89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Program Chairs: Julie Pullen , NRL ; Darko R. Koracin , DRI

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Saturday, 10 January 2009

7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 10 January 2009


Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only

Sunday, 11 January 2009

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 11 January 2009


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009


Annual Meeting Registration Begins

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009


Weatherfest
Location: Northballroom A (Phoenix Convention Center)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009


First-Time Attendee Briefing
Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009


Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards
Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009


Fellows Reception
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Monday, 12 January 2009

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


Registration Open

8:30 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 12 January 2009


Presidential Forum
Location: Ballroom ABC (Phoenix Convention Center)

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 12 January 2009


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
Location: Phoenix Convention Center

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


1
Coastal atmosphere, ocean, and marine biology-I
Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
CoChair: Christopher N. K. Mooers, RSMAS, University of Miami

Papers:
  10:45 AM
1.1
Summary of IOOS Workshop on Ocean Modeling and Analysis
Christopher N. K. Mooers, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL

  11:00 AM
1.2
Aggregating remotely-sensed data, observations and model results in a Geospatial Framework
Eoin Howlett, Applied Science Associates, Inc., South Kingstown, RI; and C. Beegle-Krause and M. Wholey

  11:15 AM
1.3
Observed and Simulated Temporal and Spatial Variations of Gap Outflow Region
Qing Wang, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; and R. C. Cherrett, S. W. Wang, J. Kalogiros, K. Rados, C. A. Friehe, and D. Khelif

  11:45 AM
1.5
Ocean-atmosphere coupling in the area of orographically-intensified flow in coastal upwelling modeling studies
Natalie Perlin, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR; and E. Skyllingstad and R. Samelson

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


2
Coastal atmosphere, ocean, and marine biology-II
Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Chair: Qing Wang, Naval Postgraduate School

Papers:
  1:30 PM
2.1
NOAA Marine Ecological Forecasting System: From Vision to Reality
Marie C. Colton, NOAA National Ocean Service, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Turner, D. Scheurer, and N. Valette-Silver

  1:45 PM
2.2
Impacts of Atmospheric Corrections on Algal Bloom Detection Techniques
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, 12 January 2009


3
Advances in Modeling and Forecasting-I
Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Chair: James D. Doyle, NRL

Papers:
  2:00 PM
3.1
Systematic Error Detection in Dynamical Models: A Framework
S. Lakshmivarahan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Lewis

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


Poster Session 1
Coastal atmospheric and oceanic processes
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Papers:
 
A 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

 
Sensitivity of WRF model forecasts to different physical parameterizations in the Beaufort Sea region
Jeremy R. Krieger, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Zhang, D. E. Atkinson, M. D. Shulski, and X. Zhang

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
 
The 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

 
Coastal nutrient and water budget assessments for Puerto Ayora, Academy Bay, Santa Cruz Island
Alisha R. Fernandez, NCAR Visiting Scientist, State College, PA

 
A Study of the Impacts of a Saharan Air Layer Plume over the Florida Keys
Kennard B. Kasper, NOAA/NWSFO Key West, Key West, FL

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)
 
The Atmospheric Dispersion Project on the Mississippi Coast
Loren D. White, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and Y. Anjaneyulu

 
The 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

 
Forecasting risk using geospatial tools—regional to parcel level approaches to tsunami science and risk assessment
Nazila Merati, JISAO, Seattle, WA; and P. Dunbar, W. L. Power, and C. Chamberlin


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


4
Advances in Modeling and Forecasting-II
Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Chair: Darko R. Koracin, DRI

Papers:
  4:15 PM
4.2
  4:30 PM
4.3
Predictability of coastal weather and its implications to ensemble forecasting
Darko Koracin, DRI, Reno, NV; and R. Vellore, J. Lewis, and M. Kaplan

  4:45 PM
4.4
Effects of atmosphere-ocean coupling on the atmospheric simulation for the California Coast
Adam Kochanski, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and D. Koracin and C. E. Dorman

  5:15 PM
4.6
Ensemble data assimilation simulation experiments for the coastal ocean: Towards automatic localization
Ross N. Hoffman, AER, Lexington, MA; and J. Poterjoy, S. V. Vinogradov, and S. M. Leidner

5:25 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


Sessions Adjourn for the Day

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Joint Session 1
Measurements in the Urban Environment
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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; Bjorn H. Lambrigtsen, JPL

Papers:
  8:30 AM
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
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
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
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
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

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Joint Poster Session 2
Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:
 
Observations of fronts from the Helsinki Testbed mesoscale observing network
David M. Schultz, Universities of Helsinki and Manchester/Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and M. Leskinen

 
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 Jr. and W. R. Pendergrass

 
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

 
The importance of elevated mixed layers in urban heat eave events east of the Rockies
Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Cordeira and L. F. Bosart

 
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

Poster PDF (601.0 kB)
 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (2.4 MB)
 
The Phoenix Rainfall Index (PRI)
Paul M. Iñiguez, NOAA/NWS, Tempe, AZ

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)
 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (737.9 kB)

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program)
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


5
Advances in Tsunami Research with Application to Forecasts and Warnings for Coastal Regions
Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes
Chair: Eddie N. Bernard, NOAA/PMEL/TIME

Papers:
  11:00 AM
5.1
A Starting Point for a New Generation of Tsunami Scientists
Eddie N. Bernard, NOAA/PMEL/TIME, Seattle, WA; and A. Robinson

  11:15 AM
5.2
NOAA/NWS Tsunameter Operations Supporting Real-time Tsunami Warnings and Tsunami Research
Paul Moersdorf, NOAA/NDBC, Stennis Space Center, MS; and R. H. Bouchard

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov

  11:30 AM
5.3
Progress in tsunami forecasting
Vasily V. Titov, NOAA, Seattle, WA

  11:45 AM
5.4
Generation of non-earthquake tsunamis
Galen Gisler, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway


Joint Session 13
Joint Session on Air Quality Measurements in Coastal Cities
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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

Papers:
  11:00 AM
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
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
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
Carbon dioxide concentration and fluxes in a tropical city
Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; and C. Jansson and M. Rahiz

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Exhibits Open

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Joint Session 2
Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:
  2:00 PM
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
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
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
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


Joint Session 7
Climate Variability in Coastal Zones
Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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; Darko Koracin, DRI

Papers:
  2:00 PM
Impact of Land Cover Land Use Changes on a Sea Breeze Dominated Climate in the Tropics
Daniel E. Comarazamy, Santa Clara University, New York, NY; and J. E. Gonzalez and E. Harmsen

  2:15 PM
Coastal process research in Alaska
David E. Atkinson, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK

  2:45 PM

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Joint Session 3
Measurements in the Urban Environment—II
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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; C. Bruce Baker, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC

Papers:
  3:45 PM
  4:00 PM
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
  4:30 PM
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

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)
  4:45 PM
Atmospheric stability in urban areas detected by ultrasonic anemometers
Martin Piringer, Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria

  5:00 PM
Measuring meteorology in urban areas—some progress and many problems
Ekaterina Batchvarova, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Sofia, Bulgaria; and S. E. Gryning

  5:15 PM
J3.8 has been moved. New paper number J9.1A

5:25 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Sessions Adjourn for the Day

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Joint Session 8
Coastal Mesoscale Circulations-I
Location: Room 128B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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

Papers:
  8:30 AM
Influence of SST on atmospheric trapping layers
Tracy Haack, NRL, Monterey, CA; and W. T. Thompson

  9:00 AM
Study of sea-breeze interactions which can produce strong warm-season convective winds in the Cape Canaveral area
Christopher J. Ander, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and A. J. Frumkin, J. P. Koermer, and W. P. Roeder

  9:30 AM
The coastal oscillation
John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and A. McNeel

  9:45 AM
The Evolution of a Convective Squall Line as it Crossed the Upwind Coast of Lake Erie
Thomas E. Workoff, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
Location: Phoenix Convention Center

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Joint Session 4
Modeling and Forecasting Urban Areas
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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

Papers:
  10:30 AM
Regional and Global Perspectives of Megacity Air Pollution
Gregory R. Carmichael, University of Iowa, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, Iowa City, IA

  10:45 AM
GURME—the WMO GAW Urban Research Meteorology and Environment Project
Liisa Jalkanen, WMO/AREP, Geneva, Switzerland; and G. R. Carmichael

  11:00 AM
Regional modeling and prediction of the extreme smoke episode in Buenos Aires, 15–20 April 2008
Ernesto Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay and H. Ciappesoni

  11:15 AM
How well can we model the Houston area for air pollution studies?
Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES, University of Colorado, and NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and M. Zagar and J. Brioude

 
J4.5
Modeling of TexAQS–II Urban Air Quality Events

  11:45 AM
NOAA-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


Joint Session 10
Coastal Mesoscale Circulations-II
Location: Room 128B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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

Papers:
  10:30 AM
Ocean mixed Layer Response to Gap Wind Scenarios
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 AM
The role of major west coast capes in coastal summer high speed wind structure
Clive E. Dorman, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and B. A. Vanhoff and D. Koracin

  11:00 AM
A case study of a Greenland Lee Cyclogenesis Event and the Subsequent Spawning of a Tip Jet
Carling Hay, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. W. K. Moore and R. S. Pickart

  11:15 AM
A Climatology of Cold Air Outbreaks over the Gulf of Mexico
Charlene Forgue, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and C. A. Clayson

  11:30 AM
Modeling 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

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Exhibits Open

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Joint Session 17
Building—Resolving Modeling and Forecasting in Urban Areas
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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

Papers:
  1:30 PM
Model- and Application-Specific Validation Data for LES-Based Transport and Diffusion Models
M. Y. Lee, NRL, Washington, DC; and F. Harms, T. R. Young, B. Leitl, and G. Patnaik

 
J17.2
LES studies on pedestrian level ventilation in Hong Kong

  2:00 PM
A successive downscaling LES simulation of local-scale weather circulations
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Wu, J. Beohnert, G. Roux, T. T. Warner, and S. P. Swerdlin

  2:15 PM
Impact Assessment on Local Meteorology due to the Land Use Changes During Urban Development in Seoul
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

  2:30 PM
Modeling of Urban Canyon with Three Dimensional Radiation and its Impact to Urban Weather
Keiko Takahashi, JAMSTEC, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Japan; and R. Onishi, T. Sugimura, and Y. Baba

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Joint Session 5
Geographic Effects on Urban Weather and Climate
Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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

Papers:
  4:30 PM
Urban effects on Sea Breeze Circulation over Huston, TX
Kazuyuki Ota, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair, W. A. Petersen, L. D. Carey, and T. E. Nobis

  5:00 PM
Modeling and forecasting lee side spillover precipitation resulting in major flooding in an urban valley location
Michael L. Kaplan, DRI, Reno, NV; and P. J. Marzette, C. S. Adaniya, K. C. King, and S. J. Underwood

  5:15 PM
The evolution of lake-effect clouds and snow across Lake Michigan
Faye E. Barthold, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich

Poster PDF (172.9 kB)

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


6
Haurwitz Lecture
Location: Room 125B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes

Papers:
  5:00 PM
Introduction by Walter F. Dabberdt, AMS President & Vaisala Inc., Boulder, CO

5:25 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Sessions Adjourn for the Day

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Location: Northballroom (Phoenix Convention Center)

Thursday, 15 January 2009

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


Joint Session 21
Weather and Climate in Coastal Urban Areas—I
Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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

Papers:
  8:30 AM
Cooling summer daytime temperatures in two urban coastal California air basins during 1948–2005: observations and implications
R. Bornstein, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and B. Lebassi, E. P. Maurer, P. Switzer, and J. E. Gonzalez

  9:00 AM
Assessment of extreme weather events along the coastal areas of Thailand
Atsamon Limsakul, Environmental Research and Training Center, Klong Luang, Pathumthani, Thailand; and S. Limjirakan and T. Sriburi

  9:15 AM
Observational Analysis and simulation of the Delaware Sea/Bay Breeze
Dana E. Veron, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and N. P. Barton, A. Satinsky, and E. Geiger

  9:30 AM
Regional 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, 15 January 2009


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Wednesday's program)
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

11:00 AM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


Exhibits Open

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


Joint Session 23
Modeling and Forecasting Urban Areas—II
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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; Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA

Papers:
  1:30 PM
Testing of a multi-layer urban canopy model with two boundary layer schemes in WRF
Alberto Martilli, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain; and S. Grossman Clarke, F. Chen, and J. Dudhia

  1:45 PM
  2:00 PM
  2:15 PM
Relationships between Urban and Suburban Micrometeorological Variables
Wenjun Qian, University of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac and A. Venkatram

Poster PDF (882.9 kB)
  2:45 PM
Parameterization of subgrid concentration distributions in CMAQ for urban air quality assessments
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, 15 January 2009


Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

5:15 PM-5:20 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns