18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA

Program Chairs: Silvana Di Sabatino , University of Notre Dame ; Marko Princevac , University of California, Riverside
Reviewers: Andrew Annunzio , NCAR ; Silvana DiSabatino , University of Notre Dame ; Pablo Huq , Univ. of Delaware ; John C. Pace , U.S Army, Dugway Proving Ground ; Ted Yamada , Yamada Science & Art Corporation

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Saturday, 1 February 2014

7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 1 February 2014


Registration for Student Conference and Short Courses

Sunday, 2 February 2014

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 2 February 2014


Registration for Short Courses and Conference for Early Career Professionals

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 2 February 2014


Registration Open for Annual Meeting

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 2 February 2014


WeatherFest

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 2 February 2014


94th Annual Review, New Fellows, and Featured Awards
Location: Room C302 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

Monday, 3 February 2014

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Registration Continues through February 5

9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 3 February 2014

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Plenary Session 1
14th Presidential Forum: Extreme Weather, Climate, and the Built Environment: New Perspectives, Opportunities, and Tools
Location: Thomas Murphy Ballroom (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes; the 14th Presidential Forum; the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Superstorm Sandy and the Built Environment: New Perspectives, Opportunities, and Tools; the Stanley A. Changnon Symposium; the Edward S. Epstein Symposium; the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 28th Conference on Hydrology; the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Symposium on Education; the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 12th History Symposium; the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 11th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research; the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium; the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts )
Moderator: Margaret Davidson, NOAA/Office for Coastal Management
Panelists: Leslie Chapman-Henderson, Federal Alliance for Safe Homes; David Perkes, Mississippi State Univ.; Ellis Stanley, Hammerman & Gainer International, Inc.; David W. Titley, Penn State University; Peter Kareiva, The Nature Conservancy
Speaker: Andy Revkin, Dot Earth blogger, The New York Times, and Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, Pace University
  9:00 AM
Welcoming Remarks

  9:05 AM
PL1.1
The New Communication Climate - An exploration of tools and traits that give the best chance of success in facing a fast-forward media landscape and changing climate
Andy Revkin, Dot Earth blogger, The New York Times, and Senior Fellow for Environmental Understanding, Pace University, New York, NY
  9:25 AM
Panel Discussion

  10:25 AM
Concluding Remarks

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Spouses' Coffee

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Coffee Break

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014

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Joint Session 3
Air and water-born transport and diffusion of contaminants from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant - Part 1
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; and the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment )
Cochairs: Ted Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation; Hiroaki Kondo, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; Andre J. Van der Westhuysen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP
  11:00 AM
J3.1
A Summary of Fukushima Special Symposium at the AMS 2013 Annual Meeting and Scientific Communication Efforts with the Public in Japan
Hiroaki Kondo, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and T. Iwasaki, T. Yamada, and M. Princevac

  11:15 AM
J3.2
Detailed source term estimation and atmospheric dispersion analysis for the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident
Genki Katata, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Ibaraki, Japan; and M. Chino, M. Ota, H. Nagai, H. Terada, and M. Kajino

  11:45 AM
J3.4
Multi-model intercomparison of the global transport of radionuclides from Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident
T. Y. Tanaka, JMA, Japan; and M. Kajino, T. Takemura, T. Christoudias, J. Lelieveld, P. van Velthoven, P. Le Sager, T. Nakajima, and T. Shibata

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014

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Joint Session 4
Air and water-born transport and diffusion of contaminants from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant - Part 2
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; and the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment )
Cochairs: Hiroaki Kondo, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; Andre J. Van der Westhuysen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP; Ted Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation
  1:30 PM
J4.1
A Radiation Estimation Method for use in the Initial and Intermediate Stages of a Nuclear Accident
Ryohji Ohba, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Fukahorimachi, Nagasaki, Japan; and S. kato, M. kim, J. Yoneda, P. Bieringer, B. Lauritzen, and M. Takigawa
  1:45 PM
J4.2
Radionuclide Deposition Estimation from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant by Inverse Model
Takashi Maki, MRI, Tsukuba, Japan; and T. Y. Tanaka, M. Kajino, T. T. Sekiyama, Y. Igarashi, and M. Mikami
  2:00 PM
J4.3
Modeling and sensitivity analysis for atmospheric transport and ground deposition from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident
Xiaofeng Hu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China; and D. Li, H. Huang, S. Shen, and E. Bou-Zeid
  2:15 PM
J4.4

