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Sunday, 17 January 2010
	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 Weatherfest
	3:00 PM-4:00 PM, Sunday, B314 First-Time Attendee Briefing
	5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Sunday, B314 Annual Meeting Review and Fellows Awards
	6:00 PM-7:00 PM, Sunday, Exhibit Hall B2 Fellows Reception
Monday, 18 January 2010
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Registration Open
	9:00 AM-10:30 AM, Monday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1 and 2 Presidential Forum
	10:30 AM-11:00 AM, Monday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Monday, B216 Joint Session 1 Mitigation and adaptation to climate change (Joint between the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, the Committee on Climate Services, the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research, and the First Environment and Health Symposium)
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
11:00 AM J1.1 Regional climate modeling and decision aids   Glenn Higgins, Northrop Grumann TASC, Chantilly, VA; and D. Apling, R. Alliss, and H. Kiley 11:15 AM J1.2 Bounded rationality in climate change policy development   Amanda H. Lynch, Brown University, Providence, RI; and R. D. Brunner 11:30 AM J1.5 Climate Change Adaptation in Southwest Ecosystems   Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 11:45 AM J1.3 Seeing the world through a political lens: the connection between weather and climate change perceptions and beliefs   Hank Jenkins-Smith, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. H. Goebbert, K. E. Klockow, M. Nowlin, and C. Silva 12:00 PM J1.4 Advancing Climate Adaptation in Wildlife Conservation   Amanda Staudt, National Wildlife Federation, Reston, VA; and D. Inkley, P. Glick, B. Stein, N. Edelson, and J. Kostyack
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Monday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, B214 Joint Session 14 Educational Outreach in the Atmospheric, Oceanic and Hydrologic Sciences (Joint between the 19th Symposium on Education, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology)
Cochairs: Kathleen A. Murphy, AMS Education Resource Educator, St. Louis, MO; Susan Q. Foster, UCAR, Boulder, CO
1:30 PM J14.1 Mapping the UK's urban heat islands   Sylvia .H.E. Knight, Royal Meteorological Society, Reading, United Kingdom; and R. Fordham 1:45 PM J14.2 Educating citizens about severe weather awareness following the 22 May 2008 Northern Colorado tornado   Paul Nutter, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO; and D. Gaardner 2:00 PM J14.3 Weather & Climate—Weatherwise Magazine's Newest Series   H. Michael Mogil, How the Weatherworks, Naples, FL; and M. Benner 2:15 PM J14.4 Climate adaptation in coastal communities: A Sea Grant Climate Network approach to outreach   Jessica C. Whitehead, South Carolina Sea Grant Consortium, Charleston, SC; and C. Conger, R. H. Bacon, and J. Brown
	1:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday, B304 Session 1 Hydrometeorological Representation and Applications of Reanalyses
Chair: Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD
1:30 PM 1.1 A Historical Record of Actual Evapotranspiration in Sub-Saharan Africa using Climate Reanalysis and Remote Sensing Data   Michael T. Marshall, USGS, Flagstaff, AZ; and K. Tu, C. Funk, and J. Michaelsen 2:00 PM 1.2 Evaluation of the 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 1.3 Moisture recycling over the central United States diagnosed from the North American Regional Reanalysis   Christopher J. Anderson, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and R. W. Arritt 2:15 PM 1.3A The NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis   Michael Ek, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Monday Poster Session Hydrology Posters Part I
Cochairs: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft Netherlands; Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
136 The relationship between total precipitable water and precipitation rate   Kelly M. Howell, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. Q. Kidder and T. H. Vonder Haar   137 The Uncertainty of Background Brightness Temperatures in Microwave Land Rainfall Algorithm   Eun-Kyoung Seo, Kongju National University, Kongju, Chung Nam, South Korea   138 Introducing water budget constraint to improve land data assimilation performance   M. Tugrul Yilmaz, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and T. DelSole and P. R. Houser   139 Evaluating the impact of parameter estimation on data assimilation performance: A case study for soil moisture simulation   Kenneth W. Harrison, NASA-GSFC and Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, S. Yatheendradas, C. D. Peters-Lidard, and J. A. Santanello Jr.   Poster 140 has been moved to 2.3A     141 Applications of the ALEXI soil moisture model and highlights of current projects   John Mecikalski, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and C. R. Hain and L. A. Schultz   142 Intercomparisons between LSM and satellite-retrieved estimates of surface (0-5 cm) and root-zone (5-100 cm) soil moisture across the continental United States   Christopher R. Hain, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. T. Crow, M. C. Anderson, and J. R. Mecikalski
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, B312 Joint Session 2 The emergence of new scientific partnerships (Joint between the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, and the First Environment and Health Symposium)
Chair: Genevieve E. Maricle, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ
4:00 PM J2.1 Climate Adaptation Partnerships in Semiarid North America   Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 4:15 PM J2.2 The FEMA Hurricane Liaison Team: Bridging the Communication Gap (because Great Minds Don't Always Think Alike)   Matthew Green, FEMA, Miami, FL 4:30 PM J2.3 Partnership between the Državni hidrometeorološki zavod (DHMZ) and the University of Oklahoma (OU)   Ivan Cacic, Državni hidrometeorološki zavod, Zagreb, Croatia; and B. Ivančan-Picek, B. Lipovšćak, K. Pandzic, B. Terek, V. Tutiš, G. Zuccon, K. Crawford, R. A. McPherson, K. L. Nemunaitis-Monroe, and J. T. Snow 4:45 PM J2.4 The Norman, Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce Weather Committee: A Framework for New Partnerships Among Industry, Government and Academia   Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and W. L. Qualley, V. Rose, and A. M. Suggs 5:00 PM J2.5 The Weather And Society *Integrated Studies (WAS*IS) Program: yesterday, today, and tomorrow   G. Thomas Behler Jr., NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Gruntfest, J. Demuth, J. K. Lazo, and E. Laidlaw 5:15 PM J2.6 User engagement activities at NOAA's national climatic data center   Tamara G. Houston, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, B304 Session 2 Hydrometeorological Representation and Applications of Reanalyses
Chair: Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD
4:00 PM 2.1 Software Package for Gauge-Only Precipitation Analysis   Dongsoo Kim, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. J. Seo 4:15 PM 2.2 Quantifying and Comparing the Intensification of Extreme Rainfall Frequency from NCEP and ERA40 Reanalysis Data   Shih-Chieh Kao, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and A. R. Ganguly   2.3 moved to Poster 566   4:30 PM 2.3A CPC unified gauge-based analysis of global daily precipitation   Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Chen and W. Shi 4:45 PM 2.4 The influence of karst hydrology on local planetary boundary layer   R. D. Leeper, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY; and R. Mahmood and A. I. Quintanar 5:00 PM 2.5 Development of a New Precipitation Dataset for Model Downscaling and Bias Correction   Michael Charles, EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth, D. Hou, and R. Krzysztofowicz 5:15 PM 2.6 Assessing the changes in hydrological budget including anthropogenic effect estimated by the reanalyses and rain-gauge based precipitation data over Asia   Akiyo Yatagai, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday, Exhibit Hall B1 Opening of the Exhibit Hall with Reception
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, B306 Joint Session 3 Data Collection, Interpretation, Assimilation, and Stewardship (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, and the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology)
Chair: Stan Benjamin, NOAA/ESRL/GSD, Boulder, CO
