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Saturday, 8 February 2003
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Saturday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-5:00 PM, Saturday Conference Registration* (Joint between the 19th Conference on IIPS, the Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges, the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate, the 17TH Conference on Hydrology, the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations, the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere, the 12th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, the 12th Symposium on Education, the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, the 7th Symposium on IOS: The Water Cycle, the 5th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry: Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds, the 3rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications to the Environmental Science, and the Symposium on the F-Scale and Severe-Weather Damage Assessment)
Sunday, 9 February 2003
	7:30 AM-9:00 AM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	9:00 AM-6:00 PM, Sunday Conference Registration
Monday, 10 February 2003
	7:30 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February)
	9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Monday Joint Session 1 Spatial and temporal variability of water in all its phases: Part 1 (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizer: David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK
9:00 AM Welcoming Remarks   9:15 AM J1.1 Observing, understanding and predicting warm season continental rainfall (Invited Presentation)   R. E. Carbone, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Barros, C. A. Davis, and M. W. Moncrieff 9:45 AM J1.2 Observed regional and temporal variability of rainfall over the tropical Pacific and Atlantic Oceans   Yolande L. Serra, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA; and M. J. McPhaden 10:00 AM J1.3 Dry Spells in the United Kingdom Precipitation Time-Series   Paul S. Wilson, Imperial College, University of London, London, United Kingdom; and R. Toumi
	9:00 AM-11:45 AM, Monday Session 1 SMEX and SMACEX 2002: Soil Moisture and Soil Moisture-Atmosphere Coupling
Organizer: Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
9:00 AM Introductory Remarks   9:15 AM 1.1 Ground-based soil moisture observations within AMSR-E footprints during SMEX02   J. S. Famiglietti, University of California, Irvine, CA; and A. A. Berg, D. Ryu, S. L. Holl, K. -. W. Seo, R. Bindlish, M. Cosh, and T. J. Jackson 9:30 AM 1.2 An Overview of the Soil-Moisture-Atmospheric-Coupling-Experiment (SMACEX) in Central Iowa   W. P. Kustas, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD; and J. H. Prueger, J. L. Hatfield, J. I. MacPherson, M. Wolde, C. M. U. Neale, W. E. Eichinger, D. I. Cooper, J. M. Norman, and M. C. Anderson 9:45 AM 1.3 Aircraft and Tower-Measured Fluxes Over Rapidly Growing Corn and Soybean Crops in Central Iowa   J. I. MacPherson, Institute for Aerospace Research, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada; and M. Wolde, W. P. Kustas, and J. H. Prueger 10:00 AM 1.4 High Resolution Lidar Evaporative Fluxes Over Corn and Soybean Crops in Central Iowa During SMACEX   W.E. Eichinger, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and J. Nichols, D. I. Cooper, L. E. Hipps, W. P. Kustas, C. M. U. Neale, and J. H. Prueger 10:15 AM Coffee Break in poster session room   10:45 AM 1.5 Spatial Variability of Turbulent Fluxes Across a Corn/Soybean Production Region in Central Iowa   John H. Prueger, USDA, Ames, IA; and W. P. Kustas, L. E. Hipps, J. L. Hatfield, A. Cahill, C. A. Williams, J. D. Albertson, W. E. Eichinger, D. I. Cooper, N. Brunsell, and R. Gillies 11:00 AM 1.6 Spatially Distributed Fluxes Obtained with High-Resolution Remote Sensing During SMACEX in Central Iowa   Christopher M. U. Neale, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and W. P. Kustas, J. H. Prueger, and L. E. Hipps 11:15 AM 1.7 Comparison of aircraft- and tower-measured fluxes acquired during SMACEX with predictions from a regional atmosphere-land exchange model   Martha C. Anderson, UW-Madison, Madison, WI; and J. M. Norman, W. P. Kustas, J. H. Prueger, C. M. U. Neale, J. I. MacPherson, J. R. Mecikalski, and G. R. Diak 1.8 Impact of soil moisture on boundary-layer cloud development   Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and A. A. M. Holtslag 11:30 AM Discussion
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday Joint Session 2 Spatial and Temporal Variability of Water in All Its Phases: Part 2 (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizers: David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; Xubin Zeng, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1:30 PM J2.1 Characterizing the Global Water Cycle and Associated Climate Changes   C. Adam Schlosser, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Gratz and K. Manasfi 1:45 PM J2.2 Interannual variability of tropospheric water vapour   Mark P. McCarthy, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom 2:00 PM Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP1   2:30 PM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   4:00 PM J2.3 Streamflow response to climate change (Invited Presentation)   P. C. D. Milly, USGS, Princeton, NJ 4:30 PM J2.4 Linking diurnal cycles of river flow to interannual variations in climate   Jessica D. Lundquist, SIO/Univ. of California and USGS, La Jolla, CA; and M. D. Dettinger 4:45 PM J2.5 A Comparison of Zonal Moisture Variability Derived from GPS/MET Oscillation Observations and ECMWF Analyses from June 21–July 4, 1995   E. R. Kursinski, JPL, Pasadena, CA and Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. A. Hajj, D. Hankins, C. O. Ao, B. A. Iijima, L. J. Romans, M. de la Torre Juarez, and D. Wu 5:00 PM J2.6 Evaluations of estimates of freshwater discharge from continents   Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Dai 5:15 PM J2.7 Hydrological variability in the Amazon basin   Ning Zeng, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Mariotti
	2:30 PM, Monday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	2:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday Joint Poster Session 1 Spatial and Temporal Variability (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizers: David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION JP1 WILL BE HELD AT 2:00 P.M. AS PART OF SESSION J2     JP1.1 On the small scale structure of convective precipitation   Thomas Hauf, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany; and M. Theusner   JP1.2 The variability of integrated precipitable water vapor in Hawaii and its implications for weather and climate   James Foster, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and M. Bevis and S. Businger   JP1.3 The Kau storm: Imaging precipitable water using GPS   James Foster, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI; and M. Bevis, S. Businger, and Y. L. Chen   JP1.4 Influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on spatial distribution of moisture characteristics   Valery N. Khokhlov, Odessa State Environmental University, Odessa, Ukraine JP1.5 Water vapor in the upper troposphere during Asian monsoon season observed by MLS   L. Laura Pan, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. J. Randel   JP1.6 Analysis of moisture variability associated with the Madden Julian Oscillation during Northern Hemisphere Winter   David S. Myers, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY; and D. E. Waliser   JP1.7 Variability of Precipitable Water over Arizona and Northwestern Mexico   Carlos Minjarez, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. R. Kursinski, A. Hahmann, and P. Komarlingam   JP1.8 Aircraft measurements of the variability of stratospheric water vapor over the northern hemisphere   Dietrich G. Feist, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; and V. Vasic and N. Kämpfer   JP1.9 Linking Multi-Scale Statistical Properties of Convective Precipitation to Meteorological and Orographic Influences   Deborah K. Nykanen, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI   JP1.10 Estimates of surface moisture flux over North America using dynamically-consistent wind fields   Matthew Newman, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh   JP1.11 New Estimates of Continental Discharge and Oceanic Freshwater Transport   Aiguo Dai, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. E. Trenberth   JP1.12 Paper Moved to the 12th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Poster Session P1, new Paper Number P1.22A     JP1.13 Climatic changes of precipitable water in atmospheric layer surface-500 hPa on the base of global upper-air observations for the period 1964–2001 years   Oleg A. Alduchov, Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Obninsk, Russia   JP1.14 Correlations between SSM/I column vapor and MSU tropospheric air termperature on seasonal, interannual, and decadal time scales   Matthias C. Schabel, Remote Sensing Systems, Santa Rosa, CA; and C. A. Mears and F. J. Wentz   JP1.15 Globally unified monsoon onset and retreat indexes   Xubin Zeng, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. Lu   JP1.16 Subseasonal water vapor variability in the tropical tropopause region   Philip W. Mote, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton   JP1.17 The impact of ground-based GPS slant-path wet delay measurements on short-range prediction of a prefrontal squall line   So-Young Ha, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Seoul, Korea, and NCAR, Boulder, CO; and Y. H. Kuo and G. H. Lim   JP1.18 Long-term changes in water vapor in the stratosphere over Boulder, Colorado   Samuel J. Oltmans, NOAA/Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, Boulder, CO; and H. Voemel, D. M. Sherman, E. Dlugokencky, and J. M. Harris
	5:30 PM, Monday Sessions End for the Day
	5:30 PM-7:30 PM, Monday Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)
Tuesday, 11 February 2003
	8:30 AM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 3 Instrumentation and Remote Sensing to Observe Water in all its Phases (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizer: David N. Whiteman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
8:30 AM J3.1 Mesonetworks and Surface Instrumentation (Invited Presentation)   Scott J. Richardson, Penn State University, University Park, PA 9:00 AM J3.2 The Global Soil Moisture Data Bank: An update including new United States stations   Alan Robock, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and L. Luo, M. Mu, and K. Vinnikov 9:15 AM Oral Briefing: 1-2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP2   9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   11:00 AM J3.3 Water measurements using a Raman Lidar   David N. Whiteman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and B. Demoz, Z. Wang, I. Veselovskii, K. Evans, and P. Di Girolamo 11:15 AM J3.4 Raman lidar: A versatile remote sensing instrument for water vapor and cirrus cloud studies   Thomas P. Ackerman, PNNL, Richland, WA; and J. M. Comstock and D. D. Turner 11:30 AM J3.5 A Reference Radiosonde System for Improving Water Vapor Measurement in IHOP_2002   Junhong Wang, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and T. F. Hock, D. Lauritsen, H. L. Cole, K. Beierle, N. Chamberlain, D. B. Parsons, and D. J. Carlson 11:45 AM J3.6 Retrieval of upper tropospheric humidity from AMSU data   Viju Oommen John, Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany; and S. Buehler and M. Kuvatov 12:00 PM J3.7 Free Tropospheric Humidity observations from METEOSAT water vapor channel data   Rémy Roca, LMD, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; and H. Brogniez, L. Picon, and M. Desbois 12:15 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM J3.8 Leveraging Improvements in Precipitation Measuring from GPM Mission to Achieve Prediction Improvements in Climate, Weather & Hydrometeorology (Invited Presentation)   Eric A. Smith, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 2:00 PM J3.9 Using Satellites to Monitor Surface Wetness   Alan Basist, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. Williams 2:15 PM J3.10 Soil moisture measurements and modeling for validating AMSR-E soil moisture products   Charles A. Laymon, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and F. Archer, W. L. Crosson, and A. Limaye 2:30 PM J3.11 Fractional snow cover in the Colorado River and Rio Grande basins, 1995–2002   Roger C. Bales, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and B. Imam, D. Lampkin, S. R. Helfrich, and S. R. Fassnacht 2:45 PM J3.12 Satellite