Session 4 |
| | Theoretical and applied studies of interactions between the atmosphere and the land surface |
| | Organizers: Alan G. Barr, Meteorological Service of Canada, Saskatoon, SK Canada; David R. Miller, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
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| 1:30 PM | 4.1 | Investigation of Near-Surface Soil Freezing and Thawing in North America
Tingjun Zhang, CIRES/University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. L. Armstrong and J. Smith |
| 1:45 PM | 4.2 | Determining scalar fluxes over an old-growth forest using surface renewal
Donatella Spano, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy; and R. L. Snyder, P. Duce, K. T. Paw U, and M. Falk |
| 2:00 PM | 4.3 | Recent Improvements to the Meyers Multi-layer Dry Deposition Model
Bart Brashers, NOAA, Research Triangle Park, NC; and Y. Wu and P. L. Finkelstein |
| 2:15 PM | 4.4 | Variation of air temperature in a gully in Eastern Kansas during nocturnal periods
Jerry L. Hatfield, USDA-ARS, Ames, IA; and J. H. Prueger and L. Mahrt |
| 2:30 PM | 4.5 | Spatially distributed hydrologic-biophysical modeling: applications in precision agriculture
Charles Rodgers, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. Mecikalski, C. Molling, J. Norman, C. Kucharik, and C. Morgan |
| 2:45 PM | 4.6 | Model calculated soil moisture or precipitation for yield modeling?
Seth E. Snell, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and L. Scuderi, R. Kaufmann, and S. Gopal |
| 3:00 PM | | Afternoon Coffee Break
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| 3:30 PM | 4.7 | Improvement of the Canadian Land Surface Scheme (CLASS) under Stable Conditions
Aisheng Wu, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and D. L. Verseghy |
| 3:45 PM | 4.8 | Effects of a modified BATS on simulation of the diurnal cycle within a regional climate model
Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS |
|  | 4.9 | A new soil source of atmospheric sulfur dioxide
O. Tom Denmead, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, Australia; and B. Macdonald, M. Melville, and I. White |
| 4:00 PM | 4.10 | A spectral analysis of biosphere-atmosphere trace gas flux densities and meteorological variables across hour to year time scales
Dennis Baldocchi, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and E. Falge and K. Wilson |
| 4:14 PM | 4.11 | Observations on the role of treeline in controlling atmospheric circulations
Jason Beringer, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and F. S. Chapin III, I. McHugh, and N. J. Tapper |
| 4:29 PM | 4.12 | Feedbacks between the atmospheric boundary layer and terrestrial ecosystems: implications for global-scale modelling
Peter Levy, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Penicuik, Midlothian, United Kingdom; and C. Huntingford |
| 4:44 PM | 4.13 | Spectral Transfer of Velocity—Temperature Correlation for Inhomogeneous Turbulence for Atmosphere-Land Interaction
Sukaran Ram Patel, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Campina Grande, Paraiba, Brazil |
| 4:59 PM | 4.14 | Crop modeling in Namibia
Albert J. Calitz, Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Rural Development, Windhoek, Namibia; and A. L. du Pisani |