30th Conference on Hydrology

Program Chairs: John B. Eylander , US Army Corps of Engineers ; John N. McHenry , Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC ; David J. Gochis , NCAR ; Michael B. Ek , NOAA/NCEP

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Sunday, 10 January 2016

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7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 10 January 2016


Registration for Short Courses and Conference for Early Career Professionals
Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016


Registration for Student Conference and Short Courses
Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 10 January 2016


Registration Open for Annual Meeting
Location: Hall D pre-function ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Monday, 11 January 2016

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9:00 AM-10:30 AM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Plenary Session 1
2016 Presidential Forum: Serving Society in Times of Crisis: Past, Present and Future
Location: La Nouvelle B-C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Moderator: Maureen McCann, News 13
Panelists: Admiral Thad Allen, United States Coast Guard (ret), Executive Vice President Booz Allen Hamilton; Kerry Emanuel, MIT; Shirley Laska, University of New Orleans; Max Mayfield, WPLG-TV/Former NOAA/National Hurricane Center Director
9:00 AM
Presidential Forum on Serving Society in Times of Crisis: Past, Present and Future
Recorded Presentation

9:05 AM
Opening Remarks (by AMS President Alexander E. “Sandy” MacDonald)

9:15 AM
Introduction of Moderator McCann (MacDonald)

9:16 AM
Introduction of Speakers (McCann)

9:20 AM
Opening Remarks of Speakers

10:05 AM
Q&A

10:30 AM
Concluding Remarks

10:30 AM-11:00 AM: Monday, 11 January 2016


Coffee Break
Location: La Nouvelle Foyer ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Joint Session 1
Drought Analysis and Prediction, Part I
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Joshua Roundy, University of Kansas; Eric F. Wood, Princeton University
11:00 AM
J1.1
Seasonal Scale Water Deficit Forecasting in East Africa and the Middle East Region Using the NMME Models Forecasts
Shraddhanand Shukla, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and C. C. Funk, B. F. Zaitchik, B. Narapusetty, K. R. Arsenault, and C. Peters-Lidard

11:15 AM
J1.2
Identifying the drivers of drought onset and cessation
Danielle C. Verdon-Kidd, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia; and B. R. Scanlon, T. Ren, and D. N. Fernando
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
J1.3
Can large scale sea ice cover changes affect precipitation patterns over California?
Ivana Cvijanovic, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and C. Bonfils, D. D. Lucas, B. D. Santer, and J. C. H. Chiang
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
J1.4
The Role of Stationary Rossby Waves in the Subseasonal Development of Drought over North America and Northern Eurasia
Hailan Wang, NASA, Hampton, VA; and S. D. Schubert and R. D. Koster
Recorded Presentation

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Joint Session 2
Land Model Benchmarking: Benchmarking, Verification and Validation in Terrestrial Hydrology, Part I
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )
Chair: Sujay V. Kumar, SAIC at NASA/GSFC
11:00 AM
J2.1
What is Benchmarking and How does it Relate to PLUMBING
Martin Best, UKMO, Exeter, United Kingdom; and G. Abramowitz, A. Pitman, and S. V. Kumar
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
J2.2
The Plumbing of Land Surface Models: Why are Models Performing so Poorly?
Ned Haughton, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; and G. Abramowitz, A. Pitman, and M. Best
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
J2.3
Why are the PLUMBER Results so Terrible? A Diagnostic Evaluation of the Errors in Land Surface Model Simulations Across FLUXNET Sites
Martyn Clark, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Nijssen, N. Haughton, and G. Abramowitz

11:45 AM
J2.4
Benchmarking NLDAS-2 Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration to Separate Uncertainty Contributions
Grey S. Nearing, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Mocko, C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Xia, and S. Kumar
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Lecture 1
Walter Orr Roberts Lecture
Location: La Nouvelle A ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
1:30 PM
L1.1
Understanding the Earth System through Numerical Modeling: Crossing the Disciplinary Frontiers (Invited Presentation)
V. Ramaswamy, NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, NJ
Recorded Presentation

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Joint Session 3
Drought Analysis and Prediction, Part II
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Joshua Roundy, University of Kansas; Eric F. Wood, Princeton University
1:30 PM
J3.1
Exploring Tools for Quantifying and Ameliorating Meteorological Drought Deficits
Michael C. Kruk, ERT, Inc., Asheville, NC; and R. R. Heim Jr., K. Werner, and R. S. Vose
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
J3.2
Assessing the evolution of soil moisture and vegetation conditions during the 2012 United States flash drought
Jason A. Otkin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and M. C. Anderson and C. Hain
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
J3.3
An investigation of soil moisture extremes over the 2012 drought
Ronald D. Leeper, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites-North Carolina (CICS-NC), North Carolina State University, Asheville, NC; and J. E. Bell and M. Palecki
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
J3.4
EDDI examines the current California drought: early warning and monitoring of agricultural and hydrologic drought with the new Evaporative Demand Drought Index
Michael Hobbins, NOAA, Boulder, CO; and D. McEvoy, J. Huntington, A. Wood, C. Morton, and J. Verdin
Recorded Presentation

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Joint Session 4
Land Model Benchmarking: Benchmarking, Verification and Validation in Terrestrial Hydrology, Part II
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )
Chair: Sujay Kumar, NASA/GSFC
1:30 PM
J4.1
Benchmarking a Land-Atmosphere Flux Model using Information Flow Process Networks
Benjamin L. Ruddell, Arizona State University, Mesa, AZ; and D. Drewry

1:45 PM
J4.2
Use of a Priori Benchmarks to Evaluate the Performance of a Physically Based Hydrologic Model
Andrew J. Newman, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and N. Mizukami, M. Clark, A. W. Wood, L. D. Brekke, and J. R. Arnold
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
J4.3
CONUS-Scale Model Evaluation and Benchmarking for National Streamflow Prediction
Aubrey Dugger, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and D. Gochis, A. RafieeiNasab, J. McCreight, D. Yates, L. Karsten, K. Sampson, W. Yu, M. Somos, F. Salas, and D. Maidment
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
J4.4
Benchmarking Different Approaches for Harnessing Predictability in Climate and Hydrologic Initial Conditions for Seasonal Runoff Prediction
Andrew W. Wood, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Mendoza, E. Rothwell, M. Clark, L. Brekke, J. R. Arnold, and S. Gangopadhyay

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Joint Session 5
Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 1
Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships; and the 30th Conference on Hydrology )
Chair: Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.
1:30 PM
J5.1
The Contribution of the Global Space-based InterCalibration System to US-International Partnerships
Mitchell Goldberg, JPSS, Lanham, MD
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
J5.2
Improving Prediction and Monitoring of High Impact Landfall Tropical Cyclones over the US and Asia through Satellite Data Assimilation
Xiaolei Zou, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
J5.3
Building the High-Quality Satellite Sensor Data Records for Climate and Weather Applications
Fuzhong Weng, NOAA, College Park, MD
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Joint Poster Session 1
Drought Analysis and Prediction Posters
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Joshua Roundy, University of Kansas; Eric F. Wood, Princeton University
80
Utilizing NASA Earth Observations to Monitor Drought Severity in Texas for Wildfire Mitigation Support
Megan Elizabeth Buzanowicz, NASA/DEVELOP, Hampton, VA; and L. Lykens, Z. Richards, and K. Ross

81
A correlation analysis comparing satellite-based drought indicators with yields of major Brazilian crops

82
Critical Aspects of the Coastal Drought Index: Length of Salinity Data Record and Ecological Response Data
Paul Conrads, USGS, Columbia, SC; and D. L. Tufford and L. S. Darby

83
Use of Land Surface and Routing Models with Satellite Altimetry to Evaluate Risks to Hydropower during Drought
Jeanne M. Roningen, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hanover, NH; and J. B. Eylander

84
Probabilistic U.S. Drought Monitor Predictions Using Anomalies in Precipitation, Soil Moisture, and Evapotranspiration
David J. Lorenz, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. A. Otkin, M. Svoboda, C. Hain, and M. C. Anderson

85
Competitive influences on droughts: present and future
Céline Bonfils, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA; and G. Anderson, B. Santer, B. Cook, T. Phillips, and I. Cvijanovic

86
Role of Calibration on Ensemble Streamflow Prediction for Seasonal Agricultural Drought Forecasts
Daniel Anthony Rico, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and K. Smith, J. Chacon, G. Corzo, and F. Munoz-Arriola

87
Assessing the Association of Drought to Wildfire in California Using a Regional Climate Model Ensemble
Debasish PaiMazumder, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and P. Jain, J. M. Done, and M. Flannigan

88
Development of an Objective High Spatial Resolution Soil Moisture Index
Bradley T. Zavodsky, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and J. L. Case and K. D. White

Handout (1.2 MB)


Poster Session 1
Hydrometeorological Extremes Posters
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Chair: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC
54
A comparison of the May 1990 and May 2015 high impact river flooding events in Arkansas
Christopher C. Buonanno, NOAA/NWS, North Little Rock, AR; and J. F. Lesko and T. Clarke
Manuscript (1.7 MB)

55
2015 Red River Basin Flood Event: Timeline and Impacts
Tony O. Hurt Jr., Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and J. Glinskas

Handout (1.6 MB)

56
Improving Flood and Flash Flood Forecasts Across South Florida
Stephen Konarik, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and L. kelly
Manuscript (454.6 kB)

Handout (2.8 MB)

57
Comparing Vertical Distributions of Water Vapor Flux within Two Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers
Jonathan J. Rutz, NOAA/NWS, Salt Lake City, Utah; and D. A. Lavers and M. D. Dettinger

58
Twin Floods: A Case Study Comparison of the Great Red River Floods of 1990 and 2015

59
An 11-Year Climatology of Atmospheric River Conditions within Different Watersheds along California and Their Association with Floods and Flash Floods
Klint T. Skelly, NOAA NWS, Plymouth, NH; and C. W. Hecht and J. Cordeira

60
Upstream Evolution of Landfalling Atmospheric Rivers and Their Impacts on Precipitation Distributions along the U.S. West Coast
Chad W. Hecht, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and K. T. Skelly and J. Cordeira


Joint Poster Session 2
Land Model Benchmarking: Benchmarking, Verification and Validation in Terrestrial Hydrology Posters
Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences )
Chairperson/Person in Charge: Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC
Chair: Sujay Kumar, NASA/GSFC
89
Comparison of Global Mountain Snow Storage Estimates and the Prospect of Improvement with Regional Climate Modeling
Melissa L. Wrzesien, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and M. T. Durand and T. M. Pavelsky

90
Basin-Scale Evaluation of the Land Surface Water Budget in the NCEP Operational and Research NLDAS-2 Systems
Youlong Xia, IMSG at EMC/NCEP, College Park, MD; and M. Ek, B. Cosgrove, K. Mitchell, C. Peters-Lidard, M. J. Brewer, D. M. Mocko, S. V. Kumar, H. Wei, J. Meng, and L. Luo

91
The Uncertainty of Precipitation-type Observations and its Effect on the Validation of the Forecast Precipitation Type
Heather D. Reeves, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK

92
Evaluating Evaporation Components in Flux Data and Model Output
Emma L. Robinson, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom; and E. Blyth

Handout (1.2 MB)

93
Evaluating a High-resolution Operational LDAS/LSM with In-situ Soil Measurements Throughout North Carolina
John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC, Raleigh, NC; and A. Sims and D. T. Olerud

94
Similarity Assessment of NLDAS Multi-Model Ensemble Outputs
Shugong Wang, SAIC at NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Kumar, D. Mocko, C. Peters-Lidard, Y. Xia, and M. Ek

95
Quantifying the Mismatch between Snow and Climate in Global Reanalyses and Land Models
Patrick D. Broxton, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng and N. Dawson

96
Estimates of Global Surface Hydrology and Heat Fluxes from the Community Land Model (CLM4.5) with Four Atmospheric Forcing Datasets: Intercomparison and Assessment
Aihui Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and X. Zeng and D. Guo

97
The North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) Science Testbed: An Environment for the Systematic Evaluation and Benchmarking of NLDAS Outputs
David M. Mocko, SAIC at NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, S. Wang, K. R. Arsenault, C. Peters-Lidard, G. S. Nearing, Y. Xia, M. B. Ek, and J. Dong

98
An Evaluation of the ERDC CRREL FASST Land Surface Model Relative to Measurements and a Comparable, Widely Used Land Surface Model

99
The Land Verification Toolkit---A Common Methodology For Benchmarks, Evaluation Procedures, And Metrics For The Land Surface Modeling Community
Jerry Wegiel, SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. V. Kumar, C. Peters-Lidard, M. Best, M. B. Ek, S. G. Benjamin, J. D. Cetola, J. B. Eylander, K. R. Arsenault, J. Geiger, D. M. Mocko, S. Wang, C. Franks, R. L. Ruhge, E. D. Hunt, T. A. Lewiston, M. Freimund, N. Wright, T. Smirnova, S. Rheingrover, K. W. Harrison, Y. Tian, Y. Liu, J. A. Santanello Jr., and M. Shaw

100
Stochastic Analysis of Nonlinear Sorption at the Cape Cod Tracer Site
Neal T. Graham, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and F. Miralles-Wilhelm


Joint Poster Session 3
Remote Sensing Applications in Hydrology Posters
Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Chairperson/Person in Charge: David J. Gochis, NCAR
Cochairs: Christopher Hain, University of Maryland; John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers
101
Observation of Hailstorm with Higher Spatial Resolution Using a Compact Dual Polarimetric X-Band Weather Radar
Toshiaki Takaki, Furuno Electric Co., LTD., Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan; and M. Hayano, S. Oishi, and E. Nakakita

Handout (579.4 kB)

102
Quantitative precipitation estimation using the characteristics of raindrop size distribution based on the maximum diameter
Sung-A Jung, KMA, Seoul, South Korea; and D. I. Lee, J. H. Kim, and J. S. Ko

103
Incorporate Satellite Precipitation Product into Radar-Gage Multisensor Precipitation Estimation Algorithm
Yuxiang He, NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Y. Zhang, R. J. Kuligowski, and R. Cifelli

Handout (4.6 MB)

104
Development of Hydrometeor Classification Algorithm for Korea Precipitation Systems
In-Hae Cho, KMA, Seoul, South Korea; and M. K. Suk, K. Y. Nam, and J. S. Ko

Handout (2.7 MB)

105
Temporal filtering methods for operational snow covered area mapping
Blaine F. Morriss, CRREL (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab), Hanover, NH; and E. Ochs, T. A. Lewiston, E. J. Deeb, S. F. Daly, S. D. Newman, and J. B. Eylander

106
Mapping the extent and dynamics of lakes in high northern latitudes of North America
Mark L. Carroll, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Wooten, C. DiMiceli, and R. Sohlberg

107
Pre-monsoon Drought and Heat Wave in India Observed from Space
W. Timothy Liu, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and X. Xie

108
Validation of Global Soil Moisture Products from SMAP Radiometer Observations and their Application in NCEP Global Forecast System
Weizhong Zheng, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD; and J. Liu, L. Fang, J. Yin, X. Zhan, and M. B. Ek


Joint Poster Session 4
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results Posters
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: Dara Entekhabi, MIT; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/OAR; John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS; Eni Njoku, JPL
109
SMAP Active Passive Soil Moisture Dynamics During the Climate Extremes Across the Southern and Western US During Spring and Early Summer 2015
N. Das, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Entekhabi and S. H. Yueh

110
Inland Open Water-Body Detection Using Multipolarized L-band SMAP SAR
Seung-Bum Kim, Caltech/JPL, Pasadena, CA; and D. Entekhabi and S. H. Yueh

111
Mapping Field-Scale Soil Moisture Using Ground-Based L-Band Passive Microwave Observations in Western Puerto Rico
Jonathan Muñoz-Barreto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and T. Lakhankar, X. Zhan, R. Tirado-Corbalá, and R. Khanbilvardi

112
Converting Between SMOS and SMAP Level-1 Brightness Temperature Observations Over Nonfrozen Land
Gabriëlle J.M. De Lannoy, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle, J. Peng, Y. Kerr, R. Castro, E. J. Kim, and Q. Liu

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Joint Session 6
Biennial AMS AI Contest
Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; and the 30th Conference on Hydrology )
Chair: Carlos Felipe Gaitan, University of Oklahoma/NOAA-GFDL
4:00 PM
J6.1
Feature Engineering on Rainfall Matrices
Mike Kim, Booz Allen Hamilton, VA

4:15 PM
J6.2
Probability Distributions for Kaggle Rain Contest I
Gary Kim, BOEING
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
J6.3
Hourly Rainfall Estimation using Gradient Boosted Decision Trees
Devin Anzelmo, University of California, CA

4:45 PM
J6.4
4th Place Solution for “How much Did it Rain? II” Kaggle Competition
Shize Su, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and A. Jacobs

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Joint Session 8
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations )
Cochairs: John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers; Dara Entekhabi, MIT; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/OAR; Eni Njoku, JPL; John Pereira, NOAA/NESDIS
4:00 PM
J8.1
The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results
Simon Yueh, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; and D. Entekhabi, P. O'Neill, J. Entin, E. Njoku, and K. Kellogg
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
J8.2
An Intercomparison of SMAP Passive Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms
Steven Chan, NASA JPL, Pasadena, CA; and R. Bindlish, A. Colliander, F. Chen, P. O'Neill, T. Jackson, E. Njoku, A. Berg, T. Rowlandson, K. Caylor, M. Cosh, H. Al Jassar, E. Lopez-Baeza, J. Martinez-Fernandez, A. Gonzalez-Zamora, H. McNairn, A. Pacheco, M. Moghaddam, C. Montzka, C. Notarnicola, G. Niedrist, T. Pellarin, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautiainen, J. Ramos, M. Seyfried, Z. Su, Y. Zeng, R. van der Velde, M. Thibeault, W. Dorigo, M. Vreugdenhil, J. Walker, X. Wu, J. Asanuma, L. Dang, L. Pashaian, M. Spencer, D. Entekhabi, and S. Yueh

