HR: 10:50h
AN: H12B-03 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: U.S. Science Agencies and GEWEX: Working Together to Advance Climate Science
AU: * Lawford, R G
EM: lawford@umbc.edu
AF: International GEWEX Project Office, Suite 450, 1010 Wayne Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States
AU: * Lawford, R G
EM: lawford@umbc.edu
AF: University of California, Irvine, E-4130 Engineering Gateway, Irvine, CA 92697-2175, United States
AU: Sorooshian, S
EM: soroosh@uci.edu
AF: International GEWEX Project Office, Suite 450, 1010 Wayne Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States
AB: There have been major developments in climate science during the past two decades, mainly as a result of expanding capabilities to observe and model the climate system. Through its research on the global energy and water cycle, the Global Energy and Water cycle EXperiment (GEWEX) - one of the core projects of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) - has been making significant contributions to these developments. Support from the United States through the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) water cycle activities have contributed substantially to the effectiveness and success of GEWEX. In return, GEWEX has advanced the use of satellite data for climate applications, contributed to the development of meteorological and hydrologic services and has facilitated the emergence of a number of new insights that have advanced climate science. This presentation provides an overview of the above contributions and outlines GEWEX plans to continue such research until 2012 and possibly beyond. In particular, the contributions of NASA to hydrological science and climate studies will be described in the presentation, as well as the role of NOAA in supporting research related to monsoons, climate modeling and land surface studies. The support of DOE in GEWEX cloud process studies will also be introduced. The contributions of the U.S. through the Hydrology Applications Project (HAP) to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) will also be outlined, including efforts to develop strategies for the application of GEWEX science to water resources through UNESCO International Hydrology Programme (IHP) networks. As this presentation will demonstrate, GEWEX continues to play a central role in addressing many of the water cycle issues being studied by the U.S. CCSP.
DE: 1814 Energy budgets
DE: 1840 Hydrometeorology
DE: 1854 Precipitation (3354)
DE: 1876 Water budgets
SC: Hydrology [H]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting