Program
The symposium is organized into 8 themed sessions with a final synthesis session to bring together ideas and ways forward. The oral presentations will be limited to invited speakers and selected contributions, but there will be two poster sessions. Please use the registration page to indicate whether you would like to present a talk/poster. The number of oral presentations is limited to 4 per session and the number of poster presentations is limited to 50, so please register as soon as possible.
Schedule
Meeting Venue: SAC 2.302 Legislative Assembly Room (https://maps.utexas.edu/buildings/UTM/SAC)
Monday (May 14)
8:00–8:30 am Symposium Registration and Check-in
8:30–8:45 am Welcome: Sharon Mosher, Zong-Liang Yang
8:45–10:15 am Session 1: Land Surface Modeling (Chair: Zong-Liang Yang)
Paul Dirmeyer: Land Surface Models Coupled to Atmospheric Models: Judging Them as Dance Partners
David Lawrence: Trends in Land Model Complexity: Opportunities and Challenges
Xing Yuan: High Resolution Land Surface Modeling of Hydrological Extremes
Zong-Liang Yang: Modeling Land in the Anthropocene
10:15–10:45 am Break
10:45–12:15 pm Session 2: Biogeochemical Cycles (Chair: Ying Sun)
Inez Fung: Challenges of Going Global
David Lawrence: The Permafrost Climate–Carbon Feedback
Forrest Hoffman: Quantification and Reduction of Uncertainties Associated with Carbon Cycle–Climate System Feedbacks
Ning Zeng: Making SENSE of Our Environment: Monitoring Urban Air Pollution, Weather and Greenhouse Gases with a Smart Sensor Network
Bayani Cardenas: Water Cycling across Aquatic Interfaces: Local Scale Processes with Watershed Scale Biogeochemical Consequences
12:15–1:45 pm Lunch in room; See posters at https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/about/holland-family-student-center/
1:45–3:15 pm Session 3: Aerosols, Clouds and Climate Sensitivity (Chair: Rong Fu)
William Lau: Origin, Maintenance and Variability of the Asian Tropopause Aerosol Layer (ATAL): The Roles of Monsoon Dynamics
Zhanqing Li: Aerosols and Climate Changes in Asia
Rong Fu: The Influences of Aerosols vs. Meteorological Conditions on Mesoscale Convection and Extreme Rainfall over Tropical Continents
Charles Jackson: Emergent Constraints
3:15–3:30 pm Break
3:30–5:00 pm Session 4: Climate Variability and Climate Change Impacts (Binayak Mohanty)
Bridget Scanlon: Assessing Relative Importance of Climate Variability and Human Intervention in Global Water Resources
Jiafu Mao: Contribution of Environmental Forcings to US Runoff Changes for the Period 1950–2010
Ana Barros: Challenges in Coupled Modeling of Multiscale Land–Atmosphere Interactions and Climate Variability
Liming Zhou: Desert Amplification under Climate Change
Wenhong Li: Dynamical and thermodynamical coupling between the North Atlantic subtropical high and the marine boundary layer clouds in boreal summer Climate Dynamics
6:00–9:30 pm Reception and Dinner (at JSG Holland Family Student Center, across from SAC) https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/about/holland-family-student-center/
Tuesday (May 15)
Meeting Venue: SAC 2.302 Legislative Assembly Room (https://maps.utexas.edu/buildings/UTM/SAC)
8:30–10:00 am Session 5: Earth System Modeling Historical Perspectives (Chair: Ning Zeng)
David Randall: A Perspective on the 50-year Evolution of GCMs
Inez Fung: From GCMs to CCSMs to ESMs
Yanluan Lin: Earth System Modeling in China as Inspired by Robert Dickinson
Guiling Wang: Terrestrial Ecosystem–Climate Interactions in Earth System Modeling: A Regional Perspective
Oma Ghattas: From Deterministic to Bayesian: Evolution of Inverse Methods for Large scale Geoscience Problems, with Application to Flow of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
10:00–10:30 am Break
10:30–12:00 pm Session 6: Remote Sensing and Earth System Data Records (Chair: Huilin Gao)
Byron Tapley: Critical Earth Measurements from the GRACE Satellite Mission
Xubin Zeng: Land Data Development Inspired by Robert Dickinson
Peng Gong: Recent Development of Land Cover Mapping over Large Areas
David Mocko: The North American (NLDAS) and National Climate Assessment (NCA-LDAS) Land Data Assimilation Systems using NASA’s Land Information System
Huilin Gao: Estimating Reservoir Evaporation Losses for the Contiguous United States
12:00–1:15 pm Lunch in room; See posters at JSG Holland Family Student Center, across from SAC https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/about/holland-family-student-center/
1:15–2:30 pm Session 7: Emerging Topics in Earth System Modeling and Observations: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (Moderator: Paul Dirmeyer)
Kerry Cook: The Need and Benefits of High-Resolution Modeling
Gretchen Miller: Incorporating Hydraulic Redistribution and Groundwater Evapotranspiration in Earth System Models
Binayak Mohanty: Addressing Hydrologic Connectivity, Subsurface Heterogeneity, and Spatio-Temporal Scaling Issues for Next Generation Land Surface Models
Ying Sun: Photosynthesis Observation from Space via Solar-induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence
2:30–3:00 pm Session 8: Perspectives: Past Development to Future Challenges
Robert Dickinson
3:00 pm Adjourn