5th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle

Oral Presentations:

Monday, 20 June 2005

Tuesday, 21 June 2005

Wednesday, 22 June 2005

Thursday, 23 June 2005

Friday, 24 June 2005


Monday
20 June 2005
0700 - 0845: Conference Registration
0845 - 1025: Plenary Session (Chair: Soroosh Sorooshian)
0845 - 0900: Introductions
0905 - 1025: Keynote Speakers
0905 - 0925: Coordinated Observation and Prediction of the Earth System (COPES): An Integrative Strategy for the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)
Peter Lemke (Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany)
0925 - 0945: Re-focusing GEWEX's Phase II Role in the Application Area
Soroosh Sorooshian (University of California at Irvine, USA)
0945 - 1005: NASA's Water Cycle Activities
Jack Kaye (NASA Headquarters, USA)
1005 - 1025: The Contributions of ESA to Energy and Water Cycle Observation and Research
Einar-Arne Herland (European Space Agency/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
1025- 1050: Morning Break
1050 - 1230: Parallel Sessions on Themes 1 and 2
Theme 1: The Role of Clouds and their Effects on the Radiation Budget in Climate Prediction (Chair: Graeme Stephens)
1050 - 1105: A GEWEX Perspective: Water May be the End Game, but Clouds and Aerosols Control the Delivery System (INVITED)
Paul Try (International GEWEX Project Office, USA)
1105 - 1120: An Assessment of Data Products Available for Studies of Clouds and Radiation (INVITED)
Ehrhard Raschke (Instit. of Meteorology, University of Hamburg, Germany)
1120 - 1135: Status and Prospects for Cloud Parameterization Research (INVITED)
David Randall (Colorado State University, USA)
1135 - 1150: Interannual Variability in Surface LW Fluxes over the Tropical Oceans As Seen in ISCCP-FD and GEWEX SRB Data Sets
Franklin Robertson (NASA, USA)
H.-I. Lu
1150 - 1205: Radiative Heating Profiles in the Tropics: A Comparison of Observations and Models
Sally McFarlane (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
1205 - 1220: The Long-Term Variability of Surface Solar Irradiance as Captured in Observations at Globally Remote and Diverse BSRN and Other Sites
Ellsworth Dutton (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory)
Martin Wild, Don Nelson, Dave Longenecker, Andreas Roesch
Theme 2: Predictions for Water Management (Chair: John Schaake)
1050 - 1105: Water Resources Forecasting Challenges and Opportunities, "Leveraging Scientific Partnerships" (INVITED)
Gary Carter (NOAA, USA)
George Smith, Pedro Restrepo
1105 - 1120: Hydrological Prediction of Large Basins for Integrated River Basin Management: An attempt of YHyM (INVITED)
Kuniyoshi Takeuchi (Yamanashi University, Japan)
Hiroshi Ishidaira, Jun Magome, Zhou Maichun, Hapuarachige Hapuarach-chi, Anthony Kiem, Mikhail Georgievski, Iain Struthers
1120 - 1135: Interpreting Climate Change Impacts on Hydrology from an Ensemble of Regional Climate Models - Results from the Baltic Basin (INVITED)
Phil Graham (Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden)
1135 - 1150: The Role of Climate in NCRS Operational Western US Water Supply Forecasting (INVITED)
Thomas Pagano (United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), USA)
1150 - 1205: Global Water System Project: Its Science Agenda and Support to Water Management (INVITED)
Charles Vorosmarty (University of New Hampshire, USA)
1205 - 1220: An Integrated Multi-Model Hydrologic Ensemble Prediction System to Account for Total Uncertainties in Hydrologic Prediction
Qingyun Duan (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
Newsha Ajami, Soroosh Sorooshian, Philip Duffy
1230 - 1400: Lunch
1400 - 1530: Parallel Sessions on Themes 1 and 2
Theme 1: The Role of Clouds and their Effects on the Radiation Budget in Climate Prediction (Chair: Christian Jakob)
1400 - 1415: CloudSat and the A-Train: A GEWEX (and WCRP) Experiment (INVITED)
Graeme Stephens (Colorado State University, USA)
