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Saturday, 28 January 2006
	7:30 AM-7:31 AM, Saturday Short Course and Student Conference Registration
Sunday, 29 January 2006
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Conference Registration
Monday, 30 January 2006
	7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday Registration Continues through Thursday, 2 February
	9:00 AM-11:30 AM, Monday, A316 Session 1 urban air quality (including urban airshed modeling and urban air chemistry experiments)
Organizers: Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc., Boulder, CO
9:00 AM 1.1 Effect of land cover change on future air Quality in Atlanta   Maudood Khan, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Atlanta, GA; and W. L. Crosson, W. Lapenta, D. A. Quattrochi, and M. G. Estes 9:15 AM 1.2 Differences in Ozone Production Efficiencies in Large Urban, Small Urban and Rural Areas in Georgia, USA   Kari Maxwell-Meier, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and A. Marmur, Y. Hu, and M. Chang 9:30 AM 1.3 Spatial and temporal variability in acrolein and select volatile organic compounds in Detroit, Michigan   Gretchen Goldman, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and C. Croghan, P. Egeghy, and A. Vette 9:45 AM 1.4 An Observational Study on Air Quality in Lanzhou China   Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and Y. Chen, S. Lu, Z. Li, Y. Lu, and X. An 10:00 AM 1.5 The study of ozone variations in Las Vegas metropolitan area by using remote sensing information and ground observations   George Xian, SAIC, Sioux Falls, SD; and M. Crane 10:15 AM Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer   10:45 AM 1.6 A technique for forecasting enhanced ozone days in a complex sub-tropical coastal urban environment   Melissa Hart, Macquarie Univ., Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; and R. DeDear and R. Hyde 1.7 The Evaluation of a Diagnostic Wind Field Model Applied to the Urban Canopy Layer   Tao Zhan, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and A. Venkatram 11:00 AM 1.8 RSim: A model that integrates air quality, noise, habitat, and water quality   Farhan Akhtar, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. E. Chang, V. H. Dale, T. Ashwood, L. Baskaran, R. Efroymson, C. Garten, L. Olsen, M. W. Berry, M. Aldridge, and C. Stewart 1.9 A Synergistic Approach for Smoke Detection, Evaluation and Retracing   Yong Xie, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA 11:15 AM 1.10 The effects of atmospheric particle concentration on cloud microphysics over Arecibo   Daniel E. Comarazamy, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; and J. E. Gonzalez, C. A. Tepley, S. Raizada, and V. Pandya
	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
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
	1:30 PM-5:45 PM, Monday, A315 Joint Session 1 Comparison and Evaluation of Urban Land Surface Schemes for Mesoscale Models (Joint with 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, Kings College, London United Kingdom; Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA
1:30 PM J1.1 Evaluation of an urban surface exchange parameterization for mesoscale models   Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and Y. A. Roulet and C. Muller 1:45 PM J1.2 Application of meso-scale atmospheric modeling to the comparison of urban processes above North-American and European cities   Aude Lemonsu, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and J. Hidalgo, S. Belair, J. Mailhot, V. Masson, and C. Pelletier 2:00 PM J1.3 Impact of Using the Urban Canopy Model on the Simulation of the Heat Island of Tokyo   Hiroyuki Kusaka, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Abiko, Japan; and F. Chen and M. Tewari 2:15 PM J1.4 Current Status of Urban Modeling in the Community Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) Model   Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Tewari, H. Kusaka, and T. T. Warner 2:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break   4:00 PM J1.5 Simple urban energy balance model for meso-scale simulations (SUMM)   Manabu Kanda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Kawai, R. Moriwaki, K. I. Narita, and A. Hagishima 4:15 PM J1.6 Relative impact of two urban canopy parameterizations on coastal urban processes   Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Pullen 4:30 PM J1.7 Experimental and Model-Computed