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Monday, 13 May 2002
	10:30 AM-12:10 PM, Monday Session GAPP Data
10:30 AM Development of composite data sets for GCIP   Scot M. Loehrer, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. E. Cully, D. R. Gallant, J. Goldstein, D. Stott, and S. F. Williams 10:50 AM Handle data from mesoscale models   Roy L. Jenne, NCAR, Boulder, CO 11:10 AM NCEP Regional Reanalysis   Fedor Mesinger, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and UCAR, Camp Springs, MD; and G. DiMego, E. Kalnay, P. Shafran, W. Ebisuzaki, E. Berbery, Y. Fan, R. Grumbine, W. Higgins, Y. Lin, K. Mitchell, D. Parrish, E. Rogers, W. Shi, D. Stokes, and J. Woollen 11:30 AM The Oklahoma Mesonet: An Infrastructure for Quantifying Land-Atmosphere Interactions   Jeffrey B. Basara, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and R. A. McPherson, D. S. Arndt, B. G. Illston, M. J. Haugland, C. A. Fiebrich, and K. C. Crawford 11:50 AM Review of NWS-CPC's Monitoring and Prediction of US Soil Moisture and Associated Land Surface Variables   Huug M. van den Dool, Climate Prediction Center, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Fan and J. Huang
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Monday Session 1 Water and Energy Budget-Monday
Organizer: John Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
10:30 AM 1.1 Closing water budgets over continental-scale areas   Evgeney S. Yarosh, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. W. Higgins, W. Shi, and C. F. Ropelewski 10:45 AM 1.2 The mesoscale nature of the Water and Energy Budgets. Part 1: The Eta model experience   Ernesto Hugo Berbery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. Mitchell and Y. Luo 11:00 AM 1.3 The mesoscale nature of the Water and Energy Budgets. Part 2: Evaluation of the Regional Reanalysis   Yan Luo, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. H. Berbery, E. Kalnay, P. Shafran, F. Mesinger, G. DiMego, and K. Mitchell 11:15 AM 1.4 Preliminary tests with RUC Coupled Data Assimilation System (CDAS)   Tatiana G Smirnova, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and D. Kim, S. G. Benjamin, and J. M. Brown 11:30 AM 1.5 Regional Climate Model Performance Analysis and Comparison for the FIFE region   Jason Evans, Yale, New Haven, CT; and R. Oglesby and W. Lapenta 11:45 AM 1.6 Effects of Spatially-Distributed Precipitation and Soil Heterogeneity on Surface Water and Energy Budgets   Xu Liang,, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and J. Guo
Tuesday, 14 May 2002
	12:00 AM, Tuesday Plenary (TUE 14 MAY)
	10:30 AM, Tuesday Poster Session 1 Water and Energy Budget-Poster
Organizer: John Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
P1.0 Cloud variability over the US in observations and analyses   Haig Iskenderian, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, Reading, MA; and T. D. Schwebach   P1.1 Sensitivity of Soil Freeze/Thaw Cycles on Surface Energy Balance   Tingjun Zhang, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and F. Ling   P1.2 Second GEWEX/GLASS Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP2)   Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and T. Oki   P1.3 Moisture and heat fluxes over sage with patchy snow cover   Larry Mahrt, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR; and D. Vickers   P1.4 Evaporated moisture from Tropical North Atlantic Ocean: Where does it fall?   Arief Sudradjat, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and K. L. Brubaker and P. A. Dirmeyer   P1.5 Evaluating the effects of land cover change on the hydrology of the Mississippi River basin   Tracy E. Twine, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and M. T. Coe, J. D. Lenters, C. J. Kucharik, S. D. Donner, and J. A. Foley   P1.6 Determination of Roughness Lengths for Momentum and Heat Over Boreal Forests   Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. A. Friedl   P1.7 Determinants of SGP97 Surface Soil Moisture Patterns from ESTAR and NOAH   Christa D Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. E. O'Neill and A. Hsu   P1.8 Correcting Wind Induced Errors in Atmospheric Water and Energy Budgets with Application to the Mississippi River Basin   Hideki Kanamaru, Boston University, Boston, MA; and G. Salvucci   P1.9 A look at the temporal and spatial scales of the input and output from the NOAH land surface model in the North American LDAS project   Tajdarul Hassan Syed, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC; and D. Lohmann, V. Lakshmi, and E. K. Paleologos   P1.10 Effects of parameterizations of canopy processes on snow surface energy budgets   Guo-Yue Niu, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; and Z. L. Yang
