89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Joint Session 24: The Energy Committee

The Energy Committee

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Wednesday, 14 January 2009

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


Joint Poster Session 5
Modeling Tools for Urban and Complex Terrain Environments Including Energy Applications—Posters
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the The Energy Committee )

Papers:
 
JP5.3 has been moved. New paper number J22.1A

 
A WRF and MM5-based weather analysis and forecasting system for supporting wind energy prediction
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. Warner, F. Chen, W. Wu, and S. P. Swerdlin

 
Improved large-eddy simulation over complex terrain using the Weather Research and Forecasting model
Jeffrey D. Mirocha, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. K. Lundquist, B. Kosovic, and F. K. Chow

 
Application of an operational meso-scale modelling system for commercial/industrial plant operations
Anthony P. Praino, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and L. A. Treinish

 
Advances in AERMOD for urban and complex terrain applications
Roger W. Brode, EPA/OAQPS/AQAD/AQMG, Research Triangle Park, NC

 
Statistical relationships between temperature and electricity load forecasts for New York City and State
Eric E. Wertz, MDA Earthsat Weather, Gaithersburg, MD; and A. A. Small, III and G. S. Young

Thursday, 15 January 2009

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


Joint Session 22
Modeling Tools for Energy Production in Urban and Complex Terrain
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the The Energy Committee )
Chairs: Jon Davis, Chesapeake Energy Corporation; Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder

Papers:
 
J22.1
Comparing the challenges of the wind resource analysis of urban versus non-urban wind farms

  11:15 AM
Application of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model for the planning and operation of wind plants
Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. D. Fast, J. E. Flaherty, W. I. Gustafson Jr., and W. J. Shaw

  11:30 AM
Operational wind generation forecasting
Russell L. Bigley, Xcel Energy, Littleton, CO

  11:45 AM
Research needs for wind resource characterization
William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Schreck and J. K. Lundquist

  12:00 PM
Nesting large-eddy simulations within mesoscale simulations for urban and complex terrain
Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Mirocha, F. K. Chow, B. Kosovic, and K. A. Lundquist

  12:15 PM
  12:30 PM
Undergraduate forecasting and nowcasting for a major urban public utility
Brian J. Cerruti, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; and S. G. Decker, L. A. Bowers, W. K. Wittman, and J. Carlson

3:30 PM-5:00 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


Joint Session 24
Modeling Tools for Urban and Complex Terrain Environments
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the The Energy Committee )
Chairs: Fei Chen, NCAR; Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA

Papers:
  3:30 PM
MM5, WRF and CMAQ using NUDAPT for advanced urban applications
Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD, Research Triangle Park, NC; and F. Chen, H. Taha, M. Tewari, and T. L. Otte

  3:45 PM
Satellite-based approaches to determine urban characteristics: implications for NUDAPT and modeling
Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and I. Jeyachandran, J. M. Shepherd, M. Carter, and M. Jin

  4:00 PM
Application of an integrated WRF/urban modeling system to urban environmental problems
Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Tewari, Y. Liu, J. Dudhia, S. G. Miao, A. Martilli, S. Grossman-Clarke, J. K. Ching, and H. Kusaka

  4:15 PM
 
J24.5
Building resolving simulations in the Weather Research and Forecasting model incorporating surface physics and dispersion

  4:45 PM
The effect of stratification on the aerodynamic roughness length and displacement height
Sergej Zilitinkevich, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and I. Mammarella, A. Baklanov, and S. Joffre

  5:00 PM
Numerical experiments using WRF/Urban Canopy Model over Houston region
Mukul Tewari, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, K. W. Manning, S. Grimmond, T. Loridan, J. K. Ching, and S. G. Miao