Area-Averaged Vertical Profiles of Wind Speed for Evaluation of Mesoscale Urban Canopy Schemes   Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and A. Gowardhan, S. U. Pol, P. Klein, M. A. Nelson, A. Huber, S. Kim, W. Coirier, and M. Freeman 4:45 PM J1.8 Development of an urban parameterization for a global climate model   Keith Oleson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Bonan and J. Feddema 5:00 PM J1.9 Urban uMM5 land-use patterns and its effects on Houston UHI strength   Rochelle Balmori, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein, M. Voss, and H. Taha 5:15 PM J1.10 Mesoscale modeling of Atlanta, GA utilizing a new high-resolution landcover data set   William L. Crosson, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and M. G. Estes, M. Khan, W. Lapenta, and D. A. Quattrochi 5:30 PM J1.11 Evaluating parameterization of anthropogenic heat release in urban land surface scheme from field measurements and energy consumption inventory over Toulouse during CAPITOUL   Grégoire Pigeon, CNRM/Meteo France, Toulouse, France; and P. Durand and V. Masson
	2:30 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall A2 Joint Poster Session 1 Urban Environment Posters (JOINT WITH 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and FORUM ON MANAGING OUR PHYSICAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES) (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges)
JP1.1 WBGT Forecasts for Preventing Heat Strokes in Japan   Michihiko Tonouchi, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Murayama and M. Ono   JP1.2 IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW ROOFTOP RECIRCULATION PARAMETERIZATION INTO THE QUIC FAST RESPONSE URBAN WIND MODEL   Suhas U. Pol, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and N. L. Bagal, B. Singh, M. J. Brown, and E. Pardyjak   JP1.3 The numerical experiment of the energy and CO2 imbalance problem using LES   A. Inagaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and G. Steinfeld, S. Raasch, and M. Kanda   JP1.4 The impact of land surface modeling on photochemical air quality simulations using the MM5/CMAQ system in the Portland/Vancouver airshed   Ying Xie, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and B. Lamb   JP1.5 The effects of an urban heat island on two small cities in New York   Christopher Thuman, New York State Univ., Oswego, NY   JP1.6 Numerical simulations of the urban boundary layer observed during Joint Urban 2003   Claude Pelletier, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and J. Mailhot, S. Belair, and A. Lemonsu   JP1.7 Retrieval of aerosol optical depths, Angström exponent, and single scattering albedo in the UV at Atlanta, Georgia, USA   Jeral G. Estupiñán, Georgia Tech & The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and M. H. Bergin   JP1.8 Results and sensitivities of an urban parameterization coupled to the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) over Washington DC   Timothy E. Nobis, AWS, Omaha, NE   JP1.9 Predicting rainfall in the Lake Okeechobee watershed based on historic rainfall records and climate indicators: an Artificial Neural Network modeling approach   Reinaldo Garcia-Martinez, Univ. of Miami, Coral Gables, FL; and S. Ahmad and F. Miralles-Wilhem   JP1.10 Numerical prediction of heat island mitigation effect on decrease in air temperature in Tokyo   Hidetoshi Tamura, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, Abiko-shi, Chiba-ken, Japan; and K. Ishii, H. Yokoyama, T. Iwatsubo, H. Hirakuchi, H. Ando, T. Yamaguchi, T. Mikami, M. Ichino, and Y. Akiyama   JP1.11 Mitigation of Thermal Environment by Cheonggye Stream Restoration in Seoul, Korea   Hae-Jung Koo, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea; and Y. H. Kim and J. C. Nam   JP1.12 Local-scale heat storage estimation: results from suburban Oklahoma City   Valerie J. Anderson, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN; and C. S. B. Grimmond   Paper JP1.13 has been mover to Session 5, New Paper Number 5.9A
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, A316 Session 2 studies of coastal cities
Organizer: Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
