Session 1 | 
|   | Hydrology and Water Resources | 
|   | Chair: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA 
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 | 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 |