Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment

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Saturday, 28 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Sat 28 Jan

7:30 AM-7:31 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Short Course and Student Conference Registration

Sunday, 29 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Sun 29 Jan

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Conference Registration

Monday, 30 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Mon 30 Jan

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Registration Continues through Thursday, 2 February

9:00 AM-11:30 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
urban air quality (including urban airshed modeling and urban air chemistry experiments)
Location: A316 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment
Organizers: Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University; Walter F. Dabberdt, Vaisala. Inc.
  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 Jr.
  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
  10:15 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
  10:45 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
  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
  11:30 AM
1.5A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

12:00 PM-1:10 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Plenary Session 1
AMS Forum Kick-Off Luncheon (Cash & Carry available in the Meeting Room Foyer)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; the The James Holton Symposium; the Third Symposium on Space Weather; the Event Program; the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; the 15th Symposium on Education; the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Fourth Presidental History Symposium; the First Symposium on Policy Research; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; the The Doug Lilly Symposium; the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; the Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership; the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the Second Special Session on Heat Health )
Chairs: Sue Grimmond, King's College; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ.; Mark Andrews, NOAA/NWS
  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, Exeter, 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, 30 January 2006


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)
Location: A315 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, Kings College; Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ.
  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
  2:30 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
  3:00 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
  3:15 PM
J1.8
Development of an urban parameterization for a global climate model
Keith Oleson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and G. Bonan and J. Feddema
  3:30 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
  3:45 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 Jr., M. Khan, W. Lapenta, and D. A. Quattrochi

  4:15 PM
J1.4A
Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break

2:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Joint Poster Session 1
Urban Environment Posters (JOINT WITH 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and FORUM ON MANAGING OUR PHYSICAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES)
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (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

Poster PDF (129.6 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (478.1 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

 
JP1.5
The effects of an urban heat island on two small cities in New York
Christopher Thuman, Rutgers University-Newark, Clifton Park, 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

 
JP1.9
 
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

Poster PDF (512.9 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (237.6 kB)

 
JP1.12
Local-scale heat storage estimation: results from suburban Oklahoma City
Valerie J. Anderson, Indiana Univ., Bloomington, IN; and C. S. B. Grimmond

 
JP1.13
Paper JP1.13 has been mover to Session 5, New Paper Number 5.9A

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 2
studies of coastal cities
Location: A316 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment
Organizer: Robert D. Bornstein, San Jose State University
  4:00 PM
2.1
MODIS land surface retrieval in San Juan, Puerto Rico during the ATLAS field campaign
Ana J. Picon, City College and the CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY; 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-5:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Sessions end for the day (M)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Holton Symposium Banquet

Tuesday, 31 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Tue 31 Jan

8:30 AM-11:45 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 3
cities as agents of global change
Location: A315 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment
Organizers: Anthony James Brazel, Arizona State University; David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ.
  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, 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
3.6
  10:15 AM
3.9
The changing bioclimate of Las Vegas, NV
James A. Miller, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
  10:30 AM
3.5A
Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Exhbits Open (T)

12:15 PM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Plenary Session
Presidential Forum with Boxed Lunch (Lunch will be available for purchase outside the meeting room.)
Hosts: (Joint between the Event Program; the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 15th Symposium on Education; the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; the The Doug Lilly Symposium; the First Symposium on Policy Research; the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; the Fourth Presidental History Symposium; the Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership; the The James Holton Symposium; the Third Symposium on Space Weather; and the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year )

1:45 PM-4:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


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)
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
CoChair: Sue Grimmond, Kings College
  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
  3:15 PM
J3.6
The energetics of urban microclimates
Timothy M. Barzyk, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and J. E. Frederick
  3:30 PM
J3.7
Heating and cooling degree days in Oklahoma City
Peter K. Hall Jr., Oklahoma Climatological Society, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara
  3:45 PM
J3.8
Urban heat islands and environmental impact
Suryadevara Sachi Devi, Andhra Univ., Visakhapatnam, India
  4:00 PM
J3.4A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

1:45 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


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)
Location: A316 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc )
Organizers: Petra Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma; Rayford P. Hosker, NOAA/ATDD
  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
  3:00 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
  3:15 PM
J5.7
FEFLO CFD model study of flow and dispersion as influenced by tall buildings in New York City
Fernando E. Camelli, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Fairfax, VA; and S. R. Hanna and R. Lohner
  3:30 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

  3:45 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

  4:00 PM
J5.10
Interaction of nocturnal low-level jets with urban geometries as seen in Joint URBAN 2003 data
Julie K. Lundquist, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO; and J. D. Mirocha
  4:15 PM
J5.11
A Study of Stability Conditions in an Urban Area
S. T. Chan, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. K. Lundquist
  4:45 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

  5:00 PM
J5.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

1:45 PM-5:45 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 4
Urban Boundary-Layer Structure and Development (Cosponsored by BL&T committee)
Location: A315 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment
Organizers: Martin J. Best, Met Office; Branko Kosovic, LLNL
  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
  2:45 PM
4.5
  3:00 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

  3:30 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
4.10
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
  4:15 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
4.13
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
4.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Sessions end for the day (T)

Wednesday, 1 February 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Wed 1 Feb

8:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


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)
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ.; James F. Bowers, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground
  8:30 AM
J4.1
Urban dispersion modeling for emergency response: status and issues
Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA

  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
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
  10:15 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
  10:30 AM
J4.8
MAPIT: An airborne system for urban-scale environmental monitoring
Randolph J. Evans, Siemens Energy, Inc., Orlando, FL; and J. G. Dreher, J. Manobianco, and M. Adams
  10:45 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
  11:00 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

  11:15 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
  11:30 AM
J4.5A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

8:30 AM-12:15 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 5
Urban Modeling Database Development
Location: A316 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment
Organizer: Jason K.S. Ching, NOAA
  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
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
  10:15 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

  10:45 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

  11:00 AM
5.11
  11:15 AM
5.6A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

  11:45 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

11:00 AM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Exhibits Open (W)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (W)

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


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
Location: A315 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; and the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment )
Organizer: Petra Klein, Univ. of Oklahoma
Chair: Akula Venkatram, Univ. of California
  1:30 PM
J6.1
  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
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
  2:45 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
  3:00 PM
J6.7
  3:15 PM
J6.9
Turbulent organized structure over a reduced urban scale model
A. Inagaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Kanda
  3:45 PM
J6.4A
Formal Poster Viewing With Coffee Break

  5:15 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 Jr., and J. R. Hannan

2:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


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)
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
 
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

Poster PDF (85.5 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (545.2 kB)

 
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
 
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

Poster PDF (365.3 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (908.5 kB)

 
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-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Sessions end for the day (W)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Reception in the Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Thursday, 2 February 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Symposium Ends

THUR 2 FEB

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


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)
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (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.
  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
  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, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina; and M. Freeman, R. Spencer, B. Bell, K. Kuehlert, and W. Schwarz

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Th1)

11:00 AM-11:45 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


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
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; and the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment )
CoChair: Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ.
  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

11:00 AM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Exhibits Open (Th)

1:30 PM-2:45 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


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)
Location: A315 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; and the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc )
Organizer: S. Pal Arya, North Carolina State Univ.
  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
  2:45 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

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Registration Desk Closes

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall and AMS IPOD Raffle (Th2)

4:00 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Exhibit Close

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Lilly Symposium Banquet