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Monday, 15 January 2007
	9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday Plenary Session for the Presidential Forum (Presidential Forum will then run parallel to other sessions throughout the day)
	1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Monday, 209 Session 1 Global Water and Energy Cycle Prediction
Cochairs: Guiling Wang, Univerisity of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD
1:30 PM 1.1 GEWEX Water and Energy Budget Studies   John Roads, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA 1:45 PM 1.2 Surface Water and Energy Budgets for the Mississippi River Basin   Xia Feng, George Mason University, Calverton, MD; and P. R. Houser 2:00 PM 1.3 The effect of vegetation biophysical processes (VBP) in UCLA AGCM global precipitation simulations   Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. R. Mechoso, R. Vasic, H. S. Kang, J. Farrara, G. J. Collatz, and A. Arakawa 2:15 PM 1.4 Terrestrial Water Storage Change from 1948-2004 as Modeled by a Land Surface Model   Guo-Yue Niu, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang 2:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   4:00 PM 1.5 Uncertainty in precipitation-frequency change and its impacts in an integrated global climate-change assessment   C. Adam Schlosser, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and A. Sokolov, C. E. Forest, and D. Kicklighter 4:15 PM 1.6 Evaluation of global precipitation in reanalyses   Michael Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Chen, F. R. Robertson, and R. F. Adler 4:30 PM 1.7 NASA-African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Activies (NAMMA-06) Senegal Precipitation Measurements during August-September 2006   Gregory S. Jenkins, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, P. A. Kucera, J. D. Fuentes, J. Gerlach, A. Gaye, and M. Ndiaye 4:45 PM 1.8 Microphysics and their linkages to precipitation processes during NAMMA -06   Aaron Pratt, Howard University, Washington, DC; and G. S. Jenkins and A. J. Heymsfield
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall C Joint Poster Session 1 CLIMATE ASPECTS OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY POSTERS (Joint with 21st Conference on Hydrology)
Organizers: Paul R. Houser, George Mason Univ./Center for Research on Environment and Water, Calverton, MD; Ana P. Barros, Duke Univ., Durham, NC; Christa Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
JP1.1 The Impact of an Earthquake-Generated Tsunami on the Earth-Atmosphere System: Year 2004 Indian Ocean Case History Example   Ayorinde O. Idowu, Univ. of Houston, Houston, TX   JP1.2 Comparison of precipitable water vapor measurements from AIRS and MODIS on the Aqua satellite   Michael J. Garay, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and E. J. Fetzer and A. Eldering   JP1.3 Water Balance of an Irrigated Watershed with Seasonally Drought in Southern China   Yuanshu Jing Sr., Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China; and Z. Bin and H. Zepp   JP1.4 Observations and Influence of Groundwater on Surface Fluxes Using the NOAH Land Suraface Model in the Nebraska Sand Hills   David B. Radell, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and C. M. Rowe   JP1.5 A study of the intensity and duration of the North American Monsoon as a function of winter and spring snowcover   Anna Marie Nordfelt, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. Quiring   JP1.6 On the Ice Control producing 5th Generation Water Resources and suppressing Global Warming   Hi-Ryong Byun, Pukyong National University, Busan, South Korea   JP1.7 On the validation of the simulation of early season precipitation in the island of Puerto Rico using a mesoscale atmospheric model   Daniel E. Comarazamy, Univ. of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; and J. E. Gonzalez   JP1.8 Possible hydrological effects of detected change in vegetation cover in Eastern Europe based on remotely sensed data   Judit Bartholy, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and R. Pongracz, Z. Dezso, A. Kern, Z. Barcza, and I. Bogardi   JP1.9 Metrics to Characterize Land Controls in the Dynamical Evolution of Cloud and Precipitation Patterns: An Illustration Study in North America   Kun Tao, Duke Univ., Durham, NC; and A. P. Barros   JP1.10 Investigation on the circulation of Urban Boundary Layer induced by urbanized land surface   Soohyun Park, Seoul National Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and B. Kim and G. Lim   JP1.11 Impacts of UHI and aerosols on hydrological variables   Heather Yael Glickman, NOAA/CREST/City University of New York, New York, NY; and S. Mahani and R. Khanbilvardi1   JP1.12 Dynamic vegetation model for the descriptions of evapotranspiration and photosynthetic carbon sink observed at a rice paddy   Jeng-Lin