Program: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment (97th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Coffee Break (6th Floor Foyer)

Location: Washington State Convention Center

Session 1

Urban Canopy and Roughness Sublayers- Part l

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Negin Nazarian, University of California

11:00 AM

1.1

Scalar Dispersion from Point and Area Sources in a Realistic Urban Environment

Scott T. Salesky, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada; and M. G. Giometto, A. Christen, and M. B. Parlange

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

1.2

Laboratory Study of Passive-Scalar Dispersion over Hypothetical Urban Roughness

Ziwei Mo, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and C. H. Liu

Recorded Presentation

1.3

Experimental Study on Mixed-convective Flows at the Building Scale and Analysis of the Local Convective Heat Transfer Coefficient at the Building Façades

11:30 AM

1.3A

Coupled CFD, Radiation and Building Energy Model for Studying the Impact of Building Height Topology and Buoyancy on Local Heat Island Formation in Urban Environments

Jonas Allegrini, Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland; and J. Carmeliet

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

1.4

Large Eddy Simulations of Flow and Scalar Exchanges over Urban Terrain to Improve Urban Canopy Model Parameterizations

Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and Q. Li and S. Grimmond

Recorded Presentation

Lunch Break

Lecture 1

Walter Orr Roberts Lecture

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 31st Conference on Hydrology; the 29th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 28th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 24th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 26th Symposium on Education; the 21st Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface; the 19th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 18th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 15th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 15th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 14th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography; the 14th Conference on Space Weather; the 13th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Major Weather Impacts of 2016; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Ninth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the Eighth Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy; the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health; the Eighth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Eighth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Seventh Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Seventh Symposium on Advances in Modeling and Analysis Using Python; the Fifth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Fifth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the Second Symposium on US-International Partnerships; and the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment )

Speaker: Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA

1:30 PM

L1.1

Developing Climate Risk Information for Cities: Key Findings from UCCRN ARC3.2

Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA, New York City, NY

Recorded Presentation

Session 2

Urban Canopy and Roughness Sublayers-Part ll

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Jan Kleissl, Univ. of California, San Diego

2:00 PM

2.1

Understanding Urban HOST Hypothesis with SURF Field Data

Jielun Sun, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Z. Cheng, M. Zhou, J. Li, and J. Dou

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

2.2

A One-Dimensional Model of Turbulent Flow Through ‘Urban' Canopies: Updates Based on Large-Eddy Simulation

Negin Nazarian, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore, Singapore; and S. Krayenhoff and A. Martilli

Recorded Presentation

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Poster Session 1

Urban Canopy and Roughness Sublayers - Posters

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Jan Kleissl, Univ. of California, San Diego

262

Efficiently Representing Thermal Processes in Urban Canopy Models

Mathew Lipson, UNSW, Sydney, Australia; and M. A. Hart and M. Thatcher

263

On the Momentum and Scalar Roughness Lengths of Urban Surfaces

Qi Li, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and E. Bou-Zeid and S. Grimmond

264

Testing a Multilayer Urban Parameterization Against Spatially Averaged Profiles of Wind and Turbulence from a Microscale CFD Model

Beatriz Sanchez, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and J. L. Santiago and A. Martilli

265

Influences of Complex Roughness over an Actual Urban Area on Turbulent Flows as Revealed by Large-Eddy Simulations

Toshiya Yoshida, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan; and T. Takemi

Poster 266 has been moved. New paper number is 1.3A

267

Reactive Plume Dispersion Model over Idealized Urban Roughness in the Urban Atmospheric Boundary Layer

Zhangquan Wu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and C. H. Liu

268

Evaluation of an Urban Canopy Model with Enhanced Hydrologic Processes in a Tropical City: the Role of Tree Evapotranspiration

Xuan Liu, MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore, Singapore; and X. Li, E. Velasco, S. Harshan, and M. Roth

269

Evaluating SU2 for Simulation of Urban Canopy Layer Flow

Kathrin Feige, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany; and A. Middel, S. Krayenhoff, B. L. Ruddell, T. Albring, and N. R. Gauger

270

Large Eddy Simulation of Flows over Heated Urban-like Cubical Buildings

Lei Peng, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and Y. Li

271

Sub-kilometre Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction of the Convective Urban Boundary Layer – a Comparison with Observations for London, UK

272

Urban Turbulence One-Dimensional Velocity Spectra from JU2003 Observation

Poster Session 2

Urban Development, Planning, and Sustainability

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Jorge Gonzalez, City College of New York; Chandana Mitra, Auburn University

273

Assessment of the Role of Urban Vegetation in the City of Bolzano (Italy) with WRF/UCM Model Simulations

Gianluca Pappaccogli, University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy; and L. Giovannini and D. Zardi

274

Near Surface Atmospheric Impacts Resulting from a Developing Metropolitan Area

Bradley G. Illston, Oklahoma Climatological Survey/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Basara

275

Global Urbanization and its Implications in Environmental Sustainability

Yuyu Zhou, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and X. LI and G. R. Asrar

276

The Consideration of Urban Climate in Building Standards and Urban Planning Formulations---a Review in China

Yuan Huang Sr., Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China; and F. Chen Jr., W. Zhao III, and J. Yang Jr.

Handout (206.4 kB)

277

Urban Sustainability Maps: Determining Urban Rooftop Dimensions for use in Regional Sustainability Assessments in Auburn, AL

Chandana Mitra, Auburn University, Auburn, AL; and A. T. Bush

278

Closing the Gap between Urban Climate and Urban Planning

Michael Sascha Henninger, University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany; and M. Rumberg

Manuscript (1.3 MB)

Poster Session 3

Weather Forecasting for Cities

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Jan Kleissl, Univ. of California, San Diego

279

A High-Resolution and Computationally Efficient Forecasting System for Urban Temperatures: Validation against Intensive Field Campaigns in two Cities in the Italian Alps

Lorenzo Giovannini, Univ. of Trento, Trento, Italy; and D. Zardi, M. Gasperotti, and F. Zecchini

Handout (2.2 MB)

280

Objective Evaluation of a Large Number of 250-m Forecasts with Urban-GEM in the Context of the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada

Stéphane Bélair, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Leroyer, L. Spacek, M. Vallée, and P. Joe

Session 3

Bornstein Named Session-Part l

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc.

