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Sunday, 9 January 2000
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Conference Registration
Monday, 10 January 2000
	7:30 AM, Monday Conference Registration Continues through Friday, 14 January
	9:00 AM-5:15 PM, Monday Session 1 Data, Modeling and Analysis in Hydrometeorology
Organizers: Kenneth E. Mitchell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ
9:00 AM 1.2 Problems with land surface parameterization schemes in their representation of the lower boundary condition of water fluxes   Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD 9:15 AM 1.3 Short-Term Retrospective Land Data Assimilation Schemes   Paul. R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. A. Cosgrove, J. K. Entin, D. P. Lettenmaier, G. M. O'Donnell, K. E. Mitchell, C. Marshall, D. Lohmann, J. C. Schaake, Q. Duan, E. F. Wood, and F. Habets 9:30 AM 1.4 LDAS Retrospective Analyses: A hydrological perspective   G. M. O'Donnell, Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier and E. F. Wood 9:45 AM Coffee Break   10:15 AM 1.5 Using the Soil Hydrology Model to initialize soil moisture profiles for numerical prediction models   Todd M. Crawford, NOAA/ERL/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and T. N. Carlson 10:30 AM 1.6 Soil Moisture Observations for LDAS Evaluation   Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and L. Luo and K. Vinnikov 10:45 AM 1.7 Precipitation recycling in the NASA GEOS Data Assimilation System   Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Schubert, A. Molod, and L. L. Takacs 1.8 Regional Climate Model simulations over the Central United States   Gregory S. Jenkins, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and S. Zelinka 11:00 AM 1.9 Satellite Retrieval Algorithm for Atmospheric Water Budget Over Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Sea Basin   Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Jacksonville, FL; and E. A. Smith 11:15 AM 1.10 Snow-climate interaction in NCAR CCM3   Zong-Liang Yang, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. Y. Niu 11:30 AM Lunch Break   1:00 PM 1.11 Influence functions analysis of climate model errors during El Nino episodes   Alice M. Grimm, Federal Univ. of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil and International Research Institution for Climate Prediction, Paliusades, NY; and C. F. Ropelewski and A. D. Moura 1:15 PM 1.12 Time-Space variability of remote sensing and model predictions of skin temperature   Joshua Rhoads, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. Dubayah, G. M. O'Donnell, and D. P. Lettenmaier 1:30 PM 1.13 Variational Method for Assimilating GOES-Retrieved LSTs into SVATS Model for Soil Moisture Initialization   David A. Faysash, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and E. A. Smith 1:45 PM 1.14 Simulations of precipitation over the upper Rio Grande Basin   Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. E. Bossert and D. L. Langley 2:00 PM 1.15 Validation of long-term precipitation and evolved soil moisture and temperature fields in MAPS   Tatiana G. Smirnova, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO; and S. G. Benjamin, J. M. Brown, B. Schwartz, and D. Kim 2:15 PM 1.16 The proper role of automatic methods in parameter estimation   Douglas P. Boyle, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. Terri, H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, and M. B. Smith 2:30 PM Coffee Break   3:00 PM 1.17 Improvements in Landuse Specification in MM5/PLACE   David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and T. M. Crawford, F. Mora, and J. W. Merchant 3:15 PM 1.18 Impact of SGP97 remotely-sensed soil moisture data on coupled land-surface/atmosphere model (MM5-SHEELS) simulations   Wenje Hwu, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and J. S. Famiglietti, W. L. Crosson, and W. M. Lapenta 3:30 PM 1.19 Impact of improved snow canopy and frozen soils on mesoscale simulations of the wintertime boundary layer   Stephane Belair, AES, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and J. Mailhot and N. Brunet 3:45 PM 1.20 ENSO Impacts over Northeastern Argentina   Norberto O. García, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and M. D. V. Venencio 4:00 PM 1.21 Enhancing the Simplified Biosphere Model (SSIB) to Estimate Carbon Fluxes of Terrestrial Ecosystems for Regional Climate Studies   Xiwu Zhan, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Xue and G. J. Collatz 4:15 PM 1.22 Using Data Assimilation of TRMM Passive Microwave Observations to Improve Land Surface Modeling   Jared K. Entin, Raytheon ITSS and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, B. A. Cosgrove, B. Choudhury, and J. Wang 4:30 PM 1.23 Implementing and testing of a new snow scheme SAST in Simplified Simple Biosphere Model (SSiB)   Yongkang Xue, Uniersity of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Sun and Y. Jiao 4:45 PM 1.24 The distribution of wintertime precipitation over the midwest during the 1997-98 El Nino and 1998-99 La Nina   Dayton G. Vincent, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and J. Adolphson, S. Lashley, J. Giovinnettone, and A. Lese 5:00 PM Sessions end for the day
