Session 12B Regional Climate and Hydrological Applications: Amazonia: Part II (Parallel with Sessions 12a and 12c)

Tuesday, 6 April 1999: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Host: Sixth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography
Organizer:
Tercio Ambrizzi, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo

Papers:
4:30 PM
12B.1
Mesoscale convective systems observed during LBA-TRMM
Edward J. Zipser, Univ. of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

4:45 PM
12B.2
Thermodynamic Structure of Convective Activity at WET-AMC/LBA Sites and Eta Model Validation
Jorge L. Gomes, CPTEC/INPE, Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil; and S. C. Chou and G. Fisch

5:00 PM
12B.3
Enhancing the Simplified Biosphere Model (SSIB) to Estimate Carbon Fluxes of Terestral Ecosystems for LBA study
X. Zhan, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Xue and J. Collatz

5:15 PM
12B.4
Relationship between mesoscale properties of convection and large-scale regimes during TRMM-LBA in Rondonia, Brazil
Thomas M. Rickenbach, JCET/Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County and NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and R. Nieto Ferreira and J. B. Halverson

5:30 PM
12B.5
Cloud cluster life cycle over the Amazonia during the WET AMC/LBA campaign
Henri Laurent, CTA/IAE/ACA, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil; and L. A. T. Machado, D. Herdies, and V. Mathon

5:45 PM
12B.6
The Amazon Energy Budget Using Field Experiments Data
Luiz Augusto Toledo Machado, CTA/IAE/ACA, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

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