| Session 15D | 
|  | Special Session: Diurnal Variability of Precipitation - Global and Regional modeling II | 
|  | Chair: Eric A. Smith, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 
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|  | 8:25 AM | 15D.1 | Diurnal cycles of precipitation in observations and GCM simulations Kenneth P. Bowman, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
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|  | 8:50 AM | 15D.2 | Diurnal variations of precipitation over land: A challenge to models D. A. Randall, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
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|  | 9:15 AM | 15D.3 | Diurnal Modulation of Tropical Cyclone Intensity Gregory J. Tripoli, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
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|  |  | 15D.4 | The diurnal cycle observed by Meteosat-8 and simulated by a climate model Anthony Slingo, University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom; and R. Comer and R. Allan
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|  | 9:30 AM | 15D.5 | Diurnal Variation of Global Precipitation and Water-Vapor Budget Tsing-Chang (Mike) Chen, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
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