|  | P2.17 | Topographical Influences on Meteorological Conditions in the Persian Gulf
Tracy Haack, NRL, Monterey, CA; and D. Westphal, M. Liu, S. Chen, and S. Burk |
| | P2.18 | Thunderstorms of the Mt. Everest Region: Spring 1999, 2000
Kamal Thapa, City University of New York, New York, NY; and E. E. Hindman and Y. N. Rosoff |
| | P2.19 | A COMPARISON OF PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES OVER THE HIMALAYAS AND ANDES 
Stephen W. Nesbitt, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and G. V. Mota |
| | P2.20 | Initiation of Mesoscale Convective Complexes over Ethiopian Highlands: A Precursor to Tropical Cyclogenesis
Christopher M. Hill, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. L. Lin |
| | P2.21 | Quantitative precipitation forecasting of wintertime precipitation in the Sierra Nevada
Ramesh K. Vellore, DRI, Reno, NV; and V. Grubisic and A. W. Huggins |
| | P2.22 | Mountaintop and radar measurements of snow growth and snowfall rate
Randolph D. Borys, Storm Peak Laboratory, Steamboat Springs, CO; and D. H. Lowenthal, S. Cohn, and W. O. J. Brown |
| | P2.23 | The Climate of the South American Altiplano
René D. Garreaud, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile |
| | P2.24 | Description of the seasonal cycle of low-level flows flanking the Andes and their interannual variability
Lee A. Byerle, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and J. Paegle |
| | P2.25 | Orographic Clouds and Precipitation: A Study of Indian Monsoon and Its impact on cloud dynaamics and precipiation in Western Ghats of India
Shanmuganandan Samarajalingam, Madurai Kamaraj Univ., Madurai, India |
| | P2.26 | Orographic Effects on a Conditionally Unstable Flow over an Idealized Three-Dimensional Mesoscale Mountain
Shu-Hua Chen, Univ. of California, Davis, CA; and Y. L. Lin |
| | P2.27 | A linear time-delay model for orographic precipitation
Ronald B. Smith, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| | P2.28 | Some Common Ingredients for heavy Orographic Rainfall and their Potential Application for Prediction
Yuh-Lang Lin, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Chiao, J. A. Thurman, D. B. Ensley, and J. J. Charney |
| | P2.29 | Some Challenges of Using Graphical Forecast Editor(GFE) Operationally in Diverse Terrain
Paul G. Wolyn, NOAA/NWSFO, Pueblo, CO; and D. Metze and K. Torgerson |
| | P2.30 | Evaluation of MC2 Simulations for a Case of Significant Upstream Blocking During MAP
Bradley F. Smull, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK and University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and O. Bousquet and D. Luethi |
| | P2.31 | Simulation of Snow Drift and Snow Deposition in Steep Terrain
Michael Lehning, ETH, Davos, Switzerland; and J. Doorschot, N. Raderschall, and T. Exner |
| | P2.32 | Understanding orographic precipitation mechanisms using polarization radar and in situ techniques
Sabine Goeke, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| | P2.33 | A Case Study Analysis and Model Simulation of a Columbia Gorge Gap Flow Event
Justin Sharp, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. F. Mass |
| | P2.34 | Cellularity in Orographic Convection
Daniel Kirshbaum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. R. Durran |