1. Project Title: NEWS Science Integration Team PI: William B
Project Title: NEWS Science Integration Team PI: William B. Rossow
Science Issues: Diagnose coupling of global energy and water cycle by cloud processes and examine large-scale interactions of the atmosphere with the ocean and land.
Approach: Analysis of time-space variations of relationships in global satellite remote sensing products.
Data: ISCCP, ISCCP-FD, GPCP, GSSTF, HOAPS, GSWP, ERA40, NCEP2, TOMS, TOVS, GRDC, GPCC
Years 1 & 2: Developed global land and ocean surface skin temperature dataset and global land surface inundation dataset. Determined global generation of available potential energy from observations for first time.
Year 3: Analyze effects of cloud-radiative and surface moisture perturbations on diurnal cycle of land surface temperatures. Investigate relationship between flood extent variations and water level, precipitation and runoff. Complete analysis of global energy exchanges.
Year 4 & 5: Develop land surface turbulent flux data product. Examine variations of global energy exchanges to elucidate feedback processes.
NEWS Linkages:
Lin & Schlosser “core projects”
Roads, Curry, Adler investigations
NASA MAP
CloudSat and ISCCP
WCRP GEWEX
Total mass
Ground Water
Surface Volume
Winter Pole Radiative Cooling
Winter Storms
Summer
Monsoons
Tropical Latent Heating