4:30 PM
J8.3
SMAP L2/L3 Soil Moisture Product Validation with Core Validation Sites
Thomas Jackson, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory; and A. Colliander, S. Chan, N. Das, S. Kim, S. Dunbar, R. Bindlish, A. Berg, T. Rowlandson, K. Caylor, M. Cosh, H. Al Jassar, E. Lopez-Baeza, J. Martinez-Fernandez, A. Gonzalez-Zamora, H. McNairn, A. Pacheco, M. Moghaddam, C. Montzka, C. Notarnicola, G. Niedrist, T. Pellarin, J. Pulliainen, K. Rautianen, J. Ramos, M. Seyfried, Z. Su, Y. Zeng, R. van der Velde, M. Thibeault, W. Dorigo, M. Vreugdenhil, J. Walker, X. Wu, J. Asanuma, L. Dang, L. Pashaian, M. Spencer, P. O'Neill, D. Entekhabi, S. Yueh, and E. Njoku
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
J8.4
First Results from the SMAP Level 4 Surface and Root Zone Soil Moisture (L4_SM) Data Product
Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. M. De Lannoy, R. D. Koster, J. Kimball, W. T. Crow, Q. Liu, J. Ardizzone, A. Berg, D. Bosch, T. Caldwell, A. Colliander, A. Conaty, M. Cosh, D. C. Goodrich, T. Jackson, S. Livingston, J. Prueger, T. Rowlandson, and P. Starks
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Session 1
Hydrometeorological Extremes, Part I
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Chair: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC
1.1
Analysis of Spatial Dependence in Extreme Precipitation over the Southeast United States Using Radar and Gauge Observations

4:15 PM
1.2
Hydrometeorological Ensemble Prediction System for flash flood forecasting within HYMEX program
Béatrice Vincendon, CNRM, TOULOUSE, France; and O. Nuissier, F. Bouttier, S. Edouard, and V. Ducrocq
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
1.3
Rainfall distributions for varying environmental conditions along the Balcones Escarpment, Texas
Larry J. Hopper Jr., NOAA/NWS, New Braunfels, TX; and N. L. Hampshire
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
1.4
Flooding on the Mendenhall River from a Jokulhlaup: How to forecast a moving target
Scott D. Lindsey, NWS/Alaska Pacific River Forecast Center, Anchorage, AK; and E. H. Moran, E. Hood, and A. Jacobs
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM
1.5
Using river ice time series (MODIS-AQUA) to identify and predict ice hazards
Simon Kraatz, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and R. Khanbilvardi and N. Devineni
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Joint Session 7
Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 2
Location: Room 343 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships; and the 30th Conference on Hydrology )
Chair: Jin Huang, NOAA NCEP Climate Prediction Center
4:00 PM
J7.1
Droughts in the US and China - Occurrences and Mechanisms
Robert E. Dickinson, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and R. Fu, B. Pu, and K. Wang
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
J7.2
How Realistic are Hydrometeorological Processes from Reanalysis? – Intercomparison of Multiple Reanalysis Products using in situ Observational Data (Invited talk)
Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and P. Broxton, M. Brunke, N. Dawson, J. Eyre, W. Lytle, S. Stillman, and A. Wang
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM
J7.3
Effects of Climate Internal Variability on the Drought Characteristics over China and U.S
Aihui Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and X. Zeng
Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM
J7.4
China Drought Meteorology Scientific Research Project
Yaohui Li, Institute of Arid Meteorology, China Meteorological Administration, Lanzhou, China
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016

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Joint Session 9
Remote sensing applications in hydrology, Part I
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers; Christopher Hain, University of Maryland
5:00 PM
Temporal Methods for Operational Filtering snow covered area mapping -- Blaine Morriss
Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM
J9.1
Defining Surface Land Cover Features Using High Resolution Imagery from Unmanned Aerial Systems
Christopher M. Zarzar, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS; and P. Dash, J. Dyer, G. Turnage, and R. J. Moorhead II
Recorded Presentation

J9.2
High resolution longwave radiation from the geostationary satellite imager IR channels

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 11 January 2016


Exhibits Opening Reception, Ribbon Cutting, and Corporate Recognition
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Tuesday, 12 January 2016

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8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

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Session 2
Hydrometeorological Extremes, Part II
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Chair: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC
8:30 AM
2.1
Improvement of the Optimal Blended NLDAS Drought Index (OBNDI) by Incorporating USGS Runoff Percentile and NCEI Operational Drought Indices
Youlong Xia, IMSG at EMC/NCEP, College Park, MD; and M. B. Ek, K. Mitchell, M. J. Brewer, C. D. Peters-Lidard, and D. M. Mocko
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
2.2
Environment Canada's hydrological forecasting system
Dorothy A. Durnford, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and V. Fortin, E. Gaborit, and N. Alavi
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
2.3
The Climatology of Flooding in the US
Shane Hubbard, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
2.4
Progress in predicting May‒July (MJJ) seasonal rainfall over the south central US: implications for improving summer drought preparedness in Texas
D. Nelun Fernando, Texas Water Development Board, Austin, TX; and R. S. Solis, R. Fu, and R. E. Mace
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
2.5
Atmospheric Contributors to Heavy Rainfall Events in the Arkansas-Red River Basin
Taylor McCorkle, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and S. S. Williams, J. B. Basara, and T. A. Pfeiffer
Recorded Presentation

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Joint Session 10
Remote sensing applications in hydrology, Part II
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Christopher Hain, University of Maryland; John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers
8:30 AM
J10.1
Satellite soil moisture products and their application to drought monitoring
Jifu Yin, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and X. Zhan, J. Liu, L. Fang, C. Hain, W. Zheng, and M. B. Ek
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (25.4 kB)

Handout (2.5 MB)

8:45 AM
J10.2
Enhancing NCEP-NAM Weather Forecasts via Assimilating Real-time Satellite-based Soil Moisture and Green Vegetation Fraction (Invited Presentation)
Li Fang, NOAA/NESDIS, College Park, MD; and C. Hain, X. Zhan, W. Zheng, J. Dong, and M. Ek
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
J10.3
Characterizing Satellite-Based Passive Microwave Estimates of Snow Water Equivalent at Sub-Grid Resolution (Invited Presentation)
Elias J. Deeb, CRREL (Cold Regions Research and Engineering Lab), Hanover, NH; and C. A. Hiemstra, S. F. Daly, C. Vuyovich, and J. B. Eylander
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
J10.4
Sensitivity Analysis of passive microwave brightness temperatures to distributed snowmelt
Carrie Vuyovich, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Hanover, NH; and J. Jacobs, C. A. Hiemstra, E. Deeb, S. F. Daly, and J. B. Eylander
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
J10.5
Infusion of gap-filling radar, snow data assimilation and airborne lidar for improved water supply forecasting in the inter-mountain western U.S
David J. Gochis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Busto, K. Howard, A. Dugger, W. Yu, J. McCreight, C. Langston, M. richardson, J. deems, N. coombs, T. H. Painter, J. mickey, M. skiles, K. Sampson, and L. karsten
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Poster Session 2
Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand Posters
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Michael Hobbins, NOAA; Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS; Christopher Hain, University of Maryland; Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University
61
GOES Evapotranspiration and Drought Product System (GET-D)
Zhengpeng Li, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and C. Hain, L. Fang, X. Zhan, and M. C. Anderson

63
MICROWAVE BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF TWO SOURCE ENERGY BALANCE MODEL TO ESTIMATE EVAPORATION
Thomas R. H. Holmes, USDA, Beltsville, MD; and C. Hain, M. C. Anderson, W. P. Kustas, and W. T. Crow

64
A Satellite-based Evapotranspiration Retrieval over Local-to-Global Scales in Support of Land Surface, Hydrological, Mesoscale, and Global Climate Models
Ali L. Yagci, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. A. Santanello Jr. and J. W. Jones

Handout (1.1 MB)

65
Comparison of Evapotranspiration Following Fire in a Primary Amazonian Forest Based on MOD16 Data
Gabriel de Oliveira, INPE, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and E. C. Moraes, Y. E. Shimabukuro, N. A. Brunsell, L. E. O. C. Aragão, and G. Bertani

66
National Weather Service Forecast Reference Evapotranspiration Goes Nationwide
Cynthia K. Palmer, NOAA/NWS, Shreveport, LA; and H. D. Osborne, M. T. Hobbins, D. P. Matusiewicz, and F. Melton

67
Drivers of variability in evaporative demand in models and observations


Poster Session 3
Flood prediction, analysis, decision support, & management Posters
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: J.J. Gourley, NOAA/NSSL; Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS; David J. Gochis, NCAR
68
The NWS Louisville Flash Flood Hotspot Program
Christina E. Andress, NOAA/NWS, Louisville, KY; and E. Rau

