Workshop Posters Agenda (View the Presentations Agenda)

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Poster Specifics: Poster board area per person is 4' X 4'(121.92 cm X 121.92 cm). There will be push pins, scissors, and tape available. Each poster will have an assigned number and place. Poster boards will be ready to accept posters at 10:00 a.m. on Monday. Posters must be removed by end of day Wednesday.

POSTER SESSIONS

MONDAY: 1200 to 1445 (includes Sessions 1,2, and 3)

Session 1: Quantitative Precipitation Estimation

P1.1 - Jiangtao Cheng: USA: "Evaluation of Diurnal Rainfall Pattern Retrieved from PERSIANN-CCS Algorithm using NAME Gauge Observation"

P1.2 - Beth Clarke: USA: "Using Multiple-Sensor Quantitative Precipitation Estimation for Flood Forecasting in the Lower Colorado River Basin"

P1.3 - Abolhassen Gheiby: Iran: "Retrieval of Mixing Ratio Profiles over Iran from AMSU-B Data Using an Artificial Neural Network "

P1.4 - Kuo-Lin Hsu: USA: "Evaluation of High Resolution Satellite-based Precipitation Estimates Using CEOP Gauge Observations"

P1.5 - David Kingsmill: USA: The NOAA Hydrometeorological Testbed Program: Overview, Progress to Date and Future Plans"

P1.6 - Luce Molini: Italy: "Uncertainty quantification of radar measurements in numerically-modelled atmospheric scenarios"

P1.7 - Stephen Nesbitt: USA: "An evaluation of high resolution satellite precipitation products during NAME"

P1.8 - Nguyen Thi Tan Thanh (Vo Thi Kieu), Vietnam: Extreme rainfall and quantitative rainfall measurement by DWSR - 93C in Vietnam

P1.9 - Joe Turk: USA: "Merging and Blending Disparate Satellite Data Types for Short-Term QPE"

P1.10 - Menxin Wu, China: "Analysis Method of Summer Rainfall in North China Using Multiple Channel Data of FY-2C Satellite"

P1.11 - Jian Zhang: USA: "An Experimental Hydrometeorological Decision Support System"

Session 2: Integrating Observations and Atmospheric Models in Hydrological Forecasts

P2.1 - Felix Ament: Germany: "High resolution soil moisture analysis for central Europe obtained by assimilation of observations in a SVAT model"

P2.2 - Irina Borta: Moldova: "Forecast methods of intense precipitations, which condition inundations and freshets in Republic of Moldova"

P2.3 - Irina Borta: Moldova: "Forecast of freshets caused by rains on small rivers of Republic of Moldova"

P2.4 - Roberto Ceron Pineda: "El Salvador: "Early Warning System for floods, experience in El Salvador"

P2.5 - Bruno Collischonn: Brazil: "Use of TRMM precipitation estimates as input to distributed hydrological modelling: application to an amazonian basin"

P2.6 - Ciprian Corbus: Romania: "A flow routing forecast model -- error analysis and dissemination procedures"

P2.7 - Matthew Kelsch: USA: "COMET basic hydrologic sciences course: where does the rain go when it hits the ground?"

P2.8 - Anil Kumar: USA: "Effects od vegetation on the simulation of the intensity and precipitation of the central Illinois 13 July 2004 tornado"

P2.9 - Liga Kurpniece: Latvia: "Rainfall Caused Flood Prediction in Latvia Using HBV Model"

P2.10 - Shuhua Yu: China: "The Forecasting Model of Cuntan Flood Peak"

Session 3: Bridging the Gap Between Extrapolation and NWP

P3.1 - Christopher Anderson: USA: "Examination of summertime 0-6 hour QPF from a coarse NWP model with frequent reinitialization"

P3.2 - Lance Bosart, USA: "Precipitation Structure and Distribution in Landfalling and Transitioning Tropical Cyclones"

P3.3 - William Conway: USA: "Flash Flood Nowcasting in the Veneto Region of Northern Italy: New Applications in Hydrology"

P3.4 - Okuku Ediang: Nigeria: "Networking: A Management strategy for future of data assimilation"

P3.5 - Okuku Ediang: Nigeria: "Research and capacity building in uncertainty in Hydrological Prediction in Nigeria. "

P3.6 - Shucai Guan: USA: "Application of Multisensor Precipitation Nowcaster to Flash Floods"

P3.7 - Humphrey Lean: UK: "Forecasting Convective Events with Kilometer Scale Versions of the Unified Model"

P3.8 - Masayuki Maki: Japan: "Studies on the Prediction of Landslides and Urban Floods using an X-band Multi-Parameter Radar Network"

P3.9 - CANCELLED

P3.10 - Chongjian Qiu: China: "Numerical Experiments on Assimilation of Doppler Radar Data with Reduced-dimension Ensemble Assimilation Method"

P3.11 - Ashish Routray: India: "Improvement of heavy rainfall prediction over west cost of India using 3DVAR technique with WRF modeling system"

P3.12 - Andy Singleton: UK: "Modelling convective precipitation unresolved by NWP using an ensemble based approach within STEPS"

P3.13 - Soichiro Sugimoto: Japan: "Assimilation of Doppler Radar Data with WRF 3-D Var System and Evaluation of Its Benefits to QPF through OSSEs"

TUESDAY: 1200 to 1430 (includes Sessions 4 and 5)

Session 4: Short-rance QPF

P4.1 - Ferenc Acs: Hungary: "Modeling of severe convective storms in Hungary at 18. April 2005"

P4.2 - Michael Bodner: USA: "Investigating Warm Season Rainfall Using Convective Parameterization Schemes in the Workstation Eta Model"

P4.3 - Sylvia Bohnenstengel: Germany: "A Locality Index to classify Precipitation and conclude on Probability"

P4.4 - CANCELLED

P4.5 - Zuohao Cao: Canada: "Quantitative precipitation forecasts using a (nonlinear) physical-process-based dynamic-statistical approach"

P4.6 - CANCELLED

P4.7 - Jing Chen: China: "A Super Ensemble Prediction Experiment for "10 Jul. 2004" Heavy Rainfall Event over Beijing"

P4.8 - William Gallus: USA: "Evaluation of probabilistic precipitation forecasts determined from Eta and AVN forecasted amounts"

P4.9 - William Gallus: USA: "An evaluation of probabilistic precipitation forecasts from an ensemble forecast system using soil moisture perturbation"

P4.10 - Warren Gray: New Zealand: "Verification of quantitative precipitation forecast from the Unified Model over New Zealand using quality controlled radar data"

P4.11 - Guangbi He: China: "The Study of Surface Automatic Observatory Data Applied in a Heavy Rainfall in Chengdu"

P4.12 - Isidora Jankov: USA: "An optimal high-resolution ensemble for cold season QPF"

P4.13 - Noritaka Katatani: Japan: "A probabilistic estimation method of the sub-grid scale precipitation for the long range transport model of pollutants"

P4.14 - Josh Korotky: USA: "Displaying Probabilities for Exceeding QPF Thresholds from the GFS Ensemble in AWIPS"

P4.15 - Roman Krzysztofowicz: USA: "Examples of Bayesian Probabilistic Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts"

P4.16 - Daniel Leuenberger: Switzerland: "Radar Rainfall Assimilation and Short-Range QPF in a High-Resolution Ensemble Prediction System: A Case Study"

P4.17 - Chongjian Liu: China: "A New Approach to Probabilistic Severe Weather Forecasts "

P4.18 - Ying Liu: China: "A Comparative Simulative study of a Torrential Rain Event beyond the Flood Season in Noth China"

P4.19 - Chungu Lu: USA: "Development of time-phased superensembles for improved quantitative precipitation forecast (QPF) and probabilistic QPF"

P4.20 - Dongyan Mao: China: "Mesoscale Analysis of A Flash Flood in Early Summer of 2005 in Hunan"

P4.21 - Cyril Morcrette: UK: "Observations of the evolution of the capping inversion during CSIP"

