coastal atmospheric and oceanic processes
 P1.1A Study of Coastal Upwelling and Climate Change along the California Coast  
Ramesh Vellore, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. R. Koracin, R. Leung, C. E. Dorman, A. Kochanski, and J. Lewis
 P1.2Sensitivity of WRF model forecasts to different physical parameterizations in the Beaufort Sea region  extended abstract
Jeremy R. Krieger, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Zhang, D. E. Atkinson, M. D. Shulski, and X. Zhang
 P1.3The impact of high-resolution, satellite-derived urban parameters on urban-coastal meso-circulations  
Michael Carter, University of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and M. Shepherd, S. Burian, I. Jeyachandran, and M. Jin
 P1.4Coastal nutrient and water budget assessments for Puerto Ayora, Academy Bay, Santa Cruz Island  
Alisha R. Fernandez, NCAR Visiting Scientist, State College, PA
 P1.5A Study of the Impacts of a Saharan Air Layer Plume over the Florida Keys  extended abstract
Kennard Kasper, NOAA/NWSFO Key West, FL, Key West, FL
 P1.6The Atmospheric Dispersion Project on the Mississippi Coast  
Loren D. White, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and Y. Anjaneyulu
 P1.7The SIFT Tool: Validation of its Inversion Scheme and use of the Propagation Database for Tsunami Hazard Assessment  
Edison Gica, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. Spillane and V. V. Titov
 P1.8Forecasting risk using geospatial tools—regional to parcel level approaches to tsunami science and risk assessment  
Nazila Merati, NOAA/PMEL and JISAO, Seattle, WA; and P. Dunbar, W. L. Power, and C. Chamberlin
 
4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 126A
Session 4 Advances in Modeling and Forecasting-II
Chair: Darko R. Koracin, DRI, Reno, NV
4:00 PM4.1The moist static energy budget and wave dynamics around the ITCZ in idealized WRF simulations   wrf recording
Scott W. Powell, University of Miami, Miami, FL; and D. S. Nolan
4:15 PM4.2On the predictability of coastal winds using an adjoint modeling system   wrf recording
James D. Doyle, NRL, Monterey, CA; and C. M. Amerault
4:30 PM4.3Predictability of coastal weather and its implications to ensemble forecasting  extended abstract wrf recording
Darko Koracin, DRI, Reno, NV; and R. Vellore, J. Lewis, and M. Kaplan
4:45 PM4.4Effects of atmosphere-ocean coupling on the atmospheric simulation for the California Coast   wrf recording
Adam Kochanski, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and D. Koracin and C. E. Dorman
5:00 PM4.5Transformed Flux-form Semi-Lagrangian Schemes for Coastal Ocean Modeling  extended abstract wrf recording
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and C. Fan
5:15 PM4.6Ensemble data assimilation simulation experiments for the coastal ocean: Towards automatic localization  extended abstract wrf recording
Ross N. Hoffman, AER, Lexington, MA; and J. Poterjoy, S. V. Vinogradov, and S. M. Leidner
 
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 AMJ1.1An Overview of the Oklahoma City Micronet  extended abstract wrf recording
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 AMJ1.2Development of a NYC Meteorological Network with emphasis on vertical wind profiles in support of meteorological and dispersion models  extended abstract wrf recording
Mark Arend, City College of New York, New York, NY; and D. Santoro, B. Gross, F. Moshary, S. Ahmed, and S. Abdelazim
9:00 AMJ1.3Urban meteorological observations in Helsinki, Finland   wrf recording
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 AMJ1.4The Environmental Prediction in Canadian Cities (EPiCC) network   wrf recording
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 AMJ1.5Phoenix 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)
 
