| Monday 20 June 2005 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |