| Session 9 | 
|  | Convective Initation | 
|  | Organizer: Roger Wakimoto, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 
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|  | 10:30 AM | 9.1 | An Overview of the International H2O Project (IHOP_2002) Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. B. Parsons
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|  | 11:00 AM | 9.2 | Multiple Doppler Radar Observations of Convective Initiation During IHOP Yvette P. Richardson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and J. Wurman and T. M. Weckwerth
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|  | 11:15 AM | 9.3 | Probabilistic Convection Initiation Forecasts in Support of IHOP During the 2002 SPC/NSSL Spring Program   Paul R. Janish, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/SPC, Norman, OK; and S. J. Weiss, R. Schneider, J. P. Cupo, E. Szoke, J. M. Brown, and C. Ziegler
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|  | 11:30 AM | 9.4 | Convective initiation ahead of the sea-breeze front   Robert G. Fovell, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and P. S. Dailey
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|  | 11:45 AM | 9.5 | Numerical simulation of the interaction between the dryline and horizontal convective rolls   Steven E. Peckham, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and R. B. Wilhelmson, L. J. Wicker, and C. L. Ziegler
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