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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
	10:45 AM-2:30 PM, Monday Session 1 International H2O Project (IHOP)
Organizer: David B. Parsons, NCAR/ATD, Boulder, CO
10:45 AM 1.1 An Overview of the International H2O Project (IHOP_2002) (Invited Presentation)   Tammy M. Weckwerth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and D. B. Parsons 11:15 AM 1.2 Utilizing the IHOP 2002 data to study the variability in surface evaporation, runoff, and precipitation for the SGP   Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. A. LeMone, D. N. Yates, R. L. Grossman, T. Horst, R. H. Cuenca, D. S. Niyogi, and P. Blanken 11:30 AM 1.3 Mesoscale variability in CBL structure observed during IHOP: causes and implications for convective initiation   Kenneth J. Davis, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and K. J. Craig, A. R. Desai, S. Kang, N. L. Seaman, D. R. Stauffer, B. P. Reen, and S. J. Richardson 11:45 AM 1.4 The Effects of Surface Heterogeneity on Boundary-Layer Structure and Energy Fluxes from Aircraft   Margaret A. LeMone, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and R. L. Grossman, F. Chen, K. Davis, and B. Geerts 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 1.5 Water vapor variations in echo plumes in the convective boundary layer   Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and Q. Miao 1:45 PM 1.6 Large-scale water vapor, aerosol, and cloud distributions determined from airborne lidar (LASE) measurements during the IHOP field experiment   Edward V. Browell, NASA/LARC, Hampton, VA; and S. Ismail, R. A. Ferrare, S. A. Kooi, A. Notari, and C. F. Butler 1.7 Preliminary Results and Observations Gauging the Performance of the LAPS Water Vapor Analysis During IHOP   Daniel L Birkenheuer, NOAA/ERL/FSL, Boulder, CO 1:59 PM 1.7a The Impact of GOES-11 Data on IHOP (Formerly Paper number P1.2)   Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD 2:14 PM Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session P1
	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-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
	2:30 PM-2:30 PM, Monday Poster Session 1 International H20 Project (IHOP)
Organizer: David B. Parsons, NCAR/ATD, Boulder, CO
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION P1 WILL BE HELD AT 2:15 P.M. AS PART OF SESSION 1     P1.1 LIDAR MEASUREMETNS OF WIND, MOISTURE AND BOUNDARY LAYER EVOLOUTION IN A DRYLINE DURING IHOP2002   Belay B. Demoz, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and K. Evans, P. Di Girolamo, Z. Wang, D. Whiteman, G. Schwemmer, B. Gentry, D. Miller, and S. P. Palm   P1.2 Paper moved to Session 1, new paper number 1.7A     P1.3 Inferring convectively-induced roll structures and convergence in the boundary layer using profiling instruments: An application to convective initiation during IHOP_2002   John R. Mecikalski, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and K. M. Bedka, R. D. Torn, W. F. Feltz, and T. M. Weckwerth P1.4 IHOP observations of moisture transport by the Great Plains low level jet   Edward I. Tollerud, NOAA/FSL, Boulder, CO; and F. Caracena, C. Girz, B. Jamison, S. Koch, and A. Marroquin   P1.5 12 June 2002 Rapid Water Vapor Transitions During the IHOP Field Program   Wayne F. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and D. Posselt, J. R. Mecikalski, G. S. Wade, and T. J. Schmit   P1.6 Simulation of an IHOP convective initiation case for GIFTS forward model and algorithm development   Derek J. Posselt, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. Olson, B. Osborne, W. F. Feltz, J. R. Mecikalski, R. Aune, R. O. Knuteson, H. E. Revercomb, and W. L. Smith
	4:00 PM-5:15 PM, Monday Session 2 Linkages between the carbon and water cycles
Organizer: Scott Denning, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
