| 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 |
|  | 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
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| 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
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| 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
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