Tsai, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan; and B. J. Tsuang   JP1.13 Impact of land use change on the boundary layer development and cloud formation in Southwest Australia   Salvi AsefiNajafabady, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL; and Y. Wu, U. S. Nair, R. A. Pielke, T. J. Lyons, J. Hacker, and R. M. Welch JP1.14 Assessing the Performance of CLASS in the Canadian Regional Climate Model   Edmond Chan, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and M. D. MacKay and D. L. Verseghy   JP1.15 Application and evaluation of the Kalman Filter data assimilation approaches in the Noah land surface model   Yan Luo, Center for Research on Environment and Water, Calverton, MD; and P. R. Houser and X. Zhan
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall C Poster Session 1 Hydrometeorological Remote Sensing Posters
Organizers: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD
P1.1 Validation of satellite-based rainfall estimates for hurricanes   Nasim Nourozi, NOAA/CREST at CUNY, New York, NY; and S. Mahani and R. Khanbilvardi   P1.2 Correlation of Polarimetric Radar Hail Signatures with MODIS Ground Truth Data   Mariana Oliveira Felix, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and P. Kennedy   P1.3 The model for the space time variability of radar rainfall fields   Gang Xu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar   P1.4 Satellite-Based Prediction Nowcasting Capability for the New York City Metropolitan Area   Bernard Mhando, NOAA/CREST at CUNY, New York, NY   P1.5 Multi-Spectral Remotely Sensed Snowfall Rate Estimation   Yajaira Mejia, NOAA/CREST at City College of New York, New York, NY; and D. S. Mahani and R. Khanbilvardi   P1.6 Atmospheric water vapor from AIRS: an overview   Eric J. Fetzer, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and M. T. Chahine, B. Tian, B. H. Kahn, H. Ye, F. W. Irion, D. E. Waliser, B. H. Lambrigtsen, and A. Eldering   P1.7 The role of moisture transport from oceans in global water balance and in West Africa precipitation   W.T. Liu, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie   P1.8 Regional Validation of Existing Algorithms for SWE Estimations Using AMSR-E data   Narges Shahroudi, NOAA/CREST/CUNY, New York, NY
Tuesday, 16 January 2007
	8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, 214A Joint Session 1 Impacts of Terrestrial Changes on Weather and Climate (Joint with 21st Conference on Hydrology and Climate Aspects of Hydrometeorology)
Organizers: Christa Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Ana P. Barros, Duke Univ., Durham, NC; Paul R. Houser, George Mason Univ./Center for Research on Environment and Water, Calverton, MD
8:30 AM J1.1 Linking Water, Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles (INVITED)   Elisabeth A. Holland, NCAR, Boulder, CO 9:00 AM J1.2 Hydrological impacts of deforestation in small catchments in Brazilian Amazonian   Ralph Trancoso, National Institute for Research in Amazônia, Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil; and J. Tomasella, R. D. C. D. Silva, M. T. F. Monteiro, D. A. Rodriguez, and L. A. Cuartas 9:15 AM J1.3 The Sensitivity of North American Warm Season Precipitation to Vegetation and Groundwater Dynamics   Xiao-Yan Jiang, Univ. of Texas, Austin, 78712, TX; and G. Y. Niu and Z. L. Yang 9:30 AM J1.4 The Southwest Australian Bunny Fence Experiment   Udaysankar S. Nair, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and T. J. Lyons, J. Hacker, R. M. Welch, R. A. Pielke, S. Asefi, and Y. Wu 9:45 AM Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing   11:00 AM J1.5 The impact of current and future urban land use on coastal convective precipitation   J. Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA; and M. Manyin and D. Messen 11:15 AM J1.6 Analysis of the Influence of Irrigation on Hydroclimate in the California Central Valley using Regional Climate Model Ensemble Simulations   Jiming Jin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA; and N. L. Miller 11:30 AM J1.7 Impacts of northern lakes on local seasonal climate   Zhenxia Long, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. A. Perrie, J. R. Gyakum, R. Laprise, and D. Caya 11:45 AM J1.8 A Numerical Study of the Hydrometeorological Dryline in Northwest India during the Monsoon   Sen Chiao, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and A. P. Barros
	8:30 AM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, 211 Session 2 Hydrometeorological Remote Sensing
Organizers: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD
8:30 AM 2.1 Satellite rainfall estimates for real time flash flood guidance estimation   Konstantine P. Georgakakos, Hydrologic Research Center/SIO, San Diego, CA; and T. M. Carpenter and J. A. Sperfslage 2.2 Multi-sensor QPE in the National Mosaic and QPE (NMQ) system   Jian Zhang, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Howard and M. Fang 9:00 AM 2.3 Spatial downscaling and evaluation of CMORPH analyses over the continental U.S.   Matthew Garcia, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County/GEST and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Tian, C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. B. Eylander, C. Daly, R. Joyce, and J. Janowiak 9:15 AM 2.4 Validation Results for Daily Precipitation Estimates Over Del Plata Basin   Daniel A. Vila, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and E. H. Berbery and R. R. Ferraro 9:30 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   10:45 AM 2.5 An intercomparison between mean areal precipitation from gauges and a multisensor procedure   Dennis D. VanCleve Jr., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg 11:00 AM 2.6 An intercomparison of precipitation values from the OneRain Corp. algorithm and the National Weather Service procedure   Steven M. Martinaitis, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg, J. L. Sullivan, Jr., and C. Pathak 11:15 AM 2.7 Verifying High-Resolution Satellite Precipitation Estimates on Sub-Daily Scales: Results for Southern China   Jianyin Liang, CMA Guangdong Meteorological Administration, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; and P. Xie 11:30 AM 2.8 Global Landslide Hazard Assessment Using Satellite Precipitation Information   Yang Hong, Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Adler, G. J. Huffman, and A. Negri 11:45 AM Lunch Break   1:15 PM 2.9 Hydrologically-based assessment of remotely sensed precipitation products in the North American Monsoon region of western Mexico   David J. Gochis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Nesbitt and W. Yu 1:30 PM 2.10 Streamflow prediction in ungaged watersheds: statistical modeling with remote sensing   Blake P. Weissling, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX; and H. Xie 1:45 PM 2.11 Assessment of uncertainty and utility of soil moisture retrievals in a data assimilation experiment   Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, H. Sharif, and S. Mahanama 2:00 PM 2.12 A framework of the specification of modeling and observation uncertainties for land data assimilation of remote sensing retrievals   Wade T. Crow, USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD 2:15 PM 2.13 Impact of Observational Data Preprocessing on their Assimilation in NASA's Land Information System Using the Kalman Filters   Xiwu Zhan, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and W. T. Crow, S. V. Kumar, P. R. Houser, C. D. Peters-Lidard, and T. J. Jackson 2:30 PM 2.14 Evaluation of the retrieved AMSR-E soil moisture using the North American Regional Reanalysis data   Kyoung-Wook Jin, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and E. Njoku and S. Chan 2:45 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall   3:15 PM Paper 2.15 has been moved. New Poster number P1.8   3:30 PM 2.16 An empirical model to estimate soil moisture over vegetated areas   Nazario D. Ramirez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; and R. Vasquez, C. Calderon, and E. Harmsen 3:45 PM 2.17 High-resolution monitoring of snow properties using the WRF technology   Do Hyuk Kang, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. P. Barros 4:00 PM 2.18 Modeling of wet snowpack evolution and radiobrightness   Yi-Ching Chung, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and R. D. De Roo and A. W. England 4:15 PM 2.19 Using land cover data to improve estimated snow pack properties by microwave data   Amir E Azar, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and T. Lakhankar, H. Ghedira, P. Romanov, N. Shahroudi, and D. R. Khanbilvardi 4:30 PM 2.20 Reconstructing snow water equivalent in the Rio Grande headwaters using remotely sensed snow cover data and a spatially distributed snowmelt model   Noah P. Molotch, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, 214A Joint Session 2 Water Resource Issues Associated with Weather and Climate Change (Joint with the 21st Conference on Hydrology and Climate Aspects of Hydrometeorology)
Organizers: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Seattle, WA; Alan F. Hamlet, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Ana P. Barros, Duke Univ., Durham, NC; Christa Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
