Appendix C

Workshop Information

Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate

URBAN METEOROLOGY: SCOPING THE PROBLEM,
DEFINING THE NEEDS

Committee Meeting and Summer 2011 Community Workshop

Workshop Goals

The field of urban meteorology has grown considerably in the past few decades, and a number of recent publications have helped pinpoint pressing needs for scientific advances. To date, however, most assessments of R&D priorities have come from discussions within the scientific community. There is a need for more direct interaction with key ‘end user’ communities, who can help identify their needs. The goal of the workshop is to facilitate a dialog between the research community and the users of urban meteorology information by bringing together scientific experts with representatives from select end user communities.

PARTICIPANT LIST

Urban Meteorology: Scoping the Problem, Defining the Needs
BASC Summer Study-Participant List
July 27-28, 2011
Woods Hole, MA

BASC Board and Staff

Antonio J. Busalacchi, Jr., BASC Chair, University of Maryland

Richard E. (Rit) Carbone, NCAR Earth Observing Laboratory

Chris Elfring, Board Director, BASC

Katie Thomas, Study Director, BASC

Rita Gaskins, Administrative Coordinator, BASC

Elizabeth Finkelman, Program Assistant, BASC

Lauren Brown, Research Associate, BASC

Laurie Geller, Senior Program Officer, BASC

Maggie Walser, Program Officer, BASC

Committee

John T. Snow (cochair), BASC member, University of Oklahoma

Xubin Zeng (cochair), BASC member, University of Arizona

Ellis Stanley, Dewberry

Petra Klein, University of Oklahoma

Stefanie Sarnat, Emory University

Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia

Participants

Mark Arend, The City College of New York, CUNY

Terry Bellamy, District Department of Transportation, Washington, DC

Martin Best, Met Office, United Kingdom

Kelley Brookins, Chicago Transit Authority

Nancy Brown, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL)

Susan H. Cannon, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Walt Dabberdt, Vaisala

Paula Davidson, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Sheldon Drobot, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Andy Edman, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Stuart Gaffin, Columbia University

Sue Grimmond, King’s College, London

James Rufo Hill, Seattle Public Utilities

Teddy R. Holt, Naval Research Laboratory

Marc L. Imhoff, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Paul Kirshen, Battelle Memorial Institute

Kim Klockow, University of Oklahoma

Sandra Knight, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

George Luber, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Thomas Matte, New York City Department of Health

Dev S. Niyogi, Purdue University

Fred Ogden, University of Wyoming

Tim Oke, University of British Columbia

Brenda Philips, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

S. Trivikrama (S.T.) Rao, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

David Sailor, Portland State University

George Schewe, Trinity Consultants

Brian Stone, Jr., Georgia Institute of Technology

Gayle Sugiyama, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)

James A. Voogt, University of Western Ontario

Olga Wilhelmi, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM), NOAA

CHARGE TO WORKING GROUPS

The challenge for the working groups is to move beyond the Day 1 discussions and provide tangible and substantive input to the Committee, which will consider this input as it writes its final report. The working groups will be asked to discuss the questions below and each group’s rapporteur will be asked to prepare slides that summarize the discussion, to present in the plenary session.

Key Questions

1. Briefly describe some of the advances in meteorological forecasting/monitoring in the past decade that have had the most impact on urban areas and why. Were any of these developed specifically for urban uses and, where not, what relationships or synergies led to developments in other areas being found to benefit urban uses?

2. Are there important existing urban-level forecasting/monitoring capabilities that are not being effectively utilized by the relevant end user communities, either due to lack of awareness that such capabilities exist, or failure to provide such information in a usable form?

3. Are there particular needs of specific end user communities that are not being met by current urban-level forecasting/monitoring efforts?

4. Are there emerging technologies in meteorological forecasting/monitoring that would help contribute to urban dwellers’ safety and well-being?

5. What are some effective ways to strengthen the interactions between urban meteorology researchers and the different end user communities?

6. What new future needs or challenges might be anticipated in light of the potential additional stresses resulting from to be brought by the impacts of global climate change?