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Program Chairpersons:
Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

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Saturday, 10 January 2009
	7:30 AM-10:00 AM, Saturday Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only
Sunday, 11 January 2009
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Annual Meeting Registration Begins
	12:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Northballroom A Weatherfest
	3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, Room 130 First-Time Attendee Briefing
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Hall 5 Fellows Reception
Monday, 12 January 2009
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Registration Open
	8:30 AM-10:15 AM, Monday, Ballroom ABC Presidential Forum
	10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	10:45 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, Room 127BC Session 1 Hydrology and Water Resources
Chair: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
10:45 AM 1.1 From research to operations: transition projects in NOAA's Hydrometeorological Testbed   Timothy Schneider, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO 11:00 AM 1.2 Estimation of potential evapotranspiration from merged CERES and MODIS observations   Anand K. Inamdar, USDA/ARS, Maricopa, AZ; and A. French 11:15 AM 1.3 Effects of multi-sensor radar and rain gauge data on hydrologic modeling in relatively flat terrain   Steven M. Martinaitis, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg and C. Pathak 11:30 AM 1.4 Optimizing precipitation estimates using merged observations and model output: A case study in the California Sierra Nevada Mountains   Edward I. Tollerud, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. A. Mcginley, S. L. Mullen, T. Vukicevic, H. Yuan, C. Lu, and I. Jankov 11:45 AM 1.5 A two-year analysis of precipitation variability at the Tar Creek Superfund Site   Amanda J. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. R. Campbell and J. B. Basara
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, Room 127BC Session 2 Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation—I
Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD
1:30 PM 2.1 A GOES-Based Drought Product Using Thermal Remote Sensing of Evapotranspiration   Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and W. P. Kustas, J. R. Mecikalski, and C. R. Hain 1:45 PM 2.2 Drought Monitoring and Forecasts Using Microwave and Optical Satellite Observations and Noah Land Surface Model Predictions   Xiwu Zhan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and S. V. Kumar, K. Mitchell, F. Weng, and C. Peters-Lidard 2:00 PM 2.3 Analysis, Validation and Application of the NCEP Multi-model NLDAS Products for Drought Monitoring and Prediction   Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell, E. F. Wood, L. Luo, J. Sheffield, D. P. Lettenmaier, A. W. Wood, B. A. Cosgrove, C. J. Alonge, J. Meng, H. Wei, M. Ek, P. Restrepo, J. C. Schaake, K. Mo, and R. T. Pinker 2:15 PM 2.4 The national integrated drought information system (NIDIS)-drought portal status and plans   Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. Symonds and R. Heim
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5 Poster Session 1 Hydrology and Water Resources
Chair: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
P1.1 Long-term eddy covariance measurements of evaporation and surface energy budget over an open water surface in Mississippi, U.S.A   Heping Liu, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and Y. Zhang, H. Jiang, and L. Sheng   P1.2 Assessment of radar-based precipitation products in the CONUS for advances in multi-sensor precipitation reanalysis   Brian R. Nelson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. Kim and D. J. Seo P1.3 NASA Water Resources Program Contributions for Societal Benefit   David L. Toll, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and T. Engman and S. Ambrose P1.4 Quantifying the Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Surface Energy Budget and Soil Moisture During a Period of Historic Precipitation   Lindsay M. Tardif, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara   P1.5 Multiple-Criteria Calibration of a Distributed Watershed Model Using Spatial Regularization and Response Signatures   Prafulla Pokhrel, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and K. K. Yilmaz and H. V. Gupta   P1.6 Monitoring ecohydrological dynamics in the north american monsoon region from remote sensing and ground-based observations   Luis Arturo Méndez-Barroso, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, NM; and E. Vivoni   P1.7 Field Scale Variability in Soil Temperature and Moisture in Seasonally Frozen Ground   Tushar Sinha, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and K. A. Cherkauer
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Hall 5 Poster Session 2 Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation
Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD
P2.1 Influence of Niño sea-surface temperatures and soil moisture on summer precipitation in the U.S. Great Plains   Lei Meng, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. Quiring P2.2 The impact of groundwater-surface water interactions on drought forecasting and characterization   Elizabeth A. Clark, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and F. Munoz-Arriola, S. Shukla, and D. P. Lettenmaier   P2.3 Canadian Drought Alert and Monitoring Program (CDAMP)   Don MacIver, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and N. Comer, S. Fernandez, B. Wang, H. Auld, and J. Klaassen   P2.4 Human amplification of drought-caused fire emissions in Indonesia since 1960   Robert Field, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. van der Werf, O. Roswintiarti, and S. Shen   P2.5 Developing a state-level drought impact monitoring program: Arizona DroughtWatch   Michael A. Crimmins, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, Room 127BC Session 3 Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation—II
Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD
4:00 PM 3.1 The Physical Earth Sciences Requirements to Address the Social-Economical Impacts of Adaptation and Mitigation to Changing Extreme Events: Drought as an Example   P.J. Van Oevelen, International GEWEX Project Office, Silver Spring, MD 4:15 PM 3.2 Using Data-Models to Monitor and Forecast Drought   Ana P. Barros, Duke Univ., Durham, NC 4:30 PM 3.3 The PAC: A tool for monitorng and forecasting the initiation, longevity, and demise of droughts   Phil Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. E. Janowiak 4:45 PM 3.4 The development of objectively-derived, probabilistic, and verifiable drought prediction methodologies   Bradfield Lyon, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY; and M. A. Bell 5:00 PM 3.5 A climatological analysis associating spring tornadic activity with antecedent precipitation and drought in the Southeastern United States   Marshall Shepherd, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and D. Niyogi, T. L. Mote, and J. Entin 5:15 PM 3.6 Drought Predictability in Mexico   Francisco Munoz-Arriola, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and S. Shukla, L. Luo, T. Bohn, A. Munoz Orozco, and D. P. Lettenmaier
	5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Monday Sessions Adjourn for the Day
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Hall 4 Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception
Tuesday, 13 January 2009
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 127BC Joint Session 1 Advances in Atmospheric Reanalysis—I (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology and the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Chair: Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD
8:30 AM J1.1 The evolution of tropical easterly waves across Central America and Mexico: Comparisons of historical radiosonde measurements with reanalyses   Yolande Serra, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. N. Kiladis 8:45 AM J1.2 Dynamically-downscaled global reanalyses to resolve mesoscale variability in precipitation statistics and their association with large scale circulations   James O. Pinto, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. L. Rife, J. A. Grim, and A. Monaghan 9:00 AM J1.3 Winter season forecast experiments with the NCEP coupled forecast system (CFS) using different land models and different initial land states   Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell and J. Meng 9:15 AM J1.4 Comparison of ERA-Interim and ERA-40 reanalyses with observations over river basins   Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and M. Koehler and Y. Zhang 9:30 AM J1.5 Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) global water and energy budgets   Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and F. R. Robertson and J. Chen
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, Room 121A Joint Session 3 Policy, Social and Economic Dimensions of Water (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology)
Cochairs: Adam Schlosser, MIT, Cambridge, MA; Jessica C. Whitehead, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston, SC
8:30 AM J3.1 Water in the 21st century—a reality check   Pamela L. Stephens, NSF, Arlington, VA; and W. Hooke 8:45 AM J3.2 The Impact of Daily Global Climate Datasets on the Modeling of Global and National Food and Water Systems   Kenneth Stzrepek, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and A. McCluskey, M. Rosegrant, and C. A. Schlosser 9:00 AM J3.3 Exploration of Hydrologic Dynamics during the Colonial Era in the Northeastern United States   Mark B. Green, City College of New York, New York, NY; and C. J. Vorosmarty and A. Schlosser 9:15 AM J3.4 Climate change adaptation in New York State: extreme rainfall, storm water, and policy implications   Lee M. Tryhorn, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 9:30 AM J3.5 Information flows and policy: climate, cyclones, and adaptive water-resources management at the U.S.-Mexico border   Gregg M. Garfin, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. Scott, R. Varady, M. Wilder, A. Coles, A. J. Ray, N. Pineda-Pablos, and M. Montero
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program)
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Hall 5 Joint Poster Session 2 Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data)
Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
JP2.1 Observations of fronts from the Helsinki Testbed mesoscale observing network   David M. Schultz, Univ. of Helsinki/FMI, Helsinki, Finland; and M. Leskinen   JP2.2 Development and Implementation of Multi-Scale Urban Test Beds   Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and W. D. Bach and W. R. Pendergrass   JP2.3 Diagnostic studies of extreme temperature events using modern reanalysis datasets   Robert X. Black, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and B. Miller and J. C. Furtado   JP2.4 Weathering the tropical cyclone: Improving public assistance via vulnerability assessment for the older population of New Hanover county, North Carolina   Rachel L. Godwin, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC   JP2.5 The importance of elevated mixed layers in urban heat eave events east of the Rockies   Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., SUNY, Albany, NY; and J. M. Cordeira and L. F. Bosart   JP2.6 Analysis of air