8:30 AM J3.1 The Impacts on Air Traffic of Volcanic Ash from the 2009 Mt. Redoubt Eruption   Alexander Matus, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and L. A. Hudnall, J. J. Murray, and A. Krueger 8:45 AM J3.2 UrbanNet: Urban Environment Monitoring and Modeling with a Wireless Sensor Network   Paul J. Croft, Kean University, Union, NJ; and P. Morreale, F. Qi, A. Tropek, and M. Andujar 9:00 AM J3.3 Network of Weather and Climate Observing Networks (NOWCON)   Samuel P. Williamson, Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Stailey and S. J. Taijeron 9:15 AM J3.4 Comparison of COOP and new HCN-M temperature products   John R. Christy, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 9:30 AM J3.5 The Impact of Temporally Varying Snowfall Rates on Holdover Time using the LWE and Check Time Systems   Roy Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Landolt, J. Black, and A. Gaydos
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday, B304 Session 3 Advances in Hydrological Remote-Sensing and Data Assimilation Part I
Cochairs: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft Netherlands; Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
8:30 AM 3.1 SWOT, The Surface Water and Ocean Topography Satellite Mission [INVITED]   Doug Alsdorf, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and K. Andreadis, P. Bates, S. Biancamaria, E. A. Clark, M. Durand, H. Lee, D. P. Lettenmaier, N. Mognard, D. Moller, E. Rodriguez, and C. K. Shum 9:00 AM 3.2 The SMAP Level 4 Surface and Root-zone Soil Moisture (L4_SM) product   Rolf H. Reichle, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. T. Crow, R. D. Koster, and J. Kimball 9:15 AM 3.3 An ensemble-Kalman filter-based dual assimilation of thermal-IR and passive microwave retrievals of soil moisture   Christopher R. Hain, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and W. T. Crow, M. C. Anderson, and J. R. Mecikalski 9:30 AM 3.4 Impact of Calibration Error of Microwave Brightness Temperatures on Soil Moisture Retrievals   Xiwu Zhan, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1 Exhibits Open
	11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, B304 Session 3B Advances in Hydrological Remote-Sensing and Data Assimilation Part II
Cochairs: Susan C. Steele-Dunne, TU Delft, Delft Netherlands; Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
11:00 AM 3B.1 Multiscale ensemble filtering in snow data assimilation [INVITED]   Konstantinos Andreadis, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Lettenmaier 11:30 AM 3B.2 Acquiring observation error covariance information for land data assimilation systems   Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD 11:45 AM 3B.3 A modeling and verification study of summer precipitation systems using NASA surface initialization datasets   Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and S. V. Kumar, J. Srikishen, and G. J. Jedlovec
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday, B208 Kuettner Symposium Luncheon
12:00 PM B1.1 Joach Kuettner—A Man in Love with the Sky   Einar Enevoldson, The Perlan Project, Emeryville, CA
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Tuesday Lunch Break (Cash and Carry in Exhibit Hall)
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday, B304 Session 4 Hydrology: New Demands on Science and Services
Chair: Dennis P. Lettenmaier, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1:30 PM 4.1 Special colloquium on Hydrology: new demands on science and services   Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA; and R. Harding, P. C. D. Milly, and B. H. Udall 2:00 PM 4.2 Evaporation and Soil Moisture Measurement   Richard Harding, CEH Wallingford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom 2:30 PM 4.3 New Demands on Science and Services: Hydrology   P. C. D. Milly, USGS, Princeton, NJ 3:00 PM 4.4 Hydrology   Bradley H. Udall, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall B1 Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, B216 Joint Session 4 Research on extreme weather and climate events and inter-relationships (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the First Environment and Health Symposium, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the First Conference on Weather, Climate, and the New Energy Economy, and the Committee on Climate Services)
Chair: David R. Easterling, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