69
Flood Alert System using High Resolution Radar Data in the Mayaguez-Puerto Rico Bay Drainage Basin
Luz Estella Torres Molina, Universidad del Turabo, Gurabo, PR; and J. Colom and S. Cruz-Pol
Manuscript (1.6 MB)

70
Development of NFIE forcing engine
Linlin Pan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. J. Gochis, W. Yu, Y. Zhang, A. Dugger, M. Winn, A. Rafieeinasab, Y. Liu, M. Valenzuela, and D. Maidment

Handout (4.6 MB)

71
Operational Hydrological Forecasting during the IPHEx-IOP Campaign – Meet the Challenge
Jing Tao, Duke Univ., Durham, NC; and W. Di, J. J. Gourley, S. Zhang, W. Crow, C. D. Peters-Lidard, and A. P. Barros

72
Muskinum Channel Routing using reach storage as an operating variable
Srishti Vishwakarma, GHCC, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

73
The Northeast River Forecast Center's Decision Support Services for Federal and State Fisheries Activities in the Gulf of Maine Region
David R. Vallee, NWS Northeast River Forecast Center, Taunton, MA

Handout (2.9 MB)

74
Comparison of Semi-Distributed and Fully Distributed Hydrological Models in Complex Terrain
Jungho Kim, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. Cifelli, L. Johnson, B. Livneh, and V. Chandrasekar


Poster Session 4
Hydrometeorological applications, products and services in service to society posters
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Chair: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC
75
Development of hydrometeorological information database and application technology
Ji-in Kim, Korea Water Resources Corporation, Gwacheon-si, South Korea; and A. S. Suh

76
Forecasting Atmospheric Rivers During CalWater 2015
Jason Cordeira, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH; and F. M. Ralph

77
DASSP: A System for High-Resolution, Global Prediction of Soil Moisture Content and Soil Strength
Jerry Bieszczad, Creare LLC, Hanover, NH; and M. P. Ueckermann, C. A. Brooks, R. Chambers, W. E. Audette, and J. D. Walthour

78
Integration of Great Lakes Water Resources into National and Continental Systems for Weather and Climate Prediction
Brent M. Lofgren, NOAA/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. Gronewold, C. Xiao, and R. Bolinger

79
Revision to Flood Hazard Assessment at the Savannah River Site
Robert L. Buckley, Savannah River National Laboratory, Aiken, SC; and D. W. Werth

Handout (875.8 kB)


Joint Poster Session 5
Land Data Assimilation Techniques and Systems Posters
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC; Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC
113
Assimilation of Gridded GRACE Terrestrial Water Storage Observation for Improving Soil Moisture and Shallow Groundwater Estimates
Manuela Girotto, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. M. De Lannoy, R. H. Reichle, and M. Rodell

114
Testing a Successive Correction Based Data Assimilation Methodology in the NWS Hydrology Laboratory Research Distributed Hydrological Model
Robert J. Zamora, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO; and A. R. Thorstensen and R. Cifelli

115
What Can Data Assimilation Tell Us about Our Models?
Grey S. Nearing, NASA, Greenbelt, MD

116
An Integrated Hydrological Modeling System for High-Resolution Coastal Applications
Teddy Holt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Chen, J. Schmidt, C. DeLuca, M. B. Ek, J. B. Eylander, D. J. Gochis, and C. D. Peters-Lidard

117
Assimilation of Combined Snow Cover and Snow Depth Data into NCEP Operational Global Forecast System
Jiarui Dong, NOAA NCEP, College Park, MD; and M. B. Ek, W. Zheng, S. Kumar, C. Peters-Lidard, and G. S. Nearing

118
Creating Higher Resolution Surface Forcings from NLDAS-2/Stage-IV/GSIP for Hydrologic Monitoring
Ming Pan, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and G. Coccia, C. Fisher, X. He, N. Chaney, J. Sheffield, and E. F. Wood

119
Using Virtual Reality Catchment Simulations as Testbeds for Data Assimilation
Bernd Schalge, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and J. Rihani, G. Baroni, D. Erdal, I. Neuweiler, H. J. Hendricks-Franssen, F. Ament, S. Kollet, O. Cirpka, B. Haese, P. Saavedra, X. Han, S. Attinger, H. Kunstmann, H. Vereecken, and C. Simmer

120
Assessment of the Basin-Scale Land Surface Energy Budget in the NCEP Operational and Research NLDAS-2 Systems
Youlong Xia, EMC/NCEP/I.M. Systems Group, College Park, MD; and M. B. Ek, B. Cosgrove, K. Mitchell, C. Peters-Lidard, S. V. Kumar, D. M. Mocko, and H. Wei

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

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Session 3
Hydrometeorological applications, products and services in service to society
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Chair: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC
11:00 AM
3.1
Advancement of a Real-Time Automated Gauge Quality Control Process for Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimation
Steven M. Martinaitis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Y. Qi, S. B. Cocks, J. Zhang, and K. Howard
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
3.2
Supporting Hydrometeorological Research and Applications with Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Products and Services
Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CSISS and NASA GSFC GES DISC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Ostrenga, B. Vollmer, B. Deshong, K. MacRitchie, M. Greene, and S. Kempler
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
3.3
Real-time Land Information System over the Continental U.S. for Situational Awareness and Local Numerical Weather Prediction Applications
Jonathan L. Case, ENSCO, Inc., Huntsville, AL; and K. D. White, B. Guyer, J. Meyer, J. Srikishen, C. B. Blankenship, and B. T. Zavodsky
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (3.8 MB)

11:45 AM
3.4
Towards an operational hydrological and hydrodynamic forecasting system for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River watershed at Environment Canada
Vincent Fortin, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and G. Smith, D. A. Durnford, F. Dupont, B. Winter, M. Mackay, O. Champoux, and J. F. Cantin
Recorded Presentation

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Joint Session 11
Land Data Assimilation Techniques and Systems, Part I
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC; Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC
11:00 AM
J11.1
Microwave Data Assimilation and Its Potential for Land Surface Model Calibration (Invited Presentation)
Kun Yang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
J11.2
Data Assimilation of SMAP Soil Moisture in a 3-km Regional Model
Clay B. Blankenship, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and J. L. Case and B. T. Zavodsky
Recorded Presentation

Handout (10.6 MB)

11:30 AM
J11.3
Impact of Soil Moisture Assimilation on Land Surface Model Spinup and Coupled Land-Atmosphere Prediction
Joseph A. Santanello Jr., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Kumar, C. Peters-Lidard, and P. Lawston
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
J11.4
Assimilation of Remotely Sensed Near-Surface Soil Moisture into the GEOS-5 Atmospheric Modeling and Assimilation System
Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. H. Reichle and G. J. M. De Lannoy
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

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Lecture 2
Bernhard Haurwitz Lecture
Location: La Nouvelle C ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
1:30 PM
L2.1
What's Happening over the Poles? (Invited Presentation)
John Marshall, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

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Session 4
Flood prediction, analysis, decision support, & management, Part I
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: J.J. Gourley, NOAA/NSSL; Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS
1:30 PM
4.1
Iowa Real-Time Flood Forecasting System
Witold F. Krajewski, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
4.2
Hydrologic Modeling at the National Water Center: Operational Implementation of the WRF-Hydro Model to support National Weather Service Hydrology
Brian Cosgrove, NWS/Office of Water Prediction, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Gochis, E. Clark, Z. Cui, A. Dugger, G. Fall, X. Feng, M. A. Fresch, J. J. Gourley, S. Khan, D. Kitzmiller, H. Lee, Y. Liu, J. McCreight, A. Newman, A. Oubeidillah, L. Pan, C. Pham, F. Salas, K. Sampson, G. Sood, M. B. Smith, A. W. Wood, D. Yates, W. Yu, and Y. Zhang
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
4.3
Toward estimating the probability of flood severity over the United States
Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, NOAA/NSSL / Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. Vergara, J. J. Gourley, and Z. L. Flamig

2:15 PM
4.4
River Ice and Flood Detection Products Derived from Suomi NPP VIIRS Satellite Data to Support 2015 Hydrologic Forecast Operations in Alaska
Melissa Kreller, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK; and E. W. Plumb, E. Holloway, and S. Li
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM
4.5
Opportunities and Challenges of Ensemble-based Probablistic Hydrologic Predictions
Robert Hartman, NOAA, Sacramento, CA; and A. Henkel, B. Whitin, and K. He
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
4.6
Real-time demonstration and evaluation of over-the-loop medium-range ensemble streamflow forecasting
Andrew W. Wood, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and B. Nijssen, P. Mendoza, M. Clark, J. R. Arnold, L. D. Brekke, and S. Gangopadhyay