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Poster Session 1
Monday and Tuesday Posters
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Marko Princevac, University of California, Riverside
 
227
Turbulence structure in the daytime boundary layer around an isolated mountain from in-situ airborne measurements
Mark Sghiatti, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and S. Pal, G. D. Emmitt, and S. F. J. De Wekker

 
228
Impacts of Saharan Dust Transport over the Atlantic Ocean
Remata S. Reddy, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and D. Lu

 
230
Quantify the Relationship between Extreme Air Pollution Events and Extreme Weather Events
Henian Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and Y. Wang and Z. Yin

 
231
Characterization of Dust Transported to El Paso, Texas
Jose A. Rivas Jr., University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX; and T. E. Gill, E. J. Walsh, and R. L. Wallace

 
232
Initial Results Obtained from a Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) to Measure Tropospheric Ozone
John Sullivan, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. Hoff, R. Delgado, and T. J. McGee

 
233
Comparison of two high frequency ozone instruments for eddy-covariance flux of an urban orchard: UV versus Chemical luminescence
Karrin Alstad, USDA, Riverside, CA; and C. Bartolome, M. Princevac, and A. Bytnerowicz

 
234
Global aerosol forecasting system at NCEP: Overview, Status, and Applications
Sarah Lu, IMSG and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and A. Da Silva, S. Kondragunta, M. Chin, J. Wang, S. Moorthi, X. Zhang, E. Joseph, and Y. Tang

 
235
Estimation of the most penetrating particle size during snow scavenging process
Chang Hoon Jung, Kyungin Women's University, Incheon, South Korea; and J. Um, S. Y. Bae, and Y. P. Kim

 
237
Particulate matter modeling in Puerto Rico during wet and dry season episodes
Jose M. Tirado, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and V. R. Morris

 
238
On the representativeness of wind- and stability measurements in hilly terrain. A case study in southern Virginia
Stephanie Paige Phelps, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and T. Lee, Z. Vecenaj, S. Pal, M. Sghiatti, and S. F. J. De Wekker

 
239
Evaluation of the WRF-CMAQ modeling system to the 2011 DISCOVER-AQ Baltimore-Washington D.C. study
K. Wyat Appel, EPA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Gilliam, G. A. Pouliot, J. M. Godowitch, J. E. Pleim, C. Hogrefe, D. Kang, S. J. Roselle, and R. Mathur

 
240
Turbulence closure and self-similarity of atmospheric turbulence: Stable stratification
Sergej Zilitinkevich, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; and N. Kleeorin, M. Kulmala, T. Petaja, and I. Rogachevskii


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

4:00 PM-4:45 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014

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Session 1
Air Pollution Instrumentation and the Role of Technology in Air Pollution Applications
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Christina Elena Liaskos, University of Maryland, College Park
  4:00 PM
1.1
Project Sagebrush: Revisiting Short-Range Dispersion Using Modern Instrumentation
Richard M. Eckman, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and K. L. Clawson, D. Finn, and R. G. Carter
  4:15 PM
1.2
CFD based air flow and contamination modeling of subway stations
Greg Byrne, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA; and F. E. Camelli, A. Pflitsch, J. Ringeis, and M. Brüne
  4:30 PM
1.3
Long Path Quantum Cascade Laser Based Sensor for Urban Monitoring of CH4 and N2O
Paulo Cesar Castillo Sr., The CIty College of New York, New York, NY; and I. Sydoryk, B. Gross, and F. Moshary

4:45 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014

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Session 2
Deposition, Resuspension and Dust Transport
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Christina Elena Liaskos, University of Maryland, College Park
  5:00 PM
2.2
Mercury Wet Deposition: Variability Associated With Precipitation Type
Aaron Kaulfus, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and U. Nair, Y. Wu, C. Holmes, and W. M. Landing
  5:15 PM
2.3
Convective transport of pollutants from eastern Colorado concentrated animal feeding operations into the Rocky Mountains
Aaron J. Piña, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and A. S. Denning and R. S. Schumacher

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 3 February 2014


Reception and Exhibits Opening

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014

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Session 3
Evaluation Studies and Regulatory Air Quality Models - Part 1
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Paul Bieringer, NCAR
  8:45 AM
3.2
Estimating the Effect of Transit Oriented Developments on Wind Speed and Turbulence
Nico Schulte, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA; and S. Tan and A. Venkatram

