89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Joint Session 16: Boundary Layer and Turbulence Measurements in the Urban Environment

Wednesday, 14 January 2009: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Robert M. Banta, NOAA/ESRL
Papers:
  8:30 AM
On the coupling between urban surface wind fields and skimming flow
Bruce B. Hicks, Metcorps, Norris, TN; and W. R. Pendergrass, C. A. Vogel, and R. S. Artz

  8:45 AM
On the rooftop micrometeorology and heat islands of Washington and New York City
William R. Pendergrass, NOAA/ARL/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN; and B. B. Hicks and C. A. Vogel

  9:00 AM
Utilizing surface network data in urban dispersion models
William Callahan, AWS/WeatherBug, Germantown, MD; and B. B. Hicks, W. R. Pendergrass, and C. A. Vogel

  9:15 AM
Quantifying the effects of rooftop modifications on building thermal environment through field measurements
Anthony Dominguez, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA; and J. Kleissl

  9:30 AM
Boundary layer dynamics over London as observed using Doppler lidar
Janet Barlow, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and T. M. Dunbar, E. Nemitz, C. R. Wood, M. W. Gallagher, F. Davies, and R. M. Harrison

  9:45 AM
Turbulence Characteristics in Oklahoma City Measured from an 83-meter PseudoTower
Sam Chang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and G. Huynh and D. Tofsted