1:30 PM J2.1 Global warming and water availability: the "big picture" (INVITED)   P. C. D. Milly, USGS, Princeton, NJ 2:00 PM J2.2 Atmospheric Transfer of Surface Water between Basins and Between Nations   Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and K. L. Brubaker 2:15 PM J2.3 Implications of changing 20th century precipitation variability for water management in the western U.S.   Alan F. Hamlet, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and P. W. Mote and D. P. Lettenmaier 2:30 PM J2.4 Climate Forecasts and Water management - Possibilities and Challenges   Sankar Arumugam, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and U. Lall, A. F. De Souza, and C. Brown 2:45 PM J2.5 Climate Forecasts and Water Macro Allocation in Ceará, Brazil   Francisco Assis Filho Souza Filho, IRI, Columbia University, Palisades, NY; and U. Lall 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J2.6 An Experimental System for a Global Flood Watch: From Satellite Precipitation Data to a Flood Inundation Map   Yang Hong, Goddard Earth Science and Technology Center, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Adler, R. Brakenridge, and G. J. Huffman 3:45 PM J2.7 Using Multiple-Sensor Quantitative Precipitation Estimation for Flood Forecasting in the Lower Colorado River Basin   Beth Clarke, Weather Decision Technologies, Norman, OK; and C. Barrere, M. Luna, and D. Yates 4:00 PM J2.8 Flash Flood Prediction in Italy: Development and Testing of a New Capability   J. William Conway, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and C. Barrere, G. Formentini, L. Lago, A. Rossa, and M. Calza 4:15 PM J2.9 Effects of evapotranspiration and rainfall fluxes on the hydrologic water balance in the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer region   Baxter E. Vieux, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and C. Calderon 4:30 PM J2.10 Developing tools for monitoring moisture conditions at the local level in the State of Texas   Steven M. Quiring, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon 4:45 PM J2.11 Coupling land hydrology to a cloud resolving model - Evaluation for warm season conditions   Shanti Bhushan, Duke University, Durham, NC; and B. Ana P 5:00 PM J2.12 A Study of Predecessor Rainfall Events (PRE) in Advance of Tropical Cyclones   Matthew Cote, State Univ. of New York, Albany, NY; and M. L. Jurewicz 5:15 PM J2.13 Synoptic and Mesoscale Patterns Associated with Super-Cooled Liquid Water over the Medicine Bow and Sierra Madre Mountains   Melissa A. Goering, NOAA/NWSFO, Cheyenne, WY; and T. Jensen and D. Copley
Wednesday, 17 January 2007
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, 214B Joint Session 4 Joint session between 19CVC and 21st Conf. on Hydrology (Joint between the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 21st Conference on Hydrology)
8:30 AM J4.1 Seasonal Precipitation Predictions over North American using the Eta RegionalClimate Model   Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell 8:45 AM J4.2 Precipitation probability distributions in drought-prone regions   Gilbert P. Compo, Climate Diagnostics Center, CIRES, and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and P. Sardeshmukh and C. A. Smith 9:00 AM J4.3 Evidence for interannual to decadal variations in Hadley and Walker Circulations and links to water and energy fluxes   F. R. Robertson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and M. G. Bosilovich and T. L. Miller 9:15 AM J4.4 Evaluations of land/ocean skin temperatures observed in the ISCCP satellite datasets, and assimilated in the NCEP and ERA reanalyses   Ben-Jei Tsuang, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan; and M. D. Chou, Y. Zhang, and A. Roesch 9:30 AM J4.5 Effects of past and future climate change on ski areas   Philip W. Mote, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. F. Hamlet, J. Casson, and D. Reading 9:45 AM J4.6 Analyses of heavy rainfall variations in the U.S. from the reprocessed Hydrometeorological Automated Data System (HADS) data   Dongsoo Kim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
	8:30 AM-11:15 AM, Wednesday, 213A Session 3 Coupled Hydrological Modeling
Organizers: Susan C. Dunne, University College Dublin, Dublin Ireland; Paul Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD
3.1 The sensitivity of QPF verification to the choice of verification data: A study from the DWFE   Edward Tollerud, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and L. R. Bernardet, A. Loughe, and L. S. Wharton 8:30 AM 3.2 The new NESDIS Hydro-Estimator algorithm   Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and J. C. Davenport 8:45 AM 3.3 Generating river discharge estimates for the Bay of Bengal using NASA'S Land Information System   John E. M. Brown, Univ. of Miami/RSMAS, Miami, FL 9:00 AM 3.4 Test Application of a distributed hydrologic LSM with subsurface and overland flow routing for a tropical storm event in an Appalachian headwater basin   Matthew Garcia, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County/GEST and NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, D. J. Gochis, D. N. Yates, J. McHenry, T. Burnet, C. J. Coats, and J. Condrey 9:15 AM 3.5 Sensitivity analysis of variability in reflectivity-rainfall relationships on runoff prediction   Chakradhar Goud