|  | 6.3 | The use of synoptically dependent background error structures and a geostrophic co-ordinate transform in 3D variational data assimilation 
Adrian T. Semple, Met Office, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and I. Roulstone |
| 9:14 AM | 6.4 | Use of the breeding technique in the estimation of the background covariance matrix for a quasi-geostrophic model
E. Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Corazza, D. J. Patil, E. Ott, J. A. Yorke, B. R. Hunt, I. Szunyogh, and M. Cai |
| 9:29 AM | 6.5 | Multivariate Assimilation of Altimetry into an Ocean General Circulation Model with Diagnostic Sea-Surface Height Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter
Christian L. Keppenne, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. M. Rienecker |
| 9:44 AM | 6.6 | A local least squares framework for ensemble filtering
Jeffrey L. Anderson, NOAA/GFDL and NCAR, Boulder, CO |
| 9:59 AM | | Coffee Break in the Poster Session Room
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| 10:29 AM | 6.7 | Spread-skill relationship in the Canadian ensemble prediction system
Richard Verret, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and F. Pithois, L. Lefaivre, P. Houtekamer, L. Wilson, G. Pellerin, and M. Klasa |
| 10:44 AM | 6.8 | Are Bred Vectors the same as Lyapunov vectors?
Eugenia Kalnay, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and M. Corazza and M. Cai |
| 10:59 AM | 6.9 | Estimation of Analysis Error with the Physical-space Statistical Analysis System
Ricardo Todling, NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Yang, J. Guo, and S. E. Cohn |
| 11:14 AM | 6.10 | Capabilities of ensemble filters for data assimilation
Jeffrey L. Anderson, NOAA/GFDL and NCAR, Boulder, CO; and S. Zhang |
| 11:29 AM | 6.11 | Tangent Linear and Adjoint of the Kain-Fritsch Moist-Convective Parameterization
Luc Fillion, MSC, Dorval, PQ, Canada; and S. Bélair |
| 11:44 AM | 6.12 | Regional data assimilation using a stretched-grid approach and ensemble calculations
Michael S. Fox-Rabinovitz, University of Maryland and NASA/GSFC/DAO, College Park, MD; and L. L. Takacs and R. C. Govindaraju |
| 11:59 AM | | Lunch Break
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