| Saturday, 28 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-7:31 AM, Saturday
Short Course and Student Conference Registration |
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| Sunday, 29 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday
Short Course Registration |
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| 9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday
Conference Registration |
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| Monday, 30 January 2006 |
| 7:30 AM-6:00 PM, Monday
Registration Continues through Thursday, 2 February |
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| 10:15 AM-10:45 AM, Monday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (M1) |
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| 12:00 PM-1:10 PM, Monday
Plenary Session 1 AMS Forum Kick-Off Luncheon (Cash & Carry available in the Meeting Room Foyer) |
Chairs: Sue Grimmond, King's College, London United Kingdom; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ., Boston, MA; Mark Andrews, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 12:00 PM | PL1.1 | Forum opening
Gregory S. Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and M. Andrews, C. S. B. Grimmond, and S. R. Hanna |
| 12:10 PM | PL1.2 | How should we compare and evaluate urban land surface models?
Martin Best, Met Office, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom |
| 12:40 PM | PL1.3 | THUNDERSTORM IMPACTS: A MIX OF CURSES AND BLESSINGS
Stanley Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL |
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| 1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday, A313
Joint Session 1 LAND-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS: Soil Moisture Feedback and Modeling Studies (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 20th Conference on Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 1:30 PM | J1.1 | High-Resolution Convective Modeling using WRF and GCE coupled to LIS
Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and W. -. K. Tao, S. V. Kumar, J. L. Eastman, X. Zeng, S. E. Lang, Y. Tian, and P. R. Houser |
| 1:45 PM | J1.2 | (INVITED) Research Issues raised by looking at the dependence of Tibetan climate on albedo from perspective of a Global Climate Model 
Robert Dickinson, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. Shaikh and L. Zhou |
| 2:00 PM | J1.3 | Numerical Simulation of the 2004 North American Monsoon sensitivity to surface data
Michael Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. D. Chern, K. R. Arsenault, P. R. Houser, and J. D. Radakovich |
| 2:15 PM | J1.4 | Reducing the wintertime warm bias in NCAR GCMs through the use of a new snow cover fraction scheme
Zong-Liang Yang, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and G. Y. Niu |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | J1.5 | Land-atmosphere coupling and climate variability in future-climate scenarios for the European continent
Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, Zuerich, Switzerland; and D. Luthi, P. Vidale, and C. Schar |
| 4:15 PM | J1.6 | An assessment of simulated warm-season rainfall variability over the Great Plains and associated land surface conditions
Wanru Wu, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA; and R. Dickinson |
| 4:30 PM | J1.7 | Soil moisture—atmosphere interactions during the 2003 European summer heatwave 
Erich M. Fischer, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and S. Seneviratne, D. Luethi, C. Schaer, and P. Vidale |
| 4:45 PM | J1.8 | Impact of soil moisture feedback and vegetation feedback on seasonal prediction of precipitation over North America
Yeonjooo Kim, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs Mansfield, CT; and G. Wang |
| 5:00 PM | J1.9 | Effects of solar dimming on soil moisture trends
Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and H. Li |
| 5:15 PM | J1.10 | Assessing Land Memory in the GSWP2 Simulations and Association to Global Recycling Estimates
C. Adam Schlosser, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. A. Dirmeyer and K. L. Brubaker |
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| 5:30 PM, Monday
Sessions end for the day (M) |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday
Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM, Monday
Holton Symposium Banquet |
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| Tuesday, 31 January 2006 |
| 8:30 AM-12:30 PM, Tuesday, A314
Joint Session 3 Land-Atmosphere Interactions: Land Data, Land Cover, and Land Use Studies (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 20th Conference on Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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|  | J3.1 | Observed vegetation-climate feedbacks in the United States
Michael Notaro, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and Z. Liu and J. W. Williams |
| 8:30 AM | J3.2 | (INVITED) Land-atmosphere interactions on North American basins estimated from North American Regional Reanalysis products
Ernesto Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Luo, K. E. Mitchell, and A. K. Betts |
| 8:45 AM | J3.3 | State of the ground: Climatology and changes during the past 65 years over Northern Eurasia for snow cover, dry, wet, and frozen ground conditions
Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight, V. N. Razuvaev, O. N. Bulygina, and T. R. Karl |
| 9:00 AM | J3.4 | The seasonal evolution of the diurnal variation of the low-level winds around the Gulf of California. Is there a link to vegetation green-up during the wet season?