transport patterns bringing dust storms to El Paso, Texas   Nancy Ivette Rivera Rivera, Univ. of Texas, El Paso, TX; and K. A. Gebhart, T. E. Gill, J. L. Hand, D. J. Novlan, and R. M. Fitzgerald   JP2.7 Analysis of extreme rainfall events near Austin, TX and Coffeyville, KS, during summer 2007   Kevin H. Goebbert, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and N. Snook, C. M. Shafer, and A. D. Schenkman   JP2.8 Development of a detailed database of flash flood observations   Jessica Marie Erlingis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, T. Smith, and K. L. Ortega   JP2.9 The Phoenix Rainfall Index (PRI)   Paul M. Iñiguez, NOAA/NWS, Tempe, AZ   JP2.10 An evaluation of brightness temperatures simulated by various WRF-ARW microphysical algorithms for an atmospheric river event affecting the California coast   Isidora Jankov, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Boulder, CO; and M. Sengupta, L. Grasso, D. Coleman, D. Zupanski, M. Zupanski, L. Daniel, and R. Brummer   JP2.11 Southwest Florida warm season tornado development   Jennifer M. Collins, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and C. H. Paxton, D. G. Noah, and A. N. Williams
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday Exhibits Open
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 121A Joint Panel Discussion 1 Water in the West (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology)
Panelists: Kathy Jacobs, Arizona Water Institute, Tucson, AZ; Jeanine Jones, California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento, CA; Bradley H. Udall, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO Moderator: Patricia Gober, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 127BC Joint Session 4 Advances in Atmospheric Reanalysis—II (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology and the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Chair: Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD
11:00 AM J4.1 The interrelationships among water and energy parameters in reanalyses   Junye Chen, Univ. of Maryland/ESSIC & NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and M. G. Bosilovich 11:15 AM J4.2 Atmospheric water cycle component interactions in the NCEP North American Regional Reanalysis   A.C. Ruane, NASA/GISS and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, New York, NY 11:30 AM J4.3 The Multi-Source Analysis of Precipitation (MSAP)   Phillip A. Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. R. P. Sapiano and T. M. Smith 11:45 AM J4.4 The Twentieth Century reanalysis project   Gilbert P. Compo, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/Climate Diagnostics Center and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and J. Whitaker and P. D. Sardeshmukh
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 125A Joint Session 6 Hydrology and AI: Status and Applications–I (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology)
Chairs: Philippe Tissot, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX; Bart Nijssen, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
11:00 AM J6.1 (Invited Speaker) Precipitation monitoring and streamflow flow forecasting using ANN models   Kuo-lin Hsu, Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing, Irvine, CA 11:30 AM J6.2 A Simple Data-Driven Model for Streamflow Prediction   Valliappa Lakshmanan, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, Z. Flamig, and S. Giangrande 11:45 AM J6.3 Comparison of manual and automated quality control of operational hourly precipitation data of the national weather service   Dongsoo Kim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and E. I. Tollerud, S. V. Vasiloff, and J. Caldwell
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 124A Joint Session 2 Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions (Joint between the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather, the Special Symposium on Measurements in the Urban Environment and Observations, the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data, the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, and the Impacts of 2008)
Cochairs: Pavlos Kollias, McGill University, Montréal, QC Canada; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
1:30 PM J2.1 (Invited Talk) Fire at the Urban Interface: The San Diego County Wildfires of October 2007   Jim Purpura, NOAA/NWS, San Diego, CA 2:00 PM J2.2 Evolution of severe convection in the New York City Metropolitan Region   Brian A. Colle, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY ; and K. Lombardo and J. Murray 2:15 PM J2.3 An observational study of the movement of Lake Breeze Fronts in the vicinity of Chicago, IL   Jason M. Keeler, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich 2:30 PM J2.4 An observational and modeling study of a rare tornadic storm in a major central business district: Possible linkages to drought and urban land cover   Dev Niyogi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and M. J. Shepherd, M. Lei, W. O. Shem, and J. Entin 2:45 PM J2.5 Meteorological conditions associated with major storm surge events at New York City   Katherine Rojowsky, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY; and B. A. Colle and F. Bounaiuto
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 125A Joint Session 7 Hydrology and AI: Status and Applications—II (Joint between the Seventh Conference on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology)
