20th Conference on Hydrology

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Saturday, 28 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Sat 28 Jan

7:30 AM-7:31 AM: Saturday, 28 January 2006


Short Course and Student Conference Registration

Sunday, 29 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Sun 29 Jan

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 29 January 2006


Conference Registration

Monday, 30 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Mon 30 Jan

7:30 AM-6:00 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Registration Continues through Thursday, 2 February

10:15 AM-10:45 AM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (M1)

12:00 PM-1:10 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Plenary Session 1
AMS Forum Kick-Off Luncheon (Cash & Carry available in the Meeting Room Foyer)
Hosts: (Joint between the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; the The James Holton Symposium; the Third Symposium on Space Weather; the Event Program; the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; the 15th Symposium on Education; the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the Fourth Presidental History Symposium; the First Symposium on Policy Research; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; the The Doug Lilly Symposium; the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; the Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership; the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year; and the Second Special Session on Heat Health )
Chairs: Sue Grimmond, King's College; Steven Hanna, Harvard Univ.; Mark Andrews, NOAA/NWS
  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, Exeter, United Kingdom

  12:40 PM
PL1.3
THUNDERSTORM IMPACTS: A MIX OF CURSES AND BLESSINGS
Stanley Changnon, Changnon Climatologist, Mahomet, IL

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


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)
Location: A313 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 20th Conference on Hydrology )
Cochairs: Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC
  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
  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

  2:30 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
  3:00 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
  3:30 PM
J1.9
Effects of solar dimming on soil moisture trends
Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and H. Li
  3:45 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
  4:00 PM
J1.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Sessions end for the day (M)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 30 January 2006


Holton Symposium Banquet

Tuesday, 31 January 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Tue 31 Jan

8:30 AM-12:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


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)
Location: A314 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 20th Conference on Hydrology )
Cochairs: Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC
  8:45 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
  9:00 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
  9:45 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
  10:00 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
  10:45 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
  11:00 AM
J3.5A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

  12:15 PM
J3.9A
Potential impacts of aerosol-land-atmosphere interaction on the Indian
Dev Niyogi, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and H. I. Chang, L. Gu, S. Menon, and R. A. Pielke Sr.

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Poster Session 1
Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 20th Conference on Hydrology)
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 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

Poster PDF (780.4 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (207.9 kB)

 
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

 
JP1.10
Poster JP1.10 Moved. New Paper number J3.9A

 
JP1.11
 
JP1.12
 
JP1.13
A Soil Moisture Monitoring Network: The Oklahoma Mesonet Perspective
Bradley G. Illston, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 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

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

 
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

Poster PDF (315.2 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (1013.2 kB)

 
JP1.22
Impact of lowland deforestation on South West Indian tropical wet forests: cloud cover and rainfall
Deepak K. Ray, Foretsry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; and R. M. Welch, U. S. Nair, R. O. Lawton, and R. A. Pielke Sr.

 
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

Poster PDF (607.6 kB)

 
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, COLA, Calverton, MD; and R. E. Dickinson and N. Zeng

Poster PDF (204.6 kB)

 
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

 
JP1.33
Poster JP1.33 Moved. New number J5.5A

 
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

11:00 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Joint Session 2
Water Conservation in Deserts (Joint with 20th Conference on Hydrology and Forum on Managing our Physical and Natural Resources)
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Hydrology; and the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, King’s College; Bart Nijssen, University of Washington
  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, George Mason University, Calverton, MD; and A. Pinheiro, R. Stodt, D. Toll, and P. R. Houser

11:00 AM-6:00 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Exhbits Open (T)

12:15 PM-12:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Plenary Session
Presidential Forum with Boxed Lunch (Lunch will be available for purchase outside the meeting room.)
Hosts: (Joint between the Event Program; the 18th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences; the 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; the 15th Symposium on Education; the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; the Eighth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; the Symposium on the Challenges of Severe Convective Storms; the The Doug Lilly Symposium; the First Symposium on Policy Research; the 14th Joint Conference on the Applications of Air Pollution Meteorology with the Air and Waste Management Assoc; the Second Conference on Meteorological Applications of Lightning Data; the Sixth Symposium on the Urban Environment; the 14th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere; the 10th Symposium on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS); the Second Symposium: Toward a Global Earth Observation System of Systems—Future National Operational Environmental Satellite Systems; the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the 12th Conference on Aviation Range and Aerospace Meteorology; the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; the 22nd International Conference on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology; the Fourth Presidental History Symposium; the Symposium on the Public/Private Sector Partnership; the The James Holton Symposium; the Third Symposium on Space Weather; and the Impacts of 2005's Weather: Major Stories of the Year )

