89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting

: 23rd Conference on Hydrology

23rd Conference on Hydrology

Program Chair: Bart Nijssen , 3TIER, Inc.

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Saturday, 10 January 2009

7:30 AM-10:00 AM: Saturday, 10 January 2009


Student Conference Badge Pick-up Only

Sunday, 11 January 2009

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 11 January 2009


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009


Annual Meeting Registration Begins

12:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009


Weatherfest
Location: Northballroom A (Phoenix Convention Center)

3:00 PM-4:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009


First-Time Attendee Briefing
Location: Room 130 (Phoenix Convention Center)

5:00 PM-7:00 PM: Sunday, 11 January 2009


Fellows Reception
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Monday, 12 January 2009

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


Registration Open

8:30 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 12 January 2009


Presidential Forum
Location: Ballroom ABC (Phoenix Convention Center)

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 12 January 2009


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
Location: Phoenix Convention Center

10:45 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


1
Hydrology and Water Resources
Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:
  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

Poster PDF (627.5 kB)
  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, 12 January 2009


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


2
Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation—I
Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS

Papers:
  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, 12 January 2009


Poster Session 1
Hydrology and Water Resources
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:
 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (501.4 kB)
 
P1.3
NASA Water Resources Program Contributions for Societal Benefit

 
P1.4
Quantifying the Spatial and Temporal Variability of the Surface Energy Budget and Soil Moisture During a Period of Historic Precipitation

 
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

 
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

 
Field Scale Variability in Soil Temperature and Moisture in Seasonally Frozen Ground
Tushar Sinha, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and K. A. Cherkauer


Poster Session 2
Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS

Papers:
 
P2.2
The impact of groundwater-surface water interactions on drought forecasting and characterization

 
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

 
Human amplification of drought-caused fire emissions in Indonesia since 1960
Robert Field, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and G. van der Werf, O. Roswintiarti, and S. Shen

 

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


3
Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation—II
Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS

Papers:
  4:15 PM
3.2
  4:30 PM
3.3
  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

  5:15 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, 12 January 2009


Sessions Adjourn for the Day

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 12 January 2009


Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

Tuesday, 13 January 2009

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Joint Session 1
Advances in Atmospheric Reanalysis—I
Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Chair: Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO

Papers:
  9:15 AM
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
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


Joint Session 3
Policy, Social and Economic Dimensions of Water
Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research; and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology )
Cochairs: Adam Schlosser, MIT; Jessica C. Whitehead, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium

Papers:
  8:30 AM
Water in the 21st century—a reality check
Pamela L. Stephens, NSF, Arlington, VA; and W. Hooke

  8:45 AM
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
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

  9:30 AM
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, 13 January 2009


Joint Poster Session 2
Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:
 
Observations of fronts from the Helsinki Testbed mesoscale observing network
David M. Schultz, Universities of Helsinki and Manchester/Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland; and M. Leskinen

 
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 Jr. and W. R. Pendergrass

 
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

 
The importance of elevated mixed layers in urban heat eave events east of the Rockies
Thomas J. Galarneau Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Cordeira and L. F. Bosart

 
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

Poster PDF (601.0 kB)
 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (2.4 MB)
 
The Phoenix Rainfall Index (PRI)
Paul M. Iñiguez, NOAA/NWS, Tempe, AZ

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)
 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (737.9 kB)

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Monday's program)
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Joint Panel Discussion 1
Water in the West
Location: Room 121A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Fourth Symposium on Policy and Socio—Economic Research; and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology )
Moderator: Patricia Gober, Arizona State University
Panelists: Kathy Jacobs, U.S. Global Change Research Program; Jeanine Jones, California Department of Water Resources; Bradley H. Udall, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado


Joint Session 4
Advances in Atmospheric Reanalysis—II
Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 21st Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Chair: Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO

Papers:
  11:00 AM
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
  11:30 AM
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
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


Joint Session 6
Hydrology and AI: Status and Applications–I
Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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.; Bart Nijssen, University of Arizona

Papers:
  11:00 AM
  11:30 AM
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
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

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Exhibits Open

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Joint Session 2
Observations/Studies of High—Impact Weather in Urban Regions
Location: Room 124A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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; Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:
  2:00 PM
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
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
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
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


4
Comparisons of Distributed Hydrological Models
Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Michael B. Smith, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  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

  2:45 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 Jr.


Joint Session 7
Hydrology and AI: Status and Applications—II
Location: Room 125A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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.; Bart Nijssen, University of Arizona

Papers:
  1:30 PM
  1:45 PM
  2:00 PM
  2:15 PM
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

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

5:00 PM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 13 January 2009


Joint Session 12
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: Room 127BC (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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) )

Papers:
  5:00 PM
Introduction by Walt Dabberdt, AMS President & Vaisala Inc., Boulder, CO

Wednesday, 14 January 2009

8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


5A
Advances in Data Assimilation Techniques and Their Applications to Land Surface State and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology—I
Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft

Papers:
  8:30 AM
(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
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
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
Soil moisture assimilation with microwave brightness temperatures in Canadian prediction systems
Marco Carrera, Environment Canada, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Belair and B. Bilodeau


5B
Validation of Remotely-Sensed Hydrometeorological Observations—I
Location: Room 127C (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  8:30 AM
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

http://www.isac.cnr.it/~ipwg/IPWG.html

  9:00 AM
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
  9:45 AM
Real-time error reduction for satellite-based precipitation estimates
Yudong Tian, UMBC/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard and J. B. Eylander


