| Sunday, 17 January 2010 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Annual Meeting Registration Begins |
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| 12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday
Weatherfest |
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| 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, B314
First-Time Attendee Briefing |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, B314
Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards |
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| 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Exhibit Hall B2
Fellows Reception |
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| Monday, 18 January 2010 |
| 7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday
Registration Open |
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| 9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 and 2
Presidential Forum |
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| 10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, B216
Joint Session 1 Mitigation and adaptation to climate change (Joint between the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, the Committee on Climate Services, the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research, and the First Environment and Health Symposium) |
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 11:00 AM | J1.1 | Regional climate modeling and decision aids
Glenn Higgins, Northrop Grumann TASC, Chantilly, VA; and D. Apling, R. Alliss, and H. Kiley |
| 11:15 AM | J1.2 | Bounded rationality in climate change policy development
Amanda H. Lynch, Monash University, Clayton, Vic., Australia; and R. D. Brunner |
| 11:30 AM | J1.3 | Seeing the world through a political lens: the connection between weather and climate change perceptions and beliefs
Hank Jenkins-Smith, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. H. Goebbert, K. E. Klockow, M. Nowlin, and C. Silva |
| 11:45 AM | J1.4 | Advancing Climate Adaptation in Wildlife Conservation
Amanda Staudt, National Wildlife Federation, Reston, VA; and D. Inkley, P. Glick, B. Stein, N. Edelson, and J. Kostyack |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday
Lunch Break |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, B214
Joint Session 14 Educational Outreach in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Sciences (Joint between the 19th Symposium on Education, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO; Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO
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| 1:30 PM | J14.1 | Mapping the UK's urban heat islands
Sylvia .H.E. Knight, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom; and R. Fordham |
| 1:45 PM | J14.2 | Educating citizens about severe weather awareness following the 22 May 2008 Northern Colorado tornado
Paul Nutter, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and D. Gaardner |
| 2:00 PM | J14.3 | Weather & Climate—Weatherwise Magazine's Newest Series
H. Michael Mogil, How the Weatherworks, Naples, FL; and M. Benner |
| 2:15 PM | J14.4 | Climate adaptation in coastal communities: A Sea Grant Climate Network approach to outreach
Jessica C. Whitehead, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston, SC; and C. Conger, R. H. Bacon, and J. Brown |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, B304
Session 1 Hydrometeorological Representation and Applications of Reanalyses |
Chair: Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD
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| 1:30 PM | 1.1 | A Historical Record of Actual Evapotranspiration in Sub-Saharan Africa using Climate Reanalysis and Remote Sensing Data
Michael T. Marshall, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and K. Tu, C. Funk, and J. Michaelsen |
| 2:00 PM | 1.2 | Evaluation of the Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) Global Water and Energy Budgets
Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and F. R. Robertson and J. Chen |
| 2:15 PM | 1.3 | Moisture recycling over the central United States diagnosed from the North American Regional Reanalysis
Christopher J. Anderson, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and R. W. Arritt |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday
Poster Session 1 Hydrology Posters 1 |
Cochairs: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft Netherlands; Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| | P1.1 | The relationship between total precipitable water and precipitation rate
Kelly M. Howell, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. Q. Kidder and T. H. Vonder Haar |
| | P1.2 | The Uncertainty of Background Brightness Temperatures in Microwave Land Rainfall Algorithm
