| Saturday, 28 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-7:31 AM, Saturday
Short Course and Student Conference Registration |
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| Sunday, 29 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 30 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday
Registration Continues through Thursday, 2 February |
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| 9:00 AM-11:45 AM, Monday, A408
Session 1 Aerosols—Radiative Impacts and Visibility Reduction |
Cochairs: Rick Petty, U.S. Dept. of Energy, Germantown, MD; Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL, Argonne, IL
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | Direct and Indirect Effects of Nitrate and Ammonium Aerosol: A Column Model Study
Yan Feng, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. E. Penner and Y. Chen |
| 9:15 AM | 1.2 | Effect of iron oxides on radiative properties of mineral dust
Sandra Lafon, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik |
|  | 1.3 | A preliminary evaluation of the Sources and Sinks of black carbon over Mexico City based on the 2003 field experimental data: Model results and Measurements
V. Rao Kotamarthi, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. S. Gaffney, N. A. Marley, and H. K. Im |
| 9:30 AM | 1.4 | Evidence for Carbonaceous Aerosol Absorption Change in Mexico City 2003 
Nancy A. Marley, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. S. Gaffney |
| 9:45 AM | 1.5 | A Brief History of Aerosol Carbon Analytical Methods
Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL, Argonne, IL; and N. A. Marley |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
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| 10:30 AM | 1.6 | Mesoscale modeling of transport and radiative impacts of Central American smoke aerosols
Jun Wang, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. A. Christopher, U. S. Nair, J. S. Reid, E. Prins, J. Szykman, and J. L. Hand |
| 10:45 AM | 1.7 | Monitoring of ambient air quality and meteorology during the Beltsville site clean air status and trends network (CASTNET) instrument ccomparison project
Rufus White, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and D. V. R. Morris |
| 11:00 AM | 1.8 | Analysis of particle formation processes through the effect of meteorological conditions on organic and inorganic nitrogen concentrations in atmospheric aerosols
Silvia Margarita Calderón, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and S. W. Campbell and N. Poor |
| 11:15 AM | 1.9 | The effects of the size-resolved mineralogical composition of dust particles on the tropospheric photochemistry
Gill-Ran Jeong, Georgia Institude of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik |
| 11:30 AM | 1.10 | CMAQ simulation of aerosol size distributions with ternary nucleation
Robert A. Elleman, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. S. Covert, C. F. Mass, and J. Chen |
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| 12:00 PM-1:10 PM, Monday
Plenary Session 1 AMS Forum Kick-Off Luncheon (Cash & Carry available in the Meeting Room Foyer) |
Chairs: Sue Grimmond, King's College, London United Kingdom; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA; Mark Andrews, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 12:00 PM | PL1.1 | Forum opening
Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and M. Andrews, C. S. B. Grimmond, and S. R. Hanna |
| 12:10 PM | PL1.2 | How should we compare and evaluate urban land surface models?
Martin Best, Met Office, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom |
| 12:40 PM | PL1.3 | THUNDERSTORM IMPACTS: A MIX OF CURSES AND BLESSINGS
Stanley Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (M2) |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall A2
Poster Session 1 Atmospheric Chemistry Posters |
| | P1.1 | Photopolarimetric measurements in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and their potential for improving characterization of absorbing aerosols
Bryan M. Karpowicz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik, R. J. Greenwald, R. Peltier, R. Weber, and M. Bergin |
| | P1.2 | Numerical Simulation of Long Distance Transportation of Volcano Ash from Pinatubo
Jiqing Tan Sr., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, Zhejiang Provinc, China; and J. Xu |
| | P1.3 | Modeling SO2 oxidation in clouds and its effect on aerosol size distributions using a two-dimensional microphysical representation
Mikhail Ovtchinnikov, PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. C. Easter |
| | P1.4 | Incorporating plant-species variation in biogenic emission rates into regional weather and climate models
Lindsey E. Gulden, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang |
| | P1.5 | Evaluating the sources characteristics of measured oxygenated volatile organic compounds using factor analysis
Changsub Shim, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and Y. Wang |
| | P1.6 | Comparison of ozone and carbon monoxide observations during the NCAS Trans-Atlantic Saharan Dust Aerosol and Ocean Science Expedition with other aerosol datasets
