89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 4: Biometeorology and Public Health In Urban Areas

Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Gordon M. Heisler, USDA Forest Service
Papers:
  10:30 AM
4.1
Human thermal comfort in summer in different urban quarters of a mid-size central European city (Freiburg, Germany)
Helmut Mayer, Meteorological Institute, Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, , Germany; and J. Holst and F. Imbery

  10:45 AM
4.2
Physiologically equivalent temperature and climate change in Freiburg
Andreas Matzarakis, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, , Germany; and C. Endler

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  11:00 AM
4.3
  11:15 AM
4.4
Analysis of daily climate-suicide relationships in Mississippi
P. Grady Dixon, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and D. M. Brommer

  11:30 AM
4.5
Reconstruction of the airborne emissions by inverse dispersion modelling and generation of synthetic emission data by a Monte Carlo model
Gunther Schauberger, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Vienna, Austria; and M. Piringer, E. Petz, W. Knauder, and K. Baumann-Stanzer

  11:45 AM
4.6
Heat waves, urban heat stress and mortality: a satellite surveillance system
Benedicte Dousset, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and F. Gourmelon, E. Giraudet, K. Laaidi, K. Zeghnoun, and P. Bretin