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Joint Session 12
Land Data Assimilation Techniques and Systems, Part II
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS) )
Cochairs: Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC; Youlong Xia, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC; Clara Draper, NASA/GSFC
1:30 PM
J12.1
Land Data Assimilation Systems (LDAS) of the National Centers for Environmental Modeling Prediction (NCEP): Current Status and Future Plan
Michael B. Ek, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD; and Y. Xia, J. Meng, R. Shrestha, H. Wei, J. Dong, Y. Wu, and K. Mitchell
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
J12.2
Assimilation of Soil Moisture Data from a Regional Network of Cosmic Ray Probes in the Land Surface-Subsurface Model TerrSysMP (Invited Presentation)
Harrie-Jan Hendricks Franssen, Forschungszentrum, Julich, Germany; and W. Kurtz and H. Vereecken
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
J12.3
Real-Time, Continental Scale Streamflow Nudging with WRF-Hydro: A First Benchmark
James McCreight, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and Y. Wu, D. Gochis, A. Raffieei Nasab, A. Dugger, W. Yu, B. Cosgrove, Z. Cui, A. Oubeidillah, and D. Briar
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
J12.4
Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter Recursively to Update Soil Moisture Estimates in a Conceptually-Based Distributed Hydrologic Model
Andrea R. Thorstensen, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and P. Nguyen, R. J. Zamora, K. Hsu, and S. Sorooshian
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM
J12.5
Evaluating the utility of satellite soil moisture retrievals over irrigated areas and the ability of land data assimilation methods to correct for unmodeled processes
Sujay Kumar, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Peters-Lidard, J. A. Santanello Jr., R. H. Reichle, C. Draper, R. D. Koster, G. S. Nearing, and M. F. Jasinski
Recorded Presentation

2:45 PM
J12.6
NCA-LDAS: An Integrated Terrestrial Water Analysis System for Development, Evaluation, and Dissemination of National Climate Indicators
Christa Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. F. Jasinski, S. V. Kumar, K. R. Arsenault, H. Beaudoing, J. Bolten, J. S. Borak, S. J. Kempler, B. Li, Y. Liu, D. M. Mocko, M. Rodell, and B. Vollmer

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016


Coffee Break
Location: Hall D ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

3:30 PM-4:45 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

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Session 5B
Flood prediction, analysis, decision support, & management, Part II
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: J.J. Gourley, NOAA/NSSL; Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS; David J. Gochis, NCAR
3:30 PM
5B.1
A multi-faceted approach to improve short-term, real-time flood forecasting
Bradley R. Carlberg, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. A. Gallus Jr. and K. Franz
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM
5B.2
High-resolution, rapid-update flash flood forecasting for the NWS
Jonathan J. Gourley, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Z. L. Flamig, H. Vergara, R. Clark III, P. E. Kirstetter, G. Terti, Y. Hong, and K. W. Howard
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM
5B.3
Surface runoff simulation and application using WRF-Hydro for city flood in China
Baoguo Xie, IBM Research, Beijing, China; and M. Zhang, H. Du, X. Zhang, W. Yin, and J. Dong
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
5B.4
Evaluation of the community WRF-Hydro Modeling System over the NFIE experiment
Arezoo Rafieeinasab, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Dugger, M. Somos, F. Salas, D. Maidment, D. J. Gochis, J. McCreight, D. N. Yates, L. Karsten, K. Sampson, C. David, and W. Yu
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
5B.5
Evaluation of Flood Risk in Afghanistan using Retrospective Land Surface and Routing Models via the Land Information System
Jeanne M. Roningen, US Army Corps of Engineers, Hanover, NH; and J. B. Eylander, M. J. Shaw, and C. M. Vuyovich
Recorded Presentation

3:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 12 January 2016

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Session 5A
Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand, Part I
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Michael Hobbins, NOAA; Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS; Christopher Hain, University of Maryland; Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University
3:30 PM
5A.1
Including tree water potential in plot-level transpiration modeling using the hydrodynamic approach
Gil Bohrer, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and A. M. Matheny and G. Mirfenderesgi
Recorded Presentation

3:45 PM
5A.2
Application of a tree-level hydrodynamic model to simulate plot-level transpiration in the upland oak/pine forest in New Jersey
Golnazalsadat Mirfenderesgi, the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; and G. Bohrer, S. Fatichi, A. M. Matheny, R. P. D. M. Frasson, and K. V. R. Schäfer
Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM
5A.3
Estimating Daily Landsat-Scale Evapotranspiration over a Managed Pine Plantation in North Carolina, USA using a Data Fusion Method
Yun Yang, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and M. C. Anderson, F. Gao, C. Hain, W. P. Kustas, A. Noormets, R. Wynne, V. Thomas, and G. Sun
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
5A.4
Combining Energy and Soil Water Balances Based on Remote Sensing Inputs for Monitoring Irrigated and Rainfed Agriculture
Isidro Campos, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and J. B. Barker, C. M. U. Neale, A. E. Suyker, and T. J. Arkebauer
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
5A.5
Use of Satellite Skin Temperatures to Improve Surface Evapotranspiration Performance in WRF
Richard T. McNider, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and K. Doty, Y. Wu, A. Pour-Biazar, P. Lee, M. Huang, B. Dornblaser, and C. Hain
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
5A.6
A Multi-Perspective Evaluation of ET variability related to recent droughts in the Southeastern United States
Walter L. Ellenburg, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and V. Mishra, R. T. McNider, J. Mecikalski, J. Christy, C. Handyside, and J. F. Cruise
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM
5A.7
Mesoscale Evapotranspiration from In Situ and Satellite Observations
Jeffrey B. Basara, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Liu, B. G. Illston, and X. Xiao
Recorded Presentation

5A.8
Relating temperature extremes and droughts to evaporation estimates from SMAP passive microwave soil moisture retrievals

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

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8:30 AM-10:00 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

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Session 6
Advances in Evaporation and Evaporative Demand, Part II
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Michael Hobbins, NOAA; Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS; Christopher Hain, University of Maryland; Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University
8:30 AM
6.1
Estimating Evapotranspiration in the Caribbean Region using an Operational Water and Energy Balance Algorithm
Eric W. Harmsen, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez,, PR; and J. R. Mecikalski and E. Álvarez Pérez
Recorded Presentation

6.2
The Expansion of Agriculture and Its Effects of Evapotranspiration in Brazil's Newest Agricultural Frontier

8:45 AM
6.2A
Implementing the Remotely Sensed Evaporative Stress Index Globally Using MODIS Day/Night Land-surface Temperatures
Christopher Hain, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. C. Anderson, J. Otkin, T. R. H. Holmes, and W. T. Crow

9:00 AM
Microwave Based Implementation of Two Source Energy Balance model to Estimate Evaporation -- Christopher Hain
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
6.4
Estimating reservoir evaporation: Evaluating current and future practices and research-to-operations pathways
Ben Livneh, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and K. Friedrich, R. L. Grossman, P. D. Blanken, and J. L. Huntington
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
6.5
IMPROVING OPERATIONAL HYDROLOGIC PREDICTION MODELING THROUGH SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS
Angela L. Bowman, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and K. J. Franz and T. Hogue
Recorded Presentation

6.3
Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem Connections to Hydrometeorology and Management in Arid Environments

9:45 AM
6.6
Moving from Empirical Estimation of Humidity to Observation: A Spatial and Temporal Evaluation of MTCLIM Assumptions Using Regional Networks
Ruben J. Behnke, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
Recorded Presentation

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Joint Session 13
Regional climate modeling predicting future changes in extreme precipitation events - Towards More Resilient Engineering Design
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Francina Dominguez, University of Arizona; Kelly Mahoney, CIRES/University of Colorado; Kenneth E. Kunkel, CICS
8:30 AM
J13.1
Hydrometeorological Analyses of the June 1903 Heppner, Oregon Flood
Jim Smith, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and M. L. Baeck
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
J13.2
Examining terrain elevation assumptions used in current extreme precipitation estimation practices: A modeling study of the 2013 Colorado Front Range floods
Kelly M. Mahoney, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. J. Lukas and B. McCormick
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
J13.3
CWRF Physics Ensemble Improving Extreme Precipitation Prediction
Xin-Zhong Liang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
J13.4
Extreme precipitation revealed through high-resolution dynamical downscaling
Robert Trapp, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and K. Hoogewind

9:30 AM
J13.5
Precipitation Extremes and Anthropogenically-forced Warming: Considerations for Future Changes in Design Values
Kenneth E. Kunkel, CICS, Asheville, NC; and J. A. Young
Recorded Presentation

9:45 AM
J13.6
High Resolution Simulation of a Colorado Rockies Extreme Snow and Rain Event in both a Current and Future Climate
Roy M. Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. Ikeda, C. Liu, E. Gutmann, and J. M. Thériault
Recorded Presentation

Recording files available
Joint Session 15
Water: Too Much, too Little. How Climate Information Supports Community Preparedness, Part I
Location: Room 335/336 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Cochairs: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC; Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA; Stephanie Herring, NOAA
8:30 AM
J15.1
The Role of Climate and Water Resources Data in Societal Decisions
Mark Deutschman, Houston Engineering Inc., Maple Grove, MN
Recorded Presentation