3:30 PM J4.1 The relative increase of record high maximum temperatures compared to record low minimum temperatures in the U.S   Gerald Meehl, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Tebaldi, G. Walton, D. R. Easterling, and L. R. McDaniel 3:45 PM J4.2 A common Midwestern question: Where have all our 90°F days gone?   David Changnon, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and V. A. Gensini and J. Prell 4:00 PM J4.3 Using large scale circulation indices to predict the intensity of cold air outbreaks over extended time scales across the southeastern U.S   Charles E. Konrad, NOAA Southeastern Regional Climate Center, Chapel Hill, NC 4:15 PM J4.4 Heat waves and cold spells in a warming climate   Karsten Steinhaeuser, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and A. R. Ganguly 4:30 PM J4.6 Extreme european weather regimes   Ricardo Morais Fonseca, Portugal; and B. J. Hoskins and M. Blackburn 4:45 PM J4.7 Meteorological features of observed trends in U.S. heavy precipitation events   Kenneth E. Kunkel, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. R. Easterling, B. E. Gleason, D. A. R. Kristovich, R. A. Smith, and L. Ensor 5:00 PM J4.8 Contemporary climatic changes in North America and Northern Eurasia with foci on extreme events and transitions through environmentally and socio-economically significant thresholds   Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight and T. R. Karl 5:15 PM J4.5 Climatological, meteorological, and societal implications for the large number of fatalities from central Florida Dry Season tornadoes during El Nińo   Bartlett C. Hagemeyer, NOAA/NWS, Melbourne, FL; and L. A. Jordan, A. L. Moses, S. M. Spratt, and D. F. Van Dyke III
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday, B212 Joint Session 15 Hydrology Applications in a Non-Stationary Climate (Joint between the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology)
Cochairs: David C. Bader, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; James Noel, NOAA/NWS/Ohio River Forecast Center, Wilmington, OH
3:30 PM J15.1 Water in a changing climate: implications for water resources design (Invited)   Eric F. Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 4:00 PM J15.2 Climate and Extreme Events: A Hydrologic perspective (Invited)   Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine, CA; and X. Gao, K. L. Hsu, B. Imam, and J. Li 4:30 PM J15.3 Seasonal numerical forecasts of the Ganges and Brahmaputra river flow   Peter J. Webster, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. Jian, H. R. Chang, and T. M. Hopson 4:45 PM J15.4 Projecting Climate Change Impacts on Seasonal Water Supply Forecasting Error   Levi D. Brekke, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and D. Garen, K. Werner, and D. Laurine 5:00 PM J15.5 A comparative study of model initialization for the Noah land surface model using LIS   Roshan K. Shrestha, EMC, College Park, MD; and P. R. Houser 5:15 PM J15.6 Structure and Detectability of Trends in Hydrological Measures over the western United States   Tapash Das, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and H. G. Hidalgo, M. D. Dettinger, D. R. Cayan, D. W. Pierce, C. Bonfils, T. P. Barnett, G. Bala, and A. Mirin
	3:30 PM-5:00 PM, Tuesday, B304 Session 5 Drought Prediction, Monitoring and Mitigation
Chair: Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD
3:30 PM 5.1 Exploring mechanisms and predictability of U.S. drought using remote sensing, hydrological modeling, reanalysis and the NCEP Climate Forecast System   Justin Sheffield, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and L. Luo and E. F. Wood 4:00 PM 5.2 Progress of the NOAA/NCEP NLDAS Drought Monitor and NLDAS Products   Youlong Xia, NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Ek, E. F. Wood, L. Luo, J. Sheffield, D. P. Lettenmaier, B. Livneh, D. Mocko, B. Cosgrove, J. Meng, H. Wei, V. Koren, J. C. Schaake, K. Mo, and K. Mitchell 4:15 PM 5.3 New techniques for climate and drought information delivery at the national climatic data center   Michael J. Brewer, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and J. Symonds 4:30 PM 5.4 Towards integrating GRACE terrestrial water storage data into the U.S. and North American Drought Monitors   Rasmus Houborg, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Rodell, J. S. Famiglietti, R. Heim, J. Lawrimore, B. Li, R. H. Reichle, M. Rosencranz, M. Svoboda, B. D. Wardlow, B. F. Zaitchik, and R. Tinker 4:45 PM 5.5 Water balance in the agricultural watershed of Kumamoto groundwater region   Kenji Tanaka, Kumamoto Univ., Kumamoto, Japan; and H. Mizuno, D. Kuwamoto, H. Taniguchi, T. Hokamura, and F. Yamada
	5:00 PM-6:00 PM, Tuesday, B304 Session 6 Robert E. Horton Lecture
Chair: Bart Nijssen, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
5:00 PM 6.1 Weather, WATER, Climate, and Society: New Demands on Science and Services   John. C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
