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Saturday, 10 January 2004
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Saturday Short Course/Student Conference Registration
Sunday, 11 January 2004
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Conference Registration
Monday, 12 January 2004
	7:30 AM, Monday Registration continues through Thursday, 15 January
	9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Room 6E Session 1 The Second GEWEX Global Soil Wetness Project (Room 6E)
Organizer: Paul Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD
9:00 AM 1.1 A progress report on the Second Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2)   Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and X. Gao 9:15 AM 1.2 Analysis and comparison of GSWP-2 input data sets   Mei Zhao, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. Dirmeyer 9:30 AM 1.3 Towards improvement of NCEP Noah LSM performance via GSWP-2 studies   Helin Wei, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Lohmann and K. Mitchell 9:45 AM 1.4 Preliminary results of the GSWP-2 run by SiBUC   Kenji Tanaka, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan; and S. Ikebuchi 10:00 AM 1.5 Modling the Continental Hydrology: The Interplay Between Cnopy Interception and Hill-slope Runoff   Guo-Yue Niu, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang 10:15 AM Coffee Break in Poster session room   10:45 AM 1.6 GSWP simulations over the Rhone river basin: Evaluation of the ISLSCP2 dataset and of the ISBA-SGH land surface model.   Bertrand Decharme, METEO-FRANCE, Toulouse, France; and H. Douville 11:00 AM 1.7 Modeling Approach For Remote Sensing Validaiton Of Land Surface Schemes On A Global Scale   Xiang Gao, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer 11:15 AM Paper 1.8 Moved to Joint Poster Session 4 New Paper number JP4.33   11:16 AM 1.8a Using GSWP2 to evaluate the importance of soil moisture heterogeneity in the MOSES land surface scheme   N. Gedney, U.K Met Office, Bracknell, United Kingdom; and P. M. Cox 11:30 AM Paper 1.9 Moved to Joint Poster Session 4 New Paper number JP4.34   11:31 AM 1.10 Spatial and temporal variability of global soil wetness   Zhichang Guo, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. Dirmeyer, X. Gao, and M. Zhao 11:45 AM 1.11 Evaluation of ERA40 and NCEP/NCAR reanalyses using soil moisture observations from China for the period of 1981-1999   Haibin Li, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock, S. Liu, X. Mo, and P. Viterbo
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday Coffee Break in the Poster Session Room
	12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 6E Joint Session 1 Flash Flood Forecasting in the Urban Environment (Joint with the Symposium on Planning, Nowcasting and Forecasting in the Urban Zone and 18th Conf on Hydrology; Room 6E)
Organizer: Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA
1:30 PM J1.1 Flash Flood Forecasting in Urban Drainage Basins (INVITED)   James A. Smith, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 2:00 PM J1.2 Locally modifying Flash Flood Guidance to improve the detection capability of the Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction Program   Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA 2:15 PM J1.3 Evaluation of Urban Hydrologic Prediction Accuracy for Real-time Forecasting Using Radar   Baxter E. Vieux, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and P. B. Bedient 2:30 PM Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing   4:00 PM J1.4 Sensitivity numerical experiments on ambient wind shear for cell mergers between convective cells in multicell thunderstorms   James R. Stalker, Regional Earth System Predictability Research, Inc., Santa Fe, NM 4:15 PM J1.5 Validation of Range Correction Algorithm Using Real-time Radar Data From Sterling, VA   Feng Ding, RS Information Systems/Hydrology Laboratory, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Seo and D. H. Kitzmiller 4:30 PM J1.6 High-resolution rainfall rate and DSD estimation from X-band polarimetric radar measurements   Marios Anagnostou, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and E. N. Anagnostou and W. F. Krajewski 4:45 PM J1.7 Toward Integration of Satellite Precipitation Estimates into the Multi-sensor Precipitation Estimator Algorithm   Chandra Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Seo 5:00 PM J1.8 8 Km, Half-hourly Precipitation