Session 4 |
| | Land Atmosphere Interactions II (Coupling and Feedbacks) |
| | Organizers: Deborah K. Nykanen, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN; Kaye L. Brubaker, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD
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| 1:00 PM | 4.1 | Why does land-atmosphere coupling strength differ so widely amongst climate models? A direct comparison of the coupling mechanism in two AGCMs
David M Lawrence, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and J. Slingo, C. Taylor, and K. Oleson |
| 1:15 PM | 4.2 | Warm-season rainfall variability over the Great Plains in observations, reanalysis, and AMIP simulations: Role of evaporation
Alfredo Ruiz-Barradas, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and S. Nigam |
| 1:30 PM | 4.3 | The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE): Model characteristics and comparison
Zhichang Guo, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. A. Dirmeyer and R. Koster |
| 1:45 PM | 4.4 | Response of precipitation to soil moisture constraints in the NCEP global model simulations for GLACE  
Cheng-Hsuan Lu, RSIS Inc. McLean, VA and NOAA/NWS/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and Z. Guo and K. Mitchell |
| 2:00 PM | 4.5 | Regional aspects of the North American land surface-atmosphere interactions: Analysis of North American Regional Reanalysis (NARR) Data
Yan Luo, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and E. H. Berbery and K. E. Mitchell |
| 2:15 PM | 4.6 | The impact of abrupt land cover changes by savannah fire on northern Australian climate
Klaus Görgen, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Melbourne, Vic, Australia; and A. Lynch, C. Enticott, J. Beringer, D. Abramson, and N. Tapper |
| 2:30 PM | | Formal Poster viewing with Coffee Break
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| 4:00 PM | 4.6b | Walter Orr Robert Lecture
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| 5:00 PM | 4.7 | The influence of improved land surface and soil data on mesoscale model predictions
Christopher M. Godfrey, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and L. M. Leslie |
| 5:15 PM | 4.8 | Testing interactions between radiation, carbon and water processes
Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and F. H. De Sales, G. J. Collatz, and X. Zhan |
| 5:30 PM | 4.9 | Sensitivity of wet and dry North American monsoon seasons to variability in sea surface temperature and soil moisture
Stephen M. Saleeby, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO; and W. R. Cotton |
| 5:45 PM | 4.10 | Numerical Experiments With Upgraded WRF/NoahLSM Model
Mukul Tewari, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and F. Chen, W. Wang, J. Dudhia, M. A. LeMone, K. Mitchell, M. Ek, J. Wegiel, and R. H. Cuenca |
| 6:00 PM | 4.11 | Desert Oasis Self Preservation Mechanisms
Peter C. Chu, NPS, Monterey, CA; and S. Lu and Y. Chen |
| 6:15 PM | 4.12 | Impact of Deforestation on the proposed Mesoamerican Biological Corridor in Central America
Ronald M. Welch, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and D. K. Ray, U. S. Nair, T. Sever, and D. Irwin |