observations of river and wetland hydrologic processes   Douglas E. Alsdorf, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and D. P. Lettenmaier 3:00 PM Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30–6:30)   3:30 PM J3.13 Monitoring Global Precipitation Using Satellite Observations: Status and Future   Robert F. Adler, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and G. J. Huffman, S. Curtis, D. Bolvin, and E. Nelkin 3:45 PM J3.14 Trends and variability in climate rainfall products   Christian D. Kummerow, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. Berg, T. L'Ecuyer, and C. Morales 4:00 PM J3.15 Rainfall Estimation and Hydrometeor Type Classification with a Polarimetric WSR-88D Radar   Terry J. Schuur, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and A. V. Ryzhkov and D. S. Zrnic 4:15 PM J3.16 Comparison of Reflectivity and Precipitation Fields Estimated by Two Radar Systems   Hatim Sharif, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and E. Brandes and W. Krajewski 4:30 PM J3.17 Using ISCCP Cloud Data to Assess the Performance of Space Borne Lidar Systems   Hans-Stefan Bauer, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany; and H. Bauer, I. Henning-Müller, and V. Wulfmeyer 4:45 PM J3.18 Water balance computations of seasonal changes in terrestrial water storage: case study for the Mississippi river basin and methodology validation against observations from Illinois   Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland; and P. Viterbo, D. Lüthi, and C. Schaer 5:00 PM J3.19 Seasonal Characteristics of the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Basin Water Budget during One Semiannual Cycle as Retrieved from Satellite   Pablo Santos, NOAA/NWS, Miami, FL; and E. A. Smith 5:15 PM J3.20 Updating NOAA/NWS Rainfall Frequency Atlases   Geoffrey M. Bonnin, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Lin and T. Parzybok
	8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 4 Flood Hydrology, Management, and Information Systems: Near and Real-Time Management, Impacts, Forecasting, and Communication Issues (Joint with the Symp on Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizer: Eve Gruntfest, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
8:30 AM J4.1 Assessing the Needs of Users warm season of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts in Colorado   Rebecca Morss, NCAR, Boulder, CO 8:45 AM J4.2 From Satellite Quantitative Precipitation Estimates (QPE) to Nowcasts for extreme precipitation events   Roderick A. Scofield, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and R. J. Kuligowski and C. Davenport 9:00 AM J4.3 Short-term radar nowcasting for hydrologic applications over the Arkansas-Red River basin   Matthew P. Van Horne, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and E. R. Vivoni, D. Entekhabi, R. N. Hoffman, and C. Grassotti 9:15 AM J4.4 Quantitative flood forecasts based on short-term radar nowcasting   Matthew P. Van Horne, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and E. R. Vivoni, D. Entekhabi, R. N. Hoffman, and C. Grassotti 9:30 AM J4.5 An Early Alert System for Flooding in the MIiddle Atlantic River Forecast Domain   Richard H. Grumm, NOAA/NWSFO, State College, PA; and D. J. Ondrejik, P. G. Knight, and J. M. Brolley 9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   11:00 AM J4.6 Understanding the Mesoscale Processes of Flash Floods: Impacts on Prediction and Response   Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO 11:15 AM J4.7 Some practical applications of Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction   Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA 11:30 AM J4.8 Very high resolution precipitation forecasting on low cost high performance computer systems in support of hydrological modeling   Daniel Soderman, FORECA Ltd, Helsinki, Finland; and F. Meneguzzo, B. Gozzini, D. Grifoni, G. Messeri, M. Rossi, S. Montagnani, M. Pasqui, A. Orlandi, A. Ortolani, E. Todini, G. Menduni, and V. Levizzani 11:45 AM J4.9 A Distributed Model for Flood Forecasting in the Arno River Basin (Italy)   Enrica Caporali, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy; and V. Tartaglia 12:00 PM J4.10 Operational rainfall and flow forecasting for the Panama Canal Watershed   Konstantine P. Georgakakos, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA; and J. A. Sperfslage
	8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Tuesday Session 2 Land-Atmosphere Interactions 1: Regional, Continental and Global Scale Water and Energy Budgets
Organizer: Kaye L. Brubaker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
8:30 AM 2.1 Spatio-temporal source-sink analysis of precipitation supply in the Amazon River Basin   Arief Sudradjat, University of Maryland and CICS/ESSIC, College Park, MD; and K. L. Brubaker and P. A. Dirmeyer 8:45 AM 2.2 GCIP Water and Energy Budget Synthesis (WEBS)   J. Roads, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and R. Lawford, E. Bainto, E. Berbery, S. Chen, B. Fekete, K. Gallo, A. Grundstein, W. Higgins, M. Kanamitsu, W. Krajewski, V. Lakshmi, D. Leathers, D. Lettenmaier, L. Luo, E. Maurer, T. Meyers, D. Miller, K. Mitchell, T. Mote, R. Pinker, T. Reichler, D. A. Robinson, A. Robock, J. Smith, G. Srinivasan, K. Vinnikov, T. Vonder Haar, C. Vorosmarty, S. Williams, and E. Yarosh 9:00 AM 2.3 The sensitivity of simulated central U.S. summer precipitation and atmospheric moisture budget to both the spatial distribution and the amount of initial soil moisture   M. Georgescu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and C. P. Weaver, R. L. Walko, and R. Avissar 9:14 AM Oral Briefing: 1-2 minute presentation summarizing posters in p1   9:43 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   10:58 AM 2.6 Eta model analysis of land surface processes and the regional water cycle   Ernesto Hugo Berbery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Luo and K. Mitchell 11:13 AM 2.7 INTERCOMPARISON OF WATER AND ENERGY BUDGETS FOR FIVE MISSISSIPPI SUB-BASINS BETWEEN ECMWF REANALYSIS (ERA40) AND NASA-DAO fvGCM FOR 1990–1997   Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and M. Bosilovich and P. Viterbo 11:28 AM 2.8 Global land surface radiation budget and impact on water and energy cycles   C. Jesse Meng, University of Maryland Baltimore county, Baltimore, MD; and P. R. Houser, K. Mitchell, M. Rodell, U. Jambor, J. Gottschalk, K. Arsenault, J. Entin, B. Cosgrove, J. Radakovich, M. Bosilovich, J. K. Entin, J. P. Walker, H. L. Pan, and G. Gayno 11:42 AM 2.10 Analysis of Water Balance Simulation of Land Data Assimilation System   John Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Q. Duan, K. Mitchell, P. Houser, E. Wood, D. Lettenmaier, A. Robock, B. Cosgrove, D. Lohmann, L. Luo, J. Sheffield, W. Higgins, R. Pinker, and D. Tarpley 11:57 AM 2.11 A 50 Year Retrospective Run of the NOAH Land Data Assimilation System   Yun Fan, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC/RSIS, Camp Springs,, MD; and H. M. V. D. Dool, K. Mitchell, and D. Lohmann