Chairs: Philippe Tissot, Texas A&M Univ., Corpus Christi, TX; Bart Nijssen, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1:30 PM J7.1 The added value of surface data to radar-derived rainfall rate estimation using an artificial neural network   Benjamin Root, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and T. Y. Yu and M. Yeary 1:45 PM J7.2 Winter hydrometeor classification using polarimetric radar and spatiotemporal relational probability trees   Andy L. Spencer, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN; and A. McGovern, K. L. Elmore, and M. B. Richman 2:00 PM J7.3 Time tracking of precipitation systems in observed and forecast data   Michael E. Baldwin, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 2:15 PM J7.4 Northern Hemispheric Flood Fingerprints   Kathleen E. Walls, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and P. G. Knight, H. N. Shirer, and G. S. Young 2:30 PM Discussion
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 127BC Session 4 Comparisons of Distributed Hydrological Models
Chair: Michael B. Smith, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
1:30 PM 4.1 Results of phase 2 of the Distributed Model Intercomparison Project   Michael B. Smith, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Cosgrove, S. Reed, Z. Zhang, F. Moreda, Z. Cui, N. Mizukami, and S. Sheldon 2:00 PM 4.2 Application of the TOPKAPI model within the DMIP 2 project   Gabriele Coccia, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; and C. Mazzetti, E. A. Ortiz, and E. Todini 2:15 PM 4.3 A omparison of the NWS Distributed Versus Lumped Hydrologic Model   Eric T. Jones, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA; and K. Roth and K. Costanza 2:30 PM 4.4 Effects of biases in NEXRAD precipitation estimates and sub-basin resolution in the hydrologic modeling of Blue River Basin using a semi-distributed hydrologic model   Md. Zahidul Islam, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and T. Y. Gan 2:45 PM 4.5 Evaluating precipitation uncertainties using the Vflo hydrologic model   Jonathan Looper, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. E. Vieux and M. A. Moreno 3:00 PM 4.6 Tests of the Baron LIS Distributed Modeling System for a US basin   John McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Raleigh, NC; and D. N. Yates, D. J. Gochis, and C. J. Coats
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Hall 4 Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Room 127BC Joint Session 12 Walter Orr Roberts Lecture (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, and the 13th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS))
5:00 PM Introduction by Walt Dabberdt, AMS President & Vaisala Inc., Boulder, CO   5:03 PM J12.1 Climate Variability and Hydrologic Extremes: Lessons from the past, understanding of the present and prediction of the future—a personal viewpoint   Soroosh Sorooshian, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA
Wednesday, 14 January 2009
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 126B Joint Session 8 Forecasts, Nowcasts and Warning Systems in Urban Areas (Joint between the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology)
Cochairs: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH
8:30 AM J8.1 (Invited Speaker)The Hydrology and Hydrometeorology of Flash Floods in Urban Environments   James A. Smith, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 8:45 AM J8.2 Convective storm nowcasting using the Space-Time Meso Analysis System   Steven Koch, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and Y. Xie, J. A. Mcginley, and S. Albers 9:00 AM J8.3 Considerations for Urban Floods Monitoring using X-band Dual-polarization Radar Network   V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and M. Maki, Y. Wang, and K. Nakane 9:15 AM J8.4 Assessment of urban hydrologic prediction accuracy using radar   John M. Imgarten, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. E. Vieux 9:30 AM J8.5 The extreme wind warning and its role in improving public preparation and response to extreme landfalling hurricane winds in the urban environment   Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL J8.6 Heat and Health warnings in the Netherlands   Robert Mureau, KNMI, De Bilt, Netherlands
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 127B Session 5A Advances in Data Assimilation Techniques and Their Applications to Land Surface State and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology—I
Chair: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft Netherlands
8:30 AM 5A.1 (Invited Speaker) Assimilation of GRACE terrestrial water storage data into a land surface model   Rolf H. Reichle, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and B. F. Zaitchik and M. Rodell 9:00 AM 5A.2 The potential of distributed GRACE measurements to estimate spatially variable terrestrial water storage changes in the Colorado River basin   Peter A. Troch, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. Hasan, R. Uijlenhoet, R. Hurkmans, and M. Durcik 9:15 AM 5A.3 Recent progress and upcoming projects with the Canadian Land Data Assimilation System   Stéphane Bélair, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and B. Bilodeau, M. Carrera, N. Bernier, C. Derksen, D. Chan, and M. Ishizawa 9:30 AM 5A.4 Soil moisture assimilation with microwave brightness temperatures in Canadian prediction systems   Marco Carrera, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Belair and B. Bilodeau 9:45 AM 5A.5 Synthetic experiments to estimate hillslope-scale soil moisture through assimilation of anticipated remotely sensed microwave products   Alejandro N. Flores, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and R. L. Bras and D. Entekhabi
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, Room 127C Session 5B Validation of Remotely-Sensed Hydrometeorological Observations—I
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
