83rd Annual

: Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate

Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate

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Saturday, 8 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Saturday, 8 February 2003


SAT 8 FEB

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Saturday, 8 February 2003


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-5:00 PM: Saturday, 8 February 2003


Conference Registration*

Sunday, 9 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Sunday, 9 February 2003


SUN 9 FEB

7:30 AM-9:00 AM: Sunday, 9 February 2003


Short Course Registration

9:00 AM-6:00 PM: Sunday, 9 February 2003


Conference Registration

Monday, 10 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Monday, 10 February 2003


MON 10 FEB

7:30 AM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


Conference Registration (continues through Thursday, 13 February)

9:00 AM-10:15 AM: Monday, 10 February 2003


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
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
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
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
Welcoming Remarks

10:45 AM-2:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


1
International H2O Project (IHOP)
Sponsor: Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate
Organizer: David B. Parsons, NCAR/ATD

Papers:
  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

http://www.atd.ucar.edu/dir_off/projects/2002/IHOP.html

Poster PDF (1.1 MB)
  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

Poster PDF (465.3 kB)
  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

Poster PDF (243.9 kB)
  12:00 PM
1.5
Water vapor variations in echo plumes in the convective boundary layer
Bart Geerts, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY; and Q. Miao

http://www-das.uwyo.edu/wcr/projects/ihop02/

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)
  12:15 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

Poster PDF (183.6 kB)
 
1.7
Preliminary Results and Observations Gauging the Performance of the LAPS Water Vapor Analysis During IHOP

  12:30 PM
Lunch Break

  2:00 PM
The Impact of GOES-11 Data on IHOP (Formerly Paper number P1.2)
Robert J. Kuligowski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD

Poster PDF (428.4 kB)
  2:15 PM
Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session P1

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


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
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
Interannual variability of tropospheric water vapour
Mark P. McCarthy, Met Office, Bracknell, Berks., United Kingdom

  2:00 PM
  2:30 PM
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
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
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
Hydrological variability in the Amazon basin
Ning Zeng, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and A. Mariotti

  3:30 PM
Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP1

  4:00 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

2:30 PM-2:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


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:
 
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION JP1 WILL BE HELD AT 2:00 P.M. AS PART OF SESSION J2

 
On the small scale structure of convective precipitation
Thomas Hauf, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany; and M. Theusner

Poster PDF (498.7 kB)
 
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

 
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)
 
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

 
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)
 
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

 
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

 
Estimates of surface moisture flux over North America using dynamically-consistent wind fields
Matthew Newman, NOAA/ERL/CDC, Boulder, CO; and P. D. Sardeshmukh

 
New Estimates of Continental Discharge and Oceanic Freshwater Transport
Aiguo Dai, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and K. E. Trenberth

Poster PDF (1.6 MB)
 
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)
 
Globally unified monsoon onset and retreat indexes
Xubin Zeng, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and E. Lu

Poster PDF (96.1 kB)
 
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)
 
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)
 
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


Poster Session 1
International H20 Project (IHOP)
Sponsor: Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate
Organizer: David B. Parsons, NCAR/ATD

Papers:
 
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION P1 WILL BE HELD AT 2:15 P.M. AS PART OF SESSION 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

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

Poster PDF (731.3 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (438.0 kB)
 
P1.4
IHOP observations of moisture transport by the Great Plains low level jet

 
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

Poster PDF (2.0 MB)
 
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

Poster PDF (308.0 kB)

4:00 PM-5:15 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


2
Linkages between the carbon and water cycles
Sponsor: Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate
Organizer: Scott Denning, Colorado State University

Papers:
  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

http://www.forestry.umt.edu/ntsg

Poster PDF (169.3 kB)
  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
  4:45 PM
2.4
  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

http://biocycle.atmos.colostate.edu/

Poster PDF (1.9 MB)

5:15 PM-5:15 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


Sessions end for the day

5:30 PM-7:30 PM: Monday, 10 February 2003


Formal Opening of Exhibits with Reception (Cash Bar)

Tuesday, 11 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


TUE 11 FEB

8:30 AM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


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
Mesonetworks and Surface Instrumentation (Invited Presentation)
Scott J. Richardson, Penn State University, University Park, PA

  9:00 AM
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
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
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
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
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
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

Poster PDF (356.0 kB)
  11:00 AM
Using Satellites to Monitor Surface Wetness
Alan Basist, NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and C. Williams