Estimates from Passive Microwave and IR Satellite Data   John E. Janowiak, CPC/NCEP/NOAA, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Joyce, P. A. Arkin, and P. Xie 5:15 PM J1.9 Uncertainty in fine-scale MPA precipitation estimates and implications for hydrometeorological analysis and forecasting   George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 4AB Joint Poster Session 1 FLASH FLOOD FORECASTING IN THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT POSTERS (JOINT WITH THE SYMP. ON PLANNING, NOWCASTING, AND FORECASTING IN THE URBAN ZONE and 18th Conf. on Hydrology; Hall 4AB) (Joint between the 18th Conference on Hydrology and the Symposium on Planning, Nowcasting, and Forecasting in the Urban Zone)
Organizer: Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA
JP1.1 Derivation of a flood potential product using GIS and hydrological modeling: an investigation of the San Antonio summer flood of 2002   Marla R. Knebl, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and K. Hutchison and Z. L. Yang   JP1.2 A coupled Atmospheric and Hydrological Model to investigate the surface hydrology features of 1993 Mississippi flood event with GIS/RS applications   Suseela Reddy Remata, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and M. Vatti and P. Chigbu   JP1.3 Studying the diurnal cycle of convection using a TRMM-calibrated infrared rain algorithm   Andrew J. Negri, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, G. J. Huffman, and M. Manyin   JP1.4 A length-scale for the effects of sea-level variation on upstream   Thomas M. Hopson, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and P. J. Webster
	5:30 PM-7:00 PM, Monday Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
	5:30 PM, Monday Sessions end for the Day
Tuesday, 13 January 2004
	8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday, Room 609/610 Joint Session 3 Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Joint with the 15th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations and 18th Conf on Hydrology; Room 609/610)
Organizers: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
8:30 AM J3.1 The contribution of land-atmosphere interaction to boreal summer season predictability   Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and M. Zhao and J. Shukla 8:45 AM J3.2 Alternative approaches to land initialization for seasonal precipitation and temperature forecasts   Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Suarez, P. Liu, and U. Jambor 9:00 AM J3.3 Impact of land-surface initial conditions spin-up on warm season predictability by the NCEP GFS coupled with the Noah LSM   Cheng-Hsuan Lu, RSIS Inc. McLean, VA and EMC and NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell 9:15 AM J3.4 Role of land surface processes in monsoon development—EAST ASIA AND WEST AFRICA   Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and H. -. M. Juang, W. -. P. Li, S. Prince, R. DeFries, and Y. Jiao 9:30 AM J3.5 A stratified diagnosis of the Indian monsoon—Eurasian snow cover relationship   J. Fasullo, PAOS, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 9:45 AM Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing   11:00 AM J3.6 A soil moisture initialization method, based on antecedent precipitation approach, for Regional Atmospheric Modeling System: a sensitivity study on precipitation and temperature   Massimiliano Pasqui, Institute of Biometeorology - National Research Council (IBIMET-CNR), Florence, Italy; and C. J. Tremback, F. Meneguzzo, G. Giuliani, and B. Gozzini 11:15 AM J3.7 The Mesoscale Impact of Oklahoma's Winter Wheat Belt   Renee A. McPherson, OCS/University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and K. C. Crawford 11:30 AM J3.8 Contrasting land surface processes over basins of the Americas using Eta model forecasts   Ernesto Hugo Berbery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Luo, K. Mitchell, and A. K. Betts 11:45 AM J3.9 Why are the lower level cumulus clouds often better organized on the east bank of the Tapajos River? -- a mechanistic study   Lixin Lu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Denning, M. Silva Dias, and P. Silva Dias 12:00 PM J3.10 GLACE: An intercomparison of land-atmosphere coupling strength across a range of atmospheric general circulation models   Zhichang Guo, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. Dirmeyer and R. D. Koster
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break.
