Table of Contents

1. Atmospheric data assimilation schemes, analysis and initialization, data impact studies, observing system experiments

Oleg A. Alduchov and Vladimir A. Gordin	Russia	System of 3D Geopotential Height, Temperature and Wind Correlatoins with Respect to Forecast Errors
Oleg A. Alduchov and Alexei N. Bagrov	Russia	Bias, Variability and Hydrostatic Adjustment for 3D Forecast Fields of Geopotential Height, Temperature and Wind
Bjarne Armstrup	Denmark	Impact of ATOVS AMSU0A radiance data in the DMI-HIRLAM 3D-Var analysis and forecasting system
E. Astakhova, and A. Frolov	Russia	Damping of fast growing gravity waves generated by imbalance of initial mass and wind fields and diabatic forcing
Robert Atlas, S.C. Bloom, J.C. Jusem and D. Bungato	USA	Impact of QuikSCAT in the GEOS GCM
Gergely Bölöni and András Horányi	Hungary	Computation of background error statistics of a double nested limited area model
Alexander Beck and Martin Ehrendorfer	Austria	Background Error Covariances in a Quasigeostrophic Reduced Rank Kalman Filter
F. Bouyssel, V. Ducrocq, F. Taillefer and G. Therry	France	Hourly Meso-scale Surface data analysis for Nowcasting
J.-D. Chern and Shian-Jiann , Lin	USA	Assimilation and Forecast of Hurricane Floyd with the DAO Finite Volume Data Assimilation System
Clement Chouinard and Cécilien Charette	Canada	The Canadian 3D-Var Analysis Scheme on Model Vertical Coordinate: Recent And Future Work
Matteo Corazza, E. Kalnay, J. A. Yorke, B. R. Hunt, I. Szunyogh and M. Cai	USA	Use of the Breeding Technique in the Estimation of the Background Covariance Matrix for A Quasi-Geostrophic Model
Shannon R. Davis, Mark A. Bourassa, Eugenia O'Brien, James J. O'Brien and David F. Zierden	USA	Near-Realtime Sea Surface Pressure Fields from NASA's SeaWinds Scatterometer and Their Impact in NWP
Michael S. Fox-Rabinovitz and Lawrence L. Takacs	USA	A Variable-Resolution Stretched-Grid General Circulation Model And Data Assimilation System With Multiple Areas of Interest: Studying the Anomalous Regional Climate Events of 1998
Arthur Y. Hou and Sara Q. Zhang, Arlindo M. da Silva	USA	Improving Global Analysis and Forecast Using Microwave-based Rain and Moisture Data
Yoshihiro Ishikawa and Ko Koizumi	Japan	One month cycle experiments of the JMA mesoscale 4-dimensonal variational data assimilation (4D-Var) system
David Jackson and R. W. Saunders	United Kingdom	Ozone Data Assimilation at the Met Office
Joanna Joiner, Donald Frank and Arlindo da Silva	USA	Assimilation of cloud- and land-affected satellite sounding data at the Data Assimilation Office
Eugenia Kalnay and Matteo Corazza	USA	Bred Vectors, Lyapunov Vectors, And Data Assimilation
Ekaterina G. Klimova	Russia	A model to calculate the covariances of homogeneous isotropic stochastic fields of forecast errors
Dmitri Kondrashov and Michael Ghil	USA	Data Assimilation And Weather Regimes in A Three-Level Quasi-Geostrophic Model
C.C. Lam and Edwin S.T. Lai	China	Case Studies of the Impact of Scatterometer Winds on the Analysis and Forecasting of Tropical Cyclones using a Non-hydrostatic Model
Bruce Macpherson, S. A. Harcourt, A. J. Chalcraft, B. V. Chalcraft, S. Anderson, M. Sharpe and C. A. Parrett	United Kingdom	Developments in the Met Office 3DVar Scheme for the UK Mesoscale Model
D. Majewski and W. Wergen	Germany	Incremental Digital-Filtering Initialization of GME in Vertical Mode Space
Soumo Mukherjee and Daniel Caya	Canada	Evaluating data interpolation in moving sparse noisy data to a uniform grid
V. Penenko and E. Tsvetova	Russia	Construction of Multidimensional Basis Vectors for Analysis And Prognosis
Vladimir Penenko and Elena Tsvetova	Russia	Variational Fast Data Assimilation Algorithms
Yury A. Pichugin	Russia	Simplified Initialization
Paul Poli and Joanna Joiner	USA	Assimilation Experiments with GPS/MET Refractivity
Frank H. Ruggiero, George Modica, John G. Michalakes and Xiaolei Zou	USA	Development of an MM5-based Four-Dimensional Variational Analysis System for Distributed Memory Multiprocessor Computers
R. S. Seaman	Australia	Benford s Law and background field errors in data assimilation
P. Steinle, B. Harris, J. Paevere, T. Glowacki, W. Bourke, C. Tingwell, J. Le Marshall and T. Le	Australia	BMRC Data Assimilation Progress Report
Yoshiaki Takeuchi and Tadashi Tsuyuki	Japan	The operational 3D-Var assimilation system of JMA for the Global Spectrum Model and the Typhoon Model
Kyuichiro Tamiya	Japan	Imposing penalty both on gravity and Rossby modes in the Variational Initialization
Maria Tomassini and Schraff Christoph	Germany	Assimilation of Integrated Water Vapour From Ground-Based Gps Observations At Dwd
V.I. Tsvetkov and O.V. Snopova	Russia	Using of the Chebyshev-Laguerre Polynomials for Representing the Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere
Mikhail D. Tsyroulnikov and M. A. Tolstykh	Russia	Development of a variable-resolution global data assimilation system
William Lahoz, Ivanka Stajner and Richard Swinbank	UK	SPARC Data Assimilation Working Group

2.   Data sets, diagnostic and dynamical investigations, statistical post-processing , multi-year reanalyses and associated studies

Ross D. Brown and Bruce Brasnett	Canada	Development of a Gridded North American Monthly Snow Depth and Snow Water Equivalent Dataset for GCM Validation
Craig Burke and Ian Simmonds	Australia	Seasonal features of Arctic synoptic activity
Irina V. Chernykh and Oleg A. Alduchov	Russia	Detection of Cloudiness from Temperature and Humidity Profiles for Different Resolution of Radiosonde Sounding by Various Methods
Martin Goeber and S.F. Milton	UK	WGNE assessment of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts from Operational Numerical Weather Prediction Models over the U.K.
Christopher Grassotti and Ross Hoffman	USA	Intercomparison of Radar and Rain Gauge Observations over the Arkansas-Red River Basin
K. A. Hilburn and M. A. Bourassa	USA	Development of Scatterometer-Derived Research Quality Surface Pressure Fields for the Southern Ocean
Vladislav N. Ivanov and Anna V. Khokhlova	Russia	On the Features in the Spectra of Meteorological Variables in Wide Band of Frequencies
Vladislav N. Ivanov and Anna V. Khokhlova	Russia	On the Modulation of Diurnal Modes of Meteorological Variables By Low-Frequency Processes
I.I. Mokhov and V.A. Bezverkhny	Russia	Mutual dynamics of atmospheric components and climatic characteristics during last 420,000 years from Vostok ice core
Malaquias Pena and Eugenia Kalnay	USA	The life span of intraseasonal atmospheric anomalies: dependence on the phase relationship with the ocean.
E.V. Perekhodtseva	Russia	Hydrodinamical-statistical model of forecast to 36 hours ahead of dangerous convective daytime and nighttime phenomena - squalls, tornadoes and rainfalls
Ryan J. Sharp, Mark A. Bourassa and E. B. Forde	USA	Early Detection of Tropical Cyclones Using Seawinds-Derived Vorticity for the 2001 Hurricane Season
Ian Simmonds and Kevin Keay	Australia	Trends in mechanical energy input into the Northern Hemisphere oceans
Charles E. Tilburg and James J. O Brien	USA	A comparison of climatic wind and sea surface temperature data sets using a numerical model
Kevin E. Trenberth and David P. Stepaniak	USA	Accuracy of atmospheric energy budgets