	5:00 PM-7:00 PM, Monday Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
	7:30 PM, Monday Fujita Banquet
Tuesday, 11 January 2000
	8:00 AM-5:45 PM, Tuesday Session 2 Data, Modeling and Analysis in Hydrometeorology Part II
Organizer: Christa Peters-Lidard, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA
8:00 AM 2.1 Atmospheric flux computations in complex terrain   Paul L. Smith, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and F. J. Kopp and H. D. Orville 8:15 AM 2.2 A multi-scale data set based on CASES-97 for studying land-surface heterogeneity and for validating land-surface models   Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. Yates, M. LeMone, H. Nagai, S. Onkley, and R. Grossman 8:30 AM 2.3 Use of cumulus parameterization and explicit microphysics for climate studies over the Rio Grande basin   James R. Stalker, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. E. Bossert, K. R. Costigan, J. M. Reisner, and D. L. Langley 8:45 AM 2.4 Observed and Modeled Properties of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer During SGP97   Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and L. H. Davis, J. N. McHenry, and F. Pan 9:00 AM 2.5 Project to Intercompare Regional Climate Simulations (PIRCS): Simulation of the 1993 flood over the central U.S   Raymond W. Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and W. J. Gutowski, E. S. Takle, Z. Pan, C. J. Anderson, and PIRCS Investigators 9:15 AM 2.6 Influence of surface characteristics on the development of cumulus cloud fields   U. S. Nair, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. M. Welch, R. O. Lawton, and R. A. Pielke 9:30 AM 2.7 A climatology and analysis of evaporative sources of rainfall over the Mississippi Basin   Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and K. L. Brubaker, A. Sudradjat, F. Bernal, and B. Levy 9:45 AM 2.8 Retrospective analysis of water budget for the Mississippi River basin   John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Q. Duan and S. Cong 10:00 AM 2.9 Total water storage range of the Mississippi River basin   Qingyun Duan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. C. Schaake, V. I. Koren, and S. Cong 10:15 AM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 10:00 a.m.-2:15 p.m.)   10:30 AM WALTER ORR ROBERTS LECTURE IN INTERDISCIPLINARY SCIENCE (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Emerging Environmental Issues: A Global Perspective Speaker: R. E. (Ted) Munn, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada   11:15 AM WMO PRESENTATION (Special President's Symposium on Environmental Applications) Title: Meteorology and the Environment-The WMO Perspective Speaker: John W. Zillman, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland   12:00 PM Conference Luncheon Speaker: D. James Baker, Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, Administrator for NOAA, Silver Spring, MD   2:15 PM 2.10 Variational data assimilation of soil moisture from remote sensing observations   Rolf H. Reichle, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. McLaughlin and D. Entekhabi 2:30 PM 2.11 Influence of Temporal Variability of Rainfall on Interception Loss   Ning Zeng, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. W. Shuttleworth and J. H. C. Gash 2:45 PM 2.12 Resonance and Low-Dimensional Modeling of the Low-Level Jet   William J. Martin, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and A. Shapiro 3:00 PM 2.13 Atmospheric water vapor fluxes and budgets during wet and dry episodes over the central United States   Evgeney S. Yarosh, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and C. F. Ropelewski 3:15 PM 2.14 Modeling Issues of Snow and Land-Ice in a General Circulation Model   C. Adam Schlosser, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer and L. Marx 3:30 PM Coffee Break (Exhibit Hours 3:30-7:30 p.m.)   4:00 PM 2.15 Systematic and random radar rainfall error and its impact on rainfall-runoff prediction accuracy   Tufa Dinku, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and E. N. Anagnostou and M. Borga 4:15 PM 2.16 Use of Soil Property Data in the Derivation of Conceptual Rainfall-Runoff Model Parameters   Victor I. Koren, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. B. Smith, D. Wang, and Z. Zhang 4:30 PM 2.17 Statistical Comparison of Mean Areal Precipitation Estimates from WSR-88D, Operational and Historical Gage Networks   Dahong Wang, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. B. Smith, Z. Zhang, S. Reed, and V. I. Koren 4:45 PM 2.18 The Spatial and Temporal Variability of Soil Moisture Conditions at the Norman Mesonet Site: Comparison with Near-surface Atmospheric Conditions   Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. S. Humes and K. C. Crawford 5:00 PM 2.19 Streamflow Forecasting on Basins with Limited Hydrologic Data   Michael Thiemann, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. V. Gupta, S. Sorooshian, and M. W. Trosset 5:15 PM 2.20 Investigating Forecasts of Streamflow Utilizing Radar Data   Keith M. Stellman, Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL and NOAA/NWS, Slidell, LA; and H. Fuelberg, R. Garza, and M. Mullusky 5:30 PM 2.21 Use of the NWSRFS OPT3 for Calibration of the SAC-SMA Model   Terri S. Hogue, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and S. Sorooshian, H. V. Gupta, A. Holz, and D. T. Braatz