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Joint Poster Session 3 Flood Hydrology Management and Information Systems Posters (JOINT WITH THE SYMP ON IMPACTS OF WATER VARIABILITY: BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) (Joint between the 17TH Conference on Hydrology and the Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges)
Organizer: Richard A. Fulton, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD
JP3.1 Statistical methods for nowcasting thunderstorm rainfall   Neil I. Fox, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and C. K. Wikle and B. Xu   JP3.2 Improving precipitation and streamflow forecasts for Amite River basin in Louisiana   Ashutosh S. Limaye, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and W. L. Crosson, J. F. Cruise, and K. Stellman   JP3.3 A test of two distributed hydrologic models with WSR-88D radar precipitation data input   Steven Hunter, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and J. Jorgesen, S. Meyer, and B. Vieux   JP3.4 Finding factors for fatal flash floods in Missouri   Elizabeth A. McCoy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and N. I. Fox   JP3.5 Quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) skill for selected tropical cyclone forecast models during Hurricane Irene (1999)   David A. Robertson, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and J. L. Evans   JP3.6 Problems of flood hydrology in a transboundary river basin   Rita Pongracz, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary; and J. Bartholy, G. Balint, I. Bogardi, and A. Bardossy   JP3.7 Short-range Ensemble Precipitation Forecasts for NWS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Services (AHPS): Parameter Estimation Issues   John Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Mullusky, E. Welles, and L. Wu   JP3.8 Retrospective Verification of Ensemble Streamflow Prediction (esp): A Case Study   Shuzheng Cong, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Schaake and E. Welles   JP3.9 SIMULATIONS OF THE SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA AND SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI FLOOD OF MAY 8–10th, 1995 WITH A PENN STATE/NCAR MESOSCALE MODEL (MM5) AND GIS/RS TECHNOLOGY   Suseela Redddy Remata, Jackson State Univ., Jackson, MS; and M. V. Vatti, P. Chigbu, and P. Croft   JP3.10 Why customize Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction watersheds?   Ami T. Arthur, CIMMS/Univ. of Oklahoma and NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and R. S. Davis and P. Jendrowski   JP3.11 Using radar data with the WATERFLOOD hydrological model to estimate streamflow   Allyson K. Bingeman, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; and N. Kouwen and I. Zawadzki   JP3.12 Precipitation induced isotopic variations in stream flow   Madhav V. Machavaram, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and K. E. Bashford, M. E. Conrad, and N. L. Miller   JP3.13 A modelling-based methodology for determining extreme precipitation potential at high elevations in Colorado   William R. Cotton, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. L. McAnelly and C. T. Ashby   JP3.14 A retrospective assessment of seasonal hydrologic forecast skill in the western U.S   Andrew W. Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and C. Zhu, A. F. Hamlet, and D. P. Lettenmaier   JP3.15 Analysis of new remote sensing and ancillary inputs to land surface water and energy balance modeling   David L. Toll, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. Gottschalck, P. R. Houser, B. Cosgrove, J. Entin, and A. Wilhelm   JP3.16 Calibration of PQPF forecasts based on the NCEP global ensemble   Yuejian Zhu, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Toth   JP3.17 Information and Products Derived From Ensemble Streamflow Forecasts   Mary Mullusky, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. DeWeese, E. Welles, and J. Schaake   JP3.18 Development of a Large-Scale Hydrologic Prediction System   Ji Chen, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and J. Roads   JP3.19 Evaluation of skill and error characteristics for alternative seasonal streamflow forecast methods   Alan F. Hamlet, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier   JP3.20 Hydroclimatic Information for Water Resources Management in the Western U.S.: Integrated monitoring and diagnostics tools   Shaleen Jain, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and G. Morin   JP3.21 Impact of water variability on chemical river water quality in Central Asia   Vladimir B. Aizen, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and E. M. Aizen and M. G. Glazirina   JP3.22 Empirical Probability Models to Predict Puerto Rico Monthly Rainfall Process   Nazario D. Ramirez-Beltran, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico; and K. -. M. Lau, A. Winter, J. M. Castro, and N. R. Escalante
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Poster Session 1 Land-Atmosphere Interactions Posters
Organizer: Kaye L. Brubaker, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