4:00 PM 2.1 Recent Trends in hydrologic balance have enhanced the terrestrial carbon sink in the United States   Ramakrishna Nemani, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and M. White and S. Running 4:15 PM 2.2 Effects of Large Rivers and Inundated Land on Mesoscale Circulations and Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations the Brazilian Amazon   Lixin Lu, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and A. S. Denning, E. Inazawa, M. A. F. Silva Dias, P. Silva Dias, R. L. Desjardins, J. Richey, M. Uliasz, and P. S. Bakwin 4:30 PM 2.3 Linking seasonal inundation with ecological, hydrological and biogeochemical processes in the Amazon basin   John M. Melack, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 4:45 PM 2.4 The Impact of Ecosystem Drought Stress on Tropical Precipitation and Carbon Exchange   Jun Liu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 5:00 PM 2.5 The effect of climate on inter-annual variability of terrestrial CO2 fluxes   Kevin Schaefer, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. S. Denning, N. Suits, J. Kaduk, I. Baker, S. Los, and L. Prihodko
	5:15 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
	9:45 AM, Tuesday Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
	9:45 AM-11:00 AM, Tuesday Joint Poster Session 3 Air-Sea Interaction and the Water Cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and 12th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere)
JP3.1 The Air-Sea Moisture Transfer Coefficient for Wind Speed from 0 to 20 ms-1   C. W. Fairall, NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and E. F. Bradley and J. B. Edson   JP3.2 Decadal salinity changes in the California Current   Niklas Schneider, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and E. Di Lorenzo and P. P. Niiler   JP3.3 On the enhancement of evaporation from a large northern lake by the entrainment of warm, dry air   Peter D. Blanken, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and W. R. Rouse and W. M. Schertzer   JP3.4 Variability of freshwater flux derived from satellite data   Masahisa Kubota, Tokai University, Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan; and G. Haruta and Y. Yasuda
	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 4 Water Vapor Observations and Processes (Joint with 14th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations, 7th Symp. on IOS, Fifth Conf. on Atmospheric Chemistry, and Symp. on Observing and Understanding the Varability of Water in Weather and Climate)
Organizer: Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL, Silver Spring, MD
1:30 PM J4.1 A Summary of the SPARC Water Vapor Assessment Report   Dieter Kley, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany; and J. M. Russell 1:45 PM J4.2 Cross-Tropopause Convective Transport of Water Vapor: Model Study, Satellite Observation, and Implications   Pao K. Wang, Unversity of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 2:00 PM J4.3 Variations in stratospheric water vapor and tropical tropopause temperatures   William J. Randel, NCAR, Boulder, CO 2:15 PM J4.4 Cloud physics and water vapor in the evanescent convection altitude regime   Steven C. Sherwood, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and A. Dessler 2:30 PM J4.5 Modeling water vapor and its changes in the tropical tropopause region   Andrew Gettelman, NCAR, Boulder, CO 2:45 PM J4.6 Validating and Understanding the Water Vapor and Cloud Feedbacks in the NCAR CCSM   De-Zheng Sun, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and T. Zhang, J. Fasullo, and A. Roubicek 3:00 PM Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30 p.m.)   3:30 PM J4.7 A new look at cloud radiative forcing: Coupling with water vapor forcing   B. J. Sohn, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea; and J. Schmetz and V. Ramanathan 3:45 PM J4.8 Spatio-temporal analysis and comparison of total precipitable water from different datasets   Arief Sudradjat, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. Ferraro 4:00 PM J4.9 Global precipitable water variations since 1973 based on preliminary radiosonde instrument adjustments   Steven R. Schroeder, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 4:15 PM J4.10 Relative importance of the land surface latent flux and large-scale moisture transport in determining the onset of rainy season over Amazon   R. Fu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 4:30 PM J4.11 Surface evaporation and the greenhouse effect over the intertropical oceans   Rémy Roca, LMD, Palaiseau, France; and A. Gershunov 4:45 PM J4.12 Regional Hydrological Cycle and Weather and Climate in the Contiguous United States   Qi Hu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and S. Feng 5:00 PM J4.13 The atmospheric moisture budget in the Arctic—introducing and applying a consistent method to use radiosonde data   Reinhard M. Hagenbrock, Univ. of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; and M. Göber, F. Ament, and A. Hense 5:15 PM J4.14 Moisture Variations Associated with the Initiation of Madden-Julian Oscillation   Bryan C. Weare, University of California, Davis, CA
