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Sunday, 12 May 2002
	11:30 AM-2:00 PM, Sunday SHORT COURSE REGISTRATION
	12:30 PM, Sunday Short Course on Applied Climatology for Today's Business Applications
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Sunday CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Monday, 13 May 2002
	7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday CONFERENCE REGISTRATION CONTINUES THROUGH THURSDAY, 16 MAY
	8:45 AM-9:00 AM, Monday Welcoming Remarks: Greg Johnson, Program Chairperson
	9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday Session 1 Climate Networks
Organizer: Greg Johnson, USDA-NRCS, National Water and Climate Center, Portland, OR
9:00 AM 1.1 Cooperative Observer Program (COOP) Modernization   Andrew H. Horvitz, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. J. Leffler 9:15 AM 1.2 The Health of the National Weather Service Cooperative Program—One State's Perspective   Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 9:30 AM 1.3 2002 U.S. Historical Climatology Network   Claude N. Williams Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. Vose and D. Easterling 9:45 AM 1.4 What Good Is A Dense Volunteer Network For Measuring Rain And Hail?   Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 10:00 AM 1.5 Beware of Stitching Together a Mesonet   Brian B. Ayers, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and P. G. Knight
	10:15 AM-10:30 AM, Monday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-4:30 PM, Monday Session 2 Data Reliability and Usability
Organizer: Kelly Redmond, Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV
10:30 AM 2.1 Quality assessment of monthly temperature data   David A. Robinson, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ; and J. Parlagreco 10:45 AM 2.2 Quality Assurance of Monthly Temperature Observations at the National Climatic Data Center   Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. E. Duchon 11:00 AM 2.3 Realtime Filtering Techniques of Air Temperature Data in Weather Stations   Kenneth G. Hubbard, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and X. Lin 11:15 AM 2.4 Identifying inhomogeneities in precipitation time series   Edward I. Tollerud, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and T. L. Fowler 11:30 AM 2.5 Oregon HCN Data—New or Old, Which One is Correct?   George H. Taylor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and A. Matzke and M. Mitchell 11:45 AM Lunch Break   1:15 PM 2.6 Data Mining: Gold or Pyrite   Glen Conner, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY 1:30 PM 2.7 Climate Data Continuity—What Have We Learned From The ASOS Automated Surface Observing System   Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and T. B. McKee and C. Davey 1:45 PM 2.8 Digitization of historical daily cooperative network data   Nathaniel B. Guttman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC 2:00 PM 2.9 Estimated Observation Times for Cooperative Stations   Karen Andsager, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. E. Kunkel 2:15 PM 2.10 Homogeneity Assessment of Canadian Precipitation Data for Joined Stations   Éva Mekis, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and L. Vincent 2:30 PM 2.11 A climatology of extreme hourly temperature variability across the United States: application to quality control.   Daniel Y. Graybeal, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. L. Eggleston and A. T. DeGaetano 2:45 PM 2.12 Inter-Comparison of Real-Time Rain Gage and Radar-Estimated Rainfall on a Monthly Basis for Midwestern United States Counties   Nancy E. Westcott, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. E. Kunkel 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 2.13 Comparison of Snowfall Measurements from Six Windshields   Claude E. Duchon, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. G. Wade and J. A. Cole 3:45 PM 2.14 Station density strategy for monitoring long-term climatic change in the contiguous United States   Michael J. Janis, Southeast Regional Climate Center, Columbia, SC; and K. G. Hubbard and K. T. Redmond 4:00 PM 2.15 Snow Cover Data for Applied Climate Studies   David A. Robinson, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ 4:15 PM 2.16 The impact of unique meteorological phenomena detected by the Oklahoma Mesonet on automated quality control   Chris A. Fiebrich, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK
	4:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday Session 3 Climatology of Storms and Heavy Precipitation
Organizer: Steven Hollinger, Illinois State Water Survey/Univ. of Illinios, Champaign, IL
4:30 PM 3.1 Annual and Seasonal Storm Structure across the United States   Steven E. Hollinger, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and J. R. Angel and M. A. Palecki 4:45 PM 3.2 Interannual Variability in Storm Structure in the United States   Michael A. Palecki, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and J. R. Angel and S. E. Hollinger 5:00 PM 3.3 Temporal Changes in Storm Structure for the United States   James R. Angel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and M. A. Palecki and S. E. Hollinger 5:15 PM 3.4 Re-evaluation of extreme rainfall areal reduction factors   Robert J. Allen, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano
	5:30 PM, Monday Oral Sessions End for the day
	5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Monday Joint Poster Session 1 Joint Poster Session with Reception (Joint between the 13th Conference on Applied Climatology and the 10th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology)
Organizer: William W. Vaughan, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
JP1.1 Predictability of seasonal runoff in the Mississippi River basin   Edwin P. Maurer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier   JP1.2 Progress Report on the Integrated Terminal Weather System's GFMosaic Algorithm   Justin D. Shaw, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA; and S. W. Troxel   JP1.3 Retrospective evaluation of the performance of experimental long-lead Columbia River streamflow forecasting methods   Alan F. Hamlet, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier   JP1.4 Spatial and lead time accuracies of thunderstorm forecasts for air traffic control   Helen A. Watkin, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and T. R. Scott and D. J. Hoad   JP1.5 The development of a long-range forecast tool for Shemya winds using CART analysis   Brian K. Schroeder, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and R. P. Lowther   JP1.6 Performance Support Delivery System for use in Civil, Commercial, and Military Weather Training and Performance Improvement   Roger C. Whiton, SAIC, O'Fallon, IL; and L. K. Starlin, R. G. Borchers, and A. A. Guiffrida   JP1.7 The impact of drought on municipal water supplies in Kentucky: A case study from the drought of 1999–2001   Stuart A. Foster, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY   JP1.8 The Iowa Environmental Mesonet—observing climate at the mesoscale   Dennis P. Todey, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and E. S. Takle and S. E. Taylor   JP1.9 The utility of Landsat-7 ETM+ data for identifying agricultural damage due to severe thunderstorms in western Illinois.   Mace L. Bentley, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; and T. Mote and P. Thebpanya   JP1.10 Use of Probabilistic Convective Forecasts in Traffic Flow Management Decision Support   Stephen M. Zobell, The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA; and C. G. Ball and J. E. Sherry   JP1.11 Wind shear and turbulence at the São Paulo International Airport   Augusto J. Pereira Fo, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and C. V. C. Fogaccia   JP1.12 The impacts of microphysical schemes and parameter choices on icing diagnoses using the UAF integrated in-flight icing diagnostic algorithm for Alaska   Jeffrey S. Tilley, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and X. Meng and G. Kramm   JP1.13 On the impacts of microphysical schemes and parameter choices on MM5 simulations of warm-season high latitude cloud and precipitation systems   Jeffrey S. Tilley, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and G. Kramm   JP1.14 A new algorithm to estimate aircraft icing in the HIRLAM-model   Bernt Olofsson, Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters, Stockholm, Sweden; and E. Olsson and T. Mårtensson   JP1.15 An estimation of CONUS contrail frequency from RUC and flight track data   David P. Duda, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, P. K. Costulis, and R. Palikonda JP1.16 Analyzing Erosive Potential across the United States   James K. Marron, USDA/Natural Resources Conservation Service, Portland, OR; and G. Johnson, D. S. Hollinger, and D. J. Angel   JP1.17 Climatalogy Applications of the 4DWX ARAD System   Scott F. Halvorson, U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground West Desert Test Center, Dugway, UT; and J. C. Chastang, D. L. Leberknight, R. T. Sandblom, and D. T. Hahn   JP1.18 Climatology Study of Aircraft Turbulence versus Cloud Cover   Jamie K. Wolff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. Sharman and B. C. Bernstein   JP1.19 A Geospatial Decision Support System for Drought and Crop Risk Analysis in Nebraska   William J. Waltman, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. D. Svoboda, M. J. Hayes, J. S. Peake, T. Tadesse, S. Goddard, and S. E. Reichenbach   JP1.20 Cloud Radar Observations at Kennedy Space Center During the ABFM Experiment   Brooks E. Martner, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and J. Koury, E. Defer, T. L. Schneider, B. W. Bartram, and W. B. Madsen   JP1.21 Fuzzy rule-based approach to evaluate air temperature biases in weather stations   X. Lin, High Plains Regional Climate Center, Lincoln, NE; and K. G. Hubbard, D. D. Jones, and G. Merino   JP1.22 High Spatial Density Precipitation Network in Minnesota   Peter J. Boulay, State Climatology Office/Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN   JP1.23 Impact of sub-sampling strategies on North American climate statistics   John M. Henderson, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA; and R. D. Rosen and D. A. Salstein   JP1.24 Incorporating data from GOES and POES platforms into an integrated in-flight icing diagnostic algorithm for Alaska   Jeffrey S. Tilley, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and X. Meng and J. Long   JP1.25 Drought Monitoring Activities in NCDC's Climate Monitoring Branch   Richard R. Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and S. E. Stephens, K. L. Gleason, and J. H. Lawrimore   JP1.26 The 2001 Demonstration of Automated Cloud Forecast Guidance Products for San Francisco International Airport   David A. Clark, MIT Lincoln Lab., Lexington, MA   JP1.27 Aviation Forecasting using Adaptive Unstructured Grids   David P. Bacon, SAIC, McLean, VA; and Z. Boybeyi and R. A. Sarma   JP1.28 3D Multi-radar Reflectivity Mosaic for CIWS Domain   Jian Zhang, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, W. Xia, and K. Howard   JP1.29 Forecasting C-G lightning potential at WSMR   Thomas R. Saxen, NCAR, Boulder, CO   JP1.30 Homogeneous blended wind data over the contiguous United States   Pavel Ya. Groisman, UCAR and NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and H. P. Barker   JP1.31 The Ventilation Index Climate Information System (VCIS)   Sue Ferguson, USDA - Forest Service; and S. J. McKay, D. E. Nagel, T. Piepho, M. Rorig, C. Anderson, and L. Kellogg   JP1.32 An Evaluation of the Medium-Intensity Airport Weather System (MIAWS) Products at Memphis, TN and Jackson, MS International Airports   Mark A. Isaminger, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA; and E. A. Proseus   JP1.33 Suitability of the Judd Ultrasonic Snow Depth Sensor for Estimating 6- and 24-Hour Snowfall Amounts   Doug G. Cripe, Kent State Univ., Kent, OH; and N. Doesken
Tuesday, 14 May 2002
	8:00 AM-10:00 AM, Tuesday Session 4 Climate Variability and Forecast Strategies (Parallel with Session 5)
Organizer: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
8:00 AM 4.1 Exploration of global teleconnection indices for long-range temperature forecasts   Robb M Randall, Air Force Institute of Technology, WPAFB, OH; and R. P. Lowther 8:15 AM 4.2 A seasonal climate forecast methodology for ITCZ associated rainfall over Eastern Africa   Ronald P. Lowther, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; and J. F. Griffiths 8:30 AM 4.3 Impacts of El Nino/Southern Oscillation(ENSO) On The IRAN South East Summer and Autumnal precipitation Anomalies   Mahamood Khosravi, Isfehan University and Sistan & Bluchestan University, Zahedan, Iran; and H. Ghayoor and M. R. Kaviani 8:45 AM 4.4 Multi-variate specification and prediction of rainfall over Devon and Cornwall, South West England   Ian D. Phillips, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and G. R. McGregor 9:00 AM 4.5 Climate Change Impacts in Europe—The Role of Extreme Temperature Events   Matthew T. J. Livermore, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom; and J. P. Palutikof, C. G. Bentham, and T. J. Osborn 9:15 AM 4.6 Development of a discriminant analysis mixed precipitation (DAMP) forecast model for Mid-Atlantic winter storms   J. Dustin Hux, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and P. C. Knappenberger, P. J. Michaels, P. J. Stenger, H. D. Cobb, and M. P. Rusnak 9:30 AM 4.7 Experimental Real-time Seasonal Hydrologic Forecasting   Andrew W. Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier 9:45 AM 4.8 Designing an algorithm to predict the intensity of the severe weather season   Hugh J. Freestrom, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright -Patterson AFB, OH; and R. P. Lowther
