Program: 17TH Conference on Hydrology (83rd Annual)

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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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; and the 17TH Conference on Hydrology )

Organizer: David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL

Papers:

9:00 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

Poster PDF (87.8 kB)

9:30 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

Poster PDF (82.3 kB)

9:45 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

10:00 AM

J1.0a

Welcoming Remarks

1

SMEX and SMACEX 2002: Soil Moisture and Soil Moisture-Atmosphere Coupling

Sponsor: 17TH Conference on Hydrology

Organizer: Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

9:00 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

9:15 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

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

9:30 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

Poster PDF (274.7 kB)

9:45 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

Poster PDF (2.3 MB)

10:00 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

Poster PDF (124.3 kB)

10:15 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

10:30 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

Poster PDF (300.2 kB)

1.8

Impact of soil moisture on boundary-layer cloud development

11:15 AM

1.4A

Coffee Break in poster session room

11:00 AM

1.0a

Introductory Remarks

11:45 AM

1.8a

Discussion

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; and the 17TH Conference on Hydrology )

Organizers: David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL; Xubin Zeng, The University of Arizona

Papers:

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

J2.3

Streamflow response to climate change (Invited Presentation)

P. C. D. Milly, USGS, Princeton, NJ

2:30 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

Poster PDF (487.2 kB)

2:45 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

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

3:00 PM

J2.6

Evaluations of estimates of freshwater discharge from continents

Kevin E. Trenberth, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and A. Dai

Poster PDF (124.1 kB)

3:15 PM

J2.7

Hydrological variability in the Amazon basin

Ning Zeng, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Mariotti

3:30 PM

J2.2a

Oral Briefings: 1�2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP1

4:00 PM

J2.2b

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; and the 17TH Conference on Hydrology )

Organizers: David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL; Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona

Papers:

JP1.0a

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

Poster PDF (498.7 kB)

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

Poster PDF (348.9 kB)

JP1.4

Influence of the North Atlantic Oscillation on spatial distribution of moisture characteristics

Valery N. Khokhlov, Odessa State Environmental University, Odessa, Ukraine

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

JP1.5

Water vapor in the upper troposphere during Asian monsoon season observed by MLS

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

http://terra.msrc.sunysb.edu/~dmyers/Revised.pdf

Poster PDF (62.6 kB)

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. K�mpfer

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

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

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

Poster PDF (165.4 kB)

JP1.15

Globally unified monsoon onset and retreat indexes

Xubin Zeng, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. Lu

Poster PDF (96.1 kB)

JP1.16

Subseasonal water vapor variability in the tropical tropopause region

Philip W. Mote, Northwest Research Associates, Bellevue, WA; and T. J. Dunkerton

Poster PDF (180.4 kB)

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

Poster PDF (210.9 kB)

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

Sessions End for the Day

Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

tue 11 feb

2

Land-Atmosphere Interactions 1: Regional, Continental and Global Scale Water and Energy Budgets

Sponsor: 17TH Conference on Hydrology

Organizer: Kaye L. Brubaker, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (448.0 kB)

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

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

9:29 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

Poster PDF (223.8 kB)

9:44 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

Poster PDF (137.6 kB)

9:58 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

Poster PDF (814.4 kB)

10:13 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

10:57 AM

2.5A

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

10:28 AM

2.4a

Oral Briefing: 1-2 minute presentation summarizing posters in p1

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 17TH Conference on Hydrology; and the Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges )

Organizer: Eve Gruntfest, University of Colorado

Papers:

8:30 AM

J4.1

Assessing the Needs of Users warm season of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts in Colorado

Rebecca Morss, NCAR, Boulder, CO

Poster PDF (37.3 kB)

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

Poster PDF (235.7 kB)

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

Poster PDF (331.8 kB)

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

http://hydrology.mit.edu/tRIBS/

Poster PDF (339.4 kB)

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

Poster PDF (135.5 kB)

9:45 AM

J4.6

Understanding the Mesoscale Processes of Flash Floods: Impacts on Prediction and Response

Matthew Kelsch, UCAR/COMET, Boulder, CO

http://www.comet.ucar.edu/class/FLOAT_2001/index.htm

Poster PDF (555.7 kB)

