25th Agricultural and Forest Meteorology/12th Air Pollution/4th Urban Environment

Session 4: Urban Surface Databases

Monday, 20 May 2002: 3:30 PM-5:15 PM
Organizer:  Jason Ching, NOAA/ERL/ARL
Papers:
  3:30 PM
4.1
An overview of building morphological characteristics derived from 3D building databases
Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and S. J. Burian, S. P. Linger, S. P. Velugubantla, and C. Ratti

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)
  3:45 PM
4.2
A Method for Inventorying Urban Morphology
Richard Ellefsen, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and R. M. Cionco

 
4.3
Low-cost urban data sets through LIDAR feature extraction

  4:00 PM
4.4
Development of a software to describe the city morphology and to compute aerodynamic parameters from an urban data base
Nathalie Long, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, Nantes, France; and P. G. Mestayer and C. Kergomard

Poster PDF (183.0 kB)
  4:15 PM
4.5
DTRA Urban Terrain Database Project
John C. Pace, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Alexandria, VA; and R. J. Babarsky

  4:30 PM
4.6
Urban Morphology for Houston to drive Models-3/CMAQ at neighborhood scales
Jason Ching, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and T. L. Otte, S. Dupont, S. Burian, and A. Lacser

Poster PDF (111.7 kB)
  4:45 PM
4.7
Urban Effects in Numerical Models and Evaluation with Field Experiment Data: Part I: Sensitivity to Urban Characterization
John M. Leone Jr., LLNL, Livermore, CA; and M. J. Leach, H. N. S. Chin, and G. Sugiyama

  5:00 PM
4.8
Urban Effect in Numerical Models and Evaluation with Field Experiment Data: Part II: Mesoscale Aspects
Hung-Neng S. Chin, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and M. J. Leach, J. M. Leone, Jr., G. A. Sugiyama, and H. Walker

Poster PDF (432.0 kB)