Malakpet, Univ. of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA; and E. Habib, E. A. Meselhe, and A. Tokay 9:30 AM 3.6 Modeling of flash flood occurrence frequency in Southern California   Theresa M. Carpenter, Hydrologic Research Center and Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and K. P. Georgakakos 9:45 AM Coffee Break   10:15 AM 3.7 The Land Information System: A new common infrastructure for land data assimilation at NASA and AFWA   John B. Eylander, Headquarters Air Force Weather Agency, Offutt AFB, NE; and S. V. Kumar and C. D. Peters-Lidard 10:30 AM 3.8 Evaluation of the influence of fine scale land surface representation on convective processes using the coupled LIS-WRF system   Sujay V. Kumar, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Peters-Lidard, J. Eastman, and W. -. K. Tao 10:45 AM 3.9 Evaluation of Streamflow Forecasts Based on Coupled GFS-Noah Ensemble Forecasting System   Dingchen Hou, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth, K. Mitchell, D. Lohmann, and H. Wei
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, 213A Session 4 Land-Atmosphere Interactions 1
Organizers: Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; Hatim Sharif, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX; Andrea N. Hahmann, NCAR, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM 4.1 Launching Phase II of NLDAS: Adding a Seasonal Prediction Component and 25-year Land Reanalysis   Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell, E. F. Wood, D. P. Lettenmaier, L. Luo, A. Wood, H. Wei, B. A. Cosgrove, C. Peters-Lidard, J. Schaake, and P. J. Restrepo 1:45 PM 4.2 An evaluation of the sensitivity of mesoscale weather forecasts to the choice of forcing in a land data assimilation system   Andrea N. Hahmann, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. Liu, T. Warner, and F. Chen 2:00 PM 4.3 Sensitivity of Land Surface Model Simulations to Atmospheric Forcing and Other Factors   Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and H. Kato, A. Sheffield, and B. F. Zaitchik 2:15 PM 4.4 Evaluation of parameter transferability for land surface models across semi-arid environments   Enrique Rosero, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and L. A. Bastidas 2:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   4:00 PM 4.5 Impact of canopy resistance formulation on the long-term evolution of soil moisture and evaporation   Anil Kumar, NCAR / Purdue University, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, D. Niyogi, K. Manning, M. Ek, and K. Mitchell 4.6 Surface roughness parameterization in the NCEP operational WRF-NMM (mesoscale model)   Michael Ek, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell, V. Wong, and G. Gayno 4:15 PM 4.7 Quantifying the strength of soil moisture-precipitation coupling and its sensitivity to changes in surface water budget   Guiling Wang, Univerisity of Connecticut, Storrs Mansfield, CT; and Y. Kim and D. Wang 4:30 PM 4.8 Impact of vegetation feedback on the response of precipitation to antecedent soil moisture anomalies over North America   Yeonjoo Kim, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs Mansfield, CT; and G. Wang 4:45 PM 4.9 Influences of urbanization on precipitation and water resources in the metropolitan Beijing area   Chao-lin Zhang, Institute of Urban Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China; and F. Chen, S. G. Miao, Q. C. Li, and C. Y. Xuan 5:00 PM 4.10 The impact of soil moisture on the formation of the African Easterly Jet   Man-li Wu, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Schubert, O. Reale, M. J. Suarez, R. Koster, and P. Pegion
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall C Joint Poster Session 3 Diurnal (Joint between the 21st Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Applied Climatology, and the 19th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
JP3.1 Detection of Migrating Tides in the Tropical Middle Atmosphere using the CHAMP Radio Occultation Data   Zhen Zeng, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. J. Randel, S. Sokolovskiy, C. Deser, Y. H. Kuo, M. E. Hagan, and J. Du   Poster JP3.2 has been moved. New Paper number is 5A.6A     JP3.3 Early morning rainfall over the Strait of Malacca   Mikiko Fujita, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change/ Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan; and F. Kimura, P. Wu, and M. Yoshizaki   JP3.4 Diurnal variation of optically thin water cloud   Toshiro Inoue, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and K. Kawamoto   JP3.5 Interannual variability of diurnal warming of the sea surface temperature   Carol Anne Clayson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall C Poster Session 2 Land-Atmosphere Interactions Posters
