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Saturday, 12 January 2002
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Saturday Short Course/Workshop/Special Conferences Registration (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, the The Atlas Symposium, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications)
Sunday, 13 January 2002
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course/Workshop/Special Conferences Registration (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, the The Atlas Symposium, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications)
	9:00 AM, Sunday CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
Monday, 14 January 2002
	12:00 AM, Monday Sessions end for the day (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications)
	7:30 AM, Monday Registration continues through Thursday, 17 January (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, the The Atlas Symposium, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications)
	9:00 AM, Monday Welcoming Remarks
	9:30 AM-4:58 PM, Monday Joint Session 1 land-atmosphere interactions: Part I (Joint with the 16th Conference on Hydrology and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations)
Organizer: Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD
9:30 AM J1.1 Reducing near-surface cool/moist biases over snowpack and early spring wet soils in NCEP Eta model forecasts via land surface model upgrades   Kenneth E. Mitchell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. B. Ek, D. Lohmann, V. Koren, J. Schaake, Q. Duan, P. Grunmann, G. Gayno, Y. Lin, E. Rogers, D. Tarpley, and C. Peters-Lidard 9:45 AM J1.2 Regional spectral model simulation for Brazil with soil moisture correction   Shyh-Chin Chen, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and J. O. Roads 10:00 AM J1.3 Evaluation of LDAS land surface models with observed forcing and hydrology   Lifeng Luo, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock, K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, J. C. Schaake, E. F. Wood, D. P. Lettenmaier, R. T. Pinker, and D. Tarpley 10:15 AM J1.4 Evaluation of streamflow and snowpack simulations in the land surface models of the Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Project   Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, J. C. Schaake, E. F. Wood, D. Tarpley, R. W. Higgins, R. T. Pinker, A. Robock, D. P. Lettenmaier, B. Cosgrove, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, and L. Luo 10:30 AM Coffee Break in Poster Session Room   11:00 AM J1.5 Forcing a global, offline land surface modeling system with observation-based fields   Matthew Rodell, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, U. Jambor, J. Gottschalck, J. Radakovich, K. Arsenault, C. -. J. Meng, and K. E. Mitchell 11:15 AM J1.6 GCM Simulation of the Large-scale North American Monsoon including Water Vapor Tracer Diagnostics   Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. K. Walker, S. D. Schubert, and Y. Sud J1.7 Influence of land use on the regional climate of southwest Australia   Deepak K. Ray, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and U. S. Nair 11:29 AM J1.8 Land-Atmosphere Interactions at the Norman Mesonet Site   Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford 11:44 AM J1.9 Land-atmosphere feedback across eastern Oklahoma following the MCS events of August 1994   Derek S. Arndt, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford 11:59 AM Lunch Break   1:29 PM J1.10 The Impact of Oklahoma’s Winter Wheat Crop on the Mesoscale Environment   Renee A. McPherson, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 1:44 PM J1.11 Spatial and temporal correlations among Oklahoma Mesonet and OASIS surface-layer measurements   Jerald A. Brotzge, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. J. Richardson 1:59 PM J1.12 Simulation of Fine-Scale Soil Moisture Variations at the Walnut River Watershed in Kansas   Yiwen Xu, ANL, Argonne, IL; and M. L. Wesely J1.13 A Multiple-Layer Canopy Model: Solving the Exchanges Between Size-Structured Vegetation and Atmosphere   Guiling Wang, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and S. M. Fan, E. Shevliakova, S. W. Pacala, and P. A. Moorcroft 2:13 PM J1.14 Impact of land use/land cover change on U. S. climate   Somnath Baidyaroy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and C. P. Weaver and S. W. Pacala 2:28 PM J1.15 Impact of remotely sensed leaf area index on a Global Land Data Assimilation System   Jon C. Gottschalck, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser and X. Zeng 2:43 PM J1.16 Hydrological Land Surface Response in a Tropical and a Midlatitudinal Regime   Dev dutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. Xue and S. Raman 2:58 PM Coffee Break in the Poster Session Room   3:28 PM J1.17 The Role of Vegetation in the Mountainous