Michael W. Douglas, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and J. F. Mejia, J. M. Galvez, R. Orozco, and J. Murillo |
| 9:15 AM | J3.5 | The climate sensitivity of land cover change and its thermodynamic characterization
Axel Kleidon, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD |
| 9:30 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 10:45 AM | J3.6 | Deforestation and dry season rainfall in northern Mesoamerica: Implications for forest sustainability
Ronald M. Welch, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. K. Ray, R. O. Lawton, and U. S. Nair |
| 11:00 AM | J3.7 | How important is land cover change for simulating future climates?
Johannes Feddema, Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; and L. O. Mearns, K. Oleson, G. Bonan, L. Buja, G. Meehl, and W. M. Washington |
| 11:15 AM | J3.8 | The influence of vegetation on the global climate: an analysis of teleconnection processes using a coupled atmosphere-biosphere model
Peter K. Snyder, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL |
| | J3.9 | Climate scenario of the 21st century with interactive coupling between a land use model and a GCM
Aurore Voldoire, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and J. F. Royer |
| 11:30 AM | J3.9A | Potential impacts of aerosol-land-atmosphere interaction on the Indian
Dev Niyogi, Purdue University and Indiana State Climate Office, West Lafayette, IN; and H. I. Chang, L. Gu, S. Menon, and R. A. Pielke |
| 11:45 AM | J3.10 | Impact of land-use and land-cover changes on mineral dust emission in Central and East Asia
Kremena Darmenova, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and I. N. Sokolik |
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| 9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday, Exhibit Hall A2
Joint Poster Session 1 Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 20th Conference on Hydrology) |
| | JP1.1 | Regional climate modelling of European summer climate variability over the period 1958–2001
Erich M. Fischer, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and S. I. Seneviratne, P. Vidale, D. Luethi, and C. Schaer |
| | JP1.2 | Soil temperature and moisture errors in Eta model analyses
Christopher M. Godfrey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and L. M. Leslie |
| | JP1.3 | Evaluation of interannual variability simulation over South America using a dynamic downscaling approach
Fernando H. De Sales, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Xue |
| | JP1.4 | Impacts of the satellite-derived leaf area index on GCM simulation of near-surface climate
Hyun-Suk Kang, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. K. Xue and G. J. Collatz |
| | JP1.5 | Effects of Soil Moisture Variations on Boundary Layer Characteristics: Numerical Simulations using WRF
Ning Zhang, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and D. Lu and H. Liu |
| | JP1.6 | The Role of the CLM2 in Seasonal Dynamical Downscaling for Crop Model Application
Dong-Wook Shin, COAPS, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and J. G. Bellow, S. Cocke, T. LaRow, and J. J. O'Brien |
| | JP1.7 | The impact of soil moisture initialization on seasonal precipitation in West Africa
Andrea M. Sealy, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and E. Joseph and C. H. Lu |
| | JP1.8 | Hydroclimatological Predictions Based on Basin's Humidity Index
Hatim Sharif, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio, TX; and N. L. Miller |
| | JP1.9 | High-resolution CRM simulations from IHOP: Land-atmosphere interactions
Stephen E. Lang, SSAI and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and X. Zeng, W. -. K. Tao, C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. L. Eastman, S. V. Kumar, and Y. Tian |
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| | JP1.11 | Impact of cross effects between soil temperature and moisture states and soil water vapor fluxes on global climate
Nicole Mölders, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and G. Kramm |
| | JP1.12 | A diagnostic study on atmospheric moisture budget over the continental United States for wet and dry years
Xinmin Zeng, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and H. Liu |
| | JP1.13 | A Soil Moisture Monitoring Network: The Oklahoma Mesonet Perspective
Bradley G. Illston, Oklahoma Climatological Survey/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, C. A. Fiebrich, R. L. Elliott, D. K. Fisher, E. D. Hunt, and J. R. Kilby |
| | JP1.14 | Advanced computing, data access and distribution technologies, and interoperable tools enable high resolution coupled land-atmosphere prediction