	10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday Session 2 Water and Energy Budget-Tuesday
Organizer: John Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
10:30 AM 2.1 Atmospheric water and energy budget of the Mississippi River Basin and a third independent estimate of runoff constrained by top-of-atmosphere radiation   Hideki Kanamaru, Boston University, Boston, MA; and G. Salvucci and D. Entekhabi 10:45 AM 2.2 Inter-Annual Variations of the Near-Surface Soil Freeze/Thaw Cycle in the contiguous United Satates   Tingjun Zhang, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. L. Armstrong and J. Smith 11:00 AM 2.3 The surface energy balance: biological and physical controls   Tilden P. Meyers, NOAA, Oak Ridge, TN; and S. Hollinger 11:15 AM 2.4 Modulation of the Great Plains low-level jet and moisture transports by orography and large-scale circulations   Jan Paegle, Meteorology Department University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and L. A. Byerle 11:30 AM 2.5 Model-based moisture cycle and divergence quantities over the United States   David A. Salstein, AER, Lexington, MA; and R. D. Rosen and H. Kanamaru 11:45 AM 2.6 Evaluating Water and Energy budgets across the Mississippi river basin through remote sensing   John Norman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and M. Anderson, J. Mecikalski, R. Torn, and G. Diak
	10:30 AM-3:50 PM, Tuesday Session 6 predictability and prediction system
Organizer: Kenneth Mitchell, NOAA/NCEP/NWS, Camp Spring, MD
10:30 AM 6.0 Environmental Risks Assessment Integrative Systems Approach (ERAISA) with   Paul J. Croft,, NOAA/AOML, Jackson, MS 10:50 AM 6.0 Evaluation of seasonal predictive skill of a regional climate model   Francis Ochieng Otieno, Iowa State University Geology and Atmospheric Science, Ames, IA; and W. Gutowski, E. S. Takle, C. J. Anderson, Z. Pan, and R. W. Arritt 11:10 AM 6.0 Model Simulations of Sea Surface Temperatures, Salinities and River Discharge in Mississippi Sound and their Influence on Fish Populations   Paulinus Chigbu, NOAA/AOML, Jackson, MS 11:30 AM 6.0 Review of Recent NWS-CPC's Summer Predictions involving US Soil Moisture and Associated Land Surface Variables.   Huug M. van den Dool, Climate Prediction Center, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Fan and J. Huang 11:50 AM 6.0 Seasonal Predictability of Daily Precipitation: Heavy Precipitation Frequency over the Contiguous US   Alexander Gershunov, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. Cayan and T. Barnett 12:10 PM 6.0 Simulations of Southern Mississippi Flood of May 8-10, 1995 with a Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model (MM5)   Suseela Reddy Remata, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and M. V. Vatti and P. Croft 12:30 PM 6.1 Dynamical seasonal climate predictability over the GAPP domain   Paul Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and C. A. Schlosser 12:50 PM 6.2 The impact of realistic snow conditions on predictive skill in two climate models   C. Adam Schlosser, GEST/UMBC/NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Mocko 1:10 PM 6.3 Soil Moisture and Snow Cover: Active or Passive Elements of Climate?   Robert J. Oglesby, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and S. Marshall, D. J. Erickson, F. R. Robertson, and J. O. Roads 1:30 PM 6.4 Ensemble canonical correlation prediction of summer season precipitation ove the United States   Kingtse C. Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, Md 1:50 PM 6.5 Predictability of seasonal runoff in the Mississippi River basin   Edwin P. Maurer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier 2:10 PM 6.6 A Seasonal Simulation of Precipitation over North America with the Eta Regional Climate Model   Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell 2:30 PM 6.7 Spatial Patterns of Soil Moisture Connected to Monthly-Seasonal Precipitation Variability in East Asia   Yongqiang Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia; and R. Avissar 2:50 PM 6.8 Assessing seasonal soil moisture sensitivity with a regional model   Loren White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS 3:10 PM 6.9 Effects of orography on mesoscale ENSO precipitation anomalies in the western U.S.   L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and Y. Qian, X. Bian, and A. Hunt 3:30 PM 6.10 Regional Climate Model Downscaling Skill of North American Precipitation   Xin-Zhong Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL; and L. Li, M. Ting, J. X. L. Wang, and K. E. Kunkel