Deborah Vane
1415 - 1430: The GEWEX Radiative Flux Assessment Project
Paul Stackhouse (NASA/Langley Research Center, USA)
William Rossow, Ehrhard Raschke, Atsumu Ohmura, Bruce Wielicki
1430 - 1445: Studying the Life of Cycles of Clouds with Geostationary Satellites
Luca Bugliaro (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Germany)
Bernhard Mayer
1445 - 1500: Multidecadel Tropical Cloud and Radiation Variability in Observations and GCMS
Joel Norris (Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)
1500 - 1515: Cloud Radiative Forcing over the Indian Ocean: Respective Role of Mesoscale Convective System Properties and Environmental Water Vapour
Remy Roca (Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique, France)
Laurence Picon, Michel Desbois
1515 - 1530: Do 3-D Radiation Processes in the Shortwave Impact Cloud Dynamics and Boundary Layer Atmospheric Structure
William O'Hirok (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Paul Ricchiazzi, Catherine Gautier
Theme 2: Predictions for Water Management (Chair: Kuniyoshi Takeuchi)
1400 - 1415: Use of Data Assimilation Products for Water Resources Management
Paul Houser (George Mason University and Center for Research on Environment and Water)
Michael Jasinski, Kristi Arsenault, Ted Engman
1415 - 1430: Hydrological Ensemble Prediction Experiment (HEPEX)
John Schaake (NOAA/NWS, USA)
Roberto Buizza
1430 - 1445: The Water Cycle in a Dry Environment: Initial Results of the Murray-Darling GEWEX Catchment Scale Experiment
Clara Draper (Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia)
Graham Mills
1445 - 1500: Automatic Calibration of a Flood Forecasting System for the Odra River
Klaus-Peter Johnsen (GKSS Research Centre, Germany)
Juliane Pestel, Hilmar Messal, Heinz-Theo Mengelkamp
1500 - 1515: A VIC-based Experimental Seasonal Hydrologic Forecast System over the Eastern US
Eric F. Wood* (Princeton University, USA)
Lifeng Luo, (*)
1515 - 1530: An Assessment of the Future Changes in Water Availability in India Using a Modified Hydrological Model
Shadananan Nair (Cochin University of Science and Technology, India)
1530 - 1600: Afternoon Break
1600 - 1700: Parallel Sessions on Themes 1 and 2
Theme 1: The Role of Clouds and their Effects on the Radiation Budget in Climate Prediction (Chair: Paul Try)
1600 - 1615: Measuring up Virtual Clouds: A Comparison of Modeled and Observed Cloud Properties Using an Instrument Simulator Approach
Mikhail Ovtchinnikov (Pacific Northwest Laboratory, USA)
Roger Marchand
1615 - 1630: Observations of Aerosols, Clouds and Precipitation over the Arctic Ocean by using the R/B "MIRAI"
Yasushi Fujiyoshi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Ichiro Matsui, Nobuo Sugimoto, Toshiaki Takano, Hiroaki Horie
1630 - 1645: The Influence of Cumulus Cloud Field Anisotropy on Solar Surface Fluxes and Atmospheric Heating Rates
Laura Hinkelman
(NASA/Langley Research Center (LaRC), USA)
Frank Evans, Eugene Clothiaux, Paul Stackhouse
1645 - 1700: Connecting Climate Models and Cloud Process Studies - A Regime-Oriented Approach
Christian Jakob (Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia)
Theme 2: Predictions for Water Management (Chair: Charles Vorosmarty)
1600 - 1615: Linking Water Management and Hydroclimatic Research Advances: Tactics, Techniques, and Tools
Holly Hartmann (University of Arizona, USA)
Bisher Imam, Soroosh Sorooshian
1615 - 1630: Climate Variability in the Senegal River Valley: Mapping Flood Extensions with Satellite Images and GIS Tools
Aliou Mamdou Dia (University of Dakar, Senegal)
1630 - 1645: Three-Tier Operational Flood Forcasting for Bangladesh
Tim Palmer* (European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom)
Peter Webster, Thomas Hopson, Carlos Hoyos, Hai-Ru Chang, A. Subbiah, (*)
1645 - 1700: An Experimental Real-Time Seasonal Hydrologic Forecast System for the Western U.S.
