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Physical Processes and Modelling of the Water and Carbon Cycle

1st CAWCR Modelling Workshop 2007: Papers

Tuesday 27 November

WELCOME

 

Dr Neville Smith, Acting Deputy Director-Research

 

Dr Chris Mitchell, Director, CAWCR


WATER - PROCESSES

Session 1 CHAIR:  Peter Steinle

 

Keynote: Praveen Kumar, UIUC

How significant are Second Order Relationships for Improving Hydrologic Predictions?

 

Alan Seed, CAWCR

Radar measurements of rainfall.



 

John Le Marshall, CAWCR

Measurement of moisture from space for Earth System Science.

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Damien Barrett, CSIRO

Developing a hydrologic data assimilation scheme to integrate multiple satellite data sets.

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Jeff Walker, Uni of Melbourne

MoistureMap: A soil moisture monitoring, prediction and reporting system for sustainable land and water management.

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Clara Draper, CAWCR

An evaluation of remotely sensed soil moisture over Australia.


WATER - MODELLING

Session 2 CHAIR:  Kamal Puri

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Keynote: Xu Liang, Uni of Pittsburgh

Land surface modelling and data assimilation

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Adam Smith, CAWCR

Evaluating CABLE soil moisture predictions in the Murray Darling Basin



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Debbie Hudson, CAWCR

The impact of land-atmosphere initialisation on dynamical seasonal prediction.

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Gary Willgoose, Uni of Newcastle

Vegetation as an intermediary in the coupling between hydrology-soil moisture-atmosphere.

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Ian Harman, CSIRO

Canopy dynamics and the surface energy balance.



                               Session Chair – Alan Seed

                            Summary discussion on Water

 



 
Wednesday 28 November

CARBON - PROCESSES

Session 3 CHAIR:  Francis Chiew

 

Keynote: Colin Prentice,

Bristol Uni   UK

Not rocket science? How insights from functional biology could make land-surface modelling more robust, as well as more realistic.

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Roger Gifford, CAWCR

Terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks in atmospheric and climatic change.



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Helen Cleugh, CAWCR

Carbon cycle observations: challenges and opportunities.

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Derek Eamus, Uni of Technology, Sydney

Woody thickening: a consequence of changes in fluxes of carbon and water on a warming globe?

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Pep Canadell, CSIRO

Carbon-climate feedbacks: global dynamics and key processes.

 

Andy Pitman, UNSW

 

Relative roles of land cover change and sea surface temperature anomalies on global and regional hydroclimates.


CARBON - MODELLING

Session 4 CHAIR:  Helen Cleugh

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Gabby Abramowitz, UNSW/CAWCR

Model independence and the representation of model space as a source of uncertainty.

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Y-P Wang, CAWCR

Evaluating the Australian Community Land Surface Model for Australian ecosystems.

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Jason Beringer, Monash Uni

Modelling Australian Tropical Savannas: current tools and future challenges.



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Yaohui Li

Observations and studies on arid and semi-arid
land-atmosphere interaction in Northwest China.

 

                                Session Chair – Yingping Wang

                                Summary discussion on Carbon 



Thursday 29 November

SYSTEMS MODELLING

Session 5 CHAIR:  Tom Keenan

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Keynote: Francis Chiew, CSIRO L&W

Hydrological modelling in Australia.

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Mike Manton, Monash Uni           

Integrated Hydrological Studies.



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Jim Elliott, Bureau of Meteorology

Integrating data and streamflow prediction into an operational system – the example of flood warning.

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Huqiang Zhang, CAWCR

Water and carbon cycles in a CABLE 50-yr global offline simulation.

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Albert VanDijk, CSIRO

Modelling to assess water resource availability and use.

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Mike Raupach, CAWCR

Water, carbon, climate and humans: Australia in the Earth System



Session 6 Chair:  Alan Seed

Synthesis Discussion

  1. Hydrological Processes and Modelling
    - Prof Praveen Kumar and Prof Xu Liang
     
  2. Carbon Processes and Modelling
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    Prof Colin Prentice
     
  3. Lessons for Access

 

CLOSE – Chris Mitchell, Director, CAWCR



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