Eun-Kyoung Seo, Kongju National University, Kongju, Chung Nam, South Korea |
| | P1.3 | Introducing water budget constraint to improve land data assimilation performance
M. Tugrul Yilmaz, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and T. DelSole and P. R. Houser |
| | P1.4 | Evaluating the impact of parameter estimation on data assimilation performance: A case study for soil moisture simulation
Kenneth W. Harrison, NASA-GSFC and Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, S. Yatheendradas, C. D. Peters-Lidard, and J. A. Santanello |
| | P1.5 | CPC unified gauge-based analysis of global daily precipitation
Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Chen and W. Shi |
| | P1.6 | Applications of the ALEXI soil moisture model and highlights of current projects
John Mecikalski, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and C. R. Hain and L. A. Schultz |
| | P1.7 | Intercomparisons between LSM and satellite-retrieved estimates of surface (0-5 cm) and root-zone (5-100 cm) soil moisture across the continental United States
Christopher R. Hain, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. T. Crow, M. C. Anderson, and J. R. Mecikalski |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, B312
Joint Session 2 The emergence of new scientific partnerships (Joint between the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, and the First Environment and Health Symposium) |
Chair: Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
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| 4:00 PM | J2.1 | Climate Adaptation Partnerships in Semiarid North America
Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| 4:15 PM | J2.2 | The FEMA Hurricane Liaison Team: Bridging the Communication Gap (because Great Minds Don't Always Think Alike)
Matthew Green, FEMA, TBA, GA |
| 4:30 PM | J2.3 | Partnership between the Državni hidrometeorološki zavod (DHMZ) and the University of Oklahoma (OU)
Ivan Cacic, Državni hidrometeorološki zavod, Zagreb, Croatia; and B. Ivančan-Picek, B. Lipovšćak, K. Pandzic, B. Terek, V. Tutiš, G. Zuccon, K. Crawford, R. A. McPherson, K. L. Nemunaitis, and J. T. Snow |
| 4:45 PM | J2.4 | The Norman, Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce Weather Committee: A Framework for New Partnerships Among Industry, Government and Academia
Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. L. Qualley, V. Rose, and A. M. Suggs |
| 5:00 PM | J2.5 | The Weather And Society *Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) Program: yesterday, today, and tomorrow
G. Thomas Behler Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Gruntfest, J. Demuth, J. K. Lazo, and E. Laidlaw |
| 5:15 PM | J2.6 | User engagement activities at NOAA's national climatic data center
Tamara G. Houston, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, B304
Session 2 Hydrometeorological Representation and Applications of Reanalyses |
Chair: Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD
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| 4:00 PM | 2.1 | Gauge analysis package
Dongsoo Kim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. J. Seo |
| 4:15 PM | 2.2 | Quantifying and Comparing the Intensification of Extreme Rainfall Frequency from NCEP and ERA40 Reanalysis Data
Shih-Chieh Kao, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and A. R. Ganguly |
| 4:30 PM | 2.3 | An Analysis of Heavy Rainfall Weather Systems over Louisiana
Boniface J. Mills, Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe, LA ; and K. Falk, J. Hansford, and B. Richardson |
| 4:45 PM | 2.4 | The influence of karst hydrology on local planetary boundary layer
R. D. Leeper, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and R. Mahmood and A. I. Quintanar |
| 5:00 PM | 2.5 | Development of a New Precipitation Dataset for Model Downscaling and Bias Correction
Michael Charles, EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth, D. Hou, and R. Krzysztofowicz |
| 5:15 PM | 2.6 | Assessing the changes in hydrological budget including anthropogenic effect estimated by the reanalyses and rain-gauge based precipitation data over Asia
Akiyo Yatagai, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday
Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception |
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| Tuesday, 19 January 2010 |
| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, 313b
Joint Session 3 Data Collection, Interpretation, Assimilation, and Stewardship (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, and the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology) |
Chair: Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO
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| 8:30 AM | J3.1 | The Impacts on Air Traffic of Volcanic Ash from the 2009 Mt. Redoubt Eruption