P1.1 An Integrated Data Management, Retrieval and Visualization System for Earth Science Datasets   Zhenping Liu, Virginia Polytechnic and State Univ., Alexandria, VA; and Y. Liang and X. Liang   P1.2 Online Intercomparison of TRMM and Other Global Gridded Precipitation Products   Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CEOSR, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Chiu, W. Teng, H. Rui, and G. Serafino P1.3 Preliminary Results From a Regression Based Technique for Multisensor Rainfall Estimation   Chandra R. Kondragunta, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD   P1.4 Simulated surface hydrology and energy balance of West Africa using SSiB with observed precipitation and satellite-derived vegetation   Daniel S. Kahan, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Xue, S. D. Prince, A. Diedhiou, and P. J. Lamb   P1.5 Simulating Spatial Behavior of Feedback between Soil Moisture and Precipitation in the United States: Influence of precipitation Anomaly in North American Monsoon Region   Jianjun Xu, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM; and E. Small   P1.6 The Dependence of the Moisture Maximization in PMP Procedures on Spatial Scale   Li-Chuan Chen, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; and A. A. Bradley   P1.7 The Impact of Climatic Conditions on Seasonal River Discharges in Siberia   Hengchun Ye, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; and D. Yang, T. Zhang, and X. Zhang   P1.8 Modes of inter–annual variability of atmospheric moisture flux transport   Francina Dominguez, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and P. Kumar   P1.9 Uncertainty in Soil Moisture Initializations   A. A. Berg, University of California, Irvine, CA; and J. S. Famiglietti   P1.10 Impact of Sand Hills' soil properties on summer precipitation   Mark R. Anderson, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and C. M. Rowe, D. B. Radell, J. W. Kaiser, Q. Hu, and X. Chen   P1.11 A global, 50-year dataset of surface energy and water fluxes and states   Gopi Goteti, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and J. Sheffield, J. Adam, E. F. Wood, and D. P. Lettenmaier   P1.12 An investigation of scale and spatial variability using fully- and semi-distributed TOPLATS at the Whitewater Watershed, Kansas   Kathy E. Bashford, LBNL, Berkeley, CA; and H. Sharif, W. T. Crow, N. L. Miller, and E. F. Wood   P1.13 Climatology of Soil Moisture Variables Using the Oklahoma Mesonet   Bradley G. Illston, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK OK; and J. B. Basara   P1.14 Horizontal resolution experiments with an off-line land surface model   Yves Delage, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. Bélair and P. Pellerin   P1.15 Exploring the stochastic micro-structure of rain: scale dependence of spatial correlations   Alex B. Kostinski, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI; and A. R. Jameson and M. L. Larsen   P1.16 Groundwater inputs to regional evapotranspiration in the Nebraska Sand Hills   Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson, J. W. Kaiser, D. B. Radell, Q. Hu, and X. Chen   P1.17 Historic Archive of Observed Daily Water Budget Parameters for NAME Domain at the NOAA Climate Prediction Center   Evgeney Yarosh, RS Information Systems, Camp Springs, MD; and W. Shi and W. Higgins   P1.18 First steps towards an off-line surface (soil moisture) assimilation system at the Meteorological Service of Canada   Stéphane Bélair, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and Y. Delage, J. Mailhot, and J. F. Mahfouf
	9:45 AM-9:45 AM, Tuesday Joint Poster Session 2 Instrumentation and Remote Sensing (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizer: David N. Whiteman, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION JP2 WILL BE HELD AT 9:45 A.M. AS PART OF SESSION J3     JP2.1 NOAA/NWS Updated Precipitation Frequencies for the Semiarid Southwest United States   Deborah Todd, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and G. Bonnin, B. Lin, T. Parzybok, M. Yekta, D. Riley, and E. Raynault   JP2.2 NOAA/NWS Updated Precipitation Frequencies for the Ohio River Basin And Surrounding States   Eloisa Raynault, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and G. Bonnin, B. Lin, T. Parzybok, M. Yekta, D. Riley, and D. Todd   JP2.3 Ground-based Measurements of Middle Atmospheric Water Vapour at Bern, Switzerland   Beat Deuber, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; and D. G. Feist and N. Kämpfer   JP2.4 Snowboards for National Weather Service Snowfall Measurements   Robert J. Leffler, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and B. E. Mayes, R. E. Livezey, and A. Horvitz   JP2.5 The challenges of accurate snowfall density forecasts: Implications for observing strategies, snowfall predictions, and future research efforts   David M. Schultz, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and P. J. Roebber, S. L. Bruening, E. Ware, and H. E. Brooks   JP2.6 Recent advances in the use of mm-wavelength radars for cloud and precipitation research   Pavlos Kollias, Univ. of Miami, Miami, FL; and B. A. Albrecht, S. Fritz, and I. Jo   JP2.8 Water balance computations of seasonal changes in terrestrial water storage for major Eurasian river basins   Martin Hirschi, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and S. I. Seneviratne, P. Viterbo, D. Luethi, and C. Schaer   JP2.9 Lidar characterizations of water vapor measurements over the ARM SGP Site   Richard A. Ferrare, NASA/LRC, Hampton, VA; and E. V. Browell, S. Ismail, J. Barrick, G. Diskin, S. Kooi, L. H. Brasseur, V. G. Brackett, M. Clayton, B. Lesht, L. Miloshevich, J. Podolske, F. Schmidlin, D. D. Turner, and D. Whiteman   JP2.10 Comparing TRMM rain characteristics and lightning in West Africa for a La Nina year (1999) verses and El Nino Year (2002)   Gregory S. Jenkins, Penn State University, University Park, PA   JP2.11 Analysis of rainfall rates for West Africa using satellite observations and the NCEP RSM   Andrea M. Sealy, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph   JP2.12 Cloud-to-ground lightning and surface rainfall during the Great Flood of 1993   Nicole M. Kempf, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ and NOAA/NWS, Tulsa, OK; and E. P. Krider   JP2.13 An ICOS-based instrument for in-situ measurement of water vapor and its isotopic composition in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere   E. J. Moyer, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; and J. B. Paul, G. S. Engel, F. N. Keutsch, L. Lapson, D. Sayres, and J. G. Anderson   JP2.14 A LEO-LEO Occultation Observing System for Characterizing Atmospheric Humidity, Clouds, Temperature, Geopotential, and Ozone   E. R. Kursinski, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and D. Feng, D. E. Flittner, G. Hajj, B. Herman, F. Romberg, S. Syndergaard, D. Ward, and T. Yunck JP2.15 Satellite Derived Convective Cloud-Top Heights using NOGAPS data   Robert H. Wade, SAIC, Monterey, CA; and S. D. Miller   JP2.16 Water vapor characterisation over Oklahoma during AFWEX 2000 using DIAL (Formerly Paper P2.9 in the Global Change and Climate Variations Program)   Andrea Lammert, Max-Planck-Istitute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany; and J. Boesenberg, H. Linne, and K. Ertel
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 5 Flood Hydrology, Management, Information Systems: Longer-Term Planning, Management, Impacts, and Forecasting Issues (Joint with the Symp on Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizer: Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWSFO, Moon Township, PA
1:30 PM J5.1 Tropical Cyclone Floods in Florida: Geographical Influences and Community Preparedness   Arlene G. Laing, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 1:45 PM J5.2 Problems of climate variability and uncertainty in flood hazard planning for the Colorado Front Range   Mary W. Downton, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and H. Cullen, R. Morss, O. Wilhelmi, and B. Rajagopalan 2:00 PM J5.3 National Weather Service Hydrologic Science and Development: Coupling the Atmosphere to the Oceans   Gary Carter, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and G. F. Smith 2:15 PM J5.4 Enhanced flood forecasting and real-time inundation mapping in the Tar River Basin, North Carolina, USA   Douglas C. Marcy, NOAA/NWS, Charleston, SC; and G. Austin, J. Feldt, and S. Harned 2:30 PM J5.5 Short Term Ensemble River Stage Forecasts: Application   Xiaobiao Fan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Mullusky, L. Wu, E. Welles, J. Ostrowski, N. Pryor, and J. Schaake 2:45 PM J5.6 The role of a prominent rain shadow on flooding in California's coastal mountains: A CALJET case study and sensitivity to the ENSO cycle   Paul J. Neiman, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and F. M. Ralph, D. E. Kingsmill, E. D. Andrews, and R. C. Antweiler 3:00 PM Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30–6:30 p.m.)   3:30 PM J5.7 Toward a Science Infusion Strategy for NWS Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting (PQPF)   John Schaake, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and Z. Toth, D. Reynolds, M. Antolik, J. Maloney, J. Du, B. Zhou, M. Halpert, R. Martin, P. Dallavalle, E. Danaher, and K. Lynott 3:45 PM J5.8 Distributed model flow sensitivities to input and parametric uncertainty: Case studies for three watersheds in the Central U.S   Theresa M. Carpenter, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA; and K. P. Georgakakos and J. A. Sperfslage 4:00 PM J5.9 Hydrological Forecasting using Distributed Models in the Great Lakes Basin   Alain C. Pietroniro, EC, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; and H. Goertz, P. Pilon, H. Ritchie, P. Campbell, R. P. Ford, and N. Kouwen 4:15 PM J5.10 Chimera watersheds to understand the relative importance of rainfall distribution in semi-distributed rainfall-runoff models   Vazken Andréassian, Cemagref, Antony, France; and A. Oddos, C. Michel, and C. Perrin 4:30 PM J5.11 Optimization of a macroscale hydrological model for flood forecasting in the Odra watershed   Joachim Geyer, GKSS Research Center, Geesthacht, Germany; and M. Klein and H. T. Mengelkamp 4:45 PM J5.12 Potential benefits of long-lead hydrologic predictability on Missouri River main-stem reservoirs   Edwin P. Maurer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier 5:00 PM J5.13 Applying high resolution land surface data, modeling and assimilation techniques to water supply and demand forecasts   Curtis L. Hartzell, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, CO; and T. Pruitt, S. M. Hunter, D. A. Matthews, W. Sharp, K. R. Arsenault, and P. R. Houser 5:15 PM J5.14 Simulation of Possible future effects of greenhouse warming on Great Lakes water supply using a regional climate model   Brent M. Lofgren, NOAA/ERL/GLERL, Ann Arbor, MI
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Session 3 Land-Atmosphere Interactions 2: Process Representation and Evaluation
Organizer: Deborah K. Nykanen, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
1:30 PM 3.1 An Evaluation of a 30-year Land Surface Model Simulation using Observational Forcing   Hatim Sharif, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Crow, N. L. Miller, K. E. Bashford, and E. F. Wood 1:45 PM 3.2 The interplay between vegetation evapotranspiration processes and the seasonal soil moisture evolution at the catchment scale   Reto Stöckli, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and P. L. Vidale 2:00 PM 3.3 The water budget of Guemes Island   Joost A. Businger, University of Washington, Anacortes, WA 2:15 PM 3.4 Evaluation of streamflow and snowpack simulations in the land surface models of the North American Land Data Assimilation (N-LDAS) Project   Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. Schaake, D. Lettenmaier, A. Robock, B. Cosgrove, M. Pan, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, L. Luo, J. Meng, W. Higgins, R. Pinker, and D. Tarpley 2:30 PM 3.5 Land surface hydrology comparisons between the Viterbo and Beljaars land surface scheme and observations   Harald Richter, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and G. A. Mills, A. W. Western, R. B. Grayson, F. H. S. Chiew, and D. Wilson 2:45 PM 3.6 Percolation theoretical treatments of water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity: Relevance to water and energy fluxes across land–air interface   Allen G. Hunt, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 3:00 PM Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30–6:30 p.m.)   3:30 PM 3.7 Evaluation of Three Topography-based Runoff Schemes in a Land Surface Model   Guo-Yue Niu, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang 3:45 PM 3.8 Intercomparison of Soil Moisture Memory in Two Land Surface Models   Sarith P. P. Mahanama, GEST and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster 4:00 PM 3.9 Upgrades to the unified Noah land-surface model in the operational NCEP mesoscale Eta model   Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell, E. Rogers, T. Black, G. Gayno, F. Chen, and J. Kim 4:15 PM 3.10 An Evaluation of the NOAH Land Surface Model Implemented in the Global Land Data Assimilation System   Kristi R. Arsenault, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, M. Rodell, U. Jambor, J. Gottschalck, J. Meng, B. Cosgrove, K. Mitchell, D. Lohmann, and M. Ek 4:30 PM 3.11 Testing and evaluation of potential evapotranspiration schemes for National Weather Service River Forecast System   Qingyun Duan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Smith and J. Schaake 4:45 PM 3.12 Two-Way Coupling of Crop-Climate Interactions in a Regional Climate Model   Eugene S. Takle, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and Z. Pan and J. H. Christensen 5:00 PM 3.13 Seasonal Soil Moisture Prediction Using a Climate-Plant-Soil Coupled Agroecosystem Water Management Model   Z. Pan, Iowa State Univeristy, Ames, IA; and R. Horton, M. Segal, E. Takle, D. Herzmann, D. Todey, D. Flory, and J. Roads 5:15 PM 3.14 Assessing impact of interannual climate variations on water resources and crop productivity using CLIGEN and WEPP models   X.-C. John Zhang, USDA-ARS, El Reno, OK
