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BOREAS Workshop in Toronto(May 1996)
BOREAS investigators met at University of Toronto, St. George Campus, Toronto, Canada for an important meeting and workshop, from May 21, 1996 to May 25, 1996. This was used to report on team activities and findings for FFC-W '96 and IFC-1 '96, and to make detailed plans for IFC-2' 96 and IFC-3 '96.
Toronto BOREAS Workshop Agenda
Day 1: Tuesday, May 21, 1996
0900 Welcome, opening remarks U. Toronto/Goodison
Wickland et al
0930 Agenda Review Sellers
Charge to Workshop
(1) Review current status of the science in BOREAS
(2) Map out future research directions
(3) Further recommendations on long-term measurements
(4) Company business
0945 Update on Project Status
BOREAS-96 et seq. Sellers et al. (25)
BORIS Newcomer (20)
1030 Coffee Break
1045 Summary of AMS BOREAS session Lettenmeier (10)
Carbon modeling workshop Frolking et al. (20)
Long-term Canadian plans for BOREAS Goodison et al. (15)
Agency viewpoints on the long-term Wickland et al. (15)
1145 Discussion of the above and of the charge
1215 Lunch
1315 Science Presentations (15 minutes each)
AFM Overview Kelly/Betts
AFM science presentation Desjardins
TF Overview Black
TF science presentation Goulden/Wofsy
TE Overview Margolis
TE science presentation Flanagan
TGB Overview Crill
TGB science presentation Trumbore
1530 Coffee Break
1600 Breakout into Science teams to work BORIS issues
Separate rooms for each team plus BORIS reps
AFM, TF, TE, TGB, HYD, RSS
1715 Quit for day
1730 Social, cocktails, posters
Day 2: Wednesday, May 22, 1996
0830 Reconvene
HYD Overview Lettenmeier
HYD science presentation Davis
RSS Overview Ranson
RSS science presentation Miller
0930 Brief summaries of poster session Group Chairs
1000 Break
1030 Rest of the day spent with posters and/or
individualscience meetings
1215 Lunch
1315 Posters, individual science meetings continue
Day 3: Thursday, May 23, 1996
0830 Reconvene in Plenary
Review of Special Issue(s) Plans JGR Sellers
Tree Physiology Ryan and Margolis
Ag Met Baldocchi
Others, Discussion
0915 Discussion of breakout groups, membership, charges
and writing assignments:
Carbon Modeling
Long-term measurements, Post-BOREAS
NWP and Mesoscale modeling
RSS development
Hydrometeorological models
TGB and TE
Site-level (TF) model validation
Large-area flux modeling
1000 Break into break-out groups for the rest of the day.
1700 Quit for day.
Day 4: Friday, May 24, 1996
0830 Reconvene in Plenary
Breakout group reports (15 minutes each)
Discussion
1030 Coffee Break
1045 Overview of Plans for BOREAS-97 and onwards
Review of Actions
Closing thoughts from BCC Wickland et al.
Honors and prize-giving BOG
1215 Close
Scheduled Talks and Posters
AFM
Kelly, Bob AFM-2
Ken Davis AFM-3
Talk: "Boundary layer evolution and regional flux observations
from the NCAR Electra during BOREAS-94"
Poster: "Regional fluxes observed by the Electra"
Desjardins, Raymond AFM-4, TF-7
Talk: "Scaling up flux measurements for the boreal forest using
the aircraft-tower combination"
Barr, Alan AFM-5
Shewchuk, Stanley AFM-7
Poster: "The mesoscale distribution of soil moisture over the SRC/NASA
mesonet sites for the IFC periods of 1994"
Betts, Alan AFM-8
Talk: "Comparison of Global models with BOREAS Data"
Mahrt, Larry AFM-11
Poster: "Relationship of heat fluxes and aerodynamics temperature
to remotely sensed variables and spatially averaged fluxes"
Sun, Jielun Sun AFM-11
Talk: "Lake-induced atmospheric circulations during BOREAS"
Steyaert, Lou AFM-12
Talk: "Experimental land cover mapping of the BOREAS region with
multitemporal 1-km AVHRR"
Poster: SAME
Pielke, Roger AND Pier Luigi Vidale AFM-12
Poster: "Effects of mesoscale circulations over BOREAS"
TGB
Bubier, Jill TGB-1
Poster: "CH4 emissions from NSA fen" (with TGB-3)
and "Spectral reflectance measurements of boreal mosses"
(with TGB-3 also)
Moore, Tim TGB-3
title could be:
CO2 flux in wetlands, NSA (bellisario et al)
CH4 flux in wetlands, NSA (bubier et al)
CO2/CH4 flux in uplands (savage et al)
Young, Valerie TGB-9
Poster: "Long-term measurements of non-methane hydrocarbons in
the BOREAS Southern Study Area"
Kieser, Byron TGB-9
Poster: "Isoprene and Monoterpene fluxes from the Old Aspen, Old
Jack Pine, and Old Black Pruce TF sites"
TE
Margolis, Hank and Quing Dang
Middleton, Elizabeth TE-10
Talk: "Leaf characeristics and physiology for boreal forest
apecies at the SSA tower site"
Frolking. Steve TE-19
Poster: "Seasonal sensitivity of black spruce carbon balance"
Fournier, Richard TE-23, TE-9
Poster: "Detailed canopy geometry to simulate light regime"
TF
Anderson, Dean TF-4
Pattey, Elizabeth TF-7
Poster: "Comparison of mass and energy fluxes measured in 1994 at
two different highets above an old black psruce stand in
the southern site area during BOREAS"
Jarvis, Paul TF-9
Talk: "Hanging in the balances: carbon, water and energy (much the
same as last time)"
RSS
Loechel, Sara RSS-3
Talk or: "Spatial and temporal variabiliy of surface cover at
Poster BOREAS using reflectances from a helicopter platform"
Myneni, Ranga RSS-7
Poster: "Boreal forest reflectance model"
Saatchi, Sasan RSS-16
Talk or "The effect of moss layer in mapping and estimating
Poster: surface parameters over boreal forest using SAR imagery"
Way, Joebea, Kyle McDonald, P. Zimmerman RSS-17
Talk: "Winter and spring thaw as observed with imageing radar at BOREAS"
Miller, John RSS-19
HYD
Davis, Bert and Janet Hardy (maybe) HYD-3
Harding, Richard HYD-5
Talk: "Fluxes and circulations over a forest/frozen lake mosiac"
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