Sunday, 9 January 2000 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday 1 Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday 1 Conference Registration |
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Monday, 10 January 2000 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday 1 Registration continues though Friday, 14 January |
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| 8:45 AM, Monday Session 1 Introductory Remarks |
Organizer: Jeffrey C. Weil, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
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| 9:00 AM-10:00 AM, Monday Session 2 Dispersion in the stable boundary layer |
Organizer: Ric Cederwall, LLNL, Livermore, CA
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-11:44 AM, Monday Session 3 Dispersion in the convective boundary layer |
Organizer: H. J. S. Fernando, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
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| 10:30 AM | 3.1 | Timing of the morning transition to the convective boundary layer Wayne M. Angevine, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO |
| 10:45 AM | 3.2 | Vertical dispersion of a passive scalar in the convective boundary layer: new laboratory results Mark F. Hibberd, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Vic., Australia |
| 11:00 AM | 3.3 | A multi-stream model for vertical mixing of a passive tracer in the convective boundary layer Jongil Han, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and D. W. Byun |
| 11:15 AM | 3.4 | Lagrangian modeling of dispersion in the convective boundary layer over a range of stability J. C. Weil, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. P. Sullivan and C. H. Moeng |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 3.5 | Large eddy simulation of near-source diffusion into the convective boundary layer in weak winds Jongil Han, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, North Carolina; and S. P. Arya |
| 11:30 AM | 3.5A | Modeling Puff Diffusion in a Laboratory Convection Tank. Robert E. Lawson Jr., NOAA/ARL/ASMD, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. S. Thompson, S. G. Perry, and W. H. Snyder |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Monday Session 4A Dispersion about buildings and obstacles (Parallel with Session 4B) |
Organizer: Robert J. Paine, ENSR Corporation, Acton, MA
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| 1:30 PM | 4A.1 | Evaluation of PRIME and ISC3 versus wind tunnel observations R. L. Petersen, Cermak Peterka Petersen, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and B. C. Cochran and J. J. Carter |
| 1:45 PM | 4A.2 | Mean flow and turbulence measurements around a 2-D array of buildings in a wind tunnel Michael J. Brown, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and R. E. Lawson, D. S. DeCroix, and R. L. Lee |
| 2:00 PM | 4A.3 | A CFD Model Intercomparison and Validation using High Resolution Wind Tunnel Data William Scott Smith, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. M. Reisner, D. S. Decroix, M. J. Brown, R. L. Lee, S. T. Chan, and D. E. Stevens |
| 2:15 PM | 4A.4 | Flow patterns around a complex building R. Calhoun, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and S. Chan, R. Lee, J. Leone, J. Shinn, and D. Stevens |
| 2:30 PM | 4A.5 | Large-eddy and Gaussian simulations of downwind dispersion from large building HVAC exhaust David S. DeCroix, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and W. S. Smith, G. E. Streit, and M. J. Brown |
| 2:45 PM | 4A.6 | An Experimental Investigation of Urban Street-Canyon Flows Jong-Jin Baik, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Kwangju, Korea; and R. S. Park, H. Y. Chun, and J. J. Kim |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Monday Session 4B Transport and dispersion in coastal environments (Parallel with Session 4A) |
Organizer: Ted Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation, Santa Fe, NM
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| 1:30 PM | 4B.1 | The Houston Heat Pump: Modulation of a land-sea breeze by an urban heat island John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX |
| 1:45 PM | 4B.2 | Preliminary Meteorological analysis of a 1997 Southern California ozone study (SCOS'97) episode R. Bornstein, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and D. Boucouvala |
| 2:00 PM | 4B.3 | Use of a wind profiler network to determine air ventilation during high ozone episodes in the Los Angeles basin Dominique Ruffieux, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and A. B. White |
