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Monday, 15 January 2007
	9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday Plenary Session for the Presidential Forum (Presidential Forum will then run parallel to other sessions throughout the day)
Thursday, 18 January 2007
	8:20 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, 217C Session 1 Oral Session Part I
Organizer: Sumant Nigam, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD
8:20 AM Introductory Remarks - Dian Seidel   8:30 AM 1.2 Pioneering studies of Gene Rasmusson on the hydrologic cycle, the planetary boundary layer, and ENSO   John Michael Wallace, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA 9:00 AM 1.3 Drought in North America: The Solar-ENSO Connection   Mark Cane, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY 9:30 AM 1.4 Beyond ENSO: The observational record of decadal climate variability in the Tropical Indo-Pacific Region   Clara Deser, NCAR, Boulder, CO 9:45 AM Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   11:00 AM 1.5 Two complementary views of the atmospheric general circulation: the zonal-mean and zonally asymmetric perspectives   Ngar-Cheung Lau, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ 11:30 AM 1.6 The atmospheric hydrological cycle: Advances facilitated by Gene Rasmusson   Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO 11:45 AM 1.7 Eugene Rasmussen and the early history of TRMM   Gerald R. North, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall C Poster Session 1 Poster Session
P1.1 The robust lifecycles and seasonal impacts of El Niņo and La Nina events   Narasimhan K. ("Sim") Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and D. E. Harrison   P1.2 The impact of wind farms on downstream storm tracks   Daniel Barrie, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and D. B. Kirk-Davidoff   P1.3 Ocean instabilities captured by breeding on a global ocean reanalysis   Matthew Joseph Hoffman, University of Maryland, Applied Math and Scientific Computing Program, College Park, MD 20742, MD; and E. Kalnay, J. Carton, and S. C. Yang   P1.4 Interannual variation of the instability waves in the tropical Pacific Ocean   Soon-Il An, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea   P1.5 Global variations in oceanic evaporation: what caused the upward trend in the recent decades?   Lisan Yu, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA   P1.6 Ensemble forecasts starting from coupled bred vectors with NASA coupled general circulation model   Shu-Chih Yang, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. Kalnay, M. Rienecker, and M. Cai   P1.7 Bio-Climate Feedbacks and ENSO Phase-locking   Raghu Murtugudde, ESSIC/Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. Ballabrera-Poy, R. H. Zhang, and A. J. Busalacchi   P1.8 August 2005 mesoscale convective system over West Africa. A case study   Benjamin L. Lamptey, NCAR, Boulder, CO   P1.9 Atmospheric water vapor transport and the hydrology of (Southwest) North America   David S. Gutzler, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and M. Strong and Z. Sharp
	1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, 217C Session 2 Oral Session Part II
Organizer: Clara Deser, NCAR, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 2.1 Joy of climate analysis and monitoring   Kingtse Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD 1:45 PM 2.2 A quick tour of ENSO impacts research from the 1980s to the present   Chester F. Ropelewski, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 2:00 PM 2.3 The role of satellite observations in analyzing large-scale precipitation   Phillip A. Arkin, ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 2:15 PM 2.4 Trends in Tropical Rainfall Characteristics : Observations and Modeling   William K. M. Lau, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 2:30 PM 2.5 Warm-season hydroclimate variability over North America: Eugene Rasmusson's seminal contributions   Sumant Nigam, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and Raffle   3:30 PM 2.6 The hydrologic cycle: An evolving view following the steps of Gene Rasmusson   Ernesto Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 3:45 PM 2.7 Continental-scale hydrologic analyses and its development over the past Forty years.   Eric F. Wood, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 4:00 PM 2.8 Progress towards hydrometeorlogical forecasting   Soroosh Sorooshian, Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS), University of California, Irvine., Irvine, CA 4:15 PM 2.9 Gene Rasmusson's leadership roles within the American Meteorological Society and the National Academies   Antonio J. Busalacchi Jr., ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 4:30 PM 2.10 Communicating with Museum Audiences about Climate Science: Contributions of Gene Rasmusson   Peter Schultz, U.S. Climate Change Science Program, Washington, DC; and E. Shugart 4:45 PM 2.11 Gene Rasmusson as mentor   Mathew A. Barlow, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, Lowell, MA 5:00 PM 2.12 Milestones on the road to climate system science   Eugene M. Rasmusson, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

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