| 1:45 PM | 5.2 | University NAVSTAR Consortium support for SuomiNet, a GPS network for atmospheric sensing Michael E. Jackson, University NAVSTAR Consortium and UCAR/OP, Boulder, CO; and C. Meertens, L. Estey, K. Feaux, S. Jeffries, B. Johns, L. Laffea, A. Rosewater, O. Ruud, and R. Ware |
| | 5.4A | Building SuomiNet on Unidata's Internet Data Distribution (IDD) System William J. Weber, UCAR/UNIDATA, Boulder, CO; and D. W. Fulker and R. H. Ware |
| 2:30 PM | 5.5 | Impact of GPS-based water vapor fields on mesoscale model forecasts Jonathan L. Case, NASA/Applied Meteorology Unit & ENSCO Inc., Cocoa Beach, FL; and J. Manobianco, Y. Xie, R. Ware, and T. Van Hove |
| 2:45 PM | | Coffee Break
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| 3:00 PM | 5.6 | GPS sensed small scale water vapor variability in the Southern Great Planes John J. Braun, UCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Rocken |
| 3:15 PM | 5.7 | Using ARM and Mesonet data to test COAMPS Soil-Vegetation Physics Kang Nai, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and L. Wei, Q. Xu, and K. D. Sashegyi |
| 3:30 PM | 5.8 | Data Assimilation of Surface and Satellite Observations to Improve Land Surface Modeling Jared K. Entin, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser and B. A. Cosgrove |
| 3:45 PM | 5.9 | Observing System Simulation Experiments for NPOESS Stephen J. Lord, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Masutani, J. S. Woollen, J. C. Derber, R. Atlas, J. Terry, G. D. Emmitt, S. A. Wood, S. Greco, T. J. Kleespies, and V. Kapoor |
| 4:00 PM | 5.10 | Global wind observational requirements and the hybrid observing system approach G. David Emmitt, Simpson Weather Associates, Charlottesville, VA |
| 4:15 PM | 5.11 | Earth-emitted Irradiance at Triana G. Louis Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA |
| 4:30 PM | 5.12 | Observing networks for ENSO prediction: Experiments with a simplified model Rebecca E. Morss, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. S. Battisti |