Andrew Wood (University of Washington, USA)
Dennis P. Lettenmaier
1700 - 1830: Poster Session
Theme 1: The Role of Clouds and their Effects on the Radiation Budget in Climate Prediction
Theme 2:  Predictions for Water Management
Tuesday, 21 June 2005
0830 - 1020: Plenary Session (Chair: Jack Kaye)
0830 - 0900: The Role of the Water Cycle in Climate: Outstanding GEWEX Issues (INVITED)
Pierre Morel (Université de Paris VI, France)
0900 - 0920: Strange Bedfellows in International Waters: Hydrology and Politics (INVITED)
Andras Szöllösi-Nagy (International Hydrological Programme)
0920 - 0940: International Geosphere Biosphere Programme in the Next Decade (INVITED)
Pavel Kabat (ALTERRA, The Netherlands)
0940 - 1000: Understanding the Earth System: Where Are We? (INVITED)
Berrien Moore (University of New Hampshire, USA)
1000 - 1020: Questions on the Role of Energy and Water in Climate Variability and Change: an IPCC Working Group 1 Perspective (INVITED)
Susan Solomon (NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory, USA)
1020 - 1040: Morning Break
1040 - 1220: Parallel Sessions on Themes 1 and 3
Theme 1: The Role of Clouds and their Effects on the Radiation Budget in Climate Prediction (Chair: Jose Marengo)
1040 - 1055: Stretching Time and Space: The Steady March of Models and Data in Search of Understanding (INVITED)
Bjorn Stevens (UCLA, USA)
1055 - 1110: Status and Prospects for Cloud Parameterization Research
David Randall* (Colorado State University, USA)
Marat Khairoutdinov, (*)
1110 - 1125: Validating and Understanding Water Vapor and Cloud Feedbacks in Climate Models
De-Zheng Sun (CIRES/University of Colorado, USA)
1125 - 1140: On Parameterization of Drizzle and Cloud Microphysics
Yefim Kogan (CIMMS/University of Oklahoma, USA)
1140 - 1155: Observation and Modeling of Clouds within the BALTEX Cloud Liquid Water Network: CLIWA-NET
Erik van Meijgaard* (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Insitute)
Susanne Crewell, (*), Clemens Simmer, Ulrika Willen
1155 - 1210: 3D Surrogate Cloud Fields with Measured Structures
Clemmens Simmer* (University of Bonn, Germany)
Victor Venema
Theme 3: Roles of Land Fluxes in Water and Energy Cycles (Chair: Jan Polcher)
1040 - 1055: Coupling of Land-Surface, Dynamics, Clouds and Radiative Fluxes (INVITED)
Alan Betts (Atmospheric Research, USA)
Pedro Viterbo
1055 - 1110: High Resolution Land Surface Data Assimilation Products from the NASA/GSFC Land Information System (INVITED)
Christa Peters-Lidard (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
S.V. Kumar, Y, Tian, J. Geiger, M. Garcia, M. Rodell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. Sheffield, K. Mitchell, J. Meng, P. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, J. Adams
1110 - 1125: Land Atmosphere Coupling -- Climate Model Simulations
Robert Dickinson (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
1125 - 1140: The Second Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2) Multi-Model Analysis
Paul Dirmeyer (Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, USA)
Xiang Gao, Mei Zhao, Zhichang Guo, Taikan Oki, Naota Hanasaki, Jeffrey Dunn
1140 - 1155: Multi-Land Surface Model Analysis of Global Water Balance and Hydrological Cycles by the 2nd Phase of the Global Soil Wetness Project
Taikan Oki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Naota Hanasaki, Yanjun Shen, Sinjiro Kanae, Kooiti Masuda, Paul A. Dirmeyer
1155 - 1210: Some Highlights of GEWEX Asian Monsoon Experiment (GAME) (INVITED)
Tetsuzo Yasunari (Frontier Research Center for Global Change, (FRCGC)/HyARC, Nagoya University, Japan)
1220 - 1400: Lunch
1400 - 1530: Parallel Sessions on Themes 2 and 3 (GAPP Focus)
Theme 2: Predictions for Water Management (Chair: L. Ruby Leung)
1400 - 1415: Modern Era Reanalysis for Research and Applications -- Merra Update June 2005
Michael Bosilovich (NASA)
Siegfried Schubert, Co-PIs, Global Modelling Assimilation Office
1415 - 1430: Hydrological Modeling of the Yellow River Basin, China
Xieyao Ma (Frontier Research Center for Global Change)
Yoshihiro Fukushima, Tetsuzo Yasunari, Masayuku Matsuoka, Keisuke Hoshikawwa, Yoshinubo Sato
1430 - 1445: Effects of Tsunami on the Changes of the Land and Water in the Indian Sub-Continent
