AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges (Expanded View)

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Compact View of Conference

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
 
10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (M1)
 
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 PMPL1.1Forum opening  
Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and M. Andrews, C. S. B. Grimmond, and S. R. Hanna
12:10 PMPL1.2How should we compare and evaluate urban land surface models?  
Martin Best, Met Office, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
12:40 PMPL1.3THUNDERSTORM 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 PMJ1.1Evaluation of an urban surface exchange parameterization for mesoscale models  extended abstract wrf recording
Alberto Martilli, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain; and Y. A. Roulet and C. Muller
1:45 PMJ1.2Application 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 PMJ1.3Impact 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 PMJ1.4Current 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 PMFormal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break  
4:00 PMJ1.5Simple urban energy balance model for meso-scale simulations (SUMM)  extended abstract wrf recording
Manabu Kanda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Kawai, R. Moriwaki, K. I. Narita, and A. Hagishima
4:15 PMJ1.6Relative impact of two urban canopy parameterizations on coastal urban processes  
Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Pullen
4:30 PMJ1.7Experimental and Model-Computed Area-Averaged Vertical Profiles of Wind Speed for Evaluation of Mesoscale Urban Canopy Schemes  extended abstract
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 PMJ1.8Development of an urban parameterization for a global climate model  
Keith Oleson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Bonan and J. Feddema
5:00 PMJ1.9Urban 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 PMJ1.10Mesoscale 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 PMJ1.11Evaluating parameterization of anthropogenic heat release in urban land surface scheme from field measurements and energy consumption inventory over Toulouse during CAPITOUL  extended abstract wrf recording
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)
 JP1.1WBGT Forecasts for Preventing Heat Strokes in Japan  extended abstract
Michihiko Tonouchi, Japan Meteorological Business Support Center, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Murayama and M. Ono
 JP1.2IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW ROOFTOP RECIRCULATION PARAMETERIZATION INTO THE QUIC FAST RESPONSE URBAN WIND MODEL  extended abstract
Suhas U. Pol, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and N. L. Bagal, B. Singh, M. J. Brown, and E. Pardyjak
 JP1.3The numerical experiment of the energy and CO2 imbalance problem using LES  extended abstract
A. Inagaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and G. Steinfeld, S. Raasch, and M. Kanda
 JP1.4The 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
 JP1.5The effects of an urban heat island on two small cities in New York  
Christopher Thuman, New York State Univ., Oswego, NY
 JP1.6Numerical 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
 JP1.7Retrieval 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
 JP1.8Results and sensitivities of an urban parameterization coupled to the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) over Washington DC  
Timothy E. Nobis, AWS, Omaha, NE
 JP1.9Predicting 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
 JP1.10Numerical prediction of heat island mitigation effect on decrease in air temperature in Tokyo  extended abstract
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
 JP1.11Mitigation of Thermal Environment by Cheonggye Stream Restoration in Seoul, Korea  extended abstract
Hae-Jung Koo, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea; and Y. H. Kim and J. C. Nam
 JP1.12Local-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  
 
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
9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1)
 
11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhbits Open (T)
 
11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, A403
Joint Session 2 Water Conservation in Deserts (Joint with 20th Conference on Hydrology and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, King’s College, London United Kingdom; Bart Nijssen, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
11:00 AMJ2.1The Interplay Between Water Resources Management and Hydroclimate Variability in the Semi-Arid Southwest U.S.  
Soroosh Sorooshian, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and G. Woodard
11:15 AMJ2.2Utility of Satellite Thermal Remote Sensing for Mapping Riparian and Upland Desert Water Use  extended abstract
Fuqin Li, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and M. C. Anderson, W. P. Kustas, R. L. Scott, and J. H. Prueger
11:30 AMJ2.3Improving US Bureau of Reclamation Water Supply, Demand Monitoring and Forecasting Using NASA Earth Data Products for the Carson and Truckee River Basins  
Douglas P. Boyle, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. Huntingiton, D. Toll, S. Bowser, D. Frevert, R. Stodt, D. Clark, K. R. Arsenault, and A. Pinhero
11:45 AMJ2.4Improving Drought Monitoring and Prediction Using LIS and Satellite Products  
Kristi R. Arsenault, Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Pinheiro, R. Stodt, D. Toll, and P. R. Houser
J2.5Application of Geospatial Modeling and Remotely Sensed Data for Rangeland Studies  
Susan Skirvin, USDA-ARS SWRC, Tucson, AZ; and M. S. Moran
 