	1:30 PM-3:10 PM, Tuesday Session 9 Observation and Analysis of Precipitation over the Americas
Organizer: Phil Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1:30 PM 9.1 The development of continental-scale precipitation analyses based upon combinations of in-situ and remotely sensed observations   Phillip A. Arkin, ESSIC, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and P. Xie 1:50 PM 9.2 Archival precipitation data set for the GCIP domain   Witold F Krajewski, IIHR Hydrosciences and Engineering, Iowa City, IA; and J. A. Smith, B. R. Nelson, A. Kruger, and M. L. Baeck 2:10 PM 9.3 Synergistic Use of Radar, Satellite, Gauge, Lightning, and Model Output for Fine-Scale Precipitation Estimation   Jonathan (J.J.) Gourley, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. Zhang, R. Maddox, and K. Howard 2:30 PM 9.4 Towards the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission: An international partnership and precipitation satellite constellation for scientific research and applications on the global water and energy cycle   J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and E. A. Smith and A. V. Mehta 2:50 PM 9.5 Initial considerations for a unified GPM land rainfall algorithm   Jeffrey R. McCollum, CICS, College Park, MD; and R. R. Ferraro
	3:30 PM, Tuesday Poster Session 1 Observation and Analysis of Precipitation over the Americas-Poster Session
Organizer: Phil Arkin, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
P1.1 Precipitation Assimilation in NCEP Regional Reanalysis   Perry Shafran, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and SAIC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Ebisuzaki, Y. Lin, Y. Fan, W. Higgins, K. Mitchell, E. Rogers, W. Shi, G. DiMego, E. Kalnay, and F. Mesinger   P1.2 Precipitation Analyses in Support of GAPP Modeling Initiatives   Evgeney Yarosh, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Shi and W. Higgins   P1.3 Identification of precipitation microclimates and rainfall trends across the Lake Pontchartrain Basin of southeast Louisiana   Suzanne Van Cooten, NOAA/NWSFO New Orleans-Baton Rouge, Slidell, LA; and D. D. Barbe', D. J. A. McCorquodale, and D. G. Cothren   P1.4 Variability of precipitation in Brazil: data and applications   Wei Shi, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. W. Higgins, E. Yarosh, and V. E. Kousky   P1.5 Description and Validation of the ORA Suite of Satellite QPE Products   Robert J. Kuligowski, ORA, Camp Springs, MD; and S. Qiu, R. A. Scofield, and A. Gruber   P1.6 Applications of AMSU millimeter wavelength channels for global precipitation estimates   Limin Zhao, QSS Group, Inc, Comp Springs, MD; and F. Weng and R. Ferraro   P1.7 A Comparative Study of Satellite Tropical Rainfall Estimation and Mesoscale Modeling for the North American Monsoon Region   Xiaogang Gao, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and J. Li, R. A. Maddox, K. Hsu, and S. Sorooshian   P1.8 Calibration of PQPF Forecasts Based on the NCEP Global Ensemble   Yuejian Zhu, SAIC at NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs,, MD; and Z. Toth
Wednesday, 15 May 2002
	10:30 AM-4:10 PM, Wednesday Session 7 warm season precipitation
Organizer: Kingtse Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD
10:30 AM 7.0 Land surface processes, horizontal resolution and the simulation of precipitation in the NAMS region   Andrea N Hahmann, Intitute of Atmospheric Physics, Univerity of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 10:50 AM 7.0 Numerical Simulation for Extreme Southwest Alabama Sea and Bay Breeze in Weak Shear Environment   Duanjun Lu, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS; and P. J. Croft and J. M. Medlin 11:10 AM 7.0 Numerical Simulation of the Early Summer Precipitation over the LSA-East   Da-Lin Zhang, Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and W. Zheng and Y. K. Xue 11:30 AM 7.0 Numerical Simulation of the North American Monsoon Circulation: Large-scale Local and Remote Sources of Water During Onset   Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. Sud, G. K. Walker, and S. D. Schubert 11:50 AM 7.0 Orographic influences on the multi-scale statistical properties of precipitation   Deborah K. Nykanen, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI; and D. Harris 12:10 PM 7.0 Regional hydroclimate variability associated with North American Summer Monsoon: Rainfall variability and the Effects of Soil Moisture Content   Jinwon Kim, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Farrara 12:30 PM 7.0 Spatiotemporal Source/Sink Analysis of Precipitation and Evapotranspiration in the Mississippi Basin   Kaye L. Brubaker, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD; and A. Sudradjat and P. A. Dirmeyer 12:50 PM 7.1 The Impact of Tropical Cyclone Rainfall on Summer Rainfall Regimes in Mexico   Arthur V. Douglas, Creighton University, Omaha, NE; and P. J. Englehart 1:10 PM 7.2 Rainfall Modification by Urban Areas: New Perspectives from TRMM and a Cloud-Mesoscale Model   J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 1:30 PM 7.3 Globally Unified Monsoon Onset and Retreat Indexes   Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. Lu 1:50 PM 7.4 An examination of the interannual variability of the North American monsoon in the UCLA AGCM   John D. Farrara, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; and J. Kim and J. Y. Yu 2:10 PM 7.5 Modeling and monitoring of precipitation during the North American Monsoon   David J. Gochis, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and W. J. Shuttleworth, C. Watts, and J. Garatuza-Payaen 2:30 PM 7.6 Impact of soil moisture on the U. S. summer precipitation   Kingtse C. Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, Maryland; and H. M. H. Juang and M. Kanamitsu 2:50 PM 7.7 Multiscale diagnosis of the North American monsoon system using a variable resolution GCM   Ernesto Hugo Berbery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Fox-Rabinovitz 3:10 PM 7.8 Seasonal Variability of the North American Monsoon Precipitation and Its Associated Moisture Transport   Mingfang Ting, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL; and R. Joseph, X. Z. Liang, and L. Li 3:30 PM 7.9 Examinations of linkages between the Northwest Mexican Monsoon and Great Plains precipitation   Stephen M. Saleeby, Atmospheric Science Department - Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton 3:50 PM 7.10 Exploring the Interaction of the North American Monsoon and Land Surface Dynamics   Kristi R. Arsenault, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and J. K. Entin and P. Houser
	10:30 AM-2:50 PM, Wednesday Session 12 Data Assimilation
Organizer: Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
10:30 AM 12.1 Genetic Algorithm Based Image Registration Automatic Morphing: Application to Continuous Tracking of Rain Fields   Jearanai Vongssard, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; and L. Chiu, T. El-Ghazawi, J. Weinman, and R. Yang 10:50 AM 12.2 The GAPP/GCIP multi-institution North American Land Data Assimilation System (N-LDAS)   Kenneth E. Mitchell, NCEP/EMC (NOAA/NWS), Camp Springs, MD; and P. Houser, J. Schaake, E. Wood, A. Robock, D. Lettenmaier, D. Lohmann, B. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, L. Luo, W. Higgins, D. Tarpley, R. Pinker, and J. Meng 11:10 AM 12.3 Real-time and retrospective forcing in the North American Land Data Assimilation System (N-LDAS) project   Brian A. Cosgrove, SAIC and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Lohmann, K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. Schaake, D. P. Lettenmaier, A. Robock, L. Luo, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, J. Meng, W. Higgins, R. Pinker, D. Tarpley, and Y. Lin 11:30 AM 12.4 An Intercomparison of North American LDAS Soil Moisture Fields   John Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Q. Duan, K. Mitchell, P. Houser, E. Wood, D. Lettenmaier, A. Robock, B. Cosgrove, D. Lohmann, L. Luo, J. Sheffield, W. Higgins, R. Pinker, and D. Tarpley 11:50 AM 12.5 NWS-CPC's Monitoring and Prediction of US Soil Moisture and Associated Land Surface Variables: Transition to LDAS   Yun Fan, Climate Prediction Center, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Lohmann, H. M. van den Dool, K. Mitchell, and J. Huang 12:10 PM 12.6 Validation of North American-LDAS Modeled Energy Budgets   Eric F. Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and J. Meng, F. Wen, K. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, J. Schaake, A. Robock, D. P. Lettenmaier, D. Lohmann, B. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, L. Luo, W. Higgins, R. Pinker, and D. Tarpley 12:30 PM 12.7 Evaluation of North American LDAS land surface models with observed surface fluxes, soil moisture, and soil temperature   Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and L. Luo, K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. C. Schaake, D. P. Lettenmaier, B. A. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, D. Lohmann, J. Sheffield, W. Higgins, R. T. Pinker, D. Tarpley, K. C. Crawford, and J. B. Basara 12:50 PM 12.8 Validation of North American LDAS retrospective forcing with station observations and model experiments   Lifeng Luo, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock, K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. C. Schaake, D. P. Lettenmaier, D. Lohmann, B. A. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, J. Meng, W. Higgins, R. T. Pinker, D. Tarpley, K. C. Crawford, and J. B. Basara 1:10 PM 12.9 Evaluation of streamflow and snowpack simulations in the land surface models of the North American Land Data Assimilation (LDAS) Project   Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and M. Pan, K. Mitchell, E. F. Wood, P. R. Houser, J. Schaake, D. Lettenmaier, A. Robock, B. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, L. Luo, J. Meng, W. Higgins, R. Pinker, and D. Tarpley 1:30 PM 12.10 Use of MODIS-derived snow fields in the Global Land Data Assimilation System   Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Houser, U. Jambor, J. Gottschalck, J. Meng, K. Arsenault, N. DiGirolamo, and D. Hall 1:50 PM 12.11 Retrospective N-LDAS land surface hydrologic fluxes and state variables, 1950-2000   Edwin P. Maurer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. W. Wood, J. C. Adam, B. Nijssen, D. P. Lettenmaier, and E. F. Wood 2:10 PM 12.12 Cloud/Hydrometeor assimilation into the 20-km RUC using GOES cloud-top and NEXRAD reflectivity data   Dongsoo Kim, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and J. M. Brown and S. G. Benjamin 2:30 PM 12.13 An evaluation of the value of measured microwave brightness temperatures for data assimilation   Eleanor J. Burke, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and W. J. Shuttleworth and R. C. Harlow
Thursday, 16 May 2002
	10:30 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday Session 11 Nutrient Loading in the Mississippi Basin
Organizer: John Day, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
10:30 AM 11.0 Evaluating the impacts of land management and climate variability on nitrate export in the Upper Mississippi Basin   Simon D. Donner, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; and M. T. Coe and C. J. Kucharik 10:45 AM 11.0 Implications of Global Climate Change for the Northern Gulf of Mexico: An Inverse Approach to Scientific Controversy   D. Justic, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and N. N. Rabalais, R. E. Turner, B. Wissel, and Z. J. Quinones 11:00 AM 11.0 Inductive modeling of nutrient loadings in streams   Ramesh S. V. Teegavarapu, Tracey Farmer Center for the Environment, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA, Lexington, KY; and A. A. Elshorbagy and L. Ormsbee 11:15 AM 11.0 Nitrogen and phosphorus concentration and retention in water flowing over riverine wetlands   R. Eugene Turner, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 11:30 AM 11.0 Reducing nitrogen loading to the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi River basin   John W. Day, Jr, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and W. J. Mitsch 11:45 AM 11.0 Water quality in the Breton Sound estuary during the spring 2001 pulse of diverted Mississippi River water.   Robert R. Lane, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and J. W. Day, D. Justic, B. Marx, J. N. Day, and E. Hyfield 12:00 PM 11.0 Watershed Water Chemistry and Modeling under a Pulsed river Discharge   Enrique Reyes, Coastal Ecology Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA; and E. Hyfield, R. Lane, and J. W. Day
