Session: Land Atmosphere Interactions Posters (85th AMS Annual Meeting)

P3.1

Water vapor turbulent flux over a heterogeneous landscape

Miliaritiana L. Robjhon, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph and J. D. Fuentes

P3.2

Verification of the North American Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) using data from Oklahoma Mesonet OASIS sites

Kodi L. Nemunaitis-Monroe, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara, B. A. Cosgrove, D. Lohmann, and K. E. Mitchell

P3.3

Variability of Penman-based evapotranspiration estimates in California

Hugo G. Hidalgo, SIO/Univ. Of California, La Jolla, CA; and D. R. Cayan and M. Dettinger

P3.4

Trends in cloud types and diurnal changes in cloudiness in Canada 1953-2003

Ewa J. Milewska, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada

P3.5

The search for linear correlations between atmospheric surface-layer fluxes and soil moisture across Oklahoma

Justin W. Monroe, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and J. B. Basara

P3.6

The role of antecedent land surface conditions in warm season monsoon precipitation over northwestern Mexico, 1950-2002

Chunmei Zhu, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier and T. Cavazos

P3.7

The impact of soil moisture initialization on seasonal precipitation in the West African Sahel using the Regional Spectral Model

Andrea M. Sealy, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, C. H. Lu, and H. M. H. Juang

P3.8

Simulations-based Land Surface Sub-grid Parameterization

Hatim Sharif, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; and N. L. Miller, W. Crow, and E. F. Wood

P3.9

Seasonal soil moisture prediction using different water retention relations in a climate-crop-soil coupled model

Zaitao Pan, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO; and R. Horton

P3.10

Remote sensing of forest-atmosphere exchanges

Qilong Min, ASRC, SUNY at Albany, Albany, NY; and B. Lin

P3.11

Preliminary results of the meteorological environment near the restoring construction area of the Cheonggye stream in Seoul, Korea

Young-Gon Lee, KMA/METRI, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, South Korea; and H. H. Um and J. C. Nam

P3.12

On the impact of weekly updated Green Vegetation Fraction in Noah Land Surface Model

Vince C. K. Wong, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. E. Mitchell

P3.13

Observations and Modeling of Evapotranspiration and Latent Heat Flux at Various Sites in North Carolina

Margaret W. P. Puryear, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman, P. Childs, A. Syed, and R. Boyles

Poster PDF (286.0 kB)

P3.14

Evaluating the use of the Atmospheric and EXchange Inverse (ALEXI) model in short-term prediction and mesoscale diagnosis

John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and S. M. Mackaro, M. C. Anderson, J. M. Norman, and J. B. Basara

Poster PDF (787.5 kB)

P3.15

Evaluate the snow depletion curve theory in the American River basin with distributed snow model

Eylon Shamir, Hydrologic Research Center, San Diego, CA; and J. Wang, S. Taylor, and K. P. Georgakakos

P3.16

Disaggregating Land Cover Change and Climate Change in the West African Sahel using Landsat Mosaics and AVHRR NDVI from 1981-2004

Molly. E. Brown, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and C. Neigh and C. J. Tucker

P3.17

Development of the second-generation hydrosphere-atmosphere research model (CHARM) for the Laurentian Great Lakes region

Brent M. Lofgren, Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, Ann Arbor, MI

Poster PDF (382.7 kB)

P3.18

Coupling a mosaic land surface scheme (SiBUC) with a nonhydrostatic atmospheric model (ARPS)

Kazuyoshi Souma, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan; and K. Tanaka, E. Nakakita, and S. Ikebuchi

Poster PDF (779.7 kB)

P3.19

Correction of global precipitation products for systematic bias and orographic effects

Jennifer C Adam, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier, E. A. Clark, and E. F. Wood

P3.20

Contribution of Land Surface States to Precipitation Variability in Boreal Summer with an Atmospheric General Circulation Model

Tomohito Yamada, Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Meguro, Tokyo, Japan; and S. Kanae and T. Oki

http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/

Poster PDF (650.4 kB)

P3.21

CLIP: Modeling Land Use Change and Precipitation in Eastern Africa

Nathan J. Moore, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and B. M. Lofgren and J. Andresen

P3.22

Analysis of multiple precipitation products and preliminary assessment of their impact on GLDAS land surface states

P3.23

AGCM Biases in Evaporation Regime: Impact on Soil Moisture Memory and Land-Atmosphere Feedback

Sarith P. P. Mahanama, GEST and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster

P3.24

A 2-year climatology of land-surface energy fluxes using the ALEXI model

Jason A. Otkin, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. C. Anderson and J. R. Mecikalski

Poster PDF (2.7 MB)

P3.25

"Why are the lower level cumulus clouds often better organized near the east bank of the Tapajos River?" - a mechanistic study

Lixin Lu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and A. S. Denning, M. A. F. Silva Dias, P. L. Silva Dias, and M. Longo

Poster Session 3: Land Atmosphere Interactions Posters