Session 3 | 
|   | Weather Forecasting for Urban Areas  | 
|   | Chair: Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London United Kingdom 
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 | 8:30 AM | 3.1 | An international urban surface energy balance model comparison study: first results     Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Blackett and M. Best | 
 |   |  | 3.2 has been moved. New paper number 3.3A   
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 | 8:45 AM | 3.2A | Model Complexity: First results from the international urban surface energy balance model comparison study     Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Blackett and M. J. Best | 
 | 9:00 AM | 3.3A | How do initial assumptions for parameters and state variables influence accuracy?     Maggie Hendry, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and M. Best, M. Gouvea, S. Grimmond, and A. Porson | 
 |   | 3.3 | PAPER WITHDRAWN  
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 | 9:15 AM | 3.4 | Impact of urban parameters on the surface energy balance in urban areas     Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. Porson and S. Belcher | 
 | 9:30 AM | 3.5 | Inclusion of a multi-layer drag approach in urban surface schemes: which benefits ?     Valéry Masson, CNRM/Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and R. Hamdi and G. Pigeon | 
 | 9:45 AM | 3.6 | Simulation of fall and winter surface energy balance over a dense urban area using the TEB scheme      Grégoire Pigeon, CNRS Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and M. Moscicki, J. A. Voogt, and V. Masson |