Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Session 6: predictability and prediction system

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

  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
  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
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