10:00 AM

J4.7

Some practical applications of Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction

Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWS, Pittsburgh, PA

Poster PDF (562.5 kB)

10:15 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

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

10:30 AM

J4.9

A Distributed Model for Flood Forecasting in the Arno River Basin (Italy)

Enrica Caporali, Universit� di Firenze, Firenze, Italy; and V. Tartaglia

10:45 AM

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

Poster PDF (398.9 kB)

11:00 AM

J4.5a

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; and the 17TH Conference on Hydrology )

Organizer: David N. Whiteman, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

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

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

http://virl.gsfc.nasa.gov/srl/index.htm

Poster PDF (245.2 kB)

9:30 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

Poster PDF (315.2 kB)

9:45 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

Poster PDF (495.2 kB)

10:00 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

Poster PDF (375.6 kB)

10:15 AM

J3.7

Free Tropospheric Humidity observations from METEOSAT water vapor channel data

R�my Roca, LMD, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; and H. Brogniez, L. Picon, and M. Desbois

Poster PDF (356.0 kB)

10:30 AM

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

11:00 AM

J3.9

Using Satellites to Monitor Surface Wetness

Alan Basist, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. Williams

Poster PDF (80.0 kB)

11:15 AM

J3.10

Soil moisture measurements and modeling for validating AMSR-E soil moisture products

Charles A. Laymon, USRA, Huntsville, AL; and F. Archer III, W. L. Crosson, and A. Limaye

11:30 AM

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

11:45 AM

J3.12

Satellite observations of river and wetland hydrologic processes

Douglas E. Alsdorf, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and D. P. Lettenmaier

12:00 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

12:15 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

12:30 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

Poster PDF (114.4 kB)

12:45 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

Poster PDF (240.4 kB)

1:00 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-M�ller, and V. Wulfmeyer

1:15 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. L�thi, and C. Schaer

Poster PDF (788.6 kB)

1:30 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

http://gandalf.met.fsu.edu/~psantos/research/bgt/

Poster PDF (172.7 kB)

1:45 PM

J3.20

Updating NOAA/NWS Rainfall Frequency Atlases

Geoffrey M. Bonnin, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and B. Lin and T. Parzybok

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hdsc

Poster PDF (154.5 kB)

2:00 PM

J3.2a

Oral Briefing: 1-2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP2

2:30 PM

J3.7a

Lunch Break

3:45 PM

J3.12a

Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30�6:30)

4:15 PM

J3.2b

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Poster Session 1

Land-Atmosphere Interactions Posters

Sponsor: 17TH Conference on Hydrology

Organizer: Kaye L. Brubaker, University of Maryland

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (270.7 kB)

P1.2

Online Intercomparison of TRMM and Other Global Gridded Precipitation Products

Zhong Liu, George Mason University/CSISS, Fairfax, VA and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and L. Chiu, W. Teng, H. Rui, and G. Serafino

Poster PDF (171.7 kB)

P1.3

Preliminary Results From a Regression Based Technique for Multisensor Rainfall Estimation

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

Poster PDF (359.6 kB)

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

http://

Poster PDF (74.4 kB)

P1.8

Modes of inter�annual variability of atmospheric moisture flux transport

Francina Dominguez, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; and P. Kumar

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)

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

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)

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

Poster PDF (185.9 kB)

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

Poster PDF (1.5 MB)

P1.13

Climatology of Soil Moisture Variables Using the Oklahoma Mesonet

Bradley G. Illston, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK OK; and J. B. Basara

Poster PDF (324.3 kB)

P1.14

Horizontal resolution experiments with an off-line land surface model

Yves Delage, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and S. B�lair 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

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)

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

St�phane B�lair, MSC, Dorval, QC, Canada; and Y. Delage, J. Mailhot, and J. F. Mahfouf

Poster PDF (585.5 kB)

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 17TH Conference on Hydrology; and the Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges )

Organizer: Richard A. Fulton, NOAA/NWS

Papers:

JP3.1

Statistical methods for nowcasting thunderstorm rainfall

Neil I. Fox, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and C. K. Wikle and B. Xu