	8:00 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday Session 5 Stochastic Weather Simulation Models (a.k.a. weather generators)and Their Applications (Parallel with Session 4)
Organizer: Clayton Hanson, USDA-ARS Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID
8:00 AM 5.1 The GEM (Generation of weather Elements for Multiple applications) weather simulation model   Clayton L. Hanson, USDA/ARS, Boise, ID; and G. L. Johnson and W. L. Frymire 8:15 AM 5.2 Evaluation of Simulating Daily Air Temperature with the Normal Distribution: Implications for GEM   R. D. Harmel, USDA/ARS, Temple, TX; and C. W. Richardson, C. L. Hanson, and G. L. Johnson 8:30 AM 5.3 Teleconnection impacts on regional daily precipitation modeling   Tim Keefer, USDA/ARS, Tucson, AZ; and D. Goodrich 8:45 AM 5.4 Estimating Parameters for Characterizing Times Between Storms   James V. Bonta, USDA/ARS, Coshocton, OH; and G. Johnson 9:00 AM 5.5 Stochastic Daily Rainfall Generation in Southeast Arizona   Huey-hong Hsieh, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and J. Stone, P. Guertin, and D. D. Slack 9:15 AM 5.6 Season and spatial variations of serial and cross-correlation matrices used by stochastic weather generators   Justin T. Schoof, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; and S. M. Robeson 9:30 AM 5.7 Implementing quality control techniques for random number generators to improve stochastic weather generators: the CLIGEN experience.   Charles R. Meyer, USDA/ARS, West Lafayette, IN; and C. Renschler and R. C. Vining
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday Session 6 Climate Trend Analyses
Organizer: Greg Johnson, USDA/NRCS, National Water and Climate Center, Portland, OR
10:30 AM 6.1 100+ years of short-duration extreme climate events in the U.S.   Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and K. Andsager and D. R. Easterling 10:45 AM 6.2 Rational analysis of trends in extreme temperature and precipitation   Patrick J. Michaels, Univ. of Virginia and Cato Institute, Charlottesville, VA; and P. C. Knappenberger, R. E. Davis, and O. W. Frauenfeld 11:00 AM 6.3 Trends in the 1949–2000 northern hemisphere circumpolar vortex and climate change implications   Oliver W. Frauenfeld, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and R. E. Davis 11:15 AM 6.4 The influence of extreme and non-extreme daily temperatures on diurnal temperature range trends.   Brian N. Belcher, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and A. T. DeGaetano 11:30 AM 6.5 Long Term Trends in the Spatial and Temporal Character of Precipitation Events in the Eastern United States.   Charles E. Konrad, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 11:45 AM 6.6 Trends in Dense Fog Frequency in the Midwestern United States   Nancy E. Westcott, ISWS and Univ. of Illinois, Champaign, IL
	12:00 PM-2:00 PM, Tuesday Luncheon
	2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 1 Climatology and Aviation (Joint Session between the 10th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology and the 13th Conference on Applied Climatology)
Organizer: Mark Andrews, National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD
2:00 PM J1.1 Jet Aircraft Contrails: Surface Temperature Variations During the Aircraft Groundings of Sept. 11–13, 2001   David J. Travis, Univ. of Wisconsin, Whitewater, WI; and A. M. Carleton and R. G. Lauritsen 2:15 PM J1.2 A study of contrail spreading over the Great Lakes   David P. Duda, Hampton University, Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis and R. Palikonda 2:30 PM J1.3 Contrail climatology over the USA from MODIS and AVHRR data   Rabindra Palikonda, AS&M, Inc., Hampton, VA; and P. Minnis, P. K. Costulis, and D. P. Duda 2:45 PM J1.4 Analysis of Lightning Cloud-to-Ground Flash Activity for National Aviation choke point region Studies   Thomas A. Seliga, USDOT/Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, Cambridge, MA; and D. A. Hazen and C. Schauland 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J1.5 An inferred icing climatology—part I: estimation from pilot reports and surface conditions   Gregory