12th Symposium on Global Change Studies and Climate Variations
    

Session 5

 Surface-Atmosphere Interactions (Parallel with Session 6 & Joint Session 2)
 Organizer: Michael Crowe, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
8:00 AM5.1Resolution and Spatial Compatibility issues in Land Surface Modeling  
Jared K. Entin, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and P. R. Houser, D. Toll, J. Radakovich, and B. Cosgrove
8:15 AM5.2The potential impact of proper land-surface representation on spring dynamical seasonal predictions  
C. Adam Schlosser, COLA, Calverton, MD; and J. Shukla, P. A. Dirmeyer, and L. Tan
8:30 AM5.3Role of land surface description for regional climate modeling  
Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS
8:45 AM5.4Water vapor tracers as diagnostics for the regional hydrologic cycle  
Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Schubert
9:00 AM5.5Relative Influence of Initial Surface and Atmospheric Conditions on Seasonal Water and Energy Balances  
Robert J. Oglesby, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and S. Marshall, J. O. Roads, and F. R. Robertson
9:15 AM5.6Sensitivity of the observed U.S. water budget to two different precipitation estimates  
Evgeney S. Yarosh, NOAA/NWS/NCEP/CPC, Camp Springs, MD; and C. F. Ropelewski
9:30 AM5.7Changes in snow depth and soil moisture from regional climate model simulations of future scenario climates  
Eugene S. Takle, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; and Z. Pan, R. W. Arritt, and W. J. Gutowski
9:45 AM5.8Response of regional hydrology to single- & multi-storm events in Susquehanna River Basin Experiment (SRBEX)  
Zhongbo Yu, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV; and E. J. Barron, B. Yarnal, M. N. Lakhtakia, R. A. White, D. Pollard, and D. A. Miller
10:00 AMCoffee Break  
10:30 AM5.9Impact of land surface heterogeneity on the spatial organization of cumulus clouds  
U. S. Nair, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. M. Welch, R. O. Lawton, and R. A. Pielke
10:45 AM5.10Climate sensitivity to land surface variability from minutes to years  
Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and O. Reale and C. A. Schlosser
11:00 AM5.11Providing Realistic Vegetation Phenological Description for Regional Climate Simulations  
Lixin Lu, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and J. Shuttleworth
11:15 AM5.12Effects of free-air carbon dioxide enrichment (FACE) and water stress on the energy balance and evapotranspiration of sorghum  
Jonathan M. Triggs, USDA/ARS, Phoenix, AZ; and B. A. Kimball, M. M. Conley, T. J. Brooks, R. L. LaMorte, P. J. Pinter, G. W. Wall, and C. C. O'Brien
11:30 AM5.13Climate lessons from the study of the boreal forest  
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and J. H. Ball and J. H. McCaughey
11:45 AM5.14Prescribed versus dynamic leaf area index in simulating surface energy and water budgets: experiments with NCAR LSM and CLM using field data from an agriculture site  
Zong-Liang Yang, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and G. Y. Niu

Tuesday, 16 January 2001: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM

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