Program: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference (Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference)

1

Water and Energy Budget-Monday

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: John Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Papers:

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, SAIC at EMC, NCEP/NWS, Camp Springs, 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

GAPP Data

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Papers:

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

MON 13 MAY

Papers:

1:30 PM

GCIP Water and Energy Budget Synthesis (WEBS)

John Roads, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA

1:45 PM

Implementing GEWEX Americas Prediction Project

Jin Huang, NOAA Office of Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Lawford

Plenary (TUE 14 MAY)

Poster Session 1

Water and Energy Budget-Poster

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: John Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Papers:

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

2

Water and Energy Budget-Tuesday

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: John Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Papers:

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

6

predictability and prediction system

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: Kenneth Mitchell, NOAA/NCEP/NWS

Papers:

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

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

10:30 AM

6.0

Environmental Risks Assessment Integrative Systems Approach (ERAISA) with

Paul J. Croft,, NOAA/AOML, Jackson, MS

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

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

11:10 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

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 III, 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

9

Observation and Analysis of Precipitation over the Americas

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: Phil Arkin, University of Maryland

Papers:

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

Poster Session 1

Observation and Analysis of Precipitation over the Americas-Poster Session

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: Phil Arkin, University of Maryland

Papers:

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

WED 15 MAY

Papers:

12:15 AM

Overview of the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME)

Wayne Higgins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD

12:00 AM

Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) -a step for predictability improvement of the water cycle and water resources -

Toshio Koike, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

12

Data Assimilation

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

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

7

warm season precipitation

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: Kingtse Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP

Papers:

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

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

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

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

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

12:30 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 Sr.

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

THUR 16 MAY

Papers:

12:00 AM

Contributions of the GCIP/GAPP Core Project to NCEP operational prediction models

Kenneth E. Mitchell, NCEP/EMC (NWS/NOAA), Camp Springs, MD; and J. Schaake, D. Tarpley, Y. Lin, M. Ek, D. Lohmann, E. Rogers, G. DiMego, F. Chen, M. Baldwin, G. Manikin, S. Katz, V. Koren, Q. Duan, R. Yang, C. Lu, G. Gayno, R. Lawford, and J. Leese

11

Nutrient Loading in the Mississippi Basin

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: John Day, Louisiana State University

Papers:

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

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

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

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

11:30 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 Jr., 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

2

Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: Harvey Hill, NOAA

Papers:

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

2:50 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

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

2:10 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

5

coupled land-atmosphere models

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: Yongkang Xue, UCLA

Papers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FRI 17 MAY

4

climate and water resource application

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: Rick Lawford, NOAA

Papers:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:30 AM

4.0

Incorporating ENSO signals in synthetic streamflow modeling

David W. Watkins Jr., Michigan Tech University, Houghton, MI; and S. M. O'Connell

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

1:30 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

14

Remote Sensing Science

Sponsor: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Organizer: Michael F. Jasinski, NASA

Papers:

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

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

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

2:30 PM

14.0

Snow fraction monitoring over North America

Peter Romanov, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Tarpley and T. Carroll

Session 14: Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Monday, 13 May 2002

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 13 May 2002

10:30 AM-12:10 PM: Monday, 13 May 2002

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 13 May 2002

Tuesday, 14 May 2002

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

10:30 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

10:30 AM-3:50 PM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

1:30 PM-3:10 PM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

3:30 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

Wednesday, 15 May 2002

12:00 AM-12:30 AM: Wednesday, 15 May 2002

10:30 AM-2:50 PM: Wednesday, 15 May 2002

10:30 AM-4:10 PM: Wednesday, 15 May 2002

Thursday, 16 May 2002

12:00 AM-12:15 AM: Thursday, 16 May 2002

10:30 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 16 May 2002

1:30 PM-3:10 PM: Thursday, 16 May 2002

1:30 PM-7:58 PM: Thursday, 16 May 2002

Friday, 17 May 2002

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Friday, 17 May 2002

10:30 AM-4:50 PM: Friday, 17 May 2002

1:30 PM-3:10 PM: Friday, 17 May 2002

Monday, 13 May 2002

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Monday, 13 May 2002

10:30 AM-12:10 PM: Monday, 13 May 2002

1:30 PM-2:00 PM: Monday, 13 May 2002

Tuesday, 14 May 2002

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

10:30 AM-10:30 AM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

10:30 AM-12:00 PM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

10:30 AM-3:50 PM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

1:30 PM-3:10 PM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

3:30 PM-3:30 PM: Tuesday, 14 May 2002

Wednesday, 15 May 2002

12:00 AM-12:30 AM: Wednesday, 15 May 2002

10:30 AM-2:50 PM: Wednesday, 15 May 2002

10:30 AM-4:10 PM: Wednesday, 15 May 2002

Thursday, 16 May 2002

12:00 AM-12:15 AM: Thursday, 16 May 2002

10:30 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 16 May 2002

1:30 PM-3:10 PM: Thursday, 16 May 2002

1:30 PM-7:58 PM: Thursday, 16 May 2002

Friday, 17 May 2002

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Friday, 17 May 2002

10:30 AM-4:50 PM: Friday, 17 May 2002

1:30 PM-3:10 PM: Friday, 17 May 2002