8:30 AM 5B.1 Satellite Precipitation Validation Activities of the International Precipitation Working Group   Ralph Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and C. Kidd, P. A. Arkin, and J. F. Turk 9:00 AM 5B.2 Comparison of high latitude GPCP monthly and daily satellite-based precipitation estimates with high latitude gauge observations   David T. Bolvin, SSAI and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, G. J. Huffman, E. J. Nelkin, and J. Poutiainen 9:15 AM 5B.3 Assessing microwave-based satellite rain rate retrievals using TRMM ground validation data   David B. Wolff, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Fisher 9:30 AM 5B.4 Comparison of multi-sensor precipitation estimates over the lower Mississippi River alluvial plain   Jamie L. Dyer, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 9:45 AM 5B.5 Real-time error reduction for satellite-based precipitation estimates   Yudong Tian, UMBC/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard and J. B. Eylander
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, Room 127B Session 6A Advances in Data Assimilation Techniques and Their Applications to Land Surface State and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology—II
Chair: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft Netherlands
10:30 AM 6A.1 (Invited Speaker) Rainfall Uncertainty Estimation Using Observed Streamflow Data   Jasper A. Vrugt, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 11:00 AM 6A.2 Stochastic Generation of Precipitation Replicates for Ensemble Forecasting and Data Assimilation   R. Wojcik, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. McLaughlin, A. Konings, and D. Entekhabi 11:15 AM 6A.3 A New Data Assimilation Framework for Enhancing Hydrologic Predictions Using Remotely-Sensed Surface Soil Moisture Retrievals   Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and D. Ryu 11:30 AM 6A.4 Uncertainty analysis for land surface model predictions: Application to the Sib3 model at tropical and semi-desert locations   Luis A. Bastidas, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and J. Roundy, L. G. Goncalves, J. Shuttleworth, R. Rosolem, S. Saleska, and N. Restrepo-Coupe 11:45 AM 6A.5 Comparison of Bias Mitigation Strategies for Skin Temperature Assimilation   Sujay V. Kumar, SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle and C. Peters-Lidard
	10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Wednesday, Room 127C Session 6B Validation of Remotely-Sensed Hydrometeorological Observations—II
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
10:30 AM 6B.1 A Comparison of Evolving Multisensor Precipitation Estimation Methods   David Kitzmiller, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Ding, Y. Zhang, D. Brewer, S. Van Cooten, K. Howard, C. Langston, J. Zhang, H. Moser, D. Moran, and D. Kim 10:45 AM 6B.2 The use of dual-polarimetric radar data to improve rainfall estimation across the Tennessee River Valley   Walter A. Petersen, NASA / MSFC, Huntsville, AL ; and P. N. Gatlin, L. Carey, and S. R. Jacks 11:00 AM 6B.3 A Study of Comparison of Reflectivity Using WSR-88D and Disdrometers   Aaron C. Ferrel, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and A. Tokay, L. Carey, C. Schumacher, and D. B. Wolff 11:15 AM 6B.4 Raindrop Size Distribution: Inter-Storm Variability   Collin Baxter Lawrence, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and A. Tokay, L. Carey, C. Schumacher, and D. B. Wolff 11:30 AM 6B.5 Mapping evapotranspiration in Alto Piranhas Basin - Northeast Brazil using SEBAL/METRIC algorithms   Bernardo Barbosa da Silva, Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, PB, Brazil; and S. T. A. D. Silva and A. C. Braga
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Wednesday Exhibits Open
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 127B Session 7A Hydrological Impacts of Land Use Change
Chair: C. Adam Schlosser, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1:30 PM 7A.1 Urbanization impacts on the hydroclimatology of the Upper Great Lakes Region   Laura C. Bowling, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and V. Mishra, K. A. Cherkauer, G. Yang, L. Ming, D. Niyogi, and B. Pijanowski 1:45 PM 7A.2 Impacts of remotely-sensed, seasonal land cover dynamics on distributed hydrological response in two forested mountain settings   Taufique H. Mahmood, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM; and E. R. Vivoni 2:00 PM 7A.3 Hydrologic response to urbanization in the Milwaukee River basin, WI   Guoxiang Yang, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and L. C. Bowling, K. A. Cherkauer, and B. C. Pijanowski 2:15 PM 7A.4 ARMOR And MAX Radar Observations Of The Lake Breeze Generated By A Small Anthropogenic Lake   Salvi Asefi, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. Knupp, U. S. Nair, R. M. Welch, and D. Phillips
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 127C Session 7B Remote Sensing of High-Impact Hydrometeorological Events—I
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
1:30 PM 7B.1 Global flood and landslide detection and prediction using satellite observations   Robert F. Adler, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland/ESSIC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Hong, D. B. Kirschbaum, and H. Pierce 2:00 PM 7B.2 Comparison of TRMM radar rainfall estimates with NOAA Next Generation QPE in high-impact hydrometeorological events   Eyal Amitai, Chapman University and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and X. Llort 2:15 PM 7B.3 Precipitation extremes in the TMPA   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, Wednesday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5 Poster Session 3 Advances in Data Assimilation Techniques and Their Applications to Land Surface State and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology
Chair: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft Netherlands
P3.1 Bias Reduction to Satellite Retrieved Soil Moisture in Land Data Assimilation   Yan Luo, Center for Research on Environment and Water, Calverton, MD; and G. J. M. De Lannoy, P. Houser, and X. Zhan   P3.2 Using high resolution land data assimilation system to improve prediction of soil temperature and moisture for agriculture application prediction of soil temperature and moisture for agriculture applicationUsing high Resol System to Improve Prediction of Soil Temperature and Moisture for Agriculture Application   Ying Zhang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, W. Myers, K. W. Manning, and S. Linden   P3.3 Probabilistic prediction of recharge under future climate change scenarios   Gene-Hua Crystal Ng, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. McLaughlin, D. Entekhabi, and B. R. Scanlon   P3.4 Accounting for temporal variation of hydraulic conductivity in the calibration of a distributed hydrologic model   Heather Moser, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley and Y. Hong   P3.5 Assimilation of microwave scatterometer observations to estimate soil moisture in West Africa   Jair Smits, Technical University of Delft, Delft, Netherlands; and M. M. Rutten, S. C. Steele-Dunne, and N. van de Giesen   P3.6 Quantitative precipitation estimates by the gauge network and high-resolution ensemble forecasts using the SMTAS technique   Huiling Yuan, CIRES, University of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and W. Li, Y. Xie, J. A. McGinley, E. I. Tollerud, and R. S. Collander
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5 Poster Session 4 Remote Sensing of High-Impact Hydrometeorological Events
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
P4.1 GPS precipitable water mapping using RUC station pressures   James D. Means, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. R. Cayan   P4.2 An operational assessment of the MODIS false color composite with the Great Falls, Montana National Weather Service   Gina Loss, NOAA/NWS, Great Falls, MT; and D. Bernhardt, K. K. Fuell, and G. T. Stano   P4.3 Characteristics of warm season TRMM Precipitation Features over the eastern China   Yali Luo, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, , China; and H. Wang and R. Zhang
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Hall 5 Poster Session 5 Validation of Remotely-Sensed Hydrometeorological Observations
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
P5.1 Enhancement of the MODIS Daily Snow Albedo Product   Dorothy K. Hall, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and C. B. Schaaf and G. A. Riggs   P5.2 Intercomparison of the relationship between precipitation and mountain heights among gridded precipitation datasets   Osamu Arakawa, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and K. Kamiguchi and A. Kitoh   P5.3 Reexamining convective/stratiform classification of TRMM ground validation radar data   David S. Silberstein, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and D. B. Wolff, D. A. Marks, and J. L. Pippitt   P5.4 Efficiency of a simple split-window for land surface temperature estimation using MODIS products   Juarez Dantas de Souza, State University of Paraíba, Campina Grande, PA, Brazil; and B. B. D. Silva and J. C. Ceballos P5.5 Satellite-derived precipitation: Its validation and integration with weather radar and raingauge data in applications for the south of Brazil   Ieda Pscheidt, SIMEPAR / Parana Meteorological System, Curitiba, Parana, Brazil; and C. Beneti and L. Calvetti P5.6 PAPER WITHDRAWN
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 126A Joint Session 5 Geographic Effects on Urban Weather and Climate (Joint between the Eighth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, the Timothy R. Oke Symposium, the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research, the Eighth Symposium on the Urban Environment, the 23rd Conference on Hydrology, and the Fourth Conference on the Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data)
Chair: William T. Thompson, NRL, Monterey, CA
4:00 PM J5.1 Assessing sea breeze and heat island interactions using coastal-urban mesoscale ensembles   Teddy R. Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. Pullen 4:30 PM J5.2 Urban effects on Sea Breeze Circulation over Huston, TX   Kazuyuki Ota, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair, W. A. Petersen, L. D. Carey, and T. E. Nobis 4:45 PM J5.3 Variable impacts and differential response to flash flooding in the Paso del Norte metroplex (El Paso, Texas, USA / Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico)   Thomas E. Gill, University of Texas, El Paso, TX; and T. W. Collins and D. J. Novlan 5:00 PM J5.4 Modeling and forecasting lee side spillover precipitation resulting in major flooding in an urban valley location   Michael L. Kaplan, DRI, Reno, NV; and P. J. Marzette, C. S. Adaniya, K. C. King, and S. J. Underwood 5:15 PM J5.5 The evolution of lake-effect clouds and snow across Lake Michigan   Faye E. Barthold, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, Room 127B Session 8 Remote Sensing of High-Impact Hydrometeorological Events—II
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