	6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday Poster Session 1 Data, Modeling and Analysis in Hydrometeorology
Organizer: James Smith, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
P1.1 Interannual and Interdecadic Climatic Variability in Rio Iguazu basin   Eleonora M. C. Demaria, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and N. O. García   P1.2 Evaluation of Advantages of the Continuous SAC-SMA Model over an Event API Model   Michael B. Smith, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and V. I. Koren, E. Welles, D. Wang, and Z. Zhang   P1.3 Improved river forecasting techniques: a one-dimensional unsteady flow model for the Red River of the North   Steven D. Buan, NOAA/NWS, Chanhassen, MN; and W. Pearson and J. C. Husaby   P1.4 About the relations between ENSO and rainfalls in the Southeast of South America   Norberto O. García, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and M. A. Ghietto and M. L. Silber   P1.5 Anthropic Impacts over Hydrology of the "Río de la Plata" Basin   Norberto O. García, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina   P1.6 About the Impacts of the ENSO over the Unconfined Aquifer in the "Pampa Humeda"(Argentina)   María del Valle Venencio, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and N. O. García   P1.7 Pearson Type III Data Models for Precipitation Data: New Maximum Likelihood Approach   Richard L. Lehman, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Silver Spring, MD   P1.8 Criteria to select basins for hydrologic model development and testing   John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Q. Duan, M. B. Smith, and V. I. Koren P1.9 Comparison of WSR-88D derived rainfall estimates with gauge data in Lexington county, South Carolina   Hope Poteat Mizzell, SERCC, Columbia, SC; and G. J. Carbone   P1.10 Scale-invariance in space-time rainfall: Extension to climate scales   V. Venugopal, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer   P1.11 Artificial neural network hydrologic model for urban watersheds   Cláudia Cristina Santos, INPE, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil; and A. J. Pereira Filho   P1.12 Evapotranspiration rates at the Morgan Monroe State Forest AmeriFlux Site: A comparison of results from eddy covariance turbulent flux measurements and sap flow techniques   C. S. B. Grimmond, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN; and P. J. Hanson, H. P. Schmid, S. D. Wullschleger, and F. Cropley   P1.13 Analysis of the October 1998 Flood event along the Lower Guadalupe River   Andrew R. Patrick, NOAA/NWS, Corpus Christi, TX; and J. Arellano, T. Huber, and J. Metz   P1.14 Comparing various methods for the regionalization of model parameters in the Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting Model and Snow Accumulation and Ablation Model   Andrea Holz, NOAA/NWS, Chanhassen, MN; and B. Connelly, D. T. Braatz, T. S. Hogue, and D. P. Boyle   P1.15 Study of the Continuous Parametric Fields Theory applyed to variables without agregation   Daniel A. Rodriguez, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and M. L. Silber P1.16 Signals of tropical processes as seen in Southern California precipitation   Valerie F. Olson, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA   P1.17 QPF verification at the model grid versus at the stations   Ligia R. Bernardet, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO   P1.18 Studies with the Biosphere-Atmosphere Transfer Scheme 10-layer soil model   Jean C. Morrill, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and R. E. Dickinson   P1.19 The CAPE climatology for continental United States: Sensitivity to perturbations in temperature and dewpoint   U. S. Nair, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. M. Welch and D. Berendes   P1.20 Evolution of warm-season heavy rain systems over the Great Plains during late-morning hours   Carl E. Hane, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. L. Andra, S. M. Hunter, R. M. Rabin, F. H. Carr, and J. C. Derby   P1.21 A new gas - exchange/assimilation surface evapotranspiration model (GEM) for mesoscale applications   Devdutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman and K. Alapaty   