| Session 6 | 
|  | Winter Weather and Climatological Studies | 
|  | Organizer: John R. Gyakum, McGill University, Montreal, QC Canada 
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|  | 8:00 AM | 6.1 | Establishing a 10 year climatology of 101.6 mm (4 inch) rainfall days, part I Norman W. Junker, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. H. Grumm, R. Hart, and L. F. Bosart
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|  | 8:15 AM | 6.2 | Can possible heavy rainfall events be identified by comparing various parameters to the climatological norms?   Richard H. Grumm, NOAA/NWS, State College, PA; and N. W. Junker, R. Hart, and L. F. Bosart
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|  | 8:30 AM | 6.3 | A Northeast Snowstorm Impact Scale Paul J. Kocin, The Weather Channel, Atlanta, GA; and L. W. Uccellini
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|  | 8:45 AM | 6.4 | A study of heavy precipitation occurring in continental and marine environments John R. Gyakum, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada; and R. McTaggart-Cowan, P. A. Sisson, G. Toth, P. Lewis, and J. K. Parker
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|  | 9:00 AM | 6.5 | A climatological and composite study of cold season banded precipitation in the northeast United States   David Novak, SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart, D. Keyser, and J. S. Waldstreicher
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|  | 9:15 AM | 6.6 | Large-scale circulation anomaly indices in relation to cool-season precipitation events in the northeastern United States   David Groenert, SUNY, Albany, NY; and L. F. Bosart, D. Keyser, and R. H. Grumm
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|  | 9:30 AM | 6.7 | Northern Hemisphere warming: A thickness climatology   Anantha R. Aiyyer, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and E. H. Atallah and L. F. Bosart
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|  | 9:45 AM | 6.8 | The effects of diabatic redistribution of potential vorticity on cold frontal rainbands and cold front propagation   Heather Dawn Reeves, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and G. M. Lackmann
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