89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

: Timothy R. Oke Symposium

Timothy R. Oke Symposium

Program Chairs: H.P Schmid , Indiana University ; James A. Voogt , Univ. of Western Ontario

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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


Joint Session 8
T.R. Oke Symposium: Urban scales, urban systems and the urban heat island
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Timothy R. Oke Symposium; and the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment )
Chairs: James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario; H. P. Schmid, Research Center Karlsruhe

Papers:
  11:00 AM
J8.2 has been moved. New paper number 1.1A (8Urban)

  11:15 AM
Seeing the city for all the buildings
H. P. Schmid, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT/IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

  11:30 AM
The Need to Establish Protocols in Urban Heat Island Work
Tim Oke, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

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


Keynote Speaker Session 1
Oke Symposium Luncheon
Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )
Speaker: Gerald Mills, University College Dublin
Chairs: James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario; H. P. Schmid, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT/IMK-IFU)

Papers:
  12:00 PM
Luke Howard, Tim Oke and the study of urban climates
Gerald Mills, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland


Lunch Break


Tim Oke Symp Luncheon
Location: Room 132A (Phoenix Convention Center)

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


Joint Session 9
Urban Energy Balance
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )
Chair: Sue Grimmond, King's College London

Papers:
 
J9.1
The Suburban Energy Balance in Shunyi, Beijing City

  1:45 PM
The EPiCC Vancouver Experiment—how do urban vegetation characteristics and garden irrigation control the local-scale energy balance?
Andreas Christen, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and B. Crawford, N. R. Goodwin, R. Tooke, N. Coops, S. Grimmond, T. R. Oke, and J. A. Voogt

  2:00 PM
Wintertime energy budget along an urbanisation gradient in Montreal, Canada
Onil Bergeron, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada; and I. B. Strachan

  2:15 PM
Evaluation of the TEB model under cold and snowy conditions for the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (MUSE) 2005
Aude Lemonsu, CNRM, Météo France, Toulouse, France; and S. Bélair, J. Mailhot, and S. Leroyer

  2:30 PM
The urban surface energy budget during the early spring period of the Montreal Urban Snow Experiment (2006)
Sylvie Leroyer, McGill Univ., Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue, QC, Canada; and J. Mailhot, S. Bélair, A. Lemonsu, and I. B. Strachan


Joint Session 10
Urban Precipitation Patterns
Location: Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )
Chair: Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore

Papers:
  1:30 PM
Can satellite-derived rainfall really detect urban rainfall anomalies?
Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and S. Burian and M. Jin

  2:00 PM
An anthropogenic signal in Phoenix, Arizona winter precipitation
Bohumil M. Svoma, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and R. C. Balling Jr.

  2:15 PM

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


Joint Poster Session 3
Urban Climate Studies—Poster Session
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )

Papers:
 
JP3.1 has been moved. New paper number J11.5A

 
Undercanopy and below ground microclimate patterns at the North Desert Village
Chris A. Martin, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ

 
Evolution of snow properties over the winter 2007-2008 in urban and suburban Montreal, Canada
Eric Christensen, McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, QC, Canada; and O. Bergeron and I. B. Strachan

 
Sensible, Latent and Ground Heat Flux Model
Yanyan Zhang, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac and S. M. Lee

Poster PDF (58.7 kB)
 
The dynamics of urban growth of Kolkata, India and its influence on precipitation
Chandana Mitra, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and M. Shepherd

 
Development of a Mesoscale Thermal Model for Urban Climate
Humberto Ramon Silva Jr., National Center of Excellence, Tempe, AZ; and P. Phelan and J. Golden

 
Urban climates and the urban surface: a review of T.R. Oke's contributions arising from conceptual representations of the urban surface
James A. Voogt, Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada; and S. Grimmond, S. Krayenhoff, S. M. Roberts, M. Roth, J. A. Salmond, and H. P. Schmid


Joint Poster Session 4
Urban Heat Islands—Poster Session
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )

Papers:
 
Urban effects on intense convective precipitation in Mexico City- an update
Ernesto Jauregui Sr., NOAA/CAC, Mexico City, Mexico

 
Atlanta's urban heat island under extreme heat conditions
Yan Zhou, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA ; and M. Shepherd

 
Assessment of Urban Land Surface Thermal Field Using Integrated Remote Sensing and Ancillary Information
Ying Zhang, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Natural Resources Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and B. Guindon, L. Sun, and Y. Yang

 
The urban heat island in Hong Kong: analyses of spatial variability and exposure
Melissa A. Hart, Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and D. J. Sailor

 
Winter and summer temperatures in an European medium-sized city. Frost and hot nights trends
Albert Garcia-Manuel, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; and M. C. Moreno-García and J. Martín-Vide

 
Observed characteristics of the urban heat island during the harmattan and monsoon in Akure Nigeria
Ahmed Balogun, Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; and I. A. Balogun, A. A. Abatan, and E. A. Adefisan

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)
 
Urban southern California heat waves are becoming more frequent and longer
Arbi Tamrazian, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. LaDochy, P. Ramirez, J. Willis, and W. C. Patzert

Poster PDF (495.7 kB)

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

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


Joint Session 12
Urban Heat Islands
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the Timothy R. Oke Symposium )
Chair: Tim Oke, University of British Columbia

Papers:
  4:00 PM
Urban heat island in Phoenix: An emergent property of rapid urbanization
H. J. S. Fernando, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and K. Park

  4:15 PM
Phoenix Urban Heat Island experiment: Micrometeorological aspects
Brent C. Hedquist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and A. J. Brazel, S. Di Sabatino, W. Carter, and H. J. S. Fernando

Poster PDF (262.0 kB)
  4:30 PM
Phoenix Urban Heat Island Experiment: Effects of Built Elements
Silvana Di Sabatino, Universita' del Salento, Lecce, Italy; and B. C. Hedquist, W. Carter, L. S. Leo, and H. J. S. Fernando

Poster PDF (534.7 kB)
  4:45 PM
J12.4 has been moved. New paper number J8.2A (Oke/8Urban)

  4:45 PM
Annual spatio-temporal variability of Toulouse urban heat island
Grégoire Pigeon, CNRM-GAME, CNRS Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and V. Masson

  5:00 PM
Estimating thermal responsiveness of local-scale climate 'zones' with a numerical modeling approach
Scott Krayenhoff, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and I. Stewart and T. Oke

Poster PDF (417.7 kB)
  5:15 PM
Impact of urbanization and land use changes on climate trends
Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Cai

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


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

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

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


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

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


Sessions Adjourn for the Day

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

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

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)

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)

5:25 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

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


Hollingsworth Symp Luncheon
Location: Room 131AB (Phoenix Convention Center)


Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)

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