| 2:15 PM | 4B.4 | High resolution MC2 Modelling: Lake Breeze, Severe Weather and Air Pollution Xin Qiu, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. A. Taylor and F. Conway |
| 2:30 PM | 4B.5 | Development and Evaluation of a New Algorithm for Estimating TIBL Height R. L. Petersen, Cermak Peterka Petersen, Inc., Fort Collins, CO |
| 2:45 PM | 4B.6 | The application of CALMET/CALPUFF to develop agricultural burning procedures on the island of Maui Kit K. Wagner, Atmospheric Information Systems, Norman, OK; and V. Bigler-Engler |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Monday Coffee Break |
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| 3:30 PM-5:45 PM, Monday Session 5 Meso-and regional-scale modeling |
Organizer: Robert J. Kurzeja, Westinghouse Savannah River Co., Aiken, SC
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| 3:30 PM | | Sessions end for the day
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| 3:45 PM | 5.1 | A real-time atmospheric dispersion modeling system John S. Nasstrom, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and G. Sugiyama, J. M. Leone, and D. L. Ermak |
| 4:00 PM | 5.2 | Mesoscale Modeling with MM5 for the PATH Study (Pollutants in the Atmosphere and their Transport over Hong Kong) William L. Physick, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Vic., Australia; and J. A. Noonan |
| 4:15 PM | 5.3 | Application of the SARMAP air quality model (SAQM) to the modelling of air pollution in Hong Kong for the PATH study. Martin E. Cope, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Aspendale, Vic., Australia; and M. Burgers and M. Olliff |
| 4:30 PM | 5.4 | Numerical simulation of meteorology for the July 26-30, 1990 ozone episode in the San Joaquin Valley Saffet Tanrikulu, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA; and K. Gurer and A. J. Ranzieri |
| 4:45 PM | 5.5 | A Shallow Convection Scheme for 3-D Regional Scale Air-Quality Applications Aijun Deng, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and N. Seaman and A. Lario-Gibbs |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 5.6 | Sensitivity of a regional indicator to Models-3 results at two spatial resolutions Denis M Lohman, EPA, Philadelphia, PA; and A. J. Cimorelli and K. I. Lazarova |
| 5:00 PM | 5.6A | Reconstruction of Lead (Pb) Fluxes in Europe during 1955-1995 and Evaluation of Gasoline Lead-Content Regulations Hans von Storch, Institute of Hydrophysics/GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany; and M. Costa-Cabral, F. Feser, and C. Hagner |
| 5:14 PM | 5.7 | Trans-Pacific Yellow Sand and Trace Gas Transport in April 1998 Itsushi Uno, Research Institute for Applied Mechanics/Kyushu Univ., Kasuga, Fukuoka, Japan; and S. Emori and S. Sugata |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 5.8 | Global/regional numerical transport and transformation of mercury in the atmosphere Ashu P Dastoor, AES, Dorval, PQ, Canada |
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| 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday 1 Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Monday 1 Fujita Banquet |
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Tuesday, 11 January 2000 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday Session 6 Photochemical air quality models |
Organizer: A. Venkatram, University of California, Riverside, CA
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| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | How meteorology affects ozone formation and why it matters (Invited Presentation) Sanford Sillman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 9:00 AM | 6.2 | Monte Carlo Studies of Uncertainties in UAM-V Predictions for the July 1995 OTAG Period Steven R. Hanna, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and Z. Lu, H. C. Frey, N. Wheeler, J. Vukovich, S. Arunachalam, M. Fernau, and D. A. Hansen |
| 9:15 AM | 6.3 | The effect of vertical diffusivity on photochemical model estimates of tropospheric ozone Robert E. Imhoff, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL; and E. M. Bailey and S. F. Mueller |
| 9:30 AM | 6.4 | Process-based analysis of the role of the Gulf breeze in simulating ozone concentrations along the Eastern Gulf Coast Sharon G. Douglas, ICF Consulting, San Rafael, CA; and J. L. Haney and A. Alvarez |
| 9:45 AM | 6.5 | Sensitivity of the regional ozone modeling results to different physical processes within a meteorological model Jhumoor Biswas, SUNY, Albany, NY; and S. T. Rao, K. Zhang, and N. Seaman |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-2:15 P.M.) |
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| 10:30 AM-11:15 AM, Tuesday 1 WALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective. Speaker: R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada |
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| 11:15 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday 1 WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications). Title: Meteorology and the Environment - the WMO Perspective. Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| 12:15 PM-2:15 PM, Tuesday 1 Conference Luncheon. Speaker: D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator for NOAA, Silver Spring, MD |
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| 2:15 PM-3:15 PM, Tuesday Session 6 Photochemical Air Quality Models: Continued (Parallel with Session 7) |
| 2:15 PM | 6.6 | A Modeling Study to Assess the Impact of Local Point Source Emissions on Texas Regional Strategy Shiang-Yuh Wu, AER, Inc., San Ramon, CA; and P. Pai and K. John |
| 2:30 PM | 6.7 | Evaluating Meteorological input parameters for seasonal photochemical modeling on different time scales Christian Hogrefe, SUNY, Albany, NY; and S. T. Rao |
| 2:45 PM | 6.8 | Second-order Closure Integrated Puff (SCIPUFF) model with gas and aqueous phase chemistry and aerosols Lynne Santos, Titan Corporation, Princeton, NJ; and R. I. Sykes, P. Karamchandani, C. Seigneur, F. Lurmann, R. Arndt, and N. Kumar |
| 3:00 PM | 6.9 | Application of CALMET/CALGRID to Auckland, New Zealand Neil R. Gimson, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand; and D. Z. Belberova |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 6.10 | Unusual ground-level ozone observations in Canada's Rocky Mountain foothills Brian J. Wiens, Environment Canada, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and K. McDonald |
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| 2:15 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday Session 7 Instantaneous and accidental releases (Parallel with Session 6) |
Organizer: R. L. Petersen, Cermak, Peterka Petersen, Inc., Fort Collins, CO
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| 2:15 PM | 7.1 | A Gaussian puff model for flashing aerosol releases: Comparison with GRADE data R. I. Sykes, Titan Research and Technology, Princeton, NJ; and C. P. Cerasoli, C. D. Jones, and I. D. Roberts |
| 2:30 PM | 7.3 | Application of a Prognostic Model Validation System to Real-Time Dispersion Modeling John C. Pace, LLNL, Livermore, CA |
| 2:45 PM | 7.4 | Evaluation of RAMS in the Eastern Range Dispersion Assessment System Jonathan L. Case, NASA/Kennedy Space Center/Applied Meteorology Unit/ENSCO, Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and J. Manobianco, M. M. Wheeler, A. V. Dianic, C. R. Parks, and D. E. Harms |
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| 3:30 PM-4:00 PM, Tuesday 1 Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:00 P.M.) |
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| 4:00 PM-5:45 PM, Tuesday Session 8A The urban environment-meteorology, dispersion, and air quality (Parallel with Session 8B) |
Organizer: Jerry D. Hill, Bechtel Corp., Houston, TX
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| 4:00 PM | 8A.1 | The WMO Urban Environment Programme (Invited Presentation) Frederic Delsol, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 4:15 PM | 8A.2 | Aerodynamic parameters (z0, zd and raM) in urban areas C. Sue B. Grimmond, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; and T. R. Oke |
| 4:30 PM | 8A.3 | Urban induced convergence zones and their effects on convective thunderstorms and air quality Qinglu Lin, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; and R. Bornstein |
| 4:45 PM | 8A.4 | Use of ADMS-Urban to calculate high resolution air quality maps in urban areas D. J. Carruthers, Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and C. A. McHugh and S. G. Nixon |
| 5:00 PM | 8A.5 | Modeling of Flow and Photochemistry in Complex Urban Environments Rainer Stern, IVU Umwelt GmbH, Sexau, Germany; and R. Yamartino |
| 5:15 PM | 8A.6 | Air Quality Modeling of PM and Air Toxics at Neighborhood Scales Jason Ching, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC |
| 5:30 PM | 8A.7 | The impact of data assimilation on modeling the inter-regional transport of smoke into the Sydney metropolitan area from prescribed burns Milton S. Speer, Bureau of Meteorology, Sydney, Australia; and L. M. Leslie and R. Bunker |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 8A.8 | An Air Emissions Inventory for Hong Kong Neil R Wong, Environment Protection Authority, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and L. Bonadio, Y. L. Ng, R. Serebryanikova, and K. Tilly |
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| 4:00 PM-5:45 PM, Tuesday Session 8B Deposition Modeling (Parallel with Session 8A) |
Organizer: Steven Hanna, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA
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| 4:00 PM | 8B.1 | An Experimental Study of The Emissions and Dry Deposition of Ammonia Over Natural Surfaces In Eastern North Carolina S. Pal Arya, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and V. P. Aneja, B. T. Peterson, N. Agrawal, and D. Nelson |
| 4:15 PM | 8B.2 | Modeling the Atmospheric Contribution of Nitrogen Compounds in Urban Stormwater Runoff Steven J. Burian, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and G. E. Streit, T. N. McPherson, M. J. Brown, and H. J. Turin |
| 4:30 PM | 8B.3 | Modeling atmospheric deposition from a Cesium release in Spain using a stochastic transport model Robert L. Buckley, Savannah River Technology Center, Aiken, SC |
| 4:45 PM | 8B.4 | Computating Surface Concentration Fluxes of Trace Gases Using a Variational Method Jianmin Ma, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada; and S. M. Daggupaty |
| 5:00 PM | 8B.5 | Evaluation and comparison of dry deposition velocity calculations using two different methods of handling sub-grid land cover variation Xiaohong Xu, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and D. R. Miller |
| 5:15 PM | 8B.6 | Numerical Simulation of Lead Deposition to the Great Lakes Using Sources from Canada and United States S. M. Daggupaty, AES, Toronto, ON, Canada; and J. Ma |
| 5:30 PM | 8B.7 | Gaseous deposition described with the Industrial Source Complex model M. L. Wesely, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. D. Shannon, P. V. Doskey, and J. S. Touma |
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| 5:45 PM, Tuesday Sessions end for the day |
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Wednesday, 12 January 2000 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday Session 9 Advanced modeling techniques for dispersion on all scales |
Organizer: S. Pal Arya, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
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| 8:30 AM | 9.1 | Advances in short range dispersion modeling (Invited Presentation) Akula Venkatram, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA |
| 9:00 AM | 9.2 | Results of an Extensive Evaluation of the Kinematic Simulation Particle Model Using Tracer and Wind Tunnel Experiments Robert J. Yamartino, Earth Tech, Inc., Concord, MA; and D. Strimaitis and A. Graff |
| 9:15 AM | 9.3 | Application of Lagrangian particle technique to modeling atmospheric transport in different scales: from LES to RAMS to GCM Marek Uliasz, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 9:30 AM | 9.4 | Building and terrain effects in a mesoscale model Ted Yamada, Yamada Science & Art Corporation, Santa Fe, NM |
| 9:45 AM | 9.5 | Using receptor-oriented modelling techniques to determine agricultural emissions of greenhouse gases Neil R. Gimson, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Wellington, New Zealand; and M. Uliasz, G. Brailsford, T. Bromley, K. Lassey, and D. Wratt |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 A.M.-1:30 P.M.) |
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| 10:30 AM-11:44 AM, Wednesday Session 9 Advanced modeling techniques for dispersion on all scales: Continued (Parallel with Session 10) |
Organizer: John S. Nasstrom, LLNL, Livermore, CA
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| 10:30 AM | 9.6 | Refinement of Horizontal Diffusion in Photochemical Grid Models Robert Yamartino, Earth Tech, Inc., Concord, MA |
| 10:45 AM | 9.7 | Application of the UAM-VPM ozone/particulate modeling system to the Lower Fraser Valley-Vancouver, British Columbia Hans P. Deuel, ICF Consulting, San Rafael, CA; and J. L. Haney |
| 11:00 AM | 9.8 | A Technique for Assimilating Surface Data to Improve the Accuracy of Atmospheric Boundary Layer Simulations: A 1-D Model Study Kiran Alapaty, MCNC-North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC; and N. Seaman and D. Niyogi |
| 11:15 AM | 9.9 | Synoptic Scale Vertical Effluent Redistribution: A Comparison of Two Modeling Approaches Stephen E. Masters, ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and M. K. Atchison |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 9.10 | Some improvement in k theory for turbulent diffusion Feng Liu, Ocean University of Qingdao, Qingdao, China; and X. Bi |
| 11:29 AM | 9.10a | Canadian Forest Fires and their influence on Pollutant Concentrations in the United States during the Summer of 1995 Gerhard Wotawa, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Trainer |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday Session 10 Transport and dispersion in complex terrain: Part I (Parallel with Session 9) |
Organizer: R. Ian Sykes, Titan Corporation, Princeton, NJ
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| 10:30 AM | 10.1 | Morning Transition of Complex-Terrain Flows H. J. S. Fernando, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and E. Pardyjak, G. Wang, J. Anderson, A. Ellis, and N. S. Berman |
| 10:45 AM | 10.2 | The Transport of Atmospheric Pollutants in the Complex Terrain of the Phoenix Area Dana L. Perry, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ; and J. R. Anderson, P. R. Buseck, and H. J. S. Fernando |
| 11:00 AM | 10.3 | A Field Study of Cold Pool Evolution William J. Shaw, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. D. Whiteman, J. M. Hubbe, and X. Bian |
| 11:15 AM | 10.4 | Air pollutant transport and dispersion during a cold pool episode in the Mid Columbia Basin Shiyuan Zhong, PNNL, Richland, WA; and C. D. Whiteman, W. J. Shaw, J. M. Hubbe, and X. Bian |
| 11:30 AM | 10.5 | Gravity wave stress parameterization in a mesoscale sea breeze model Carmen J. Nappo, NOAA/ARL, Oak Ridge, TN; and W. Physick |
| 11:45 AM | 10.6 | The Mixing Layer Terrain Wind Adjustment Model (MILTWAM) for Airflow over Complex Terrain Steven A. Stage, Innovative Emergency Management, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA; and Z. Wu, N. Mainkar, J. Weltman, and M. Myirski |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday Session 11 Transport and dispersion in complex terrain: Part II (Parallel with Session 12) |
Organizer: Robert Yamartino, Consultant, Concord, MA
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| 1:30 PM | 11.1 | Numerical Investigation of the Cause of Shallow Summertime Mixing Depths in the San Joaquin Valley Nelson Seaman, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and K. Alapaty |
| 1:45 PM | 11.2 | A Tracer Dispersion Model Driven by Global-Scale Analyses and Mesoscale (MM5) Model Output and Its Validation with Tracer Experiment Data Gerhard Wotawa, Univ. fur Bodenkultur Wein, Vienna, Austria; and A. Stohl |
| 2:00 PM | 11.3 | Experiences in meteorological tower and acoustic sodar installation and operation for several complex terrain sites Leo J. Gendron, ENSR Corp., Acton, MA; and A. Carpenito, P. Taverna, N. Mahoney, and R. J. Paine |
| 2:15 PM | 11.4 | Experience in modeling applications using on-site tower and sodar data Robert J. Paine, ENSR Corp., Acton, MA; and L. J. Gendron |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday Session 12 Concentration fluctuations (Parallel with Session 11) |
Organizer: John S. Irwin, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC
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| 1:30 PM | 12.1 | Comparisons of a puff trajectory model with real time tracer measurements Kirk L. Clawson, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and J. F. Sagendorf and R. G. Carter |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 12.2 | On the use of one-particle models in the calculation of two-particle statistics of turbulent diffusion Shuming Du, Earth Tech, Inc., Concord, MA |
| 1:44 PM | 12.3 | Concentration fluctuation studies of plume dispersion for different release heights in the convective boundary layer B. Chowdhury, Univ. Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and T. T. H. Tsang |
| 1:59 PM | 12.3a | Validation of HPAC with Porbabilistic Dispersion Trials Thomas Mazzola, Logican Advanced Technology, Alexandria, VA; and D. Srinivasa and R. I. Sykes |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 12.4 | Predicting concentration fluctuations with a Puff-Particle Model, and its evaluation using draft ASTM Practice Z6849Z Peter J. de Haan, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |
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| 2:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday Poster Session 1 Oral Briefing: (Each poster presenter will have one and one-half minutes for an oral introduction) |
Organizer: Jeffrey C. Weil, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
