Relationship between Land Cover/Land Use Change and Surface Hydrology over Arid and Semiarid Regions

Start Date:

01/01/2005

End Date:

01/01/2008

Project Call:

Land-Cover Land-Use Change

Science Theme:

Detection and Monitoring of LCLUC

Regional Initiative:

GOFC-GOLD Regional Networks

Region:

Solicitation:

Team members:

Person Name	Person role on project	Affiliation
Xubin Zeng	Principal Investigator	University of Arizona, Tucson, United States

Project Documents

Year	Authors	Type	Title
2010	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Wang, Z., and X. Zeng, 2010: Evaluation of snow albedo in land models for weather and climate studies. J. Appl. Meteor. Clim., 49, 363-380.
2010	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Zhang, S., X. Zeng, W. Zhang, and M. Barlage, 2010: A revised covariance method for estimates of deep-layer soil moisture. J. Hydrometeor., 11, 219-227.
2009	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Sakaguchi, K., and X. Zeng, 2009: Effects of soil wetness, plant litter, and under-canopy atmospheric stability on ground evaporation in the Community Land Model (CLM3.5). J. Geophys. Rev.-Atmospheres, 114, D01107, doi:10.1029/2008JD010834.
2009	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Decker, M., and X. Zeng, 2009: Impact of modified Richards equation on global soil moisture simulation in the Community Land Model (CLM3.5). Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 1, Art. #5, 22 pp., doi:10.3894/JAMES.2009.1.5.
2009	Xubin Zeng	NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation	COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System (COSMOS)
2009	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Zeng, X., and M. Decker, 2009: Improving the Numerical Solution of Soil Moisture-Based Richards Equation for Land Models with a Deep or Shallow Water Table. J. Hydrometeor., 10, 308-319. doi: 10.1175/2008JHM1011.1.
2008	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Wang, Z., and X. Zeng, 2008: Snow albedo's dependence on solar zenith angle from in situ and MODIS data. Atmos. Oceanic Sci. Lett., 1, 45-50.
2008	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Zeng, X.D., X. Zeng, and M. Barlage, 2008: Growing temperate shrubs over arid and semiarid regions in the NCAR Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (CLM-DGVM). Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 22, GB3003, doi: 10.1029/2007GB003014.
2007	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Wang, Z., X. Zeng, and M. Barlage, 2007: MODIS BRDF-based land surface albedo parameterization for weather and climate models. J. Geophys. Res.-Atmospheres, 112, D02103, doi: 10.1029/2005JD006736.
2007	Xubin Zeng Xiaodong Zeng Mike Barlage	NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation	Recent advances in dynamic vegetation modeling for dry regions
2007	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Zeng, X.D., and X. Zeng, 2007: Transition and pattern diversity in arid and semiarid grassland: A modeling study. J. Geophys. Res.-Biogeosciences, 112, G04008, doi:10.1029/2007JG000411.
2007	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Zeng, X., and A. Wang, 2007: Consistent Parameterization of Roughness Length and Displacement Height for Sparse and Dense Canopies in Land Models. J. Hydrometeor., 8, 730-737, DOI: 10.1175/JHM607.1.
2006		NASA LCLUC Science Team Presentation	Relationship Between LCLUC and Surface Hydrology over Semiarid Regions
2006	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Miller, J., B. Barlage, X. Zeng, H. Wei, K. Mitchell, and D. Tarpley, 2006: Sensitivity of the NCEP Noah land model to the MODIS green vegetation fraction dataset. Geophys. Res. Lett., 111, C09001, doi:10.1029/2005JC002907.
2006	Xubin Zeng	Publications	Kursinski, A., and X. Zeng, 2006: Areal estimation of intensity and frequency of summertime precipitation over a mid-latitude region. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L22401, doi: 10.1029/2006GL027393.