Asim Bhattacharyya (New Delhi, India)
Bharati Bhattacharyya
1445 - 1500: Case Study of Water Cycle Variable in Water Management Yemen (Arid Territories)
Mikhail Kalinin (Belarus)
1500 - 1515: GCM Evaluation on the Sulphate Aerosol Transport over the Indian Ocean
Sunita Verma (Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
H. C. Upadhyaya, O. P. Sharma
1515 - 1530: Improved Forecast of Rainfall through Multi-Grid Ensemble
P. Goswami, A. Mandal
Theme 3: Roles of Land Fluxes in Water and Energy Cycles (GAPP Focus) (Chair: Eric Wood)
1400 - 1415: GEWEX Americas Prediction Project (GAPP)
Jin Huang (NOAA Office of Global Programs)
1415 - 1430: Research of Land-Atmosphere Interactions Using the Oklahoma Mesonet
Jeffrey Basara (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Bradley Illston, Kodi Nemunaitis, Justin Monroe, Kenneth Crawford, Kenneth Mitchell, Paul Houser, Dag Lohmann, Brian Cosgrove, David Toll
1430 - 1445: Integrating Flux Tower, Snow and Subsurface Observations for Closing Water and Energy Budgets
Danny Marks (Northwest Watershed Research Center, USA)
Christopher Duffy, Cliff Dahm, (*)
1445 - 1500: Vegetation-Atmosphere Interaction in Southern Sonora Associated with the North American Monsoon
Christopher Watts (Universidad de Sonora, Mexico)
Michael Douglas, Russell Scott, Julio Rodriguez, Jaime Garatuza-Payan
1500 - 1515: Spatial and Temporal Variations of the Seasonally Frozen Ground in the Northern Hemisphere
Tingjun Zhang (University of Colorado, USA)
Oliver W. Frauenfeld, James McCreight, Andrew Etringer
1515 - 1530: Consistent Treatment of Turbulence over Bare Soil and Snow as well as Above/Within/Below Canopies
Xubin Zeng (University of Arizona, USA)
Mike Barlage, Mike Brunke, Mark Decker, Aihui Wang
1530 - 1600: Afternoon Break
1600 - 1700: Parallel Sessions on Themes 3 and 4
Theme 3: Roles of Land Fluxes in Water and Energy Cycles (Boundary Layer Processes) (Chair: Sergey Gulev)
1600 - 1615: Stable Boundary Layers and Land Surface Climate: Lessons from the GEWEX Atmospheric Boundary Layer Study (GABLS)
A.A.M. Holstag (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
R. Beare, J. Cuxart, G. Svensson
1615 - 1630: Atmospheric Boundary Layer Height and Surface Fluxes - Comparisons of Measurements and Simulations During LITFASS-2003
Barbara Hennemuth (Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Germany)
1630 - 1645: Regional Evaporation at Grid/Pixel Scale Over Heterogeneous Land Surfaces
Heinz-Theo Mengelkamp (Forschungszentrum Geesthacht, Germany)
F. Beyrich, F. Ament, J. Bange, F. Berger, J. Boesenberg, T. Foken, G.
Heinemann, B. Hennemuth, C. Heret, S. Hunekel, K.-P. Johnsen,
W. Kohsiek, J.-P. Leps, C. Liebethal, M. Mauder, W. Meijninger, S. Raasch,  C. Simmer, T. Spiess, A. Tiitebrand, J. Uhlenbrock, P. Zitte
1645 - 1700: Global Patterns of Change in Evapotranspiration from Land Cover Change
Shannon Sterling (Duke University, USA)
Stuart Rojstaczer
Theme 4: The Role of Modeling in Predictability and Prediction Studies (Chair: Rick Lawford)        
1600 - 1615: Towards Reliable Seasonal Climate Predictions - A Joint Project for GEWEX and CLIVAR (INVITED)
Tim Palmer (European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom)
1615 - 1630: Modeling and Analysis of the Water Cycle over the Upper Rio Grande River Basin Using Cloud-Resolved Scale
Jialun Li, Xiaogang Gao, Soroosh Sorooshian
1630 - 1645: Land-Surface Processes and Monsoons
Yongkang Xue (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
1645 - 1700: Numerical Simulation of the 2004 Warm Season: North American Monsoon
Michael Bosilovich (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Jiun-dar Chern, Kristi Arsenault, Paul Houser, Jon Radakovich
1700 - 1900: Poster Session
Theme 3: Roles of Land Fluxes in Water and Energy Cycles
Theme 4: The Role of Modeling in Predictability and Prediction Studies
GAPP: GEWEX Americas Prediction Project
1830 - 2000: GAPP Townhall Meeting and Reception (Chair: Jin Huang)
Costa Mesa Room
Wednesday, 22 June 2005
0830 - 1010: Plenary Session (Chair: Peter Lemke)
0830 - 0845: Improving the Representation of Water Cycle Processes in Models?
