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 |
|  | 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 |