AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges

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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

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (M1)

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

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

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


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (T1)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Session 2
Water Conservation in Deserts (Joint with 20th Conference on Hydrology and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Hydrology; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, King’s College; Bart Nijssen, University of Washington
  11:15 AM
J2.2
Utility of Satellite Thermal Remote Sensing for Mapping Riparian and Upland Desert Water Use
Fuqin Li, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and M. C. Anderson, W. P. Kustas, R. L. Scott, and J. H. Prueger
  11:30 AM
J2.3
Improving 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 AM
J2.4
Improving Drought Monitoring and Prediction Using LIS and Satellite Products
Kristi R. Arsenault, George Mason University, Calverton, MD; and A. Pinheiro, R. Stodt, D. Toll, and P. R. Houser

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

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

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-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

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

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

8:30 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


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)
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, Kings College; Greg Forbes, The Weather Channel; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS
  8:30 AM
J8.1
Flash Flood Forecasting in Urban Drainage Basins
James A. Smith, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
  9:00 AM
J8.2
Flash flood warning operations during tropical rainfall in low relief terrain
Richard J. Lanier, NOAA/NWS, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Suk and D. S. Berkowitz
  9:30 AM
J8.4
  10:00 AM
J8.6
  10:15 AM
J8.7
Results 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
  10:45 AM
J8.9
Flash Flood Disaster and Flash Flood Warning in China
Lingli Wang, George Mason Univ., fairfax, VA; and J. Qu
  11:00 AM
J8.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

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)

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