	4:45 PM, Tuesday Conference Ends
	5:00 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC
	5:30 PM, Tuesday Sessions End for the Day
Wednesday, 12 February 2003
	8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday Joint Session 6 Spatial and Temporal Variability of Water in All its Phases: Part 3 (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizer: Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
8:30 AM J6.1 The temporal and spatial variability of drizzle in North America   Addison L. Sears-Collins, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and D. M. Schultz and R. H. Johns 8:45 AM J6.2 Relationships between the large-scale atmospheric circulation and flood events in central Pennsylvania   Katherine H. Straub, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA 9:00 AM J6.3 Moistening processes in the upper troposphere by deep convection   Eui-Seok Chung, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea; and B. J. Sohn and V. Ramanathan 9:15 AM J6.4 Bimodal distribution of tropical upper tropospheric humidity   Brian Mapes, NOAA/CIRES/CDC, Boulder, CO; and C. Zhang and B. Soden
	8:30 AM-9:30 AM, Wednesday Joint Session 10 Water Cycle-Atmospheric Chemistry Linkages(Joint with the 12th Conf on interactions of the sea and atmosphere, 5th Conf on atmospheric chemistry: gases, aerosols, and clouds, and the 17th conference on hydrology)
8:30 AM J10.1 Design and evaluation of the coupled MM5/TOPLATS modeling system for a Texas air quality exceedance episode   Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and J. N. McHenry, C. J. Coats, and A. Trayanov 8:45 AM J10.2 Soil moisture effects on gaseous exchanges between the atmosphere and the biosphere   Yihua Wu, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Peters-Lidard, R. Dennis, and P. Finklestein 9:00 AM J10.3 Temperature Sensitivity of a Micrometerologically-Based Air-Sea Gas Transfer Parameterization   Jeffrey E. Hare, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and C. W. Fairall, W. R. McGillis, B. Ward, and R. Wanninkhof 9:15 AM J10.4 The role of extratropical storms in air-sea gas transfer   Will Perrie, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada; and W. Zhang and Z. Long
	9:30 AM-10:00 AM, Wednesday Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade
	10:00 AM-12:00 PM, Wednesday Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology
	12:00 PM, Wednesday Lunch Break
	1:25 PM-5:29 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 7 U. S. Global Change Research Program water cycle initiative (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variation and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizer: Richard G. Lawford, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD
1:25 PM Opening Remarks by James Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (NOAA)   1:30 PM J7.1 An overview of global water cycle scientific issues (Invited Presentation)   Roni Avissar, Duke University, Durham, NC 1:45 PM J7.2 USGCRP and CCRI: Improved Management of the Science-Policy Interface (Invited Presentation)   Richard Moss, U.S. Global Change Research Program Office, Washington, DC 2:00 PM J7.3 Contextual Considerations for the US Global Water Cycle Program (Invited Presentation)   Richard G. Lawford, NOAA/OAR, Silver Spring, MD; and S. Eden 2:15 PM J7.4 NASA plans for a Water- and Energy-cycle Resarch (WatER) Initiative to Advance Global Water Cycle Science and Prediction (Invited Presentation)   C. Adam Schlosser, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. L. Bras 2:30 PM J7.5 Water Cycle Research at the National Science Foundation (Invited Presentation)   Pamela L. Stephens, NSF, Arlington, VA 2:45 PM Questions and Discussions: Avissar, Moss, Lawford, Stephens, and Schlosser   3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hours 1:30–7:30 p.m.)   3:30 PM J7.6 NOAA Water Cycle Program (Invited Presentation)   Jin Huang, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD; and R. Lawford J7.7 DOE water cycle activities (Invited Presentation)   Wanda R. Ferrell, DOE, Germantown, MD 3:44 PM J7.7a DOE WATER CYCLE ACTIVITIES (INVITED PRESENTATION)   Wanda R. Ferrell, DOE, Germantown, MD; and T. Cress 3:59 PM J7.8 Overview of water resources research issues pertaining to the Bureau of Reclamation (Invited Presentation)   Shannon E. Cunniff, Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, DC 4:14 PM J7.9 A Strategy for Global Water Cycle Research   Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 4:29 PM J7.10 The U.S. Global Water Cycle Initiative and its Interface with the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) (Invited Presentation)   Soroosh Sorooshian, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and P. Try and M. P. L. Whitaker 4:44 PM J7.11 The water cycle across scales: An NCAR initiative   Roy Rasmussen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Hack, M. A. LeMone, M. Moncrieff, D. Parsons, K. Trenberth, T. Warner, and J. Wilson 4:59 PM J7.12 The U.S. Weather Research Program and its Contributions to Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather   Ward R. Seguin, NOAA/U.S. Weather Research Program Interagency Program Office, Silver Spring, MD; and J. E. Gaynor and R. Gall 5:14 PM Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP4 (Please note that the Formal Viewing Time for these posters will be on Thursday, 13 February at 9:45 a.m.)