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| 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday Poster Session 1 (Formal Viewing with Coffee) |
| | P1.1 | Analysis of the Effects of ASOS Data on Air Dispersion Modeling Dennis G. Atkinson, NOAA/ARL, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. O. Paumier and R. W. Brode |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | P1.2 | Industrial Source Complex (ISC) Modeling with ASOS Data John White, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Raleigh, NC; and M. Yoder |
| | P1.3 | Concentration fluctuations and plume dispersion within 100 m of an isolated source during stable conditions Jeremy Avise, Montana Tech, Butte, MT; and H. Peterson and B. Lamb |
| | P1.4 | Concentration fluctuations and plume dispersion in the vicinity of an isolated building Michael F. Dunleavy, Montana Tech, Butte, MT; and H. Peterson and B. Lamb |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | P1.5 | A statistical comparison of four planetary boundary layer analysis algorithms Robert L. Russ, Air Force Technical Applications Center, Patrick AFB, FL; and D. Dean and M. K. Walters |
| | P1.6 | CTSCREEN Scaling Factors for the Tropics Herman Wong, Hawaii State Department of Health, Honolulu, HI |
| | P1.7 | Evolution in the Design of a Smart Balloon for Lagrangian Air Mass Tracking Steven Businger, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and R. Johnson |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | P1.8 | Air Dispersion Modeling via the Internet James A. Westbrook, Westbrook Environmental, Inc., San Diego, CA |
| | P1.9 | Spectral Transfer of Concentration Correlation with Photochemical Reaction for Inhomogeneous Turbulence in Planetary Boundary Layer Sukaran Ram Patel, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil |
| | P1.10 | An overview of the Gulf Coast Ozone Study Jay L. Haney, ICF Consulting, San Rafael, CA; and S. G. Douglas |
| | P1.11 | Development of an objective approach to episode selection for air quality modeling Sharon G. Douglas, ICF Consulting, San Rafael, CA; and H. P. Deuel and A. B. Hudischewskyj |
| | P1.12 | Development, testing, and application of a homology mapping technique for the estimation of ozone concentrations in unmonitored areas Sharon G. Douglas, ICF Consulting, San Rafael, CA; and R. K. Iwamiya and H. P. Deuel |
| | P1.13 | Paper moved to Session 5, Paper 5.6
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| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | P1.14 | Midwest Subregional Modeling: 1-Hour Attainment Demonstration Michael Koerber, Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium, Des Plaines, IL |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | P1.15 | A texture analysis approach of selecting an optimum grid size Vlad Isakov, DynTel, Research Triangle Park, NC; and M. Dudek and J. S. Touma |
| | P1.16 | Effect of the addition of an ultrafine (4-km) grid on ozone formation predicted by UAM-V Robert E. Imhoff, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL; and E. M. Bailey, S. F. Mueller, and L. L. Gautney |
| | P1.17 | Potential Ozone Formation Attributable to Rural Interstate Traffic Steven L. Jones Jr., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. D. Fuentes, P. A. Makar, and M. J. Demetsky |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | P1.18 | Evaluation of the operational Swiss weather forecast model for air quality applications in the Po Basin south of the Alps Gerhard Wotawa, Univ. fuer Bodenkultur Wien, Vienna, Austria; and H. Kroeger |
| | P1.19 | A validation of large eddy simulation for complex urban environments David Stevens, LLNL, Livermore, CA |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | P1.20 | AERMOD VERSUS CTDMPLUS: A CASE STUDY Kristen A. Egan, Roy F. Weston, Inc., West Chester, PA |
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| 3:00 PM, Wednesday 0b Exhibit Hours 3:00-7:30 P.M. |
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| 4:00 PM-4:45 PM, Wednesday Session 13 Transport and dispersion in complex terrain: Part III (Parallel with Session 14) |
Organizer: Robert Yamartino, Consultant, Concord, MA
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| 4:15 PM | 13.1 | Operational Evaluation of an Improved Adaptive Puff Model (APM-2) Applied to the Complex Terrain around the As Pontes Power Plant in Northwestern Spain Jose A. Souto, Centro de Supercomputacion de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; and M. C. de Castro, F. L. Ludwig, J. J. Casares, and J. L. Bermudez |