4:00 PM

3.1

Robert D. Bornstein Named Session: Introductory Remarks (Invited Presentation)

Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc., Martinez, CA

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

3.2

The Life and Scientific Times of Bob Bornstein (Invited Presentation)

Timothy R. Oke, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

4:30 PM

3.3

Modeling Urban Weather and Beyond (Invited Presentation)

Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

3.4

Middle-East Transboundary Pollutant Transport: A Decade Long USAID/MERC Project (Invited Presentation)

Erez Weinroth, Kanarit Music LTD, Kfar Saba, Israel

5:00 PM

3.5

Effects of Climate Change on Cities: Dynamical Downscaling to Pedestrian Scale (Invited Presentation)

H.J.S. Fernando, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and P. Conry and A. Sharma

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

3.6

Regional Climate Changes in Urban Coastal Areas: On the Combined and Separate Effects of Changing Landscapes and Regional Climate Signals (Invited Presentation)

Jorge Gonzalez, City College, New York, NY

Recorded Presentation

Reception and Exhibits Opening

Location: 4AB (Washington State Convention Center )

Session 4

Bornstein Named Session-Part ll

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc.

8:30 AM

4.1

Evolution of Urban Atmospheric Studies and Technologies over the Past Half-Century (Invited Presentation)

Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc., Louisville, CO

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

4.2

Impact of Precipitation Timing on Urban Land Surface Models (Invited Presentation)

Sue Grimmond, Univ. of Reading, Reading, UK

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

4.3

Urban Areas and Rainfall Extremes (Invited Presentation)

Dev Niyogi, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, KY

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

4.4

The Study of Urban Impacts on Rainfall and Fog/Haze (SURF) Project: Prof. Bornstein's Scientific Conception and Practice (Invited Presentation)

Shiguang Miao, IUM, Beijing, China; and X. Liang and R. Bornstein

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

4.5

Research on Urban Impacts on PBL Climate and Weather: A 50 Year Perspective (Invited Presentation)

Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Recorded Presentation

Coffee Break

Location: 4AB (Washington State Convention Center )

Session 5

Urban Energy and Water Balances

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Valery Masson, Meteo France / CNRS

10:30 AM

5.1

Rapid Modification of Land Surface Temperature during Rainfall

Hamidreza Omidvar, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and E. Bou-Zeid, J. Song, J. Yang, G. Arwatz, C. Byers, Z. Wang, M. Hultmark, and K. Kaloush

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

5.2

Influence of Thermal and Moisture Capacities of Building Materials on Urban Microclimate by Multi-transport Modeling

Aytac Kubilay, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland; and D. Derome and J. Carmeliet

Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM

5.3

Evaluation of the Simulated Spatio-Temporal Variability of the Anthropogenic Heat Flux in the Agglomeration of Toulouse, France

Robert Schoetter, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and A. Amosse, E. Bocher, M. Bonhomme, A. Bourgeois, S. Faraut, J. Hidalgo, A. Lemonsu, J. P. Levy, V. Masson, G. Petit, and N. Tornay

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

5.4

Assessment of Urban Heat Island Effect on Building Energy Consumption for Beijing Using Off-Line Urban Parameterizations

Xiaoyu Xu, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and S. Miao and J. Gonzalez

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

5.5

Impact of Cool Roofs on Urban Energy Utilization in a Future Warm Climate

Mukul Tewari, The Weather Company, IBM, New York, NY; and F. Salamanca, A. Martilli, L. A. Treinish, and A. Mahalov

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

5.6

Global High Resolution Anthropogenic Heat Flux Database

Yue Dong, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and A. C. G. Varquez and M. Kanda

Lunch Break

Joint Session 3

Extreme Heat I: Social, Physiological, and Climatological Mechanisms Driving Health Outcomes and Connections with Indoor Environments

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 5 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health; and the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment )

Chair: Jennifer Vanos, University of California San Diego

1:30 PM

J3.1

Pediatric Vehicular Heatstroke

Jan Null, San Jose State University, Saratoga, CA

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J3.2

The Harlem Heat Project: a Study of Summer Indoor Temperatures

Brian L. Vant-Hull, NOAA/City College, New York, NY; and P. Ramamurthy, A. Glenn, J. K. Drapkin, J. Keefe, M. Schuerman, and C. D. Corbin-Mark

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

J3.3

Determining Social Mechanisms of Extreme Heat Vulnerability in Phoenix, Arizona

Paul Chakalian, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J3.4

Air Conditioning Usage Patterns Among Affordable Housing Senior Residents During Extreme Heat Events

Jose G. Cedeno, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA; and A. Williams

Recorded Presentation

Session 6

Observations and Field Studies of Urban Climate

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Shiguang Miao, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration

1:30 PM

6.1

Modeling and Observations of the Structure and Evolution of the Urban Boundary Layer of New York City

David Melecio, City College, New York, NY; and J. Gonzalez, P. Ramamurthy, and M. Arend

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

6.2

Long-term Observations of Energy Balance Fluxes Over a Tropical Residential Neighborhood and Application to Urban Microclimate Modeling

Matthias Roth, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; and C. Jansson, E. Velasco, and S. Harshan

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

6.3

Assessing Urban Effects on the Climate of the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo

Amauri P. Oliveira, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and E. P. Marques Filho, M. Ferreira, F. N. D. Ribeiro, J. Soares, G. Codato, P. Mlakar, M. Boznar, M. M. R. Pereira, E. S. Assis, M. Cassol, J. Escobedo, A. Dal Pai, J. R. A. França, M. P. Sanchez, L. C. Silveira, B. Buzati, and J. Nofoente

Recorded Presentation

6.4

It's Sea Breeze Time in the City

2:15 PM

6.4A

Spatial and Temporal Effects of Irrigation on Neighborhood-Scale Thermal Environments

David J. Sailor, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and P. Crank

Recorded Presentation

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Poster Session 4

Observations and Field Studies of Urban Climate - Posters

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Shiguang Miao, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration

755

Urban Microclimate Monitoring in Seoul, Korea: Fine Scale Summer Heating along the Cheonggye Stream Renewal Project

Alexandria J. Herdt, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and J. Vanos and J. Kim

756

Heat Exposure in Informal Settlements in Nairobi, Kenya

Anna A. Scott, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and J. Okoth, H. Misiani, A. Jordan, G. Ouma, B. F. Zaitchik, J. Arrighi, R. Anyah, E. Jjemba, S. Verjee, and D. Waugh

757

Efficiency of Turbulent Transfer over an Urban Surface in Relation to Seasonal Changes in Source Area Patchiness

Caitlin Iris Semmens, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. Christen

Handout (2.3 MB)

758

The Diurnal Cycle of Urban Thermal Environment in Scale-model Street Canyon

Qun Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

759

Analyses of Multiple Urban Heat Islands from Global Surface Temperature Datasets

Alvin Christopher G. Varquez, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda

760

Diurnal and seasonal changes of d13C and d18O in carbon dioxide measured by eddy covariance over an urban surface

Andreas Christen, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. Black, B. Crawford, L. B. Flanagan, R. Ketler, Z. Nesic, and C. I. Semmens

Handout (2.2 MB)

Poster 761 has been moved. New paper number is 6.4A.

762

Weather and Climate Measurements in Urban Domes

William Callahan, Earth Networks, Germantown, MD

Poster Session 5

Other Topics in Urban Environment

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Jan Kleissl, Univ. of California, San Diego

763

Implementing WUDAPT into fast urbanization of mega-regions in China

Chao Ren, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong; and M. Cai, Y. Xu, and R. WANG

Manuscript (1.3 MB)

Handout (9.5 MB)

764

A Comparison Study between Local Climate Zone Mapping by GIS-based Method and WUDAPT Method

Ran WANG, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong; and C. Ren, Y. Xu, K. Lau, and J. HO

765

Implementing WUDAPT in Metropolitan Area of Sao Paulo in Brazil: Influence of Urban Area in the Meteorological Simulations Using WRF Model

Dirce Maria Pellegatti Franco, Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics, and Atmospheric Sciences, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and M. D. F. Andrade

Handout (1.4 MB)

Investigating the Modification of Thunderstorms by the Oklahoma City Urban Heat Island

766

Comparative Study on the Application of Statistical Downscaling in Urban Climate Research

Renee Obringer, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and B. Neupane, P. Mujumdar, P. S. Rao, and D. Niyogi

767

Incorporation of Urban Form and Function for Improved Correlation Between Land Use Types and Land Surface Temperatures

Anamika Shreevastava, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Bhalachandran, I. Garcia-Dorado, D. Aliaga, and D. Niyogi

768

Comparing WUDAPT Level 0 Cartography with a More Detailed Urban Database. Some Examples for French Cities Using the MAPUCE Database

Julia Hidalgo, CNRS, Toulouse, France; and V. Masson, R. Schoetter, G. Petit, E. Bocher, and G. Dumas

769

MRA as a Scale-Adaptive Driver for WUDAPT: An Example from Energy-related Applications

Marina K.-A. Neophytou, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; and P. Mouzourides, A. Kyprianou, R. Choudhary, and J. Ching

770

Accessing New Cities for Urban Climate Modelling and Study

Oscar Brousse, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; and A. Martilli, M. Foley, G. Mills, B. Bechtel, K. Hammerberg, L. See, S. Bhalachandran, D. Niyogi, M. Demuzere, N. P. M. van Lipzig, and J. Ching

Poster 771 has been moved. New paper number is 9.5A

Poster Session 6

Urban Energy and Water Balances - Posters

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Valery Masson, Meteo France / CNRS

772

Improving the Representation of Latent Heat Fluxes on Operational Forecast Models for Beijing, China

Miao Yu, China Meteorology Administration, Beijing, China; and P. Ramamurthy, S. Miao, and J. Gonzalez

773

Applications of Remote Sensing and Modeling to Study Urban Energy Systems and Processes

Mark Arend, City College of New York, New York, NY; and V. Dominguez, A. Diaz, M. Bah, M. Dagan, L. Ortiz, D. Melecio, J. E. Gonzalez, and F. Moshary

774

Spatiotemporal Distribution of Urban Building Energy Consumption By End Use Using Building Modeling and High Resolution Forecasted Weather Data

Ahmed Krarti, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; and L. Ortiz and J. Gonzalez

Manuscript (2.0 MB)

Handout (1.3 MB)

775

Impacts of Regional Climate and Urbanization Changes on Power Consumption in Mexico City Valley

Alvaro Lentz, Universidad Autonoma de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; and J. Gonzalez and M. E. Angeles

776

Urban Composition and Surface Temperature at Multiple Scales Using Airborne Spectroscopic and Thermal Imaging

Erin B. Wetherley, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and D. A. Roberts and J. P. McFadden

777

Application of an Advanced Energy Balance Model for Urban Canopies with Trees during Heat Wave Conditions

778

Effects of Anthropogenic Heat Flux Using Different Air Conditioning Systems on the Heat Wave Events in the City of Hong Kong