Alexander Matus, NASA, Hampton, VA; and L. A. Hudnall, J. J. Murray, and A. Krueger |
| 8:45 AM | J3.2 | UrbanNet: Urban Environment Monitoring and Modeling with a Wireless Sensor Network
Paul J. Croft, Kean Univ., Union, NJ; and P. Morreale, F. Qi, A. Tropek, and M. Andujar |
| 9:00 AM | J3.3 | Network of Weather and Climate Observing Networks (NOWCON)
Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Stailey and S. J. Taijeron |
| 9:15 AM | J3.4 | Comparison of COOP and new HCN-M temperature products
John R. Christy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL |
| 9:30 AM | J3.5 | The Impact of Temporally Varying Snowfall Rates on Holdover Time using the LWE and Check Time Systems
Roy Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Landolt, J. Black, and A. Gaydos |
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| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, B304
Session 3 Advances in Hydrological Remote-Sensing and Data Assimilation Part I |
Cochairs: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft Netherlands; Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 3.1 | SWOT, The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Satellite Mission [INVITED]
Doug Alsdorf, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and K. Andreadis, P. Bates, S. Biancamaria, E. A. Clark, M. Durand, H. Lee, D. P. Lettenmaier, N. Mognard, D. Moller, E. Rodriguez, and C. K. Shum |
| 9:00 AM | 3.2 | The SMAP Level 4 Surface and Root-zone Soil Moisture (L4_SM) product
Rolf H. Reichle, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, and J. Kimball |
| 9:15 AM | 3.3 | An ensemble-Kalman filter-based dual assimilation of thermal-IR and passive microwave retrievals of soil moisture
Christopher R. Hain, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. T. Crow, M. C. Anderson, and J. R. Mecikalski |
| 9:30 AM | 3.4 | Impact of Calibration Error of Microwave Brightness Temperatures on Soil Moisture Retrievals
Xiwu Zhan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, B304
Session 3B Advances in Hydrological Remote-Sensing and Data Assimilation Part II |
Cochairs: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft Netherlands; Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 11:00 AM | 3B.1 | Multiscale ensemble filtering in snow data assimilation [INVITED]
Konstantinos Andreadis, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. Lettenmaier |
| 11:30 AM | 3B.2 | Acquiring observation error covariance information for land data assimilation systems
Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD |
| 11:45 AM | 3B.3 | A modeling and verification study of summertime precipitation systems using NASA surface initialization datasets
Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and S. V. Kumar, J. Srikishen, and G. J. Jedlovec |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, B208
Kuettner Symposium Luncheon |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, B304
Session 4 Hydrology: New Demands on Science and Services |
Chair: Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall |
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, B216
Joint Session 4 Research on extreme weather and climate events and inter-relationships (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the First Environment and Health Symposium, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, and the Committee on Climate Services) |
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 3:30 PM | J4.1 | The relative increase of record high maximum temperatures compared to record low minimum temperatures in the U.S
Gerald Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Tebaldi, G. Walton, D. R. Easterling, and L. R. McDaniel |
| 3:45 PM | J4.2 | A common Midwestern question: Where have all our 90°F days gone?
David Changnon, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and V. Gensini and J. Prell |
| 4:00 PM | J4.3 | Using large scale circulation indices to predict the intensity of cold air outbreaks over extended time scales across the southeastern U.S
Charles E. Konrad, NOAA Southeastern Regional Climate Center, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 4:15 PM | J4.4 | Heat waves and cold spells in a warming climate
Karsten Steinhaeuser, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and A. R. Ganguly |
| 4:30 PM | J4.5 | Climatological, meteorological, and societal implications for the large number of fatalities from central Florida Dry Season tornadoes during El Nińo
Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and L. A. Jordan, A. L. Moses, S. M. Spratt, and D. F. Van Dyke |
| 4:45 PM | J4.6 | Extreme european weather regimes
Ricardo Morais Fonseca, University of Reading, United Kingdom, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and B. J. Hoskins and M. Blackburn |
| 5:00 PM | J4.7 | Meteorological features of observed trends in U.S. heavy precipitation events
Kenneth E. Kunkel, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. R. Easterling, B. E. Gleason, D. A. R. Kristovich, R. A. Smith, and L. Ensor |
| 5:15 PM | J4.8 | Contemporary climatic changes in North America and Northern Eurasia with foci on extreme events and transitions through environmentally and socio-economically significant thresholds
Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight and T. R. Karl |
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| 3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, B212
Joint Session 15 Hydrology Applications in a Non-Stationary Climate (Joint between the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology) |
| 3:30 PM | J15.1 | Water in a changing climate: implications for water resources design (Invited)
Eric F. Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ |
| 4:00 PM | J15.2 | Climate and Extreme Events: A Hydrologic perspective (Invited)
Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine, CA; and X. Gao, K. L. Hsu, B. Imam, and J. Li |
| 4:30 PM | J15.3 | Seasonal numerical forecasts of the Ganges and Brahmaputra river flow
Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. Jian, H. R. Chang, and T. M. Hopson |
| 4:45 PM | J15.4 | Projecting Climate Change Impacts on Seasonal Water Supply Forecasting Error
Levi D. Brekke, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and D. Garen, K. Werner, and D. Laurine |
| 5:00 PM | J15.5 | A comparative study of model initialization for the Noah land surface model using LIS
Roshan K. Shrestha, CREW, Calverton, MD; and P. R. Houser |
| 5:15 PM | J15.6 | Structure and Detectability of Trends in Hydrological Measures over the western United States
Tapash Das, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and H. G. Hidalgo, M. D. Dettinger, D. R. Cayan, D. W. Pierce, C. Bonfils , T. P. Barnett, G. Bala, and A. Mirin |
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| 3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, B304
Session 5 Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation |
Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD
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| 3:30 PM | 5.1 | Exploring mechanisms and predictability of U.S. drought using remote sensing, hydrological modeling, reanalysis and the NCEP Climate Forecast System
Justin Sheffield, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and L. Luo and E. F. Wood |
| 4:00 PM | 5.2 | Progress of the NOAA/NCEP NLDAS Drought Monitor and NLDAS Products
Youlong Xia, NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Ek, E. F. Wood, L. Luo, J. Sheffield, D. P. Lettenmaier, B. Livneh, D. Mocko, B. Cosgrove, J. Meng, H. Wei, V. Koren, J. C. Schaake, K. Mo, and K. Mitchell |
| 4:15 PM | 5.3 | New techniques for climate and drought information delivery at the national climatic data center
Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. Symonds |
| 4:30 PM | 5.4 | Towards integrating GRACE terrestrial water storage data into the U.S. and North American Drought Monitors
Rasmus Houborg, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Rodell, J. S. Famiglietti, R. Heim, J. Lawrimore, B. Li, R. H. Reichle, M. Rosencranz, M. Svoboda, B. D. Wardlow, and B. F. Zaitchik |
| 4:45 PM | 5.5 | Water balance in the agricultural watershed of Kumamoto groundwater region 
Kenji Tanaka, Kumamoto Univ., Kumamoto, Japan; and H. Mizuno, D. Kuwamoto, H. Taniguchi, T. Hokamura, and F. Yamada |
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| 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, B304
Session 6 Robert E. Horton Lecture |
Chair: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
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| Wednesday, 20 January 2010 |
| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, B215
Joint Session 5 Advances in Modeling, From Local through Regional to Large Scale, and From Deterministic to Ensemble-Probabilistic Prediction Part I (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology) |
Chair: Ed Olenic, NCEP, Camp Springs, MD
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| 8:30 AM | J5.1 | On the seamless prediction of weather and climate
Timothy N. Palmer, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom |
| 8:45 AM | J5.2 | Performance of the NOAA FIM global ensemble prediction system for hurricanes during the 2009 season
Tom Hamill, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker and S. Benjamin |
| 9:00 AM | J5.3 | Why does cloud superparameterization improve the simulated daily rainfall cycle in a multiscale climate modeling framework?
Michael S. Pritchard, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville |
| 9:15 AM | J5.4 | North Pacific decadal variability and climate change in the IPCC AR4 models
Jason C. Furtado, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and E. Di Lorenzo |
| 9:30 AM | J5.5 | Aquaplanet GCM simulations of tropical intraseasonal variability
Eric D. Maloney, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Hannah |
| 9:45 AM | J5.6 | Factors affecting forecast skill of the MJO over the Maritime Continent
Augustin Vintzileos, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC - SAIC, Camp Springs, MD |
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| 8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, B304
Session 7 Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Observations |
Chair: Chandra Kondragunta, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 7.1 | Underestimation of QPE in a Flash Flood Situation Due to Partial Beam Blocking and Attenuation: Correction Using the BREAM model
Timothy A. Coleman, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. A. Westland |
| 8:45 AM | 7.2 | Radar precipitation estimates in mountainous regions: corrections for partial beam blockage and general radar coverage limitations
Dennis A. Miller, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. H. Kitzmiller, S. Wu, and R. Setzenfand |
| 9:00 AM | 7.3 | Errors in rainfall estimation in the southern Alaska WSR-88D network
Luke E. Madaus, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| 9:15 AM | 7.4 | Analysis of Satellite-derived Soil Moisture and Previous-Time Precipitation
F. Joseph Turk, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and Z. S. Haddad and L. Li |
| 9:30 AM | 7.5 | Satellite Derived Ensemble Tropical Rainfall Potential (eTRaP):2008 and 2009 Results
Sheldon J. Kusselson, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and E. Ebert, M. Seybold, S. Q. Kidder, and M. Turk |
| 9:45 AM | 7.6 | Analysis of seasonal variation in cumulus cloud frequency of occurrence
Vani Starry Manoharan, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Mecikalski and R. M. Welch |
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| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, B215
Joint Session 6 Advances in Modeling, From Local through Regional to Large Scale, and From Deterministic to Ensemble-Probabilistic Prediction Part II (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology) |
Chair: Ed Olenic, NCEP, Camp Springs, MD
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| 10:30 AM | J6.1 | Quantifying Contributions to Polar Warming Amplification in a Coupled General Circulation Model
Ming Cai, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. Lu |
| 10:45 AM | J6.2 | The development of a coupled hurricane storm surge forecasting Model for the Pascagoula River
David A. Ramirez Jr., NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA |
| 11:00 AM | J6.3 | Evaluation of the new Australian climate model ACCESS
Ian G. Watterson, CAWCR, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia; and L. Rikus, B. Hu, and T. Elliott |
| 11:15 AM | J6.4 | Mesoscale circulations in the urban-coastal environment: a modeling analysis and assessment of sensitivity to high-fidelity representation of the urban canopy
Michael Carter, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and J. M. Shepherd, S. Burian, and I. Jeyachandran |
| 11:30 AM | J6.5 | Ensemble downscaling of seasonal forecasts
R. W. Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
| 11:45 AM | J6.6 | The misrepresentation of Tropical SSTs in climate models
Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/CDC and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin |
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| 10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, B304
Session 8 Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Observations |
Chair: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 10:30 AM | 8.1 | Toward an improvement of surface identification in land precipitation retrieval algorithm
Arief Sudradjat, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro |
| 10:45 AM | 8.2 | Assigning tropical rainfall rates for multisensor QPE using environmental moisture fields and vertical profiles of reflectivity
Heather Moser, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Howard and J. Zhang |
| 11:00 AM | 8.3 | Validation of NOAA's Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimate in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Kurtulus Ozturk, Turkish State Meteorological Service, Kalaba, Ankara, Turkey; and A. Tokay, B. F. Larson, E. Habib, and B. R. Nelson |
| 11:15 AM | 8.4 | Evaluation of the impacts of ingesting TRMM data on the accuracy of quantitative precipitation estimates Obtained via the SCaMPR framework
Yu Zhang, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Kitzmiller, D. Seo, R. J. Kuligowski, and Y. Li |
| 11:30 AM | 8.5 | Validation of Satellite Rainfall Products over Africa and S. America
Tufa Dinku, Columbia University, Palisades, NY |
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| 11:00 AM-6:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall) |
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| 1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, B304
Session 9 Water Resources and Forecasting Applications |
Cochairs: Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH; Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday
Poster Session 2 Hydrology Posters 2 |
Chair: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| | P2.1 | Atmospheric Conditions that Led to the Roma, Texas Floods of August 2008
Barry S. Goldsmith, NOAA/NWS, Brownsville, TX; and R. Q. Hart and J. Estupińán |
| | P2.2 | Challenges in implementing NWSRFS in Romania
Jeff Vukovich, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC., Raleigh, NC |
| | P2.3 | Does the poleward retreat of mid-latitude synoptic systems, reflected by a decline in rainfall and an increase in MSL pressure at Melbourne, suggest Australia's Great Artesian Basin as a possible back-up source of water?
Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and P. McBride, J. Cornall-Reilly, and J. Dahni |
| | P2.4 | Inundation Mapping using Hydraulic model and Geographic Information System Case Study: Tar River basin during Hurricane Floyd
Keren J. Cepero, NOAA/NWS, Raleigh, NC; and S. Reed and C. Aschwanden |
| | P2.5 | Merging medium-range weather forecasts and seasonal climate outlooks to improve seasonal hydrologic prediction
Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; and M. Wiley and B. Nijssen |
| | P2.6 | Noah land surface model modifications for improved snowpack and water resource prediction in the Colorado Rockies
Michael Barlage, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, M. Tewari, and K. Ikeda |
| | P2.7 | Analysis of satellite observed rain fall amounts and discharge measurements at the Datong Hydrologic Station
Alice Fan, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin and P. Y. Maa |
| | P2.8 | Predicting severe hail in the WFO LWX County Warning Area: toward increased accuracy in hail size forecasts
Matthew R. Kramar, NWSFO Baltimore/Washington, Sterling, VA; and J. Waters |
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| 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, B212
Joint Session 7 Communication Among Stakeholders That Addresses Issues of Policy, Operations, and New Opportunities (Joint between the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the First Environment and Health Symposium, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, the Presidential Forum, the Third Annual CCM Forum, and the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research) |
| 4:00 PM | J7.1 | Great expectations: Improving climate data services
Trisha U. Ralph, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and H. Lau and T. H. Sopoco |
| 4:15 PM | J7.2 | Customer satisfaction at NOAA's NESDIS data centers
Tamara G. Houston, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC |
| 4:30 PM | J7.3 | Applied climatology guidance for development of Army materiel for world wide use
Charles C. Ryerson, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and L. Spears, G. Stullenbarger, and L. Page |
| 4:45 PM | J7.4 | NOAA Climate Users Engagement Using Training and Education Activities
Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Verdin, J. Jones, and R. S. Pulwarty |
| 5:00 PM | J7.5 | Developing indicators to support climate change policy and programs
Jason Samenow, EPA, Washington, DC |
| 5:15 PM | J7.6 | Beyond the boundary: it takes a village to provide climate services
Daniel Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. Owen |
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| 4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, B304
Session 10 Water Resources and Forecasting Applications |
Cochairs: Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH; Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
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| 4:00 PM | 10.1 | Multiobjective, manifoldly constrained Monte Carlo optimization and uncertainty estimation for an operational hydrologic forecast model
Sean W. Fleming, BC Hydro, Burnaby, BC, Canada; and F. A. Weber and S. Weston |
| 4:30 PM | 10.2 | A comparison of statistical and explicit short-term hydrological forecasting techniques
Glenn E. Van Knowe, MESO, Inc., Troy, NY; and K. T. Waight, M. Ceperuelo, J. Aymamí, S. Parés, S. Arumugam, and J. Oh |
| 4:45 PM | 10.3 | Dynamic-enforced Statistical Downscaling of Global Seasonal Prediction of Precipitation for Regional Hydrological Applications
Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Rostkier-Edelstein, A. Givati, W. Wu, G. Descombes, T. Warner, and S. Swerdlin |
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| 5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B1
Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1-4
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 21 January 2010 |
| 7:30 AM-8:30 AM, Thursday, B208
Washington Symposium Breakfast |
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| 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, B216
Joint Session 8 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions Part I (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 24th Conference on Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Randy Koster, NASA/GSFC
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| 8:30 AM | J8.1 | Identifying parameters to describe local land-atmosphere coupling
M. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and C. Jacobs, J. A. Santanello, and O. Tuinenburg |
| 8:45 AM | J8.2 | Investigation of land surface process over the ARM SGP in 1997 summer using a single-column model
Kyung-Hee Seol, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong and M. Kanamitsu |
| 9:00 AM | J8.3 | A Modeling and Observational Framework for Diagnosing Local Land-Atmosphere Coupling on Diurnal Time Scales
Christa Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. A. Santanello, S. V. Kumar, C. Alonge, and W. -. K. Tao |
| 9:15 AM | J8.4 | Idealized model for changes in equilibrium temperature, mixed layer depth and boundary layer cloud over land in a doubled CO2 climate
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT |
| 9:30 AM | J8.5 | Great Plains irrigation produces enhanced summer precipitation in the Midwest
Anthony DeAngelis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and Y. Fan, A. Robock, M. D. Kustu, and D. A. Robinson |
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| 9:45 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break |
