Session: Impact of Extreme Weather and Climate on Urban Environment (94th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

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Impact of Extreme Weather and Climate on Urban Environment

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

Room C212 (The Georgia World Congress Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 11th Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the 26th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 22nd Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction )

Cochairs: A.A.M. Holtslag, Wageningen University, Meteorology and Air Quality Section, Wageningen, -, Netherlands and James A. Voogt, Geography, Western University, London, ON, Canada

Papers:

4:00 PM

J12.1

Summer in the City—Forecasting and Mapping Human Thermal Comfort in Urban Areas

A. A. M. Holtslag, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands; and R. J. Ronda, G. J. Steeneveld, B. G. Heusinkveld, and M. V. D. Harst

4:15 PM

J12.2

High-Resolution, Coupled Hydro-Meteorological Modelling for Operational Forecasting of Severe Flooding Events in Rio de Janeiro

Lloyd A. Treinish, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; and J. P. Cipriani, A. P. Praino, R. Cerqueira, M. N. D. Santos, V. C. V. B. Segura, I. C. Oliveira, L. C. V. Real, K. Mantripragada, and P. Jourdan

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J12.3

Experiences with a 100m versions of the Unified Model over an urban area

Humphrey W. Lean, Met Office, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J12.4

Urban, Water bodies, and Orography Induced Circulations and their Impact on Extreme Weather Forecasting

Sylvie Leroyer, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Bélair, S. Z. Husain, and V. Vionnet

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM