84th AMS Annual Meeting

Joint Poster Session 4: Land-Atmosphere Interactions Posters (Joint with the 15th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations and 18th Conf. on Hydrology; Hall 4AB)

Tuesday, 13 January 2004: 9:45 AM
Hall 4AB
Chairs:  Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California and Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC
Papers:
 
The Impact of Soil Moisture Initialization on Seasonal Precipitation Forecasts in the West African Sahel: Preliminary testing of the HU-RSMCVS model
Andrea M. Sealy, Howard University, Washington, DC; and E. Joseph, C. H. Lu, and H. M. H. Juang

Poster PDF (253.6 kB)
 
The relationship between soil moisture and climate at seasonal to interannual scales
Jiarui Dong, GEST/University of Maryland, Greenbelt, MD; and W. Ni, P. Houser, and R. Koster

 
Regional scale energy and water flux climatologies as derived from remote sensing inputs and a land-exchange model
John R. Mecikalski, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and M. C. Anderson, J. A. Otkin, and J. M. Norman

Poster PDF (360.0 kB)
 
Local moisture cycling in the Nebraska Sand Hills -- the key to dune stabilization?
Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson, D. B. Radell, and D. B. Loope

 
Investigation of South American land/atmopshere interactions using the regional Eta/SSiB model
Fernando H. De Sales, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Y. Xue

Poster PDF (546.0 kB)
 
Isolating microscale phenomena from mesoscale observations
Matthew J. Haugland, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

Poster PDF (159.8 kB)
 
A study of the physical influences on the location and strength of the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) over land.
Dan C. Collins, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and V. Toma and P. J. Webster

 
Relationship between antecedent land surface conditions and precipitation in the North American Monsoon region
Chunmei Zhu, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. P. Lettenmaier and T. Cavazos

 
The Role of Prairie Wetland Extent on the Pre-storm Environment of the Northern Great Plains
W. J. Capehart, South Dakota School of Mines, Rapid City, SD; and M. R. Hjelmfelt, R. D. Farley, K. W. Harding, D. P. Todey, and J. L. Elsen

Poster PDF (770.5 kB)
 
ENSO effects on reference evapotranspiration (ETo) at the Maipo river basin, Chile
Francisco J. Meza, Facultad de Agronomía e Ingeniería Forestal. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile., Santiago, RM, Chile

Poster PDF (163.4 kB)
 
Representativeness of Soil Moisture Conditions in Central Oklahoma During the Enhanced Drying Phase
Bradley G. Illston, Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK OK; and J. C. Caldwell and S. G. Bodnar

Poster PDF (103.7 kB)
 
Testing of several recent modifications to ARPS land surface model
Ming Xue, CAPS/Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. Ren

Poster PDF (1.2 MB)
 
The Regional Evapotranspiration of the Amazon
David Werth, Duke University, Durham, NC; and R. Avissar

Poster PDF (129.0 kB)
 
COMPASS: Coupled models package of surface schemes
Mariza Costa-Cabral, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and J. E. Richey, D. P. Lettenmaier, M. Logsdon, S. S. Rodda, E. Mayorga, and A. K. Aufdenkampe

 
Global warming effects on Great Lakes water: More precipitation but less water?
Brent M. Lofgren, Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab, Ann Arbor, MI

Poster PDF (116.5 kB)
 
Convective Planetary Boundary Layer Evolution And Land Surface Energy Balance
Joseph A. Santanello Jr., Boston University, Boston, MA; and M. A. Friedl

Poster PDF (336.6 kB)
 
Impact of GCM climate biases on the simulation of soil moisture memory
Sarith Mahanama, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster

 
Paper JP4.24 moved, new paper number 2.7a

 
Snowpack advances in the Noah land-surface model
Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell, D. Lohmann, and H. Wei

 
A west-wide seasonal to interannual hydrologic forecast system
Andrew W. Wood, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and A. F. Hamlet, S. Babu, and D. P. Lettenmaier

 
Global energy and water balance simulation with bucket model for GSWP2
Naota Hanasaki, The university of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; and S. Kanae and T. Oki

Poster PDF (139.1 kB)
 
Impact of GCM climate biases on the simulation of soil moisture
Sarith Mahanama, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. D. Koster

 
A tendency towards lower frequency climatic variations in the southwestern U.S. during the past 100 years
John A. Dracup, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; and H. G. Hidalgo

 
Land surface temperature estimation for hydrological assimilation
Andrew N French, NASA, Greenbelt, MD; and P. Houser, A. Pinheiro, and J. Meng

 
Relationship Between Atmospheric Circulation and Snowpack in the western United States
Jiming Jin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and N. L. Miller, S. Sorooshian, and X. Gao

 
Roughness lengths over snow
Edgar L. Andreas, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, NH; and R. E. Jordan, P. S. Guest, P. O. G. Persson, A. A. Grachev, and C. W. Fairall

Poster PDF (291.1 kB)
 
Land-surface issues in the NCEP Regional Reanalysis
Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell, P. Shafran, and D. Jovic

 
Using GSWP 2 in a Global Water Cycle Synthesis and Analysis (Formerly paper 1.8)
C. Adam Schlosser, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, J. K. Entin, and D. R. Belvedere

 
Land Memory in GSWP 2 and AMIP 2 Simulations (Formerly paper 1.9)
Adam Schlosser, UMBC/GEST, Baltimore, MD; and R. Koster and P. A. Dirmeyer