| | 402 | Atmospheric heating in the tropics: Past, present and future Carlos D. Hoyos, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and P. J. Webster |
| | 403 | How Well Can a Climate Model Simulate the Response of Summer Rainfall in the Southeast United States to Tropical Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies? Wenhong Li, Duke University, Durham, NC; and R. Fu, H. Wang, P. Arias, and H. Wang |
| | 404 | Analysis of simulated mean and extreme climate trends for the Eastern/Central European region based on RegCM outputs using A1B scenario Rita Pongrácz, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, G. Kovacs, and C. Torma |
| | 405 | Potential changes of future dryness over Korea from a regional climate projection Eun-Soon Im, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; and E. Coppola and F. Giorgi |
| | 406 | 4DVAR data assimilation and Adjoint-based sensitivity analysis in an eddy resolving ocean model of the Peruvian Current System Aneesh Subramanian, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and A. J. Miller, B. Cornuelle, and E. Di Lorenzo |
| | 407 | Determination of lightning channel length distributions for lightning NOx production Harold Peterson, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and W. J. Koshak |
| | 408 | Quantifying the relationship between global circulation model behavior and dynamical cores using geospatial statistics Soner Yorgun, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and R. B. Rood |
| | 409 | MM5 sensitivity to boundary conditions and domain configuration for climate studies over Southern Spain D. Argüeso, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain; and J. M. Hidalgo-Muńoz, D. Calandria-Hernández, S. R. Gámiz-Fortis, M. J. Esteban-Parra, and Y. Castro-Díez |
| | 410 | Diagnosis of ENSO Variability in Coupled CAM/HYCOM Model John-Paul Michael, FSU, Tallahassee, FL; and V. Misra, J. Yin, and E. Chassignet |
| | 411 | Results from Assimilating AMSR-E Soil Moisture Estimates into a Land Surface Model using an Ensemble Kalman Filter in the Land Information System (LIS) Clay B. Blankenship, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and W. L. Crosson, J. L. Case, and R. Hale |
| | 412 | The Land Analysis for the NCEP Climate Forecast System Reanalysis Jesse Meng, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. B. Ek, R. Yang, G. Gayno, and P. Xie |
| | 413 | Estimating uncertainties in global and regional climate change projections using a multi-thousand member climate model ensemble Derek H. Rosendahl, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Karoly |
| | 414 | Capturing time series of stochastic forcing Cécile Penland, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO |
| | 415 | The role of the balance between deep convection and shallow convection in the JMA High-Resolution Global NWP Model Takuya Komori, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan |
| | 416 | The representation of cumulus convection in a 20-km-mesh global hydrostatic model Kengo Miyamoto, AESTO/JMA, Tokyo, Japan |
| | 417 | An examination of atmospheric circulation in the NARCCAP regional models Melissa S. Bukovsky, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. O. Mearns |
| | 418 | Climatological trends in severe-thunderstorm occurrences from high-resolution WRF simulations Eric D. Robinson, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and R. J. Trapp, M. E. Baldwin, and N. S. Diffenbaugh |
| | 419 | Bridging the middle ground between medium range weather forecasting and seasonal climate outlooks: two-week day-to-day weather forecasts and monthly climate outlooks Harvey Stern, Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and J. Cornall-Reilly and P. McBride |