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Fourth Symposium on the Urban Environment

20-24 May 2002, Norfolk, Virginia

The Fourth Symposium on the Urban Environment, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, and organized by the AMS Board on the Urban Environment will be held 20-24 May 2002 in Norfolk, Virginia at the Sheraton Norfolk Hotel. The symposium is being held in conjunction with the 25th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology and the 12th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Association. A number of joint sessions are planned between the conferences.

Papers and posters are invited on all subjects dealing with the urban atmosphere. Observational, modeling, theoretical, and applied studies are all welcome. Sessions will be held to cover themes of:

A number of special sessions, which include results and opportunities associated with intensive urban campaigns (e.g. BUBBLE, ESCOMPTE/URBCAP, URBAN-VTMX, Urban LTER sites, URGENT etc), also are planned. Suggested themes for Joint Sessions include (with Agricultural and Forest Meteorology): canopy-atmosphere coupling (measurement, parameterization and modelling); urban forests; dispersion over rough surfaces; and (with Air Quality) flow and dispersion studies at building, street canyon and urban scales; model comparisons for urban atmospheric flow and dispersion; the VTMX program; urban radiation and chemical rate coefficients; urban emissions inventories; and urban and regional scale ozone. Proposals for other such sessions or for panel discussions are welcome; please contact the Program Chairs as soon as possible and certainly before the due date for abstracts. Participants with additional suggestions for the programs are encouraged to contact the program chairperson. Awards will be given to students for the best papers and posters. In order to be considered for the competition, students should indicate their intent to participate in this competition when they submit their abstract. The deadline for abstracts is 15 November 2001. Abstracts are now submitted electronically (visit the AMS Web site at http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS for instructions on this electronic procedure). Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by early January 2002. A preprint volume is planned and authors of accepted abstracts are encouraged to contribute to this volume.

Extended abstracts will be due 28 February 2002.
For additional information, please contact the Program Chairs:
Sue Grimmond (e-mail: grimmon@indiana.edu) or
James Voogt (e-mail: javoogt@julian.uwo.ca).

       
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