California Energy Commission (CEC), Sacramento, California
 

Two-part project. Part 1: Multi-year multi-seasonal and multi-episodic modeling of long-term potential impacts and air-quality benefits of urban heat island mitigation in California. Mesoscale and meso-urban (fine-resolution) meteorological, emissions, and photochemical modeling is done to evaluate impacts on ground-level ozone and develop corresponding emission-reduction equivalence. Part 2: Quantification of the effects of large-scale deployment of solar arrays (photovoltaics and other passive/active solar systems) as a basis for development of siting and design guidelines to mitigate potential negative effects of solar systems on the ambient thermal environment (warming)

Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD),
Sacramento, California
 

Meteorological, emissions, and photochemical modeling for development of a SIP control measure (urban forest) for the Sacramento Federal Non-Attainment Area (SFNA). Control measure for ozone is developed with innovative modeling based on integrated mesoscale and meso-urban (fine-resolution) models, more accurate atmospheric and surface characterization, and state-of-science emission calculations. The project evaluates the effects of changes in canopy structure/cover, species makeup and emissions, as well as future impacts of business-as-usual scenarios and controlled changes in canopy cover

California Energy Commission (CEC), Sacramento, California
 

Meteorological and micro-meteorological modeling and analysis of the impacts of community-scale environmental technologies on energy use via the indirect (atmospheric) effect. Based on extensive modeling and data generated in this project, a modeling tool is developed for use by urban planners, engineers, and energy specialists to prioritize and rank various environmental technologies (based on their indirect effects) alone and in combinations (feedback) and, thus, to maximize the energy/environmental benefits of their deployment in California. The project models California's 16 original building-energy climate zones as well as 180 new climate sub-zones developed in this project

US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Washington DC
 

Meteorological modeling of heat-wave events in the U.S.; Analysis of heat-wave impacts on mortality in several U.S. regions (Chicago IL, Houston-Galveston TX, New York NY, Baltimore MD, Los Angeles CA); Evaluation of the potential for mitigation at the local scale

National Science Foundation (NSF), Arlington, Virginia
 

Project "FUSE", Bio-complexity in the Environment Initiative; Develop a modeling framework to evaluate and quantify interactions and feedbacks among meteorology, air pollution, energy consumption, and human response; Emissions and photochemical modeling and linkages to meteorological and health models; Develop a modeling framework for detailed representation of feedback effects (e.g., radiative forcing) from air quality to meteorology. Also visit:  http://www.fuse.pdx.edu

NASA / Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, Maryland
 

Convection and precipitation: Evaluation of the skills of several meso-urban model formulations in reproducing precipitation events; Modeling with enhanced boundary-layer/urban-canopy layer parameterizations to improve accuracy; Fine-resolution modeling and evaluation of the impacts of urbanization on precipitation in southern Texas focusing on the Houston-Galveston region

USAID / Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California
 

Modeling of urban climates, urban heat islands, and impacts on ozone and particulate-matter air quality; Evaluation of the potential impacts of urban heat island mitigation strategies on air quality in India

California Energy Commission (CEC), Sacramento, California
 

Model development; New-generation fine-resolution "urbanized" mesoscale meteorological modeling using updated and enhanced urban canopy parameterizations; Development and use of fine-resolution 3-dimensional urban surface characterization parameters; Application of the urbanized MM5 (uMM5) in fine-resolution photochemical modeling of the potential impacts of surface modifications on ozone air quality in California with focus on the larger urban areas

Department of Meteorology, San Jose State University / SJSU Foundation, San Jose, California
 

Update and application of the urbanized MM5 (uMM5) in meteorological and dispersion modeling of the New York - Northeastern U.S. region in support of San Jose State University's participation in the Department of Homeland Security's New York City Urban Dispersion Program (UDP)

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) / The Energy Foundation, San Francisco, California
 

Dynamical downscaling of global climate / general circulation models (OAGCM) output;  Mesoscale (regional) meteorological and photochemical/air-quality modeling of California under future-year climate scenarios; Analysis of impacts of several IPCC TAR climate-change and emission scenarios (SRES) on urban ozone and air quality in California

Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) / SJSU Foundation, Houston, Texas
 

Development of new meteorological-model parameterizations for the urban canopy layer; Application of a UCP version of the PSU/NCAR MM5 in modeling the Texas-2000 SIP episode with focus on the Houston-Galveston region for mitigation studies

California Energy Commission (CEC), Sacramento, California
 

Modeling the regional impacts of large-scale urban surface modifications (heat island mitigation) on meteorology, emissions, and ozone air quality; Meteorological and photochemical model improvements and surface-data development; Models application to western U.S. and California in particular, focusing on the Sacramento Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, north and south San Joaquin Valley, the Los Angeles Basin, and the San Diego area