Session 12A |
| | Forecasting Challenges in the Urban Enrivonment |
| | Chair: John V. Cortinas, Jr., NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD
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| 10:30 AM | 12A.1 | NOAA-EPA’s New National Air Quality Forecast Capability: Transitioning Research to Operations
Paula Davidson, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Mathur, J. T. McQueen, R. A. Wayland, N. Seaman, and K. Carey |
| 10:45 AM | 12A.2 | Update to and Recent Performance of the NAM-CMAQ Air Quality Forecast Model at NCEP operations  
Jeffery T. McQueen, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and P. C. Lee, M. Tsidulko, G. DiMego, T. Otte, J. Pleim, G. Pouliout, J. Young, D. Kang, P. M. Davidson, and N. Seaman |
| 11:00 AM | 12A.3 | Planetary Boundary Layer height and surface ozone verification in the NOAA/EPA Air Quality Forecast System
Marina Tsidulko, SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and G. J. DiMego, M. Ek, J. McQueen, P. Lee, R. Mathur, J. Pleim, D. Kang, H. M. Lin, T. Otte, G. A. Pouliot, D. Wong, J. Young, K. Schere, P. Davidson, N. Seaman, and M. Schenk |
| 11:15 AM | 12A.4 | Aerosol forecast by Eta-CMAQ for the poor air quality episode in early February 2005
Pius Lee, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. McQueen, R. Mathur, M. Tsidulko, S. Kondragunta, J. Pleim, D. Kang, H. M. Lin, T. L. Otte, J. O. Young, G. Pouliot, G. DiMego, K. Schere, P. Davidson, and N. Seaman |
| 11:30 AM | 12A.5 | Perth, Western Australia wildfires of January 2005: Meteorological challenges of fire control and smoke plume predicition in a forest - urban environment
Bruce William Buckley, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, West Perth, Australia; and L. M. Leslie and G. Reader |
| 11:45 AM | 12A.6 | Storm surge modeling for the New York City metropolitan region
Brian A. Colle, Stony Brook University/SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and M. J. Bowman, R. E. Wilson, R. Flood, D. Hill, F. Buonaiuto, Y. Zheng, R. Hunter, and C. Mirchel |