Session 5 Surface-Atmosphere Interactions (Parallel with Session 6 & Joint Session 2)

Tuesday, 16 January 2001: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Host: 12th Symposium on Global Change Studies and Climate Variations
Organizer:
Michael Crowe, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC

Papers:
8:00 AM
5.1
Resolution 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 AM
5.2
The 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 AM
5.3
Role of land surface description for regional climate modeling
Loren D. White, Jackson State University, Jackson, MS

8:45 AM
5.4
Water vapor tracers as diagnostics for the regional hydrologic cycle
Michael G. Bosilovich, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. D. Schubert

9:00 AM
5.5
Relative 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 AM
5.6
Sensitivity 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 AM
5.7
Changes 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 Jr.

9:45 AM
5.8
Response 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 AM
5.9
Impact 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 Sr.

10:15 AM
5.10
Climate sensitivity to land surface variability from minutes to years
Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and O. Reale and C. A. Schlosser

10:30 AM
5.11
Providing Realistic Vegetation Phenological Description for Regional Climate Simulations
Lixin Lu, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and J. Shuttleworth

10:45 AM
5.12
Effects 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 Jr., G. W. Wall, and C. C. O'Brien

11:00 AM
5.13
Climate lessons from the study of the boreal forest
Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and J. H. Ball and J. H. McCaughey

11:15 AM
5.14
Prescribed 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

11:30 AM
5.8a
Coffee Break

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