Sujay V. Kumar, UMBC/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard, W. K. Tao, Y. Tian, J. Eastman, X. Zeng, S. E. Lang, and P. R. Houser |
| | JP1.15 | Biogeography of cloud forests: Use of satellite remote sensing and numerical modeling
U. S. Nair, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. K. Ray, S. Asefi, R. M. Welch, and R. O. Lawton |
| | JP1.16 | Verification case studies within the 12km North American land data assimilation system (NLDASE) project
Charles J. Alonge, NASA/GSFC and SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. A. Cosgrove |
| | JP1.17 | Impact of green vegetation fraction on atmosphere/land-surface models
Vince C. K. Wong, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell and G. Gayno |
| | JP1.18 | The impact of wind speed on nighttime microscale temperature gradients
Matthew J. Haugland, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| | JP1.19 | Reduced atmospheric CH4 consumption by temperate forest soils under elevated CO2
Lindsay Dubbs, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; and S. C. Whalen and E. N. Fischer |
| | JP1.20 | Lower Tropospheric Analysis of the Daily Cycle of the Wind for the East Coast of the Gulf of California during NAME 2004
Luna M. Rodriguez, Senior, Universidad de Puerto Rico- Recinto de Rio Piedras, Physics, San Juan, Puerti Rico; and L. M. Hartten |
| | JP1.21 | How the congo basin deforestation and the equatorial monsoonal circulation influences the regional hydroloical cycle
Willis O. Shem, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. E. Dickinson |
| | JP1.22 | Impact of lowland deforestation on South West Indian tropical wet forests: cloud cover and rainfall
Deepak K. Ray, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. M. Welch, U. S. Nair, R. O. Lawton, and R. A. Pielke |
| | JP1.23 | The impact of a controlled burn on surface and atmospheric conditions on a tallgrass prairie
Amanda J. Schroeder, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara |
| | JP1.24 | Radiative scaling of the nocturnal boundary layer
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT |
| | JP1.25 | The effect of vegetation type on the seasonal and diurnal cycles of soil temperature
Thomas Atkins, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock |
| | JP1.26 | Climate variability in a simple model of land-atmosphere interaction
Jiangfeng Wei, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. E. Dickinson and N. Zeng |
| | JP1.27 | The Effects of Frozen Soil on Snowmelt Runoff and Soil Water Storage
Guo-Yue Niu, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang |
| | JP1.28 | The influence of soil transport processes upon temperature and moisture profiles in a snowpack
Yi-Ching Chung, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. W. England |
| | JP1.29 | Modelling dust transport over Central Eastern Australia
Lance M. Leslie, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK |
| | JP1.30 | A Physical Based Forest Fuel Moisture Scheme for High-Resolution Fire Modeling
Yongqiang Liu, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA |
| | JP1.31 | Attribution of seasonal soil moisture prediction uncertainties
Zaitao Pan, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO; and R. Horton, B. Tentinger, and M. Segal |
| | JP1.32 | Simulating water and energy fluxes using a coupled groundwater, surface water, land surface and regional climate model.
Reed M. Maxwell, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and S. J. Kollet, Q. Duan, and F. K. Chow |
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| | JP1.34 | The role of land surface schemes on land-atmosphere coupling strength in weather and climate models
Zhichang Guo, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer and R. D. Koster |
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| 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, Tuesday
Exhbits Open (T) |
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| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday, A403
Joint Session 2 Water Conservation in Deserts (Joint with 20th Conference on Hydrology and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources) |
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, King’s College, London United Kingdom; Bart Nijssen, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
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| 11:00 AM | J2.1 | The Interplay Between Water Resources Management and Hydroclimate Variability in the Semi-Arid Southwest U.S.
