Session 6 |
| | Regional land/atmosphere interactions (parallel with session 5) |
| | Organizer: Jon Warland, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON Canada
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| 8:30 AM | 6.1 | Global solar radiation in a southern African savanna environment  
Mungandi Nasitwitwi, Douglas College, New Westminster, BC, Canada; and W. G. Bailey and L. J. B. McArthur |
| 8:45 AM | 6.2 | Evaluation of alternative spatial models of vapour pressure in Canada
Daniel W McKenney, Natural Resources Canada/Canadian Forest Service, Sault Ste. Marie, ON, Canada; and M. F. Hutchinson, P. Papadopol, and D. T. Price |
| 9:00 AM | 6.3 | Topoclimate effects on agriclimates at the local scale
Katrina Richards, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand |
| 9:15 AM | 6.4 | ClearSky: development and evaluation of an automated, MM5-CALMET-CALPUFF modeling system providing web-mediated support for management of smoke from agricultural field burning
Joe Vaughan, Washington State Univeristy, Pullman, WA; and R. Jain, B. Lamb, and C. Claiborn |
| 9:30 AM | 6.5 | Impact of savanna fire scars on heat and moisture fluxes to the atmosphere and feedbacks to the local boundary layer
Chris Wendt, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; and J. Beringer, N. Tapper, and L. B. Hutley |
|  | 6.6 | Using combined large-eddy simulation and remote sensing to assess land-atmosphere coupling
Nathaniel A. Brunsell, Duke University, Durham, NC; and J. D. Albertson and W. P. Kustas |
| 9:45 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:15 AM | 6.7 | Evaluation of fire weather indices predicted based on real-time high-resolution MM5 forecasts over central and upper Great Plains
Hee-Jin In, University of Houston, Houston, TX; and S. Zhong |
| | 6.8 | Land-atmosphere coupling strength in an AGCM
David M. Lawrence, University of Reading, Reading, Berks., United Kingdom; and C. M. Taylor and J. M. Slingo |
| 10:30 AM | 6.9 | Investigating crop-climate interactions within a General Circulation Model (GCM)
Tom M Osborne, NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom; and J. M. Slingo, T. R. Wheeler, and A. J. Challinor |
| 10:45 AM | 6.10 | Analysis of the boundary layer development above boreal forests through models and observation data
Wenge Ni-Meister, Hunter College, New York, NY; and J. Dong |