	9:45 AM, Tuesday, Hall 4AB Joint Poster Session 4 Land-Atmosphere Interactions Posters (Joint with the 15th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations and 18th Conf. on Hydrology; Hall 4AB)
Chairs: Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
JP4.1 The Impact of Soil Moisture Initialization on Seasonal Precipitation Forecasts in the West African Sahel: Preliminary testing of the HU-RSMCVS model   Andrea M. Sealy, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, C. H. Lu, and H. M. H. Juang   JP4.2 The relationship between soil moisture and climate at seasonal to interannual scales   Jiarui Dong, GEST/University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and W. Ni, P. Houser, and R. Koster   JP4.3 Regional scale energy and water flux climatologies as derived from remote sensing inputs and a land-exchange model   John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and M. C. Anderson, J. A. Otkin, and J. M. Norman   JP4.4 Roles of land use and orography on the simulated summer monsoon over South Asia using a regional climate model   Suhee Park, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea; and S. Y. Hong   JP4.5 Local moisture cycling in the Nebraska Sand Hills -- the key to dune stabilization?   Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson, D. B. Radell, and D. B. Loope   JP4.6 THE IMPACT OF LOCALLY FORCED DIURNAL CIRCULATIONS ON PREDICTABILITY OVER COMPLEX LANDSCAPES   Daran L. Rife, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. T. Warner   JP4.7 Investigation of South American land/atmopshere interactions using the regional Eta/SSiB model   Fernando H. De Sales, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Xue   JP4.8 Investigating the Role of Land-Atmosphere Interactions and the Desert Feedback Mechanism During the Active and Break Phases of the Monsoon Using MM5 and ARPS   Sam Chiao, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and A. P. Barros   JP4.9 Isolating microscale phenomena from mesoscale observations   Matthew J. Haugland, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK   JP4.10 A study of the physical influences on the location and strength of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) over land.   Dan C. Collins, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and V. Toma and P. J. Webster   JP4.11 Relationship between antecedent land surface conditions and precipitation in the North American Monsoon region   Chunmei Zhu, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier and T. Cavazos   JP4.12 The Role of Prairie Wetland Extent on the Pre-storm Environment of the Northern Great Plains   W. J. Capehart, South Dakota School of Mines, Rapid City, SD; and M. R. Hjelmfelt, R. D. Farley, K. W. Harding, D. P. Todey, and J. L. Elsen   JP4.13 ENSO effects on reference evapotranspiration (ETo) at the Maipo river basin, Chile   Francisco J. Meza, Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile., Santiago, RM, Chile   JP4.14 Representativeness of Soil Moisture Conditions in Central Oklahoma During the Enhanced Drying Phase   Bradley G. Illston, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK OK; and J. C. Caldwell and S. G. Bodnar   JP4.15 Evaluation of Sahel ground climatology from 1982 to 1990 based on satellite derived LAI, 200 raingauge stations, and a vegetation model (SSiB)   Isabelle Poccard, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Xue   JP4.16 Testing of several recent modifications to ARPS land surface model   Ming Xue, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Ren   JP4.17 On the soil thermal diffusivity and liquid water flux density in a Tibetan short-grass prairie   Zhiqiu Gao Sr., NPS, MOnterey, CA   JP4.18 The Regional Evapotranspiration of the Amazon   David Werth, Duke University, Durham, NC; and R. Avissar   JP4.19 COMPASS: Coupled models package of surface schemes   Mariza Costa-Cabral, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. E. Richey, D. P. Lettenmaier, M. Logsdon, S. S. Rodda, E. Mayorga, and A. K. Aufdenkampe   JP4.20 Direct and indirect feedbacks of simultaneous soil moisture and atmospheric CO2 changes on simulated terrestrial ecosystem response   Dev Niyogi, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and Y. Xue   JP4.21 Global warming effects on Great Lakes water: More precipitation but less water?   Brent M. Lofgren, Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, Ann Arbor, MI   JP4.22 Convective Planetary Boundary Layer Evolution And Land Surface Energy Balance   Joseph A. Santanello Jr., Boston University, Boston, MA; and M. A. Friedl   JP4.23 Impact of GCM climate biases on the simulation of soil moisture memory   Sarith Mahanama, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster   Paper JP4.24 moved, new paper number 2.7a     JP4.24a Snowpack advances in the Noah land-surface model   Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell, D. Lohmann, and H. Wei   JP4.25 A west-wide seasonal to interannual hydrologic forecast system   Andrew W. Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. F. Hamlet, S. Babu, and D. P. Lettenmaier   JP4.26 Global energy and water balance simulation with bucket model for GSWP2   Naota Hanasaki, The university of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and S. Kanae and T. Oki   JP4.27 Impact of GCM climate biases on the simulation of soil moisture   Sarith Mahanama, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster   JP4.28 A tendency towards lower frequency climatic variations in the southwestern U.S. during the past 100 years   John A. Dracup, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and H. G. Hidalgo   JP4.29 Land surface temperature estimation for hydrological assimilation   Andrew N French, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Houser, A. Pinheiro, and J. Meng   JP4.30 Relationship Between Atmospheric Circulation and Snowpack in the western United States   Jiming Jin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and N. L. Miller, S. Sorooshian, and X. Gao   JP4.31 Roughness lengths over snow   Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and R. E. Jordan, P. S. Guest, P. O. G. Persson, A. A. Grachev, and C. W. Fairall   JP4.32 Land-surface issues in the NCEP Regional Reanalysis   Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell, P. Shafran, and D. Jovic   JP4.33 Using GSWP 2 in a Global Water Cycle Synthesis and Analysis (Formerly paper 1.8)   C. Adam Schlosser, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, J. K. Entin, and D. R. Belvedere   JP4.34 Land Memory in GSWP 2 and AMIP 2 Simulations (Formerly paper 1.9)   Adam Schlosser, UMBC/GEST, Baltimore, MD; and R. Koster and P. A. Dirmeyer
	12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, Room 6E Session 2 Modeling and Analysis of Large-Scale Hydrological Processes (Room 6E)
Organizers: Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
1:30 PM 2.1 The 12km North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS-E)   Brian A. Cosgrove, NASA/GSFC and SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. Quina and P. R. Houser 1:45 PM 2.2 Validation of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) Using Data from Oklahoma Mesonet OASIS Sites   Kodi L. Nemunaitis, Oklahoma Climate Survey and University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, B. A. Cosgrove, D. Lohmann, K. E. Mitchell, and P. R. Houser 2:00 PM 2.3 Land surface model evaluation using a new soil moisture and hydrology data set from Boissy-le-Châtel, France   Thomas Atkins, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock and C. M. Loumagne 2:15 PM 2.4 Improving Numerical Weather Simulations using LDAS Products at Multiple Scales   Joseph L. Eastman, GEST/UMBC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard, P. R. Houser, and B. Cosgrove 2:30 PM 2.5 Cycled snow state in RUC Coupled Data Assimilation System (CDAS)   Tonya G. Smirnova, NOAA/FSL and CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, J. M. Brown, and D. Kim 2:45 PM 2.6 Temperature, Precipitation, and Streamflow Trends in the Missouri Basin, 1895 to 2001   Lee W. Larson, NOAA/NWS (retired), Prairie Village, KS; and N. O. Schwein 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM Paper 2.7 moved, new paper number JP4.24a   3:31 PM 2.7a Wintertime cold bias in NCEP mesoscale Eta and NMM models   Ken Mitchell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and M. Ek, H. Y. Chuang, Z. Janjic, and V. Wong 3:45 PM 2.8 Impacts of Fractional Snow Cover on Surface Air Temperature in NCAR Community Atmosphere Model   Guo-Yue Niu, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang 4:00 PM 2.9 Representing spatial subgrid scale variability at the land-atmosphere interface in a GCM   Andrea N. Hahmann, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. L. Mosor 4:15 PM 2.10 Changes in the lower boundary condition of water fluxes in the Noah land surface scheme   Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell 4:30 PM 2.11 Simulating North American precipitation and soil moisture of May and June 2003 with NASA/NCAR fvGCM with two cloud schemes: CCM3 and McRAS   David M. Mocko, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. C. Sud and S. J. Lin 4:45 PM 2.12 Coupling between CO2, water vapor, temperature and radon and their surface fluxes in an idealized equilibrium boundary layer over land   Alan K Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and B. Helliker and J. Berry 5:00 PM 2.13 Off- and on-line investigations of VIC land surface scheme using RSM   Ji Chen, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and J. Roads, M. Kanamitsu, and A. Nunes 5:15 PM 2.14 Explore Parameter Sensitivities and Model Calibration in a Locally Coupled Environment   Yuqiong Liu, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, and L. A. Bastidas