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014


Spouses' Coffee

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014

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Session 4
Evaluation Studies and Regulatory Air Quality Models - Part 2
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Andrew J. Annunzio, NCAR
  11:00 AM
4.1
  11:30 AM
4.3
Puff or Plume?
Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and J. Chang
  11:45 AM
4.4
Understanding the Impact of Built Environment on Air Quality in Transit Oriented Developments
Si Tan, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA; and N. Schulte, W. Choi, S. Paulson, and A. Venkatram

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014


Lunch Break

Stanley a. Changnon Luncheon
Location: Room B401 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014

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Session 5
The Effects of Meteorology on Air Quality - Part 1
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Pablo Huq, Univ. of Delaware
  1:30 PM
5.1
Investigating Meteorological Impacts on Ozone Levels in the Lake Tahoe Basin
Sandra Theiss, DRI, Reno, NV; and B. Zielinska, A. Bytnerowicz, and A. Gertler
  1:45 PM
5.2
Effects of Vegetation on Traffic Pollutant Dispersion and Air Quality on the Urban Neighborhood Scale
Christof Gromke, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands; and B. Blocken

  2:00 PM
5.3
Variability of Natural Dust Erosion from a Coal Pile
Stephen F. Mueller, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL; and J. W. Mallard and S. L. Shaw
  2:15 PM
5.4
Coastal Thermal Circulation and its Effect on Photochemical Modeling
Sang-Mi Lee, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Diamond Bar, CA; and J. Cassmassi, X. Zhang, and K. Durkee
  2:30 PM
5.5
Numerical Simulations of Persistent Cold-Air Pools in the Uintah Basin, Utah
Erik Neemann, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. T. Crosman and J. D. Horel
  2:45 PM
5.6
Observations and Numerical Modeling of Persistent Cold Air Pools in Utah's Salt Lake Valley
Erik T. Crosman, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel, N. Lareau, C. D. Whiteman, and J. S. Young

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: Room C103 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014

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Session 6
The Effects of Meteorology on Air Quality - Part 2
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Sang-Mi Lee, South Coast Air Quality Management District
  3:30 PM
6.1
Emission Factors for Fugitive Dust from Bulldozers working on a Coal Pile
Stephen F. Mueller, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL; and J. W. Mallard and S. L. Shaw
  3:45 PM
6.2
Aerosol layers within persistent cold-air pools in mountain basins
Joseph S. Young, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel, C. D. Whiteman, and E. T. Crosman
  4:00 PM
6.3
A Regional NN estimator of PM2.5 using satellite AOD and WRF meteorology measurements
Lina Cordero, City College of New York, New York, NY; and N. Malakar, D. Vidal, R. Latto, B. Gross, F. Moshary, and S. Ahmed
  4:15 PM
6.4
A sensitivity study of ozone entrainment flux on boundary layer micrometeorology fields
Guanyu Huang, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and M. Newchurch, S. Kuang, L. Wang, and W. Cantrell
  4:30 PM
6.5
The ClearfLo project - understanding London's meteorology and composition
Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and S. E. Belcher, J. F. Barlow, O. Coceal, H. W. Lean, C. Halios, J. McConnell, Z. Fleming, L. Williams, C. Helfter, J. Lee, and S. C. Herndon
  5:00 PM
6.7
Impact of meteorological inputs on wild-fire smoke predictions over the Contiguous United States
Jianping Huang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; and J. McQueen, P. Shafran, R. Draxler, G. DiMego, and I. Stajner

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 4 February 2014

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Session 1
Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecture
Location: Room C106 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 14th Presidential Forum; the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes; the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Stanley A. Changnon Symposium; the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 28th Conference on Hydrology; the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Symposium on Education; the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 12th History Symposium; the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 11th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research; the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium; the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Major Weather Events and Societal Impacts of 2013; and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts )
  5:00 PM
L1.1
Towards a general theory of global monsoons (Invited Presentation)
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