P1.22 Recent GCIP-sponsored advancements in coupled land-surface modeling and data assimilation in the NCEP Eta mesoscale model   Kenneth E. Mitchell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Lin, E. Rogers, C. Marshall, M. Ek, D. Lohmann, J. C. Schaake, D. Tarpley, P. Grunmann, G. Manikin, Q. Duan, and V. I. Koren   P1.23 The Use of Indirect Estimates of Soil Moisture to Initialize Coupled Models and its Impact on Land Surface/Atmosphere Interactions   William M. Lapenta, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and W. L. Crosson and S. Dembek   P1.24 The Influence of Watershed-scale Dynamic Soil Moisture on Local PBL Evolution and Structure: Modeled versus Observed   Christa D. Peters-Lidard, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and J. N. McHenry   P1.25 Diagnosing Water Recycling/Water Exchange over Florida Peninsula with Coupled Mesoscale-SVATS Model   Harry J. Cooper, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and E. A. Smith   P1.26 Improvements in Wintertime GOES SRB Retrievals for Hydrometeorological Modeling of Large Scale BOREAS Domain   Jiujing Gu, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and E. A. Smith   P1.27 Does a climate model reproduce consistent ENSO precipitation signals in southern South America?   Alice M. Grimm, Federal University of Parana, Curitiba, Brazil and International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Palisades, NY; and C. F. Ropelewski and S. Mason P1.28 The response of streamflow to climate change over the conterminous U.S.: preliminary analyses using VEMAP Phase 2 model experiments   Wendy S. Gordon, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX; and J. S. Famiglietti, K. A. Hibbard, T. G. F. Kittel, and V. Members   P1.29 An estimation method for regional sensible heat flux on vegetation using satellite infrared temperature   Dai Matsushima, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; and J. Kondo   P1.30 The Evaluation of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts at WFO Reno, NV   Steven D. Goldstein, NOAA/NWS, Reno, NV
	7:00 PM, Tuesday 1 Oral sessions end for the day
Wednesday, 12 January 2000
	8:00 AM-4:59 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 1 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions: Invited Session (Joint with the 15th Conference on Hydrology and 11th Symposium on Global Change Studies)
Organizer: Yongkang Xue, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
8:00 AM J1.1 Soil Dust Modeling-Feedbacks of Dust and Climate   Ina Tegen, Columbia Univ. and NASA/GISS, New York, NY; and R. Miller and J. Perlwitz 8:15 AM J1.2 Incorporating vegetation as a dynamic element in the Hadley Centre GCM   Peter M. Cox, UK Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom 8:45 AM J1.3 The roles of subgrid topography on land-atmosphere interactions   L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. S. Wigmosta 9:00 AM J1.4 Investigating the Effect of Seasonal Crop Growth on the Climate of NCAR Regional Climate Model   Elena Tsvetsinskaya, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and L. O. Mearns and W. E. Easterling J1.5 The importance of land surface processes for predicting climate change in the Asian monsoon area   Hervé Douville, Météo-France, CNRM, Toulouse, France; and J. Polcher and P. Cox 9:14 AM J1.5A GLOBAL CLIMATE EFFECTS OF HEATING ANOMALIES RESULTING FROM TROPICAL LANDCOVER CHANGE   Thomas N. Chase, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. A. Pielke, M. Zhao, A. J. Pitman, T. G. F. Kittel, R. R. Nemani, and S. W. Running 9:29 AM J1.6 A mechanism for the low-frequency variability of the Sahel rainfall   Guiling Wang, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and E. A. B. Eltahir 9:44 AM J1.7 Role of natural vegetation dynamics in the Sahel drought   Guiling Wang, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and E. A. B. Eltahir 9:59 AM Coffee Break   10:29 AM J1.8 Modelling the impact of land surface degradation on the climate of tropical North Africa   Douglas B. Clark, Institute of Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom; and Y. Xue 10:44 AM J1.9 The effect of land surface processes on the 1991 Flood Over Yangtze-Huai River Valley as Simulated From Sunya Regional Climate Model   Wei Gong, SUNY, Albany, NY; and W. C. Wang and Y. Xue 10:59 AM J1.10 Preliminary Results of the AMIP II Diagnostic Subproject 12: Implications for Modeling Coupled Atmosphere/Land Interactions   Thomas J. Phillips, LLNL, Livermore, CA 11:29 AM J1.11 Climate Sensitivity to Land Surface Processes: An Evaluation of Three Land Surface Schemes Coupled to a Single GCM   Andrea N. Hahmann, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 11:59 AM Lunch Break   1:29 PM J1.12 Land-atmosphere Interactions: Successes, Problems and Prospects   Y. C. Sud, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. M. Mocko 1:59 PM J1.13 Simulations with the coupled Eta/SSiB Model over South America   Sin Chan Chou, INPE/CPTEC, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and C. A. S. Tanajura, Y. K. Xue, and C. A. Nobre 2:14 PM J1.14 Simulation of land-ocean influences on the Indian monsoon in simulations of present-day climate and at doubled carbon dioxide concentrations   Lydia Dumenil Gates, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany 2:29 PM J1.15 Impacts of deforestation and afforestation in the Mediterranean region as simulated by the MPI model   Lydia Dumenil Gates, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany; and S. Liess 2:44 PM J1.16 Diurnal cycle the coupled Eta/SSiB Model for El Nino and La Nina conditions over South America   Clemente A. S. Tanajura, Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, Petropolis, RJ, Brazil; and S. C. Chou, Y. K. Xue, and C. A. Nobre 2:59 PM Coffee Break   3:29 PM J1.17 Climate drift in the coupled land-atmosphere system   Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD 3:44 PM J1.18 Timescales of soil moisture anomalies: results from two GCMs   Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. C. D. Milly, C. A. Schlosser, and M. J. Suarez 4:14 PM J1.19 Impacts of Surface Processes over Land and Ocean on Summer Precipitation and Subtropical High   Guoxiong Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; and Y. Liu, H. Liu, P. Liu, and W. Li 4:29 PM J1.20 Vegetation-climate interaction and Sahel climate variability   Ning Zeng, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin and W. K. M. Lau 4:44 PM J1.21 Sensitivity of GCM simulations to land surface processes   Yongkang Xue, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and H. H. Juang, S. Y. Hong, M. Kanamitsu, and Y. Sud
	8:30 AM-2:30 PM, Wednesday Session 3 Heavy Precipitation and Flash Flooding (Parallel with Joint Session J1)
Organizers: Richard A. Fulton, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; Roderick Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
8:30 AM 3.1 Satellite based estimates of rain in hurricane Mitch   Arnold Gruber, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. Ferraro, G. Vicente, M. Ba, R. A. Scofield, Q. Li, and R. Weldon 8:45 AM 3.2 Using a high-resolution mesoscale coupled model to simulate the 1996 Buffalo Creek flash-flood event   Fei Chen, NCAR, Boudler, CO; and T. T. Warner, K. Manning, and D. Yates 9:00 AM 3.3 Potential vorticity patterns and their relationship to heavy precipitation in Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs)   Fernando Caracena, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and A. Marroquin and E. I. Tollerud 9:15 AM 3.4 Heavy precipitation associated with landfalling tropical storms   Lance F. Bosart, University at Albany/SUNY, Albany, NY; and E. H. Atallah 9:30 AM 3.5 WSR-88D quantitative precipitation estimates along the northern California coast during the 1998 El Niño   David E. Kingsmill, DRI, Reno, NV; and A. B. White and F. M. Ralph 9:45 AM 3.6 A prototype operational 0-1 hour radar-based flash flood potential algorithm   Richard A. Fulton, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Seo 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM 3.7 Flash flood monitoring and prediction in AWIPS Build 5 and beyond   Stephan B. Smith, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. T. Filiaggi, M. Churma, J. Roe, M. Glaudemans, R. Erb, and L. Xin 10:45 AM 3.8 Detecting flash floods in small urban watersheds.   Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA 11:00 AM 3.9 Hydrologic application of global emsemble precipitation forecasts   Sanja Perica, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. C. Schaake and D. -. J. Seo 11:15 AM 3.10 Mapping the course of satellite precipitation estimates for flash floods into the 21st century   Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and G. Vicente, C. Davenport, and S. Qiu 11:30 AM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 3.11 The Hydrometeorological Prediction Center -- Its future role in Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting   James E. Hoke, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and D. W. Reynolds, E. J. Danaher, and K. C. McCarthy 1:45 PM 3.12 The NWS National QPF Verification Program   Brett E. McDonald, NOAA/NWS and UCAR/COMET, Camp Springs, MD; and T. M. Graziano and C. K. Kluepfel 2:00 PM 3.13 Numerical simulations and forecasting potential for extreme rainfall events in the southern United States   John W. Nielsen-Gammon, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; and J. Strack 2:15 PM 3.14 Satellite-based Estimates of Precipitation in Hydrological Forecasts   Michael A. Fortune, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Tokar
	2:30 PM-5:45 PM, Wednesday Session 4 Hydrological and Hydrometeorological Impacts due to Climate Change (Parallel with Joint Session J1)
Organizers: Robert Oglesby, Purdue Univ., W. Lafayette, IN; Frank Quinn, NOAA/DOC/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI
2:30 PM 4.1 Interannual-to-interdecadal Variability of river flows in southeastern South America: Description and predictability   Andrew W. Robertson, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and C. R. Mechoso 2:45 PM 4.2 Diagnosing the role of atmosphere-land surface interactions during wet and dry seasons across the Americas   Robert J. Oglesby, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Marshall, J. O. Roads, and F. R. Robertson 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 4.3 WMO Hydrology Program   Arthur Askew, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland 3:45 PM 4.4 Mesoscale modeling of climate effects on mountain glaciers   Corinne M. Carter, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; and K. H. Cook 4:00 PM 4.5 Physical processes governing the water budget of and the discharge from the Mackenzie Basin for the 1994/95 water year   Zuohao Cao, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada; and B. A. Proctor, H. Ritchie, M. Wang, R. E. Stewart, and G. S. Strong 4:15 PM 4.6 A comparison over the FIFE region of simulations from RSM, RegCM2, and MM5/BATS   Jason Evans, Australian National Univ., Canberra, Australia; and R. J. Oglesby, W. M. Lapenta, J. O. Roads, S. Marshall, and J. Taylor 4:30 PM 4.7 A comparative study of long term hydrologic forecasts: Deterministic vs. probabilistic   Dean T. Braatz, NOAA/NWS, Chanhassen, MN; and M. M. DeWeese and E. Welles 4:45 PM 4.8 The influence of potential greenhouse warming on Great Lakes hydrology, water levels, and water management   Frank H. Quinn, NOAA/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI; and B. M. Lofgren 5:00 PM 4.9 Precipitation, soil, and evaporation validation of the Coupled Hydrosphere-Atmosphere Model   Brent M. Lofgren, NOAA/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI 5:15 PM 4.10 Trends in Canadian Streamflow   Xuebin Zhang, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada; and K. D. Harvey, W. D. Hogg, and R. Yuzyk 5:30 PM 4.11 Hydrological Responses to Climate and Land-Cover Changes in A Mid-Sized Watershed   Qi Hu, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and G. D. Willson
	5:45 PM, Wednesday 1 Sessions end for the day
	6:00 PM, Wednesday Reception (Cash Bar)
	7:30 PM, Wednesday AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 13 January 2000
	8:30 AM-2:30 PM, Thursday Session 5a Terrestrial Biosphere Feedback to the Atmosphere at the Regional and Global Scales (Parallel with Session 5B)
Organizers: Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD
8:30 AM 5a.1 The importance of land-surface variability to climate variability   Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and O. Reale and C. A. Schlosser 8:45 AM 5a.2 Land surface processes over GCIP Large Scale Areas   Ernesto Hugo Berbery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and W. Chen, R. T. Pinker, and K. E. Mitchell 9:00 AM 5a.3 Model Validation of Observed Secondary Circulation in FIFE-1989 IFC-5 Dataset Using Coupled Mesoscale-SVATS Modeling System   Eric A. Smith, NASA/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; and H. J. Cooper, D. A. Faysash, and G. J. Tripoli 9:15 AM 5a.4 Land cover-convective cloud interactions in the US Midwest   Jimmy O. Adegoke, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. M. Carleton 9:30 AM 5a.5 A new gas/Carbon Assimilation Surface Evapotranpiration Model (GEM) for Mesoscale Applications   Devdutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman and K. Alapaty 9:45 AM 5a.6 On the Parameterization of Convective Precipitation Generated by Land Cover Change/Land Use in Large-Scale Atmospheric Models   Christopher P. Weaver, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and R. Avissar and Y. Liu 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM 5a.7 The simulation of complex land cover in regional climate studies   Diana L. Verseghy, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada 10:45 AM 5a.8 The Impacts of Land Cover Change/Land Use on Regional Hydrometeorology   Roni Avissar, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and C. P. Weaver and S. Baidya Roy 11:00 AM 5a.9 Estimating root-zone moisture and evapotranspiration with AVHRR Data   Jie Song, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and M. L. Wesely 11:15 AM 5a.10 Coupled atmosphere-land surface modeling over GAME-T region   Jian-Hua Joshua Qian, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. -. K. Tao and W. K. -. M. Lau 11:30 AM 5a.11 Surface climate equilibrium over land   Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT 5a.12 Using second order closure to obtain mesoscale and turbulent heat fluxes   Barry H. Lynn, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and W. K. Tao 11:45 AM Lunch Break   1:15 PM 5a.13 Coupling Atmospheric, Ecologic, and Hydrologic Processes in a Regional Climate Model   Lixin Lu, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. A. Pielke Sr., G. E. Liston, W. J. Parton, D. Ojima, and M. Hartman 1:30 PM 5a.14 Preliminary Results of the OASIS Project   Jerald A. Brotzge, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. J. Richardson and T. W. Horst 1:45 PM 5a.15 The Role of Vegetation-Climate Interaction and Interannual Variability in Shaping the African Savanna   Ning Zeng, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin 2:00 PM 5a.16 Surface Heat Balance Observation in the Western Tibet   Shigenori Haginoya, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and H. Naoe
