Session 1 |
| | Weather Forecasting I |
| | Chair: Michael P. Meyers, NOAA/NWS, Grand Junction, CO
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| 9:00 AM | 1.1 | Progress and Problems with Forecasting Orographic Precipitation over the Pacific Northwest and Southwest Canada (Invited) 
Clifford F. Mass, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 9:30 AM | 1.2 | A wind profiler and GPS-based water vapor flux tool for precipitation forecasting in coastal mountains
Paul J. Neiman, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and A. White, F. M. Ralph, D. J. Gottas, and S. I. Gutman |
| 9:45 AM | 1.3 | Orographic forcing and Doppler winds, the key for nowcasting heavy precipitation in the mountains 
Luca Panziera, MeteoSwiss, Locarno-Monti, Switzerland; and U. Germann |