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	5:30 PM, Tuesday Sessions end for the day
Wednesday, 14 January 2004
	8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday, Room 6E Session 3 The Robert E. Horton Lecture in Hydrology (Room 6E)
Lecturer: Alan K Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT
8:30 AM 3.1 Robert E. Horton Lecture   Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT
	10:00 AM, Wednesday Session Fourth Presidential Policy Forum: Weather and National Security (Room 6AB)
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-5:45 PM, Wednesday, Room 6E Session 4 Hydrologic data assimilation techniques and methods (Room 6E)
Organizer: Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
1:30 PM 4.1 Soil Moisture Estimation Using Surface Backscattering Coefficients Observed by the Tropical Rain Measurement Mission Precipitation Radar   Shinta Seto, Communications Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan; and A. Robock, L. Luo, T. Oki, T. Iguchi, and K. Musiake 1:45 PM 4.2 Land surface data assimilation   Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 2:00 PM 4.3 The European soil moisture assimilation project ELDAS (INVITED)   Bart Van den Hurk, KNMI, 3730 AE De Bilt, Netherlands 2:30 PM Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing   4:00 PM 4.4 Addressing key weaknesses of hydrologic models through the assimilation of remotely-sensed land surface variables (INVITED)   Wade T. Crow, USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD 4:30 PM 4.5 Reanalysis Land Data Assimilation Using Ensemble Techniques (INVITED)   Susan C. Dunne, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Entekhabi 5:00 PM 4.6 On global soil moisture from satellite observations, land surface models, and ground data, and implications for land data assimilation   Rolf Reichle, GEST/University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster and J. Dong 5:15 PM 4.7 Soil Moisture Initialization for Climate Prediction: Characterization of Model Observation Errors   Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College of the City University of New York, New York City, NY; and J. Walker and P. R. Houser 5:30 PM 4.8 Retrieving Surface Soil Moisture from Simulated HYDROS L-band Radiometer and Radar Observations Using Kalman Filter Data Assimilation   Xiwu Zhan, UMBC-GEST/NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Houser and J. Walker
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Hall 4AB)
	2:30 PM-3:45 PM, Wednesday, Hall 4AB Poster Session 2 Hydrologic Data Assimilation Techniques and Methods Posters (Hall 4AB)
Organizer: Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
P2.1 The Use of Model Input and Model Parameter Ensembles in Hydrologic Modeling   Jonathan J. Gourley, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. E. Vieux   P2.2 Verification of rainfall estimates over Africa using RFE, NASA MPA-RT and CMORPH   Kevin B. Laws, RSIS Inc. and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. E. Janowiak and G. J. Huffman   P2.3 Assessment of satellite rainfall estimation in simulating land surface processes   Emmanouil Anagnostou, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and K. H. Lee, T. Dinku, M. S. Alamgir, D. Wang, and A. Tadese
	5:30 PM, Wednesday Sessions end for the day
	7:30 PM, Wednesday AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 15 January 2004
	9:00 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, Room 6E Session 5 Orographic hydrometeorology and the associated challenges in both observation and forecasting (Room 6E)
Organizer: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD
9:00 AM 5.1 Orographic enhancements in precipitation: An intercomparison of two gauge-based precipitation climatologies   Mingyue Chen, RS Information Systems, Inc., Camp Springs, MD; and P. Xie, J. E. Janowiak, and P. A. Arkin 9:15 AM 5.2 Characterizing the space-time variability of precipitation in the Himalayan range: analysis and synthesis   Ana P. Barros, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and T. Lang, S. Chiao, J. Putkonen, G. Kim, and E. Williams 9:30 AM 5.3 Application of PRISM Climatologies for Hydrologic Modeling and Forecasting in the Western U.S   John Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. Henkel and S. Cong 9:45 AM Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing   11:00 AM 5.4 Application of the SCIT