4:00 PM 2.1 MODIS land surface retrieval in San Juan, Puerto Rico during the ATLAS field campaign   Ana J. Picon, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, PR; and R. Vásquez Espinosa, J. E. Gonzalez, J. C. Luvall, and D. Rickman 4:15 PM 2.2 A VALIDATION STUDY OF THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND IN THE TROPICAL COASTAL CITY OF SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO   J.E. Gonzalez, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and D. E. Comarazamy, J. Luvall, and D. Rickman 4:30 PM 2.3 High-resolution modeling for NYC: coastal ocean and urbanization effects   Julie Pullen, NRL, Monterey, CA; and T. R. Holt, A. Blumberg, and B. A. Colle 4:45 PM 2.4 The Helsinki Mesoscale Testbed   Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc., Boulder, CO; and E. Saltikoff, J. Koistinen, J. Poutiainen, and H. Turtiainen 5:00 PM 2.5 Urban effects on the convergence and convection over Chennai, India   Matthew Simpson, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman, U. C. Mohanty, and R. Suresh 5:15 PM 2.6 Mesoscale weather features in NYC Revealed by CCNY lidar   Stanley David Gedzelman, The City College of New York, New York, NY; and H. Y. Glickman, B. Gross, E. E. Hindman, K. Y. Kong, S. Mahani, and F. Moshary
	5:30 PM, Monday Sessions end for the day (M)
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
	7:30 PM, Monday Holton Symposium Banquet
Tuesday, 31 January 2006
	8:30 AM-11:45 AM, Tuesday, A315 Session 3 cities as agents of global change
Organizers: Anthony James Brazel, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
8:30 AM 3.1 MODELING URBAN HEAT ISLANDS IN CALIFORNIA CENTRAL VALLEY   Bereket Lebassi Habtezion, Santa Clara Univ., Santa Clara, CA; and J. E. González, D. Fabris, N. L. Miller, and C. Milesi 8:45 AM 3.2 Analysing the Urban Moisture Excess (UME) in a Midlatitude City   Wilhelm Kuttler, Univ. of Duisburg, Essen, Germany; and J. Schonnefeld and A. Hesselschwerdt 9:00 AM 3.3 Carbon dioxide fluxes in a suburban area of Baltimore, MD: 2002–2004   Ben Crawford, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN; and C. S. B. Grimmond, J. L. Hom, B. D. Offerle, D. Golub, and M. Patterson 9:15 AM 3.5 Urban aerosol effects on convective storm characteristics   Susan C. Van den Heever, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton 9:30 AM Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break   11:00 AM 3.6 A Theoretical and Numerical Study of Urban Heat Island-Induced Circulation and Convection   Ji-Young Han, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and J. J. Baik 3.7 Modelling the impact of urbanisation on regional climate   Heather Louise Thompson, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and J. Salmond, X. Cai, and D. Grawe 11:15 AM 3.8 Projected regional climate changes in 2025 Houston due to urban growth   J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 11:30 AM 3.9 The changing bioclimate of Las Vegas, NV   James A. Miller, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday Exhbits Open (T)
	12:15 PM, Tuesday Plenary Session Presidential Forum with Boxed Lunch (Lunch will be available for purchase outside the meeting room.)
	1:45 PM-4:30 PM, Tuesday, A312 Joint Session 3 Mitigation of Urban Heat Islands (Joint with 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)
CoChair: Sue Grimmond, Kings College, London United Kingdom
1:45 PM J3.1 Mitigation of urban heat islands - recent progress and future prospects   David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR 2:15 PM J3.2 Mitigating New York City's Heat Island with Urban Forestry, Living Roofs, and Light Surfaces   Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and W. Solecki, L. Parshall, S. Gaffin, B. Lynn, R. Goldberg, J. Cox, and S. Hodges 2:30 PM J3.3 Land cover influences on below-canopy temperatures in and near Baltimore, MD   Gordon Heisler, USDA FS, Syracuse, NY; and B. Tao, J. Walton, R. V. Pouyat, R. H. Grant, I. Yesilonis, D. Nowak, K. Belt, and Y. Wang 2:45 PM J3.4 Urban heat islands and extreme climate events: surface temperature variability over Paris during the heat-wave of summer 2003   Benedicte Dousset, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD 3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall   3:30 PM J3.5 Numerical simulations of urban heat islands and transport and dispersion of airborne materials around building clusters   Tetsuji Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation, Santa Fe, NM 3:45 PM J3.6 The energetics of urban microclimates   Timothy M. Barzyk, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and J. E. Frederick 4:00 PM J3.7 Heating and cooling degree days in Oklahoma City   Peter K. Hall Jr., Oklahoma Climatological Society, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara 4:15 PM J3.8 Urban heat islands and environmental impact   Suryadevara Sachi Devi, Andhra Univ., Visakhapatnam, India