3.   Computational studies including new techniques, the effect of varying model resolution, parallel processing

Pierre Bénard and Josef Vivoda	France	Theoretical examination of semi-implicit time-scheme for nonhydrostatic NWP
Mike Cullen and Deborah Salmon	UK	Use of a predictor-corrector scheme to couple the dynamics and physics in the IFS model
Mike Cullen	UK	Use of a potential vorticity as a control variable in a 4DVAR assimilation system.
Almut Gassmann and	Germany	A two timelevel integration scheme for the nonhydrostatic Lokal-Model (LM)
Keiichi Katayama	Japan	Development of an Ultra High Resolution Global NWP Model
Chiaki Kobayashi and Masato Sugi	Japan	Comparison of the model climate of various horizontal-resolution
Humphrey Lean and Peter Clark	United Kingdom	Horizontal and Vertical Resolution Dependence of the Representation of a Rapidly Developing Extratropical Cyclone in a Mesoscale Model
John McGregor and Kim Nguyen	Australia	Regional climate simulations using a stretched-grid global model
John McGregor	Australia	RMIP simulations with the conformal-cubic model
Vicky Pope and R. A. Stratton	UK	Should we expect climate models to converge when we increase resolution?
Kazuo Saito	Japan	Time-splitting of gravity waves in the Meteorological Research Institute/Numerical Prediction Division Unified Nonhydrostatic Model
Fredrick Semazzi and George Pouliot	USA	A Global Nonhydrostatic Semi-Implicit Semi-Lagrangian Variable Resolution Atmospheric Model
A. Untch and M. Hortal	UK	A finite-element scheme for the vertical discretization in the semi-Lagrangian version of the ECMWF forecast model

4.   Parameterization of important atmospheric and surface processes, effects of different parameterizations

I. V. Akimov	Russia	Calculation of the average melting rate of precipitation particles.
Stéphane Bélair, Jocelyn Mailhot, Louis-Philippe Crevier and Bernard Bilodeau	Canada	Operational Implementation of the ISBA Land Surface Scheme in the Canadian Regional Forecast Model
Eric Bazile and M. ElHaiti	France	Developments on the snow parameterization in ARPEGE
L. R. Dmitrieva-Arrago and E. V. Anisimova	Russia	On the cloud amount parameterization
G. Doms and D. Majewski	Germany	First validation of the prognostic cloud ice scheme in the global model GME
Erdmann Heise and Reinhold Schrodin	Germany	A multi-layer soil model including freezing/melting processes
Edgar Herrera and René Laprise	Canada	Evaluation of a mass-flux convection scheme for mesoscale atmospheric models
Hiroto Kitagawa and Syoukichi Yabu	Japan	Impact of a Revised Parameterization of Cloud Radiative Forcings on Earth's Radiation Budgets Simulation
Gueorgui V. Mostovoi and Pat J. Fitzpatrick	USA	Correction of A Surface Wind Speed Due To Surface Averaging
David Noone and Christopher Still	USA	A Global Biophysical Model of ^18O in Terrestrial Water And CO2 Fluxes
Jean-Marcel Piriou	France	Diurnal cycle of tropical deep convection: a diagnostic study in ARPEGE
Matthias Raschendorfer and Dmitrii Mironov	Germany	Operational implementation of the new turbulence parameterization
Bent H. Sass and Claus Petersen	Denmark	Very short range atmospheric forecasts using a nudging procedure to combine analyses of cloud related variables with a numerical forecast model
Volf Shnaydman	USA	Two-equation turbulence closure for quantitative description of boundary layers
Mitsuru Ueno and Jun Yoshimura	Japan	Impact of physical processes in a GCM on the frequency of tropical cyclones