Organizers: Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; Hatim Sharif, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX; Zong-Liang Yang, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; Andrea N. Hahmann, NCAR, Boulder, CO
P2.1 The Role of Precipitation in the Coupling of the Land Surface with the Atmosphere   Joseph G. Alfieri, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and D. Niyogi, P. D. Blanken, M. A. LeMone, and F. Chen   P2.2 Single column model analysis of land-atmosphere coupling strength   Sarith Mahanama, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster, J. T. Bacmeister, P. Liu, M. J. Suarez, and R. H. Reichle   P2.3 Simulation-based Hydroclimatic Trends in the Arkansas/Red River Basin   Hatim Sharif, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX; and N. L. Miller   P2.4 Sensitivity of local surface weather forecasts to initial soil moisture fields: case studies over the Mississippi Delta region   Georgy Mostovoy, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS; and V. Anantharaj   P2.5 Retrospective and real-time forcing data for the South American Land Data Assimilation System initiative   Luis Gustavo G. De Goncalves, NASA/GSFC and ORAU, Greenbelt, MD; and D. L. Toll, D. Herdies, E. Larroza, R. Borges, M. Bottino, J. Rozante, J. Shuttleworth, M. Rodell, B. A. Cosgrove, and J. Aravequia   P2.6 Influence of the soil moisture anomaly on the 1997 heavy precipitation in central of US   Yu Zhang, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS   P2.7 Evaluation of the Land Surface Physics in Single Column Model and Their Impact on Seasonal Prediction   Yoo-Bin Yhang, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong   P2.8 Effects of the Tibetan snow on the East Asia summer monsoon with global and regional models   KyungHee Seol, Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea; and S. Hong   P2.9 Effects of Soil Moisture on Planetary Boundary Layer Structure: Numerical Simulations   Ning Zhang, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and H. Liu   P2.10 Distributed hydrological modeling in a micro-scale rainforest catchment in Central Amazonia, Brazil: DHSVM calibration   Luz Adriana Cuartas, National Institute for space research - INPE, Săo José dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and J. Tomasella, C. A. Nobre, A. D. Nobre, C. D. Rennó, M. G. Hodnett, and M. Waterloo   P2.11 Correlation between precipitation, dust storms and Gulf of California moisture surges in the Paso del Norte region during the North American Monsoon   Astrid Y. Lozano, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and J. Negrete, R. M. Fitzgerald, K. Apodaca, and D. V. R. Morris   P2.12 Comparison of AGRMET model results with in situ soil moisture data   Cynthia L. Combs, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. L. Rapp, A. S. Jones, and G. Mason   P2.13 Climate-induced changes in surface energy budget in high latitudes for the past two decades: modeling studies   Heping Liu, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and N. Zhang and Y. Zhang   P2.14 Assimilating MODIS Snow Cover Data for Global Snow Water Equivalent Estimation Using Ensemble Kalman Filter and An Improved Observational Operator   Hua Su, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang and G. Y. Niu   P2.15 Application of the Canadian Land Surface Scheme with carbon and nitrogen cycles to agricultural crops in Eastern Ontario—model evaluation and sensitivity analysis   Paul A. Bartlett, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada; and I. B. Strachan, F. Yuan, M. A. Arain, and E. Pattey   P2.16 A comparison of cumulus parameterization schemes in the WRF model   Erin K. Gilliland, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and C. M. Rowe
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall C Poster Session 3 Drought Assessment and Prediction Posters
Organizers: Hatim Sharif, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX; Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD
P3.1 The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network (CoCoRaHS): Timely Volunteer Precipitation Monitoring   Henry Reges, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and N. J. Doesken and J. Turner   P3.2 Drought identification and drought indices using ERA-40 reanalysis data   Emanuel Dutra, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal; and P. Viterbo and P. M. A. Miranda   P3.3 Maps and Tools at NASA GES DISC for Supporting Global Drought Monitoring Activities   Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CEOSR, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD; and W. L. Teng, S. J. Kempler, C. Lim, H. Rui, L. Chiu, and E. Ocampo
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall C Poster Session 4 Weather to Climate Scale Flood Forecasting Posters
Organizers: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