Regions of the Central Himalayas   Osman Yildiz, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. P. Barros 3:43 PM J1.18 The impact of hydrological processes before and after a bushfire in a watershed in southeastern Australia   Milton S. Speer, Bureau of Meteorology, Sydney, NSW, Australia; and L. M. Leslie, S. Liu, R. P. Morison, and L. Qi 3:58 PM J1.19 A New Method for Estimating Evaporation from Large Reservoirs   Edgar L Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and S. F. Daly, G. G. Koenig, and M. E. Nelson 4:13 PM J1.20 Impacts of Soil Water Freezing Point on Soil Freeze-Thaw Cycles and Runoff: A Study Using the Community Land Model (CLM)   Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and G. Y. Niu 4:28 PM J1.21 Southern Iceland discharge and regional climate-North Atlantic atmospheric circulation relationships 1973–1992   Glenn R. McGregor, Univ. of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and D. M. Lawler and I. D. Phillips 4:43 PM J1.22 An evaluation of downscaling predicted precipitation in a coupled modeling system   Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and C. D. Tomkins, E. P. Springer, C. L. Winter, J. R. Stalker, and D. L. Langley
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
Tuesday, 15 January 2002
	9:00 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Joint Poster Session 1 Land Amosphere Interactions (Joint with the 16th Conference on Hydrology and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations)
Organizer: James A. Smith, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
JP1.1 Warm-season land-atmosphere interactions in the Nebraska Sand Hills   Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson   JP1.2 Spatial-temporal variability of the groundwater level   María del Valle Venencio, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and N. O. García   JP1.3 Soil moisture-rainfall feedback on the North American Monsoon system   Jianjun Xu, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM; and E. E. Small   JP1.4 Quantifying Land-Atmosphere Interactions at the Norman Mesonet Site: A Sensitivity Analysis Using the Oregon State University 1-D PBL Model   Jeffrey B. Basara, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and K. C. Crawford and M. B. Ek   JP1.5 Diurnal relationships between soil heat flux and net radiation over a range of surface conditions applied to land surface energy balance modeling   Joseph Anthony Santanello Jr., Boston University, Boston, MA; and M. A. Friedl JP1.6 Parameterization of Jarvis-Stewart model in a deciduous secondary Forest In Japan and comparison with European and Amazon forests   Koji Tamai, Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan   JP1.7 Modeling of evaporation from a forest floor and application to a basin   Koji Tamai, Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan   JP1.8 Estimation of Seasonal Changes in Soil Moisture Storage Based on Water Balance Calculations   Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and P. A. Viterbo, D. Lüthi, and C. Schär   JP1.9 Diurnal cycles in river discharge: a key to understanding snowmelt, evapotranspiration, and infiltration   Jessica D. Lundquist, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA   JP1.10 Assessment of implementing satellite-derived land cover data in the Eta model   Nicole P. Kurkowski, University of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud   JP1.11 About of the 1970/71 climatic jump on the "Rio de la Plata" basin   Norberto O. García, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina; and W. M. Vargas and M. D. V. Venencio
	10:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday Coffee Break in Poster Session Room
	12:00 PM-2:00 PM, Tuesday Grand Poster Luncheon
	2:00 PM-3:00 PM, Tuesday Session 1 Horton Lecture
2:00 PM 1.1 What are the prospects for detecting climate change in the terrestrial hydrological cycle?   Eric F. Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
	3:00 PM-7:30 PM, Tuesday Exhibit Hours (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications)
	3:00 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 4 Land Atmposphere Interactions: Part II (Joint with the 16th Conference on Hydrology and the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations)
Organizer: Christa Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
J4.1 Impact of surface conditions on the North American Monsoon simulations   Kingtse C. Mo, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Kanamitsu and H. M. Juang 3:00 PM J4.2 Basin-scale hydrologic budgets from ERA-40 for the Mississippi, Mackenzie and Amazon rivers   Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and P. A. Viterbo 3:15 PM Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall   3:45 PM J4.3 Coupled climate-runoff simulations: a process study of current and a warmer climate in the Rhine basin   Jan Kleinn, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Frei, J. Gurtz, P. L. Vidale, and C. Schär 4:00 PM J4.4 The Effects of Implementing TOPMODEL Concepts in the NOAH Model   C. D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 4:15 PM J4.5 The effect of errors in snow assimilation on land surface modeling   Brian A. Cosgrove, SAIC and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser 4:30 PM J4.6 Modeling the impact of Irrigation on mid-summer Surface Energy Budget and the Convective Boundary Layer (CBL) in the U.S. High Plains   Jimmy O. Adegoke, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. A. Pielke, J. L. Eastman, R. Mahmood, and K. G. Hubbard 4:45 PM J4.7 Evaluation of ETA Model Atmospheric Water Budget Components from MOdel Location Time Series (MOLTS)   Evgeney S. Yarosh, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and R. W. Higgins 5:00 PM J4.8 Influence of hydrologic memory on terrestrial impacts of ENSO   Praveen Kumar, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and J. Chen
	4:00 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 2 Joint Session with the 16th Conference on Hydrology and the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction (Joint between the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction and the 16th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizer: To be announced
4:00 PM J2.1 Another Statistical Look at LDAS Soil Moisture Fields   John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Q. Duan, K. E. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, D. P. Lettenmaier, B. Cosgrove, D. Lohmann, R. Pinker, A. Roback, J. Sheffield, and D. Tarpley 4:15 PM J2.2 NCEP Regional Reanalysis   Fedor Mesinger, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and UCAR, Camp Springs, MD; and G. DiMego, E. Kalnay, P. Shafran, E. Berbery, W. Collins, W. Ebisuzaki, R. W. Higgins, J. Huang, Y. Lin, K. E. Mitchell, D. Parrish, and E. Rogers 4:30 PM J2.3 Evaluation of Colorado River Basin Ensemble Streamflow Predictions   Kristie J. Franz, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. C. Hartmann, S. Sorooshian, and R. Bales 4:45 PM J2.4 Improving land surface modeling with data assimilation of TRMM data   Jared K. Entin, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, J. P. Walker, and E. Burke 5:00 PM J2.5 Real-time and Retrospective Simulations of Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting Model in LDAS   Qingyun Duan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. Lohmann, J. C. Schaake, and K. E. Mitchell 5:15 PM J2.6 A spatial data mining approach for verification and understanding of ensemble precipitation forecasting   Xuechao Yu, NOAA/NWS and CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and M. Xue, L. Yang, and L. Gruenwald
	5:30 PM, Tuesday Sessions end for the day
Wednesday, 16 January 2002
	8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday President's Symposium
	9:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break in Poster Session Room
	10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday President's Symposium (Continued)
	12:00 PM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-4:44 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 6 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions Part I: (Joint between 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations and 16th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizers: Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
1:30 PM J6.1 A Retrospective and Outlook for GCIP/GAPP Contributions to Land Surface and Land-Atmosphere Modeling   Richard G. Lawford, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD 2:00 PM J6.2 Soil Moisture and Snow Cover: Active or Passive Elements of Climate?   Robert J. Oglesby, NASA/MSFC/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; and S. Marshall, D. J. Erickson III, J. O. Roads, and F. R. Robertson 2:15 PM J6.3 Evaluating the Impact of Realistic Land Conditions in Dynamical Seasonal Predictions   C. Adam Schlosser, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer J6.4 Does landsurface matter in weather and climate?   Martin Claussen, Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany 2:29 PM J6.5 Investigation of deep soil temperature-atmosphere interaction in North America   Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and L. Yi, M. Ruml, and R. Vasic 2:44 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall   2:59 PM Exhibit Hours 3:00–7:30 p.m.   3:29 PM J6.6 Preliminary Analysis of Coupled Land-Atmosphere Interactions in AMIP II Simulations   Thomas J. Phillips, LLNL, Livermore, CA; and P. Irannejad, A. Henderson-Sellers, K. McGuffie, E. Clayton, and S. Sharmeen 3:59 PM J6.7 The impact of soil moisture initialization on seasonal precipitation forecasts   Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Suarez and L. Tyahla 4:14 PM J6.8 Integration of Remote Sensing and In-Situ Data for Global Land-Atmosphere Interaction Studies   Xubin Zeng, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 4:29 PM J6.9 Weekly to Monthly Predictability of the Early-Summer Precipitation in the LSA-East   Da-Lin Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and W. Zheng and Y. Xue
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday Poster Session 1 Hydrologic Modeling and Flood Forecasting
Organizer: James A. Smith, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
P1.1 The October 3-4 2000 Heavy Precipitation/Flash Flood Event Across South Florida   Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and G. Rader, Z. Brown, and D. P. Brown   P1.2 Quality analysis of historical precipitation data for use in calibrating hydrologic forecast models   John C. Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Cong   P1.3 On the mechanisms determining the spatial variability of heavy precipitation in the Himalayas   Timothy Lang, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and A. P. Barros   P1.4 Using the new generation of flash flood warning tools   Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburg, PA   P1.5 Modeling and Analysis of the Water Cycle: Seasonal and Event Variability at the Walnut River Watershed   Norman L. Miller, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and M. A. Miller, E. P. Springer, M. L. Wesely, A. W. King, K. E. Bashford, M. S. Conrad, K. R. Costigan, D. J. DePaolo, I. Fung, S. Kemball-Cook, G. E. Klazura, B. M. Lesht, D. T. Troyan, M. V. Machavaram, M. Sultan, J. Song, and R. Washington-Allen   P1.6 Analysis of various resolution issues in land surface modeling   Jared K. Entin, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and D. Toll and P. R. Houser   P1.7 Warm-seasonal soil moisture prediction using a coupled regional climate model   Zaitao Pan, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and E. Takle, R. Horton, and M. Segal   P1.8 Assessing the Flash Flood Potential of a Complex Environment: The Redbank Creek Flash Flood of 19 July 1996   Robert Stonefield, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA; and J. Korotky
	1:30 PM-3:00 PM, Wednesday Poster Session 2 Remote Sensing
Organizer: James A. Smith, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
P2.1 An Overview of NOAA/ETL's Scanning Ka-band Cloud Radar   Brooks E. Martner, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and B. W. Bartram, J. S. Gibson, W. C. Campbell, R. F. Reinking, and S. Y. Matrosov   P2.2 Moisture advection and fresh water flux over oceans   Wenqing Tang, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and W. T. Liu   P2.3 Rain and cloud observation by 95GHz cloud radar and 13.8GHz precipitation radar   Suginori Iwasaki, Frontier Observational Research System for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan; and H. Hanado, H. Horie, H. Kuroiwa, H. Kumagai, and H. Okamoto   P2.4 Satellite Rainfall Estimation over South America: Evaluation of Two Major Events   Daniel A. Vila, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina; and R. A. Scofield and J. C. Davenport   P2.5 Soil moisture mapping the southern U.S. with the TRMM microwave imager: pathfinder study   Thomas J. Jackson, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and R. Bindlish, E. F. Wood, and H. Gao
	3:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday Exhibit Hours (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Fourth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications)
	3:00 PM, Wednesday Coffee Break in the Exhibit Hall
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday Session 2 heavy precipitation and flash flooding
Organizer: Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
3:30 PM 2.1 COMET Flash Flood Cases: Summary of Characteristics   Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO 3:45 PM 2.2 Status and Outlook of Operational Satellite Precipitation Algorithms for Extreme Precipitation Events   Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NWS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Kuligowski 4:00 PM 2.3 An identification of factors discriminating between significant and extreme heavy rainfall events   James T. Moore, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO; and C. E. Graves and S. Ng 4:15 PM 2.4 Climatology of environmental parameters that influence severe storm intensity and morphology   U. S. Nair, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and E. W. McCaul and R. M. Welch 4:30 PM 2.5 Multisensor precipitation estimation for use by National Weather Service River Forecast Centers   Jay P. Breidenbach, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Seo, P. Tilles, and M. Fortune 4:45 PM 2.6 How much rain reaches the surface? Lessons learned from very high-resolution observations in the Goodwin Creek watershed   Matthias Steiner, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and J. A. Smith, L. C. Sieck, S. J. Burges, and C. V. Alonso 5:00 PM 2.7 A Review of the Summer 2000 Flooding in South Central Nebraska   Michael L. Moritz, NOAA/NWS, Hastings, NE 5:15 PM 2.8 Spatial and Temporal Organization of Convective Activity in the Himalayan region during the Asian Monsoon   Gwangseob Kim, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and A. P. Barros
