| Monday, 12 January 2009 |
| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 124B
Joint Session 11 Urban Canopy and Roughness Sublayers (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee) |
Chair: Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM
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| 4:00 PM | J11.1 | Measurements of concentration and dispersion in model urban canopies
Pablo Huq, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and L. White and S. Dharmavaram |
| 4:15 PM | J11.2 | Estimates of air and pollutant exchange for street canyon in combined wind-buoyancy driven flow using the RANS renormalized group k-e turbulence model  
Chun-Ho Liu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong; and W. C. Cheng and D. Y. C. Leung |
| 4:30 PM | J11.3 | Urban canyon data analysis using a surface stress which incorporates the effects of canyon walls
Cheryl L. Klipp, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD |
| 4:45 PM | J11.4 | LES analysis of turbulent boundary-layer flow over urban-like building arrays with various spatial arrangement and height distribution
Hiromasa Nakayama, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Naka-gun, Ibaraki, Japan; and T. Takemi and N. Haruyasu |
|  | J11.5 | Temporal and spatial variability of the vertical transport of heat and carbon dioxide in the urban roughness sublayer
Jennifer A. Salmond, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; and S. Bhatia, G. Pigeon, D. Legain, and V. Masson |
| 5:00 PM | J11.5A | Eight stable urban environment characteristics
Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM |
| 5:15 PM | J11.6 | Coherent structures within a North American street canyon
Sean C. Arms, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. M. Klein |
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| Tuesday, 13 January 2009 |
| 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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| 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
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| 3:30 PM | J3.1 | Development of an Innovative Laboratory for Research and Education in Urban Meteorology: An Overview of the NSF Career Project: ILREUM
Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. C. Arms and J. M. Galvez |
| 3:45 PM | J3.2 | Scintillometry applied to urban studies: evaluation of scintillometer measurements made at a sub-urban site
Jose M. Galvez, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. M. Klein and S. Arms |
| 4:00 PM | J3.3 | An Analysis of the July and August 2008 Heat Wave Using Oklahoma City Micronet Observations
Kenneth C. Crawford, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, B. G. Illston, and A. J. Schroeder |
| 4:15 PM | J3.4 | An analysis of observations from portable temperature and humidity sensors deployed across Oklahoma City
Amanda J. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara |
| 4:30 PM | J3.5 | Outdoor scale model experiment to evaluate the complete urban surface temperature
Sarah M. Roberts, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and J. A. Voogt and T. R. Oke |
| 4:45 PM | J3.6 | Atmospheric stability in urban areas detected by ultrasonic anemometers
Martin Piringer, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria |
| 5:00 PM | J3.7 | Measuring meteorology in urban areas—some progress and many problems
Ekaterina Batchvarova, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Sofia, Bulgaria; and S. E. Gryning |
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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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