| 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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| 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130
First-Time Attendee Briefing |
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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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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 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
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| | 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 |
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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 131B
Session 1 Aerosol and Precipitation |
Chair: Wei -Kuo Tao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 1.1 | (Invited Speaker) Flood or drought: How do aerosols affect precipitation? 
Daniel Rosenfeld, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and M. O. Andreae |
| 9:00 AM | 1.2 | (Invited Speaker) The role of aerosols on precipitation processes
Wei -Kuo Tao, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and X. Li, T. Matsui, A. Khain, and S. E. Lang |
| 9:30 AM | 1.3 | The Relative Importance of CCN and Giant Aerosol Particles to Warm Rain Formation: Strength in Numbers
Sonia Lasher-Trapp, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program) |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 131B
Session 2 Impact of aerosols on convection and weather |
Chair: Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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| 11:00 AM | 2.1 | (Invited Speaker) The Impact of Asian Pollution on Pacific Storm Track
Renyi Zhang, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and G. Li, Y. Wang, and Y. Diao |
| 11:30 AM | 2.2 | The impacts of aerosol indirect forcing on tropical convection
Susan C. van den Heever, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 11:45 AM | 2.3 | Observational Evidence for Absorbing Aerosols' Influence on the South Asian Summer Monsoon. Are Coupled Models Ready for Probing Mechanisms?
Massimo A. Bollasina, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Nigam |
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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 131B
Session 3 Experimental, field, and modeling studies on aerosol-cloud interactions-I |
Cochairs: John H. Seinfeld, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | (Invited Speaker) Evaluation of Global Anthropogenic Aerosol Indirect Effects
Wei-Ting Chen, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and A. Nenes, H. Liao, P. J. Adams, and J. H. Seinfeld |
| 2:00 PM | 3.2 | Observations of aerosol chemical and optical properties during the Cumulus Humilis Aerosol Processing Study
Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. Berkowitz, Y. Y. Lee, X. Y. Yu, J. Jayne, J. Ogren, B. Andrews, and M. L. Alexander |
| 2:15 PM | 3.3 | Interactions between forest fire smoke and clouds: a satellite comparison of Canada and Siberia
Brian L. Vant-Hull, NOAA/CREST CCNY, New York, NY; and Z. Li and L. A. Remer |
| 2:30 PM | 3.4 | Lidar observations of aerosols near clouds
Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LaRC, Hampton, VA; and M. Clayton, D. Turner, R. K. Newsom, C. Sivaraman, C. A. Hostetler, J. Hair, A. Cook, D. Harper, M. Obland, R. Rogers, W. Su, L. Berg, H. Jonsson, J. Ogren, and B. Andrews |
| 2:45 PM | 3.5 | Large Variability in Morphology, Hygroscopicity and Optical Properties of Soot Aerosols during Atmospheric Processing
Alexie Khalizov, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and H. Xue, R. Zhang, J. Pagels, and P. McMurry |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 131B
Session 4 Experimental, field, and modeling studies on aerosol-cloud interactions-II |
Cochairs: Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA; Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
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| 3:30 PM | 4.1 | (Invited Speaker) The effect of locally-emitted CO2 on gases, aerosols, clouds, and health
Mark Z. Jacobson, Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
| 4:00 PM | 4.2 | Simulating Climate-Air Quality Interactions using Global-Through-Urban WRF/Chem
Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Pan, X. Y. Wen, X. Y. Dong, P. Karamchandani, D. G. Streets, W. C. Skamarock, and G. A. Grell |
| 4:15 PM | 4.3 | Indirect Effect in NCAR CAM: Sensitivity to the Treatment of Aerosols
Xiaohong Liu, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Ghan, R. Easter, R. Zaveri, A. Gettelman, P. Rasch, H. Morrison, P. Hess, J. F. Lamarque, N. Mahowald, F. M. Vitt, P. Cameron-smith, C. C. Chuang, and A. Ekman |
| 4:30 PM | 4.4 | Regional analysis of multi-year aerosol indirect effects
Thomas A. Jones, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher |
| 4:45 PM | 4.5 | Role of Spectral Dispersion in the Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Loop
Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and P. H. Daum |
| 5:00 PM | 4.6 | The radiative and dynamical impact of aerosols on mixed-phase clouds observed during ISDAC
Amy B. Solomon, CIRES/NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and M. Shupe, H. Morrison, and P. O. G. Persson |
| 5:15 PM | 4.7 | Influence of Aerosol Histories on the Direct Aerosol Effect in IPCC-AR4 20th Century Simulations—Models vs. Observations
Christian Ruckstuhl, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. R. Norris |
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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 131B
Session 5 Aerosol direct and indirect effects |
Chair: Gregory Leptoukh, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Direct aerosol radiative effect estimated with OMI, MISR and CERES observations over northern Africa
Eun-Su Yang, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and P. Gupta and S. Christopher |
| 8:45 AM | 5.2 | Lower tropospheric heating by Saharan dust over the tropical Atlantic Ocean
Sun Wong, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and A. E. Dessler, N. Mahowald, P. Yang, and Q. Feng |
| 9:00 AM | 5.3 | Examination of the Arizona precipitation record for evidence of precipitation suppression by air pollution aerosols
Israel L. Jirak, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ; and A. Keith |
| 9:15 AM | 5.4 | Large-scale link between African aerosols and precipitation in the West African Monsoon
Jingfeng Huang, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL; and C. Zhang and J. M. Prospero |
| 9:30 AM | 5.5 | Multi-Satellite Observations of Aerosol, Ice Clouds and Precipitation Relations over Asia
Jonathon H. Jiang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and H. Su, S. Massie, and M. Schoeberl |
| 9:45 AM | 5.6 | Regional Studies of Spatio-temporal Correlations Between Aerosols and Clouds
Gregory Leptoukh, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and V. Zubko, R. Levy, and A. Gopalan |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, 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
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| | 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 |
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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 |
| 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
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| 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 |
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| 5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday
AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns |
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