4:00 PM 8.1 Characteristics of tropical cyclones in the several high resolution satellite based precipitation products   Renu Joseph, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Zhou, M. R. P. Sapiano, R. R. Ferraro, and T. Smith 4:15 PM 8.2 Improvements to the Self-Calibrating Multivariate Precipitation Retrieval (SCaMPR) for estimating high-impact rainfall events   Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Chen and Y. Li 4:30 PM 8.3 An algorithm for detecting warm-top rainy clouds   Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and R. J. Kuligowski, M. J. Cardona, E. W. Harmsen, S. Cruz-Pol, and J. M. Castro 4:45 PM 8.4 Flood monitoring over the Mississippi River watersheds using AMSR-E 37 GHz brightness temperature   Marouane Temimi, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and H. Ghedira, T. Lakhankar, and R. Khanbilvardi 5:00 PM 8.5 An update on the operational implementation of blended total precipitable water products   Sheldon J. Kusselson, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Q. Kidder, J. M. Forsythe, A. S. Jones, and L. Zhao 5:15 PM 8.6 Evaluation of Performance of Brigntness Temperature and Emissivity Data in Eastimating Snowpackpack Properties   Narges Shahroudi, NOAA/CREST/CUNY, New York, NY; and A. E Azar, D. Seo, D. R. Khanbilvardi, and A. Powell
	5:25 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday Sessions Adjourn for the Day
	5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Hall 4 Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Northballroom AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 15 January 2009
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Room 127C Joint Session 17 Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle—I (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Cochairs: Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
8:30 AM J17.1 (Invited Speaker) Contributions of TRMM and GPM to GEOSS   Arthur Y. Hou, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 8:45 AM J17.2 Reducing bias in the real-time TMPA   George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler, D. T. Bolvin, and E. J. Nelkin 9:00 AM J17.3 Inter-comparing high resolution satellite precipitation estimates at different scales   Phillip A. Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. R. P. Sapiano 9:15 AM J17.4 CHOMPS: A new high resolution satellite derived precipitation data set for climate studies   Renu Joseph, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and T. Smith, M. R. P. Sapiano, and R. R. Ferraro 9:30 AM J17.5 Uncertainties in oceanic rainfall retrievals from passive microwave observations   Thomas T. Wilheit, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, Room 127B Session 9 Applications of Operational Weather and Climate Forecasts in End User Sectors
Chair: Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
8:30 AM 9.1 Gauge adjusted radar rainfall estimation and basin averaged rainfall for use in local flash flood prediction and runoff modeling   Beth Marie Clarke, Weather Decision Technologies Inc, Norman, OK; and C. A. Kudym and B. Rindahl 8:45 AM 9.2 Generating short term hydrologic ensembles from numerical weather prediction model ensembles   Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH; and R. Shedd and J. Ostrowski 9:00 AM 9.3 Communicating hydrologic forecast uncertainty information ** INVITED **   Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and P. Restrepo, D. Page, L. Wolpert, T. Aten, L. Sager, and R. McCormack 9:15 AM 9.4 Optimizing probabilistic high resolution ensemble guidance for hydrologic prediction   Craig S. Schwartz, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK ; and J. S. Kain, D. R. Bright, S. J. Weiss, M. Xue, F. Kong, J. J. Levit, M. C. Coniglio, and M. S. Wandishin 9:30 AM 9.5 Hydrologic application of atmospheric forecasts: Multi-scale uncertainty issues   John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Annapolis, MD
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Hall 5 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Wednesday's program)
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Hall 5 Joint Poster Session 9 Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology)
Cochairs: Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
JP9.1 Improvement of Cold Season Land Precipitation Retrievals through the use of Field Campaign Data and High Frequency Microwave Radiative Transfer Model   Nai-Yu Wang, The Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro and K. Gopolan   JP9.2 Snowfall estimation from multi-spectral satellite-based information   Cecilia Hernandez, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and S. Mahani and R. Khanbilvardi   JP9.3 Potential reduction of uncertainty in passive microwave precipitation retrieval by the inclusion of dynamic and thermodynamic constraints as part of the cloud dynamics and radiation database approach   W. Y. Leung, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and A. V. Mehta, A. Mugnai, E. A. Smith, and G. J. Tripoli   JP9.4 The South American Land Data Assimilation System (SALDAS): the rainfall retrieval methodology   Daniel A. Vila, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and L. G. G. D. Goncalves   JP9.5 Tropical Rainfall-Surface Temperature Relations and 10-year Composite Rainfall Climatology from TRMM   Jian-Jian Wang, NASA/GSFC and GEST/Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Adler, G. Gu, and G. J. Huffman   JP9.6 How TRMM Precipitation Radar and Microwave Imager retrieved rain rates differ   Eun-Kyoung Seo, Kongju National University, Kongju, Chung Nam, South Korea; and G. Liu   JP9.7 Combined Radar-Radiometer Analysis of Global Rain and Cloud Microphysics   Stephen Joseph Munchak, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and C. Kummerow   JP9.8 Typhoon rainfall estimation by Bayesian approach from TMI observations over oceans around Taiwan   Wann-Jin Chen, Chung Cheng Institute of Technology / National Defense Univ., Tahsi, Taoyuan, Taiwan; and J. C. Hu, J. Y. C. Chiu, Y. C. Lin, and G. R. Liu   JP9.9 Evaluation of GPM-era satellite precipitation estimates for potential hydrological applications   F. J. Turk, NRL, Monterey, CA; and V. Anantharaj, G. Mostovoy, P. R. Houser, Q. Lu, and Y. Ling   JP9.10 Estimates of Terrestrial Freshwater Discharge Using Satellite Data   Alice Fan, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Hall 5 Poster Session 6 New Approaches to Hydrologic Prediction and Forecast Communication