	1:45 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, A316 Joint Session 5 Urban Turbulent Transport and Dispersion Processes (cosponsored by BL&T committee) (Joint with the 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA)
Organizers: Petra Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Rayford P. Hosker, NOAA/ATDD, Oak Ridge, TN
1:45 PM J5.1 Validation of CFD simulations of turbulent air flow over a regular array of cubes with wind tunnel data and a 3D analysis of the flow   Jose Luis Santiago, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and A. Martilli and F. Martin 2:00 PM J5.2 Average flow properties useful for urban parameterizations deduced from CFD simulations over a regular array of cubes   Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and J. L. Santiago and F. Martin 2:15 PM J5.3 Detailing Single Building Stability and Air Flow Patterns (Phase II)   Gail-Tirrell Vaucher, Army Research Laboratory, WSMR, NM; and R. Cionco, M. Bustillos, S. D'Arcy, and R. Dumais 2:30 PM J5.4 Validation and Application of CFD Modeling for Predicting Traffic Induced Air Pollution in a Complex Urban Area   Hong Huang, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Ooka, S. Kato, T. Jiang, T. Takahashi, and T. Watanabe 2:45 PM J5.5 Summary of CFD-Urban Results in Support of the Madison Square Garden and Urban Dispersion Program Field Tests   William J. Coirier, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL; and S. Kim 3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall   3:30 PM J5.6 High-Resolution CFD Simulation Of Airflow and Tracer Dispersion In New York City   Martin J. Leach, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and S. T. Chan and J. K. Lundquist 3:45 PM J5.7 FEFLO CFD model study of flow and dispersion as influenced by tall buildings in New York City   Fernando E. Camelli, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and S. R. Hanna and R. Lohner 4:00 PM J5.8 FAST3D-CT validation results using MUST field and wind tunnel data   John P. Iselin, Univ. of Wisconsin, Platteville, WI; and G. Patnaik, B. Leitl, F. Harms, and T. R. Young 4:15 PM J5.9 Comparison of wind-tunnel and full-scale street-canyon data from Joint Urban 2003   Petra Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. Leitl and M. Schatzmann 4:30 PM J5.10 Interaction of nocturnal low-level jets with urban geometries as seen in Joint URBAN 2003 data   Julie K. Lundquist, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. D. Mirocha 4:45 PM J5.11 A Study of Stability Conditions in an Urban Area   S. T. Chan, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. K. Lundquist 5:00 PM J5.12 Flow patterns at the ends of a street canyon: Measurements from the Joint Urban 2003 field experiment   Suhas U. Pol, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. J. Brown 5:15 PM J5.13 An inter-comparison of diagnostic urban wind flow models based on the Röckle methodology using the Joint Urban 2003 field data   John R. Hannan, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Ft. Belvoir, VA; and Y. Alexander, J. F. Bowers, M. J. Brown, R. Fry, D. Garvey, S. R. Hanna, T. Harris, H. Kaplan, J. Moussafir, J. C. Pace, Y. Wang, J. White, C. Williamson, and J. Commanay
	1:45 PM-5:45 PM, Tuesday, A315 Session 4 Urban Boundary-Layer Structure and Development (Cosponsored by BL&T committee)
Organizers: Martin J. Best, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks. United Kingdom; Branko Kosovic, LLNL, Livermore, CA
1:45 PM 4.1 Spatial Variability of Turbulence Characteristics in an Urban Roughness Sublayer   Giap Huynh, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and S. Chang, C. Klipp, C. Williamson, D. Garvey, and Y. Wang 2:00 PM 4.2 Profiles of TKE and sensible heat and momentum fluxes in the roughness sub-layer of a city   Dennis Garvey, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and G. Huynh, C. Klipp, S. Chang, C. Williamson, and Y. Wang 2:15 PM 4.3 An investigation of nocturnal low-level-jet generated gravity waves and turbulence over Oklahoma City during JU2003   Yansen Wang, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD; and C. Klipp, C. Williamson, G. Huynh, D. Garvey, and S. Chang 2:30 PM 4.4 The momentum and turbulent