89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 3: Weather Forecasting for Urban Areas

Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room 124B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Sue Grimmond, King's College London
Papers:
  8:30 AM
3.1
An international urban surface energy balance model comparison study: first results
Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Blackett and M. Best

  8:45 AM
3.2 has been moved. New paper number 3.3A

  8:45 AM
Model Complexity: First results from the international urban surface energy balance model comparison study
Sue Grimmond, King's College London, London, United Kingdom; and M. Blackett and M. J. Best

  9:00 AM
How do initial assumptions for parameters and state variables influence accuracy?
Maggie Hendry, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and M. Best, M. Gouvea, S. Grimmond, and A. Porson

 
3.3
Is there really an optimal solution for model simulations of the urban environment?

  9:30 AM
3.4
Impact of urban parameters on the surface energy balance in urban areas
Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and A. Porson and S. Belcher

  9:45 AM
3.5
Inclusion of a multi-layer drag approach in urban surface schemes: which benefits ?
Valéry Masson, CNRM/Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and R. Hamdi and G. Pigeon

  10:00 AM
3.6
Simulation of fall and winter surface energy balance over a dense urban area using the TEB scheme
Grégoire Pigeon, CNRS Meteo-France, Toulouse, France; and M. Moscicki, J. A. Voogt, and V. Masson