Wednesday, 20 January 2010
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, B215 Joint Session 5 Advances in Modeling, From Local through Regional to Large Scale, and From Deterministic to Ensemble-Probabilistic Prediction Part I (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology)
Chair: Ed Olenic, NOAA/NWS/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
8:30 AM J5.1 On the seamless prediction of weather and climate   Timothy N. Palmer, ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom 8:45 AM J5.2 Performance of the NOAA FIM global ensemble prediction system for hurricanes during the 2009 season   Tom Hamill, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and J. S. Whitaker and S. Benjamin 9:00 AM J5.3 Why does cloud superparameterization improve the simulated daily rainfall cycle in a multiscale climate modeling framework?   Michael S. Pritchard, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. C. J. Somerville 9:15 AM J5.4 North Pacific decadal variability and climate change in the IPCC AR4 models   Jason C. Furtado, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and E. Di Lorenzo 9:30 AM J5.5 Aquaplanet GCM simulations of tropical intraseasonal variability   Eric D. Maloney, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Hannah 9:45 AM J5.6 Factors affecting forecast skill of the MJO over the Maritime Continent   Augustin Vintzileos, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC - SAIC, Camp Springs, MD
	8:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday, B304 Session 7 Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Observations
Chair: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
8:30 AM 7.1 Underestimation of QPE in a Flash Flood Situation Due to Partial Beam Blocking and Attenuation: Correction Using the BREAM model   Timothy A. Coleman, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. A. Westland 8:45 AM 7.2 Radar precipitation estimates in mountainous regions: corrections for partial beam blockage and general radar coverage limitations   Dennis A. Miller, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. H. Kitzmiller, S. Wu, and R. Setzenfand 9:00 AM 7.3 Errors in rainfall estimation in the southern Alaska WSR-88D network   Luke E. Madaus, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 9:15 AM 7.5 Satellite Derived Ensemble Tropical Rainfall Potential (eTRaP):2008 and 2009 Results   Sheldon J. Kusselson, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and E. Ebert, M. Seybold, S. Q. Kidder, and M. Turk 9:30 AM 7.6 Analysis of seasonal variation in cumulus cloud frequency of occurrence   Vani Starry Manoharan, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Mecikalski and R. M. Welch 9:45 AM 7.4 Analysis of Satellite-derived Soil Moisture and Previous-Time Precipitation   F. Joseph Turk, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and Z. S. Haddad and L. Li
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, B215 Joint Session 6 Advances in Modeling, From Local through Regional to Large Scale, and From Deterministic to Ensemble-Probabilistic Prediction Part II (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, the 14th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the First Symposium on Planetary Atmospheres, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 20th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, and the 24th Conference on Hydrology)
Chair: Ed Olenic, NOAA/NWS/CPC, Camp Springs, MD
10:30 AM J6.1 Quantifying Contributions to Polar Warming Amplification in a Coupled General Circulation Model   Ming Cai, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. Lu 10:45 AM J6.2 The development of a coupled hurricane storm surge forecasting Model for the Pascagoula River   David A. Ramirez Jr., NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA 11:00 AM J6.3 Evaluation of the new Australian climate model ACCESS   Ian G. Watterson, CAWCR, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia; and L. Rikus, B. Hu, and T. Elliott 11:15 AM J6.4 Mesoscale circulations in the urban-coastal environment: a modeling analysis and assessment of sensitivity to high-fidelity representation of the urban canopy   Michael Carter, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and J. M. Shepherd, S. Burian, and I. Jeyachandran 11:30 AM J6.5 Ensemble downscaling of seasonal forecasts   R. W. Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 11:45 AM J6.6 The misrepresentation of Tropical SSTs in climate models   Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, Univ. of Colorado/CIRES/CDC and NOAA/ESRL/PSD, Boulder, CO; and S. I. Shin