8:30 AM-9:15 AM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014

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Session 7
The Effects of Meteorology on Air Quality - Part 3
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS
  8:30 AM
7.1
Experimental and modelling evaluation of the shipping emission contribution to local air pollution in a port city in the south Adriatic coast of Italy
Riccardo Buccolieri, University of Salento, LECCE, Italy; and S. Di Sabatino, A. Donateo, R. Cesari, A. Maurizi, A. Dinoi, E. Merico, A. Genga, and D. Contini
  8:45 AM
7.2
Upgrades to the NCEP meteorological downscaling system for NAM
Jeff McQueen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and G. Manikin, M. Pondeca, and G. J. DiMego

  9:00 AM
7.3
Cloud Correction and its Impact on Air Quality Simulations
Arastoo Pour Biazar, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. T. McNider, M. Khan, Y. H. Park, B. Dornblaser, and K. Doty

9:00 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Spouses' Coffee

9:15 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014

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Session 8
Advances in Aerosol Prediction and Chemical Data Assimilation and Improvements in Emissions for Air Quality Prediction - Part 1
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Ivanka Stajner, NOAA/NWS
  9:15 AM
8.1
NOAA's operational air quality predictions
Ivanka Stajner, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. McQueen, J. Huang, P. Lee, R. Draxler, D. Tong, M. G. Ruminski, and P. Dickerson
  9:30 AM
8.2
Aerosol optical depth assimilation for a size-resolved sectional model: impacts of observationally constrained, multi-wavelength and fine mode retrievals on regional scale analyses and forecasts
Pablo E. Saide, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and G. Carmichael, Z. Liu, C. S. Schwartz, H. C. Lin, A. Da Silva, and E. J. Hyer

  9:45 AM
8.3
Use of doppler and aerosol scanning lidars for validating high resolution predictive model of air pollution in Paris
Sophie Loaec, LEOSPHERE, Paris, France; and L. Thobois, C. olry, J. Moussafir, F. mahé, and C. Duchene

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: Room C103 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014

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Session 9
Advances in Aerosol Prediction and Chemical Data Assimilation and Improvements in Emissions for Air Quality Prediction - Part 2
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Ivanka Stajner, NOAA/NWS
  10:30 AM
9.2
Analog-Kalman filter based post-processing of surface PM2.5 predictions from the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model
Irina V. Djalalova, NOAA/ESRL/PSD and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and L. Delle Monache and J. Wilczak
  10:45 AM
9.1
Advancements in Operational CMAQ MODIS AOD data-assimilation at Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems
John McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC; and J. Vukovich

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014

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Session 10
Turbulence Measurements, Wind Tunnel and Flume Experiments
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Sam Pournazeri, Univ. of California
  11:00 AM
10.1
Application of Planar Fit Corrections to turbulence in a Forest Canopy Roughness Sublayer
April L. Hiscox, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and M. Rudnicki and D. Miller
  11:30 AM
10.3
Sound Walls and Air Quality Mitigation
Sam Pournazeri, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and B. Gazzolo and M. Princevac
  11:45 AM
10.4

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Lunch Break

Women in the Atmospheric Sciences Luncheon: A Conversation about the Future
Location: Room C112 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014

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Keynote Speaker Session 1
Keynote Lecture
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Marko Princevac, University of California, Riverside
  2:20 PM
Committee Award Ceremony

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Lecture 2
Horton Lecture
Location: Georgia Ballroom 1 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 28th Conference on Hydrology; the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes; the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Edward S. Epstein Symposium; the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Symposium on Education; the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 12th History Symposium; the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 11th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research; the Seventh Annual CCM Forum: Certified Consulting Meteorologists; the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium; the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts )

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Session 11
Impacts of climate change on extreme air pollution meteorology
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Shiliang Wu, Michigan Technological University
  4:15 PM
11.2
An analysis of ozone extreme events over the United States in the past three decades
Jay Loadholt, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and Y. Wang and Y. Song

  4:30 PM
11.3
Long-term Changes in Extreme Air Pollution Meteorology and Implications for Air Quality
Shiliang Wu, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI; and R. C. Owen, J. McCarty, and P. Hou

  4:45 PM
11.4
A change in urban air quality brought about by varying meteorological parameters
Nicole R. Ramsey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. M. Klein and B. Moore III