Michelle Hawkins-Strachan, Howard University, Washington, DC; and V. Morris |
| | P1.7 | Case Study of the Late July 2005 Ground-Level Ozone Episode in North Carolina
Nicholas C. Witcraft, North Carolina Division of Air Quality, Raleigh, NC; and G. M. Bridgers, B. Do, P. O' Reilly, and L. Marufu |
| | P1.8 | Atmospheric Composition Data Products from the EOS Aura MLS
Suraiya P. Ahmad, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. W. Waters, J. E. Johnson, I. V. Gerasimov, G. G. Leptoukh, and S. J. Kempler |
| | P1.9 | Analysis of air pollutant transport to Class I Areas Using Multiple Satellite Products and In Situ Ground Based Measurements
Nikisa Jordan, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and K. J. McCann, R. M. Hoff, and J. Engel-Cox |
| | P1.10 | An example of the influence of meteorological conditions on ground-level ozone concentrations in southern Ontario
Frank S. Dempsey, Private Sector, Pickering, ON, Canada |
| | P1.11 | A Web Based Tool for Visualization and Analysis of Atmospheric Composition Data
James E. Johnson, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. P. Ahmad, T. Zhu, I. Gerasimov, G. Leptoukh, and S. Kempler |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions end for the day (M) |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday
Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM, Monday
Holton Symposium Banquet |
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| Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, A408
Session 2 Air Quality and Climate Change |
Chair: Vernon R. Morris, Howard University, Washington, DC
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| 8:30 AM | 2.1 | Global Modeling Studies of Potential Climate Change Effects on U.S. Air Quality—Part 1: How Well can PCM Drive the Chemical Transport Model? 
Jin-Tai Lin, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. J. Wuebbles, K. Patten, K. Hayhoe, and X. Z. Liang |
| 8:45 AM | 2.2 | Regional climate model downscaling of the U.S. climate and change
Xin-Zhong Liang, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and H. C. Huang, A. Williams, M. Caughey, K. E. Kunkel, D. J. Wuebbles, J. Zhu, J. Pan, M. Xu, and Z. Tao |
| 9:00 AM | 2.3 | Impacts of the long-range transport of global pollutants and precursors on the U.S. air quality in the present and future climate conditions
Ho–Chun Huang, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. O. Patten, X. Z. Liang, A. Williams, M. Caughey, K. E. Kunkel, Z. Tao, D. J. Wuebbles, J. Zhu, J. Pan, M. Xu, and J. T. Lin |
| 9:15 AM | 2.4 | The influence of climate change on regional air quality in California
Allison L. Steiner, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. Tonse, R. C. Cohen, A. H. Goldstein, and R. A. Harley |
| 9:30 AM | 2.5 | Influence of global change on regional air quality in the Pacific Northwest region
Jack Chen, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and J. Avise, B. Lamb, C. Wiedinmyer, A. Guenther, J. F. Lamarque, C. Mass, E. Salathe, S. O’Neill, N. K. Larkin, and D. McKenzie |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1) |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhbits Open (T) |
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| 12:15 PM, Tuesday
Plenary Session Presidential Forum with Boxed Lunch (Lunch will be available for purchase outside the meeting room.) |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (T2) |
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| 5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day (T) |
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| Wednesday, 1 February 2006 |
| 8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, A407
Joint Session 1 Photochemical Modeling and Monitoring (Joint between the 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry and the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA) |
Chair: Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
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| 8:30 AM | J1.1 | Probing into Regional O3 and PM Pollution: A 1-year CMAQ Simulation and Process Analysis over the United States
Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and K. Vijayaraghavan, J. Huang, and M. Z. Jacobson |
| 8:45 AM | J1.2 | Process Analysis of Different Synoptic Patterns of O3 Episodes in Hong Kong
Jianping Huang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and J. C. H. Fung, Y. Zhang, K. H. Lau, and Y. Qin |
| 9:00 AM | J1.3 | Results of Coupling the WRF-Chemistry model w/ the SMOKE Emissions Processing/Modeling System
John McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC; and C. J. Coats and J. Vukovich |
| 9:15 AM | J1.4 | Comparison of WRF/CAMx and MM5/CAMx simulations for an ozone episode in California
Su-Tzai Soong, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, CA; and P. T. Martien, C. L. Archer, S. Tanrikulu, J. M. Wilczak, J. W. Bao, S. A. Michelson, Y. Jia, and C. A. Emery |
| 9:30 AM | J1.5 | CAMx simulations of Middle-East ozone concentration-trends by use of RAMS and MM5 input
Shoukri Kasakseh, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein and E. Weinroth |