| 4:30 PM | 13.2 | Meteorological Processing for a Models-3 Application in the Lower Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada Mariusz Pagowski, Rowan Williams Davies & Irwin, Inc., Guelph, ON, Canada; and M. LePage and W. Jiang |
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| 4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday Session 14 Model Evaluation (Parallel with Session 13) |
Organizer: John S. Irwin, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC
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| 4:00 PM | 14.1 | Evaluation of CALPUFF, HPAC, and VLSTRACK with the Dipole Pride 26 Field Data Joseph C. Chang, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and P. Franzese and S. R. Hanna |
| 4:15 PM | 14.2 | AERMOD: Further Analysis of Evaluation Results Robert J. Paine, ENSR Corporation, Acton, MA; and R. W. Brode |
| 4:30 PM | 14.3 | Evaluation of AERMOD at a Rural Petroleum Refinery in Simple and Complex Terrain Jeffrey A. Panek, BP-Amoco Corporation, Warrenville, IL; and R. L. Graw |
| 4:45 PM | 14.4 | Evaluation of AERMOD model performance under building downwash conditions Roger W. Brode, Pacific Environmental Services, Research Triangle Park, NC; and M. Jindal |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 14.5 | Sensitivity of AERMOD concentration predictions to variations in several input parameters Russell F. Lee, Consultant, Durham, NC |
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| 5:15 PM, Wednesday Sessions end for the day |
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| 6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday 1 Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday 1 AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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Thursday, 13 January 2000 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Thursday Session 15 Aerosols and Particulates |
Organizer: Jeffrey S. Gaffney, ANL, Argonne, IL
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| 8:30 AM | 15.1 | Aerosol generation in the urban environment (Invited Presentation) Spyros N. Pandis, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 9:00 AM | 15.2 | Modeling of Mexico City aerosol air pollution Laurie A. McNair, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and E. Manteuffel and S. N. Pandis |
| 9:15 AM | 15.3 | Examination of the Evolution of Urban Plumes using MAPS (Model for Aerosol Process Studies) Susan K. Durlak, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Baumgardner |
| 9:30 AM | 15.4 | Characterization of fine particulate matter in a coastal urban airshed Kuruvilla John, Texas A&M Univ., Kingsville, TX |
| 9:45 AM | 15.5 | Recent air quality trends in the Great Smoky Mountains Stephen F. Mueller, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL |
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| 9:00 AM, Thursday 1 Exhibit Hours 9:00 A.M.-1:30 P.M. |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday 1 Coffee Break |
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| 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Thursday Session 15 Aerosols and particulates: Continued (Parallel with Session 16) |
| 10:30 AM | | Session ends
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| 10:45 AM | 15.6 | Trends in deposition of acid particles and gases Thomas F. Lavery, Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Inc., Gainsville, FL; and R. S. Goss and S. S. Isil |
| 11:00 AM | 15.7 | Integrated assessment of regional dust transport from west Texas and New Mexico, spring 1999 Thomas E. Gill, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and D. L. Westphal, G. Stephens, and R. E. Peterson |
| 11:15 AM | 15.8 | Bulk vs. size-resolved representations in modelling mass transfer and aqueous-phase chemistry in cloud droplets in regional air quality models Wanmin Gong, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada |
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| 10:30 AM-11:44 AM, Thursday Session 16 Meteorological Analysis and Forecasting of Ozone Episodes (Parallel with Session 15) |
Organizer: S. T. Rao, SUNY, Albany, NY
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| 10:30 AM | 16.1 | Development of an Analytical Technique to Relate Upper Air Meteorological Variables to High Ozone Occurrences in California From 1980 to 1998 Richard J Hackney, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA; and S. Gouze |
| 10:45 AM | 16.2 | Classification of Ozone Episodes in Central California Robert E. Keislar, DRI, Reno, NV; and E. M. Fujita, S. Tanrikulu, D. Fairley, E. M. Shipp, J. MacIntosh, and W. D. Neff |