Jan Polcher (Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique du CNRS, France)
0845 - 0905: CLIVAR Progress in Understanding Predictability in the Climate System (INVITED)
Antonio Busalacchi (Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center,
University of Maryland, USA)
0905 - 0925: The Role of the Water Cycle in Monsoon Climates and their Predictability (INVITED)
Julia Slingo (University of Reading, UK)
Pete Inness, David Lawrence, Tom Osbourne, Hilary Spencer, Jane
Strachan, Andy Turner, Steve Woolnough
0925 - 0945: Data Integration and Information Fusion for Understanding and Prediction of the Global Water Cycle (INVITED)
Toshio Koike (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Sam Benedict
0945 - 1000: GCOS Implementation Plan for the Global Observing Systems for Climate in Support of the UNFCCC (INVITED)
Paul Mason (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
1020 - 1040: Morning Break
1040 - 1220: Parallel Sessions on Themes 3 and 4
Theme 3: Roles of Land Fluxes in Water and Energy Cycles (Chair: Einar-Arne Herland)
1040 - 1055: The Roles in  the Asian Monsoon System of the Surface Sensible Heating Over the Tibetan Plateau
Guoxiong Wu (Chinese Academy of Science, China)
Yimin Liu, Xin Liu, Jianyu Mao and Duan Anmin
1055 - 1110: Uncertainty in a Climate Model Simulation of Land-Use Impacts in China: Australia-China Bilateral Project on Climate Change
Huqiang Zhang (Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Australia)
Xuejie Gao
1110 - 1125: Sublimation as One Important Flux in Determining Snow Mass on Eurasia
Tetsuo Ohata (Institute of Observation Research for Global Change, Japan)
1125 - 1140: Key Issues in Modeling Tibet Land Surface Processes
Kun Yang (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Toshio Koike, Baisheng Ye, Luis Bastidas
1140 - 1155: Land Surface-Atmosphere Interaction in Heterogeneous Terrain: Results from the CEOP Reference Site Lindenberg (Germany)
Franz H. Berger* (Meteorological Observatorium, Germany
Frank Beyrich, Wolfgang K. Adam, (*)
1155 - 1210: The Rainfall Phenomena During the Pre-Monsoon Period over the Indochina Peninsula
Masashi Kiguchi (Kyoto University, Japan)
Jun Matsumoto
Theme 4: The Role of Modeling in Predictability and Prediction Studies (Chair: Bob Dickinson)
1040 - 1055: Impact of the NAME04 Special Soundings on the NCEP Operational Data Assimilation Systems
Kingste Mo (Climate Prediction Center, USA)
W. Ebisuzaki, E. Rogers, W. R. Higgins
1055 - 1110: GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (INVITED)
Randal Koster (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), USA)
Zhichang Guo, Paul Dirmeyer
1110 - 1125: Coupled Regional Models: Tools to Investigate Means and Extremes in Energy and Water Cycles (INVITED)
Daniela Jacob (Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Germany)
(Presented by Philip Lorenz, Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology, Germany)
1125 - 1140: Global Flood and Drought Prediction
Nathalie Voisin (University of Washington, USA)
Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Eric F. Wood
1140 - 1155: The Role of Atmosphere-Land Coupling in Producing a Climate Anomaly over the Central U.S.
Ray Arritt (Iowa State University, USA)
1155 - 1210: Dominant Temporal Modes in Terrestrial Moisture and Energy Storages and their Teleconnection to ENSO
Geremew Amenu, (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Praveen Kumar
1220 - 1400: Lunch
1400 - 1530: Parallel Sessions on Themes 3 and 4
Theme 3: Roles of Land Fluxes in Water and Energy Cycles (Chair: Paul Houser)
1400 - 1415: Land-Surface Heterogeneity Effects on Atmospheric Boundary Layer Fluxes
Fernando Porte Agel (University of Minnesota, USA)
Efi Foufoula-Georgiou, James R. Stoll, Sukanta Basu, Venugopal Vuruputur
1415 - 1430: GAME's Contribution to GEWEX Water and Energy Balance Study
Kooiti Masuda (Frontier Research System for Global Change, Japan)
1430 - 1445: How Does Land-Surface Influence the Wet Season Onset Over Souther America?
Rong Fu (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Wenhong Li
1445 - 1500: Evaluation of Isotope Simulations using New Observational Data
A. Henderson-Sellers* (ANSTO, Australia)
M. Fischer, (*), Kendal McGuffie, C. Tadros
1500 - 1515: Construction, Validation, and Applications of the 53-Year Atmospheric Forcing NCC
Thanh Ngo-Duc (Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique du CNRS, France)
Katia Laval, Jan Polcher, Alix Lombard, Anny Cezanave
1515 - 1530: Evaluation of Land Surface Soil Moisture and Evapotranspiration from Land Data Assimilation and Information Systems
David Toll (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Kristi Arsenault, Ana Pinheiro, Paul Houser, Jiarui Dong, Jeffrey Basara