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Session 3 Weather and climate modeling of water in all its phases
Organizer: Paul Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD
1:30 PM 3.1 Climate changes in the partitioning of water in convective storms: thermostat or iris? (Invited Presentation)   Anthony D. DelGenio, NASA/GISS, New York, NY 2:00 PM 3.2 Improved Land Surface Initial Conditions for Seasonal Weather Forecasts   Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Suarez, M. Rodell, U. Jambor, P. Liu, R. Reichle, and P. Houser 2:15 PM 3.3 Predictability of Summertime North American Precipitation   Prashant D. Sardeshmukh, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and G. P. Compo 2:30 PM 3.4 A proposed new metric for quantifying the climatic effects of human-caused alterations to the global water cycle   Roger A. Pielke Sr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and T. N. Chase 2:45 PM 3.5 Model-based estimates of moisture cycling over the US and globe   David A. Salstein, AER, Lexington, MA; and R. D. Rosen and H. Kanamaru 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 3.6 The effects of microscale and mesoscale landscape heterogeneity on weather and climate (Invited Presentation)   Roni Avissar, Duke University, Durham, NC; and C. P. Weaver, R. R. Silva, S. Baidya Roy, and D. Werth 4:00 PM 3.7 Sequences of Precipitation and Organized Convection: Dynamics and Parameterization   Mitchell W. Moncrieff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Liu 4:15 PM 3.8 The Water Cycle and Precipitation Recycling during the 1993 United States Flood   Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GMAO, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Takacs, S. Schubert, and G. K. Walker 4:30 PM 3.9 An investigation of the sensitivity of model predictions of precipitation to vertical grid spacing   Keeley R. Costigan, LANL, Los Alamos, NM 4:45 PM 3.10 Intercomparison of global reanalyses and regional simulations of cold season water budgets in the western U.S   L. Ruby Leung, PNNL, Richland, WA; and Y. Qian, J. Han, and J. O. Roads 5:00 PM Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session P2 (Please note that the Formal Viewing Time for these posters will be on Thursday, 13 February at 9:45 a.m.)
	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, Wednesday Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson
	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
	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
	3:30 PM-5:15 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 5 Air-Sea interaction and the water cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and understanding the variability of water in weather and Climate and the 12th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere)
Organizer: Yolande L. Serra, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
3:30 PM J5.1 Cloud microphysics, atmospheric water, and air-sea interactions—a connection?   Steven Sherwood, Yale University, New Haven, CT 4:00 PM J5.2 A case study of the Intertropical Convergence Zone at the ocean surface with high resolution satellite data   Scott Curtis, JCET/Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD; and R. F. Adler and G. J. Huffman 4:15 PM J5.3 Onset of the 2002 North American Monsoon: Relation to Gulf of California Sea Surface Temperatures   David L. Mitchell, DRI, Reno, NV; and D. C. Ivanova and K. Redmond 4:30 PM J5.4 Effects of precipitation on the tropical western Pacific ocean using a coupled single–column model   Carol Anne Clayson, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 4:45 PM J5.5 Precipitation and freshwater lens formation in the tropical western Pacific   Jon Schrage, Creighton University, Omaha, NE; and C. A. Clayson 5:00 PM J5.6 Natural and artificial rain enhancement by sea spray   Ronen Lahav, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and D. Rosenfeld
	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 Session 4 Field experiments and surface mesonetworks
Organizer: Thomas Loveland, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD
8:30 AM 4.1 Contributions of GEWEX Continental-scale Experiments to Climate Understanding and Prediction (Invited Presentation)   Richard G. Lawford, OAR, Silver Spring, MD 9:00 AM 4.2 Overview of the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME)   Wayne Higgins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD 9:15 AM 4.3 Observations of Diverse Precipitating Cloud Systems Utilizing Ground-based Doppler Radar Profilers for the Remote Sensing of Precipitating Clouds   Kenneth S. Gage, NOAA/AL, Boulder, CO; and C. R. Williams 9:30 AM Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Each Poster in Session P3   9:45 AM Formal poster viewing with coffee break   11:00 AM 4.4 An Overview of the Bow Echo and MCV Experiment (BAMEX)   Christopher A. Davis, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. Biggerstaff, L. Bosart, G. Bryan, D. Dowell, R. Johns, D. Jorgensen, B. Klimowski, K. Knupp, W. C. Lee, R. Przybylinski, G. Schmocker, J. Trapp, S. Trier, R. Wakimoto, M. Weisman, and C. Ziegler 11:15 AM 4.5 African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA): An International Research Project and Field Campaign   Chris Thorncroft, SUNY, Albany, NY; and T. Lebel and J. L. Redelsperger 4.6 On the Sources of Arizona Monsoon Moisture—Stable Isotopic Composition   Eric A. Betterton, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and B. Barbaris 11:30 AM 4.7 Atmospheric rivers over the eastern Pacific: Satellite and aircraft observations during the CALJET experiment in 1997/98   F. Martin Ralph, NOAA/ERL/ETL, Boulder, CO; and P. J. Neiman and G. A. Wick 11:45 AM 4.8 Water cycle variability over a small watershed: a one-month comparison of measured and modeled precipitation over the Southern Great Plains   Mark A. Miller, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY; and D. T. Troyan, N. L. Miller, S. Kemball-Cook, J. Jin, and K. R. Costigan
	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 Poster Session 2 Weather and Climate Modeling of Water in all its Phases Poster Sessions
Organizer: Paul Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION P2 WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY AT 5:00 P.M. AS PART OF SESSION 3     P2.1 Interannual variability and continental runoff in the CCSM2 control simulation   Marcia L. Branstetter, ORNL, Oak Ridge, TN; and D. J. Erickson and J. B. Drake P2.2 Modeling Mackenzie basin surface water balance during CAGES with the Canadian Regional Climate Model   Murray D. MacKay, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and K. Szeto, D. Verseghy, F. Seglenieks, E. D. Soulis, K. R. Snelgrove, and A. Walker   P2.3 Modelling hydrologic conditions in present and future climates—model performances for recent conditions in coastal British Columbia   Paul H. Whitfield, MSC, Vancouver, BC, Canada; and A. J. Cannon, J. Y. Wang, and C. J. Reynolds   P2.4 Seasonal Precipitation Simulations and Predictions over North America with the Eta Regional Climate Model   Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell   P2.5 Tropical precipitation patterns in response to a local warm SST area placed at the equator of an aqua planet: an ensemble study   Kensuke Nakajima, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan; and M. Ishiwatari, S. I. Takehiro, E. Toyoda, and Y. Y. Hayashi   P2.6 Using a perturbation methodology in a mesoscale atmospheric model to assess the variability of a flash flood rainfall amount in a watershed under current climate conditions   Milton S. Speer, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and L. M. Leslie   P2.7 Using observations to develop, initialize, and validate two land-surface schemes within ARPS   Jerald A. Brotzge, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Weber   P2.8 Paper moved to Poster Session P3, New paper Number P3.2A     P2.9 Assessing the effect of initial soil moisture on seasonal predictions using the NCEP GCM   Cheng-Hsuan Lu, RSIS and NOAA/NWS/NCEP EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell, H. M. H. Juang, H. L. Pan, and S. Moorthi   P2.10 Coupling a distributed hydrological model to regional climate model output: An evaluation of experiments for the Rhine basin in Europe   Jan Kleinn, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Frei, J. Gurtz, P. L. Vidale, and C. Schär   P2.11 Effects of Moisture on Baroclinic Lifecycles   Maurizio Fantini, ISAC-CNR, Bologna, Italy   P2.12 Estimating predictability and uncertainty in