89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Session 1: Severe Storms Impacts on the Urban Environment: Modeling and Observations

Tuesday, 13 January 2009: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Room 123 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chair:  Pavlos Kollias, McGill University
Papers:
  3:30 PM
1.1
The dramatic effect of tornadic severe weather on a rapidly growing urban interface
Ivory J. Small, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA; and T. Mackechnie and S. Vanderburg

  3:45 PM
1.2
Extreme microburst events in the Phoenix metropolitan area
Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and K. Howard, D. P. Jorgensen, C. Dempsey, and G. D. Green

  4:00 PM
1.3
High resolution WRF and ADCIRC simulations of hurricane Gloria (1985) for the New York City Metropolitan Region
Tom DiLiberto, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and F. Bounaiuto

  4:30 PM
1.5
Urban growth and aerosol effects on convection over Houston
Gustavo Carrió, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Y. Cheng, W. R. Cotton, and S. M. Saleeby

  4:45 PM
1.6
Development and deployment of a mesoscale weather and outage prediction service for electric utility operations
Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Systems and Technology Group, Yorktown Heights, NY; and A. P. Praino, H. Li, E. Novakovskaia, and J. M. Drexel