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 ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) 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 ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) 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 ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) 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 ![wrf recording](/static/img/filetypes/16x16/wrf.gif) 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 |