Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference

Session 2: Water and Energy Budget-Tuesday

Tuesday, 14 May 2002: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Organizer:  John Roads, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Papers:
  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