SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

ICUC-5 welcomes papers seeking to understand the nature of the atmosphere in built environments, or to apply such knowledge to the better design and operation of settlements. Scales of interest range from individual built elements (roofs, walls, roads) through whole buildings, streets, factories, parks, clusters of tall buildings and neighbourhoods to whole cities and urban regions and their impacts on weather and climate at atmospheric scales up to those of global change. The focus can be original research into the physical, biological and chemical atmospheric processes operating in built areas, the weather, climates and surface hydrology experienced in built areas, the design and testing of scale, statistical and numerical models of urban climates or reports on the application of climatic understanding in architectural design or urban planning. Papers may relate to new concepts, methods, instruments, observations, applications, forecasting operations, scenario testing, projections of future climates, etc. Sessions that focus on major field or other projects may be proposed. Hence appropriate topics include, but are not restricted to:

• Building climates (interior and exterior) and the climatic performance of built features;
• Urban bioclimates relevant to the functioning of plants, wildlife and humans;
• Climates of paved surfaces such as roads, streets, highways, runways and parking lots;
• Climatic performance of urban trees, lawns, gardens, parks, irrigation, rivers, lakes and reservoirs;
• Topoclimatology of cities including the effects of coasts, valleys and other landforms;
• Airflow over cities including turbulence, urban roughness and drag, changes of wind speed and direction, urban circulation systems, wind engineering;
• Urban impacts on surface moisture, dew, evaporation, humidity, fog, cloud and precipitation;
• Exchanges of heat, mass and momentum between the urban surface and its boundary layer;
• Short- and long-wave radiation in polluted air, urban visibility;
• Urban heat islands, their nature, genesis and mitigation;
• Remote sensing of cities and urban climate;
• Interactions between urban climate and the emission, dispersion, transport, transformation and removal of air pollutants;
• Models of the urban atmosphere at all scales;
• Climate sensitive urban design and planning;
• Forecasting urban weather, comfort, hazards, air quality;
• Cities and global change.

HOST CITY

Lodz is a typical European city which owes its development to the industrial revolution of the second half of the nineteenth century. The multi-cultural and multi-religious origin of the city, located in the centre of Poland, is today reflected in the architectural style of its historic buildings (including large mansions, textile factories) as well as in the urban design of the city centre. The city, which has been a significant industrial centre, supports several museums (amongst them the unique Museum of the History of Lodz), theatres, an opera-house and other cultural institutions. Lodz is one of the largest academic centres in Poland, with seven state universities and many private schools. The biggest, the University of Lodz, educates 40,000 students in eleven different Faculties. The large central district of the city is extremely densely built-up. The central location of Lodz both in the country and in Europe, and its strategic position on the main European east-west and north-south routes, gives the city opportunities for development. The geographic setting and the nature of the built environment of Lodz have made it an interesting site for research in urban climate. The conference will be held in the Conference Centre of the University of Lodz. This is a purpose-built facility equipped with lecture halls as well as hotel rooms.

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INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Prof. John Arnfield (Secretary of IAUC) Ohio State University, USA
Prof. Arieh Bitan (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Prof. Bob Bornstein (San Jose State University, USA)
Dr. Richard de Dear (Macquarie University, Australia)
Dr. Ingegard Eliasson (Goteborg University, Sweden)
Prof. Sue Grimmond (Indiana University, USA)
Prof. Kazimierz Klysik (University of Lodz, Poland, ICUC-5 Local Organiser)
Mr Paul Llanso (World Meteorological Organisation, Switzerland)
Prof. Helmut Mayer (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Prof. Yasuto Nakamura (Prefectural University of Kuamamoto, Japan)
Prof. Tim Oke, (President of IAUC, University of British Columbia, Canada), Chair
Dr. Matthias Roth (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Dr. James Voogt (University of Western Ontario, Canada)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE

Prof. K. Klysik (University of Lodz) Chair
Dr. K. Fortuniak (University of Lodz)
Dr. J. Wibig (University of Lodz)
Prof. C. S. B. Grimmond (Indiana University, IAUC representative)
Representative of WMO
Representative of the Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (Polish Meteorological Service)

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