Devenyi, D., and S.G. Benjamin, 2003: A variational assimilation technique in a hybrid isentropic-sigma coordinate. Meteor and Atmospheric Physics 82, 245–257.

Flamant, C., S. Koch, T. Weckwerth, J. Wilson, D. Parsons, B. Demoz, B. Gentry, D. Whiteman, G. Schwemmer, F. Fabry, W. Feltz, M. Pagowski, and P. DiGirolamo, 2003: The life cycle of a bore event over the U.S. Southern Great Plains during IHOP- 2002. Sixth Int. Symposium on Tropospheric profiling: Needs and Technologies, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, Amer. Meteor. Society, 375–377.

Flamant, C., S. Koch, T. Weckwerth, J. Wilson, D. Parsons, B. Demoz, B. Gentry, D. Whiteman, G. Schwemmer, F. Fabry, W. Feltz, M. Pagowski, P. DiGirolamo, 2003: The life cycle of a bore event over the US Southern Great Plains during IHOP-2002. 10th Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, Portland, OR, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, P2.14.

Golden, J.H., E.I. Tollerud, A. Negri, and R. Updike, 2003: The hurricane-flood-landslide continuum – Forecasting hurricane effects at landfall. 30th Int. Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, Honolulu, HI, Amer. Meteor. Soc.

Grote, H., and C. Golden, 2003: Enhancements to FX-Collaborate to support operations at NWS, USAF, and NASA. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 12.7.

Gutman, S.I., R. Pursaud, and S.M. Wagoner, 2003: Use of federal and state Departments of Transportation continuously operating GPS reference stations for NOAA weather forecasting. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, P1.39.

Gutman, S.I., S. Sahm, J. Stewart, S. Benjamin, T. Smith, and B. Schwartz, 2003: A new composite observing system strategy for ground-based GPS meteorology. 12th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 5.2.

Hansen, T., T. Dankers, and C. Paxton, 2003: Text formatting with the Graphical Forecast Editor. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, P1.11.

Herzegh, P.H., S.G. Benjamin, R. Rasmussen, T. Tsui, G. Weiner, P. Zwack, 2003: Development of automated analysis and forecast products for adverse ceiling and visibility conditions. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 9.3.

Jones, D.R., C. Bullock, W. Carrigg, C. Dietz, M. desJardin, E. Mandel, D. Rhine, J. Roe, and M.T. Young, 2003: AWIPS Build 5 in review. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 4.1.

Jung, Y.-S., F. Moeng, B.H. Lim, M. Biere, H. Lee, and S.K. Chung, 2003: FAS: An international version of AWIPS. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology (IIPS), Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 4.6.

Kim, D., and S.E. Koch, 2003: Multilevel cloud retrieval from the GOES platform. 12th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CDROM, P1.20.

Koch, S.E., 2003: A structure process for prediction of convection associated with split cold fronts. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 174–179.

Koch, S.E., B. Demoz, F. Fabry, W. Feltz, B. Geerts, B. Gentry, D. Parsons, G. Schwemmer, T.M. Weckwerth, D. Whiteman, and J.W. Wilson, 2003: Multisensor study of a dual bore event observed during IHOP. 10th Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, Portland, OR, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 14.3.

Koch, S.E., M. Pagowski, F. Fabry, W. Feltz, G. Schwemmer, B. Geerts, B. Demoz, B. Gentry, D. Parsons, T. Weckwerth, and J. Wilson, 2003: Structure and dynamics of a dual bore event during IHOP as revealed by remote sensing and numerical simulation. Sixth Int. Symposium on Tropospheric profiling: Needs and Technologies, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 378–380.

Koch, S.E., B. Jamison, T.L. Smith, E. Tollerud, C. Lu, N. Wang, M.A. Shapiro, C. Parrish, and O. Cooper, 2003: Field observations and RUC model simulations of turbulence and gravity waves. 10th Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, Portland, OR, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, P2.24.

LeFebvre, T., M. Mathewson, and T. Hansen, 2003: The Rapid Prototype Project. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CDROM, 12.4.

Luo, A., Robock, K.Y. Vinnikov, C.A. Schlosser, A.G. Slater, N.A. Speranskaya, A. Boone, H. Braden, F. Chen, P. Cox, P. Rosnay, C.E. Desborough, R.E. Dickinson, Y.-J. Dai, Q. Duan, J. Entin, P. Etchevers, A. Henderson-Sellers, N. Gedney, Y.M. Gusev, F. Habets, J. Kim, V. Koren, E. Kowalczyk, K. Mitchell, O.N. Nasonova, J. Noilhan, A.J. Pitman, J. Schaake, A.B. Shmakin, T.G. Smirnova, D. Verseghy, P. Wetzel, Y. Xue, Z.-L. Yang, and Q. Zeng, 2003: Effects of frozen soil on soil temperature, spring infiltration, and runoff: Results from the PILPS 2(d) Experiment at Valdai, Russia. J. Hydrometeor. 4, 334–351.

Mahoney, J.L., B.G. Brown, J.E. Hart, and J. Henderson, 2003: A statistical evaluation of the Collaborative Convective Forecast Product (CCFP) and the Convective Significant Weather Advisories (C-SIGMET): 1 April –31 October 2001 and 1 April– 31 July 2002. NOAA Technical Memorandum, Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO.

Miller, P.A., M.F. Barth, and A.E. MacDonald, 2003: Ingest, integration, quality control, and distribution of observations from state transportation departments using MADIS. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 10.11.

Moninger, W.R., R.D. Mamrosh, and P.M. Pauley, 2003: Automated meteorological reports from commercial aircraft. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 84, 203–216.

Poulos, G.S., D.A. Wesley, M.P. Meyers, E.J. Szoke, J.S. Snook, and G. P. Byrd, 2003: Exceptional mesoscale features of the great western storm of 16–20 March 2003. 10th Conf. on Mesoscale Processes, Portland, OR, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CDROM, 6.6A.

Shieh, S.-L, G.-J. Jian, and J.A. McGinley, 2003: Precipitation simulation associated with Typhoon Sinlaku (2002) in the Taiwan area using the LAPS diabatic initialization for MM5. NOAA Technical Report OAR 457-FSL7, Forecast Systems Laboratory, Boulder, CO.

Smith, T.L., S.G. Benjamin, S.I. Gutman, and B.E. Schwartz, 2003: Impact of GPS-IPW data on RUC forecasts. Seventh Symposium on the Water Cycle, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 3.2.

Steffen, C.E., and N. Wang, 2003: Weather data compression. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, 4.9.

Szoke, E., U.H. Grote, P.T. McCaslin, and P.A. McDonald, 2003: D3D update: Is it being used?. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., CD-ROM, P1.10.

Wang, N., and R. Brummer, 2003: Experiment of a waveletbased data compression technique with precision control. 19th Int. Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, Long Beach, CA, Amer. Meteor.Soc., CD-ROM, 4.8.

(Editor's Note: These and 2004 publications (to date) are listed in the FSL Publications Database. Go to our main Website www.fsl.noaa.gov, click on "Publications" and "Research Articles.")