Cochairs: Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
P6.1 Investigating Preconvective Synoptic and Frontal Heavy Rainfall Atmospheric Settings Utilizing Proximity Soundings   Michael J. Paddock, NOAA/NWS, Phoenix, AZ; and C. E. Graves and J. T. Martinelli   P6.2 The presentation of risk and uncertainty in hydrologic forecasts by the U.S. National Weather Service   Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH   P6.3 QPFHelper: Application of the “Mountain Mapper” precipitation forecast technique within the Graphical Forecast Editor   Chris V. Gibson, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. Pomeroy   P6.4 Avoiding Disaster across Western Colorado: The 2007-08 Winter Season Near-Record Snowfall and impact on the Spring Runoff   Jeffery D. Colton, NOAA/NWS, Grand Junction, CO; and J. Ramey, M. P. Meyers, B. A. Lawrence, and A. Strautins   P6.5 Distributed flood forecasting for different radar-based products in the Colorado Front Range   Hernan Moreno, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and E. R. Vivoni and D. J. Gochis
	11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday Exhibits Open
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, Room 127C Joint Session 18 Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle—II (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography)
Cochairs: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD
11:00 AM J18.1 Vertical profiling of cloud structure and light precipitation using CloudSat's 94 GHz radar data   Cristian Mitrescu, NRL, Monterey, CA; and J. M. Haynes, T. Ellis, T. S. L'Ecuyer, S. D. Miller, and J. F. Turk 11:15 AM J18.2 WindSat Land Surface Products as a Tool for the Analysis of 2003 European Heat Wave   Li Li, NRL, Washington, DC; and P. W. Gaiser 11:30 AM J18.3 Closing the Water Cycle over the Ocean using a Constellation of Satellites   Kyle Hilburn, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and F. J. Wentz J18.4 Application of a linearized land-atmosphere model to remote-sensing and hydrometeorology   Pierre Gentine, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and E. Schertzer, J. Polcher, and D. Entekhabi 11:45 AM J18.5 NOAA Observation Requirement Assessment for Hydrologic Variables   Chandra Kondragunta, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and P. M. Taylor, E. Miller, M. Yapur, L. O'Connor, R. Mairs, and R. C. Reining
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, Room 127B Session 10 Verification of Hydrological Forecasts—I
Chair: Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
11:00 AM 10.1 On development of a performance measure for extreme quantitative precipitation forecasts using data from HMT-2006 in California   F. Martin Ralph, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and E. Sukovich, P. J. Neiman, N. W. Junker, and D. W. Reynolds 11:15 AM 10.2 A new soil moisture observational network in Arizona: design, deployment and preliminary results   Robert J. Zamora, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and E. Clark, D. Brandon, and T. Schneider 11:30 AM 10.3 Event-based streamflow simulation using the TREX distributed model and ensemble forecasts from the HMT-west project   Huiling Yuan, CIRES, University of Colorado and NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Gourley, P. Schultz, J. A. McGinley, Z. Flamig, and C. J. Anderson 11:45 AM 10.4 Optimization of quantitative precipitation forecast time horizons used in river forecasts   Noreen O. Schwein, NOAA/NWS, Kansas City, MO; and K. S. Lander 12:00 PM 10.5 National Weather Service river flood warning verification   Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Wells, T. Helble, and T. Graziano
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, Room 127B Session 11 Verification of Hydrological Forecasts—II
Chair: Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
1:30 PM 11.1 Verification of a downscaling approach for large area flood prediction over the Ohio River Basin   Nathalie Voisin, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. C. Schaake and D. P. Lettenmaier 1:45 PM 11.2 Evaluation of an operational heavy rainfall and flash flood prediction system for the Colorado Front Range region   David J. Gochis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Yates, W. Yu, S. Rutledge, R. Cifelli, P. C. Kennedy, and E. Vivoni 2:00 PM 11.3 Use of quantile regression for calibration of hydrologic forecasts   Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; and M. Wiley and B. Nijssen 2:15 PM 11.4 On development of a performance measure for snow-level forecasts   Allen B. White, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Gottas, P. J. Neiman, E. A. Ellis, D. E. Kingsmill, S. I. Gutman, F. M. Ralph, and A. F. Henkel 2:30 PM 11.5 Evaluation of land surface process scheme: The single-column tests and seasonal prediction   KyungHee Seol, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong, M. Kanamitsu, H. L. Hugo, and D. Tapash 2:45 PM 11.6 High-resolution land surface prediction system for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games   Natacha Bernier, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Bélair, L. Tong, M. Abrahamowicz, and J. Mailhot
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday, Hall 4 Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle
	5:15 PM-5:20 PM, Thursday AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns

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