P4.22 - CANCELLED

P4.23 - Syd Peel: Canada: "Fitting Ensemble Prediction System Precipitation Forecasts using Gamma Kernel Density Estimators"

P4.24 - Kamol Promasakha: Thailand: "The study of the accumulate rain with the microphysics scheme in Thailand"

P4.25 - Janus Willem Schipper: Germany: "Improving quantitative precipitation forecasting through high-resolution atmospheric modelling"

P4.26 - Yong Song: USA: "Bayesian Estimation of Stochastic Trigger Function in a Numerical Weather Forecasting Model"

P4.27 - Stanley Trier: USA: "Influences of Mesoscale Land-PBL Interactions on a 12-Day Episode of Precipitation during IHOP -- 2002"

P4.28 - Maria Valverde Brambila: Brazil: "Statistical downscaling of a specific weather pattern for rainfall forecast"

P4.29 - Tanja Weusthoff: Germany: "Improved understanding of post-frontal convective cell growth as a prerequisite for a mesoscale hybrid forecast scheme"

P4.30 - Qingnong Xiao: USA: "Short-Range QPF of a Squall Line Case during IHOP_2002 with Multiple Radar Data Assimilation"

P4.31 - Huiling Yuan: USA: "Evaluation and bias correction of high-resolution QPF and PQPF during the HMT 2005-2006 winter campaign"

P4.32 - CANCELLED

P4.33 - Xiaoling Zhang, China: "Ingredients-based methodology applications at heavy rainfall location forecast in East China"

P4.34 - Shengrong Zhao, China: "Preprocessing about precipitation in Objective Quantitative Forecasting"

P4.35 - Xiaoping Zhong: China: "A Mesoscale Ensemble Prediction System at Chengdu Regional Meteorological Center, China"

Session 5: Short-rance QPF

P5.1 - Vincent Fortin, Canada: "Improving medium-range ensemble streamflow forecasts by taking into account the uncertainty on the state of the snowpack"

P5.2 - Dingchen Hou, USA: "Preliminary Experiments of Probabilistic Streamflow Simulations Based on GFS Ensemble Forecasts of Runoff"

P5.3 - Giuseppe Mascaro, USA: "Utility of downscaled precipitation fields for hydrological forecasts at the catchment scale"

P5.4 - Hamid Moradkhani, USA: "Interrelation of Uncertainty in Satellite Derived Precipitation and other Uncertainty Sources on Ensemble Hydrologic Prediction"

P5.5 - Nicola Rebora, Italy: "Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts and Stochastic Rainfall Downscaling"

P5.6 - Hatim Sharif, USA: "Uncertainty of an Urban Flood Forrecasting Experiment"

P5.7 - Richard Turcotte, Canada: "Inflow forecasting uncertainties in the real-time management of QuÈbec public dams"

WEDNEDAY: 1200 to 1500 (includes Sessions 6, 7, 8, and 9)

Session 6: Verification of Precipitation Forecasts

P6.1 - Barbara Casati, Canada: "A New scale decomposition of the Brier Score for the verification of spatial probalitistic forecasts"

P6.2 - Susanne Crewell, Germany: "Quantitative evaluation of high-resolution precipitation forecasts using multi-dimensional remote sensing observations"

P6.3 - Thomas Hopson, USA: "Verifying the relationship between ensemble forecast spread and skill"

P6.4 - Raghunath Jha, Nepal: "Development of Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) ñ A case study of Narayani River Basin of Nepal"

P6.5 - Christian Keil, Germany: "A novel forecast quality measure to best member selection in a Regional Ensemble Forecasting System"

P6.6 - Steven Lack, USA: "Cell Identification and Verification of QPF Ensembles Using Shape Analysis Techniques"

P6.7 - Andrew Loughe, USA: "An Entity-based Systematic Error Analysis of Rainfall Prediction from State-of-the-art Mesoscale Models During the Year 2005: Eta, RUC, and WRF-ARW"

P6.8 - Marion Mittermaier, UK: "Summary skill scores from intensity-scale error decompositions"

P6.9 - Mariusz Pagowski, USA: USA: "On a Certain Shortcoming of the Equitable Threat Score and a Method to Correct it"

P6.10 - Marc Schroder, Germany: "New methods for the evaluation of atmospheric models with satellite remote sensing observations"

P6.11 - Heini Wernli, Germany: China: "The concept for a new error measure "SAL" for the verication of high-resolution precipitation forecasts"

P6.12 - CANCELLED

Session 7: Orographic and Coastal Precipitation Prediction

P7.1 - Kristen Corbosiero, USA: "The Contribution of Eastern Pacific Tropical Cyclones to the Warm Season Rainfall Climatology of the Southwestern U.S."

P7.2 - Chang-Seng Denis, Seychelles: "Intense Tropical Cyclone and Precipitation Storms in the Southwest Indian Ocean"

P7.3 - Elizabeth Ebert, Australia: "Ensemble Tropical Rainfal Potential (eTRaP) Forecasts"

P7.4 - Barbara Fruh, Germany: "A pragmatic approach for downscaling precipitation in alpine scale complex terrain"

P7.5 - B.Sh. Kadyrov, Uzbekistan: "In Piedmont Areas Very Short Rain Flood Forecasting"

P7.6 - Robert Kuligowski, USA: "Evaluation of Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP) Forecasts during the 2004 and 2005 U.S. Hurricane Seasons"

P7.7 - Michael Kunz, Germany: "Orographic precipitation enhancement over low mountain ranges"

P7.8 - CANCELLED

P7.9 - Binod Shakya, Nepal: USA: "Estimation of Average Depth of Probably Maximum Precipitation (PMP) over Nepal"

P7.10 - Stefanie Wassermann, Germany: "Mechanisms and prediction of precipitation over complex terrain"

P7.11 - Janek Zimmer, Germany: "A model-based method for estimation of maximum precipitation in mountainous terrain"

Session 8: Orographic and Coastal Precipitation Prediction

P8.1 - Ravinesh Deo, Fiji: "A 10-Yr Parecipitation Climatology of the Southwest Pacific Region "

P8.2 - Barbara Fruh, Germany: "Convective Available Potential Energy in mixed phase cloud conditions"

P8.3 - CANCELLED

P8.4 - Kazungu Maitaria, USA: "Statistical downscaling of the warm season precipitation in the core North America Monsoon region"

P8.5 - CANCELLED

P8.6 - CANCELLED

P8.7 - Serban Neicu, Romania: "The impact of iron gate I and II hydropower plants on the Danube River upon the several hydrological parameters of the downstream water flow"

P8.8 - Janus Willem Schipper, Germany: "A wind-direction dependent downscaling method for precipitation fields"

P8.9 - Yafei Wang, China: USA: "The Interaction between Two Separate Propagating Rossby Waves and Its Role for East Asian Circulation in July 1998"

Session 9: Prediction of the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation

P9.1 - Christopher Anderson, USA: "Precipitation diurnal cycle in a regional climate model simulation using a modified kain-fritsch convective parameterization"

P9.2 - Silke Dierer, Switzerland: "The impact of convection parameterization on the diurnal precipitation cycle"

P9.3 - Glenn Greed, UK: "The diurnal cycle of tropical precipitation in the UK Met Office Unified Model"

P9.4 - Hsiao-ming Hsu, USA: "Multiscale Variability of Warm-Season Precipitation over North America: Spectral Analysis of Radar Measurements"

P9.5 - Massimiliano Pasqui, Italy: "Quantitative analysis of convective MSG - rainfall estimates in the Sahelian area"

P9.6 - German Poveda, Colombia: "Classification of Mesoscale Convective Systems over Colombia: Annual and Diurnal Cycles during 1998-2002"

P9.7 - Michael Theusner, Germany: "Diurnal variations of post-frontal convective structures"

P9.8 - John Tuttle, USA: "Warm season precipitation corridors in the central United States"