	1:30 PM, Wednesday Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson
	5:30 PM, Wednesday Sessions End for the Day
	6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Wednesday Reception (Cash Bar)
	7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Wednesday AMS Annual Awards Banquet
Thursday, 13 February 2003
	8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday Joint Session 8 Role of vegetation and land cover/land use in the water cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizer: Roger Pielke, Sr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
8:30 AM J8.1 Observing and deriving land cover properties and vegetation dynamics for use in weather and climate models (Invited Presentation)   Mark A. Friedl, Boston University, Boston, MA; and X. Zhang and E. Tsvetsinskaya 9:00 AM J8.2 Land use and seasonal green vegetation cover of the Conterminous USA for use in numerical weather models   Kevin P. Gallo, NOAA/NESDIS and EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD; and T. Owen and B. Reed 9:15 AM J8.3 An evaluation of using real-time, satellite-derived vegetation fraction in the Eta model   David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and N. P. Kurkowski and M. E. Baldwin 9:30 AM Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP5   9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   11:00 AM J8.4 Role Of The Vegetation In Climate And Hydrological Cycle (Invited Presentation)   Pavel Kabat, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands 11:30 AM J8.5 Impact of Deforestation on Precipitation   Somnath Baidya Roy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and S. W. Pacala and C. P. Weaver 11:45 AM J8.6 The impact of fractional vegetation cover and leaf area index on warm season precipitation variability in global ensemble simulations   Michael Barlage, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng 12:00 PM J8.7 Representation of the effects sub-grid scale topography and landuse on the simulation of surface climate and hydrology   Filippo Giorgi, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; and J. Pal, R. Francisco, and A. Hildebrant
	8:30 AM-12:15 PM, Thursday Joint Session 9 Satellite Measurements: Hydrological Impact and Land Surface Data Assimilation (Joint with the 17th Conference on Hydrology and the 12th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation
Organizer: Ana P. Barros, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
8:30 AM J9.1 Use of Satellite Data Assimilation to Infer Land Surface Thermal Inertia   William M. Lapenta, NASA/MSFC, Huntsville, AL; and R. McNider, A. Pour Biazar, R. Suggs, G. Jedlovec, and S. Dembek 8:45 AM J9.2 Toward the real-time observation of hydrologic land surface fluxes from space: Data assimilation using the ensemble Kalman filter   Steven A. Margulis, MIT, Cambridge, MA; and D. Entekhabi, D. McLaughlin, and S. Dunne 9:00 AM J9.3 Integration of spaceborne precipitation and surface brightness temperature measurements using an Ensemble Kalman filter   Wade T. Crow, USDA/ARS, Beltsville, MD 9:15 AM J9.4 Assessing the impact of horizontal error correlations in forcing data   Rolf H. Reichle, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster 9:30 AM J9.5 Modeling Multiyear Surface Evapotranspiration with Remote Sensing Data   Marvin L. Wesely, ANL, Argonne, IL; and J. Song 9:45 AM Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break   11:00 AM J9.6 Enhancing the validation of remote sensing data   Michael P. Crane, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and T. DeFelice 11:15 AM J9.7 Detection of water vapor profiles and thin moisture layers from atmospheric radio occultations   Manuel de la Torre Juárez, JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and P. M. Nilsson 11:30 AM J9.8 Comparison of SeaWinds scatterometer data with a hydrologic process model for the assessment of snow melt dynamics   Venkataramana Rao Sridhar, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and K. C. McDonald and D. P. Lettenmaier 11:45 AM J9.9 Assimilation of Near-surface Soil Moisture Into the Three Layer Variable Infiltration Capacity Land-surface Model   Laura M. Parada, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and X. Liang 12:00 PM J9.10 The Validation of a Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Using Oklahoma Mesonet Data   Kodi Lynn Nemunaitis, Oklahoma Climate Survey and University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara
	9:00 AM, Thursday Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson
	9:45 AM, Thursday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday Joint Poster Session 4 U.S. Global Change Research Program Water Cycle Initiative Poster Session (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variation and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizer: Richard G. Lawford, NOAA/Office of Global Programs, Silver Spring, MD
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION JP4 WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY AT 5:15 P.M. AS PART OF SESSION J7     JP4.1 Integrating water cycle research activities at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center   Deborah R. Belvedere, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser and C. A. Schlosser   JP4.2 The second GEWEX Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP2)   Paul Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and T. Oki
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday Joint Poster Session 5 Role of Vegetation and Land Use/Land Cover in the water cycle Poster Session (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology)
Organizer: Roger Pielke, Sr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION JP5 WILL BE HELD AT 9:30 A.M. AS PART OF SESSION J8     JP5.1 The impact of urbanization on the precipitation component of the water cycle: A new perspective   J. Marshall Shepherd, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD JP5.2 Synoptic circulation impacts on near-surface moisure regimes in Phoenix, Arizona   Erinanne M. Saffell, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; and A. W. Ellis   JP5.3 Occurrence and persistence of hailstreaks in the vegetated land surface   Geoffrey M. Henebry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and I. C. Ratcliffe JP5.4 Low level jet development and its relation to surface inhomogeneities: RAMS LES simulations   Adrian Marroquin, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and E. Tollerud and F. Caracena   JP5.5 Evaluating the effects of land cover change on the hydrology of the Mississippi River Basin   Tracy Twine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and C. Kucharik, M. Coe, S. Donner, J. Lenters, and J. Foley   JP5.6 A Test of Irrigation's influence on Precipitation using RAMS   Nathan J. Moore, Duke University, Durham, NC; and S. A. Rojstaczer and R. Avissar   JP5.7 Studies of soil moisture content in the Lmd GCM   Thanh Ngo-duc Jr., LMD, Paris, France; and K. Laval, J. Polcher, and A. Cazenave   JP5.8 The impacts of climate change and variability on crop water use and irrigation requirements   Bhawan Singh, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada   JP5.9 Aggregation of remotely sensed vegetation and derived latent heat flux   Nathaniel A. Brunsell, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and R. R. Gillies, B. Lapenta, and S. Dembeck JP5.10 Soil properties affecting the adsorption of dissolved organic carbon in tropical ecosystems   Sonya Remington, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. Richey
	3:00 PM, Thursday Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hall open 1:30-6:30 p.m.)
	5:30 PM, Thursday Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	5:30 PM, Thursday Conference Ends
	6:00 PM, Thursday Simpsons Banquet
	8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Thursday Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific

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