Joint Session 4

Extreme Heat II: Understanding the Social, Physiological, and Climatological Mechanisms Driving Health Outcomes in Extreme Heat

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 5 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health; and the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment )

Chair: Hunter Jones, NOAA

4:00 PM

J4.1

Yuri Hosokawa, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and D. J. Casa

4:15 PM

J4.2

Personal Monitoring of Occupational Heat Exposure among Grounds Management Workers: Preliminary Results from Three University Campuses

Chris Fuhrmann, Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS; and M. Sugg, J. D. Runkle, and S. Stevens

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J4.3

Characterizing the Energy Budgets of Children during Active Play in Hot Weather through the use of Personal Sensing Devices

Jennifer Vanos, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

J4.4

Heat Exposure and Injuries among High School Football Players

Andrew Grundstein, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and S. Poore, B. Cooper, and S. E. Sarnat

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (5.3 kB)

5:00 PM

J4.5

A Comparison of Personal, Area, and Regional Measurements of Heat Exposure in Roofing Workers

Miriam Calkins, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. Spector and K. Y. Lin

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

J4.6

Small-scale Variations of Heat Index and Dewpoint from Mobile Transects

Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and B. M. Svoma, P. Guinan, A. R. Lupo, and J. D. Wood

Recorded Presentation

Themed Joint Session 10

Observations on Urban Fluxes and Boundary Layers: Recent Significant Developments and Open Challenges

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; and the AMS Committee on Boundary Layers and Turbulence )

Cochairs: Elie Bou Zeid, Princeton University; Jorge E. Gonzalez, City College

4:00 PM

TJ10.1

Urban Heat Surface Fluxes Observations: Current State and Future Needs

Sue Grimmond, Univ. of Reading, Reading, UK

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

TJ10.2

Observations of Urban Boundary Layers – Progress and Challenges

Petra M. Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

TJ10.3

Utility of the NWS ASOS instrumentation: Detecting Planetary Boundary Clouds and their Relationship to Surface Meteorological Parameters at a semi-Urban site

Belay Demoz, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. K. Sakai and R. Delgado

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

TJ10.4

Advancing Understanding of Urban Weather and Climate

Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

5:00 PM

TJ10.5

Observing The Boundary-layer Dynamics Over New York City

Prathap Ramamurthy, City College, New York, NY; and J. E. Gonzalez, F. Moshary, and M. Arend

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

TJ10.6

Observations on Urban Fluxes and Boundary Layers in Beijing

Shiguang Miao, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and R. Bornstein and J. Sun

Recorded Presentation

Session 7

Modeling, Observation, and Input Data Requirements for Understanding and Predicting Interdisciplinary Urban Phenomena

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc.

8:30 AM

7.1

Observation and Modeling of Urban Climate Variability at Local Scale

Aude Lemonsu, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and C. de Munck, J. Le Bras, N. Gaudio, and V. Masson

Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM

7.2

Urban Multi-Scale Environmental Predictor (UMEP): A New Tool to Deliver City Based Climate Services

Sue Grimmond, Univ. of Reading, Reading, UK; and F. Lindberg, J. G. Tan, A. M. Gabey, H. C. Ward, C. W. Kent, T. Sun, and L. Jarvi

9:00 AM

7.3

Weather Modelling of Urban Heat Island in Megacities Using Distributed Urban Parameters Derived from Global Datasets

Natsumi Kawano, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and A. C. G. Varquez, Y. Dong, M. Kanda, and M. Roth

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

7.4

Sensitivity Analysis of the MORUSES Canopy Model over Singapore

Andres Simon-Moral, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; and A. Dipankar, M. Roth, and X. Y. Huang

Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM

7.5

On the use of Cell Phones data to characterize the Atmosphere in Urban Areas

Alberto Martilli, Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain; and T. Betancourt and L. Delle Monache

Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM

7.6

A Climatology of Urban Surface Heat Islands Derived from Hemispherical Radiometric Surface Temperatures

Michael A. Allen, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada; and J. A. Voogt and A. Christen

Recorded Presentation

Coffee Break

Location: 4AB (Washington State Convention Center )

Joint Session 5

Extreme Heat III — The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS): Developing Networks & Communities of Practice for Building Resilience to Extreme Heat

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 5 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health; the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; the 29th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Board on Global Strategies; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Seventh Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Cochairs: Kristie L. Ebi, Univ. of Washington; Christofer Astrom, Umea University

10:30 AM

J5.1

Beating the Heat: Building the Global Heat Health Information Network (GHHIN)

Joy Shumake-Guillemot, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland; and J. Trtanj

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

J5.2

Building Resilience to Extreme Heat: The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS)

Juli Trtanj, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and H. M. Jones, S. Saha, G. Luber, M. D. Hawkins, and W. Higgins

11:00 AM

J5.3

Reducing Heat-Health Vulnerability in India

Kim Knowlton, Natural Resources Defense Council, New York, NY; and D. Mavalankar, P. Ganguly, A. Tiwari, P. Dutta, L. Sathish, P. Sheffield, N. Kaur, A. Jaiswal, and J. J. Hess

Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM

J5.4

Heat Health in Bangladesh: Defining and Predicting Heat Waves Across Timescales

Hannah Nissan, IRI, New York, NY; and K. G. Burkart and S. J. Mason

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 6

Urban Air Quality, Heat Stress, and Public Health in Urban Areas

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; and the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health )

Chair: Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc.

