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Annual AMS Meeting 2009—Phoenix, AZ·

Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, 11–15 January 2009, Phoenix, Arizona

The Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, and organized by the AMS Board on the Urban Environment, will be held 11–15 January 2009, as part of the 89th AMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/) in late-September 2008.

Papers and posters are invited on all subjects dealing with urban atmospheres, including observational, modeling, theoretical, forecasting, and applied studies.

Joint plenary-sessions with the Oke Symposium are planned on the topics of the urban climate system, urban energy balance and urban heat islands. Authors planning to submit abstracts in these topic areas should indicate if their work is related to Tim Oke’s legacy and if they want to have their abstract considered for the Joint Sessions with the Oke Symposium. Regular abstract submissions (not intended as being part of the Oke Symposium) in these topic areas are also strongly encouraged.

A joint session on weather and climate in coastal areas is planned together with the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes. Additionally, joint sessions are planned with the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Committee on modeling and measurements of urban boundary layers and turbulence, and with the Atmospheric Biogeosciences Committee on urban ecological monitoring networks. We also plan to offer a session co-sponsored by the Board on Societal Impacts focusing on the societal impacts of urbanization. Joint Sessions on urban weather impacts on energy demand and atmospheric modeling tools for urban/complex terrain energy production are planned together with the Energy Committee.

Other planned session-themes include: energy and water balances; urban canopy and roughness sublayers, dispersion and air quality (including emergency response); global climate change and urbanization, biometeorology and public health in urban areas; precipitation; weather forecasting for urban areas; and urban planning. Persons with additional program suggestions are encouraged to contact the program chairs.

The $90 abstract fee will now include the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation which will be archived on the AMS Web site. We will no longer be producing a CD-ROM, allowing us to extend the deadline date for extended abstracts.
Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by 1 August 2008 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/online_submit.html.) An abstract fee of $90 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted).
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) by late-September 2008. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web, Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 02 January 2009. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS Web site at no cost.

For additional information please contact the program chairpersons, Anthony Brazel (abrazel@asu.edu), Petra Klein (pkklein@ou.edu) and Julie Lundquist (lundquist1@llnl.gov).