kinetic energy budgets within the Oklahoma City Park Avenue street canyon   Matthew A. Nelson, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. J. Brown and E. Pardyjak 2:45 PM 4.5 2D PIV Measurements of Street Canyon Flow for Buildings with Varying Angles and Separation Distances   Bhagirath Addepalli, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. Pardyjak 3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall   3:30 PM 4.6 Predictability of boundary layer wind forecasts from four-dimensional variational data assimilation systems   Jeffrey H. Copeland, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. S. Sheu, J. Sun, and T. Warner 4.7 Quantifying the utility of enhanced meteorological observations in the New York City metropolitan area with an Observing System Simulation Experiment   Julie K. Lundquist, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and M. J. Leach 3:45 PM 4.8 Urbanized MM5 Modeling of NYC sea breezes for emergency response activities   Erez Weinroth, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein and H. Taha 4:00 PM 4.9 Micrometeorological Characteristics of the Sea Breeze During the Wilmington 2005 Urban Dispersion Study   Xiangyi Li, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and M. Princevac 4:15 PM 4.10 Comparison of urban and rural boundary layer development during ISB52 from amdar and lidar data   Fay Davies, Univ. of Salford, Salford, United Kingdom; and D. R. Middleton and C. G. Collier 4:30 PM 4.11 An overview of urban modeling at the Meteorological Service of Canada   Jocelyn Mailhot, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Bélair, A. Lemonsu, C. Pelletier, and M. Jean 4:45 PM 4.12 Similarity on turbulent transfers of heat, water vapor, and carbon dioxide over a suburban surface under weakly unstable condition   Ryo Moriwaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda 5:00 PM 4.13 Preliminary Results of the 2005 Montréal Urban Snow Experiment (MUSE-2005)   Frederic Chagnon, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and M. Benjamin, G. Morneau, B. Harvey, J. Mailhot, S. Bélair, and A. Lemonsu 5:15 PM 4.14 The use of an urban canopy parameterization for MM5 : Application to the Phoenix airshed   H. Fernando, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and K. Park
	5:30 PM, Tuesday Sessions end for the day (T)
Wednesday, 1 February 2006
	8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, A312 Joint Session 4 Development of Tools to Assist Emergency Responders in the Case of Releases of Gases and Small Particles Within Urban Areas (Joint with 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)
Cochairs: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA; James F. Bowers, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT
8:30 AM J4.1 Urban dispersion modeling for emergency response: status and issues   Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA 9:00 AM J4.2 An operational building-scale urban forecasting system: Pentagon Shield   Thomas T. Warner, NCAR, Boulder, CO 9:15 AM J4.3 High-energy eye-safe aerosol lidar for use in urban areas   Shane D. Mayor, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. M. Spuler, B. Morley, C. L. Martin, E. Loew, S. Rauenbuehler, K. Schwenz, N. Chamberlin, P. Benda, P. Ponsardin, E. Hackney, C. Kletecka, K. Krubsack, R. Babnick, and S. Higdon 9:30 AM J4.4 Source inversion for contaminant plume dispersion in urban environments using building-resolving simulations   Fotini Katopodes Chow, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and B. Kosovic and S. T. Chan 9:45 AM J4.5 Event Reconstruction for Atmospheric Releases Employing Urban Puff Model UDM with Stochastic Inversion Methodology   Stephanie Neuman, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and L. G. Glascoe, B. Kosovic, K. Dyer, J. Nitao, and W. Hanley 10:00 AM Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer   10:30 AM J4.6 The Oklahoma City Urban Micronet project: transitioning from vision to reality   Jeffrey Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and B. G. Illston, P. Klein, and M. Yuan 10:45 AM J4.7 Adaptive Urban Dispersion Integrated Model   Andrew M. Wissink, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and B. Kosovic, K. Chand, M. Berger, B. Gunney, C. Kapfer, and F. K. Chow 11:00 AM J4.8 MAPIT: An airborne system for urban-scale environmental monitoring   Randolph J. Evans, ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and J. G. Dreher, J. Manobianco, and M. Adams 11:15 AM J4.9 Validation of a Data Assimilation Technique for an Urban Wind Model   T. M. Booth, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak 11:30 AM J4.10 Modeling Turbulent Flow in Urban Areas   Donald A. Burrows, ITT Industries, Colorado Springs, CO; and E. Hendricks, S. Diehl, and R. Keith 11:45 AM J4.11 Use of modified Rams to simulate current and near future thermal environment of Chongqing, China   Hongbin Zhang, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Hanaki, T. Aramaki, and N. Sato