Poster PDF (80.0 kB)
  11:15 AM
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
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
Satellite observations of river and wetland hydrologic processes
Douglas E. Alsdorf, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and D. P. Lettenmaier

  12:00 PM
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
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
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
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
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

  1:30 PM
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
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
Oral Briefing: 1-2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP2

  2:30 PM
Lunch Break

  3:45 PM
Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30–6:30)

  4:15 PM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


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)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate )

Papers:
 
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

Poster PDF (323.5 kB)
 
Decadal salinity changes in the California Current
Niklas Schneider, SIO, La Jolla, CA; and E. Di Lorenzo and P. P. Niiler

 
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

 
Variability of freshwater flux derived from satellite data
Masahisa Kubota, Tokai University, Shimizu, Shizuoka, Japan; and G. Haruta and Y. Yasuda

Poster PDF (180.9 kB)

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


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:
 
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION JP2 WILL BE HELD AT 9:45 A.M. AS PART OF SESSION J3

 
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)
 
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)
 
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

Poster PDF (731.3 kB)
 
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)
 
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

 
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)
 
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

 
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)
 
Analysis of rainfall rates for West Africa using satellite observations and the NCEP RSM
Andrea M. Sealy, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph

 
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)
 
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

 
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

 
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)

1:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


3
Weather and climate modeling of water in all its phases
Sponsor: Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate
Organizer: Paul Dirmeyer, COLA

Papers:
  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

Poster PDF (65.2 kB)
  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

Poster PDF (467.1 kB)
  3:00 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

  3:30 PM
3.7
Sequences of Precipitation and Organized Convection: Dynamics and Parameterization
Mitchell W. Moncrieff, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and C. Liu

Poster PDF (592.2 kB)
  3:45 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

http://dao.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Poster PDF (314.6 kB)
  4:15 PM
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

  4:30 PM
Coffee Break

  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.)


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)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 14th Symposium on Global Change and Climate Variations; the 7th Symposium on IOS: The Water Cycle; the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate; and the 5th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry: Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds )
Organizer: Dian J. Seidel, NOAA/ARL

Papers:
  1:30 PM
A Summary of the SPARC Water Vapor Assessment Report
Dieter Kley, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany; and J. M. Russell III

  2:15 PM
Cloud physics and water vapor in the evanescent convection altitude regime
Steven C. Sherwood, Yale University, New Haven, CT; and A. Dessler

Poster PDF (53.4 kB)
  2:30 PM
  2:45 PM
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
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

  3:15 PM
Spatio-temporal analysis and comparison of total precipitable water from different datasets
Arief Sudradjat, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and R. Ferraro

Poster PDF (61.0 kB)
  3:30 PM
  4:00 PM
Surface evaporation and the greenhouse effect over the intertropical oceans
Rémy Roca, LMD, Palaiseau, France; and A. Gershunov

  4:15 PM
Regional Hydrological Cycle and Weather and Climate in the Contiguous United States
Qi Hu, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and S. Feng

Poster PDF (490.0 kB)
  4:30 PM
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

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)
  4:45 PM
Moisture Variations Associated with the Initiation of Madden-Julian Oscillation
Bryan C. Weare, University of California, Davis, CA

  5:00 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibits open 1:30–6:30 p.m.)

5:00 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


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

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Tuesday, 11 February 2003


Sessions end for the day

Wednesday, 12 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


WED 12 FEB

8:30 AM-8:30 AM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson

8:30 AM-9:30 AM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


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
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
  9:00 AM
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
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, 12 February 2003


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

10:00 AM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Presidential Forum: Administration Priorities in Climate Change Research and Technology

12:00 PM-12:00 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Lunch Break

1:25 PM-5:29 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


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
  1:40 PM
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
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
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

  2:40 PM
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
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
A Strategy for Global Water Cycle Research
Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

  3:25 PM
  3:40 PM
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
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
Opening Remarks by James Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (NOAA)

  4:15 PM
Questions and Discussions: Avissar, Moss, Lawford, Stephens, and Schlosser

  4:30 PM
DOE WATER CYCLE ACTIVITIES (INVITED PRESENTATION)
Wanda R. Ferrell, DOE, Germantown, MD; and T. Cress

  4:45 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.)

  5:00 PM
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall (Exhibit Hours 1:30–7:30 p.m.)