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
 JP2.1Observations of fronts from the Helsinki Testbed mesoscale observing network  
David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and M. Leskinen
 JP2.2Development 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
 JP2.3Diagnostic 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
 JP2.4Weathering 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
 JP2.5The 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
 JP2.6Analysis of air transport patterns bringing dust storms to El Paso, Texas  extended abstract
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
 JP2.7Analysis 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
 JP2.8Development of a detailed database of flash flood observations  extended abstract
Jessica Marie Erlingis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, T. Smith, and K. L. Ortega
 JP2.9The Phoenix Rainfall Index (PRI)  extended abstract
Paul M. Iñiguez, NOAA/NWS, Tempe, AZ
 JP2.10An 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
 JP2.11Southwest Florida warm season tornado development  extended abstract
Jennifer M. Collins, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and C. H. Paxton, D. G. Noah, and A. N. Williams
 
11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open
 
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 AMJ13.1Observations of carbon dioxide fluxes in two suburban neighborhoods in Vancouver, Canada  extended abstract wrf recording
Ben Crawford, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. Christen, T. R. Oke, J. A. Voogt, and S. Grimmond
11:15 AMJ13.2Characterization 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 AMJ13.3Dependence of peak daily ozone concentrations in Houston, Texas on the sea breeze and meteorological variables  extended abstract wrf recording
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 AMJ13.4Carbon dioxide concentration and fluxes in a tropical city   wrf recording
Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; and C. Jansson and M. Rahiz
 
11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 126A
Session 5 Advances in Tsunami Research with Application to Forecasts and Warnings for Coastal Regions
Chair: Eddie N. Bernard, NOAA/PMEL/TIME, Seattle, WA
11:00 AM5.1A Starting Point for a New Generation of Tsunami Scientists   wrf recording
Eddie N. Bernard, NOAA/PMEL/TIME, Seattle, WA; and A. Robinson
11:15 AM5.2NOAA/NWS Tsunameter Operations Supporting Real-time Tsunami Warnings and Tsunami Research  extended abstract wrf recording
Paul Moersdorf, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. H. Bouchard
11:30 AM5.3Progress in tsunami forecasting   wrf recording
Vasily V. Titov, NOAA, Seattle, WA
11:45 AM5.4Generation of non-earthquake tsunamis   wrf recording
Galen Gisler, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
 
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 PMJ2.1(Invited Talk) Fire at the Urban Interface: The San Diego County Wildfires of October 2007   wrf recording
Jim Purpura, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA
2:00 PMJ2.2Evolution of severe convection in the New York City Metropolitan Region   wrf recording
Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY ; and K. Lombardo and J. Murray
2:15 PMJ2.3An observational study of the movement of Lake Breeze Fronts in the vicinity of Chicago, IL   wrf recording
Jason M. Keeler, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich
2:30 PMJ2.4An 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 PMJ2.5Meteorological conditions associated with major storm surge events at New York City   wrf recording
Katherine Rojowsky, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and F. Bounaiuto
 
1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 126A
Joint Session 7 Climate Variability in Coastal Zones (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Cochairs: David H. Levinson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC ; Darko Koracin, DRI, Reno, NV
1:30 PMJ7.1Variations in Large-Scale Circulation Affecting Extreme Hurricane-Generated Waves and Surges in the Gulf of Mexico   wrf recording
Donald T. Resio, ERDC, Vicksburg, MS; and E. A. Orelup and D. H. Levinson
2:00 PMJ7.2Impact of Land Cover Land Use Changes on a Sea Breeze Dominated Climate in the Tropics   wrf recording
Daniel E. Comarazamy, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; and J. E. Gonzalez and E. Harmsen
2:15 PMJ7.3Coastal process research in Alaska   wrf recording
David E. Atkinson, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK
2:45 PMJ7.4Detecting the impacts of climate change on precipitation extremes for southern coastal Alaska  extended abstract wrf recording
David H. Levinson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and M. C. Kruk
 