S. Young, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. G. Brown and F. McDonough 3:45 PM J1.6 An Inferred Icing Climatology—Part II: Applying a Version of IIDA to 14-years of Coincident Soundings and Surface Observations   Ben C. Bernstein, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. McDonough 4:00 PM J1.7 An Inferred Icing Climatology—Part III: Icing AIRMETs and IIDA   Tressa L. Fowler, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Crandell and B. G. Brown 4:15 PM J1.8 Climatologies of Upper-Level Turbulence over the Continental U.S. and Oceans   Robert Sharman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Wolff, T. L. Fowler, and B. G. Brown 4:30 PM J1.9 An analysis of the temporal and spatial distribution of ACARS data in support of the TAMDAR program   Brian Jamison, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and W. R. Moninger 4:45 PM J1.10 Climatology study of world airports in the context of wake vortex behaviour class   Paul Agnew, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom; and D. J. Hoad
	2:00 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday Session 7 Climate Mapping and Analysis in 4 Dimensions (Parallel with Joint Session J1)
Organizer: Greorge Taylor, Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR
2:00 PM 7.1 Climate division normals derived from topographically-sensitive climate grids   Christopher Daly, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 2:15 PM 7.2 Development of a 103-Year High-Resolution Climate Data Set for the Conterminous United States   Wayne Gibson, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and C. Daly, T. Kittel, D. Nychka, C. Johns, N. Rosenbloom, A. McNab, and G. Taylor 2:30 PM 7.3 Using NDVI and elevation to improve precipitation mapping   Tamara G. Houston, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and A. L. McNab 2:45 PM 7.4 Mapping the thermal climate of the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest, Oregon   Jonathan Smith, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and C. Daly 3:00 PM 7.5 Development and analysis of fine-scale gridded climate data for Arizona and New Mexico   Andrew C. Comrie, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and D. P. Brown 3:15 PM 7.6 Comparison of geo-referenced grids of 1961- 1990 Canadian temperature and precipitation normals.   Ewa J. Milewska, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and R. Hopkinson and A. Niitsoo 3:30 PM Coffee Break   7.7 Comparison of modeled climatologies from the Advanced Climate Modeling and Environmental Simulation System and COOP sites in Utah   Michael F. Squires, Air Force Combat Climatology Center (AFCCC), Asheville, NC; and J. W. Budai and B. D. Griffith 3:45 PM 7.8 A new effort to update precipitation frequency maps for the United States   Christopher Daly, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 4:00 PM 7.9 Use of spatial climate data sets in an optimum species selection system for the United States and China   Matthew Doggett, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and C. Daly and D. Hannaway 4:15 PM 7.10 Mapping varietal potential for quality wines in Oregon using PRISM spatial climate data   Gregory V. Jones, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR; and P. Hille and H. E. Jones 4:30 PM 7.11 Mapping Erosive Potential Across the United States   Greg Johnson, USDA/NRCS, National Water and Climate Center, Portland, OR; and J. Marron, C. Daly, G. Taylor, S. Hollinger, and J. Angel 4:45 PM 7.12 Applying geographic visualization techniques to 4+-dimensional climate data   Colleen M. Garrity, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
	5:15 PM, Tuesday Sessions end for the day
Wednesday, 15 May 2002
	8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday Session 8 Drought Assessment and Prediction
Organizer: Glen Conner, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY
8:00 AM 8.1 Measured Soil Moisture during the 1999–2000 Drought in Illinois   James R. Angel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and R. W. Scott 8:15 AM 8.2 Monitoring droughts with improved drought index resolution   Michael J. Hayes, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. D. Svoboda, W. J. Waltman, S. Goddard, and K. G. Hubbard 8:30 AM 8.3 The quality assurance and dissemination of soil moisture data from the Oklahoma Mesonet   Gary D. McManus, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK 8:45 AM 8.4 A Soil Moisture Analysis of the Drought Conditions using the Oklahoma Mesonet   Bradley G. Illston, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara 9:00 AM 8.5 The value of real-time mesoscale observations to early recognition and rapid response to short-term drought   Derek S. Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and H. L. Johnson 9:15 AM 8.6 Three years and counting: What’s new with the Drought Monitor?   Mark D. Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center/Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. J. Hayes and R. J. Tinker 9:30 AM 8.7 Exploring moisture indices for characterizing drought in Vermont   Lesley-Ann Dupigny-Giroux, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 9:45 AM 8.8 Trends in North Carolina evapotranspiration and links with water availability   Peter J. Robinson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM 8.9 Drought and Impact Disconnect: The Midwest Drought of 1999-2000   Michael A. Palecki, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and S. D. Hilberg 10:45 AM 8.10 Drought Risk in Agriculture   Elwynn Taylor, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 11:00 AM 8.11 European drought climatology and prediction using the standardised precipitation index   Benjamin Lloyd-Hughes, University College London, Dorking, United Kingdom; and M. A. Saunders 11:15 AM 8.12 Climate Stability in the Great Plains   John Harrington Jr., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS; and M. J. Wood 11:30 AM 8.13 A climatological assessment of major 20th century drought in southern Ontario, Canada   Joan M. Klaassen, MSC, Downsview, ON, Canada 11:45 AM 8.14 Associations between the Palmer Drought Index and various atmospheric and oceanic indices   Douglas Le Comte, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:45 PM, Wednesday Session 9 Climate Impacts on Water Resources
Organizer: Mark Svoboda, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, NE
1:30 PM 9.1 Influence of the Pacific Ocean on variations in Northwest climate and water resources   Philip W Mote, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. F. Hamlet and D. P. Lettenmaier 1:45 PM 9.2 Mann-Whitney U analysis of annual streamflow over the central United States: 1939-1998   Steven A. Mauget, USDA/ARS, Lubbock, TX 2:00 PM 9.3 Regional climate change, its possible influences on the Northwest's water resources, and some early policy responses   Philip W. Mote, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. F. Hamlet, D. P. Lettenmaier, and E. L. Miles 2:15 PM 9.4 The effect of various precipitation downscaling methods on the simulation of streamflow in the Yakima River   Eric P. Salathé Jr., JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 2:30 PM 9.5 Customized On-line Climate Forecast Evaluations: A Tool for Improving Water and Watershed Management   Holly C. Hartmann, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and T. C. Pagano and S. Sorooshian
	2:45 PM-3:15 PM, Wednesday Coffee Break
	3:15 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday Session 10 Micro- and Mesoscale Climatology (Parallel with Session 11)
Organizer: Dev Niyogi, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC
3:15 PM 10.1 Climatologic Evaluation and Modification of the Classic Mesoscale Predictive Lake-Breeze Index   Neil F. Laird, Hobart & William Smith Colleges and Univ. of Illinois, Geneva, NY 3:30 PM 10.2 Effect of Land-use Induced Mesoscale Variability on the Climate of the Carolinas   Sethu Raman, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and A. Sims, D. D. S. Niyogi, R. Elliss, and R. C. Gilliam 3:45 PM 10.3 Land use change and modification of near surface temperature records in the Northern Great Plains: verification of modeling results   Rezaul Mahmood, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY; and K. G. Hubbard and C. Carlson 4:00 PM 10.4 Sensitivity of soil moisture and evapotranspiration to soils and land use heterogeneity   Rezaul Mahmood, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY; and K. G. Hubbard 4:15 PM 10.5 The Mesoscale Climate Impact of an August 1994 MCS Event in Oklahoma   Derek S. Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford 4:30 PM 10.6 THE QUOTIDIAN CYCLE OF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FROM PECAN TREES   Ted W. Sammis, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM; and J. G. Mexal 4:45 PM 10.7 Assessing the potential impact of aerosol loading on the terrestrial carbon exchanges   Dev dutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and C. Crabbe, V. K. Saxena, S. Raman, K. Wilson, K. Alapaty, R. A. Pielke, and Y. Xue
