89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

Joint Session 24: Modeling Tools for Urban and Complex Terrain Environments

Thursday, 15 January 2009: 3:30 PM-5:00 PM
Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Chairs:  Fei Chen, NCAR and Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA
Papers:
  3:30 PM
MM5, WRF and CMAQ using NUDAPT for advanced urban applications
Jason K. Ching, USEPA/ORD/NERL/AMD, Research Triangle Park, NC; and F. Chen, H. Taha, M. Tewari, and T. L. Otte

  3:45 PM
Satellite-based approaches to determine urban characteristics: implications for NUDAPT and modeling
Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and I. Jeyachandran, J. M. Shepherd, M. Carter, and M. Jin

  4:00 PM
Application of an integrated WRF/urban modeling system to urban environmental problems
Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Tewari, Y. Liu, J. Dudhia, S. G. Miao, A. Martilli, S. Grossman-Clarke, J. K. Ching, and H. Kusaka

  4:15 PM
 
J24.5
Building resolving simulations in the Weather Research and Forecasting model incorporating surface physics and dispersion

  4:45 PM
The effect of stratification on the aerodynamic roughness length and displacement height
Sergej Zilitinkevich, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and I. Mammarella, A. Baklanov, and S. Joffre

  5:00 PM
Numerical experiments using WRF/Urban Canopy Model over Houston region
Mukul Tewari, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, K. W. Manning, S. Grimmond, T. Loridan, J. K. Ching, and S. G. Miao