5.   Development of and studies with regional and smaller-scale atmospheric models

L.V. Berkovich and Yu.V. Tkacheva	Russia	Weather forecasting of meteorological variables for Moscow and Moscow Region
Noel Davidson and Gordon Jackson	Australia	the Australian Tropical Cyclone Limited Area Prediction System
Ramon de Elia and René Laprise	Canada	Short-Term Downscaling with a Limited-Area Model: Diagnostic Verification in a Perfect-Model Approach
Hisaki Eito and Teruyuki Kato	Japan	Numerical Simulation of Heavy Snowfall Systems Observed on the Southern Coastal Area of Sea of Japan on 16 January 2001
Pat J. Fitzpatrick and Gueorgui V. Mostovoi	USA	MM5 10-M Wind Direction Forecast Skill Over Bay of Bengal During Spring 2001
Pat J. Fitzpatrick and Gueorgui V. Mostovoi	USA	MM5 10-M Wind Direction Forecast Skill Over Bay of Bengal During Summer Monsoon Period 2001
Philippe Gachon and François J. Saucier	Canada	Evaluation of summer-time near-surface temperature and wind fields over Hudson Bay in a regional atmospheric model
Thomas Haiden	Austria	NWP research in Austria
Dale Hess, Martin Cope, Peter Nelson, Kamal Puri, Kevin Tory, Neil Wong and Margaret Young	Australia	The Australian Air Quality Forecasting System
Iouri Ioussoupov	Russia	Hazardous Weather Phenomena Forecast in GIS Meteo Technology
Hartmut Kapitza and Dieter Eppel	Germany	Photochemical Smog Investigations with a Parallel Version of the Mesoscale Model GESIMA
Teruyuki Kato	Japan	Verification of QPF for 5km-NHM predicted precipitation amount and area in Kanto Area, Japan
Hideaki Kawai	Japan	Forecast of Sulfur Dioxide Flow from Miyake Volcano with a High Resolution Regional Transport Model
S.O. Krichak and M. Dayan	Israel	Numerical study of the 3-5 December 2001 intensive cyclone in Israel and eastern Mediterranean region
Jocelyn Mailhot, Stéphane Bélair, Bernard Bilodeau, Alain Patoine, Donald Talbot and Anna Glazer	Canada	the New Version of the Canadian Operational GEM Regional Mesoscale Model
Fedor Mesinger, Keith Brill and Eric Rogers	USA	Limited Area Predictability : Can "Upscaling" also Take Place?
Andrea Montani, Chiara Marsigli and Stefano Tibaldi	Italy	LEPS, the Limited--area--model Ensemble Prediction System at ARPA-SMR ARPA-SMR
V.A. Shnaydman and L. V. Berkovich	USA	Improved atmospheric boundary layer model for operational short-range forecasting
J. Steppeler and H. W. Bitzer	Germany	A z-coordinate Version of the Non-hydrostatic Model LM in Three Space
Clive Wilson, Stephen Cusack, Jorge Bornemann, Bruce Macpherson, Richard Renshaw, Adam Clayton and Nicola Robertson	United Kingdom	Pre-Operational trials of the new Met Office Mesoscale NWP Model
Gunther Zangl	Germany	A modfied diffusion scheme for high-resolution simulations over mountainous terrain

6.   Developments in global forecast models, case studies, predictability investigations, ensemble forecasting monthly and seasonal forecasting