8:45 AM
J15.2
State Management Impacts from Hydroclimatic Extremes in Texas and Oklahoma, 2011-2015
David P. Brown, NOAA, Fort Worth, TX; and C. Black, B. Hoeth, M. A. Shafer, and V. W. Murphy
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
J15.3
Developing Tailored Climate Change Information for Strategic Water Supply Planning at a North Carolina Utility
Aashka Patel, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and G. Carbone

9:15 AM
J15.4
Decision-Centric Adaptation Appraisal for Water Management Across Colorado's Continental Divide
Kathleen A. Miller, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. N. Yates, R. L. Wilby, and L. Kaatz
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
J15.5
Hydrologic Information for Tracking Water Availability in Africa and the Middle East
Amy McNally, ESSIC/UMD at NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Getirana, K. R. Arsenault, and C. Peters-Lidard

9:45 AM
J15.6
Impact of Non-stationary Climate Conditions on Extreme Precipitation Frequency Estimates Needed for Engineering Design
Sanja Perica, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and M. St. Laurent, S. Pavlovic, C. Trypaluk, D. Unruh, and O. Wilhite
Recorded Presentation

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


Coffee Break
Location: Hall D ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Recording files available
Joint Session 14
Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part I
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC; Yongkang Xue, University of California; Steven Quiring, Texas A&M University
10:30 AM
J14.1
From Groundwater to the Atmosphere – a study of the Hydroclimate of the La Plata Basin
Francina Dominguez, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and A. Martinez and G. Miguez-Macho
Recorded Presentation

10:45 AM
J14.2
Bridging the Soil Water Scale Gap in Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Ian Baker, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. J. Sellers
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
J14.3
Using ARM Observations to Evaluate Land-Atmosphere Coupling in CAM5 Model Hindcasts on the U.S. Southern Great Plains
Thomas J. Phillips, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and S. A. Klein and H. Y. Ma
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
J14.4
An Analysis of Soil Moisture-Precipitation Feedback Using the North American Regional Reanalysis Dataset
Deanna Apps, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and L. Luo
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
J14.5
Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Land-Atmosphere Coupling within the Southern Great Plains
Jordan Christian, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and J. B. Basara
Recorded Presentation

11:45 AM
J14.6
The Impact of Soil Moisture on the Oklahoma Dryline During the 2011 Drought
Paul X. Flanagan, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara

Recording files available
Joint Session 22
Water: Too Much, too Little. How Climate Information Supports Community Preparedness, Part II
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Cochairs: Stephanie Herring, NOAA; Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA
10:30 AM
J22.1
Climate Change, California Drought, and New Water Management Approaches
Peter Gleick, Pacific Institute, Oakland, CA
Recorded Presentation

J22.2
California Drought: Assessment and Action

10:45 AM
J22.2A
Integration of climate projections and hydrologic models in a web-based, participatory design tool for watershed planning
Meghna Babbar-Sebens, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and S. Mukhopadhyay
Recorded Presentation

11:00 AM
J22.3
The Russian River, Preparing for Too Much and Too Little
Julie F. Kalansky, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and F. M. Ralph, J. Jasperse, M. Dettinger, L. E. Flint, D. Cayan, and A. Flint
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
Panel Discussion

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Recording files available
Lecture 3
Horton Lecture
Location: Room 244 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 32nd Conference on Environmental Information Processing Technologies; the 23rd Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the Fourth Symposium on the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise; the Fifth Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology Special Symposium; the Seventh Conference on Environment and Health; the 22nd Conference on Applied Climatology; the 13th Conference on Space Weather; the 19th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the A&WMA; the 30th Conference on Hydrology; the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships; the 25th Symposium on Education; the 14th Symposium on the Coastal Environment; the 12th Annual Symposium on New Generation Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events; the Fourth AMS Symposium on the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA); the Peter Lamb Symposium; the 20th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the 18th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation; the 14th Conference on Artificial and Computational Intelligence and its Applications to the Environmental Sciences; the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice; the Seventh Conference on Weather, Climate, Water and the New Energy Economy; the Sixth Conference on Transition of Research to Operations; the Fourth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Processes, Prediction and Impact; the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the Events; the 18th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the 14th History Symposium; the Eighth Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions; and the Special Symposium on Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction—Expectations and Limits of Multi-scale Predictability )
1:30 PM
L3.1
Climate and Humans as Amplifiers of Hydro-ecologic Change: Science and Policy Implications for Intensively Managed Landscapes (Invited Presentation)
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou Sr., Univ. of Minnesota/National Center for Earth Surface Dynamics, Minneapolis, MN
Recorded Presentation

Recording files available
Joint Session 16
Emergency Management: Education and Outreach to Better Prepare the Public
Location: Room 353 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 25th Symposium on Education; the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the Fourth Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation: Enhancing Our Nation’s Readiness, Responsiveness, and Resilience to High Impact Weather Events )
Cochairs: Owen H. Shieh, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center; Kenneth Carey, Earth Resources Technology (ERT), Inc.; Mark W. Seefeldt, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado
J16.1
Educating Disadvantaged Citizens about Severe Weather Events and Impacts

1:45 PM
J16.2
The Outreach and Education Season: Summary of the National Hurricane Center's Annual Hurricane Preparedness Training Efforts
Daniel P. Brown, NOAA/NWS/NHC, Miami, FL; and R. D. Knabb
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
J16.3
The National Disaster Preparedness Training Center: Training for a Weather-Ready Nation
Owen H. Shieh, National Disaster Preparedness Training Center, Honolulu, HI; and T. Bedard
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
J16.4
Web-based Learning: Interpreting and Communicating Probabilistic Tropical Cyclone Guidance
Tsvetomir Ross-Lazarov, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO; and R. Berg, D. P. Brown, A. Devanas, S. White, D. Sharp, M. J. Moreland, D. P. Santos, J. Koch, V. M. Vincente, and P. J. Brown
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (59.7 kB)

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Joint Poster Session 6
Land-Atmosphere Interactions Posters
Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC; Yongkang Xue, University of California; Steven M. Quiring, Texas A&M University
567
The dynamic diagnosis on developing mechanism of two low vortex snowstorm processes in Liaoning in early 2015
yan qi Jr., Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), Shenyang, China; and M. wen Jr.

568
Development of a Coordinated National Soil Moisture Network: A Pilot Study
Steven M. Quiring, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. M. Lucido, L. A. Winslow, T. W. Ford, P. B. Baruah, J. Verdin, R. S. Pulwarty, and M. L. Strobel

569
Moisture and Precipitation Evolution during Tropical Cyclone Formation as Revealed by SSMI/SSMIS
Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL

570
Evaluation of Long-term Soil Moisture Proxies in the U.S. Great Plains
Shanshui Yuan, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and S. M. Quiring

571
Integrated Cropland and Grassland Flux Tower Observation Sites over Grazinglands for Quantifying Surface-Atmosphere Exchange
Hayden R. Mahan, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and Y. Zhou, R. Bajgain, J. B. Basara, X. Xiao, P. Wagle, P. Starks, J. Steiner, and B. Northup

572
Evaluating Land Information System (LIS) capabilities in simulating the water budget and surface water dynamics over data-scarce areas in the Middle East
Augusto Getirana, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and A. McNally, C. Peters-Lidard, and H. C. Jung

573
Satellite remote sensing observations of land-atmosphere interactions for understanding drought mechanisms
Joshua Roundy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and J. A. Santanello Jr.

574
NOAA/CMA High Resolution Real Time Analysis for Severe Weather Warnings
Qianhong Tang, CMA, Beijing, China; and Y. Xie and X. Tan

575
Soil Moisture Prediction in the Soil, Vegetation and Snow (SVS) Scheme
Nasim Alavi, EC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Bélair, V. Fortin, S. Zhang, S. Z. Husain, M. Carrera, and M. Abrahamowicz

576
Impacts of soil moisture initialization and memory on subseasonal forecast skill over North America
Zhichang Guo, COLA, Fairfax, VA; and P. A. Dirmeyer

577
The Comparison of Summer-seasonal Surface Water Cycles in the NCEP Coupled Forecast System (CFS) Using Noah and Noah Multiple Parameterization (Noah-MP) Land Surface Models
Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP and IMSG, College Park, MD; and M. Ek

578
Influences of Cloud Super-Parameterization on Land-Atmosphere Energetics and Surface Temperature Biases
Gabriel J. Kooperman, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA; and M. S. Pritchard

579
Stem-root flow effect on land-atmosphere interaction
Tzu-Hsien Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan; and J. P. Chen

580
Estimating water surface energy balance from a single depth temperature measurement
Jiachuan Yang, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and Z. H. Wang, Q. Li, N. Vercauteren, E. Bou-Zeid, and M. B. Parlange

581
Assessment of Irrigation and Wind Turbine Wake Effects on Land-Atmosphere Interactions in a Desert Regime using High-Resolution Model Simulations
Patricia Lawston, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

582
Effects of Multidecadal Changes in Temperature, Snowpack and Precipitation on Streamflow in Southwestern Rivers
David S. Gutzler, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM

583
Analysis of seasonal snowpack simulations in the southern Rocky Mountains
Logan Karsten, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado; and A. Dugger, D. J. Gochis, and M. Barlage

584
The influence of canopy architecture on the effective surface roughness of vineyards
Joseph G. Alfieri, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and W. P. Kustas, F. Gao, J. H. Prueger, and L. E. Hipps

Canopy Interception and Sheltering Effects on Macroscale Snow Sublimation


Joint Poster Session 7
Regional climate modeling predicting future changes in extreme precipitation events - Towards More Resilient Engineering Design Posters
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Francina Dominguez, University of Arizona; Kelly M. Mahoney, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado; Kenneth E. Kunkel, CICS
585
An Integrated High-Resolution Multi-Member Modeling Approach to Assessing Mid-Century Climate Change Impacts on Extreme Hydrological Events and Water Supplies in the Western United States
Brianna Rita Pagan, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA; and M. Ashfaq, D. R. Kendall, and J. S. Pal

586
How well do high resolution limited area models simulate sub-tropical precipitation? A comparison of High Resolution Regional Climate Model output for Puerto Rico
Adrienne M. Wootten, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and J. H. Bowden, V. Misra, L. Stefanova, R. P. Boyles, and A. Terando

587
Projected changes of extreme runoff characteristics under climate change conditions – case study for a Central/Eastern European catchment
Rita Pongrácz, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, A. Kis, and J. A. Szabó
Manuscript (1.2 MB)

588
Changes in Water Balance in the Corn Belt over the past 30 years
Cody H. Troop, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, Rapid City, SD; and D. P. Todey and W. Capehart

589
Evaluation of the Weather Research and Forecasting Model Estimates of Mountain Snow
Melissa L. Wrzesien, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; and M. T. Durand and T. M. Pavelsky


Joint Poster Session 8
Water: Too Much, too Little. How Climate Information Supports Community Preparedness
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 11th Symposium on Societal Applications: Policy, Research and Practice )
Cochairs: John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC; Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA; Stephanie Herring, NOAA
590
Changes in Duration, Frequency, and Magnitude of Low Flows in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Brandon J. Fleming, USGS, Baltimore, MD; and S. A. Archfield, R. Hirsch, and J. E. Kiang

591
Assessing the Impacts of Historic and Pre-Historic Droughts on a Modern-Day Reservoir System Serving Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Andrew W. Ellis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA; and K. W. Murphy

592
Candidate Indicators for Long Term Persistence of Stream Flow Losses for the Lower Colorado River in Texas
Ronald Anderson, Lower Colorado River Authority, Austin, TX; and B. Rose and L. Oliver

Handout (502.7 kB)

593
Applying Season-ahead Streamflow Forecasts to Guide Reservoir Allocations: Case Study of the Highland Lakes in Central Texas
Paul J. Block, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Grzegorzewski

594
Climate Forecast-Aided Drought Decision Support for North Central Texas
Sunghee Kim, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and D. J. Seo, H. Sadeghi, A. Philpott, F. Bell, J. Brown, A. Winguth, N. Fang, L. Blaylock, and G. Clingenpeel

4:00 PM-5:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

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Joint Session 18
Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 3
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships )
Cochairs: Fuzhong Weng, NOAA; John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers
4:00 PM
J18.1
High-Resolution Simulation of the Rapid Intensification of Super Typhoon Rammasun (2014)
Duan Yihong, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China

4:30 PM
J18.2
Short-Range (0–6 h) PQPFs of Typhoons from Time-Lagged Multimodel Ensembles Using LAPS
Hui-Ling Chang, Central Weather Bureau, Taipei, Taiwan; and H. Yuan and P. L. Lin
Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM
J18.3
Impact of Water Vapor over the Southeast Part of Tibetan Plateau on the Precipitation over Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River
Cui Chunguan Sr., Institute of Heavy Rain, Wuhan, China
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (141.5 kB)

4:00 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016

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Joint Session 17
Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part II
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the 28th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC; Yongkang Xue, University of California; Steven M. Quiring, Texas A&M University
4:00 PM
J17.1
Role of the carbon cycle on land-atmosphere interactions
Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, New York, NY; and L. Lemordant and J. Greent
Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM
J17.2
Coupling Noah-MP to the NCEP Climate Forecast​​ System (CFS) to improve land-atmosphere interactions at seasonal forecast timescales
Michael Barlage, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, M. B. Ek, R. Yang, J. Meng, Z. L. Yang, and S. Chung
Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM
J17.3
Impact of land surface initialization on seasonal forecasts of the extremes of Indian summer monsoon
Subhadeep Halder, COLA, Fairfax, VA; and P. A. Dirmeyer, L. Marx, and J. L. Kinter III

4:45 PM
J17.4
Interaction of Convective Processes and Associated Precipitation Driven by the Land Surface Heterogeneity in the Coastal Carolinas
Aaron P. Sims, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman
Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM
J17.5
WRF simulations of thunderstorms triggered by the Alberta oil sands development
Daniel Martin Brown, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and G. W. Reuter
Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM
J17.6
The Effect of the Groundwater Representation on Land surface-Atmosphere Feedbacks in Regional Climate Simulations
Jessica Keune, University of Bonn, Germany, Bonn, Germany; and K. Görgen, M. Sulis, F. Gasper, P. Shrestha, A. Hense, and S. Kollet
Recorded Presentation

5:30 PM-6:30 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


Awards Banquet Reception in the Exhibit Hall
Location: Hall D ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

7:00 PM-10:00 PM: Wednesday, 13 January 2016


96th AMS Awards Banquet
Location: Great Hall ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Thursday, 14 January 2016

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8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

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Joint Session 19
Joint Research and Coordinated Observations in Hydrometeorology, Extremes and High-Impact Events in the US and Asia Part 4
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology; and the Special Sessions on US-International Partnerships )
Cochairs: Fuzhong Weng, NOAA; John B. Eylander, US Army Corps of Engineers
8:30 AM
J19.1
Impact of GPS Radio Occultation Data on the Prediction of Tropical Cyclogenesis
Ying-Hwa Kuo, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Y. Chen and T. J. Galarneau Jr.
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
J19.2
A numerical study of the June 2013 flood-producing extreme rainstorm over southern Alberta
Yanping Li, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; and K. K. Szeto, R. E. Stewart, J. M. Thériault, L. Chen, B. Kochtubajda, A. Liu, S. Boodoo, R. Goodson, and C. J. Mooney
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
J19.3
Continue Environmental Condition for a Long-Lived, Quasi-Stationary MCS
Wang Xiaofang, Institute of Heavy Rain, Wuhan, China
Recorded Presentation Manuscript (114.6 kB)

8:30 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Recording files available
Session 7
Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling, Part I
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Yu Zhang, NOAA/NWS; Paul A. Kucera, NCAR; Emad Habib, Univ. of Louisiana
8:30 AM
7.1
Quantification of atmospheric rivers precipitation from space: Composite assessments and case studies over the western United States
Ali Behrangi, JPL/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; and B. Guan, P. J. Neiman, and B. Lambrigtsen

8:45 AM
7.2
Orographic Precipitation Processes - Observations, Modeling and Scaling
Ana P. Barros, Duke University, Durham, NC; and A. M. Wilson, V. Y. Duan, and X. Sun
Recorded Presentation

9:00 AM
7.3
Vertical Evolution of Raindrop Size Distribution due to Breakup and Coalescence Observed with Vertically Pointing Radars
Christopher R. Williams, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Recorded Presentation

9:15 AM
7.4
A Kalman filter model to estimate precipitation employing Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Events en Complex Terrain
Carlos M. Minjarez-Sosa, Universidad de Sonora, Hermosillo, Mexico; and J. Waissman-Vilanova
Recorded Presentation

9:30 AM
7.5
Rainfall Microstructure and Its Linkage to Structure and Evolution of Flash-Flood Producing Storms
Long Yang, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and J. A. Smith
Recorded Presentation

Handout (1.3 MB)

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 14 January 2016


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
Location: Hall D/E ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Poster Session 5
Hydrological Processes with Application to Urban Environments Posters
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Dev Niyogi, Purdue University
538
Modulation of Urban Heat Island and Heat Waves under Current and Future Climate
Mukul Tewari, IBM, New York, NY; and H. Kusaka, C. D. Watson, L. A. Treinish, J. P. Cipriani, and A. P. Praino

539
Influence of Soil Moisture Deficit on Local and Regional Climate
Prathap Ramamurthy, The City College of New York, New York, NY; and T. Lakhankar

540
Assessment of the impact of optimal irrigation scheduling with rainwater harvesting for water conservation and runoff reduction in large urban areas
Junhak Lee, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX; and D. J. Seo and A. Norouzi

541
Cooling an arid city using irrigated vegetation: Assessing the energy-water trade-off with the latest WRF-urban canopy model
Zhihua Wang, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and J. Yang


Poster Session 6
Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling Posters
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Yu Zhang, NOAA/NWS; Paul A. Kucera, NCAR; Emad Habib, Univ. of Louisiana
542
Necessity of Convective Parameterization in Simulating MCS Precipitation at High Resolution
J. Michael Battalio, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and M. Herrera and K. Pitts