	1:30 PM-3:10 PM, Thursday Session 2 Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments
Organizer: Harvey Hill, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
1:30 PM 2.0 An Improved Force-restore Model for Land-surface Modeling   Diandong Ren, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue 1:50 PM 2.0 Hydro-climate Research in the CIRES-NOAA Western Water Assessment   Martyn P. Clark, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Blulder, CO 2:10 PM 2.0 Integrated assessment in support of water management in the Southwest   Roger Bales, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. Hartmann and S. Sorooshian 2:30 PM 2.0 Integrating physical and social science research to evaluate the resilience of Pacific Northwest water resources to climate variability and change   Amy K. Snover, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and E. L. Miles, A. F. Hamlet, and D. P. Lettenmaier 2:50 PM 2.0 Observation and simulation of the spatial spatial distribution of snow and soil frost in the upper Mississippi River basin   Keith Aric Cherkauer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier and J. M. Baker
	1:30 PM-7:58 PM, Thursday Session 5 coupled land-atmosphere models
Organizer: Yongkang Xue, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1:30 PM 5.0 A preferred dynamical scale for landscape-forced mesoscale circulations?   Somnath Baidya Roy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and C. P. Weaver, D. S. Nolan, and R. Avissar 1:50 PM 5.0 An estimate of the sensitivity of large-scale model simulations to the mosaic-of-tiles approach to land-atmosphere coupling: A case study over the GCIP region   Lifeng Luo, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and C. P. Weaver, R. Avissar, and A. Robock 2:10 PM 5.0 Atmospheric response to groundwater input: a sensitivity study in the Nebraska Sand Hills   Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson, J. W. Kaiser, D. B. Radell, Q. Hu, and X. Chen 2:30 PM 5.0 Evaluation of Carbon Flux Simulations over the Southwest U.S.   Hoshin V. Gupta, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and L. A. Bastidas, T. S. Hogue, W. Emmerich, and S. Sorooshian 2:50 PM 5.0 Investigation of Deep Soil Temperature-Atmosphere Interaction in North America   Yongkang Xue, UCLA, Los Amgeles, CA; and L. Yi, M. Ruml, and R. Vasic 3:10 PM 5.0 Land-surface parameterizations in northern regions: Results from PILPS Phase 2(e)   Laura C. Bowling, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and B. Nijssen and D. P. Lettenmaier 3:30 PM 5.0 NCEP Eta Analysis and Forecast System: Land-surface model changes and model performance assessment   Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell, E. Rogers, Y. Lin, D. Lohmann, V. Koren, J. Schaake, Q. Duan, and D. Tarpley 3:50 PM 5.0 Optimal Parameter and Uncertainty Estimation within Climate and Land Surface Models using Bayesian Stochastic Inversion   Charles S. Jackson, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX; and M. Sen and P. Stoffa 4:10 PM 5.0 Optimal parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis of a land surface model using the Cabauw dataset   Youlong Xia, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and C. Jackson, M. K. Sen, and P. L. Stoffa 4:30 PM 5.0 Scaling Carbon and Energy Exchange Processes within Land Atmosphere Models   Dev dutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. Xue and K. Alapaty 4:50 PM 5.0 Sensitivity of a simulated mesoscale convective system to horizontal resolution of soil moisture initialization   William Y. Y. Cheng, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. R. Cotton and S. M. Saleeby 5:10 PM 5.0 Simulating a snowmelt period using coupled SVAT, surface hydrology and groundwater models   WJ Capehart, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Rapid City, SD; and C. Schlosser 5:30 PM 5.0 The impact of initial soil moisture amount and spatial distribution on the simulation of precipitation during the 1995, 1996, and 1997 GCIP