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Publications on the Reclamation-Developed AWARDS System, ET Toolbox, and Snow Accumulation Algorithm for the WSR–88D Radar

• Agricultural Water Resources Decision Support (AWARDS) - Proceedings, 14th Technical Conference - 1998, U.S. Committee on Irrigation and Drainage, 3-6 June 1998, Phoenix, AZ, pp 127-140.
• Use of WSR-88D Radar Data by Reclamation for Water Resources Management - Presented at the 4th International Symposium on Hydrologic Applications of Weather Radar, 6-8 April 1998, San Diego, CA, 6 pgs.
• NEXRAD-Enhanced Early Warning Systems - Preprints, Special Symposium on Hydrology, 78th Amer. Meteor. Soc. Annual Meeting, 11-16 January 1998, Phoenix, AR, pp. 107-112.
• Development of a WSR-88D based Snow Accumulation Algorithm for Quantitative Precipitation Estimates over southwestern Oregon - Preprints, 16th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, 80th Amer. Meteor. Soc. Annual Meeting, 9-14 January 2000, Long Beach, CA, pp 373-376.
• Agricultural Water Resources Decision Support System - Preprints, 2nd Conference on Environmental Applications, 80th Amer. Meteor. Soc. Annual Meeting, 9-14 January 2000, Long Beach, CA, pp 98-105.
• Evapotranspiration Toolbox for the Upper Rio Grande Water Operations Model - Preprints, 2nd Conference on Environmental Applications, 80th Amer. Meteor. Soc. Annual Meeting, 9-14 January 2000, Long Beach, CA, pp 106-112.
• Snow Accumulation Algorithm for the WSR-88D Radar: Supplemental Report - Edmond W. Holroyd, III, 1999, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Report R-99-11, 30 pp.
• Development of a WSR-88D based Precipitation Accumulation Algorithm for Quantitative Precipitation Estimates over northwest Oregon - Preprints, 17th International Conference on Interactive Information and Processing Systems for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, 81st Amer. Meteor. Soc. Annual Meeting, 14-19 January 2001, Albuquerque, NM, pp 146-150.
• Improvements to the WSR-88D Snow Accumulation Algorithm - Preprints, 30th International Conference on Radar Meteorology, 19-24 July 2001, Munich, Germany, pp 716-718 (references included).
• Agricultural Water Resources Decision Support System and Evapotranspiration Toolbox - Proceedings, Decision Support Systems for Water Resources Management, AWRA Summer Specialty Conference, 27-30 June 2001, Snowbird, UT, pp 377-382.
• Agricultural Water Resources Decision Support System and Evapotranspiration Toolbox - Preprints, 16th Conference on Hydrology, 82nd Amer. Meteor. Soc. Annual Meeting, 13-17 January 2002, Orlando, FL, pp J198-J203.
• A Test of Two Distributed Hydrologic Models with WSR-88D Radar Precipitation Data Input in Arizona - 31st Conference on Radar Meteorology, Amer. Meteor. Soc., 6-12 August 2003, Seattle, WA (full doc. with figures).
• Demonstration of Improved Operational Water Resources Management Through Use of Better Snow Water Equivalent Information - Steven M. Hunter and Edmond W. Holroyd, III, 2002, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Report R-02-02, 75 pp.
• Applying High Resolution Land Surface Data, Modeling and Assimilation Techniques to Water Supply and Demand Forecasts - Preprints, 17th Conference on Hydrology, 83th Amer. Meteor. Soc. Annual Meeting, 9-13 February 2003, Long Beach, CA, paper J5.13