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