Theme 4: The Role of Modeling in Predictability and Prediction Studies (Global) (Chair: John Church)
1400 - 1415: Modelling Rainfall Variability over the Indian Ocean and South Asia: The Role of Ocean Dynamics
Franco Molteni* (The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy)
Annalisa Bracco, (*), Fred Kucharski
1415 - 1430: Asian-Australian Monsoons Simulated by the Global 20-km mesh MRI/JMA AGCM
Akio Kitoh (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan)
O. Arakawa, K. Rajendran
1430 - 1445: Predictability of Terrestrial Hydrologic Variables at Seasonal Time Scales and the Role of Local and Remote Forcings
Eric F. Wood* (Princeton University, USA)
Lifeng Luo, Justin Sheffield (*)
1445 - 1500: The Role of the Basic State in the ENSO-Monsoon Relationship and Implications for Predictability
Andrew Turner (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
Pete Inness, Julia Slingo
1500 - 1515: Interannual Variability of Great Plains Summer Rainfall in Global and Regional Reanalysis, and NCAR and NSIPP AMIP-like Simulations
Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas (University of Maryland, USA)
Sumant Nigam
1515 - 1530: Impact of Soil Moisture Transients on Seasonal Precipitation
Song Yang (NOAA Climate Prediction Center, USA)
S.-H. Yoo, R. Yang, K. Mitchell, H. van den Dool, W. R. Higgins
1530 - 1800: Working Group Meetings:
IGWCO and GEO Meeting   
WCRP Officers, Chairs, and Directors Meeting  
1900 - 2130: Banquet
Speaker:  Wes Bannister (Chairman, Board of Directors of the
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California)
Thursday, 23 June 2005
0830 - 1020: Plenary Session (Chair: John Roads)  
0830 - 0900: Estimates of the Global Water Budget and its Changes Using Observational and Model Data (INVITED)
Kevin Trenberth (NCAR, USA)
John Fasullo, Aiguo Dai
0900 - 0920: Measuring Atmospheric Water and Energy Profiles from Space (INVITED)
Moustafa Chahine (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
0920 - 0940: Central Role of Water Vapor in the Chemistry of the Atmosphere (INVITED)
A.R. Ravishankara (NOAA, USA)
0940 - 1000: GEOSS and IEOS
Ronald Birk (NASA, USA)
(Presented by Jared Entin, NASA, USA)
1000 - 1020: Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS): Land Ecosystems, Atmosphere and Climate (INVITED)
Pavel Kabat (Wageningen University and Research Centre, the Netherlands)
1020 - 1040: Morning Break  
1040 - 1220: Parallel Sessions on Themes 4 and 5
Theme 4: The Role of Modeling in Predictability and Prediction Studies (Monsoons and Terrain) (Chair: Lydia Dumenil-Gates) 
1040 - 1055: Challenges for Predicting Seasonal Precipitation on Annual and Longer Time Scales
William Gutowski (Iowa State University, USA)
Raymond W. Arritt, Eugene S. Takle, Zaitao Pan, Christopher Anderson, Kari Kozak, Francis Otieno
1055 - 1110: Influence of Land Surface Wetness on on Interannual Variability of Precipitation in Boreal Summer
Shinjiro Kanae (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Yukiko Hirabayashi, Tomohito Yamada, Taikan Oki
1110 - 1125: Validation of the Regional Climate Model REMO by Means of Satellite Data for the BALTEX Region
Juergen Fischer (Free University of Berlin)
Ronny Leinweber, Rene Preusker, Max Reuter, Daniela Jacob, Philip Lorenz
1125 - 1140: Dynamical Downscaling of Extended Weather Forecasts for the Western U.S.
L. Ruby Leung (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Yun Qian, James Done
1140 - 1155: Observed and Modeled Water Historical Hydroclimatic Variability in South America: Cases of the Amazon, Sao Francisco and Parana-La Plata Rivers
Jose Marengo (CPTEC/INPE, Brazil)
Helio Camargo, Wagner Soares
1155 - 1210: Soil Moisture Effects on the La Plata Basin and their Implications for Regional Predictability
E. Hugo Berbery (University of Maryland, USA)
Estella Collini
1210 - 1225: Predicting Convective Precipitation over the Continental U.S.
Mitch Moncrieff (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
Changhai Liu
Theme 5: New Strategies for Characterizing and Predicting Energy and Water Budgets (Chair: Sam Benedict)
1040 - 1055: GEWEX Hydrometeorology Panel Water and Energy Budget Studies (INVITED)
John Roads (Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA)
1055 - 1110: Assimilating Terrestrial Hydrologic Fluxes into Land Surface Models Using Remote Sensing Data Products
Praveen Kumar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Sirnivas Chintalapati
1110 - 1125: CEOP Inter-Monsoon Studies (CIMS) (INVITED)
William Lau (NASA/GSFC, USA)
1125 - 1140: The Role of Isotopes in Understanding the Water Cycle (INVITED)
Ann Henderson-Sellers (Australia Nuclear Science and Technology Organization, ANSTO, Australia)
1140 - 1155: Assessing the Water and Energy Budgets of the Mackenzie River Basin