	5:30 PM, Wednesday Sessions end for the day
	6:00 PM, Wednesday Reception (Cash Bar)
Thursday, 17 January 2002
	8:30 AM-4:45 PM, Thursday Joint Session 8 Surface/Atmosphere Interactions: Part I (Joint with 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations and 16th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizers: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Randall D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
8:30 AM J8.1 Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in Amazonia   Carlos A. Nobre, Brazilian Weather and Climate Forecasting Center, Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil 9:00 AM J8.2 Interaction of natural and anthropogenic factors in Amazon rainfall   Raymond W. Arritt, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and T. -. C. Chen and K. J. St. Croix 9:15 AM J8.3 The Local and Global Effects of Amazon Deforestation   David Werth, Duke University, Durham, NC; and R. Avissar 9:30 AM J8.4 Human influences on the global climate system—The first order effect of landuse change and landscape dynamics   Roger A. Pielke Sr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and T. N. Chase, J. L. Eastman, and M. Coughenour 10:00 AM Coffee Break in Poster Session Room   10:30 AM J8.5 Modeling the impact of the Amazon deforestation in South American climate with the Eta/SSiB model   Clemente A. S. Tanajura, Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica, Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and S. C. Chou and Y. Xue 10:45 AM J8.6 Impact of Land-Use Management Practices in Florida on the Regional Climate of South Florida and the Everglades   Curtis H. Marshall Jr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. A. Pielke Sr., L. T. Steyaert, T. M. Cronin, D. A. Willard, J. W. Jones, T. J. Smith, and J. R. Irons 11:00 AM J8.7 Influence of land use on the regional climate of southwest Australia   Deepak K. Ray, Foretsry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; and U. S. Nair, R. M. Welch, W. Su, and T. Kikuchi 11:15 AM J8.8 Sensitivity of great floods to radiatively forced climate change   P. C. D. Milly, USGS, Princeton, NJ; and R. T. Wetherald, T. L. Delworth, and K. A. Dunne 11:45 AM J8.9 Uncertainty analysis of California streamflow using multiple climate change scenarios   Norman L. Miller, Univ. of Calfornia, Berkeley National Lab., Berkeley, CA; and K. E. Bashford 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM J8.10 Effects of mesoscale terrain on climate change signal in the western U.S   Jinwon Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1:45 PM J8.11 Summer Dryness and Greenhouse Warming: A Process Study for the Midwestern United States   Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and J. S. Pal, E. A. B. Eltahir, and C. Schär 2:00 PM J8.12 Simulating Carbon and Energy Exchanges over the Amazonia using a photosynthesis model within SSiB   Dev dutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. Xue, X. Zhan, and G. J. Collatz 2:15 PM J8.13 Climate, carbon and the boreal ecosystem   Forrest G. Hall, NASA/GSFC, Beltsville, MD; and A. K. Betts, S. Frolking, R. Brown, J. Chen, S. Halldin, D. P. Lettenmaier, and J. Schafer 2:45 PM J8.14 Impact of remotely sensed land surface variables on simulations of energy   Stephen D. Prince, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Xue, J. S. Borak, S. O. Los, and A. C. Gleason 3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall   3:29 PM Exhibit Hours 3:00–6:15 p.m.   3:30 PM J8.15 Improving the representation of arid regions of northern Africa and the Arabian peninsula in climate models by incorporating MODIS derived surface albedo   Elena Tsvetsinskaya, Boston University, Boston, MA; and C. Schaaf, F. Gao, A. Strahler, R. E. Dickinson, and X. Zeng 3:45 PM J8.16 Importance of winds and soil moistures to the U.S. summertime drought of 1988: A GCM simulation study   David M. Mocko, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and Y. C. Sud 4:15 PM J8.17 Improving the Representation of Snow Processes in Global Climate Models   Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and G. Y. Niu 4:30 PM J8.18 Modeling Crop Growth Using Modified NCAR LSM 1.0   Guo-Yue Niu, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang
	8:30 AM-2:15 PM, Thursday Session 3 remote sensing of hydrologic processes
