H212
Advances in Representing Land Surface Heterogeneity and Subgrid Land–Atmosphere Processes in Earth System Models I eLightning

Wednesday, 16 December 2020: 17:30-18:30
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Teklu K Tesfa, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Peter E Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Michael Brunke, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Chairs:  Peter E Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States and Michael Brunke, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Chang Liao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
17:30
H212-01
Adequacy of HRU and Grid-based Hydrological Models for Streamflow Simulation in a Paddy-Dominated Agricultural Catchment (718530)
Sonam Dash1, Bhabagrahi Sahoo1 and Narendra Singh Raghuwanshi2, (1)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, School of Water Resources, Kharagpur, India, (2)Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Agricultural and Food Engineering, Kharagpur, India
17:33
H212-02
Using Landsat and ECOSTRESS land surface temperature to parameterize sub-grid tiling schemes and enable tile-level calibration of land surface models (763564)
Jiaxuan Cai1, Noemi Vergopolan2, Jonathan D Herman3 and Nathaniel W. Chaney1, (1)Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
17:36
H212-03
Using Unsupervised Learning to Determine the Optimal Number of Sub-Grid Tiles in Land Surface Models over the Contiguous United States (759946)
Laura Torres-Rojas1, Noemi Vergopolan2 and Nathaniel W. Chaney1, (1)Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
17:39
H212-04
Two-way coupling between sub-grid river networks and the land surface in Earth system models (Invited) (662743)
Nathaniel W. Chaney1, Noemi Vergopolan2, Laura Torres-Rojas1 and Colby K Fisher3, (1)Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States, (2)Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Princeton Climate Analytics, Princeton, NJ, United States
17:42
H212-05
Downscaling Surface Water Depth to Simulate Small-Scale Ponding: A Case Study in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America (762863)
Ai-Ling Jiang, Kuolin Hsu, Brett F Sanders and Soroosh Sorooshian, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
17:45
H212-06
Parameter Estimation of Distributed Models Made Easy by the MPR Tool (690108)
Robert Schweppe1, Stephan Thober2, Matthias Kelbling2, Rohini Kumar3, Sabine Attinger3 and Luis Samaniego2, (1)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany, (2)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany, (3)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, Computational Hydrosystems, Leipzig, Germany
17:48
H212-07
Heterogeneity Index: Quantifying the Variability and Co-variability in Land-Surface Heterogeneity at the Global Scale (774328)
Brij Rokad1, Nandita Gaur2, Vinit Sehgal2 and Binayak Mohanty3, (1)University of Georgia, Artificial Intelligence, Athens, GA, United States, (2)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States
17:51
H212-08
Improving pedotransfer functions: A new framework to predict soil saturated hydraulic conductivity (714710)
Alejandro Cueva, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States, Daniel Hirmas, University of California Riverside, Department of Environmental Sciences, Riverside, CA, United States, Attila Nemes, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Ås, Norway, Sharon A Billings, Univ Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, Alejandro N Flores, Boise State University, Boise, ID, United States, Li Li, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University Park, PA, United States, Hang Wen, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States, Xi Zhang, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, United States and Pamela L Sullivan, Oregon State University, College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Corvallis, OR, United States
17:54
H212-09
Upscaling Fill-and-Spill Hydrological Process in Cascading Wetland Networks (682411)
Mahkameh Taheri, Mark Ranjram and James R Craig, University of Waterloo, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
17:57
H212-10
Modelling topographic effects on surface radiation – A fast algorithm to compute Horizon and Sky View Factor from large high-resolution Digital Elevation Models (755295)
Christian Roland Steger and Christoph Schar, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
18:00
H212-11
Understanding Heterogeneity to Improve Snow-albedo Feedbacks in a Simplified Regional Climate Model (Invited) (666026)
Ethan D Gutmann1, Kyoko Ikeda2, Joseph Hamman3, Jeffrey Richard Arnold4 and Roy Rasmussen2, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)CarbonPlan, Seattle, United States, (4)US Army Corps of Engineers, Climate Preparedness and Resilience Program, Seattle, WA, United States
18:03
H212-12
Effects of Subgrid Topography on Simulations of Land Surface Processes in an Earth System Model (708432)
Teklu K Tesfa1, L. Ruby Leung1, Peter E Thornton2, Michael Brunke3 and Zhuoran Duan4, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Hydrology, Richland, WA, United States
18:06
H212-13
Assessing the effects of land surface heterogeneity on planetary boundary layer characteristics in E3SM (683931)
Meng Huang1, Po-Lun Ma1, L. Ruby Leung1 and Nathaniel W. Chaney2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Duke University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Durham, NC, United States
18:09
Discussion
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