89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Joint Session 12: Urban Heat Islands

Monday, 12 January 2009: 4:00 PM-5:30 PM
Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
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