1:30 PM-1:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson

3:30 PM-5:15 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


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)
Sponsors: (Joint between the 12th Conference on Interactions of the Sea and Atmosphere; and the Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate )
Organizer: Yolande L. Serra, JISAO/Univ. of Washington

Papers:
  3:30 PM
  4:00 PM
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

Poster PDF (46.2 kB)
  4:15 PM
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

Poster PDF (4.0 MB)
  4:30 PM
  4:45 PM
Precipitation and freshwater lens formation in the tropical western Pacific
Jon Schrage, Creighton University, Omaha, NE; and C. A. Clayson

Poster PDF (907.7 kB)
  5:00 PM
Natural and artificial rain enhancement by sea spray
Ronen Lahav, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel; and D. Rosenfeld

Poster PDF (217.9 kB)

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Sessions end for the day

6:00 PM-7:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


Reception (Cash Bar)

7:30 PM-9:30 PM: Wednesday, 12 February 2003


AMS Annual Awards Banquet

Thursday, 13 February 2003

6:00 AM-6:00 AM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


THUR 13 FEB

8:30 AM-12:15 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


4
Field experiments and surface mesonetworks
Sponsor: Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate
Organizer: Thomas Loveland, USGS

Papers:
  9:00 AM
4.2
Overview of the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME)
Wayne Higgins, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD

Poster PDF (122.0 kB)
  9:30 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

Poster PDF (1013.1 kB)
  9:45 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

  10:15 AM
4.7
  10:30 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

Poster PDF (112.2 kB)
  10:45 AM
Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Each Poster in Session P3

  11:00 AM
Formal poster viewing with coffee break


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
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
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
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
Role Of The Vegetation In Climate And Hydrological Cycle (Invited Presentation)
Pavel Kabat, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands

  10:00 AM
Impact of Deforestation on Precipitation
Somnath Baidya Roy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and S. W. Pacala and C. P. Weaver

  10:15 AM
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
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
Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP5

  11:00 AM
Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

9:00 AM-9:00 AM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Simpsons Symposium—A Tribute to Robert and Joanne Simpson

9:45 AM-9:45 AM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break

9:45 AM-11:00 AM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Poster Session 2
Weather and Climate Modeling of Water in all its Phases Poster Sessions
Sponsor: Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate
Organizer: Paul Dirmeyer, COLA

Papers:
 
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

 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (136.7 kB)
 
 
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

Poster PDF (2.6 MB)
 
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

Poster PDF (210.0 kB)
 
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

 
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

Poster PDF (2.7 MB)
 
Effects of Moisture on Baroclinic Lifecycles
Maurizio Fantini, ISAC-CNR, Bologna, Italy

Poster PDF (311.6 kB)
 
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

Poster PDF (699.5 kB)
 
P2.13
Evaluation of a parameterization for subgrid cloud variability using ARM data

 
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

Poster PDF (3.0 MB)
 
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


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:
 
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

 
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

 
The second GEWEX Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP2)
Paul Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and T. Oki


Poster Session 3
Field Experiments and Surface Mesonetworks
Sponsor: Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate
Organizer: Thomas Loveland, USGS

Papers:
 
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION P3 WILL BE HELD AT 9:30 A.M. AS PART OF SESSION 4

 
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

Poster PDF (608.9 kB)
 
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

http://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu

Poster PDF (151.3 kB)

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:
 
ORAL BRIEFINGS: 1-2 MINUTE PRESENTATION SUMMERIZING POSTERS IN SESSION JP5 WILL BE HELD AT 9:30 A.M. AS PART OF SESSION J8

 
JP5.2
Synoptic circulation impacts on near-surface moisure regimes in Phoenix, Arizona

 
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

 
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

 
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)
 
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.

 
The impacts of climate change and variability on crop water use and irrigation requirements
Bhawan Singh, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada

 
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

1:30 PM-4:30 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


5
Assimilation of water data in all its phases
Sponsor: Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate
Organizer: Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC

Papers:
  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

Poster PDF (990.2 kB)
  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

  2:45 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

  3:15 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

Poster PDF (297.3 kB)
  3:30 PM
5.8
Land Data Assimilation Systems
Paul R. Houser, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD

  4:14 PM
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

  3:44 PM
Coffee Break

4:30 PM-4:30 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Symposium Ends

5:30 PM-5:30 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall (Cash Bar)

6:00 PM-6:00 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Simpsons Banquet

8:00 PM-10:00 PM: Thursday, 13 February 2003


Closing Event at the Long Beach Aquarium on the Pacific