Global Soil Wetness Project
GSWP Workshop
Norman, Oklahoma, USA
15 May 2000

Agenda:
 
9:00 am Welcome and overview 
  • GSWP history and accomplishments
  • GSWP present and future
Dirmeyer
9:30 GSWP 1.5 - Need for a transitional phase
  • Interim modeling and validation experiments
  • Sensitivity to data quality
  • High-latitude runoff errors
  • Expand GCM IC/BC climate sensitivity experiments
Oki
10:20 Break
10:40 Rhône Basin data for GSWP 1.5 regional test case  Boone
11:20 Applicability of FluxNET data to GSWP Dolman
11:40 AWDN in situ validation data Mahmood
12:00 pm Lunch
1:15 ALMA Overview Oki, Dirmeyer
2:00 Establish activities for GSWP 1.5
  • Activity Plan
3:00 Break
3:20 GSWP 2 -
  • Global 10-year based on ISLSCP Initiative II
  • Continental 30 km based on ETA reanalysis
  • Address questions of :
  • interannual variability
  • sub-grid heterogeneity
  • LSS sensitivity to parameters and forcing
Dirmeyer
4:00 Specific Issues for GSWP 2 -
  • Data set management
  • Distributed computing
  • Validation strategy
  • Support
5:15 Adjourn