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday, B304 Session 8 Remote Sensing of Hydrometeorological Observations
Chair: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
10:30 AM 8.1 Toward an improvement of surface identification in land precipitation retrieval algorithm   Arief Sudradjat, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro 10:45 AM 8.2 Assigning tropical rainfall rates for multisensor QPE using environmental moisture fields and vertical profiles of reflectivity   Heather Moser, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. Howard, J. Zhang, and S. Vasiloff 11:00 AM 8.3 Validation of NOAA's Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimate in the Mid-Atlantic Region   Kurtulus Ozturk, Turkish State Meteorological Service, Kalaba, Ankara, Turkey; and A. Tokay, B. F. Larson, E. Habib, and B. R. Nelson 11:15 AM 8.4 Evaluation of the impacts of ingesting TRMM data on the accuracy of quantitative precipitation estimates Obtained via the SCaMPR framework   Yu Zhang, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Kitzmiller, D. Seo, R. J. Kuligowski, and Y. Li 11:30 AM 8.5 Validation of Satellite Rainfall Products over Africa and S. America   Tufa Dinku, Columbia University, Palisades, NY
	11:00 AM-6:30 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, B304 Session 9 Water Resources and Forecasting Applications
Cochairs: Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH; Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
1:30 PM 9.1 Using paleo-climate data to assess management options related to shortage risk on the Colorado River   Kiyomi Morino, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and R. Bark 1:45 PM 9.2 National Water Resources Outlook   James Noel, NOAA/NWS/Ohio River Forecast Center, Wilmington, OH; and T. Adams and K. Werner 2:00 PM 9.3 Hydrological Applications Research within GEWEX   P.J. Van Oevelen, International GEWEX Project Office, Silver Spring, MD; and E. F. Wood and D. P. Lettenmaier
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday Poster Session Hydrology Posters Part II
Chair: Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
440 Atmospheric Conditions that Led to the Roma, Texas Floods of August 2008   Barry S. Goldsmith, NOAA/NWS, Brownsville, TX; and R. Q. Hart and J. Estupińán   441 Challenges in implementing NWSRFS in Romania   Jeff Vukovich, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC., Raleigh, NC; and T. K. Burnet   442 Does the poleward retreat of mid-latitude synoptic systems, reflected by a decline in rainfall and an increase in MSL pressure at Melbourne, suggest Australia's Great Artesian Basin as a possible back-up source of water?   Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and P. McBride, J. Cornall-Reilly, and J. Dahni   443 Inundation Mapping using Hydraulic model and Geographic Information System Case Study: Tar River basin during Hurricane Floyd   Keren J. Cepero, NOAA/NWS, Raleigh, NC; and S. Reed and C. Aschwanden   444 Merging medium-range weather forecasts and seasonal climate outlooks to improve seasonal hydrologic prediction   Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA; and M. Wiley and B. Nijssen   445 Noah land surface model modifications for improved snowpack and water resource prediction in the Colorado Rockies   Michael Barlage, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, M. Tewari, and K. Ikeda   446 Analysis of satellite observed rain fall amounts and discharge measurements at the Datong Hydrologic Station   Alice Fan, SAIC, Hampton, VA; and B. Lin and P. Y. Maa   447 Predicting severe hail in the WFO LWX County Warning Area: toward increased accuracy in hail size forecasts   Matthew R. Kramar, NWSFO Baltimore/Washington, Sterling, VA; and J. Waters   566 An Analysis of Heavy Rainfall Weather Systems over Louisiana   Boniface J. Mills, Univ. of Louisiana, Monroe, LA ; and K. Falk, J. Hansford, and B. Richardson
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday, B212 Joint Session 7 Communication Among Stakeholders That Addresses Issues of Policy, Operations, and New Opportunities (Joint between the 18th Conference on Applied Climatology, the 14th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology, the First Environment and Health Symposium, the 12th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the 24th Conference on Hydrology, the Presidential Forum, the Third Annual CCM Forum, and the Fifth Symposium on Policy and Socio-economic Research)