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 PMJ3.1Mitigation of urban heat islands - recent progress and future prospects  extended abstract
David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR
2:15 PMJ3.2Mitigating New York City's Heat Island with Urban Forestry, Living Roofs, and Light Surfaces  extended abstract
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 PMJ3.3Land cover influences on below-canopy temperatures in and near Baltimore, MD  extended abstract
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 PMJ3.4Urban 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 PMCoffee Break in Exhibit Hall  
3:30 PMJ3.5Numerical simulations of urban heat islands and transport and dispersion of airborne materials around building clusters  extended abstract
Tetsuji Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation, Santa Fe, NM
3:45 PMJ3.6The energetics of urban microclimates  extended abstract
Timothy M. Barzyk, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and J. E. Frederick
4:00 PMJ3.7Heating and cooling degree days in Oklahoma City  extended abstract
Peter K. Hall Jr., Oklahoma Climatological Society, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara
4:15 PMJ3.8Urban heat islands and environmental impact  extended abstract
Suryadevara Sachi Devi, Andhra Univ., Visakhapatnam, India
 
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 AMJ4.1Urban dispersion modeling for emergency response: status and issues  
Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA
9:00 AMJ4.2An operational building-scale urban forecasting system: Pentagon Shield  
Thomas T. Warner, NCAR, Boulder, CO
9:15 AMJ4.3High-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 AMJ4.4Source inversion for contaminant plume dispersion in urban environments using building-resolving simulations  extended abstract wrf recording
Fotini Katopodes Chow, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and B. Kosovic and S. T. Chan
9:45 AMJ4.5Event Reconstruction for Atmospheric Releases Employing Urban Puff Model UDM with Stochastic Inversion Methodology  extended abstract
Stephanie Neuman, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and L. G. Glascoe, B. Kosovic, K. Dyer, J. Nitao, and W. Hanley
10:00 AMCoffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer  
10:30 AMJ4.6The 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 AMJ4.7Adaptive Urban Dispersion Integrated Model  extended abstract wrf recording
Andrew M. Wissink, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and B. Kosovic, K. Chand, M. Berger, B. Gunney, C. Kapfer, and F. K. Chow
11:00 AMJ4.8MAPIT: An airborne system for urban-scale environmental monitoring  extended abstract wrf recording
Randolph J. Evans, ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and J. G. Dreher, J. Manobianco, and M. Adams
11:15 AMJ4.9Validation of a Data Assimilation Technique for an Urban Wind Model  extended abstract wrf recording
T. M. Booth, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and E. R. Pardyjak
11:30 AMJ4.10Modeling Turbulent Flow in Urban Areas  
Donald A. Burrows, ITT Industries, Colorado Springs, CO; and E. Hendricks, S. Diehl, and R. Keith
11:45 AMJ4.11Use of modified Rams to simulate current and near future thermal environment of Chongqing, China  extended abstract wrf recording
Hongbin Zhang, Univ. of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and K. Hanaki, T. Aramaki, and N. Sato
 
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-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
1:30 PMJ5.1Effects, interactions and consequences of air pollutant cycling in ecosystems  
Scott Ollinger, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
2:00 PMJ5.2Source 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 PMJ5.3Simulation 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
 
2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (W2)
 
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)
 JP2.1Introducing Building Architectural Aspects in the Urban Canopy Model  extended abstract
Mohammad Kholid Ridwan, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and T. Kawai and K. Manabu
 JP2.3Evaluation of Seasonal Pattern of Energy, Water and Carbon Dioxide Fluxes Over Tokyo Bay  extended abstract
Ryoko Oda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and R. Moriwaki and M. Kanda
JP2.4Evaluating 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
 JP2.5Evaluating 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
 JP2.6Elemental, 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
 JP2.7Differences 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
 JP2.8Continuous 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
 JP2.9Comparisons of measurements made using two sodars in an urban environment  extended abstract
Larry K. Berg, PNNL, Richland, WA; and R. M. Reynolds, K. J. Allwine, and A. Blumberg
 JP2.10Characteristics 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
 JP2.11CFD Modeling for Urban Area Contaminant Transport and Dispersion: Model Description and Data Requirements  extended abstract
William J. Coirier, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL; and S. Kim
 JP2.12Case 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)
 
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
4:00 PMJ6.1The Effects of Environmental Variability and Experimental Error in Parameterizing Air-Sea Fluxes  extended abstract wrf recording
William E. Asher, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
4:30 PMJ6.2Using 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 PMJ6.3Water-side Turbulence Enhancement of Ozone Deposition to the Ocean  extended abstract wrf recording
C. W. Fairall, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and D. Helmig, J. E. Hare, and L. Ganzveld
5:00 PMJ6.4Marine storm impacts on bubbles and air-sea exchange of gases  extended abstract
Weiqing Zhang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Perrie and S. Vagle
5:15 PMJ6.5Origin, 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
 
