Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate
    

Session 4

 

Field experiments and surface mesonetworks

  Chairperson: Thomas Loveland, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD
8:30 AM4.1Contributions of GEWEX Continental-scale Experiments to Climate Understanding and Prediction (Invited Presentation)  
Richard G. Lawford, OAR, Silver Spring, MD
9:00 AM4.2Overview of the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME)  extended abstract
Wayne Higgins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
9:15 AM4.3Observations of Diverse Precipitating Cloud Systems Utilizing Ground-based Doppler Radar Profilers for the Remote Sensing of Precipitating Clouds  extended abstract
Kenneth S. Gage, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Williams
9:30 AMOral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Each Poster in Session P3  
9:45 AMFormal poster viewing with coffee break  
11:00 AM4.4An Overview of the Bow Echo and MCV Experiment (BAMEX)  extended abstract
Christopher A. Davis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Biggerstaff, L. Bosart, G. Bryan, D. Dowell, R. Johns, D. Jorgensen, B. Klimowski, K. Knupp, W.-C. Lee, R. Przybylinski, G. Schmocker, J. Trapp, S. Trier, R. Wakimoto, M. Weisman, and C. Ziegler
11:15 AM4.5African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA): An International Research Project and Field Campaign  
Chris Thorncroft, SUNY, Albany, NY; and T. Lebel and J.-L. Redelsperger
 4.6PAPER WITHDRAWN  
11:30 AM4.7Atmospheric rivers over the eastern Pacific: Satellite and aircraft observations during the CALJET experiment in 1997/98  
F. Martin Ralph, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and P. J. Neiman and G. A. Wick
11:45 AM4.8Water cycle variability over a small watershed: a one-month comparison of measured and modeled precipitation over the Southern Great Plains  extended abstract
Mark A. Miller, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and D. T. Troyan, N. L. Miller, S. Kemball-Cook, J. Jin, and K. R. Costigan

Thursday, 13 February 2003: 8:30 AM-12:15 PM

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