Organizer: Venkat Lakshmi, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
8:30 AM 3.1 Improving western United States snow water equivalent (SWE) estimates from passive microwave sensors   Shanna T. L. Pitter, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA; and A. W. Nolin 8:45 AM 3.2 ACTIVE - PASSIVE REMOTE SENSING OF SOIL MOISTURE   Venkat Lakshmi, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 9:00 AM 3.3 Utility of remote sensing in modeling spatial patterns of evapotranspiration   William P. Kustas, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and R. Bindlish and A. N. French 3.4 The retrieval of surface soil moisture from passive microwave satellite data using a physical minimization method with modified polarization-ratio terms   Andrew S. Jones, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and G. Miecznik and T. H. Vonder Haar 9:14 AM 3.5 Measurement of near-surface soil moisture with continually-calibrated TDR instruments   Brian K. Hornbuckle, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; and A. W. England 9:29 AM 3.6 A coupled model of land surface CO2 and energy fluxes and its application to the SGP sites using remotely sensed data   Xiwu Zhan, Raytheon ITSS Corporation, Lanham, MD; and W. P. Kustas, A. N. French, T. J. Jackson, and T. J. Schmugge 9:44 AM 3.7 Disaggregation of microwave remote sensing data for estimating near-surface soil moisture using a Neural Network   William L. Crosson, National Space Science and Technology Center, Huntsville, AL; and C. A. Laymon, M. P. Schamschula, and A. Steward 9:59 AM Coffee Break in Poster Session Room   3.8 Seasonal Characteristics of the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Basin Water Budget during One Semiannual Cycle as Retrieved from Satellite   Pablo Santos Jr., NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and E. Smith 3.9 An evaluation of microwave rainfall climatologies from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission   Victoria L. Sanderson, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; and C. Kidd and G. McGregor 10:27 AM 3.10 Error analysis of microwave land rainfall estimation algorithms   Jeffrey R. McCollum, Univ. of Maryland, College Park and NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. R. Ferraro 10:42 AM 3.11 A Comparison of Total Precipitable Water Observations from Satellite and Reanalysis Climatologies   Ralph R. Ferraro, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Spring, MD; and A. Gruber 10:57 AM 3.12 Global Estimates of the Diurnal Cycle of Rainfall from a Trmm-Calibrated Infrared Rainfall Algorithm   Liming Xu, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and A. J. Negri and R. F. Adler 11:12 AM 3.13 Incorporating numerical weather prediction model parameters into the retrieval of precipitation from the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager   Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Chen, R. R. Ferraro, and R. Treadon 11:27 AM 3.14 Quantification of error in rainfall estimated from limited samples in space and time   Matthias Steiner, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and Y. Zhang, M. L. Baeck, J. A. Smith, and E. F. Wood 11:42 AM 3.15 A real-time daily precipitation analysis over South Asia   Pingping Xie, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and Y. Yarosh, T. Love, J. E. Janowiak, and P. A. Arkin 11:57 AM Lunch Break   1:27 PM 3.16 Inter-comparison of CHARM Data and WSR-88D Storm Integrated Rainfall   Gary J. Jedlovec, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and P. J. Meyer and A. R. Guillory 1:42 PM 3.17 Distribution of daily rain gauge observations over hourly intervals with the aid of satellite precipitation estimates   Michael A. Fortune, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD 1:57 PM 3.18 Investigation of a WSR-88D Z-R relation for snowfall in northern Utah   Steven V. Vasiloff, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, Oklahoma
	9:00 AM-11:45 AM, Thursday Session 4 Heavy Precipitation and Flooding II
Organizer: Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD
9:00 AM 4.1 Towards the Implementation of a Fully Integrated Flood Model   Robert B. Wilhelmson, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and F. Weirich, W. Hibbard, S. Peckham, M. Wilson, M. Sayeeduzamman, D. Christianson, and Y. Lai 9:15 AM 4.2 The WRF Simulation of the 1993 Central U.S. Heavy Rain: Sensitivity to Cloud Microphysics Representation   Xin-Zhong Liang, ISWS, Champaign and Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and K. E. Kunkel, R. Wilhelmson, J. Dudhia, and J. X. L. Wang 9:30 AM 4.3 Improving flood prediction using Kalman Filter, mesoscale atmospheric model forecasts and radar-based rainfall estimates   Ashutosh S. Limaye, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and K. Stellman 9:45 AM 4.4 An experiment in