Soroosh Sorooshian, Univ. of California, Irvine, CA; and G. Woodard |
| 11:15 AM | J2.2 | Utility of Satellite Thermal Remote Sensing for Mapping Riparian and Upland Desert Water Use
Fuqin Li, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and M. C. Anderson, W. P. Kustas, R. L. Scott, and J. H. Prueger |
| 11:30 AM | J2.3 | Improving US Bureau of Reclamation Water Supply, Demand Monitoring and Forecasting Using NASA Earth Data Products for the Carson and Truckee River Basins
Douglas P. Boyle, DRI, Reno, NV; and J. Huntingiton, D. Toll, S. Bowser, D. Frevert, R. Stodt, D. Clark, K. R. Arsenault, and A. Pinhero |
| 11:45 AM | J2.4 | Improving Drought Monitoring and Prediction Using LIS and Satellite Products
Kristi R. Arsenault, Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and A. Pinheiro, R. Stodt, D. Toll, and P. R. Houser |
| | J2.5 | Application of Geospatial Modeling and Remotely Sensed Data for Rangeland Studies
Susan Skirvin, USDA-ARS SWRC, Tucson, AZ; and M. S. Moran |
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| 12:15 PM, Tuesday
Plenary Session Presidential Forum with Boxed Lunch (Lunch will be available for purchase outside the meeting room.) |
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| 1:45 PM-5:45 PM, Tuesday, A313
Joint Session 5 Land-Atmosphere Interactions: Coupled Model Development, Data Assimilation, Predictability, and Process Studies (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 20th Conference on Hydrology) |
Cochairs: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
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| | J5.1 | Noah LSM surface layer formulations used in the operational mesoscale NAM (WRF-NMM) model
M. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell and G. Gayno |
| 1:45 PM | J5.2 | Influence of land surface parametrizations on climate simulations at high latitudes
Diana L. Verseghy, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. A. Bartlett |
| 2:00 PM | J5.3 | Testing a coupled biophysical/dynamic vegetation model (SSiB-4/TRIFFID) in different climate zones using satellite-derived and ground-measured data
Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and H. Deng and P. M. Cox |
| 2:15 PM | J5.4 | Recent results from the 12km North American land data assimilation system (NLDASE) project
Brian A. Cosgrove, NASA/GSFC and SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. J. Alonge |
| | J5.5 | Impact of the new Noah Land Surface Model on the NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS)
Helin Wei, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and C. Lu, K. E. Mitchell, and C. -. J. Meng |
| 2:30 PM | J5.5A | Using GLDAS/LIS to derive global land climatology for the NOAA Climate Test Bed
Jesse Meng, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell and H. Wei |
| 2:45 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:15 PM | J5.6 | PILPS semi-arid experiment: preliminary results
Luis A. Bastidas, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and E. Rosero and B. Nijssen |
| 3:30 PM | J5.7 | (INVITED) Examination of the Bouchet-Morton complementarity relationship throughout a period of increasing irrigation
Guido Salvucci, Boston University, Boston, MA; and M. Ozdogan |
| 3:45 PM | J5.8 | Using observed spatial correlation structures of rainfall and temperature to improve the skill of subseasonal forecasts relying on land surface moisture initialization
Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Suarez |
| 4:00 PM | J5.9 | (INVITED) Do Global Models Properly Represent the Feedback Between Land and Atmosphere?
P. A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and Z. Guo and R. D. Koster |
| 4:15 PM | J5.10 | Assessing the land-surface, boundary layer and cloud-field coupling in ERA-40
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and P. Viterbo |
| 4:30 PM | J5.11 | Impact of fine-scale landscape and soil-moisture variability in the initiation of deep convection
Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 4:45 PM | J5.12 | Influence of variations in low-level moisture and soil moisture on the organization of summer convective systems in the US Midwest
Jimmy O. Adegoke, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO; and S. Vezhapparambu, C. L. Castro, R. Pielke, and A. M. Carleton |
| 5:00 PM | J5.13 | Evaluation of the impact of land surface heterogeneity representations on mesoscale fluxes
Sujay V. Kumar, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. Eastman, Y. Tian, and P. R. Houser |
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| 1:45 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday, A403
Session 1 Global water and energy cycle observations, models, and analyses |
Cochairs: Bart Nijssen, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN
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| 1:45 PM | 1.1 | Evaluation and applications of NCEP Stage II and Stage IV gage-corrected radar precipitation estimates over the Carolinas
Ryan Boyles, North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman, A. Sims, S. Schwab, K. Horgan, M. Brooks, and A. Frazier |
