Session 1 Data, Modeling and Analysis in Hydrometeorology

Monday, 10 January 2000: 9:00 AM-5:15 PM
Host: 15th Conference on Hydrology
Organizers:
Kenneth E. Mitchell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD and Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ

Papers:
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
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

10:00 AM
1.6
Soil Moisture Observations for LDAS Evaluation
Alan Robock, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and L. Luo and K. Vinnikov

10:15 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

10:45 AM
1.9
11:00 AM
1.10
Snow-climate interaction in NCAR CCM3
Zong-Liang Yang, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. Y. Niu

11:15 AM
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

11:30 AM
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

11:45 AM
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

12:00 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

12:15 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

12:30 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

12:45 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

1:00 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

1:15 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

1:30 PM
1.20
ENSO Impacts over Northeastern Argentina
Norberto O. GarcĂ­a, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and M. D. V. Venencio

1:45 PM
1.21
2:00 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

2:15 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

2:30 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

2:45 PM
1.4A
Coffee Break

3:15 PM
1.10A
Lunch Break

4:45 PM
1.16A
Coffee Break

5:15 PM
1.24a
Sessions end for the day

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