Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Session 4: climate and water resource application

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

  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
  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
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