Joint Session 8
Forecasts, Nowcasts and Warning Systems in Urban Areas
Location: Room 126B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the Symposium on Urban High Impact Weather; and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology )
Cochairs: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc.; Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  8:45 AM
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
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
Assessment of urban hydrologic prediction accuracy using radar
John M. Imgarten, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and B. E. Vieux

 
J8.6
Heat and Health warnings in the Netherlands

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
Location: Phoenix Convention Center

10:30 AM-11:45 AM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


6B
Validation of Remotely-Sensed Hydrometeorological Observations—II
Location: Room 127C (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  10:30 AM
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
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
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
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
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

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


6A
Advances in Data Assimilation Techniques and Their Applications to Land Surface State and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology—II
Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft

Papers:
  11:00 AM
Stochastic Generation of Precipitation Replicates for Ensemble Forecasting and Data Assimilation
R. Wojcik, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. McLaughlin, A. Konings, and D. Entekhabi

  11:30 AM
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
Comparison of Bias Mitigation Strategies for Skin Temperature Assimilation
Sujay V. Kumar, SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle and C. Peters-Lidard

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Exhibits Open

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


7A
Hydrological Impacts of Land Use Change
Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: C. Adam Schlosser, MIT

Papers:
  1:30 PM
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
  2:00 PM
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
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


7B
Remote Sensing of High-Impact Hydrometeorological Events—I
Location: Room 127C (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  1:30 PM
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
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
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, 14 January 2009


Poster Session 3
Advances in Data Assimilation Techniques and Their Applications to Land Surface State and Parameter Estimation in Hydrology
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft

Papers:
 
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

 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (430.0 kB)
 
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

 
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


Poster Session 4
Remote Sensing of High-Impact Hydrometeorological Events
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
 
GPS precipitable water mapping using RUC station pressures
James D. Means, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. R. Cayan

Poster PDF (519.7 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (651.6 kB)
 
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


Poster Session 5
Validation of Remotely-Sensed Hydrometeorological Observations
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
 
Enhancement of the MODIS Daily Snow Albedo Product
Dorothy K. Hall, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and C. B. Schaaf and G. A. Riggs

Poster PDF (280.7 kB)
 
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

 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (302.9 kB)
 
P5.5
Satellite-derived precipitation: Its validation and integration with weather radar and raingauge data in applications for the south of Brazil

 
P5.6
Integrated water vapor retrieved from sky radiometer measurements with aid of microwave radiometer and radiosonde estimates of water vapor


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Joint Session 5
Geographic Effects on Urban Weather and Climate
Location: Room 126A (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (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

Papers:
  4:30 PM
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

  5:00 PM
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
The evolution of lake-effect clouds and snow across Lake Michigan
Faye E. Barthold, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and D. A. R. Kristovich

Poster PDF (172.9 kB)

8
Remote Sensing of High-Impact Hydrometeorological Events—II
Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  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
  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

Poster PDF (375.5 kB)
  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, 14 January 2009


Sessions Adjourn for the Day

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

7:00 PM-9:00 PM: Wednesday, 14 January 2009


AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Location: Northballroom (Phoenix Convention Center)

Thursday, 15 January 2009

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


9
Applications of Operational Weather and Climate Forecasts in End User Sectors
Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc.

Papers:
  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

Poster PDF (1.4 MB)
  8:45 AM
9.2
  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


Joint Session 17
Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle—I
Location: Room 127C (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  8:45 AM
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
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
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

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


Poster Session 6
New Approaches to Hydrologic Prediction and Forecast Communication
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc.; Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
 
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

Poster PDF (637.9 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (329.6 kB)
 
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


Joint Poster Session 9
Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; and the 23rd Conference on Hydrology )
Cochairs: Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
 
JP9.1
Improvement of Cold Season Land Precipitation Retrievals through the use of Field Campaign Data and High Frequency Microwave Radiative Transfer Model

 
Snowfall estimation from multi-spectral satellite-based information
Cecilia Hernandez, NOAA/CREST, New York, NY; and S. Mahani and R. Khanbilvardi

 
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

 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (193.8 kB)
 
Combined Radar-Radiometer Analysis of Global Rain and Cloud Microphysics
Stephen Joseph Munchak, NASA GSFC and University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Kummerow

 
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

 
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


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break (See poster listing in Wednesday's program)
Location: Hall 5 (Phoenix Convention Center)

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


10
Verification of Hydrological Forecasts—I
Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  11:00 AM
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
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
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
  12:00 PM
National Weather Service river flood warning verification
Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. Wells, T. Helble, and T. Graziano


Joint Session 18
Remote Sensing Applications of GEOSS to the Hydrologic Cycle—II
Location: Room 127C (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography )
Cochairs: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS; Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS

Papers:
  11:00 AM
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

  11:30 AM
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

  12:00 PM
NOAA Observation Requirement Assessment for Hydrologic Variables
Chandra R. 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-4:00 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


Exhibits Open

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


11
Verification of Hydrological Forecasts—II
Location: Room 127B (Phoenix Convention Center)
Sponsor: 23rd Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Mary G. Mullusky, NOAA/NWS

Papers:
  1:30 PM
Verification of a downscaling approach for large area flood prediction over the Ohio River Basin
Nathalie Voisin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Seattle, WA; and J. C. Schaake and D. P. Lettenmaier

  1:45 PM
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
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
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
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
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, 15 January 2009


Coffee Break and Exhibit Hall Raffle
Location: Hall 4 (Phoenix Convention Center)

5:15 PM-5:20 PM: Thursday, 15 January 2009


AMS 89th Annual Meeting Adjourns