	8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Wednesday, A316 Session 5 Urban Modeling Database Development
Organizer: Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA, Research Triangle park, NC
8:30 AM 5.1 Prospectus on national database of high resolution buildings and other urban data for advanced model applications   Jason Ching, NOAA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and D. J. Williams, S. Burian, and R. Fry 8:45 AM 5.2 Emerging urban databases for meteorological and dispersion modeling   Steven Burian, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. Brown, T. N. McPherson, J. Hartman, W. Han, I. Jeyachandran, and J. Rush 9:00 AM 5.3 Microscale Modeling Needs for Digitized Surface Feature Morphology—Urban and Rural   Ronald M. Cionco, US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM 9:15 AM 5.4 Developing a global database for the CLM urban model   Johannes Feddema, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and K. Oleson and G. Bonan 9:30 AM 5.5 A general methodology of urban cover classification for atmospheric modelling   Aude Lemonsu, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and A. Leroux, S. Belair, S. Trudel, and J. Mailhot 9:45 AM 5.6 An anthropogenic heating database for major U.S. cities   David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR; and M. Hart 10:00 AM Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer   10:30 AM 5.7 A Day-Night Population Exchange Model for Better Exposure and Consequence Management Assessments   Timothy N. McPherson, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. Rush, H. Khalsa, A. Ivey, and M. J. Brown 10:45 AM 5.8 Coupling Geographic Information Systems and Urban Dispersion Model: An Example using ArcGIS and QUIC   Mang Lung Cheuk, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Yuan and P. Klein 5.9 Bridging mesoscale transport and building scale dispersion models with high resolution urban morphological datasets   Richard N. Fry Jr., Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, VA; and J. K. S. Ching, R. Kolbe, and S. Burian 11:00 AM 5.9a Joint Urban 2003 Database/Web Design (Formerly Paper JP1.13)   Scott F. Halvorson, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, Dugway, UT; and D. P. Storwold Jr. and E. N. Vernon 11:15 AM 5.10 Meteorology and air quality modeling with advanced urban data and canopy parameterizations for Houston, TX   Jason Ching, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. Gilliam, S. Burian, S. Dupont, L. Reynolds, and R. Tang 11:30 AM 5.11 Comparison of Unified Land Use and Land Cover Datasets for Urban Scale Modeling of Meteorology, Emissions, and Air Quality in the Houston-Galveston Area   Daewon W. Byun, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and F. Y. Cheng, S. Kim, S. Stetson, and G. Wells 11:45 AM 5.11A Wrap Up—Synthesis of Session and Future Prospectus
	11:00 AM-7:30 PM, Wednesday Exhibits Open (W)
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (W)
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, A315 Joint Session 6 Urban Turbulent Transport And Dispersion Processes II (Cosponsored by BL&T committee) (Joint With The 6Th Symposium On The Urban Environment And The 14Th Joint Conference On The Applications Of Air Pollution Meteorology With The A&WMA
Organizer: Petra Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK Chair: Akula Venkatram, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA
1:30 PM J6.1 Scale analysis of the wind field variability in time and space over the Washington DC metropolitan area   Rong-Shyang Sheu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. T. Warner and J. Sun 1:45 PM J6.2 Urban particle emission rates related to source characteristics and meteorology measured in and above the centre of the city of Manchester (UK)   Ian D. Longley, Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom; and M. W. Gallagher, M. J. Flynn, and H. Coe 2:00 PM J6.3 Evaluation of the QUIC Urban Dispersion Model using the Salt Lake City URBAN 2000 Tracer Experiment Data – IOP 10   Akshay A. Gowardhan, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. J. Brown, M. D. Williams, and E. Pardyjak 2:15 PM J6.4 Near-building turbulent intensities, fluxes, and vortices   Ronald M. Cionco, US Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and G. T. Vaucher, S. D'Arcy, and M. Bustillos 2:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break   4:00 PM J6.5 The plane mixing layer analogy applied to turbulence in the urban roughness sublayer   Andreas Christen, Berlin Univ. of Technology, Berlin, Germany; and E. Van Gorsel and R. Vogt 4:15 PM J6.6 Thermal Effects on Flow and Reactive Pollutant Dispersion in an Urban Street Canyon   Jong-Jin Baik, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and Y. S. Kang and J. J. Kim 4:30 PM J6.7 An examination of relationships between urban and rural micrometeorology using semi-empirical and comprehensive models   Sang-Mi Lee, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA; and A. Luhar and A. Venkatram 4:45 PM J6.9 Turbulent organized structure over a reduced urban scale model   A. Inagaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda J6.10 Evaluation of different methods of simulating the effects of a meandering upwind velocity on urban dispersion   Eric Hendricks, ITT Industries, Colorado Springs, CO; and S. Diehl, D. Burrows, and R. Keith 5:00 PM J6.10A An operational forecasting system for the New York City Metropolitan Area that provides urban-scale input to NARAC and HPAC   Thomas T. Warner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. C. Knievel, J. K. Lundquist, R. N. Fry, and J. R. Hannan
	2:30 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall A2 Joint Poster Session 2 Urban Environment Posters II (Joint With 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing Our Physical and Natural Resources)
JP2.1 Introducing Building Architectural Aspects in the Urban Canopy Model   Mohammad Kholid Ridwan, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Kawai and K. Manabu   JP2.3 Evaluation of Seasonal Pattern of Energy, Water and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Over Tokyo Bay   Ryoko Oda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Moriwaki and M. Kanda JP2.4 Evaluating time to convergence for flow solutions using dispersion calculations   Robert Keith, ITT Industries, Colorado Springs, CO; and R. Miller, S. Diehl, D. Burrows, and E. Hendricks   JP2.5 Evaluating conditional sampling strategies for trace-gas flux measurements in urban environments   Andreas Christen, Berlin Univ. of Technology, Berlin, Germany; and C. S. B. Grimmond, R. Moriwaki, D. E. Scherer, and R. Vogt   JP2.6 Elemental, ionic and organic composition of atmospheric aerosols in Chicago during summer time   Martina Schmeling, Loyola Univ., Chicago, IL; and T. Fosco, X. Ang, and D. Bolos   JP2.7 Differences in the Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Ground-Level Ozone in Large Urban, Small Urban and Rural Areas in Georgia, USA   Kari Maxwell-Meier, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. Chang   JP2.8 Continuous Observation of Globe Temperature and Simultaneous Observation by WBGT101   Michihiko Tonouchi, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Murayama, H. Maruyama, and H. Suzuki   JP2.9 Comparisons of measurements made using two sodars in an urban environment   Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. M. Reynolds, K. J. Allwine, and A. Blumberg   JP2.10 Characteristics of Precipitation induced by Urbanization in Seoul, Korea   Yeon-Hee Kim, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea; and K. Hae-Jung and N. Jae-Cheol   JP2.11 CFD Modeling for Urban Area Contaminant Transport and Dispersion: Model Description and Data Requirements   William J. Coirier, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL; and S. Kim   JP2.12 Case study of thermographic observations of surface materials' cooling rates and neighborhood design in suburban Phoenix, Arizona   Donna A. Hartz, Arizona State Univ., Scottsdale, AZ; and J. Golden, A. J. Brazel, B. C. Hedquist, and K. Kaloush
	3:45 PM, Wednesday Sessions end for the day (W)
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday Reception in the Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	7:30 PM, Wednesday AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 2 February 2006