Chair: Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
4:00 PM J7.1 Great expectations: Improving climate data services   Trisha U. Ralph, EC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and H. Lau and T. H. Sopoco 4:15 PM J7.2 Customer satisfaction at NOAA's NESDIS data centers   Tamara G. Houston, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC 4:30 PM J7.3 Applied climatology guidance for development of Army materiel for world wide use   Charles C. Ryerson, Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and L. Spears, G. Stullenbarger, and L. Page 4:45 PM J7.4 NOAA Climate Users Engagement Using Training and Education Activities   Marina Timofeyeva, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Verdin, J. Jones, and R. S. Pulwarty 5:00 PM J7.5 Developing indicators to support climate change policy and programs   Jason Samenow, EPA, Washington, DC 5:15 PM J7.6 Beyond the boundary: it takes a village to provide climate services   Daniel Ferguson, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. Owen
	4:00 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday, B304 Session 10 Water Resources and Forecasting Applications
Cochairs: Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Wilmington, OH; Andrew W. Wood, 3TIER, Inc., Seattle, WA
4:00 PM 10.1 Multiobjective, manifoldly constrained Monte Carlo optimization and uncertainty estimation for an operational hydrologic forecast model   Sean W. Fleming, BC Hydro, Burnaby, BC, Canada; and F. A. Weber and S. Weston 4:30 PM 10.2 A comparison of statistical and explicit short-term hydrological forecasting techniques   Glenn E. Van Knowe, MESO, Inc., Troy, NY; and K. T. Waight, M. Ceperuelo, J. Aymamí, S. Parés, S. Arumugam, and J. Oh 4:45 PM 10.3 Dynamic-enforced Statistical Downscaling of Global Seasonal Prediction of Precipitation for Regional Hydrological Applications   Yubao Liu, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Rostkier-Edelstein, A. Givati, W. Wu, G. Descombes, T. Warner, and S. Swerdlin
	5:30 PM-6:30 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall B1 Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	7:00 PM-9:00 PM, Wednesday, Thomas Murphy Ballroom 1-4 AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 21 January 2010
	7:30 AM-8:30 AM, Thursday, B208 Washington Symposium Breakfast
	8:30 AM-9:45 AM, Thursday, B216 Joint Session 8 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions Part I (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 24th Conference on Hydrology)
Cochairs: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Randy Koster, NASA/GSFC
8:30 AM J8.1 Identifying parameters to describe local land-atmosphere coupling   M. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and C. Jacobs, J. A. Santanello Jr., and O. Tuinenburg 8:45 AM J8.2 Investigation of land surface process over the ARM SGP in 1997 summer using a single-column model   Kyung-Hee Seol, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea; and S. Y. Hong and M. Kanamitsu 9:00 AM J8.3 A Modeling and Observational Framework for Diagnosing Local Land-Atmosphere Coupling on Diurnal Time Scales   Christa Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. A. Santanello Jr., S. V. Kumar, C. Alonge, and W. K. Tao 9:15 AM J8.4 Idealized model for changes in equilibrium temperature, mixed layer depth and boundary layer cloud over land in a doubled CO2 climate   Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT 9:30 AM J8.5 Great Plains irrigation produces enhanced summer precipitation in the Midwest   Anthony DeAngelis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and Y. Fan, A. Robock, M. D. Kustu, and D. A. Robinson
	9:45 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday Exhibits Open
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday, Exhibit Hall B2 Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	11:00 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, B216 Joint Session 11 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions Part II (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 24th Conference on Hydrology)
Chair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
