Session 5a |
| | Terrestrial Biosphere Feedback to the Atmosphere at the Regional and Global Scales (Parallel with Session 5B) |
| | Organizers: Hugo Berbery, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD; Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD
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| 8:30 AM | 5a.1 | The importance of land-surface variability to climate variability
Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and O. Reale and C. A. Schlosser |
| 8:45 AM | 5a.2 | Land surface processes over GCIP Large Scale Areas
Ernesto Hugo Berbery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and W. Chen, R. T. Pinker, and K. E. Mitchell |
| 9:00 AM | 5a.3 | Model Validation of Observed Secondary Circulation in FIFE-1989 IFC-5 Dataset Using Coupled Mesoscale-SVATS Modeling System
Eric A. Smith, NASA/GHCC, Huntsville, AL; and H. J. Cooper, D. A. Faysash, and G. J. Tripoli |
| 9:15 AM | 5a.4 | Land cover-convective cloud interactions in the US Midwest
Jimmy O. Adegoke, Penn State Univ., University Park, PA; and A. M. Carleton |
| 9:30 AM | 5a.5 | A new gas/Carbon Assimilation Surface Evapotranpiration Model (GEM) for Mesoscale Applications
Devdutta S. Niyogi, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC; and S. Raman and K. Alapaty |
| 9:45 AM | 5a.6 | On the Parameterization of Convective Precipitation Generated by Land Cover Change/Land Use in Large-Scale Atmospheric Models
Christopher P. Weaver, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and R. Avissar and Y. Liu |
| 10:00 AM | | Coffee Break
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| 10:30 AM | 5a.7 | The simulation of complex land cover in regional climate studies
Diana L. Verseghy, AES, Downsview, ON, Canada |
| 10:45 AM | 5a.8 | The Impacts of Land Cover Change/Land Use on Regional Hydrometeorology
Roni Avissar, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ; and C. P. Weaver and S. Baidya Roy |
| 11:00 AM | 5a.9 | Estimating root-zone moisture and evapotranspiration with AVHRR Data
Jie Song, Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL; and M. L. Wesely |
| 11:15 AM | 5a.10 | Coupled atmosphere-land surface modeling over GAME-T region
Jian-Hua Joshua Qian, USRA, Greenbelt, MD; and W. -. K. Tao and W. K. -. M. Lau |
| 11:30 AM | 5a.11 | Surface climate equilibrium over land
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT |
|  | 5a.12 | Using second order closure to obtain mesoscale and turbulent heat fluxes
Barry H. Lynn, Columbia Univ., New York, NY; and W. K. Tao |
| 11:45 AM | | Lunch Break
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| 1:15 PM | 5a.13 | Coupling Atmospheric, Ecologic, and Hydrologic Processes in a Regional Climate Model
Lixin Lu, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and R. A. Pielke Sr., G. E. Liston, W. J. Parton, D. Ojima, and M. Hartman |
| 1:30 PM | 5a.14 | Preliminary Results of the OASIS Project
Jerald A. Brotzge, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and S. J. Richardson and T. W. Horst |
| 1:45 PM | 5a.15 | The Role of Vegetation-Climate Interaction and Interannual Variability in Shaping the African Savanna
Ning Zeng, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and J. D. Neelin |
| 2:00 PM | 5a.16 | Surface Heat Balance Observation in the Western Tibet
Shigenori Haginoya, MRI, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and H. Naoe |