	8:30 AM-4:45 PM, Thursday Session 5b TRMM Hydrology (Parallel with Sessions 5A)
Organizers: Jose A. Fuentes, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Michael Garstang, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
8:30 AM 5b.1 An overview of the WETAMC/LBA - January and February 1999   Maria A. F. Silva Dias, Univ. of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; and A. J. Dolman, P. L. Silva Dias, S. Rutledge, E. Zipser, G. F. Fisch, P. Artaxo, A. O. Manzi, J. A. Marengo, C. A. Nobre, and P. Kabat 8:45 AM 5b.2 Linking surface-based processes to the deeper atmosphere at a Brazilian tropical deforested site   Jose D. Fuentes, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and R. C. Heitz, M. Garstang, J. M. Sigler, B. Ferrier, J. Halverson, A. K. Betts, G. F. Fisch, J. Tóta, and P. J. de Oliveira 9:00 AM 5b.3 Mesocale Reanalysis of the LLJ along the Andes during the WETAMC/LBA - TRMM: comparison with observations   Pedro L. Silva Dias, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and M. A. F. Silva Dias, J. A. Marengo, and M. W. Douglas 9:15 AM 5b.4 Measurements of solar and terrestrial radiation above and inside the Rebio-Jaru Amazonian forest during the LBA Wet Season Campaign   Antonio O. Manzi, INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and R. G. Moura, L. D. Abreu Sá, and R. C. S. Alvalá 9:30 AM 5b.5 Wet season boundary layer dynamics over a deforested pasture site in Amazonia   Ryan C. Heitz, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. M. Sigler, J. D. Fuentes, M. Garstang, and B. Ferrier 9:45 AM 5b.6 Atmospheric boundary layer growth during LBA/TRMM experiment   Gilberto F. Fisch, Centro Tecnico Aeroespacial, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and J. Tota, L. Machado, B. Ferrier, M. A. F. Silva Dias, A. J. Dolman, J. Halverson, and J. D. Fuentes 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM 5b.7 On the circulation features of the low level jet episode of April 14-15 1999, during the TRMM-LBA   Jose A. Marengo, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and M. W. Douglas and P. L. Silva Dias 10:45 AM 5b.8 Flux-variance method estimation of scalar turbulent fluxes above Amazonian rain forest   Celso von Randow, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and L. D. Abreu Sá, G. S. S. D. Prasad, and A. O. Manzi 11:00 AM 5b.9 Convective systems in contrasting regimes during TRMM-LBA in Rondonia, Brazil   Thomas M. Rickenbach, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. C. Cifelli, J. Halverson, P. A. Kucera, and O. W. Thiele 11:15 AM 5b.10 Surface Rainfall Observations during TRMM-LBA Field Campaign   Ali Tokay, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Sieveking, B. Fisher, J. Wang, and O. W. Thiele 11:30 AM 5b.11 Turbulent transport scales and breakdown coefficient statistics over a deforested tropical site   Alin Carsteanu, Universite du Quebec, Sainte-Foy, PQ, Canada; and J. D. Fuentes and R. C. Heitz 11:45 AM 5b.12 The Distribution and Structure of Precipitation in Hurricane Georges: Observations from TRMM, SSM/I, and GOES   Arlene G. Laing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 5b.13 Measurement and Analysis of Orographic Precipitation in the Himalayas - First Results from the TRMM Hydrometeorological Network in Central Nepal   Ana P. Barros, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and J. Putkonen, D. W. Burbank, and A. T. C. Chang 1:45 PM 5b.14 Characterizing precipitation processes during 1998, 1999 in West and Central Africa from the TRMM data   Andrea Sealy, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and G. S. Jenkins and T. Holmes 2:00 PM 5b.15 Towards the use of TRMM PR measurements for the inter-calibration of the South African radar network   M. P. Mittermaier, Precipitation Research, South African Weather Bureau, Bethlehem, South Africa 5b.16 Comparisons of the atmospheric hydrologic processes depicted by the operational ECMWF analyses with the corresponding forecasts at medium range over tropical Africa   André K. Foamouhoue, National Institute of Technologoy, Dakar-Fann, Senegal; and S. Fongang and A. Viltard 2:15 PM 5b.17 Characterization of Radar Rainfall Estimation Error due to Variations of Raindrop Size Distribution and Vertical Storm Structure   Emmanouil N. Anagnostou, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and