10:30 AM

J6.1

Jack Rabbit II–2015 Field Experiment on Winds and Turbulence and Chlorine Dispersion in a Built Environment

Steven R. Hanna, Hanna Consultants, Kennebunkport, ME; and J. Chang, T. Spicer, M. Sohn, S. B. Fox, M. Whitmire, L. Stockham, A. Hendrick, D. Storwold, E. Vernon, and T. Mazzola

Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM

J6.2

Air Pollution Episodes Associated with Prescribed Burns in Sydney Australia

Melissa A. Hart, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; and G. Di Virgilio

J6.3

High-Resolution Sampling and Analysis of Air Particulate Matter in the Pearl River Delta Region of Southern China: Dynamic Variations and Source Identification

11:00 AM

J6.3A

An Investigation of High-Ozone Episodes during the California Baseline Ozone Transport Study (CABOTS)

Sen Chiao, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and A. J. Eiserloh Jr.

11:15 AM

J6.4

Mesoscale Meteorological Impacts on Criteria Air Pollutants Along Utah's Wasatch Front as Measured by Mobile Platforms

Erik T. Crosman, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Horel, A. A. Jacques, L. Mitchell, J. C. Lin, and B. Fasoli

Recorded Presentation

Handout (7.8 MB)

11:30 AM

J6.5

Improved MODIS Aerosol Retrieval in Urban Areas Using a Land-Classification Approach and Empirical Orthogonal Functions at high resolution

Barry Gross, City College of New York, New York, NY; and N. Levitan, F. Moshary, and S. Lightstone

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J6.6

High Resolution Mapping of Exposure to Urban Air Pollution

Masoud Ghandehari, New York University, Brooklyn, NY; and S. Feng, D. Ma, and M. Aghamohamadnia

Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM

Investigation of High Ozone Episodes during the California Baseline Ozone Transport Study - Arthur Eiserloh

Recorded Presentation

Lunch Break

Lecture 2

Horton Lecture

Location: 602 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference of Atmospheric Science Librarians International; the Second Symposium on Multi-scale Atmospheric Predictability; the Observation Symposium: Progress, Problems, and Prospects; the 33rd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 29th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 28th Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting / 24th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction; the 26th Symposium on Education; the 21st Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface; the 19th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 18th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology; the 15th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 15th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 14th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography; the 14th Conference on Space Weather; the 13th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Major Weather Impacts of 2016; the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Ninth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; the Eighth Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy; the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health; the Eighth Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications; the Eighth Conference on the Meteorological Application of Lightning Data; the Seventh Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the 31st Conference on Hydrology; the Fifth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the Fifth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Fifth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation; the Fifth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the Third Symposium on High Performance Computing for Weather, Water, and Climate; the Special Symposium on Greening the Built Environment; and the Events )

Organizer: John B. Eylander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Lecturer: Hoshin V. Gupta, Univ. of Arizona

Cochairs: Michael Ek, NOAA; David J. Gochis, NCAR; John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC

1:30 PM

L2.1

Learning with Models & Data: A Maximum Entropy Approach (Invited Presentation)

Hoshin V. Gupta, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (57.5 kB)

Handout (13.3 MB)

Joint Session 8

Extreme Heat IV — The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS): Defining Extreme Heat & Lead times for Building Resilience to Extreme Heat

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 5 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health; the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; the 29th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Board on Global Strategies; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; and the Seventh Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Chair: Kim Knowlton, Natural Resources Defense Council

1:30 PM

J8.1

A Comparison of the NWS Heat Index and the Steadman Apparent Temperature Formulas over Southeast Texas

Mark Keehn, NWS, Dickinson, TX; and L. Wood

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

J8.2

Quantifying the Risk of Compound Heat Wave Events

Jane Wilson Baldwin, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and J. Dessy, G. A. Vecchi, and M. Oppenheimer

2:00 PM

J8.3

Enhancing Resilience to Heat Extremes: Multi-model Forecasting of Excessive Heat Events at Subseasonal Lead Times

Augustin Vintzileos, University of Maryland/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Gottschalck, A. Allgood, and M. Halpert

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

J8.4

The Relationship Between the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation and Eastern US Extreme Heat Events

Andrea Jenney, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and D. A. Randall

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session

Mesoscale to Urban Scale Modeling Capabilities for Air Pollution Research and Prediction

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; and the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health )

Chairs: Xuemei Wang, Sun Yat-sen University; Masoud Ghandehari, New York University

J.1

Recent Performance of the NOAA Air Quality Model for Ozone and Particulate Matter in Urban Environments

1:30 PM

J.1A

Field Studies of Urban Emissions

Masoud Ghandehari, New York University, Brooklyn, NY; and M. Aghamohamadnia, A. karpf, and G. Dobler

1:45 PM

J.2

The Effect of Boundary-Layer Scheme on WRF model simulations of the Joint Urban 2003 Field Campaign

Matthew A. Nelson, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. J. Brown, S. Meech, L. T. Peffers, D. Zajic, B. Kosovic, P. Bieringer, and G. Bieberbach Jr.

Recorded Presentation

Handout (10.4 MB)

2:00 PM

J.3

Quantifying the Impact of Urban Expansion on East Asian Aerosol Loadings: Models amd Measurements across Urban and Meso scales

Jason Blake Cohen, Sun Yat-Sen Univ., Guangzhou, China

2:15 PM

J.4

Evaluation of the errors and uncertainties resulting from urban canopy models and PBL schemes with physics-based ensemble

Yixuan Shou, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. L. Zhang, K. Ide, and R. R. Dickerson

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Joint Poster Session 1

Urban Air Quality, Heat Stress, and Public Health in Urban Areas

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; and the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health )

Cochairs: Jorge Gonzalez, City College of New York; Masoud Ghandehari, New York University

Poster 1339 has been moved. New paper number is 9.6A.

