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Mitigation of Urban Heat Islands (Joint with 6th Symposium on the Urban Environment and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)

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Tuesday, 31 January 2006: 1:45 PM-4:30 PM
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, London, United Kingdom
Papers:
  1:45 PM
J3.1
Mitigation of urban heat islands - recent progress and future prospects
David J. Sailor, Portland State Univ., Portland, OR

Presentation PDF (288.0 kB)

  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

Presentation PDF (106.3 kB)

  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

Presentation PDF (545.1 kB)

  2:45 PM
J3.4
Urban heat islands and extreme climate events: surface temperature variability over Paris during the heat-wave of summer 2003
Benedicte Dousset, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD

  3:00 PM
J3.5
Numerical simulations of urban heat islands and transport and dispersion of airborne materials around building clusters
Tetsuji Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation, Santa Fe, NM

Presentation PDF (321.0 kB)

  3:15 PM
J3.6
The energetics of urban microclimates
Timothy M. Barzyk, Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL; and J. E. Frederick

Presentation PDF (2.2 MB)

  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

Presentation PDF (176.5 kB)

  3:45 PM
J3.8
Urban heat islands and environmental impact
Suryadevara Sachi Devi, Andhra Univ., Visakhapatnam, India

Presentation PDF (438.1 kB)

  4:00 PM
J3.4A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

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