11:00 AM J11.1 Groundwater-land surface-atmosphere feedbacks: impacts of groundwater on land-atmosphere fluxes, convective storms, and frontal precipitation   Ian M. Ferguson, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; and R. M. Maxwell 11:15 AM J11.2 Four-dimensional visualization and analysis of convective rainfall generation along an abrupt land use / land cover boundary in northwest Mississippi   Jamie L. Dyer, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 11:30 AM J11.3 Global evidence of hydroclimate changes due to urbanization   J. Marshall Shepherd, Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA 11:45 AM J11.4 Vegetation and climate variability in North America—a study using the SSiB4/TRIFFID biophysical/dynamic vegetation model   Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Z. Q. Zhang 12:00 PM J11.5 Impacts of land surface processes on the South American Monsoon System simulations: A GCM study   Hsi-Yen Ma, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. R. Mechoso, Y. Xue, H. Xiao, C. M. Wu, and F. De Sales
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Thursday, B216 Joint Session 12 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions Part III (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 24th Conference on Hydrology)
Chair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1:30 PM J12.1 The heat low over Pakistan/northwestern India: spatiotemporal evolution and forcing mechanisms   Massimo A. Bollasina, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and S. Nigam 1:45 PM J12.2 Impact of land use change on the regional climate of Mount Kilimanjaro   Jonathan G. Fairman Jr., Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair and S. A. Christopher 2:00 PM J12.3 Impact of Vegetation on the Global Monsoons   Michael Notaro, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 2:15 PM J12.4 The Second Phase of the Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE-2)   Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and T. Yamada, S. Mahanama, Z. Guo, P. A. Dirmeyer, and B. J. J. M. Van den Hurk 2:30 PM J12.5 The Impact of Coupled versus Observed SST on Summer Season Predictions over America with the NCEP CFS Using Different Land Surface Models and Different Initial Conditions   Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Ek, J. Meng, and K. Mitchell 2:45 PM J12.6 Effects of land-atmosphere coupling strength on coupled WRF/Noah model 0-24 h forecasts of warm-season precipitation in the central United States   S. B. Trier, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, K. W. Manning, and M. A. LeMone
	3:00 PM-3:30 PM, Thursday Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer
	3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Thursday, B216 Joint Session 13 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions Part IV (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 24th Conference on Hydrology)
Chair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
3:30 PM J13.1 The African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis land surface model inter-comparison project (ALMIP): Applications in coupled model studies   Aaron A. Boone, CNRM, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France 3:45 PM J13.2 Oceanic origin of the precipitation jump in the Sahel   W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie and K. B. Katsaros 4:00 PM J13.3 Investigation of Southern Great Plains atmospheric moisture budget for CLASIC   Peter J. Lamb, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Zangvil and D. H. Portis 4:15 PM J13.4 Quantifying land-atmosphere interaction with satellite remote sensing: Current capabilities, findings, and limits   Craig R. Ferguson, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY; and E. F. Wood 4:30 PM J13.5 What really caused the Dust Bowl?   Jeffrey A. Lee, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX; and T. E. Gill 4:45 PM J13.6 Multiscale Atmospheric Simulations Over a Complex and Heterogeneous Terrain: Surface Variability and Land-Atmosphere Interactions   Charles Talbot, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and E. Bou-Zeid and J. Smith 5:00 PM J13.7 Evaluating Modeled Snow-Atmosphere Coupling for Different Atmospheric and Physiographic Conditions   Kristi R. Arsenault, George Mason University, Calverton, MD; and F. Chen, M. Barlage, P. A. Dirmeyer, P. R. Houser, and K. Manning
	5:00 PM-5:05 PM, Thursday AMS 90th Annual Meeting Adjourns

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