1340

Temperature Health Index(THI): Identifying Vulnerable Populations Due to Increasing Temperatures in New York City

Jose Pillich, City Univ., New York, NY

Poster 1341 has been moved. New paper number is J6.3A

1342

Mixing of a Passive Scalar in an Urban-Street Canyon

Guangdong Duan, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and K. Ngan and J. G. Jackson

Handout (4.9 MB)

1343

Classification of Urban Heat Island Effects on Tropospheric Ozone Production using Meteorological and Remote Sensing Data

Sabrina Marie Keiko Hodge, NASA, Corona, CA

1344

Computational Parametric Study to Improve Air Quality in High-Density Cities

1345

Constructing An Event Based Aerosol Product Under High Aerosol Loading Conditions

Yingxi SHI, USRA, Green Belt, MD; and R. Levy, S. Mattoo, L. Remer, and J. Zhang

1346

Sources and Temporal Variability in Summertime Ambient Mercury in Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Lynne Gratz, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO; and E. Laufman and E. Mattson

1347

Using Vegetation to Enhance the Impact of Solid Barriers

1348

Study of Human Thermal Comfort in Urban Environments: A Case Study in Santa Maria-RS, Brazil

João Paulo Assis Gobo, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and E. Galvani, J. L. A. Nercolino Sr., P. Ziani, A. C. Iensse, and M. C. Celuppi

Poster 1349 has been moved. New paper number is J.1A.

1350

The Role Of Urban Street Canyon Geometry In The Pollutant Removal Capacity

Marina K.-A. Neophytou, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus; and A. Kubilay, C. Marakkos, J. Allegrini, S. Matsentides, M. Loizou, and J. Carmeliet

Joint Poster Session 2

Urban Resiliency

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; and the Special Symposium on Greening the Built Environment )

Chair: Jan Kleissl, Univ. of California, San Diego

1351

An Analysis of 100 Climate Proofing Strategies of the C-40 Cities

Anamika Shreevastava, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Bhalachandran, P. S. Rao, P. Modak, and D. Niyogi

1352

Why LEED: The World's Most Successful Green Building Rating System, Strategy, and Human Behavior

Elizabeth Halford, Anancia Consulting LLC, Alexandria, VA

1353

Adaptation Strategies for Urban Water-Electricity Resilience

1354

The Lombardo Welcome Center: Millersville University's First Net-Zero Energy Building

Kathleen V. Schreiber, Millersville Univ., Millersville, PA

Manuscript (97.5 kB)

1355

Greening the Built Environment through Energy Efficiency

Jeannie Sikora, CLEAResult, Lancaster, PA

1356

Temporal and Spatial Impact of an increase tree canopy cover in Urban Areas and along our Rivers: A correlation between Canopy Cover and Pollutants

Joint Poster Session 3

Impact of Extreme Weather and Climate on Urban Environment

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; and the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health )

Chair: Jan Kleissl, Univ. of California, San Diego

1357

Mapping Extreme Hot Weather Events By Adopting Urban Environmental Parameters- a Case Study of Hong Kong

Meng Cai, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong; and C. Ren, Y. Xu, K. Lau, and W. Goggins

Poster 1358 has been moved. New paper number is J11.3A

1359

Simulation of Density Driven Down-Gusts and their Interaction with Street Canyons

Alexandra Richter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; and B. Ruck, N. Mayer, S. Mohr, and M. Kunz

Handout (1.8 MB)

1360

Directional Contributions to the Radiant Temperature Environment Measured During Record-Breaking Extreme Heat in Tempe, AZ

Ariane Middel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and S. Krayenhoff

Poster Session 7

Impacts of Urban Environments on Precipitation and flood

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Dev Niyogi, Purdue Univ.

1361

Flash Flooding in Arid/Semi-arid Urban Environments: Storm Structure, Evolution and Storm Environment

Long Yang, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ; and J. A. Smith, M. L. Baeck, and D. Niyogi

1362

Optimization of Stormwater Management Practices Under Increasing Urbanization and Climate Change in the US Mid-Atlantic Region

1363

Causality and Feedback Analysis of Urban Heat Island and Precipitation

Jie Liu, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and D. Niyogi

Poster Session 8

Mesoscale to Urban Scale Modeling Capabilities for Air Pollution Research and Prediction - Posters

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

1364

An Analysis of the Relationship between High Ozone Concentrations and the Urban Heat Island in the Saint Louis Metropolitan Area

Robert W. Pasken, Saint Louis Univ., Saint Louis, MO; and S. Chiao

1365

Intercomparison of Three Source Estimation Methods in a Building Downwash Environment: Applicability, Limitations and Research Needs

Jiajun Gu, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and B. Yang and M. Zhang

1366

Observations and Simulations of a Lake Breeze with High Ozone Concentrations in the Salt Lake Valley

Brian K. Blaylock, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. D. Horel and E. T. Crosman

1367

Characteristics of Regional Transport of PM2.5 in Pearl River Delta City Cluster Under Typical Meteorological Conditions in Southern China Monsoon Region

1368

Urban Atmospheric Flow Modeling Using a Lattice Boltzmann Model

Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and B. MacCall and G. Huynh

1369

On the Sensitivity of Urban Flow and Ventilation to Time-Dependent Inflow Perturbations

Guangdong Duan, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong; and K. Ngan and K. W. LO

Handout (5.9 MB)

1370

WRF-Urban Model Driven By Fine-Scale Urban Canopy Parameters in Mega-City China

Application of HYSPLIT-STILT to Identify Source Regions of CO2 Affecting Monitored Levels in San Jose, California

Poster Session 9

Modeling, Observation, and Input Data Requirements for Understanding and Predicting Interdisciplinary Urban Phenomena - Posters

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Haider Taha, Altostratus, Inc.; Jan Kleissl, Univ. of California, San Diego

1371

Progress Towards High-Accuracy, High-Precision, High-Resolution Monitoring of Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Results from INFLUX

