Joint Session 3 |
| | Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part III (Joint between the 22nd Conference on Hydrology and the 20th Conference on Climate Variability and Change) |
| | CoChair: Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Chair: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD
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| 3:30 PM | J3.1 | Using photosynthesis-based canopy resistance model and new MODIS-based data to improve the presentation of vegetation transpiration in the Noah land surface model  
Anil Kumar, NCAR / Purdue University, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, D. Niyogi, J. G. Alfieri, K. Manning, M. Ek, and K. Mitchell |
| 3:45 PM | J3.2 | Minimum canopy resistance for croplands and grasslands during the 2002 International H2O Project
Joseph G. Alfieri, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and D. Niyogi, P. D. Blanken, F. Chen, M. Ek, A. Kumar, M. A. LeMone, and K. Mitchell |
| 4:00 PM | J3.3 | Controlling factors and uncertainty in dynamic vegetation modeling at seasonal and interannual scales – a study using the SSiB4/TRIFFID
Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and Z. Zhang and P. M. Cox |
| 4:15 PM | J3.4 | Evaluation of GCM surface processes over West Africa using offline land surface models and observations
Aaron A. Boone, CNRM, Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France; and I. Poccard-Leclercq and Y. K. Xue |
| 4:30 PM | J3.5 | Impact of Different Surface Layer Schemes and Snow Albedo Formulations on Cold-season Simulations by the Noah Land-surface Model
Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell, Y. Xia, V. Wong, A. Slater, and B. Livneh |
| 4:45 PM | J3.6 | An Observation-Based Formulation of Snow Cover Fraction and Its Evaluation over Large North American River Basins
Guo-Yue Niu, University of Texas, Austin, TX; and Z. L. Yang |
| 5:00 PM | J3.7 | Mass balance of the Haig Glacier using mesoscale modeling
Amanda S. Adams, Univ. of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada; and S. Marshall |