Kit Szeto (Meteorological Service of Canada)
1155 - 1210: Isotope Ratios in Precipitation and Some Key Upper-Air Parameters of the  Boundary Layer
Oleg Alduchov (RIHMI/WDC, Russia)
Pradeep K. Aggarwal, Irina V. Chernykh
1220 - 1400: Lunch
1400 - 1530: Parallel Sessions on Themes 5 and 6
Theme 5: New Strategies for Characterizing and Predicting Energy and Water Budgets (Chair: Tasuku Tanaka)
1400 - 1415: GEWEX Contributions to a Satellite-Era Assessment of the Global Water Cycle
Adam Schlosser (Massachussetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Paul R. Houser, Paul A. Dirmeyer
1415 - 1430: Remote Sensing of Hydrological Variables over the Red Arkansas
Eric Wood (Princeton University, USA)
M. F. McCabe, H. Su, H. Gao, J. Sheffield
1430 - 1445: New Tools and New Approaches for Assessing Water Budget at Large Scales
Yann Kerr (CNES/CESBIO, France)
Philippe Waldteufel, Jean Pierre Wigneron, Patricia De Rosnay, Olivier Merlin, Maria Jose Escorihuela, Jean Christophe Calvet
1445 - 1500: Establishing a Global In-Situ Soil Moisture Measurement Network
Peter van Oevelen (IGPO/European Space Agency/ESTEC, The Netherlands)
Thomas J. Jackson, Dara Entakhabi
1500 - 1515: New Strategy for the Global Air-Sea Surface Fluxes Development Minimizing Global and Regional Energy Imbalances
Sergey Gulev (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
Konstantine Belyaev
1515 - 1530: Application of NASA's High-Resolution Finite-Volume General Circulation Model (fvGCM) to Hurricane Prediction
Robert Atlas
Theme 6: Measuring and Predicting Precipitation (Chair: Robert Adler)
1400 - 1415: Some Patterns and Conditions Associated with Continental Warm Season Rainfall
R. E. Carbone (National Center for Atmospheric Research, USA)
A. Laing, T. D. Keenan, C-C. Wang, T-J Chen
1415 - 1430: Evaluation of Continental Precipitation in IPCC 20th Century Simulations
Thomas Phillips (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)
1430 - 1445: Use of Cloud-Structure, Advection and Storm Development Information in High-Resolution Satellite Precipitation Monitoring
Tim Bellerby (University of Hull, United Kingdom)
Natalie Horsfield
1445 - 1500: Validation of Satellite Estimates and Model Forecasts of Precipitation
John Janowiak (NOAA Climate Prediction Center, USA)
Elizabeth Ebert, Chris Kidd
1500 - 1515: Orographic Enhancements in Precipitation: A Regional Examination with a Dense Gauge Network
Pingping Xie (NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction, USA)
Mingyue Chen, John Janowiak, Phillip Arkin
1515 - 1530: Extreme Precipitation over European Continent: Sensitivity to Different Data and Local Mesoscale Variability
Olga Zolina (University of Bonn, Germany)
1530 - 1600: Afternoon Break
1600 - 1700: Parallel Sessions on Themes 5 and 6
Theme 5: New Strategies for Characterizing and Predicting Energy and Water Budgets (Chair: Steve Williams)
1600 - 1615: Characterization of the Upper-Troposheric Temperature, Moisture, and Cloud Biases of a Climate Model Using Satellite Observations
Graeme L. Stephens* (Colorado State University, USA)
Zhengzhao Luo, (*)
1615 - 1630: Assimilation of Remotely-Sensed Surface Water Observations into a Raster-Based Hydraulics Model
Elizabeth Clark (University of Washington, USA)
Paul Bates, Matthew Wilson, Delwyn Moller, Ernesto Rodriguez, Dennis Lettenmaier
1630 - 1645: Assimilation of Basin-Scale Water-Balance Estimates of Monthly Terrestrial Water-Storage Variations in a Catchment-Based Land Surface Model
Sonia Seneviratne (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Rolf H. Reichle, Randal D. Koster
1645 - 1700: Estimating Long-Term Global Water Cycle by a 100-year Offline Simulation
Yukiko Hirabayashi (University of Yamanashi, Japan)
Shinjiro Kanae, Taikan Oki, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi
Theme 6: Measuring and Predicting Precipitation (Chair: Kapil Dev Sharma)
1600 - 1615: Comparisons of EOS Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) Cloud Ice Measurements with Model Representations: Initial Results
Jui-Lin Li (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Duane E. Waliser, Jonathan H. Jiang, Marat Khairoutdinov, Adrian Tompkins, Leo J. Donner
1615 - 1630: PERSIANN-CCS: A High-Resolution Precipitation Analysis System with Potential Use for Hydrologic Model Data Assimilation
Yang Hong (University of California at Irvine, USA)
Kuo-lin Hsu, Soroosh Sorooshian
1630 - 1645: Adjustment of Global Gridded Precipitation for Orographic Effects
Jennifer Adam (University of Washington, USA)
Nathalie Voisin, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Elizabeth A. Clark, Eric F. Wood
1645 - 1700: Merging of Precipitation Data in the Catchment Scale for Hydrological Applications
Farid Boushaki (University of California at Irvine, USA)