	3:15 PM-5:15 PM, Wednesday Session 11 Advances in Climate Services (Parallel with Session 10)
Organizer: Phil Pasteris, USDA/NRCS, National Water and Climate Survey, Portland, OR
3:15 PM 11.1 The State Climatologist Program and a National Climate Services Initiative   Mark A. Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK 3:30 PM 11.2 The Crucial Role of the State Climatologist in National Climate Services   James R. Angel, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and G. Taylor, R. Pielke, J. Grymes, and D. Stooksbury 3:45 PM 11.3 Progress toward regional integrated climate services   Kelly T. Redmond, DRI, Reno, NV 4:00 PM 11.4 Trends in the Use of Climate Data: A Regional Center Perspective   Steven D. Hilberg, ISWS, Champaign, IL; and J. D. Burroughs 4:15 PM 11.5 An Objective tool for pricing degree day weather options   Douglas A. Stewart, Environmental Dynamics Research, Inc., Lantana, FL 4:30 PM 11.6 Internet-Based Climate Analysis Software Applications   Phillip A. Pasteris, USDA-NRCS, National Water and Climate Center, Portland, OR; and K. L. Eggleston and W. Noon 4:45 PM 11.7 "Colorado Climate" A Magazine Dedicated To Applied Climatology   Nolan J. Doesken, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and O. A. Bliss and R. A. Pielke 5:00 PM 11.8 Long-range climate and streamflow forecasts: bridging the gaps between science and applications   Alan F. Hamlet, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. Mote, N. Mantua, A. Wood, D. P. Lettenmaier, M. Hahn, R. Palmer, and K. Westrick
	5:15 PM, Wednesday Sessions End for the day
Thursday, 16 May 2002
	8:00 AM-11:45 AM, Thursday Session 12 Applications of Climate Data
Organizer: Nolan Doesken, Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins, CO
8:00 AM 12.1 An Investigation of Changes in the Length of the Growing Season in Oregon   George H. Taylor, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and N. Parazoo 8:15 AM 12.2 Recent climatic trends and changes in potato late blight disease risk in the Upper Great Lakes region   Kathleen M. Baker, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and J. A. Andresen and W. W. Kirk 8:30 AM 12.3 Testing Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Variability: A Case Study from the Sulphur Springs Valley, Arizona   Colin Thor West, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. Vasquez-Leon and T. J. Finan 8:45 AM 12.4 Monitoring climate for wildfire, prescribed fire, and fire use   Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV; and B. L. Hall 9:00 AM 12.5 Seasonality of temperature and ischaemic heart disease mortality in five English Counties   Glenn R. McGregor, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and H. Watkin 9:15 AM 12.6 Using a synoptic classification scheme to assess rural-urban differences in heat vulnerability   Scott C. Sheridan, Kent State University, Kent, OH 9:30 AM 12.7 On seasonal differences in weather-related mortality trends in the United States   Robert E. Davis, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and P. C. Knappenberger, W. M. Novicoff, and P. J. Michaels 9:45 AM 12.8 Integrating climate information into the natural gas purchasing decision: Complex issues facing school district administrators   David Changnon, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM 12.9 Reanalysis and the identification of wind energy climates   Marc Schwartz, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 10:45 AM 12.10 Estimation of U.S. design temperatures using daily maximum and minimum temperatures   Kenneth E. Kunkel, ISWS, Champaign, IL 11:00 AM 12.11 Climatic probabilities of snow drift loading on gable roofs   Arthur T. DeGaetano, Northeast Regional Climate Center, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and M. J. O'Rourke 11:15 AM 12.12 Objective cyclone climatologies of the North Atlantic using NCEP/NCAR and ECMWF Reanalyses: Implications for the UK Insurance Industry.   Clair Hanson, Univ. of East Anglia, Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom; and J. Palutikof, A. Jones, and T. Holt 11:30 AM 12.13 Climate Impact Indices for the Economy Utilized by NCDC's Climate Monitoring Branch   Richard R. Heim Jr., NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. H. Lawrimore, D. B. Wuertz, A. M. Waple, and T. W. R. Wallis
	11:45 AM, Thursday Conference Ends

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