544
The 2015 Upgrade of NCEP's Climatology-Calibrated Precipitation Analysis (CCPA)
Yan Luo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD; and D. Hou, Y. Zhu, Y. Lin, and P. Xie

545
An Investigation on Wind-induced Evolution of Raindrop Size Distribution
Firat Yener Testik, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; and B. Pei

547
The Evaluation and Verification of a Distributed Snow Model with Time, Space, and Elevation Variables
Jongkwan Kim, NOAA, TUSCALOOSA, AL; and M. Smith

Handout (4.6 MB)

546
Detection of Rainfall Using Traffic Cameras

548
Evaluation of 22 precipitation and 23 soil moisture products over a semiarid area
Susan Stillman, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng

549
WRF Precipitation Type Algorithms and Verification
Samuel C. Roback, State Climate Office of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC; and A. Sims

550
A Comparison of Weather and Research Forecast Model Precipitation Forecasts versus Observed SNOTEL Precipitation
Vincent Patrick Holbrook, Idaho Power Company, Boise, ID; and D. Blestrud and M. L. Kunkel

Handout (1.2 MB)

551
Rainfall kinetic energy and intensity relationships in Mexico City
Alejandra Amaro-Loza, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, D.F., Mexico; and S. Arciniega-Esparza, A. Pedrozo-Acuña, and A. Breña-Naranjo

Handout (755.4 kB)

552
Towards an analysis of the liquid-water fraction for orographic precipitation
W. Massey Bartolini, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and H. D. Reeves

553
Development of a Merged Precipitation Product for the Automated Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System
Steven M. Martinaitis, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Y. Qi, S. B. Cocks, L. Tang, C. Langston, B. T. Kaney, J. Zhang, and K. Howard

Poster 554 will now be presented as 8.2A

555
Hydrologic evaluation of the latest bias-corrected satellite precipitation products over the Huaihe River basin
Huiling Yuan, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China; and R. Sun, X. Liu, and X. Jiang

559
Using Flood Forecasting to Guide COAMPS®-TC Model Development
Brian J. Billings, Millersville University, Millersville, PA; and B. M. Lund, B. R. Carlberg, J. D. Doyle, and N. L. Lehtola

560
Detecting Beam Blockage in Radar Precipitation Estimates
D. Brent McRoberts, Texas A&M Univ., College Station, TX; and J. W. Nielsen-Gammon

556
Recent Upgrades to the NCEP Stage IV Precipitation Analysis

562
Physically Based Two-Dimensional Seamless Mosaic for Radar QPE in a national network
Youcun Qi Sr., NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. Zhang

557
Precipitation Estimation by Cloud-to-Ground Lightning Over SW US

563
High resolution LDAS over CONUS using downscaled OLR precipitation
Roshan Shrestha, NOAA NCEP, College Park, MD; and J. Dong, J. Meng, P. Xie, Y. Xia, and M. B. Ek

558
Validating and Improving Snow Modeling in Forests

564
MRMS QPE Performance East of the Rockies during the 2014 Warm Season
Stephen B. Cocks, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Martinaitis, Y. Qi Sr., H. Grams, K. W. Howard, and J. Zhang

565
MRMS QPE Performance West of the Rockies during the 2013-2014 Cool and Warm Seasons
Stephen B. Cocks, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and S. M. Martinaitis, K. W. Howard, and J. Zhang

566
Hydrologic Evaluation of Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrivals for GPM over Tar Basin in Eastern Continuous United States
Sheng Chen, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; and J. Hu and B. Hu

561
Sensitivity Investigation and Related Review of Some Factors Critical to Satellite Data Assimilation in the Land Surface Modeling Context Through LIS

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Recording files available
Session 8
Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling, Part II
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Yu Zhang, NOAA/NWS; Paul A. Kucera, NCAR; Emad Habib, Univ. of Louisiana
11:00 AM
8.1
Local Gauge Correction of Radar QPE in the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor System
Jian Zhang, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and Y. Qi, C. Langston, and B. T. Kaney

Handout (26.4 MB)

8.2
A Methodology to Improve Satellite Quantitative Precipitation Estimates Using the UND Hybrid Classification Product and GOES Optical Depth Retrievals

11:15 AM
8.2A
Comparison of GPCP 1DD Precipitation Product with NEXRAD Q2 Precipitation Estimates over the CONUS
Wenjun Cui, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and X. Dong, B. Xi, and R. Stenz
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
8.3
Real-time High Resolution Precipitation Estimation with the CASA DFW Urban Demonstration Network (Invited Presentation)
Haonan Chen, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and V. Chandrasekar

11:45 AM
8.4
Improving multiple satellite precipitation estimation for hydrologic applications and uncertainty analysis
Kuolin Hsu, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA

Recording files available
Joint Session 20
Hydrological Processes with Application to Urban Environments (Joint between the 30th Conference on Hydrology and the AMS Board on Urban Environment)
Location: Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Chair: Dev Niyogi, Purdue University
11:00 AM
J20.1
Observational and Modeling Studies of Extreme Floods in Urban Environments
James Smith, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and M. L. Baeck, L. Yang, and D. Niyogi
Recorded Presentation

11:15 AM
J20.2
Applying Improved Surface Urban Hydrological Processes in the New Single Layer Urban Canopy Model over Houston
James Brownlee, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; and P. Ray and M. Tewari
Recorded Presentation

11:30 AM
J20.3
Real-time flash flood forecasting for the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW)
Hamideh Habibi, Univ. of Texas, Arlington, TX; and B. Nazari, A. Norouzi, D. J. Seo, S. Noh, P. Jangyodsuk, J. Gao, R. Muttiah, H. Chen, V. Chandrasekar, E. J. Lyons, B. J. Philips, B. Kerkez, and M. Zink

11:45 AM
J20.4
Assessing urban impact on winter precipitation type using dual polarization radar
Bradford Johnson, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. M. Shepherd
Recorded Presentation

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016


Lunch Break

1:30 PM-2:45 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Recording files available
Joint Session 21
AI Applications in Real-World Hydrologic Problems
Location: Room 354 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Valliappa Lakshmanan, Climate Corporation; John N. McHenry, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC
1:30 PM
J21.1
A Rainfall Nowcasting Algorithm Based on Hydro-Estimator Data
Joan M. Castro, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, PR; and N. D. Ramirez-Beltran and J. Gonzalez

1:45 PM
J21.2
Better Living Through Post-Processing: Improving Probabilistic Heavy Rainfall Prediction
Trevor Alcott, OAR, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Alexander and I. Jankov
Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM
J21.3
Spatial Clustering of Extreme Rainfall Events in Greater New York Area Using Weather Radar Data
Ali Hamidi, City University of New York, New York, NY; and N. Devineni, J. F. Booth, R. R. Ferraro, and R. Khanbilvardi
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
J21.4
Evaluating the Use of a Naïve Bayes Classification Algorithm to Identify Tweets Containing Observations of Flash Flooding
Brandon R. Smith, OU/CIMMS and NOAA/OAR/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. J. Gourley, Y. Hong, C. Silva, and Z. L. Flamig
Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM
J21.5
Can We Obtain Viable Alternatives to Manning's Equation Using Genetic Programming?
Carlos Felipe Gaitan, University of Oklahoma/NOAA-GFDL, Princeton, NJ; and B. Moore III and V. Balaji
Recorded Presentation

1:30 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016

Recording files available
Session 9
Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling, Part III
Location: Room 240/241 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Yu Zhang, NOAA/NWS; Paul A. Kucera, NCAR; Emad Habib, Univ. of Louisiana
1:30 PM
9.1
Evaporation of Melting Ice Particles Within a Melting Layer Model
Andrea J. Neumann, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; and M. R. Poellot and A. J. Heymsfield
Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM
9.2
An evaluation of WRF microphysics schemes using the satellite-observed vertical structure of heavy rainfall over the Korean peninsula
Hwan-Jin Song, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and B. J. Sohn, S. Y. Hong, and T. Hashino

2:00 PM
9.3
Precipitation Forecasts for COAMPS-Hydro - An Initial Look from Hurricane Irene (2011)
Jerome Schmidt, NRL, Monterey, CA; and S. Chen and T. Holt
Recorded Presentation

2:15 PM
9.4
Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Estimates with Ground and Space-based Radars
Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, NOAA/NSSL / Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. Tanelli, J. J. Gourley, and J. Zhang

9.5
Impact of Total Precipitable Water Assimilation into North American Moonsoon Precipitation Forecasts

2:45 PM
9.6
Initial Results of Integrating GPM/IMERG Precipitation Data into Operational Forecasting Environments
Matthew R. Smith, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and A. LeRoy, J. L. Case, and D. T. Bolvin
Recorded Presentation

3:00 PM-3:30 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016


Coffee Break
Location: New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center

5:00 PM-5:05 PM: Thursday, 14 January 2016


AMS 96th Annual Meeting Adjourns
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