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 PMJ3.1Development of an Innovative Laboratory for Research and Education in Urban Meteorology: An Overview of the NSF Career Project: ILREUM   wrf recording
Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. C. Arms and J. M. Galvez
3:45 PMJ3.2Scintillometry applied to urban studies: evaluation of scintillometer measurements made at a sub-urban site   wrf recording
Jose M. Galvez, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. M. Klein and S. Arms
4:00 PMJ3.3An Analysis of the July and August 2008 Heat Wave Using Oklahoma City Micronet Observations  extended abstract wrf recording
Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, B. G. Illston, and A. J. Schroeder
4:15 PMJ3.4An analysis of observations from portable temperature and humidity sensors deployed across Oklahoma City   wrf recording
Amanda J. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara
4:30 PMJ3.5Outdoor scale model experiment to evaluate the complete urban surface temperature  extended abstract
Sarah M. Roberts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. A. Voogt and T. R. Oke
4:45 PMJ3.6Atmospheric stability in urban areas detected by ultrasonic anemometers   wrf recording
Martin Piringer, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria
5:00 PMJ3.7Measuring meteorology in urban areas—some progress and many problems  extended abstract wrf recording
Ekaterina Batchvarova, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Sofia, Bulgaria; and S. E. Gryning
 J3.8 has been moved. New paper number J9.1A  
 
5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions Adjourn for the Day
 
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 128B
Joint Session 8 Coastal Mesoscale Circulations-I (Joint between the 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction and the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes)
Chair: Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA
8:30 AMJ8.1Influence of SST on atmospheric trapping layers   wrf recording
Tracy Haack, NRL, Monterey, CA; and W. T. Thompson
8:45 AMJ8.2The contribution of dry surface air over land to the strength of radio frequency trapping layers in the sea breeze circulation   wrf recording
Robert E. Marshall, NSWCDD, Dahlgren, VA; and K. Horgan
9:00 AMJ8.3Study of sea-breeze interactions which can produce strong warm-season convective winds in the Cape Canaveral area  extended abstract wrf recording
Christopher J. Ander, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH ; and A. J. Frumkin, J. P. Koermer, and W. P. Roeder
9:15 AMJ8.4The Ambrose Jet: Climatology and Simulations of Warm-Season Coastally Enhanced Winds in the New York Bight Region   wrf recording
David R. Novak, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD; and B. A. Colle
9:30 AMJ8.5The coastal oscillation   wrf recording
John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and A. McNeel
9:45 AMJ8.6The Evolution of a Convective Squall Line as it Crossed the Upwind Coast of Lake Erie   wrf recording
Thomas E. Workoff, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich
 
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 AMJ4.1Regional and Global Perspectives of Megacity Air Pollution   wrf recording
Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA
10:45 AMJ4.2GURME—the WMO GAW Urban Research Meteorology and Environment Project   wrf recording
Liisa Jalkanen, WMO/AREP, Geneva, Switzerland; and G. R. Carmichael
11:00 AMJ4.3Regional modeling and prediction of the extreme smoke episode in Buenos Aires, 15–20 April 2008   wrf recording
Ernesto Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay and H. Ciappesoni
11:15 AMJ4.4How well can we model the Houston area for air pollution studies?  extended abstract wrf recording
Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Zagar and J. Brioude
J4.5Modeling 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 AMJ4.6NOAA-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 128B
Joint Session 10 Coastal Mesoscale Circulations-II (Joint between the 16th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction and the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes)
Chair: Todd D. Sikora, Millersville University, Millersville, PA
10:30 AMJ10.1Ocean mixed Layer Response to Gap Wind Scenarios   wrf recording
Qing Wang, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; and N. Konstantinou, R. W. Garwood, S. Wang, K. Rados, J. Kalogiros, W. K. Melville, D. Khelif, and C. A. Friehe
10:45 AMJ10.2The role of major west coast capes in coastal summer high speed wind structure   wrf recording
Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and B. A. Vanhoff and D. Koracin
11:00 AMJ10.3A case study of a Greenland Lee Cyclogenesis Event and the Subsequent Spawning of a Tip Jet   wrf recording
Carling Hay, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. W. K. Moore and R. S. Pickart
11:15 AMJ10.4A Climatology of Cold Air Outbreaks over the Gulf of Mexico  
Charlene Forgue, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson
11:30 AMJ10.5Modeling of Cold-Air Outbreaks and Return Flow Over the Gulf of Mexico  
Donald F. Van Dyke III, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson and E. Chassignet
11:45 AMJ10.6Coastal mesoscale circulations induced by the interaction among the northeast winter monsoon, Kuroshio Current and mountains of Taiwan  
Wu-ron Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and J. H. Tai
 
