Monday 30 Mar 2009

8:30Registration
9:00 - 9:15Welcome & Introduction
9:15 - 10:00Janet BarlowInvited - A review of urban roughness sub-layer results | Slides

AM Session: Urban canopy dynamics

Chair: Janet Barlow, Rapporteur: Omduth Coceal / Bharathi Boppana

10:00 - 10:45John FinniganInvited - The urban canopy and the plant canopy | Slides
10:45 - 11:10Discussion
11:10 - 11:30Coffee break
11:30 - 12:15Andreas ChristenInvited - Field measurements of urban roughness sublayer turbulence | Slides
12:15 - 12:30Omduth CocealProbing urban canopy dynamics using direct numerical simulations | Slides
12:30 - 12:50Discussion
12:50 - 13:45Lunch

PM Session: Urban canopy dynamics (contd)

Chair: Andreas Christen, Rapporteur: Omduth Coceal / Bharathi Boppana

13:45 - 14:30Ian CastroInvited - Modelling turbulent flow over groups of buildings | Slides
14:30 - 14:45Zheng-Tong XieModelling Full Scale Urban Environments | Slides
14:45 - 15:00Jean ClausWind direction effects on urban-like roughness | Slides
15:00 - 15:25Discussion
15:25 - 15:45Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:00Andre Nicolle/Ian EamesInertial flow through complex groups of bodies | Slides
16:00 - 16:15Ahmed BalogunFlow variability in the vicinity of a busy intersection in Central London | Slides
16:15 - 16:30Lorenzo GiovanniniThe thermal structure in a street canyon: field measurements and validation of a simplified model in the city of Trento | Slides
16:30 - 17:15DiscussionBreak-out discussion questions | Contributed questions
18:30 - 21:00Buffet Dinner

Tuesday 31 Mar 2009

AM Session: Urban dispersion

Chair: Xiaoming Cai, Rapporteur: Zheng-Tong Xie / Avi Lacser

9:00 - 9:45Alan RobinsInvited - Dispersion in urban areas | Slides
9:45 - 10:30Stephen BelcherInvited - A network approach to modelling of dispersion in urban areas | Slides
10:30 - 10:55Discussion
10:55 - 11:15Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:30Xiaoming CaiEffects of differential wall heating in street canyons on flow characteristics and transport of passive scalars | Slides
11:30 - 11:45Klara BezpalcovaWind tunnel measurements of scalar fluxes | Slides
11:45 - 12:00Bharathi BoppanaLES of dispersion of passive scalar from an area source | Slides
12:00 - 12:15Bee Kiat TayComputational Fluid Dynamics Modelling of Aerosol Dispersion and Processes within Urban Street Canyon | Slides
12:15 - 13:00DiscussionContributed questions
13:00 - 13:45Lunch

PM Session: Urban areas and weather

Chair: Martin Best, Rapporteur: Janet Barlow / Sylvia Bohnenstengel

13:45 - 14:30Julian HuntInvited - Concepts and models for research in urban meteorology /environment | Slides
14:30 - 15:15Alberto MartilliInvited - Urban parameterizations in mesoscale models | Slides
15:15 - 15:40Discussion
15:40 - 16:00Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:45Peter ClarkInvited - Urban areas and NWP | Slides
16:45 - 17:00Alan GadianHigh Resolution Dynamical Modelling in Steep Orography | Slides
17:00 - 17:30DiscussionContributed questions