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014

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Lecture 3
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: Room C113 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Second Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Impacts on Weather and Climate Extremes; the Second Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Stanley A. Changnon Symposium; the Edward S. Epstein Symposium; the 30th Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 28th Conference on Hydrology; the 26th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 23rd Symposium on Education; the 22nd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 18th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 12th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 12th History Symposium; the 12th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 11th Conference on Space Weather; the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Tenth Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Ninth Symposium on Policy and Socio-Economic Research; the Seventh Annual CCM Forum: Certified Consulting Meteorologists; the Sixth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions; the Fifth Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy; the Fifth Conference on Environment and Health; the Fourth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium; the Fourth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fourth Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Second Symposium on the Weather and Climate Enterprise; the Second Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; and the Special Symposium on Severe Local Storms: The Current State of the Science and Understanding Impacts )
  5:00 PM
L3.1

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 5 February 2014


94th AMS Awards Banquet

Thursday, 6 February 2014

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Joint Session 1
New-generation mesoscale to urban scale modeling capabilities for air pollution research and prediction (I)
Location: Room C212 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA )
Cochairs: Ted Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation; Jason Ching, Univ. of North Carolina
  8:30 AM
J1.1
Numerical Simulations of Thermal Effects of Building Walls
Ted Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation, Santa Fe, NM
  8:45 AM
J1.2
Development and implementation of a column version of an Urban Canopy Parameterization in WRF and testing over Madrid
Andres Simon-Moral, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain; and A. Martilli and J. L. Santiago
  9:00 AM
J1.3
WUDAPT: Facilitating Advanced Urban Canopy Modeling for Weather, Climate and Air Quality Applications
Jason Ching, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and G. Mills, J. Fedemma, K. Oleson, L. See, I. Stewart, B. Bechtel, F. Chen, X. Wang, M. K. A. Neophytou, and A. Hanna
  9:15 AM
J1.4
Exploring scale-adaptive representations and distinctive signatures of cities using multi-resolution analysis
Marina K.-A. Neophytou, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; and P. Mouzourides, A. Kyprianou, and M. J. Brown
  9:30 AM
J1.5
Simulation of urban dispersion using a fast response building resolving model coupled with WRF
Adam K. Kochanski, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak, W. J. Steenburgh, R. Stoll, and A. Gowardhan
Recording files available
Session 12
Forest Fire Emissions - Part 1
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Michael J. Brown, LANL
  8:30 AM
12.1
Comparison of bottom-up and satellite-based emission estimates in a prescribed burn: Evaluation with airborne smoke measurements
M. Talat Odman, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and A. Yano, F. Garcia-Menendez, Y. Hu, and A. G. Russell
  8:45 AM
12.2
Measuring Smoke Emissions on DOD Installations: 1. Southwestern Shrub and Grassland Fuels
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA; and C. W. Miller, R. Yokelson, S. Urbanski, D. Cocker, H. Jung, M. Princevac, I. Burling, S. Akagi, and E. Hosseini
  9:00 AM
12.3
Development of a New Superfog Screening Tool through Theoretical, Experimental and Numerical Investigation
Christian Bartolome, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac, D. R. Weise, A. Venkatram, and G. Achtemeier
  9:15 AM
12.4
Infusing NASA satellite data to model air-quality for Southeast United States: A wildfire, aerosol transport, and respiratory health case study
Binita Kc, NASA DEVELOP National Program, Athens, GA; and J. D. Bell, S. Kethireddy, E. Dobbs, J. Luvall, J. M. Shepherd, T. Mote, and S. Goodrick
  9:30 AM
12.5
Measuring Smoke Emissions on DOD Installations: 2. Southeastern Pine Forests
Timothy J. Johnson, PNNL, Richland, WA; and S. Akagi, R. Yokelson, I. Burling, J. J. Reardon, S. Urbanski, and D. R. Weise

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall C3 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

11:00 AM-11:30 AM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Joint Session 2
New-generation mesoscale to urban scale modeling capabilities for air pollution research and prediction (II)
Location: Room C212 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; and the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment )
Cochairs: Ted Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation; Jason Ching, Univ. of North Carolina
  11:00 AM
J2.1
Large-Eddy Simulation of Pollutant Dispersion over Urban Street Canyons: Local Turbulence and Local Reactions
Tang-Zheng Du, Univ. of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong; and C. H. Liu and Y. B. Zhao
Recording files available
Session 13
Forest Fire Emissions - Part 2
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Michael J. Brown, LANL
  11:15 AM
13.2
Impact of Polyethylene Plastic on Smoke Emissions from Debris Piles
David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA; and H. Jung, D. Cocker, E. Hosseini, Q. Li, M. Shrivastava, and M. McCorison