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 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 PMJ17.1Model- and Application-Specific Validation Data for LES-Based Transport and Diffusion Models  extended abstract wrf recording
M. Y. Lee, NRL, Washington, DC; and F. Harms, T. R. Young, B. Leitl, and G. Patnaik
J17.2LES 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 PMJ17.2AA successive downscaling LES simulation of local-scale weather circulations   wrf recording
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Wu, J. Beohnert, G. Roux, T. T. Warner, and S. P. Swerdlin
2:00 PMJ17.3Impact Assessment on Local Meteorology due to the Land Use Changes During Urban Development in Seoul  extended abstract
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 PMJ17.4Modeling of Urban Canyon with Three Dimensional Radiation and its Impact to Urban Weather   wrf recording
Keiko Takahashi, JAMSTEC, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan; and R. Onishi, T. Sugimura, and Y. Baba
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
 
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 PMJ5.1Assessing sea breeze and heat island interactions using coastal-urban mesoscale ensembles   wrf recording
Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Pullen
4:30 PMJ5.2Urban effects on Sea Breeze Circulation over Huston, TX   wrf recording
Kazuyuki Ota, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair, W. A. Petersen, L. D. Carey, and T. E. Nobis
4:45 PMJ5.3Variable impacts and differential response to flash flooding in the Paso del Norte metroplex (El Paso, Texas, USA / Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico)  extended abstract wrf recording
Thomas E. Gill, University of Texas, El Paso, TX; and T. W. Collins and D. J. Novlan
5:00 PMJ5.4Modeling and forecasting lee side spillover precipitation resulting in major flooding in an urban valley location  extended abstract wrf recording
Michael L. Kaplan, DRI, Reno, NV; and P. J. Marzette, C. S. Adaniya, K. C. King, and S. J. Underwood
5:15 PMJ5.5The evolution of lake-effect clouds and snow across Lake Michigan  extended abstract
Faye E. Barthold, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich
 
5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 125B
Session 6 Haurwitz Lecture
5:00 PMIntroduction by Walter F. Dabberdt, AMS President & Vaisala Inc., Boulder, CO   
5:03 PM6.1Kelvin's Theorem, the Tunneling of Rossby Waves and the Circulation around Planetary Islands   wrf recording
Joseph Pedlosky, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA
 
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 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 AMJ21.1Cooling summer daytime temperatures in two urban coastal California air basins during 1948–2005: observations and implications   wrf recording
R. Bornstein, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and B. Lebassi, E. P. Maurer, P. Switzer, and J. E. Gonzalez
9:00 AMJ21.2Assessment of extreme weather events along the coastal areas of Thailand  extended abstract wrf recording
Atsamon Limsakul, Environmental Research and Training Center, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand; and S. Limjirakan and T. Sriburi
9:15 AMJ21.3Observational Analysis and simulation of the Delaware Sea/Bay Breeze   wrf recording
Dana E. Veron, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and N. P. Barton, A. Satinsky, and E. Geiger
9:30 AMJ21.4Regional 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-4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open
 
12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
 
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 PMJ23.1Testing of a multi-layer urban canopy model with two boundary layer schemes in WRF   wrf recording
Alberto Martilli, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain; and S. Grossman Clarke, F. Chen, and J. Dudhia
1:45 PMJ23.2Effects 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 PMJ23.3Sensitivity of mesoscale urban boundary layer meteorology to uncertainty in the urban morphology   wrf recording
David D. Flagg, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. A. Taylor
2:15 PMJ23.4Relationships between Urban and Suburban Micrometeorological Variables  extended abstract
Wenjun Qian, University of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac and A. Venkatram
2:30 PMJ23.5Results and sensitivities of the Town Energy Budget (TEB) coupled to the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) over Washington DC   wrf recording
Timothy E. Nobis, AWS, Whitesboro, NY; and R. A. Pielke
2:45 PMJ23.6Parameterization of subgrid concentration distributions in CMAQ for urban air quality assessments   wrf recording
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
 
5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday
AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns
 

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