subjective Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting: Forecasts and verification during the ELBOW 2001 field study   Brian P. Murphy, MSC, Burlington, ON, Canada; and A. Ashton, P. King, and D. Sills 10:00 AM Coffee Break in Poster Session Room   10:30 AM 4.5 ODRAFLOOD—a flood forecasting system for the Odra drainage basin   Heinz-Theo Mengelkamp, GKSS Research Center Geesthacht, Geesthacht, Germany; and R. Backhaus, R. Ewertowski, M. Klein, H. Messal, and Z. Wozniak 10:45 AM 4.6 Lake Champlain Watershed Forecasting   Edward J. Capone, NOAA/NWS, Taunton, MA; and T. W. Econopouly and R. C. Shedd 11:00 AM 4.7 Modelling heavy precipitation and flooding events using the coupled atmospheric-hydrological model   Zuohao Cao, MSC, Burlington, ON, Canada; and B. P. Murphy, P. Pellerin, H. Ritchie, R. P. Ford, and P. J. Pilon 11:15 AM 4.8 Numerical Prediction Experiment of a Watershed Modeling System   Guobiao Huang, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL; and H. Wang and G. -. T. Yeh 11:30 AM 4.9 Service Assessment for the 2001 Mississippi River spring flood in the NWS Davenport, Iowa, Hydrologic Service Area   Jeffrey A. Zogg, NOAA/NWS, Davenport, IA; and R. A. Wolf, A. C. Young, B. M. Astifan, and T. C. Nock
	12:00 PM, Thursday Lunch Break
	1:30 PM-5:15 PM, Thursday Joint Session 9 Applications in Hydrology and Water Resource Management (Joint with the 16th Conference on Hydrology and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications)
Organizer: Nick Keener, Duke Energy, Charlotte, NC
1:30 PM J9.1 A comparison of recent large-scale floods in the north-central U.S.: climatology, impacts, mitigation, and the value of improved predictions   Michael A. Palecki, ISWS, Champaign, IL J9.2 A Reanalysis of the National Flood Loss Database   Mary W. Downton, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Z. B. Miller and R. A. Pielke 1:45 PM J9.3 A qualitative comparison between the temporal variation of streamflow index and solar flux level   Phillip A. Zuzolo, Autometric Incorporated, A Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and A. M. Powell, B. J. Zuzolo, G. N. Greene, and S. G. Hoffert 2:00 PM J9.4 Agricultural water resources decision support system and evapotranspiration toolbox   Curtis L. Hartzell, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and L. A. Brower and S. Hansen 2:15 PM J9.5 A Simple Approach to Increasing Usefulness of Forecasts   John D. Wiener, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 2:30 PM J9.6 Application of a coupled atmospheric-hydrologic prediction system for hydropower operations   Pascal Storck, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. J. Westrick, C. F. Mass, and W. Cheng 2:45 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall   3:14 PM Exhibit Hours 3:00-6:15 p.m.   3:15 PM J9.7 Use of Seasonal Climate Forecast for Water Resources Management in the Tennessee River   L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and M. S. Wigmosta and L. W. Vail 3:30 PM J9.8 Visual Flood Modeling of Dam Breaks   Steven G. Hoffert, Autometric Incorporated, A Boeing Company, Springfield, VA; and A. T. Perlik, P. A. Zuzolo, A. M. Powell, R. W. Kennedy, B. Zuzolo, M. L. Pearce, and G. N. Greene 3:45 PM J9.9 Intensive simulation periods (ISPs) to improve seasonal predictions of precipitation over south central Kansas and north central Oklahoma   James R. Stalker, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 4:00 PM J9.10 Assessing the state of drought in the U.S   Karin L. Gleason, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. R. Heim, S. E. Stephens, and J. H. Lawrimore 4:15 PM J9.11 The Development of a Drought Management Plan for Rhode Island: Including an Analysis of Local Drought Characteristics   Joseph W. Dellicarpini, NOAA/NWSFO, Taunton, MA; and D. R. Vallee and C. A. Farely 4:30 PM J9.12 A blueprint for the use of NOAA/CPC precipitation climate forecasts in agricultural applications   Jeanne M. Schneider, USDA/ARS, El Reno, OK; and J. D. Garbrecht 4:45 PM J9.13 The Sierra Weather & Avalanche Center   Elizabeth J. Carter, Firnspiegel LLC, Kings Beach, California
	3:00 PM-6:30 PM, Thursday Exhibit Hours (Joint between the 11th Symposium on Education, the Interactive Symposium on AWIPS, the Sixth Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems, the 13th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 16th Conference on Hydrology, the 16th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Sciences, the 18th International Conference on IIPS, the Symposium on Observations, Data Assimilation, and Probabilistic Prediction, and the Third Symposium on Environmental Applications)
	5:00 PM, Thursday Closing Event Begins
	5:00 PM-6:15 PM, Thursday Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	6:30 PM-7:30 PM, Thursday Event Presentation
	7:30 PM, Thursday 9 Tropical Party

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