Session: coupled land-atmosphere models (Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference)

5:10 PM

5.0

Simulating a snowmelt period using coupled SVAT, surface hydrology and groundwater models

WJ Capehart, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Rapid City, SD; and C. Schlosser

6:30 PM

5.0

Warm-season precipitation in the Nebraska Sand Hills: sensitivity to moisture holding properties of the soil

Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson, J. W. Kaiser, D. B. Radell, Q. Hu, and X. Chen

2:10 PM

5.0

Atmospheric response to groundwater input: a sensitivity study in the Nebraska Sand Hills

Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and M. R. Anderson, J. W. Kaiser, D. B. Radell, Q. Hu, and X. Chen

6:10 PM

5.0

Variable infiltration capacity (VIC) cold land process model updates

Keith A. Cherkauer, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and L. C. Bowling, D. P. Lettenmaier, and E. F. Wood

4:50 PM

5.0

Sensitivity of a simulated mesoscale convective system to horizontal resolution of soil moisture initialization

William Y. Y. Cheng, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; and W. R. Cotton and S. M. Saleeby

3:30 PM

5.0

NCEP Eta Analysis and Forecast System: Land-surface model changes and model performance assessment

Michael Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell, E. Rogers, Y. Lin, D. Lohmann, V. Koren, J. Schaake, Q. Duan, and D. Tarpley

2:50 PM

5.0

Investigation of Deep Soil Temperature-Atmosphere Interaction in North America

Yongkang Xue, UCLA, Los Amgeles, CA; and L. Yi, M. Ruml, and R. Vasic

3:10 PM

5.0

Land-surface parameterizations in northern regions: Results from PILPS Phase 2(e)

Laura C. Bowling, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and B. Nijssen and D. P. Lettenmaier

4:30 PM

5.0

Scaling Carbon and Energy Exchange Processes within Land Atmosphere Models

Dev dutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and Y. Xue and K. Alapaty

1:50 PM

5.0

An estimate of the sensitivity of large-scale model simulations to the mosaic-of-tiles approach to land-atmosphere coupling: A case study over the GCIP region

Lifeng Luo, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and C. P. Weaver, R. Avissar, and A. Robock

1:30 PM

5.0

A preferred dynamical scale for landscape-forced mesoscale circulations?

Somnath Baidya Roy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and C. P. Weaver, D. S. Nolan, and R. Avissar

5:30 PM

5.0

The impact of initial soil moisture amount and spatial distribution on the simulation of precipitation during the 1995, 1996, and 1997 GCIP ESOPs

Matei Georgescu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ; and C. P. Weaver, R. Avissar, and R. L. Walko

4:10 PM

5.0

Optimal parameter estimation and uncertainty analysis of a land surface model using the Cabauw dataset

Youlong Xia, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX; and C. Jackson, M. K. Sen, and P. L. Stoffa

5:50 PM

5.0

The impact of vegetation root distribution, fractional vegetation cover, and leaf area index on seasonal global simulations

Michael Barlage, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng

2:30 PM

5.0

Evaluation of Carbon Flux Simulations over the Southwest U.S.

Hoshin V. Gupta, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and L. A. Bastidas, T. S. Hogue, W. Emmerich, and S. Sorooshian

3:50 PM

5.0

Optimal Parameter and Uncertainty Estimation within Climate and Land Surface Models using Bayesian Stochastic Inversion

Charles S. Jackson, University of Texas-Austin, Austin, TX; and M. Sen and P. Stoffa

6:50 PM

5.1

Preliminary Results From The 2nd Model Parameter Estimation Experiment (MOPEX)

Qingyun Duan, NOAA/NWS, Silver Spring, MD; and J. Schaake, V. Koren, K. Mitchell, and D. Lohmann

6:51 PM

5.2

Improving the representation of snow hydrology in global and regional climate models

Susan Marshall, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Charlotte, NC; and R. J. Oglesby

6:53 PM

5.3

Providing Realistic Vegetation Phenological Description for North American Monsoon Simulation Using CENTURY Ecological Model

Lixin Lu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and J. Shuttleworth, M. Hartman, and D. Ojima

6:56 PM

5.4

Parameter Estimation for Coupled Land Surface Models

Luis A Bastidas, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and H. V. Gupta, Y. Liu, and S. Sorooshian

7:00 PM

5.5

The use of the Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) to investigate the impact of land surface processes in the GAPP/GCIP region

Roger A. Pielke Sr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and G. E. Liston, C. L. Castro, J. L. Eastman, L. Lu, C. H. Marshall, and J. E. Strack

7:05 PM

5.6

Space-time variability of rainfall and soil moisture in coupled land-atmosphere modeling: Issues of scale and effect on predicted water and energy fluxes

Deborah K. Nykanen, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI; and E. Foufoula-Georgiou

7:11 PM

5.7

Using integrated modeling techniques to investigate the hydrological cycle in the Nebraska Sand Hills

Clinton M. Rowe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; and Q. Hu, M. R. Anderson, and X. Chen

7:31 PM

5.8

The co-evolution of the large-scale magnitude and mesoscale spatial heterogeneity of precipitation and soil moisture over the GCIP domain on monthly/seasonal timescales

Christopher P. Weaver, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

7:39 PM

5.9

Snow-Climate Interaction in the NCAR CCM3

Zong-Liang Yang, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas; and G. Y. Niu

7:48 PM

5.10

Modeling topographic influences on snow depth and cover: Applications to Western U.S. water resources

Andrea N Hahmann, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. L. Mosor

Session 5: coupled land-atmosphere models