simulating the water cycle with a Regional Climate Model   P. L. Vidale, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and D. Lüthi, C. Frei, S. Seneviratne, and C. Schär P2.13 Evaluation of a parameterization for subgrid cloud variability using ARM data   Joel R. Norris, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and S. A. Klein   P2.14 Impact of the Northwest Mexican Monsoon on Precipitation in the Central United States: A Moisture and PV Transport Perspective   Stephen M. Saleeby, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton   P2.15 THE IMPACT OF A REALISTIC VEGETATION ANNUAL CYCLE ON CLIMATE AND HYDROLOGY IN THE MET OFFICE UNIFIED MODEL   David M. Lawrence, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and J. M. Slingo
	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 Poster Session 3 Field Experiments and Surface Mesonetworks
Organizer: Thomas Loveland, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION P3 WILL BE HELD AT 9:30 A.M. AS PART OF SESSION 4     P3.1 Contributions from California Coastal-Zone Surface Fluxes to Heavy Coastal Precipitation: A Case Study from an El Niño Year   P. Ola G. Persson, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado and NOAA/ETL, Boulder, CO; and B. Walter, P. J. Neiman, and F. M. Ralph   P3.2 Daily to annual meteorological patterns at high elevation in the North American Monsoon region   Franco Biondi, University of Nevada, Reno, NV   P3.2A Geostatistical modeling of regional monsoon precipitation in Mexico (Formerly paper number P2.8)   Franco Biondi, University of Nevada, Reno, NV   P3.3 Improving the observation of the water cycle in Iowa using the Iowa Environmental Mesonet   Dennis P. Todey, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and D. E. Herzmann
	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
	1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Thursday Session 5 Assimilation of water data in all its phases
Organizer: Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
1:30 PM 5.1 The analysis of moisture in the ECMWF system (Invited Presentation)   Anton Beljaars, ECMWF, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom 2:00 PM 5.2 The Tropospheric Humidity Trends of NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis before the Satellite Era   S.-K. Yang, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and M. Kanamitsu, W. Ebisuzaki, A. J. Miller, and G. Potter 2:15 PM 5.3 Assimilation of High-Resolution Dial Water Vapour Measurements into the Mesoscale Weather Forecast Model of the German Weather Service   Hans-Stefan Bauer, Hohenheim University, Stuttgart, Germany; and V. Wulfmeyer, A. Rhodin, and L. Kornblueh 2:30 PM 5.4 Better weather prediction and climate diagnostics using rainfall measurements from space   Arthur Y. Hou, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Q. Zhang, J. L. Li, and O. Reale 5.5 Assimilation of the GPS-derived Integrated Water Vapour in the aLpine Model   Guergana P. Guerova, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; and J. M. Bettems and C. Matzler 2:44 PM Coffee Break   3:14 PM 5.5a Improving the precipitation prediction using GPS data and a physical initialization procedure (Formerly Paper Number 5.9)   Ana M. B. Nunes, Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Cimáticos, Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil; and J. P. Bonatti 3:29 PM 5.6 Regional Data Assimilation at NCEP: Recent advancements in the assimilation of precipitation, clouds, water vapor, soil moisture and snowpack (Invited Presentation)   Kenneth E. Mitchell, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and E. Rogers, D. Parrish, Y. Lin, G. DiMego, M. Ek, D. Lohmann, B. Ferrier, F. Mesinger, P. Shafran, and W. Wu 3:59 PM 5.7 NCEP Regional Reanalysis   Fedor Mesinger, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC and UCAR, Camp Springs, MD; and G. DiMego, E. Kalnay, P. Shafran, W. Ebisuzaki, Y. Fan, R. Grumbine, W. Higgins, Y. Lin, K. Mitchell, D. Parrish, E. Rogers, W. Shi, D. Stokes, and J. Woolen 4:14 PM 5.8 Land Data Assimilation Systems   Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 4:28 PM 5.9 Paper moved to 5.5A within this session
	4:30 PM, Thursday Symposium Ends
	5:30 PM, Thursday Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)
	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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