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
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 AMJ7.1Analysis of Joint Urban 2003 (JU2003) and Madison Square Garden 2005 (MSG05) meteorological and tracer data  extended abstract
Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA; and J. White, Y. Zhou, and A. Kosheleva
8:45 AMJ7.2ASSESSMENT 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 AMJ7.3Interactive modeling and sensing in urban settings  extended abstract wrf recording
James Cogan, Army Research Laboratory, White Sands Missile Range, NM; and R. Dumais, Y. Wang, and M. Torres
9:15 AMJ7.4Development and Application of CFD Simulations Supporting Urban Air Quality and Homeland Security  extended abstract
Alan H. Huber, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; and M. Freeman, R. Spencer, B. Bell, K. Kuehlert, and W. Schwarz
 
8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, A403
Joint Session 8 Flood Warning Systems (Joint with 20th Conference on Hydrology and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources and Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges)
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, Kings College, London United Kingdom; Greg Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
8:30 AMJ8.1Flash Flood Forecasting in Urban Drainage Basins  
James A. Smith, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
9:00 AMJ8.2Flash flood warning operations during tropical rainfall in low relief terrain  extended abstract
Richard J. Lanier, NOAA/NWS, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Suk and D. S. Berkowitz
9:15 AMJ8.3Flash Flood Forecasting: The Probabilistic Prediction of Excessive Precipitation by the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center  
James E. Hoke, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Eckert
9:30 AMJ8.4Use of 4 km, 1 hr, precipitation forecasts to drive a distributed hydrologic model for flash flood prediction  extended abstract wrf recording
Seann Reed, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Fulton, Z. Zhang, and S. Guan
9:45 AMFormal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break  
11:00 AMJ8.5Comparing the operational capabilities of the site specific hydrologic predictor (SSHP) and a fully distributed hydrological model (Mike SHE) using WSR-88 radar rainfall inputs over a small basin in Florida  extended abstract wrf recording
Harry J. Cooper, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and R. J. Lanier, H. E. Fuelberg, and A. I. Watson
11:15 AMJ8.6Satellite, lightning, sounding, and model data for nowcasting heavy rainfall from Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCS's)  extended abstract wrf recording
Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Kuligowski and S. Qiu
11:30 AMJ8.7Results of short fuse weather warning surveys in Austin, TX and Denver, CO  
Lindsey R. Barnes, Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO; and E. Gruntfest, C. Benight, M. H. Hayden, C. C. Jenkins, M. Q. Thurman, and E. Williams
J8.8The Implementation of a River Forecasting System in Romania  
Jeff Vukovich, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC., Raleigh, NC; and J. McHenry, D. Widener, J. Condrey, and T. Burnet
11:45 AMJ8.9Flash Flood Disaster and Flash Flood Warning in China  
Lingli Wang, George Mason Univ., fairfax, VA; and J. Qu
 
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 AMJ9.1Evaluation of Urban Scale Contaminant Transport and Dispersion Modeling using Loosely Coupled CFD and Mesoscale Models  extended abstract wrf recording
William J. Coirier, CFD Research Corporation, Huntsville, AL; and S. Kim, F. Chen, and M. Tuwari
11:15 AMJ9.2Outdoor Scale Model Experiments for the Evaluation of Urban Modeling Studies  extended abstract wrf recording
Toru Kawai, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda, T. Asa, and K. Masahiko
11:30 AMJ9.3Mesoscale Circulations over the Athens Metropolitan Area during the 2004 Summer Olympic Games  extended abstract wrf recording
Andrea N. Hahmann, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. T. Warner and Y. Liu
 
12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (Th)
 
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
1:30 PMJ10.1The emergence of numerical air quality forecasting models and their application  extended abstract
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 PMJ10.2Use 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 PMJ10.3Supporting Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting using the SMOKE modeling system  extended abstract wrf recording
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 PMJ10.4Operational 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 PMJ10.5Implementation and evaluation of a continental US air quality forecast system  extended abstract wrf recording
Donald T. Olerud Jr., Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC
3:00 PMCoffee Break in Exhibit Hall and AMS iPod Raffle  
3:30 PMJ10.6Expanding 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 PMJ10.7An 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 PMJ10.8AIRPACT-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 PMJ10.9An 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 PMJ10.10 moved to J3.5  
4:31 PMJ10.11Applications 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
 
3:00 PM, Thursday
Registration Desk Closes
 
4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Close
 
5:30 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends
 
6:00 PM, Thursday
Lilly Symposium Banquet
 

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