| | 4.2 | Land Surface Data Assimilation and the Northern Gulf Coast Land/Sea Breeze William M. Lapenta, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and K. Blackwell, R. Suggs, R. T. McNider, G. Jedlovec, and S. Kimball |
| 3:45 PM | 4.3 | Assimilation in Land Surface Hydrology: A General Theory Venkataraman Lakshmi, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC |
| 4:00 PM | 4.4 | Reduced-rank Kalman filters: II. Assimilation of Topex-Poseidon altimetry data into a realistic OGCM of the tropical Atlantic Mark Buehner, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, T. Inui, and A. Busalacchi |
| 4:15 PM | 4.5 | The importance of salinity in the assimilation of temperature observations in the tropical Pacific Ocean Alberto Troccoli, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. M. Rienecker |
| 4:30 PM | 4.6 | Advective pathways determined from a CUPOM of the Gulf of Mexico M. Toner, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and A. D. Kirwan, Jr., L. Kuznetsov, A. C. Poje, C. K. R. T. Jones, L. Kantha, and J. Choi |
| 4:45 PM | 4.7 | Pacific and Indian Ocean circulation during 1993–2000: Assimilation of TOPEX/Poseidon data into a near global OGCM I. Fukumori, JPL, Pasadena, CA; and T. Lee, B. Tang, B. Cheng, D. Menemenlis, Z. Xing, and L. -. L. Fu |
| 5:00 PM | 4.8 | Aspects of the Extended and Ensemble Kalman filters for land data assimilation in the NASA Seasonal-to-Interannual Prediction Project Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster, J. P. Walker, M. M. Rienecker, and P. R. Houser |