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| 11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, B216
Joint Session 11 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions Part II (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 24th Conference on Hydrology) |
Chair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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| 11:00 AM | J11.1 | Groundwater-land surface-atmosphere feedbacks: impacts of groundwater on land-atmosphere fluxes, convective storms, and frontal precipitation
Ian M. Ferguson, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; and R. M. Maxwell |
| 11:15 AM | J11.2 | Four-dimensional visualization and analysis of convective rainfall generation along an abrupt land use / land cover boundary in northwest Mississippi
Jamie L. Dyer, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS |
| 11:30 AM | J11.3 | Global evidence of hydroclimate changes due to urbanization
J. Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA |
| 11:45 AM | J11.4 | Vegetation and climate variability in North America—a study using the SSiB4/TRIFFID biophysical/dynamic vegetation model
Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Z. Q. Zhang |
| 12:00 PM | J11.5 | Impacts of land surface processes on the South American Monsoon System simulations: A GCM study
Hsi-Yen Ma, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. R. Mechoso, Y. Xue, H. Xiao, C. M. Wu, and F. De Sales |
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| 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday, B206
Presidential Town Hall Meeting: Dr. Jane Lubchenco’s Plenary Luncheon (Cash and Carry lunch available outside of the meeting room) |
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| 1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, B216
Joint Session 12 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions Part III (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 24th Conference on Hydrology) |
Chair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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| 1:30 PM | J12.1 | The heat low over Pakistan/northwestern India: spatiotemporal evolution and forcing mechanisms
Massimo A. Bollasina, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Nigam |
| 1:45 PM | J12.2 | Impact of land use change on the regional climate of Mount Kilimanjaro
Jonathan G. Fairman Jr., Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair and S. A. Christopher |
| 2:00 PM | J12.3 | Impact of Vegetation on the Global Monsoons
Michael Notaro, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| 2:15 PM | J12.4 | The Second Phase of the Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE-2)
Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and T. Yamada, S. Mahanama, Z. Guo, P. A. Dirmeyer, and B. J. J. M. Van den Hurk |
| 2:30 PM | J12.5 | The Impact of Coupled versus Observed SST on Summer Season Predictions over America with the NCEP CFS Using Different Land Surface Models and Different Initial Conditions
Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Ek, J. Meng, and K. Mitchell |
| 2:45 PM | J12.6 | Effects of land-atmosphere coupling strength on coupled WRF/Noah model 0-24 h forecasts of warm-season precipitation in the central United States
S. B. Trier, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, K. W. Manning, and M. A. LeMone |
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| 3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer |
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| 3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Thursday, B216
Joint Session 13 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions Part IV
(Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 24th Conference on Hydrology) |
Chair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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| 3:30 PM | J13.1 | The African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis land surface model inter-comparison project (ALMIP): Applications in coupled model studies
Aaron A. Boone, CNRM, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France |
| 3:45 PM | J13.2 | Oceanic origin of the precipitation jump in the Sahel
W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie and K. B. Katsaros |
| 4:00 PM | J13.3 | Investigation of Southern Great Plains atmospheric moisture budget for CLASIC
Peter J. Lamb, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Zangvil and D. H. Portis |
| 4:15 PM | J13.4 | Quantifying land-atmosphere interaction with satellite remote sensing: Current capabilities, findings, and limits
Craig R. Ferguson, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and E. F. Wood |
| 4:30 PM | J13.5 | What really caused the Dust Bowl?
Jeffrey A. Lee, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and T. E. Gill |
| 4:45 PM | J13.6 | Multiscale Atmospheric Simulations Over a Complex and Heterogeneous Terrain: Surface Variability and Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Charles Talbot, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and E. Bou-Zeid and J. Smith |
| 5:00 PM | J13.7 | Evaluating Modeled Snow-Atmosphere Coupling for Different Atmospheric and Physiographic Conditions
Kristi R. Arsenault, George Mason University, Calverton, MD; and F. Chen, M. Barlage, P. A. Dirmeyer, P. R. Houser, and K. Manning |
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| 5:00 PM-5:05 PM, Thursday
AMS 90th Annual Meeting Adjourns |
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