| 2:00 PM | 1.2 | Corrections to radar-estimated precipitation using observed rain
Eric C. Ware, Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY; and D. S. Wilks and A. T. DeGaetano |
| 2:15 PM | 1.3 | Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of Extreme Rainstorms over the Central United States
Li-Chuan Chen, The Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and A. Bradley |
| 2:30 PM | 1.4 | Evaluation of Real-Time Forecasts During the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis 2005 DRY Runs
Gregory S. Jenkins, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and S. Chiao and A. S. Pratt |
| 2:45 PM | 1.5 | Global Water and Energy Cycles in MSC's New High-Resolution Medium-Range Weather Forecast Model
Stephane Belair, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and A. M. Leduc and F. Lemay |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
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| 3:30 PM | 1.6 | Evaluation and Climate Change Projections of the Global Hydrological Cycle in IPCC AR4 Model Simulations
Duane Edward Waliser, JPL, Pasadena,, CA; and S. Schubert, K. W. Seo, J. Bergengren, and E. G. Njoku |
| 3:45 PM | 1.7 | Evaluation of terrestrial water storage variations in regional climate simulations over Europe using basin-scale combined water-balance data
Martin Hirschi, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and S. I. Seneviratne and C. Schär |
| 4:00 PM | 1.8 | Hydroclimatic Analysis of 25 Years of Output from the Global Land Data Assimilation System
Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. Stepp and H. Kato |
| 4:15 PM | 1.9 | Sensitivity of Land Surface Simulations to the Distribution and Treatment of Vegetation Properties in GSWP-2
Xiang Gao, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, and M. Zhao |
| 4:30 PM | 1.10 | Global GSWP2 Land Evaporation Estimates and their Contribution to a Global Water Cycle Assessment
C. Adam Schlosser, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. R. Houser |
| 4:45 PM | 1.11 | Cross-validation of soil moisture data from AMSR-E using field observations and NASA's Land Data Assimilation System simulations
Alok K. Sahoo, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and X. Zhan, K. R. Arsenault, and M. Kafatos |
| 5:00 PM | 1.12 | Analysis of diurnal Evaporative Fraction behavior
Pierre Gentine, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Entekhabi, A. Chehbouni, B. Gilles, and D. Benoit |
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| 5:30 PM, Tuesday
Sessions end for the day (T) |
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| Wednesday, 1 February 2006 |
| 10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday
Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (W1) |
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| 10:30 AM-11:30 AM, Wednesday, A403
Session 2 Horton Lecture |
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| 11:00 AM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Exhibits Open (W) |
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| 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (W) |
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| 1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Wednesday, A403
Session 3 Hydrologic applications of satellite data, including GRACE, AMSR-E, TRMM and MODIS |
Cochairs: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | Improvements to the CMORPH High Resolution Global Precipitation Analyses
John Janowiak, NOAA/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Joyce |
| 1:45 PM | 3.2 | Global application of the Self-Calibrating Multivariate Precipitation Retrieval (SCaMPR)
Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Qiu and J. S. Im |
| 2:00 PM | 3.3 | Estimation of evaporative fraction and evapotranspiration from remotely sensed data using complementary relationship
Virginia Venturini, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and S. Islam, G. Bisht, and L. Rodriguez |
| 2:15 PM | 3.4 | Improving hydrologic forecasting using spaceborne soil moisture retrievals
Wade T. Crow, USDA ARS, Beltsville, MD; and R. Bindlish and T. Jackson |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee break
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| 4:00 PM | 3.5 | Assimilation of global AMSR-E surface soil moisture into the NASA Catchment land surface model
Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Koster and P. Liu |
| 4:15 PM | 3.6 | Integrating Remote Sensing and other Products into the Decision Support Systems of the United Nations World Food Programme
Zhong Liu, NASA/GSFC Distributed Active Archive Center, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Milich, B. Teng, H. Rui, and S. Kempler |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall A2
Poster Session 1 Hydrologic applications of satellite data, including GRACE, AMSR-E, TRMM and MODIS |
Cochairs: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| | P1.1 | Validation of ALEXI-derived volumetric soil moisture over the Continental United States.
Christopher R. Hain, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. R. Mecikalski and M. C. Anderson |
| | P1.2 | TRMM and Thailand Daily Gauge Rainfall Comparison
Roongroj Chokngamwong, George Mason Univ., Fairfax, VA; and L. S. Chiu |
| | P1.3 | Statewide estimation of potential and reference evapotranspiration in Florida
John R. Mecikalski, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and J. Jacobs, D. Sumner, and S. J. Paech |
| | P1.4 | Impact of new land boundary conditions from MODIS data on the climatology of land surface variables
Yuhong Tian, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and R. Dickinson, L. Zhou, and M. Shaikh |
| | P1.5 | An Evaluation of Daily Disaggregated Precipitation from Monthly Gauge Analyses
Yelena S. Yarosh, RS Information Systems, Inc., and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Janowiak |
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| 2:30 PM-4:00 PM, Wednesday, Exhibit Hall A2
Poster Session 2 Hydrology Posters |
| | P2.1 | Validation of Operational NESDIS Algorithms against NexRAD Stage IV and Hourly Rain Gauges
Kallol Ganguli, Co Operative Remote Sensing Science and Technology Centre (CREST), New York, NY; and D. S. Mahani and D. R. Khanbilvardi |
| | P2.2 | Flash Flood Guidance enhancement at the Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center
Kevin P. Hlywiak, NOAA/NWS, State College, PA; and D. H. Zanzalari, J. T. Ostrowski, D. A. Solano, P. R. Ahnert, and P. A. Jung |
| | P2.3 | Experiments and Documentation Performed to Predict the Depths of Rivers: Determining the Amount of Time Elapsed for Water to Flow Through the Watershed
Jonathan Paul Karman Maciel, Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT |
| | P2.4 | Automated real-time operational rain gauge quality control tools in NWS hydrologic operations
Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Shrestha |
| | P2.5 | Study on Key Technologies of Flood Forecasting System in China
Lingli Wang, George Mason Univ., fairfax, va; and S. Zhang and J. Qu |
| | P2.6 | An evaluation of the spatial and temporal climatological properties of operational multi-sensor precipitation grids from several River Forecast Centers
Seann Reed, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD; and F. Moreda, D. H. Kitzmiller, and M. B. Smith |
| | P2.7 | Streamflow characteristics and changes in Kolyma basin in Siberia
Ipshita Majhi, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and D. Yang |
| | P2.8 | The HydroMet Decision Support System: New applications in operational hydrology
J. William Conway, Weather Decision Technologies, Inc., Norman, OK; and C. Barrere and M. D. Eilts |
| | P2.9 | The hydrological cycle over the Amazon: how well is it assimilated in ERA-40?
Katia D. Fernandes, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; and R. Fu |
| | P2.10 | Incorporating GIS data into a LIS environment for use with a predictive distributed runoff model for the country of Romania
Tom K. Burnet, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, Candler, NC; and J. McHenry |
| | P2.11 | Land surface data assimilation into an atmospheric forecast model using an ensemble Kalman filter approach
Andrew A. Taylor, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie and D. J. Stensrud |
| | P2.12 | Applying WSR-88 Radar Rainfall on Short Time Scales to Hydrological Modeling of a Small Basin in Florida
Harry J. Cooper, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg, T. S. Wu, D. Gilbert, J. Mandrup-Poulsen, R. J. Lanier, A. I. Watson, and J. Sullivan |
| | P2.13 | Evaluating winter season precipitation type in the Baltimore/Washington NWSFO region
Michelle Farver, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and G. S. Jenkins |
| | P2.14 | Soil Water Content Simulations Using a Simple Balance Model in the Wet Pampas
María I. Gassmann Sr., Dpto. de Cs. de la Atmósfera y los Océanos - Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; and J. M. Gardiol and L. Serio |
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| 3:45 PM, Wednesday
Sessions end for the day (W) |
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| 5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday
Reception in the Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar) |
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| 7:30 PM, Wednesday
AMS Annual Awards Banquet |
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| Thursday, 2 February 2006 |
| 8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday, A403
Joint Session 8 Flood Warning Systems (Joint with 20th Conference on Hydrology and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources and Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges) |
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, Kings College, London United Kingdom; Greg Forbes, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
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| 8:30 AM | J8.1 | Flash Flood Forecasting in Urban Drainage Basins
James A. Smith, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ |
| 9:00 AM | J8.2 | Flash flood warning operations during tropical rainfall in low relief terrain
Richard J. Lanier, NOAA/NWS, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Suk and D. S. Berkowitz |
| 9:15 AM | J8.3 | Flash Flood Forecasting: The Probabilistic Prediction of Excessive Precipitation by the Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
