Joint Session 8 |
| | Role of vegetation and land cover/land use in the water cycle (Joint with the Symposium on Observing and Understanding the Variability of Water in Weather and Climate and the 17th Conference on Hydrology) |
| | Organizer: Roger Pielke, Sr., Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
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| 8:30 AM | J8.1 | Observing and deriving land cover properties and vegetation dynamics for use in weather and climate models (Invited Presentation) 
Mark A. Friedl, Boston University, Boston, MA; and X. Zhang and E. Tsvetsinskaya |
| 9:00 AM | J8.2 | Land use and seasonal green vegetation cover of the Conterminous USA for use in numerical weather models
Kevin P. Gallo, NOAA/NESDIS and EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD; and T. Owen and B. Reed |
| 9:15 AM | J8.3 | An evaluation of using real-time, satellite-derived vegetation fraction in the Eta model
David J. Stensrud, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK; and N. P. Kurkowski and M. E. Baldwin |
| 9:30 AM | | Oral Briefings: 1–2 Minute Presentation Summarizing Posters in Session JP5
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| 9:45 AM | | Formal Poster Viewing with Coffee Break
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| 11:00 AM | J8.4 | Role Of The Vegetation In Climate And Hydrological Cycle (Invited Presentation)
Pavel Kabat, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands |
| 11:30 AM | J8.5 | Impact of Deforestation on Precipitation
Somnath Baidya Roy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ; and S. W. Pacala and C. P. Weaver |
| 11:45 AM | J8.6 | The impact of fractional vegetation cover and leaf area index on warm season precipitation variability in global ensemble simulations
Michael Barlage, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng |
| 12:00 PM | J8.7 | Representation of the effects sub-grid scale topography and landuse on the simulation of surface climate and hydrology
Filippo Giorgi, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy; and J. Pal, R. Francisco, and A. Hildebrant |