Poster PDF (464.1 kB)

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

Poster PDF (530.3 kB)

JP3.4

Finding factors for fatal flash floods in Missouri

Elizabeth A. McCoy, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and N. I. Fox

Poster PDF (243.2 kB)

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

Poster PDF (173.9 kB)

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

Poster PDF (248.9 kB)

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

Poster PDF (206.5 kB)

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

Poster PDF (196.9 kB)

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

Poster PDF (496.4 kB)

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

http://www.civil.uwaterloo.ca/watflood/studies/nowcasting.htm

Poster PDF (785.6 kB)

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

Poster PDF (171.6 kB)

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

http://rams.atmos.colostate.edu/precip-proj/overnow/index.html

Poster PDF (1.7 MB)

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

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

JP3.18

Development of a Large-Scale Hydrologic Prediction System

Ji Chen, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA; and J. Roads

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

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

Poster PDF (207.6 kB)

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; and the 17TH Conference on Hydrology )

Organizer: David N. Whiteman, NASA/GSFC

Papers:

JP2.0a

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

Poster PDF (9.4 kB)

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

Poster PDF (5.9 kB)

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. K�mpfer

Poster PDF (731.3 kB)

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

Poster PDF (34.8 kB)

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

Poster PDF (227.2 kB)

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

Poster PDF (273.5 kB)

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

Poster PDF (635.0 kB)

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

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

http://

Poster PDF (612.7 kB)

3

Land-Atmosphere Interactions 2: Process Representation and Evaluation

Sponsor: 17TH Conference on Hydrology

Organizer: Deborah K. Nykanen, Michigan Technological University

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (222.1 kB)

1:45 PM

3.2

The interplay between vegetation evapotranspiration processes and the seasonal soil moisture evolution at the catchment scale

Reto St�ckli, ETH, Z�rich, 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 III, 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

Poster PDF (382.1 kB)

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

Poster PDF (132.1 kB)

3:00 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

3:15 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

3:30 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

3:45 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

4:00 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

Poster PDF (4.0 MB)

4:15 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

Poster PDF (28.2 kB)

4:30 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

Poster PDF (43.5 kB)

4:45 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

Poster PDF (63.1 kB)

5:00 PM

3.6a

Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30�6:30 p.m.)

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 17TH Conference on Hydrology; and the Impacts of Water Variability: Benefits and Challenges )

Organizer: Robert S. Davis, NOAA/NWSFO

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (149.8 kB)

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

Poster PDF (954.2 kB)

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

Poster PDF (618.2 kB)

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

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

Poster PDF (67.7 kB)

3:15 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

Poster PDF (244.5 kB)

3:30 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

3:45 PM

J5.10

Chimera watersheds to understand the relative importance of rainfall distribution in semi-distributed rainfall-runoff models

Vazken Andr�assian, Cemagref, Antony, France; and A. Oddos, C. Michel, and C. Perrin

Poster PDF (360.3 kB)

4:00 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

http://w3.gkss.de/KSH

Poster PDF (165.2 kB)

4:15 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

4:30 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

http://www.usbr.gov/rsmg/nexrad

Poster PDF (121.6 kB)

4:45 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

Poster PDF (230.2 kB)

5:00 PM

J5.6a

Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30�6:30 p.m.)

Conference Ends

Special Address. Conrad C. Lautenbacher, NOAA, Washington, DC

Sessions End for the Day

wed 12 feb

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; and the 17TH Conference on Hydrology )

Organizer: Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (191.8 kB)

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

Poster PDF (114.6 kB)

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

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere; the 17TH Conference on Hydrology; and the 5th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry: Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds )

Papers:

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 Jr., and A. Trayanov

Poster PDF (612.3 kB)

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

Poster PDF (95.9 kB)

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

Poster PDF (164.8 kB)

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

Poster PDF (457.6 kB)

Coffee Break in the Ballroom Foyer, 2nd Level, Promenade

Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology

Lunch Break

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; the 17TH Conference on Hydrology; and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations )

Organizer: Richard G. Lawford, NOAA/Office of Global Programs

Papers:

1:25 PM

J7.1

An overview of global water cycle scientific issues (Invited Presentation)

Roni Avissar, Duke University, Durham, NC

1:40 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

1:55 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

2:10 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

2:25 PM

J7.5

Water Cycle Research at the National Science Foundation (Invited Presentation)

Pamela L. Stephens, NSF, Arlington, VA

2:40 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)

2:55 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

http://www.usbr.gov/research

3:10 PM

J7.9

A Strategy for Global Water Cycle Research

Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

3:25 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

3:40 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

Poster PDF (653.4 kB)

3:55 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

Poster PDF (232.0 kB)

4:10 PM

J7.0a

Opening Remarks by James Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (NOAA)

4:15 PM

J7.5a

Questions and Discussions: Avissar, Moss, Lawford, Stephens, and Schlosser

4:30 PM

J7.7a

DOE WATER CYCLE ACTIVITIES (INVITED PRESENTATION)

Wanda R. Ferrell, DOE, Germantown, MD; and T. Cress

4:45 PM

J7.12a

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.)

5:00 PM

J7.5b

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hours 1:30�7:30 p.m.)

Simpsons Symposium�A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson

Sessions End for the Day

Reception (Cash Bar)

AMS Annual Awards Banquet

thur 13 feb

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; and the 17TH Conference on Hydrology )

Organizer: Roger Pielke Sr., Colorado State University

Papers:

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

http://geography.bu.edu/landcover/

Poster PDF (126.5 kB)

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

Poster PDF (108.0 kB)

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

Poster PDF (1.3 MB)

9:30 AM

J8.4

Role Of The Vegetation In Climate And Hydrological Cycle (Invited Presentation)

Pavel Kabat, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

10:00 AM

J8.5

Impact of Deforestation on Precipitation

Somnath Baidya Roy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and S. W. Pacala and C. P. Weaver

10:15 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

http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/~barlage/AMSannual/index.html

Poster PDF (2.1 MB)

10:30 AM

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

10:45 AM

J8.3a

Oral Briefings: 1�2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP5

11:00 AM

J8.3b

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

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

Sponsors: (Joint between the 17TH Conference on Hydrology; and the 12th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation )

Organizer: Ana P. Barros, Harvard University

Papers:

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

Poster PDF (170.6 kB)

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

Poster PDF (272.3 kB)

9:45 AM

J9.6

Enhancing the validation of remote sensing data

Michael P. Crane, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and T. DeFelice

10:00 AM

J9.7

Detection of water vapor profiles and thin moisture layers from atmospheric radio occultations

Manuel de la Torre Ju�rez, JPL/Caltech, Pasadena, CA; and P. M. Nilsson

10:15 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

10:30 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

Poster PDF (7.5 kB)

10:45 AM

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

Poster PDF (337.4 kB)

11:00 AM

J9.5a

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

Simpsons Symposium�A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson

Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; the 17TH Conference on Hydrology; and the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations )

Organizer: Richard G. Lawford, NOAA/Office of Global Programs

Papers:

JP4.0a

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

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)

Sponsors: (Joint between the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; and the 17TH Conference on Hydrology )

Organizer: Roger Pielke Sr., Colorado State University

Papers:

JP5.0a

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

Poster PDF (149.6 kB)

JP5.2

Synoptic circulation impacts on near-surface moisure regimes in Phoenix, Arizona

JP5.3

Occurrence and persistence of hailstreaks in the vegetated land surface

Geoffrey M. Henebry, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and I. C. Ratcliffe

Poster PDF (564.0 kB)

JP5.4

Low level jet development and its relation to surface inhomogeneities: RAMS LES simulations

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

Poster PDF (558.8 kB)

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 Sr.

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

Poster PDF (271.8 kB)

JP5.10

Soil properties affecting the adsorption of dissolved organic carbon in tropical ecosystems

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hall open 1:30-6:30 p.m.)

Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

Conference Ends

Simpsons Banquet

Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific

: 17TH Conference on Hydrology

Saturday, 8 February 2003

12:00 AM-12:00 AM: Saturday, 8 February 2003

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