The Ninth Symposium on the Urban Environment

The Ninth Symposium on the Urban Environment, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, and organized by the AMS Board on the Urban Environment, will be held 2–6 August 2010, Keystone, Colorado (90 miles west of Denver International Airport).

The symposium is being held in conjunction with the AMS 19th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence and 28th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/) no later than 3 May 2010.

Papers and posters are invited on all subjects dealing with urban environment issues, including in-situ and remote-sensing observations, modeling, theoretical, forecasting, and applied studies such as societal and economic impacts of urbanization.

Joint sessions are planned with the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Conference on Observing and Modeling Boundary Layers Over Complex Urban and Terrain Environments for Energy Applications. We also plan joint sessions with the Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Conference on impacts of urbanization on agriculture and forest ecological system.

Other planned session-themes include: energy and water balances; urban canopy and roughness sublayers; modeling, observation, and input data requirements for understanding and predicting interdisciplinary urban phenomenon; global climate change and urbanization; biometeorology and public health in urban areas; role of aerosols on precipitation in urban areas; weather forecasting for urban areas; urban climate; extreme weather, 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 5 April 2010 (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) around 7 May 2010. 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 28 July 2010. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS Web site at no cost.

For additional information please contact the program co-chairs:
Julie Lundquist (Julie.Lundquist@colorado.edu), and Fei Chen (e-mail:
feichen@ucar.edu). (01/10)