James E. Hoke, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Eckert |
| 9:30 AM | J8.4 | Use of 4 km, 1 hr, precipitation forecasts to drive a distributed hydrologic model for flash flood prediction
Seann Reed, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Fulton, Z. Zhang, and S. Guan |
| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | J8.5 | Comparing the operational capabilities of the site specific hydrologic predictor (SSHP) and a fully distributed hydrological model (Mike SHE) using WSR-88 radar rainfall inputs over a small basin in Florida
Harry J. Cooper, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and R. J. Lanier, H. E. Fuelberg, and A. I. Watson |
| 11:15 AM | J8.6 | Satellite, lightning, sounding, and model data for nowcasting heavy rainfall from Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCS's)
Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS/ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Kuligowski and S. Qiu |
| 11:30 AM | J8.7 | Results of short fuse weather warning surveys in Austin, TX and Denver, CO
Lindsey R. Barnes, Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO; and E. Gruntfest, C. Benight, M. H. Hayden, C. C. Jenkins, M. Q. Thurman, and E. Williams |
| | J8.8 | The Implementation of a River Forecasting System in Romania
Jeff Vukovich, Baron Advanced Meteorological Systems, LLC., Raleigh, NC; and J. McHenry, D. Widener, J. Condrey, and T. Burnet |
| 11:45 AM | J8.9 | Flash Flood Disaster and Flash Flood Warning in China
Lingli Wang, George Mason Univ., fairfax, VA; and J. Qu |
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| 11:00 AM-4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibits Open (Th) |
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| 12:15 PM-1:30 PM, Thursday
Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (Th) |
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| 1:30 PM-5:15 PM, Thursday, A403
Session 4 Hydrologic Data Assimilation, Parameter Estimation, And Uncertainty |
Cochairs: Michael Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Hamid Moradkhani, University of California at Irvine (UCI), Irvine, CA
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| 1:30 PM | 4.1 | Use of HPC QPF confidence interval forecasts to produce an ensemble of river forecasts
John B. Halquist, NOAA/NWS, Chanhassen, MN |
| 1:45 PM | 4.2 | Towards Improved Ensemble Hydrologic Predictions: A Multi-Model Multi-Objective Bayesian Approach
Qingyun Duan, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and J. A. Vrugt |
| 2:00 PM | 4.3 | Strategic plan for HEPEX
John. C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. F. Wood and R. Buizza |
| 2:15 PM | 4.4 | Spring warmups and snowmelt in the western United States: Predictability on medium-range timescales with CDC reforecast ensembles
Gary Bates, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and S. Jain |
| 2:30 PM | 4.5 | Non-Parametric Tools for Soil Moisture Mapping Using Active Microwave Data
Tarendra Lakhankar, NOAA-CREST, The City Univ. of New York, New York, NY; and H. Ghedira and R. Khanbilvardi |
| 2:45 PM | 4.6 | Multi-sensor precipitation reanalysis
Brian R. Nelson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and D. Kim, D. J. Seo, and J. Bates |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and AMS IPOD Raffle
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| 3:30 PM | 4.7 | A time series analysis to assess the effect of snowpack dynamics on SSM/I brightness temperatures for various land covers in Great Lakes area
Amir E Azar, NOAA-CREST, New York, NY; and R. Khanbilvardi, P. Romanov, H. Ghedira, D. Astanehasl, and P. G. Zikalala |
| 3:45 PM | 4.8 | Description and use of Florida State University's high resolution historical precipitation database
Dennis D. VanCleve Jr., Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL; and H. E. Fuelberg and J. L. Sullivan, Jr. |
| 4:00 PM | 4.9 | Comparison of Rain Gauge Measurements in Mid-Atlantic Region
Ali Tokay, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. G. Bashor |
| 4:15 PM | 4.10 | Hydros Soil Moisture Measurements in the Forecasting Systems of the Meteorological Service of Canada
Stephane Bélair, MSC, Dorval, Quebec, Canada; and G. Balsamo, J. F. Mahfouf, and G. Deblonde |
| 4:30 PM | 4.11 | Soil moisture and surface flux estimation over the Hydros OSSE site: Assimilation of multi-scale active and passive L-band microwave observations using the ensemble Kalman smoother.
Susan C. Dunne, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Entekhabi |
| 4:45 PM | 4.12 | A new look at the assimilation of satellite retrievals of land surface temperature into a land surface model
Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC and Univ. of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Mahanama, R. D. Koster, J. D. Radakovich, and M. G. Bosilovich |
| 5:00 PM | 4.13 | Multi-Objective calibration of the SVAT scheme TERRA/LM
Klaus-Peter Johnsen, GKSS Research Centre, Geesthacht, Germany; and S. Huneke and H. T. Mengelkamp |
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| 3:00 PM, Thursday
Registration Desk Closes |
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| 4:00 PM, Thursday
Exhibit Close |
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| 5:30 PM, Thursday
Conference Ends |
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| 6:00 PM, Thursday
Lilly Symposium Banquet |
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