84th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 1: The Second GEWEX Global Soil Wetness Project (Room 6E)

Monday, 12 January 2004: 9:00 AM-12:00 PM
Room 6E
Organizer:  Paul Dirmeyer, COLA
Papers:
  9:00 AM
1.1
A progress report on the Second Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2)
Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and X. Gao

  9:15 AM
1.2
Analysis and comparison of GSWP-2 input data sets
Mei Zhao, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. Dirmeyer

  9:30 AM
1.3
Towards improvement of NCEP Noah LSM performance via GSWP-2 studies
Helin Wei, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and D. Lohmann and K. Mitchell

  9:45 AM
1.4
Preliminary results of the GSWP-2 run by SiBUC
Kenji Tanaka, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan; and S. Ikebuchi

  10:30 AM
1.7
Modeling Approach For Remote Sensing Validaiton Of Land Surface Schemes On A Global Scale
Xiang Gao, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer

  10:45 AM
1.8
Paper 1.8 Moved to Joint Poster Session 4 New Paper number JP4.33

  10:46 AM
1.9
Paper 1.9 Moved to Joint Poster Session 4 New Paper number JP4.34

  10:47 AM
Spatial and temporal variability of global soil wetness
Zhichang Guo, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. Dirmeyer, X. Gao, and M. Zhao

  11:01 AM
Evaluation of ERA40 and NCEP/NCAR reanalyses using soil moisture observations from China for the period of 1981-1999
Haibin Li, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and A. Robock, S. Liu, X. Mo, and P. Viterbo

  11:16 AM
Coffee Break in Poster session room

  11:46 AM
Using GSWP2 to evaluate the importance of soil moisture heterogeneity in the MOSES land surface scheme
N. Gedney, U.K Met Office, Bracknell, United Kingdom; and P. M. Cox