GC22A
Advances in Atmosphere and Land Modeling for Improved Understanding of the Hydrologic Cycle at the Watershed Scale I

Tuesday, 15 December 2015: 10:20-12:20
3020 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Philip J Rasch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Chairs:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Philip J Rasch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Philip J Rasch, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
10:20
A stochastic model for diagnosing humidity dynamics with stable isotopologues of water vapor (Invited) (74590)
Joseph Galewsky, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
10:35
Use of System Identification Techniques to Explore the Hydrological Cycle Response to Perturbations in Climate Models (80547)
Ben Kravitz1, Douglas G MacMartin2, Philip J Rasch3 and Hailong Wang3, (1)Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
10:50
Constraints on surface evapotranspiration: implications for modeling and observations (Invited) (63414)
Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
11:05
Land-Atmosphere Interactions in Cold Environments (LATICE): The role of Atmosphere - Biosphere – Cryosphere – Hydrosphere interactions in a changing climate (72137)
John F Burkhart, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Lena M Tallaksen, University of Oslo, Department of Geoscience, Oslo, Norway, Frode Stordal, University of Oslo, Department of geosciences, Oslo, Norway and LATICE Steering Committee
11:20
Representing Effects of Complex Terrain on Mountain Meteorology and Hydrology (Invited) (63785)
Steven John Ghan1, L. Ruby Leung1, Teklu K Tesfa1 and Steve Goldhaber2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States
11:35
Development of a hybrid 3-D hydrological model to simulate hillslopes and the regional unconfined aquifer system in Earth system models (75682)
Pieter Hazenberg and Patrick D Broxton, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
12:05
Hard-coded parameters have the largest impact on fluxes of the land surface model Noah-MP (77721)
Matthias Cuntz1, Juliane Mai1, Luis E Samaniego1, Martyn P Clark2, Volker Wulfmeyer3, Sabine Attinger4 and Stephan Thober1, (1)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)University of Hohenheim, Institute of Physics and Meteorology, Stuttgart, Germany, (4)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Leipzig, Germany