P4.1 Potential real-time fully-automated operational rain gauge quality control tools for time-critical NWS hydrologic applications   Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Ding and K. Shrestha   P4.2 New satellite data tools for precipitation analyses and forecasts   Sheldon J. Kusselson, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and M. A. Turk, S. Q. Kidder, J. M. Forsythe, and E. E. Ebert   P4.3 New Bayesian probabilistic forecasts of river discharge: Linking weather forecasts to intraseasonal prediction   carlos Hoyos, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster   P4.4 Further investigation of sedimentation velocities of graupel and snow in the WRF Single-Moment 6-Class Microphysics scheme (WSM6)   Kyo-Sun Sunny Lim, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong and J. Dudhia   P4.5 COMET© Basic Hydrologic Sciences course: What happens to the rain and snow?   Wendy Schreiber-Abshire, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and M. Kelsch and L. Goldstein P4.6 Assessing the capability of a regional-scale weather model to simulate extreme precipitation patterns and flooding: Central Texas, USA   Marla R. Knebl, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang   P4.7 An Autocorrelation Correction Analysis to Simulate Daily Streamflow: An Application to the Thames River, London, Ontario, Canada   Chad Shouquan Cheng, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. Li P4.8 A Study of Adaptive-Network-Based Fuzzy Inference System for Rainfall-Stage Forecasting on Lan-Yang Creek, Taiwan   Yong Duann Jr., Department of civil engineering, China University of Technology, Taipei, Wenshan Chiu, Taiwan; and J. C. Fu and M. H. Hsu
Thursday, 18 January 2007
	8:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday, 209 Session 5A Land-Atmosphere Interactions 2
Organizers: Zong-Liang Yang, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN
8:30 AM 5A.1 Improving Remotely Sensed Rainfall Estimates over Radar Gap Areas   Shayesteh Mahani, Co Operative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Centre (CREST), New York, NY; and R. Khanbilvardi 8:45 AM 5A.2 Storm surge issues of Hurricane Katrina   Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, Mississippi State University, Stennis Space Center, MS; and S. Bhate, Y. Li, Y. Lau, E. Valenti, B. Jelley, and B. Jacobsen 9:00 AM 5A.3 Impact of physical parameterization and land use land cover change on the simulation of the July 26, 2005 heavy rain event over Mumbai, India   Hsin-I Chang, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and A. Kumar, D. Niyogi, U. C. Mohanty, F. Chen, and J. Dudhia 9:15 AM 5A.4 Improved modeling of land-atmosphere interactions using a coupled version of WRF with the Land Information System   Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and K. M. LaCasse, J. A. Santanello, W. M. Lapenta, and C. D. Peters-Lidard 9:30 AM 5A.5 Sensitivity tests of precipitation forecast to soil moisture initial condition using NCEP WRF ensemble system   Jun Du, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and G. Gayno 9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   11:00 AM 5A.6 Estimating Soil Hydraulic Parameters from Space   Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and A. V. Ines 11:15 AM 5A.7 Determination of the land surface emissivity in the 8-12 micrometer window using ASTER and MODIS data   Thomas Schmugge, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; and K. Ogawa 11:30 AM 5A.8 Identifying nonstationarity in the atmospheric surface layer   Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and C. A. Geiger, G. Trevińo, and K. J. Claffey 11:45 AM 5A.9 A Method to estimate Spectral Radiation Components from Surface Net Radiation, using Long-term Ground Observations   Gi-Hyeon Park, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and X. Gao and S. Sorooshian
	8:30 AM-11:45 AM, Thursday, 211 Session 5B Drought Assessment and Prediction
Organizers: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; Hatim Sharif, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX
8:30 AM 5B.1 Spaceborne drought mapping using thermal-infrared remote sensing   Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and W. P. Kustas 9:00 AM 5B.2 Drought Monitoring and Prediction from Regional to Global Scales   Justin Sheffield, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and L. Luo and E. F. Wood 9:30 AM 5B.3 Assimilation of AMSR-E Soil Moisture into the USDA Global Crop Production Decision Support System   J. Bolten, USDA, Beltsville, MD; and W. Crow, X. Zhan, T. Jackson, C. Reynolds, and B. Doorn 9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   11:00 AM 5B.4 Qualitative Comparison Between the Temporal Variation of Streamflow Index and Solar Flux Level: Continued Study and Analysis   Brenda Zuzolo, The Boeing Company, Springfield, VA 11:15 AM 5B.5 Forecasting the impact of drought on vegetation in Central Asia   Mathew A. Barlow, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, Lowell, MA 11:30 AM 5B.6 Drought and wel spells over the United States and Mexico   Kingtse Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and J. E. Schemm