11:30 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Session 14
Special session on MATERHORN project - Part 1
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Silvana DiSabatino, University of Notre Dame
CoChair: Ronald Ferek, ONR
  11:30 AM
14.1
The Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations (MATERHORN) Program: A Progress Report
H.J.S. Fernando, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and J. P. Hacker, F. K. Chow, E. R. Pardyjak, and S. F. J. De Wekker
  11:45 AM
14.2
Near surface atmospheric turbulence and surface temperature correlations
Tim Price, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and V. Kulandaivelu, D. Jensen, E. Pardyjak, S. Hoch, and H. J. S. Fernando

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Session 15
Special session on MATERHORN project - Part 2
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Silvana DiSabatino, University of Notre Dame
CoChair: Ronald Ferek, ONR
  1:30 PM
15.1
Modelling atmospheric flows over isolated orography: stable stratification and separation effects
Julian C.R. Hunt, University of Notre Dame / Univ. College London / Trinity College - Cambridge, London, United Kingdom; and H. J. S. Fernando, S. Di Sabatino, L. S. Leo, D. J. Carruthers, and M. Thompson
  2:00 PM
15.3
Flow Separation in Complex Terrain during Synoptically Dominated Wind Conditions
Kelly A. McEnerney, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and H. J. S. Fernando and S. Di Sabatino
  2:15 PM
15.4
Structure and dynamics of katabatic flows: results from MATERHORN X-1
Laura S. Leo, Environmental Fluid Dynamics Laboratories, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and S. Di Sabatino, A. Grachev, H. J. S. Fernando, C. Hocut, E. Pardyjak, and D. Jensen

  2:30 PM
15.5
Slope and Valley Flow Interactions in MATERHORN-1
Christopher M. Hocut, Univ. of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and R. Dimitrova, Z. Silver, S. Di Sabatino, L. S. Leo, S. W. Hoch, Y. Wang, E. R. Pardyjak, and H. J. S. Fernando

  2:45 PM
15.6
Observations of flow and turbulence in complex terrain during evening transition
Silvana Di Sabatino, Univ. of Notre Dame/Univ. of Salento, Notre Dame, IN; and L. S. Leo, H. J. S. Fernando, A. Grachev, R. Dimitrova, Z. Silver, R. Quarta, T. Zsedrovits, T. Pratt, Z. Lin, D. Zajic, J. C. Pace, E. Pardyjak, D. Jensen, and S. W. Hoch

3:00 PM-3:05 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


Registration Closes

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


Coffee Break

Meet the President
Location: Room C103 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

3:30 PM-5:15 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014

Recording files available
Session 16
Special session on MATERHORN project - Part 3
Location: Room C206 (The Georgia World Congress Center )
Host: 18th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA
Chair: Silvana DiSabatino, University of Notre Dame
CoChair: Ronald Ferek, ONR
  3:30 PM
16.1
Towards Estimation of Soil Moisture Using RF Polarimetric Responses with Topographical Data and Electromagnetic Scattering Models
Thomas G. Pratt, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and Z. Lin, S. Di Sabatino, and L. Leo

  3:45 PM
16.2
Evaluation of the real-time WRF forecasts during the Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations (MATERHORN) Program: Performance, comparison with observations, and further implications
Zhaoxia Pu, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and H. Zhang, X. Zhang, E. Pardyjak, W. J. Steenburgh, D. Zajic, Y. Wang, S. DiSabatino, S. W. Hoch, S. F. J. De Wekker, J. Massey, M. E. Jeglum, C. D. Whiteman, and H. J. S. Fernando
  4:00 PM
16.3
Inter-comparison between different PBL options in WRF model. Modification of two PBL schemes for stable conditions
Reneta Dimitrova, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and Z. Silver, H. J. S. Fernando, L. S. Leo, S. Di Sabatino, C. Hocut, and T. Zsedrovits
Manuscript (725.3 kB)

  4:15 PM
16.4
Sensitivity of Near-Surface Temperature Forecasts to Soil Properties over a Dryland Region in Complex Terrain
Jeffrey D. Massey, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. J. Steenburgh, S. W. Hoch, and J. C. Knievel
  4:45 PM
Concluding Remarks

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 6 February 2014


AMS 94th Annual Meeting Adjourns