C. A. Morales and M. Steiner 2:30 PM 5b.18 Direct Validation Analysis of TRMM Precipitation Retrievals Based on TRMM Field Experiment Measurements   Fong-Chiau Chang, NASA/GHCC and Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and E. A. Smith, J. A. Marengo, B. J. Sohn, and S. Yang 2:45 PM Coffee Break   3:15 PM 5b.19 Improved precipitation forecasting of landfalling tropical cyclones by data assimilation of microphysical structures retrieved from TRMM   Gregory J. Tripoli, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and G. Panegrossi and E. A. Smith 3:30 PM 5b.20 An observationally based conceptual model of warm oceanic convective rain in the tropics   David Atlas, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. W. Ulbrich 3:45 PM 5b.21 Rainfall estimation using a combination of geosynchronous infrared and TRMM observations   Liming Xu, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. J. Negri, R. F. Adler, and E. N. Anagnostou 4:00 PM 5b.22 Initial radar echo development in different regimes of tropical contintental convection   Earle Williams, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Rosenfeld, N. Madden, J. Gerlach, and L. Atkinson 4:15 PM 5b.23 Rainfall morphology in semi-tropical convergence zones   J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 4:30 PM 5b.24 Improved Algortithm to Estimate Convestive and Stratiform Rain From TRMM Microwave Radiometer Data   C. Prabhakara, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Iacovazzi 5b.25 Validation of TRMM and other satellite estimates of rainfall over select regions of Africa   Sharon E. Nicholson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
	5:15 PM-7:00 PM, Thursday Poster Session 2 TRMM Hydrology Poster
Organizers: Jose Fuentes, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; Michael Garstang, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
P2.1 January/February 1999 Mesoscale Reanalysis of the WETAMC/LBA-TRMM/Brazil campaign in Rondonia/Brazil   Pedro L. Silva Dias, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and M. A. F. Silva Dias, S. R. Freitas, E. Inazawa, J. A. Marengo, and F. Gilberto   P2.2 General aspects of the rebio-jaru Amazon forest micrometeorological tower LBA wet season campaign and preliminary results   Leonardo D. Abreu Sa, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and R. C. S. Alvala, E. Arai, P. R. A. Arlino, A. C. Barbosa, M. J. A. Bolzan, A. Bonfim, W. E. Castro, M. A. F. Silva Dias, G. S. S. Durga Prasad, R. Gielow, A. C. Lola da Costa, A. O. Manzi, J. L. Martins Nogueira, J. Melo, R. G. Moura, L. E. Rosa, L. Rossato, and C. von Randow   P2.3 Use of the inertial dissipation method for calculating hourly variability of the turbulent fluxes over Amazonian forest   Leonardo Deane Abreu Sa, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and E. P. M. Filho and S. S. D. P. Gannabathula   P2.4 Incorporating TRMM and other high-quality estimates into the One-Degree Daily (1DD) global precipitation product   George J. Huffman, NASA/GSFC and SSAI, Greenbelt, MD; and R. F. Adler and D. T. Bolvin   P2.5 Wavelet analysis of coherent structures above and within the Amazon Rain Forest   Sri Sesha Durga Prasad Gannabathula, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and W. E. Castro, L. D. Abreu Sa, and K. P. R. Vittal Murty   P2.6 Nonextensivity in atmospheric surface layer turbulence   Mauricio Jose Alves Bolzan, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and L. D. Abreu Sa, F. M. Ramos, C. R. Neto, and R. R. Rosa   P2.7 An Empirical Study of TRMM-LBA Rainfall   Jianxin Wang, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Fisher, A. Tokay, and J. Wang   P2.8 Boundary Layer Thermodynamics over Rondonia in the rainy season (LBA/TRMM)   Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and J. D. Fuentes and M. Garstang   P2.9 Studies on the diurnal cycle of rainfall and its variations during the TRMM-LBA and Wet AMC.LBA campaigns during Austral Summer 1999   Jose A. Marengo, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and G. F. Fisch, I. Vendrame, P. Cervantes, and C. Morales   P2.10 Case study of multiple squall lines during the WETAMC/LBA and TRMM/Brazil: 7 Feb 1999   Maria A. F. Silva Dias, Univ. of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; and P. L. Silva Dias, S. Rutledge, E. Zipser, M. A. Lima, A. M. Gomes, M. Antonio, and G. F. Fisch   P2.11 Soil heat flux and temperature profiles under Amazonian rain forest during the wet season of 1999   Ralf Gielow, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil; and R. C. S. Alvala, H. R. da Rocha, H. C. Freitas, and O. M. R. Cabral   P2.12 The Clouds-Induced Bimodal Characteristics and Enhancements of Surface Irradiance as Observed over a Brazilian Grassland   Lianhong Gu, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and J. D. Fuentes, M. Garstang, R. C. Heitz, and J. M. Sigler
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