Future Events

Fourth Symposium on the Urban Environment

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:

• urban vegetation/atmosphere interactions,
• turbulent transport and dispersion processes (in urban areas and around buildings),
• urban air quality (urban airshed modeling and urban air chemistry experiments),
• measurement challenges and observation techniques in urban environments,
• urban winds and circulation systems,
• the energy and water balance of cities,
• the urban heat island effect and its possible contamination of long-term air temperature records,
• remote sensing of urban meteorological variables,
• heat waves and urban biometeorology,
• cities as agents of global change,
• the urban carbon balance,
• building climate,
• road climatology,
• examples of planning and policy changes resulting from urban climate research,
• urban rainstorms and other effects on weather,
• and weather forecasting for urban areas and city dwellers.