89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Joint Session 2: Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions

Tuesday, 13 January 2009: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Cochairs:  Pavlos Kollias, McGill University and 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