Session 6 Regional land/atmosphere interactions (parallel with session 5)

Wednesday, 25 August 2004: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM
Host: 26th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Organizer:
Jon Warland, University of Guelph, Land Resource Science, Guelph, ON

Papers:
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
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (369.0 kB)

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
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (708.5 kB)

9:00 AM
6.3
Topoclimate effects on agriclimates at the local scale
Katrina Richards, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Recorded presentation

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
Recorded presentation

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
Recorded presentation

Presentation PDF (693.2 kB)

6.6
Using combined large-eddy simulation and remote sensing to assess land-atmosphere coupling

10:00 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
Recorded presentation

6.8
Land-atmosphere coupling strength in an AGCM

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
Recorded presentation

10:45 AM
6.6a
Coffee Break

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- Indicates an Award Winner
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