	1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Thursday, 209 Session 6A Land-Atmosphere Interactions 3
Organizers: Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; Binayak Mohanty, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
1:30 PM 6A.1 Estimation of Convective Planetary Boundary Layer Evolution and Land-Atmosphere Interactions from MODIS and AIRS   Joseph A. Santanello Jr., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. A. Friedl 1:45 PM 6A.2 A method to describe horizontal variability of daytime Sensible and Latent Heat Flux   Margaret A. LeMone, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, M. Tewari, J. G. Alfieri, and D. Niyogi 2:00 PM 6A.3 A new latent heat flux parameterization for land surface models   Christopher M. Godfrey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and L. M. Leslie 2:15 PM 6A.4 A Sensitivity Study of a Energy-Budget Energy-Budget Accumulation and Ablation Model   Fan Lei, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and V. Koren, M. B. Smith, and F. Moreda 2:30 PM 6A.5 Modeling Regional-to-Global-Scale Terrestrial Water Storage Dynamics   Zong-Liang Yang, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and G. Y. Niu 2:45 PM 6A.6 Simulation of regional changes in terrestrial water storage using two land-surface models   Lindsey E. Gulden, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and M. Rodell, G. Y. Niu, Z. L. Yang, P. J. -. F. Yeh, and J. S. Famiglietti 3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and Raffle   3:30 PM 6A.7 Global patterns of soil moisture—rainfall relationships   Arien (H.A.) Lam, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands; and M. F. P. Bierkens and B. J. J. M. Van den Hurk 3:45 PM 6A.8 The Connection between Precipitation Recycling and Land Surface Memory   Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and C. A. Schlosser 4:00 PM 6A.9 Land-atmosphere feedbacks: precipitation recycling in the NAMS region   Francina Dominguez, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and P. Kumar 4:15 PM 6A.10 Influences of land-atmosphere interactions on precipitation during 9-21 June IHOP-2002   Stanley B. Trier, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen and K. W. Manning
	1:30 PM-4:45 PM, Thursday, 211 Session 6B Weather to Climate Scale Flood Forecasting
Organizers: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
1:30 PM 6B.1 Detecting the entire spectrum of stream flooding with Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction (FFMP) program   Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA 2:00 PM 6B.2 Spatially-variable, physically-derived flash flood guidance   John A. Schmidt, NOAA/NWS, Tulsa, OK; and A. J. Anderson and J. H. Paul 2:15 PM 6B.3 Evaluation of a distributed real-time semi-arid flash-flood forecasting model utilizing radar data in the Tucson, Arizona area   David C. Goodrich, USDA/ARS, Tucson, AZ; and S. Yatheendradas, T. Wagerer, H. V. Gupta, C. Unkrich, and M. Schaffner 2:30 PM 6B.4 Orographic influences on the spatial scaling of heavy convective rainfall in mountainous regions and effects on streamflow prediction   Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN 2:45 PM 6B.5 Hydrologic Evaluation of Radar Rainfall Retrievals for Urban Flood Forecasting   Baxter E. Vieux, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Bell, R. Nichols, and P. B. Bedient 3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and Raffle   3:30 PM 6B.6 Seamless Daily to Seasonal Ensemble Flood Forecasting for Bangladesh   Thomas M. Hopson, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. J. Webster and H. R. Chang 3:45 PM 6B.7 Development of a strategy for including long-range climate forecast information in ensemble forcing for hydrologic ensemble prediction   J. C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Annapolis, MD; and P. J. Restrepo, D. J. Seo, R. Hartman, K. Werner, L. Wu, and J. Demargne 4:00 PM 6B.8 ENSO-Based Index Insurance: Approach and Peru Flood Risk Management Application   Abedalrazq F. Khalil, Columbia University, New York, NY; and H. H. Kwon, U. Lall, M. Miranda, and J. Skees 4:15 PM 6B.9 On the Origin of Floods in the USA: The Role of Large Scale Climate Processes   Hyun-Han Kwon, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and A. F. Khalil and U. Lall 4:30 PM 6B.10 ENSO Forcing of Streamflow Conditions in the Pearl River Basin   R. Jason Caldwell, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA; and R. J. Ricks

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