Session 2 |
| | Water and Energy Budget-Tuesday |
| | Organizer: John Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA
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| 10:30 AM | 2.1 | Atmospheric water and energy budget of the Mississippi River Basin and a third independent estimate of runoff constrained by top-of-atmosphere radiation
Hideki Kanamaru, Boston University, Boston, MA; and G. Salvucci and D. Entekhabi |
| 10:45 AM | 2.2 | Inter-Annual Variations of the Near-Surface Soil Freeze/Thaw Cycle in the contiguous United Satates
Tingjun Zhang, CIRES/Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO; and R. L. Armstrong and J. Smith |
| 11:00 AM | 2.3 | The surface energy balance: biological and physical controls
Tilden P. Meyers, NOAA, Oak Ridge, TN; and S. Hollinger |
| 11:15 AM | 2.4 | Modulation of the Great Plains low-level jet and moisture transports by orography and large-scale circulations
Jan Paegle, Meteorology Department University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and L. A. Byerle |
| 11:30 AM | 2.5 | Model-based moisture cycle and divergence quantities over the United States
David A. Salstein, AER, Lexington, MA; and R. D. Rosen and H. Kanamaru |
| 11:45 AM | 2.6 | Evaluating Water and Energy budgets across the Mississippi river basin through remote sensing
John Norman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI; and M. Anderson, J. Mecikalski, R. Torn, and G. Diak |