Kenneth J. Davis, Pennsylvania State Univ., Univ. Park, PA; and T. A. Bonin, M. Cambaliza, A. Deng, R. M. Hardesty, A. Brewer, K. Gurney, R. Harvey, A. Heimburger, A. Karion, A. E. Kerlo, T. Lauvaux, I. Lopez-Coto, D. K. Martins, K. McKain, N. L. Miles, R. Patarasuk, K. Prasad, S. J. Richardson, O. Salmon, D. P. Sarmiento, P. B. Shepson, D. Stauffer, C. Sweeney, J. Turnbull, I. Vimont, J. R. Whetstone, J. Wang, and K. Wu

1372

Radiation Conditions at a Central European Square in a Hot Summer Day – a Case Study from Szeged, Hungary

Ágnes Takács, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary; and C. V. Gál, Á. Gulyás, M. Kiss, and N. Kántor

Manuscript (18.4 MB)

Handout (44.4 MB)

1373

Effects of Unstable Thermal Stratification on Vertical fluxes of Heat and Momentum in Urban Areas

Andres Simon-Moral, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; and J. L. Santiago and A. Martilli

1374

Detailed Evaluation of Thermal Comfort in Urban Environments: A 3D numerical model for Standard Effective Temperature

Tiffany Sin, Yale-NUS, Singapore, Singapore; and N. Nazarian, J. Kleissl, and L. K. Norford

1375

A first satellite-based observational assessment of urban thermal anisotropy

Leiqiu Hu, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and A. J. Monaghan, J. A. Voogt, and M. Barlage

1376

Mesoscale Analysis of Climatic Conditions in a Central/Eastern European Urban Region Using WRF Simulations

Julia Gondocs, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary; and H. Breuer, R. Pongracz, and J. Bartholy

1377

Urban and Rural Boundary Layer Characteristics Assessed From Ceilometer Observations

Luke Leclair-Marzolf, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. S. Young and J. Horel

1378

Impact of Model Resolution on Urban Heat Island Simulation evaluated using Surface and Satellite Observations

Gianluca Mussetti, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Duebendorf, Switzerland; and D. Brunner, S. Henne, S. Schubert, J. Allegrini, and J. Carmeliet

Handout (834.9 kB)

1379

Daytime Surface Urban Heat Island with Respect to Urban Morphology: A Case Study in Hangzhou, China

Liang Chen, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China; and S. Miao and X. He

1380

Investigate the Boundary Layer Features in Beijing During the SURF-2015 Field Campaign

Meng Huang, IAP, Beijing, China; and F. Chen, S. Miao, and Z. Gao

Handout (2.9 MB)

1381

Satellite-derived Urban Parameters for Mesoscale Weather Modeling in A Megacity

Nisrina Setyo Darmanto, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and A. C. G. Varquez and M. Kanda

1382

Observations of Complex Behavior in Nearly Idealized Urban Transport and Dispersion

Matthew A. Nelson, LANL, Los Alamos, NM

Handout (487.3 kB)

1383

Mapping and Modeling of Urban Surface Thermal Radiation

Masoud Ghandehari, New York University, Brooklyn, NY; and T. Emig, M. Aghamohamadnia, and A. karpf

Poster Session 10

Smart Cities - Pervasive Sensing

Location: 4E (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Jan Kleissl, Univ. of California, San Diego

1384

Understanding Neighborhood Dynamics Through Low-cost In-situ Sensing of the Urban Troposphere

Constantine E Kontokosta, New York University, New York, NY; and N. Johnson

1385

Environmental Monitoring of Urban Environment Using Inexpensive Sensors

Chris Phillips, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair and W. C. Iwasko

Joint Session 10

Extreme Heat V — The National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS): Decision Support & Evaluation Across Domestic and International Partnerships for Building Resilience to Extreme Heat

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 5 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health; the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; the Board on Global Strategies; the 12th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the 29th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the Seventh Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )

Chair: Juli Trtanj, NOAA

4:00 PM

J10.1

Building a Decision-Support Tool for Adaptation to Extreme Heat

Nik C. Steinberg, Four Twenty Seven Climate Solutions, Berkeley, CA

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

J10.2

Lessons from the MEDMI (Medical & Environmental Data: A Mashup Infrastructure) Project on the Challenges in Facilitating Rapid Progress in Understanding of Weather & Health Linkages

Brian W Golding, Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and L. Fleming, A. Kessel, A. Haines, C. Sarran, H. Gordon-Brown, and S. Leonelli

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

J10.3

Shape of Future Health Risks and Responses from Step Changes in Global and Regional Temperatures

Kristie L. Ebi, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. Ziska and G. Yohe

4:45 PM

J10.4

Assessment of Heat Warning and Information Systems in Canada

Dave Henderson, EC, Gatineau, QC, Canada; and A. Yagouti, H. Doyle, V. Anderson, and M. MacDonald

Recorded Presentation

Awards Banquet Reception

Location: 4AB (Washington State Convention Center )

5:30 PM

Awards Banquet Reception

Recorded Presentation

97th AMS Awards Banquet

Location: Ballroom 6ABCE (Washington State Convention Center )

7:00 PM

97th AMS Awards Banquet

Recorded Presentation

Joint Session 9

Intersections of Global Climate Change and Urbanization

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health; and the Special Symposium on Greening the Built Environment )

Chair: Dev Niyogi, Purdue Univ.