	12:00 AM, Thursday Symposium Ends
	8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Thursday, A312 Joint Session 7 DEVELOPMENT OF TOOLS TO ASSIST EMERGENCY RESPONDERS IN THE CASE OF RELEASES OF GASES AND SMALL PARTICLES WITHIN URBAN AREAS II (JOINT WITH 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and FORUM ON MANAGING OUR PHYSICAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES) (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges)
CoChair: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA
8:30 AM J7.1 Analysis of Joint Urban 2003 (JU2003) and Madison Square Garden 2005 (MSG05) meteorological and tracer data   Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA; and J. White, Y. Zhou, and A. Kosheleva 8:45 AM J7.2 ASSESSMENT OF VELOCITY AND TURBULENCE BOUNDARY CONDITION TREATMENTS UPON THE IN-CANOPY WIND, TURBULENCE AND TRANSPORT AND DISPERSION BEHAVIOR IN MIDTOWN MANHATTAN   Sura Kim, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL; and W. Coirier 9:00 AM J7.3 Interactive modeling and sensing in urban settings   James Cogan, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and R. Dumais, Y. Wang, and M. Torres 9:15 AM J7.4 Development and Application of CFD Simulations Supporting Urban Air Quality and Homeland Security   Alan H. Huber, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; and M. Freeman, R. Spencer, B. Bell, K. Kuehlert, and W. Schwarz
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Th1)
	11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday Exhibits Open (Th)
	11:00 AM-11:45 AM, Thursday, A312 Joint Session 9 Comparison and Evaluation of Urban Land Surface Schemes for Mesoscale Models II (Joint with 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources
CoChair: Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA
11:00 AM J9.1 Evaluation of Urban Scale Contaminant Transport and Dispersion Modeling using Loosely Coupled CFD and Mesoscale Models   William J. Coirier, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL; and S. Kim, F. Chen, and M. Tuwari 11:15 AM J9.2 Outdoor Scale Model Experiments for the Evaluation of Urban Modeling Studies   Toru Kawai, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda, T. Asa, and K. Masahiko 11:30 AM J9.3 Mesoscale Circulations over the Athens Metropolitan Area during the 2004 Summer Olympic Games   Andrea N. Hahmann, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. T. Warner and Y. Liu
	1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Thursday, A315 Joint Session 8 Urban Turbulent Transport And Dispersion Processes III (Cosponsored by BL&T committee) (Joint With The 6Th Symposium On The Urban Environment And The 14Th Joint Conference On The Applications Of Air Pollution Meteorology With The A&WMA)
Organizer: S. Pal Arya, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
1:30 PM J8.1 Urban Flow and Dispersion Simulations with a Coupled CFD-MM5 Model   Seung-Bu Park, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and J. J. Baik and J. J. Kim 1:45 PM J8.2 Evaluation of the QUIC Pressure Solver using wind-tunnel data from single and multi-building experiments   Akshay A. Gowardhan, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and M. J. Brown, D. S. Decroix, E. Pardyjak, and M. A. Nelson 2:00 PM J8.3 Atmospheric boundary layer and scalar dispersion with explicitly resolved urban geometries using large eddy simulation for city (LES-CITY)   Manabu Kanda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan J8.4 Evaluation of a Lagrangian Dispersion Model and Turbulence Scheme for Three Boundary Layer Roughness Types   Balwinder Singh, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and M. J. Brown, M. D. Williams, and E. Pardyjak 2:15 PM J8.4A Testing of a Far-wake Parameterization for a Fast Response Urban Wind Model   Balwinder Singh, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and E. Pardyjak, M. J. Brown, and M. D. Williams 2:30 PM J8.5 Vertical profiles of carbon dioxide, temperature, and water vapor within and above a suburban canopy layer in winter   Ryo Moriwaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda
	3:00 PM, Thursday Registration Desk Closes
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall and AMS IPOD Raffle (Th2)
	4:00 PM, Thursday Exhibit Close
	6:00 PM, Thursday Lilly Symposium Banquet

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