Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

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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-11:45 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Session 1
Aerosols—Radiative Impacts and Visibility Reduction
Location: A408 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Cochairs: Rick Petty, U.S. Dept. of Energy; Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL
  9:00 AM
1.1
Direct and Indirect Effects of Nitrate and Ammonium Aerosol: A Column Model Study
Yan Feng, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and J. E. Penner and Y. Chen
  9:15 AM
1.2
Effect of iron oxides on radiative properties of mineral dust
Sandra Lafon, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik
  9:45 AM
1.4
Evidence for Carbonaceous Aerosol Absorption Change in Mexico City 2003
Nancy A. Marley, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. S. Gaffney
  10:00 AM
1.5
A Brief History of Aerosol Carbon Analytical Methods
Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL, Argonne, IL; and N. A. Marley
  10:15 AM
1.6
Mesoscale modeling of transport and radiative impacts of Central American smoke aerosols
Jun Wang, University of Nebaska, Lincoln, NE; and S. A. Christopher, U. S. Nair, J. S. Reid, E. Prins, J. Szykman, and J. L. Hand
  10:45 AM
1.8
  11:00 AM
1.9
The effects of the size-resolved mineralogical composition of dust particles on the tropospheric photochemistry
Gill-Ran Jeong, Georgia Institude of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik

  11:15 AM
1.10
CMAQ simulation of aerosol size distributions with ternary nucleation
Robert A. Elleman, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. S. Covert, C. F. Mass, and J. Chen
  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

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Poster Session 1
Atmospheric Chemistry Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
 
P1.1
Photopolarimetric measurements in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and their potential for improving characterization of absorbing aerosols
Bryan M. Karpowicz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik, R. J. Greenwald, R. Peltier, R. Weber, and M. Bergin

 
P1.2
Numerical Simulation of Long Distance Transportation of Volcano Ash from Pinatubo
Jiqing Tan Sr., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, Zhejiang Provinc, China; and J. Xu Jr.

Poster PDF (350.3 kB)

 
P1.4
 
P1.5
Evaluating the sources characteristics of measured oxygenated volatile organic compounds using factor analysis
Changsub Shim, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and Y. Wang

 
P1.7
Case Study of the Late July 2005 Ground-Level Ozone Episode in North Carolina
Nicholas C. Witcraft, North Carolina Division of Air Quality, Raleigh, NC; and G. M. Bridgers, B. Do, P. O' Reilly, and L. Marufu

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

 
P1.8
Atmospheric Composition Data Products from the EOS Aura MLS
Suraiya P. Ahmad, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. W. Waters, J. E. Johnson, I. V. Gerasimov, G. G. Leptoukh, and S. J. Kempler

Poster PDF (702.0 kB)

 
P1.9
Analysis of air pollutant transport to Class I Areas Using Multiple Satellite Products and In Situ Ground Based Measurements
Nikisa Jordan, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and K. J. McCann, R. M. Hoff, and J. Engel-Cox

Poster PDF (386.1 kB)

 
P1.11
A Web Based Tool for Visualization and Analysis of Atmospheric Composition Data
James E. Johnson, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. P. Ahmad, T. Zhu, I. Gerasimov, G. Leptoukh, and S. Kempler

Poster PDF (523.0 kB)


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (M2)

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-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 2
Air Quality and Climate Change
Location: A408 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Chair: Vernon R. Morris, Howard University
  8:30 AM
2.1
  8:45 AM
2.2
Regional climate model downscaling of the U.S. climate and change
Xin-Zhong Liang, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and H. C. Huang, A. Williams, M. Caughey, K. E. Kunkel, D. J. Wuebbles, J. Zhu, J. Pan, M. Xu, and Z. Tao
  9:00 AM
2.3
Impacts of the long-range transport of global pollutants and precursors on the U.S. air quality in the present and future climate conditions
Ho–Chun Huang, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. O. Patten Jr., X. Z. Liang, A. Williams, M. Caughey, K. E. Kunkel, Z. Tao, D. J. Wuebbles, J. Zhu, J. Pan, M. Xu, and J. T. Lin

  9:15 AM
2.4
The influence of climate change on regional air quality in California 
Allison L. Steiner, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and S. Tonse, R. C. Cohen, A. H. Goldstein, and R. A. Harley
  9:30 AM
2.5
Influence of global change on regional air quality in the Pacific Northwest region
Jack Chen, Washington State University, Pullman, WA; and J. Avise, B. Lamb, C. Wiedinmyer, A. Guenther, J. F. Lamarque, C. Mass, E. Salathe, S. O’Neill, N. Larkin, and D. McKenzie

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1)

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 )

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (T2)

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 1
Photochemical Modeling and Monitoring (Joint between the 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry and the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA)
Location: A407 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc )
Chair: Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ.
  8:30 AM
J1.1
Probing into Regional O3 and PM Pollution: A 1-year CMAQ Simulation and Process Analysis over the United States
Yang Zhang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and K. Vijayaraghavan, J. Huang, and M. Z. Jacobson
  8:45 AM
J1.2
Process Analysis of Different Synoptic Patterns of O3 Episodes in Hong Kong
Jianping Huang, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and J. C. H. Fung, Y. Zhang, K. H. Lau, and Y. Qin
  9:00 AM
J1.3
Results of Coupling the WRF-Chemistry model w/ the SMOKE Emissions Processing/Modeling System
John McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC; and C. J. Coats Jr. and J. Vukovich
  9:15 AM
J1.4
Comparison of WRF/CAMx and MM5/CAMx simulations for an ozone episode in California
Su-Tzai Soong, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, San Francisco, CA; and P. T. Martien, C. L. Archer, S. Tanrikulu, J. M. Wilczak, J. W. Bao, S. A. Michelson, Y. Jia, and C. A. Emery
  9:30 AM
J1.5
CAMx simulations of Middle-East ozone concentration-trends by use of RAMS and MM5 input
Shoukri Kasakseh, San Jose State Univ., San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein and E. Weinroth
  10:15 AM
J1.8
Airborne measurements of ozone and reactive nitrogen compounds in Tampa, Florida during the Bay Regional Atmospheric Chemistry Experiment (BRACE)
Winston T. Luke, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and J. R. Arnold, T. B. Watson, R. L. Gunter, L. I. Kleinman, P. K. Dasgupta, and D. D. Riemer
  10:30 AM
J1.9
A tale of two summers (2004, 2005): Ozone soundings in the Mid-Atlantic region
Anne M. Thompson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and E. Joseph, B. F. Taubman, J. C. Witte, J. B. Stone, R. B. Pierce, V. Davis, S. M. Michaels, and F. Schmidlin
  10:45 AM
J1.10
Ozone in Beijing area: observations in 2000
Feng Liu, Brandenburg Univ. of Technology, Cottbus, Germany; and H. Chen, F. Hu, and Y. Xu

  11:00 AM
J1.11
Ozone and nitric acid variability in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere measured during the Polar Aura Validation Experiment
Melody A. Avery, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and J. V. Plant, J. E. Dibb, E. Scheuer, E. V. Browell, J. W. Hair, T. J. McGee, L. Pfister, M. Schoeberl, and L. Lait
  11:15 AM
J1.12
A multi-scale observational and modeling approach to the characterization of upper tropospheric composition and Stratospheric-Tropospheric exchange during INTEX-A
Melody A. Avery, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA; and A. M. Thompson, E. V. Browell, B. Pierce, G. Diskin, G. Sachse, J. E. Dibb, and R. C. Cohen

  11:30 AM
J1.6A
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer

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-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


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)
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Chair: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ.
  1:30 PM
J5.1
  2:15 PM
J5.3

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (W2)

3:45 PM-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Sessions end for the day (W)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


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)
Location: A309 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ.
  4:30 PM
J6.2
Using DMS as a model gas for studying air sea gas exchange via eddy covariance
Barry J. Huebert, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and B. W. Blomquist
  4:45 PM
J6.3
Water-side Turbulence Enhancement of Ozone Deposition to the Ocean
C. W. Fairall, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and D. Helmig, J. E. Hare, and L. Ganzveld
  5:00 PM
J6.4
Marine storm impacts on bubbles and air-sea exchange of gases
Weiqing Zhang, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Perrie and S. Vagle
  5:15 PM
J6.5

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


THUR 2 FEB

Thur 2 Feb

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Joint Session 3
Air Quality Forecasting (Joint with the 8th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry and 14th Joint Conference on the Application of Air Pollution with the A&WMA)
Location: A408 (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 Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry )
Chair: Daewon W. Byun, Univ. of Houston
  8:30 AM
J3.1
The WRF_Chemistry Air Quality Model: Updates and Online/Offline Comparisons
Georg Grell, NOAA/ERL/FSL and CIRES/ Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. E. Peckham, S. A. McKeen, and W. C. Skamarock

  8:45 AM
J3.2
Evaluation of WRF-chemistry air quality simulations for NEAQS2004
Steven E. Peckham, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and G. Grell, S. A. McKeen, and J. M. Wilczak

  9:00 AM
J3.3
Implementation and testing of a new aerosol module in WRF/chem
Xiaoming Hu, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Zhang
  9:15 AM
J3.4
Comparison of Two Transport Descriptors within a Hybrid Receptor Modeling System
John M. Shuford, ENSCO Inc., Melbourne, FL; and J. G. Eoll, S. L. Seely, W. G. Moore, and J. G. Dreher
  9:30 AM
J3.5
Ensemble Kalman filter data assimilation for improved chemical tracer forecasts in a 2-D sea breeze model (Foremerly J10.10)
Amy L. Stuart, Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and A. Aksoy, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, and F. Zhang

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


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Th1)

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


Exhibits Open (Th)

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


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

1:30 PM-4:45 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


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)
Location: A312 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Steven R. Hanna, Harvard Univ.; S. Pal Arya, North Carolina State Univ.
  1:30 PM
J10.1
The emergence of numerical air quality forecasting models and their application
Kenneth Schere, NOAA/ERL/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and V. S. Bouchet, G. A. Grell, J. N. McHenry, and S. A. McKeen
  2:00 PM
J10.2
  2:15 PM
J10.3
Supporting Real-Time Air Quality Forecasting using the SMOKE modeling system
Jeff Vukovich, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC., Raleigh, NC; and D. T. Olerud, J. N. McHenry, C. J. Coats, and W. T. Smith
  2:30 PM
J10.4
Operational Evaluation of Houston-Galveston Area Air Quality Forecasts with two Different Meteorological Inputs
Meongdo Jang, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX; and D. W. Byun, S. Kim, C. K. Song, H. J. In, and F. Y. Cheng
  2:45 PM
J10.5
Implementation and evaluation of a continental US air quality forecast system
Donald T. Olerud Jr., Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC
  3:00 PM
J10.6
Expanding coverage of the NOAA-EPA Air Quality Forecast Capability
Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and N. Seaman, J. McQueen, R. Mathur, R. A. Wayland, and K. Carey

  3:15 PM
J10.7
An operational numerical model haze forecasting system for the CONUS
Robert E. Imhoff, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Candler, NC; and D. T. Olerud, R. L. Miller, J. Vukovich, and J. F. Fox
  3:30 PM
J10.8
AIRPACT-3: air quality forecasting for the Pacific and Inland Northwest U.S. and nearby British Columbia
Brian K. Lamb, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan, J. Avise, and J. Chen
  3:45 PM
J10.9
An ensemble smoke dispersion forecast system for management of agricultural field burning
Kyle M. Heitkamp, Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA; and J. Vaughan and B. K. Lamb
  4:00 PM
J10.10
J10.10 moved to J3.5

  4:15 PM
J10.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and AMS iPod Raffle

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


Registration Desk Closes

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


Exhibit Close

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Conference Ends

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


Lilly Symposium Banquet