Session 5 |
| | Land Surface Albedo and Its Impacts on Surface Climate (parallel with Joint Session 8) |
| | Organizers: Menglin Jin, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA; Crystal B Schaaf, Boston
University, Boston, MA
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| 8:30 AM | 5.1 | Spatially complete global surface albedos derived from Terra/MODIS data (INVITED)
Michael D. King, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD; and E. G. Moody, S. Platnick, and C. B. Schaaf |
| 9:00 AM | 5.2 | The MODIS BRDF/Albedo Products for Climate Studies
Crystal B. Schaaf, Boston University, Boston, MA; and F. Gao, A. Strahler, X. Li, J. Salomon, X. Zhang, J. C. F. Hodges, and E. Tsvetsinskaya |
| 9:15 AM | 5.3 | Land surface albedos from Land SAF and CYCLOPES projects: an accuracy assessment based on the comparison against in situ measurements and other sensors products
Jean-Louis C.H. Roujean, Météo-France, Toulouse, France |
| 9:30 AM | 5.4 | Land Surface Albedo and the Global Energy-Water Cycle
Christopher L. Brest, Columbia University, New York, New York; and Y. Zhang and W. B. Rossow |
| 9:45 AM | | Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing
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| 11:00 AM | 5.5 | Overview of Soil, Vegetation, and Snow Albedos in Weather and Climate Models (INVITED) 
Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| 11:15 AM | 5.6 | Development of Land Surface Albedo Parameterization Based on MODIS data (INVITED)
Xin-Zhong Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL; and M. Xu, W. Gao, K. E. Kunkel, J. R. Slusser, Y. Dai, Q. Min, P. R. Houser, M. Rodell, C. B. Schaaf, and F. Gao |
| 11:30 AM | 5.7 | Land surface albedo and the impact of its uncertainty on model results (INVITED)
Nicole Molders, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK |
| 11:45 AM | 5.8 | Coupling and Analysis of CLM3 in MM5 to Improve Snow Simulations
Jiming Jin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and N. L. Miller |