Kuo-lin Hsu, Soroosh Sorooshian
1700 - 1900: Poster Session
Theme 5: New Strategies for Characterizing and Predicting Energy and Water Budgets
Theme 6: Measuring and Predicting Precipitation
CEOP: Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period
1830 - 2000: CEOP Townhall Meeting and Reception (Chair: Toshio Koike)
Friday,
24 June 2005
0830 - 1010: Plenary Session (Chair: Richard Carbone)
0830 - 0900: Reappraisal of Scientific Basis for Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission (INVITED)
Eric Smith (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)
J. Marshall Shepherd, Erich Franz Stocker
0900 - 0920: Contributions of TRMM to Our Understanding of Precipitation Processes and Climate Variability (INVITED)
Robert Adler (NASA/GSFC, USA)
0920 - 0940: Global Precipitation: Accomplishments, Issues and Actions (INVITED)
Phil Arkin (University of Maryland, USA)
Pingping Xie, Chet Ropelewski
0940 - 1000: Gridded Monthly Precipitation Data for the Global Land Areas Based on Observations for the Period: 1951 to 2000 (INVITED)
Christoph Beck (Global Precipitation Climatology Centre, Germany)
Jürgen Grieser, Bruno Rudolf
1000 - 1020: The Imperative to Understand Changes in Western Mountain Watersheds and Ecosystems: The CIRMOUNT Program (INVITED)
Dan Cayan (Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA)
Roger Bales, Mike Dettinger, Henry Diaz, Connie Millar, Phil Mote, Kelly Redond, Nate Stephenson
1020 - 1040: Morning Break
1040 - 1250: Parallel Sessions on Themes 5 and 6
Theme 5: New Strategies for Characterizing and Predicting Energy and Water Budgets (Chair: Jared Entin)
1040 - 1055: Update on the NCAR Water Cycle Program
Roy Rasmussen (NCAR, USA)
1055 - 1110: Synopsis of NASA Energy and Water Cycle Study (NEWS) Proposal Results: Current Capabilities and Potential Deficiencies
Paul Houser* (NASA/GSFC, George Mason University and Center for Research on Environment and Water, USA)
Deborah Belvedere, (*), Robert Schiffer, C. Adam Schlosser
1110 - 1125: Past and Future GEWEX Contributions to Emerging Earth Observation Programs
Rick Lawford (International GEWEX Project Office, USA)
1125 - 1140: The Stable Water Isotope Intercomparison Group (SWING) - Evaluation of Simulated Water Budgets and their Isotopic Compositions
Martin Werner (Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Germany)
Pradeep Aggarwal, Vaughan Barras, Josephine Brown, Laurence Gourcy, Ann Henderson-Sellers, George Hoffmann, Kimpei Ichiyanagi, Maxwell
Kelley, David Noone, John Roads, Gavin Schmidt, Kristof Sturm, Julia
Tindall, Paul Valdes, Kei Yoshimura, Vyacheslav Zakhorov
1140 - 1155: EarthCARE - A New Mission Providing Global Cloud and Aerosol Profiles
Paul Ingmann (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
(Presented by Einar-Arne Herland, European Space Agency, The Netherlands)
1155 - 1210: Tracking Freshwater from Space
Doug Alsdorf (Department of Geological Sciences, USA)
1210 - 1225: Information-Theoretic Approaches to Identifying and Characterizing Relationships Among Relevant Climate Variables
Kevin H. Knuth, Anthony Gotera, William B. Rossow
1225 - 1240: Discussion
Theme 6: Measuring and Predicting Precipitation (Chair: Phil Arkin)
1040 - 1055: Extending the MPA to Global Coverage: Early Results and Outlook for Progress
George Huffmann (NASA/GSFC, USA)
Robert F. Adler, David T. Bolvin, Eric J. Nelkin
1055 - 1110: Comparison of Diurnal Variation of Precipitation System Observed by TRMM-PR, TMI and VIRS
Munehisa Yamamoto (Nagoya University, Japan)
Fumie Furuzawa, Kenji Nakamura
1110 - 1125: Global Change and Diurnal Variation of Raindrop Size Distribution Information Revealed by Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR)
Fumie Furuzawa (Nagoya University, Japan)
Kenji Nakamura
1125 - 1140: Precipitation Extremes with GPCP and TRMM
Scott Curtis (East Carolina University, USA)
Ahmed Salahuddin, Robert Adler, George Huffman, Guojun Gu
1140 - 1155: Quantitative Evaluation of Regional Precipitation Forecasts using Multi-Dimensional Remote Sensing Observations
Nicole van Lipzig (University of Munich, Germany)
Susanne Crewell, Felix Ament, George Craig, Juergen Fischer, Martin
Hagen, Monika Pfeifer, Marc Schroder, Wenchieh Yen
1155 - 1210: Phase-Doppler Interferometry for Improved Cloud Microphysical Measurements
Patrick Chuang (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
Jennifer Small, William Bachalo
1210 - 1225: Radar Climatology of Precipitation and Wind from the North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME)
David Ahijevych, R. E. Carbone, J. D. Tuttle
1240 - 1400: Lunch
1400 - 1530: Panel Discussion: GEWEX PHASE II: Providing Leadership for the Climate and Earth Observations Communities
1530 - 1540: Conference Close