Session 3 |
| | Land-Atmosphere Interactions 2: Process Representation and Evaluation |
| | Organizer: Deborah K. Nykanen, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI
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| 1:30 PM | 3.1 | An Evaluation of a 30-year Land Surface Model Simulation using Observational Forcing 
Hatim Sharif, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and W. Crow, N. L. Miller, K. E. Bashford, and E. F. Wood |
| 1:45 PM | 3.2 | The interplay between vegetation evapotranspiration processes and the seasonal soil moisture evolution at the catchment scale
Reto Stöckli, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland; and P. L. Vidale |
| 2:00 PM | 3.3 | The water budget of Guemes Island
Joost A. Businger, University of Washington, Anacortes, WA |
| 2:15 PM | 3.4 | Evaluation of streamflow and snowpack simulations in the land surface models of the North American Land Data Assimilation (N-LDAS) Project
Dag Lohmann, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. Schaake, D. Lettenmaier, A. Robock, B. Cosgrove, M. Pan, Q. Duan, J. Sheffield, L. Luo, J. Meng, W. Higgins, R. Pinker, and D. Tarpley |
| 2:30 PM | 3.5 | Land surface hydrology comparisons between the Viterbo and Beljaars land surface scheme and observations
Harald Richter, BMRC, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; and G. A. Mills, A. W. Western, R. B. Grayson, F. H. S. Chiew, and D. Wilson |
| 2:45 PM | 3.6 | Percolation theoretical treatments of water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity: Relevance to water and energy fluxes across land–air interface
Allen G. Hunt, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 3:00 PM | | Coffee Break in exhibit hall (exhibits open 1:30–6:30 p.m.)
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| 3:30 PM | 3.7 | Evaluation of Three Topography-based Runoff Schemes in a Land Surface Model
Guo-Yue Niu, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang |
| 3:45 PM | 3.8 | Intercomparison of Soil Moisture Memory in Two Land Surface Models
Sarith P. P. Mahanama, GEST and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster |
| 4:00 PM | 3.9 | Upgrades to the unified Noah land-surface model in the operational NCEP mesoscale Eta model
Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell, E. Rogers, T. Black, G. Gayno, F. Chen, and J. Kim |
| 4:15 PM | 3.10 | An Evaluation of the NOAH Land Surface Model Implemented in the Global Land Data Assimilation System
Kristi R. Arsenault, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, M. Rodell, U. Jambor, J. Gottschalck, J. Meng, B. Cosgrove, K. Mitchell, D. Lohmann, and M. Ek |
| 4:30 PM | 3.11 | Testing and evaluation of potential evapotranspiration schemes for National Weather Service River Forecast System
Qingyun Duan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and M. Smith and J. Schaake |
| 4:45 PM | 3.12 | Two-Way Coupling of Crop-Climate Interactions in a Regional Climate Model
Eugene S. Takle, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and Z. Pan and J. H. Christensen |
| 5:00 PM | 3.13 | Seasonal Soil Moisture Prediction Using a Climate-Plant-Soil Coupled Agroecosystem Water Management Model
Z. Pan, Iowa State Univeristy, Ames, IA; and R. Horton, M. Segal, E. Takle, D. Herzmann, D. Todey, D. Flory, and J. Roads |
| 5:15 PM | 3.14 | Assessing impact of interannual climate variations on water resources and crop productivity using CLIGEN and WEPP models
X.-C. John Zhang, USDA-ARS, El Reno, OK |