Session: Progress in Estimating Land Surface Evaporation (91st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, 25 January 2011: 3:30 PM-5:30 PM

611 (Washington State Convention Center)

Host: 25th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs:

Martha C. Anderson, USDA/ARS, Hrsl, Beltsville, MD and Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Hydrological Sciences Lagoratory, Washington, DC

Papers:

3:30 PM

6.1

The LandFlux-EVAL Initiative [INVITED]

Sonia I. Seneviratne, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and C. Jimenez, B. Mueller, C. Kummerow, M. McCabe, W. B. Rossow, G. Balsamo, P. Ciais, P. A. Dirmeyer, J. B. Fisher, R. H. Reichle, M. Reichstein, M. Rodell, K. Wang, and E. F. Wood

3:45 PM

6.2

Analysis of multi-year global evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 model simulations

Brigitte Mueller, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; and S. I. Seneviratne and C. Jimenez

Recorded Presentation

4:00 PM

6.3

An observational and reanalysis study of the water budget in the Amazon basin

Janice L. Bytheway, Science and Technology Corporation, Laporte, CO; and C. D. Kummerow

Recorded Presentation

4:15 PM

6.4

Land Surface Evaporation from Reanalysis and Modeling

Xubin Zeng, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and M. Decker, K. Sakaguchi, Z. Wang, and M. Brunke

Recorded Presentation

4:30 PM

6.5

Developing a dual assimilation approach for thermal infrared and passive microwave soil moisture retrievals [INVITED]

Christopher Hain, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, Camp Springs, MD; and W. T. Crow, M. C. Anderson, and J. R. Mecikalski

Recorded Presentation

4:45 PM

6.6

Temperature-driven PET projections

Laura S. Harrison, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and E. Tarnavsky, C. C. Funk, J. Michaelsen, M. Brown, and M. T. Marshall

Recorded Presentation

5:00 PM

6.7

Improvements and Evaluations of the MODIS Global Evapotranspiration Algorithm

Qiaozhen Mu, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and M. Zhao and S. W. Running

Recorded Presentation

5:15 PM