ESOPs   Matei Georgescu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and C. P. Weaver, R. Avissar, and R. L. Walko 5:50 PM 5.0 The impact of vegetation root distribution, fractional vegetation cover, and leaf area index on seasonal global simulations   Michael Barlage, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng 6:10 PM 5.0 Variable infiltration capacity (VIC) cold land process model updates   Keith A. Cherkauer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. C. Bowling, D. P. Lettenmaier, and E. F. Wood 6:30 PM 5.0 Warm-season precipitation in the Nebraska Sand Hills: sensitivity to moisture holding properties of the soil   Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson, J. W. Kaiser, D. B. Radell, Q. Hu, and X. Chen 6:50 PM 5.1 Preliminary Results From The 2nd Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX)   Qingyun Duan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Schaake, V. Koren, K. Mitchell, and D. Lohmann 6:51 PM 5.2 Improving the representation of snow hydrology in global and regional climate models   Susan Marshall, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Charlotte, NC; and R. J. Oglesby 6:53 PM 5.3 Providing Realistic Vegetation Phenological Description for North American Monsoon Simulation Using CENTURY Ecological Model   Lixin Lu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and J. Shuttleworth, M. Hartman, and D. Ojima 6:56 PM 5.4 Parameter Estimation for Coupled Land Surface Models   Luis A Bastidas, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. V. Gupta, Y. Liu, and S. Sorooshian 7:00 PM 5.5 The use of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) to investigate the impact of land surface processes in the GAPP/GCIP region   Roger A. Pielke Sr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and G. E. Liston, C. L. Castro, J. L. Eastman, L. Lu, C. H. Marshall, and J. E. Strack 7:05 PM 5.6 Space-time variability of rainfall and soil moisture in coupled land-atmosphere modeling: Issues of scale and effect on predicted water and energy fluxes   Deborah K. Nykanen, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI; and E. Foufoula-Georgiou 7:11 PM 5.7 Using integrated modeling techniques to investigate the hydrological cycle in the Nebraska Sand Hills   Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and Q. Hu, M. R. Anderson, and X. Chen 7:31 PM 5.8 The co-evolution of the large-scale magnitude and mesoscale spatial heterogeneity of precipitation and soil moisture over the GCIP domain on monthly/seasonal timescales   Christopher P. Weaver, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 7:39 PM 5.9 Snow-Climate Interaction in the NCAR CCM3   Zong-Liang Yang, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; and G. Y. Niu 7:48 PM 5.10 Modeling topographic influences on snow depth and cover: Applications to Western U.S. water resources   Andrea N Hahmann, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. L. Mosor
Friday, 17 May 2002
	10:30 AM-4:50 PM, Friday Session 4 climate and water resource application
Organizer: Rick Lawford, NOAA, Silver Spring, MD
10:30 AM 4.0 A blueprint for west-wide seasonal hydrologic forecasting   Andrew W. Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier, A. Kumar, and E. L. Miles 10:50 AM 4.0 An Overview of GAPP Core Project Hydrology and Water Resource Component   John Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Q. Duan, S. C. G. Cong, M. Smith, V. Koren, K. Mitchell, and D. Lohmann 11:10 AM 4.0 Demonstration of water resources management applications of GCIP research products in the Red-Arkansas River Basin   Curt Hartzell, US Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and D. Matthews, K. R. Arsenault, and P. R. Houser 11:30 AM 4.0 Incorporating ENSO signals in synthetic streamflow modeling   David W. Watkins Jr., Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI; and S. M. O'Connell 11:50 AM 4.0 Modeling of Groundwater Flow and Its Application to the Analysis of Water Cycle in the Nebraska Sand Hills   Xunhong Chen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE; and X. Chen, Q. S. Hu, C. Rowe, and M. Anderson 12:10 PM 4.0 Online interactive seasonal forecast evaluations: A tool for improving water resources management   Holly C Hartmann, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and