| 9:45 AM | J1.6 | Nitrogen and Sea Salt Interaction in Coastal Environments: Results from CMAQ Applications in the Tampa Bay Airshed
J. R. Arnold, NOAA/ARL and USEPA/ORD/NERL, Seattle, WA; and R. L. Dennis |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
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| 10:30 AM | J1.7 | Impact of the on-road and mobile sources on the benzene and toluene emissions and concentrations in the Houston-Galveston area
Violeta F. Coarfa, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and D. W. Byun |
| 10:45 AM | J1.8 | Airborne measurements of ozone and reactive nitrogen compounds in Tampa, Florida during the Bay Regional Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (BRACE)
Winston T. Luke, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and J. R. Arnold, T. B. Watson, R. L. Gunter, L. I. Kleinman, P. K. Dasgupta, and D. D. Riemer |
| 11:00 AM | J1.9 | A tale of two summers (2004, 2005): Ozone soundings in the Mid-Atlantic region
Anne M. Thompson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and E. Joseph, B. F. Taubman, J. C. Witte, J. B. Stone, R. B. Pierce, V. Davis, S. M. Michaels, and F. Schmidlin |
| 11:15 AM | J1.10 | Ozone in Beijing area: observations in 2000
Feng Liu, Brandenburg Univ. of Technology, Cottbus, Germany; and H. Chen, F. Hu, and Y. Xu |
| 11:30 AM | J1.11 | Ozone and nitric acid variability in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere measured during the Polar Aura Validation Experiment
Melody A. Avery, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and J. V. Plant, J. E. Dibb, E. Scheuer, E. V. Browell, J. W. Hair, T. J. McGee, L. Pfister, M. Schoeberl, and L. Lait |
| 11:45 AM | J1.12 | A multi-scale observational and modeling approach to the characterization of upper tropospheric composition and Stratospheric-Tropospheric exchange during INTEX-A
Melody A. Avery, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and A. M. Thompson, E. V. Browell, B. Pierce, G. Diskin, G. Sachse, J. E. Dibb, and R. C. Cohen |
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| 11:00 AM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open (W) |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (W) |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, A312
Joint Session 5 Multi-media studies that address the effects of air pollution cycling in ecosystems (Joint between the 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry and the AMS Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources) |
Chair: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA
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| 1:30 PM | J5.1 | Effects, interactions and consequences of air pollutant cycling in ecosystems
Scott Ollinger, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH |
| 2:00 PM | J5.2 | Source apportionment and composition of precipitation and wet deposition in the Paso Del Norte airshed
Sonny P. Emmert, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and T. E. Gill |
| 2:15 PM | J5.3 | Simulation of regional deposition patterns for N, S, and Hg species in the Pacific Northwest using the automated AIRPACT-3 air quality forecast system
Joe Vaughan, Washington State Univeristy, Pullman, WA; and V. Baca, J. Avise, J. Chen, and B. Lamb |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (W2) |
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| 3:45 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day (W) |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, A309
Joint Session 6 Air-Sea Exchange of Trace Gases (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere, the 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, and the AMS Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Success and Challenges) |
Cochairs: Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA
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| 4:00 PM | J6.1 | The Effects of Environmental Variability and Experimental Error in Parameterizing Air-Sea Fluxes
William E. Asher, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 4:30 PM | J6.2 | Using DMS as a model gas for studying air sea gas exchange via eddy covariance
Barry J. Huebert, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. W. Blomquist |
| 4:45 PM | J6.3 | Water-side Turbulence Enhancement of Ozone Deposition to the Ocean
C. W. Fairall, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and D. Helmig, J. E. Hare, and L. Ganzveld |
| 5:00 PM | J6.4 | Marine storm impacts on bubbles and air-sea exchange of gases
Weiqing Zhang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Perrie and S. Vagle |
| 5:15 PM | J6.5 | Origin, Size Segregation, and Fate of Nitrate Aerosols Aloft During the BRACE 2002 Field Intensive
J. R. Arnold, NOAA/ARL and USEPA/ORD/NERL, Seattle, WA; and W. T. Luke |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Reception in the Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 2 February 2006 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, A408
