85th AMS Annual Meeting

Session 5: Land Surface Albedo and Its Impacts on Surface Climate (parallel with Joint Session 8)

Thursday, 13 January 2005: 8:30 AM-12:00 PM
Organizers:  Menglin Jin, San Jose State University and Crystal B Schaaf, Boston University
Papers:
  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

  9:30 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

  10:00 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

  10:15 AM
5.7
  10:30 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

  10:45 AM
Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing

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