Algorithm to South Korea Storm Data   Byunghyun Song, Korea Meteorological Administration, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, South Korea; and S. O'Donnell, S. Cheong, Y. Lee, F. Moeng, J. Nam, and S. Chung 11:15 AM 5.5 An evaluation of incorporating meteorological observations in a realtime hydrologic forecast system   Amy L Sansone, 3Tier Environmental Forecast Group, Seattle, WA; and P. Storck 11:30 AM 5.6 Initiation of precipitating convection in mountainous regions   Donna F. Tucker, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and N. A. Crook 11:45 AM 5.7 Orographic precipitation and the form of mountain ranges   Alison M. Anders, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and G. H. Roe, D. R. Durran, D. R. Montgomery, and B. Hallet
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (Hall 4AB)
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Hall 4AB Poster Session 3 Hydrometeorology Posters (Including Orographic and Scale Issues) (Hall 4AB)
Organizer: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD
P3.1 Analysing decadal land-cover change as a possible flood-inducing effect in the upper Tisza river basin in Eastern Europe   Rita Pongrácz, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, Z. Dezsô, Z. Barcza, and I. Bogardi   P3.2 Correction of global precipitation products for orographic effects   Jennifer C Adam, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier and E. F. Wood   P3.3 Downscaling of short-term ensemble atmospheric forcing for AHPS   John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Mullusky, E. Welles, L. Wu, and J. Demargne   P3.4 Gage adjustment of radar rainfall estimations over Florida   Cris Castello, OneRain Inc., Orangevale, CA; and B. H. Hoblit and D. C. Curtis   P3.5 Partitioning of precipitation into rain and snow in distributed hydrologic simulations in the Western Cascades, Oregon, USA   Edwin P. Maurer, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA; and J. Cetrone, S. Medina, and C. Mass   P3.6 Satellite-based rainfall estimates as a driver of river forecasts in Mexico   Michael A Fortune, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and A. R. Teran   P3.7 Chronic flooding of the Tanana River and Piledriver Slough near Salcha, Alaska: possible causes and solutions   Edward William Plumb, National Weather Service, Fairbanks, AK
	1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Thursday, Room 6E Session 6 Scale Issues in Weather and Climate Modeling, Including Downscaling and Validation (Room 6E)
Organizer: Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN
1:30 PM 6.1 Scale issues in model verification: Methodological developments and a case-study with ARPS (INVITED)   Efi Foufoula, St. Anthony Falls Lab, Univeristy of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2:00 PM 6.2 A statistical-distributed modeling approach for flash flood prediction   Seann Reed, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Schaake, V. Koren, D. J. Seo, and M. Smith 2:15 PM 6.3 Orographic and meteorological influences on the space-time scaling of convective precipitation   Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; and A. Rubert Godoy 2:30 PM 6.4 Exploration of Subgrid Routing Responses in Noah router   David J. Gochis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen 2:45 PM 6.5 A sub-gridscale precipitation classification system   Carlie J. Coats Jr., Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC, Research Triangle Park, NC; and R. E. Imhoff and J. N. McHenry 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 6.6 Scale-interaction between Data, Models and Parameters in Catchment Modeling (INVITED)   John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and V. Koren and Q. Duan 4:00 PM 6.7 Downscaling of weather and climate forecasts in regions with complex orography (INVITED)   L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA 4:15 PM 6.8 Downscaling NOAA's seasonal Percipitation forecasts to predict hydrologic response   Jurgen D. Garbrecht, USDA/Agricultural Resource Service, El Reno, OK; and J. M. Schneider and X. J. Zhang 4:30 PM 6.9 Comparison of Hydrologic Forecasting Techniques in the Upper Gunnison River Basin, Colorado   L. E. Hay, USGS, Lakewood, CO; and M. P. Clark 4:45 PM 6.10 Effects of Spatial and Temporal Aggregation on the Accuracy of Downscaled Precipitation Estimates in the Upper Colorado River Basin   Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and M. Clark, B. Rajagopalan, K. Werner, and D. Brandon
	3:00 PM, Thursday Registration Desk Closes
	5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	5:30 PM, Thursday Conference Ends
	6:00 PM, Thursday Norm Phillips Banquet

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