Joint Session 9 | 
|   | Wind Energy: Applied Modeling and Forecasting I (Joint between the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy and the 8th Users Forum on Weather and Climate Impacts) | 
|   | Chair: Kathleen E. Moore, Integrated Environmental Data, LLC, Berne, NY 
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 | 8:30 AM | J9.1 | Speaker for Wind Engergy Invited Speaker    Donald Furman, Iberdrola Renewables, Portland, OR | 
 | 8:45 AM | J9.2 | A climate model investigation of lower-atmospheric wind speed biases over wind farm development regions of the continental United States     Jonathan Collier, Garrad Hassan America, Inc., San Diego, CA; and G. Zhang | 
 | 9:00 AM | J9.3 | Examination of spatial wind features associated with ramping events using MODE    Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Bullock | 
 | 9:15 AM | J9.5 | An investigation of simulated low-level jets produced by different PBL schemes in the WRF-ARW as verified against tower data    Joseph B. Olson, NOAA/ESRL/GSD and National Research Council, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Brown | 
 |   | J9.4 | Wind energy site characterization with loosely coupled mesoscale-CFD modeling    Julia E. Flaherty, PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. C. Richmond, C. L. Rakowski, J. A. Serkowski, and L. K. Berg | 
 | 9:30 AM | J9.6 | Using a large eddy simulation model to simulate wakes from large wind projects    John Manobianco, AWS Truewind LLC, Albany, NY; and P. Beaucage, C. Alonge, and M. C. Brower |