T. C. Pagano and S. Sorooshian 12:30 PM 4.0 Seasonal moisture flux variability over North America in AMIP simulation and atmospheric reanalyses   Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Nigam 12:50 PM 4.0 Using Land Data Assimilation Systems Products to improve Streamflow Forecasts   Kristi R. Arsenault, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, C. Hartzell, and D. Matthews 1:10 PM 4.0 Verification of Ensemble Streamflow Forecast Alternatives for the Des Moines River Basin   Tempei Hashino, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and A. A. Bradley and S. S. Schwartz 1:30 PM 4.1 Hydroclimatic Ensemble Forecasting for Improved Reservoir Management   Theresa M. Carpenter, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA; and K. P. Georgakakos, N. E. Graham, H. Yao, and A. P. Georgakakos 1:50 PM 4.2 Elements of a Science Infusion Strategy to Develop Ensemble Precipitation Forecasts for NWS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Services (AHPS)   John Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD 2:10 PM 4.3 Implementing Climate Forecasts in Ensemble Prediction System Forecasts   David Reed, NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA; and E. Jones and B. Stucky 2:30 PM 4.4 Assessment of Bias-Correction Methods for Probabilistic Forecasts of Monthly Streamflow Volumes   Tempei Hashino, Iowa Institute of Hydraulic Research and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and A. A. Bradley and S. S. Schwartz 2:50 PM 4.5 Operational modeling of the Flood of 2001 using the Mississippi River Basin Modeling System   Brian M Astifan, US Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, Rock Island, IL 3:10 PM 4.6 Use of seasonal climate forecasts for water resources management in the Tennessee River   L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. Wigmosta and L. Vail 3:30 PM 4.7 Assessing the Utility of Forecasts for Water Resources Management in the Ohio River Basin   J. Rolf Olsen, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Institute for Water Resources, Alexandria, VA; and J. L. Tsang and E. Z. Stakhiv 3:50 PM 4.8 US Contributions to the Hydrology for Environment, Life and Policy (HELP) Initiative   Susanna Eden, USGCRP, Washington, DC; and R. Lawford 4:10 PM 4.9 The role of soil moisture & groundwater in modulating runoff response to climate & landuse forcing: Washita River Basin   Christopher J. Duffy, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; and K. Sedmera 4:30 PM 4.10 Changes in the lower boundary condition of water fluxes in the NOAH land surface scheme   Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and C. Peters-Lidard
	1:30 PM-3:10 PM, Friday Session 14 Remote Sensing Science
Organizer: Michael F. Jasinski, NASA, Greenbelt, MD
1:30 PM 14.0 Application of a plane stratified emission model to predict the effects of vegetation on passive microwave radiometry   Khil-ha Lee, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. J. Burke, W. J. Shuttleworth, and R. C. Harlow 1:50 PM 14.0 Cloud Detection and Snow Mapping in Reprocessing of GCIP/GAPP Radiative Fluxes   Xu Li, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. T. Pinker, K. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. Schaake, A. Robock, D. Lettenmaier, J. D. Tarpley, W. Higgins, and T. North American LDAS Team 2:10 PM 14.0 Progress to Derive Improved Surface Radiation Budgets for the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Continental-Scale International Project and the GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GCIP/GAPP)   Rachel T. Pinker, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and J. D. Tarpley, K. Mitchell, X. Li, T. Kassabova, H. Liu, I. Laszlo, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. Schaake, A. Robock, D. P. Lettenmaier, W. Higgins, B. A. Cosgrove, D. Lohmann, J. Sheffield, L. Luo, Q. Duan, and T. N. A. LDAS Team 2:30 PM 14.0 Snow fraction monitoring over North America   Peter Romanov, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Tarpley and T. Carroll 2:50 PM 14.0 Understanding microwave emission from large-scale heterogeneous land surfaces.   Eric F. Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and W. J. Shuttleworth, W. Crow, E. Burke, and M. Drusch

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