1:45 PM-5:15 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Session 1
Global water and energy cycle observations, models, and analyses
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Bart Nijssen, University of Washington; Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University
  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 University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman, A. Sims, S. Schwab, K. Horgan, M. S. 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, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites/Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD; and A. Bradley
  2:30 PM
1.4
  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
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
  3:30 PM
1.8
  3:45 PM
1.9
  4:15 PM
1.11
  4:30 PM
1.12
Analysis of diurnal Evaporative Fraction behavior
Pierre Gentine, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Entekhabi, A. Chehbouni, B. Gilles, and D. Benoit
  4:45 PM
1.5A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

1:45 PM-5:45 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


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)
Location: A313 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change; and the 20th Conference on Hydrology )
Cochairs: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC; Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California
  2:00 PM
J5.2
  2:30 PM
J5.4
  3:00 PM
J5.6
PILPS semi-arid experiment: preliminary results
Luis A. Bastidas, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and E. Rosero and B. Nijssen
  3:45 PM
J5.9
  4:00 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
J5.12
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 Sr., and A. M. Carleton
  4:45 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
  5:00 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
  5:15 PM
J5.5B
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 31 January 2006


Sessions end for the day (T)

Wednesday, 1 February 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Wed 1 Feb

10:00 AM-10:30 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Coffee Break in Meeting Room Foyer (W1)

10:30 AM-11:30 AM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 2
Horton Lecture
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
  10:30 AM
2.1
Our Journey Towards Improved River Flow & Flood Forecasting
Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California, Irvine, CA

11:00 AM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Exhibits Open (W)

12:00 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (W)

1:30 PM-4:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Session 3
Hydrologic applications of satellite data, including GRACE, AMSR-E, TRMM and MODIS
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS; Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC
  1:30 PM
3.1
  1:45 PM
3.2
Global application of the Self-Calibrating Multivariate Precipitation Retrieval (SCaMPR)
Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, 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. J. Jackson
  2:30 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
  2:45 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
  3:00 PM
3.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee break

2:30 PM-4:00 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Poster Session 1
Hydrologic applications of satellite data, including GRACE, AMSR-E, TRMM and MODIS
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS; Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC
 
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

Poster PDF (356.2 kB)

 
P1.3
Statewide estimation of potential and reference evapotranspiration in Florida
John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 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, IMSG at NOAA/NESDIS; and R. Dickinson, L. Zhou, and M. Shaikh

 
P1.5
An Evaluation of Daily Disaggregated Precipitation from Monthly Gauge Analyses
Yelena S. Yarosh, Wyle Information Systems and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Janowiak


Poster Session 2
Hydrology Posters
Location: Exhibit Hall A2 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
 
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

 
P2.4
Automated real-time operational rain gauge quality control tools in NWS hydrologic operations
Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Shrestha

Poster PDF (438.8 kB)

 
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

 
P2.7
Streamflow characteristics and changes in Kolyma basin in Siberia
Ipshita Majhi, Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and D. Yang

Poster PDF (68.4 kB)

 
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

Poster PDF (2.2 MB)

 
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

Poster PDF (83.1 kB)

 
P2.13
Evaluating winter season precipitation type in the Baltimore/Washington NWSFO region
Michelle Farver, Howard Univ., Washington, DC; and G. S. Jenkins

Poster PDF (102.3 kB)

 
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 Jr.

Poster PDF (185.3 kB)

3:45 PM-3:45 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Sessions end for the day (W)

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


Reception in the Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 1 February 2006


AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Thursday, 2 February 2006

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


THUR 2 FEB

8:30 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


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)
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Hosts: (Joint between the 20th Conference on Hydrology; the AMS Forum: Managing our Physical and Natural Resources: Successes and Challenges; and the AMS Forum: Environmental Risk and Impacts on Society: Successes and Challenges )
Cochairs: Sue Grimmond, Kings College; Greg Forbes, The Weather Channel; Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS
  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
  9:30 AM
J8.4
  10:00 AM
J8.6
  10:15 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
  10:45 AM
J8.9
Flash Flood Disaster and Flash Flood Warning in China
Lingli Wang, George Mason Univ., fairfax, VA; and J. Qu
  11:00 AM
J8.4A
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

11:00 AM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Exhibits Open (Th)

12:15 PM-1:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Lunch Break (Cash & Carry available in the Exhibit Hall) (Th)

1:30 PM-5:15 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Session 4
Hydrologic Data Assimilation, Parameter Estimation, And Uncertainty
Location: A403 (Georgia World Congress Center)
Host: 20th Conference on Hydrology
Cochairs: Michael Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC; Hamid Moradkhani, Portland State University
  2:00 PM
4.3
Strategic plan for HEPEX
John. C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and E. F. Wood and R. Buizza
  2:30 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
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
  3:15 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.
  3:30 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
  3:45 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

  4:15 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
  4:30 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
  4:45 PM
4.6A
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall and AMS IPOD Raffle

3:00 PM-3:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Registration Desk Closes

4:00 PM-4:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Exhibit Close

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Conference Ends

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 2 February 2006


Lilly Symposium Banquet