8:30 AM

J9.1

Urban Effects on Summertime Air Temperature in Germany under Climate Change

Sebastian Schubert, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany; and S. Grossman-Clarke and D. Fenner

Recorded Presentation

Handout (406.3 kB)

8:45 AM

J9.2

Global Climate Change and Urban Development as Drivers of Urban Heat: Relative Magnitude, Interactions, and Mitigation

Scott Krayenhoff, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and M. Georgescu and M. Moustaoui

Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM

J9.3

Reduced Urban Heat Island with Warmer Climate

Anna A. Scott, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD; and D. Waugh and B. F. Zaitchik

Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM

J9.4

Investigating the Climate Impacts of Urbanization and the Potential for Cool Roofs to Counter Future Climate Change in Los Angeles

George Ban-Weiss, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; and P. Vahmani, F. Sun, and A. Hall

Recorded Presentation

Exhibit Hall Breakfast

Location: 4AB (Washington State Convention Center )

Joint Session 11

Urban Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Hosts: (Joint between the 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment; the Eighth Conference on Environment and Health; and the Special Symposium on Greening the Built Environment )

Chair: Chandana Mitra, Auburn University

10:30 AM

J11.1

Urban Sustainable Solutions for Energy and Air Quality Impacts Using Green Infrastructure

Ashish Sharma, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN; and R. Kumar, A. Martilli, H. J. S. Fernando, A. F. Hamlet, and F. Chen

10:45 AM

J11.2

Simulating the Efficacy of Targeted Urban Heat Mitigation for Vulnerable Populations

Peter Crank, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and D. J. Sailor, M. Taleghani, and G. Ban-Weiss

Recorded Presentation

J11.3

A Wedge Strategy for Mitigation of Urban Warming in Future Climate Scenarios

11:00 AM

J11.3A

Urban Impacts on New York City Weather During a Heat Wave

Luis Ortiz, City College of New York, New York, NY; and J. Gonzalez, R. D. Bornstein, W. Wu, and J. S. Tongue

11:15 AM

J11.4

Effectiveness of Cool Walls on Urban Energy and Thermal Comfort: From Semi-Arid to Tropical Climate

Negin Nazarian, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore, Singapore; and N. Dumas, L. K. Norford, and J. Kleissl

Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM

J11.5

Conjugate Vegetation Model for Evaluating Evapotranspirative Cooling in Urban Environment

Lento Manickathan, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and T. Defraeye, J. Allegrini, D. Derome, and J. Carmeliet

Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM

J11.6

Urban-Climate Adaptation Tool: Green Infrastructure Optimization

Jack D. Fellows, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and O. Omitaomu and E. Parish

Recorded Presentation

Lunch Break

Session 8

Impacts of Urban Environments on Precipitation and flood

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Chair: Dev Niyogi, Purdue Univ.

1:30 PM

8.1

The Influence of Urban Development Patterns on Streamflow Characteristics

Neil Debbage, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. M. Shepherd

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

8.2

Urban Flood Analytics Using Community Reporting

Sina Kashuk, NOAA-CREST, City University of New York, New York, NY; and M. Grossberg, M. Ghandehari, and R. Khanbilvardi

2:00 PM

8.3

The Effects of Urban Clusters on Winter Precipitation

Bradford Johnson, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. M. Shepherd

Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM

8.4

Rapid Urbanization and Its Impact on Flooding: A Case Study in the Pearl River Delta Area

Yangbo Chen, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

8.5

Bifurcation of a Summer Convective Thunderstorm over Beijing, Part 1: Observations and uWRF Simulations

JingJing Dou, Institute of Urban Meteorology/CMA, Beijing, China; and R. Bornstein and S. Miao

Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM

8.6

Bifurcation of a Summer Convective Thunderstorm over Beijing, Part 2: Analyses of uWRF Simulated Thermodynamic Causes of the Observed Bifurcation

Robert Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and J. J. Dou and S. Miao

Recorded Presentation

Coffee Break

Location: Skybridge (Washington State Convention Center )

1

Tour of the Bullitt Center, sponsored by AMS Committee on Environmental Stewardship

Session 9

World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT)

Location: Conference Center: Tahoma 2 (Washington State Convention Center )

Host: 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Cochairs: Dev Niyogi, Purdue Univ.; Negin Nazarian, University of California

3:30 PM

9.1

The WUDAPT Project: Status of Database and Portal Tools

Gerald Mills, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; and B. Bechtel, M. Foley, J. Ching, L. See, J. Feddema, and M. Tamminga

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.1 MB)

3:45 PM

9.2

Implementing WUDAPT product into urban development impact analysis by using WRF simulation result - A case study of the Pearl River Delta Region (1980-2010)

Chao Ren, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong; and J. C. H. Fung, W. P. TSE, R. WANG, M. F. WONG, and Y. Xu

4:00 PM

9.3

Architectural Archetypes Database Propositions for WUDAPT

Valéry Masson, Meteo-France/CNRS, Toulouse, France; and M. Bonhomme, J. Hidalgo, N. Tornay, S. Faraut, and R. Schoetter

Recorded Presentation

Handout (11.8 MB)

4:15 PM

9.4

The WUDAPT Framework to Generate Urban Morphology, Material Composition and Anthropogenic Activity Data for Modeling

J. Ching, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and L. See, C. Ren, J. Hildalgo, X. Wang, G. Mills, and J. Feddema

Recorded Presentation Manuscript (1.4 MB)

9.5

Extending Mesoscale and Global Meteorological Model Outputs to Assess Urban-Scale Impacts using WUDAPT

4:30 PM

9.5A

The WUDAPT Platform as a Basis for Global Scale Urban Climate Modeling

Johannes Feddema, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

9.6

Urban Land-Surface Characterisation for Modelling of Atmospheric Processes

4:45 PM

9.6A

Investigation of the Impact of Urbanization Under the 2015 Delhi Heat Wave Scenario

Dev Niyogi, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, KY; and S. Bhalachandran, O. Brousse, M. Jain, A. Shreevastava, and A. P. Jain

5:00 PM

DEV NIYOGI TALK - Dev Niyogi

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM

The WUDAPT Platform as a Basis for Global Scale Urban Climate Modeling - Johannes Feddema

Recorded Presentation

Session 9 13th Symposium of the Urban Environment

Monday, 23 January 2017

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 23 January 2017

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

2:00 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 23 January 2017

Tuesday, 24 January 2017

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Tuesday, 24 January 2017

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