B. K. Basu	India	Verification of model predicted precipitation over India during the summer monsoon of 1997
Yehui Chang and Siegfried Schubert	USA	The Characteristics and Statistics of Daily Extreme Precipitation Events over the United States
Terry Davies , A. Staniforth and M. Diamantakis	UK	Further development of new dynamics for the Met Office Model
T.S.V. Vijaya Kumar and T.N. Krishnamurti	USA	Multimodel Superensemble Forecasting of Tropical Cyclones in the Pacific
Masayuki Kyouda	Japan	The Ensemble Prediction System for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting at JMA
Sujata K. Mandke and V. Satyan	India	Simulation of monsoon disturbances during summer monsoon 1997 in an AGCM
S.F. Milton, G.T. Greed, D. R. Cameron, I.D. Culverwell, J.T. Heming and Dingmin Li	UK	Pre-Operational trials of the new Met Office Global NWP Model
Jean Nicolau	France	Short Range Ensemble Forecasting at Météo-France : a preliminary study
Yury A. Pichugin	Russia	Spectrum of Linearized Operator of Atmospheric Circulation Hydrodynamic Model: Method of Evaluation and Applications
Adam A. Scaife and Richard Swinbank	UK	Extended configuration of the Met Office Unified Model
Siegfried D. Schubert and Max J. Suarez	USA	Simulations of Long-Term Drought in the United States Great Plains
D. W. Shin and S. Cocke	USA	Superensemble Precipitation Forecasts using TRMM and DMSP Satellite Microwave Imager Products
Wontae Yun and Krishnamurti T. N.	USA	Improvement of Long-Term Forecasts Using Multi-Model Superensemble Technique

7.   Global and regional climate models, sensitivity and impact experiments, response to external forcing

Kläre Cassirer, Klaus Fraedrich, Heiko Jansen, Wolfgang Joppich, Michael Kürschner, Edilbert Kirk, Marc Lob, Ute Luksch, Frank Lunkeit, Lars Pesch, Sabine Pott, Michael Preuhs, Ulrich Trottenberg	Germany	Development of a Modular Interactive Planet Simulator
Michel Déqué and A. L. Gibelin	France	High versus Variable Resolution in Climate Modelling
Leticia Hernandez Diaz and René Laprise	Canada	Energetics of African Easterly Waves using the Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM): A first approach
Manon Faucher and Daniel Caya	Canada	Interaction between atmosphere and ocean-ice regional models over the Gulf of St- Lawrence area (Canada)
Anne Frigon and Michel Slivitzky	Canada	Investigation of hydrology simulated by the Canadian Regional Climate Model over Québec and Labrador.
Congbin Fu, C.B. Fu, J.W. Kim, D.K. Lee, J. McGregor, Y. Sato, B., K. Su and S. Wang	China	Regional Climate Model Inter-comparison Project for Asia
Deborah E. Hanley, Shrikant Jagtap, Steve Cocke , David Zierden and James J. O'Brien	USA	The Linkage of Regional Climate Models To Crop Models
R.S. Harwood, I.A. MacKenzie, and D.S. Stevenson	UK	Chemistry and Climate Studies with the Met. Office Unified Model
Vyacheslav Ch. Khon	Russia	Analysis of water cycle changes in Siberian rivers basins in XX and XXI centuries from model simulations
Dmitry V. Khvorostiyanov	Russia	Modeling the Variations of the North Atlantic Oscillation under Anthropogenic Scenarios
Akio Kitoh and Akio Kitoh	Japan	Effect of mountain uplift on warm pool: a study with the new MRI coupled GCM
Timothy E. LaRow and Steven Cocke	USA	Multi-Convection as a Multi-Model Proxy for Climate Studies
Philippe Lucas-Picher and Vivek K. Arora	Canada	Incorporating river routing in the Canadian Regional Climate Model
I.I. Mokhov, J.-L. Dufresne and V.A. Tikhonov	Russia	Regional regimes with drought and extreme wet conditions: Possible changes in XXI century from IPSL-CM2 simulations
Dominique Paquin and Daniel Caya	Canada	Dealing with atmospheric water in a nested RCM
V.P. Parkhomenko	Russia	Statistical Analysis of Interannual Arctic Sea Ice Modeling.
Edoaud Kamdem Penlap and Christoph Matulla	Germany	Assessing the performance of statistical downscaling setups in Cameroon
Sébastien Riette and Daniel Caya	Canada	Sensitivity of short simulations to the various parameters in the new CRCM spectral nudging
Oliver Stenzel and Jin-Song von Storch	Germany	Modelling of Atmospheric Angular Momentum in a simple AGCM
Sebastian Wagner	Germany	Climate Variability within the climate model ECHO-G during the Dalton Minimum
Richard Wardle and Ian Simmonds	Australia	Reconstructing Australian environments of the last glacial cycle through quantitative modelling
Bin Yu and George J. Boer	Canada	Surface Temperature And Heat Flux Variability And Their Changes With Global Warming

8.   Development of and advances in ocean modelling and data assimilation, sea-ice modelling, wave modelling

A. A. DEO and D. W.Ganer	India	Ocean mixed layer response to the tropical cyclone moving in different directions in the south Indian Ocean.
Saleh Abdalla and Peter Janssen	UK	The Use of Wind Gustiness and Air Density in Wave Modelling: Implementation at ECMWF
Saleh Abdalla and Luigi Cavaleri	UK	The Use of Wind Gustiness and Air Density in Wave Modelling: Impact and Implications
A. A. Androsov and A. V. Nekracov	Russia	Simulation of the Red Sea Tides
Mike Bell, A. Hines, M. E. McCulloch and D. Storkey	UK	The Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model (FOAM) System
Mike Bell and A. Hines	UK	Developments to the Data Assimilation Methods used by the Forecasting Ocean Assimilation Model (FOAM) System
D. W. Ganer and A. A. Deo	India	Impact of Different suface winds on SST in the north Indian Ocean
Naoyuki Hasegawa	Japan	Development of a High Resolution Ocean Model for ENSO Forecasting
Steven L. Morey, Mark A. Bourassa, Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo, and James J. O'Brien	USA	Impacts of Satellite Scatterometer - Derived Wind Forcing on the West Florida Shelf Ocean Circulation
Arnt Pfizenmayer and Reiner Schnur	Germany	A conditional first-order autoregressive wave-generator
Arkadiy S. Safray and Igor V. Tkatchenko	Russia	Numerical Investigation of the Internal-Wave Transformation During Expansion of the Deep Water From the Open Sea To the Shelf By M2 Tidal Forcing
Simon Senneville, François J. Saucier and Caya Daniel	Canada	Development of a Coupled Ice-Ocean Model of Hudson Bay
Volf Shnaydman and A.G. Tarnopolskiy	USA	Hydrodynamic modeling the coastal surface currents for the water pollution problems.
J. Staneva, M. Wenzel and J. Schröter	Germany	Oceanic State During 1993-1999 Determined by 4-D Var Data Assimilation
Akiyoshi Wada	Japan	Improvement of SST Prediction By Diunal Cycling Algorithm in the Mri Mixed Layer Ocean Model
Jorge Zavala-Hidalgo and Steven L. Morey	USA	A Numerical Study of the Circulation on the Western Shelf of the Gulf of Mexico

9.   Development of and studies with coupled ocean-atmosphere models

Ming Cai and Eugenia Kalnay	USA	Coupled ENSO instabilities derived with breeding
Ralf Doscher, Ulrika Willen, H.E. Markus Meier, Ulf Hansson and Phil Graham	Sweden	On the coupling of a 3D Baltic Sea model to a regional atmospheric model
Jeff Knight and Rob Allan	United Kingdom	An Assessment of Natural Variations in the Thermohaline Circulation and Climate Using a 1400 Year Coupled Model Calculation
I.I. Mokhov, J.-L. Dufresne and V.A. Tikhonov	France	Regional regimes with drought and extreme wet conditions: Possible changes in XXI century from IPSL-CM2 simulations
Harold Ritchie and Pierre Pellerin	Canada	Recent Developments in RPN Coupled Numerical Modelling
Akiyoshi Wada and Hiroshi Mino	Japan	Implementation of the JMA Typhoon Model Coupled With the Mixed Layer Ocean Model And Its Application for Typhoon Bilis