Joint Session 3 Air Quality Forecasting (Joint with the 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry and 14th Joint Conference on the Application of Air Pollution with the A&WMA) |
Chair: Daewon W. Byun, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX
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| 8:30 AM | J3.1 | The WRF_Chemistry Air Quality Model: Updates and Online/Offline Comparisons
Georg Grell, NOAA/ERL/FSL and CIRES/ Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Peckham, S. A. McKeen, and W. C. Skamarock |
| 8:45 AM | J3.2 | Evaluation of WRF-chemistry air quality simulations for NEAQS2004
Steven E. Peckham, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and G. Grell, S. A. McKeen, and J. M. Wilczak |
| 9:00 AM | J3.3 | Implementation and testing of a new aerosol module in WRF/chem
Xiaoming Hu, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Zhang |
| 9:15 AM | J3.4 | Comparison of Two Transport Descriptors within a Hybrid Receptor Modeling System
John M. Shuford, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL; and J. G. Eoll, S. L. Seely, W. G. Moore, and J. G. Dreher |
| 9:30 AM | J3.5 | Ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation for improved chemical tracer forecasts in a 2-D sea breeze model (Foremerly J10.10)
Amy L. Stuart, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and A. Aksoy, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, and F. Zhang |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Th1) |
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| 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open (Th) |
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| 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (Th) |
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| 1:30 PM-4:45 PM, Thursday, A312
Joint Session 10 Recent advances in real-time forecasts of regional air pollution (Joint with AMS Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources, 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA, and 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry) |
Cochairs: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA; S. Pal Arya, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
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| 1:30 PM | J10.1 | The emergence of numerical air quality forecasting models and their application
Kenneth Schere, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and V. S. Bouchet, G. W. Grell, J. N. McHenry, and S. A. McKeen |
| 2:00 PM | J10.2 | Use of real-time remote sensing data along with a mesoscale model to forecast air pollution due to wildland fires
Sanjeeb Bhoi, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and Z. Boybeyi and J. Qu |
| 2:15 PM | J10.3 | Supporting Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting using the SMOKE modeling system
Jeff Vukovich, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC., Raleigh, NC; and D. T. Olerud, J. N. McHenry, C. J. Coats, and W. T. Smith |
| 2:30 PM | J10.4 | Operational Evaluation of Houston-Galveston Area Air Quality Forecasts with two Different Meteorological Inputs
Meongdo Jang, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and D. W. Byun, S. Kim, C. K. Song, H. J. In, and F. Y. Cheng |
| 2:45 PM | J10.5 | Implementation and evaluation of a continental US air quality forecast system
Donald T. Olerud Jr., Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and AMS iPod Raffle
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| 3:30 PM | J10.6 | Expanding coverage of the NOAA-EPA Air Quality Forecast Capability
Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and N. Seaman, J. McQueen, R. Mathur, R. A. Wayland, and K. Carey |
| 3:45 PM | J10.7 | An operational numerical model haze forecasting system for the CONUS
Robert E. Imhoff, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Candler, NC; and D. T. Olerud, R. L. Miller, J. Vukovich, and J. F. Fox |
| 4:00 PM | J10.8 | AIRPACT-3: air quality forecasting for the Pacific and Inland Northwest U.S. and nearby British Columbia
Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan, J. Avise, and J. Chen |
| 4:15 PM | J10.9 | An ensemble smoke dispersion forecast system for management of agricultural field burning
Kyle M. Heitkamp, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan and B. K. Lamb |
| 4:30 PM | | J10.10 moved to J3.5
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| 4:31 PM | J10.11 | Applications of a regional chemical transport modeling system: Operational air quality forecast, Arctic spring near-surface ozone depletion, and continental outflow from North America
Yuhang Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and T. Zeng and Y. Choi |
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| 3:00 PM, Thursday
Registration Desk Closes |
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| 4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Close |
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| 5:30 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends |
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| 6:00 PM, Thursday
Lilly Symposium Banquet |
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