| 11:00 AM | 16.3 | Spatial and Temporal Observations of the Planetary Boundary Layer During Ozone Episodes in the South Coast Air Basin Clinton P. MacDonald, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and T. S. Dye and P. T. Roberts |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 16.4 | Analysis of Air Quality Data in the Lake Michigan Area Michael Koerber, Lake Michigan Air Directors Consortium, Des Plaines, IL |
| 11:14 AM | 16.4a | Air Quality Forecasting For the Spare the Air Program in Sacramento, California: Summary of Four Years of Ozone Forecasting. (Formerly Paper 16.6) Timothy S. Dye, Sonoma Technology, Inc., Petaluma, CA; and C. P. MacDonald and C. B. Anderson |
| 11:29 AM | 16.5 | A simplified scheme for predicting peak ozone concentrations in the central United States Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and T. E. Lyons and C. S. Keen |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday 1 Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-3:15 PM, Thursday Session 16 Meteorological analysis and forecasting of ozone episodes: Continued (Parallel with Session 17) |
| 1:30 PM | | Session Ends
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| 1:45 PM | 16.7 | The NCSC-PSU Numerical Air Quality Prediction Project: Initial Evaluation, Status, and Prospects John N. McHenry, MCNC-North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research Triangle Park, NC; and N. Seaman, C. Coats, D. Stauffer, A. Lario-Gibbs, J. Vukovich, E. Hayes, and N. Wheeler |
| 2:00 PM | 16.8 | Seasonal Smog Forecasting in New Brunswick, Canada Michael C. Howe, Environment Canada, Fredericton, NB, Canada; and C. Cote and D. Waugh |
| 2:15 PM | 16.9 | Meteorological potential of air pollution Julian X. L. Wang, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD; and J. K. Angell |
| 2:30 PM | 16.10 | Meteorological and photochemical modeling of ozone and carbon monoxide episodes for the Paso del Nortre Airshed. Part I: Mesoscale modeling. Randolph J. Evans, ENSCO, Inc., Melbourne, FL; and M. K. Atchison, M. E. Capuano, C. A. Emery, M. A. Yocke, K. Costigan, C. Tremback, J. W. Yarbrough, R. Karp, and V. H. P. Figuero |
| 2:45 PM | 16.11 | Meteorological and photochemical modeling of ozone and carbon monoxide episodes for the Paso Del Norte Airshed. Part II: Air quality modeling Christopher A. Emery, Environ Corp., Novato, CA; and M. A. Yocke, R. J. Evans, M. Capuano, K. Costigan, J. W. Yarbrough, R. Karp, and V. H. Paramo Figuero |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 16.12 | Comparing RAMS And MM5 Prognostics For Use in CAMx Ozone Forecasting Elfrun Lehmann, Earth Tech, Inc., Concord, MA; and G. E. Moore |
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| 1:30 PM-2:44 PM, Thursday Session 17 Integrated modeling/measurement systems for emissions and air quality predictions (Parallel with Session 16) |
Organizer: Christopher A. Bilthoft, West Desert Test Center, Dugway, UT
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| 1:30 PM | 17.1 | New meteorological data resources suitable for the next generation of air quality models Walter A. Lyons, FMA Research, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; and J. L. Eastman, T. E. Nelson, D. A. Moon, and C. S. Keen |
| 1:45 PM | 17.2 | Sodar Based Wind Profiles As Model Inputs: Understanding the Role of Atmospheric Conditions in Assessing the Quality of the Data Gennaro H. Crescenti, NOAA/ARL, Idaho Falls, ID; and R. A. Baxter |
| 2:00 PM | 17.3 | Design for a comprehensive optical atmospheric monitoring system Matthew J. Parker, Savannah River Technology Company, Aiken, SC; and C. Holton |
| ![](http://ams.confex.com/static/images/flag.png) | 17.4 | Assimilation of total column CO observations from the MAPS instrument. Richard Menard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. P. Chang and P. Kasibhatla
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| 2:14 PM | 17.5 | Examining emissions policy issues with an integrated assessment model Jack D. Shannon, ANL, Argonne, IL |
| 2:29 PM | 17.6 | A modeling approach to design a mesoscale sampling campaign in order to estimate surface emissions Marek Uliasz, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. S. Denning and N. Gimson |
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| 3:00 PM, Thursday 1 Coffee Break |
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| 3:00 PM, Thursday Conference Ends |
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