Projects

Current Projects

Funded by Research Grants or Cooperative Agreements

NOAA / CPO / MAPP
NA160AR4310095

North American Heat Wave Predictability: Assessing the Role of Land Surface Initialization on S2S and NMME Model Forecasts

PI: Paul Dirmeyer
PI: Trent Ford (UIUC)

NOAA / CPO / MAPP
NA190AR4310242

Parameterizing the Effects of Sub-grid Land Heterogeneity on the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Convection: Implications for Surface Climate, Variability and Extremes

Co-PI: Paul Dirmeyer
Land Climate Process Team (CPT):
Project PI: Nate Chaney, (Duke U.)
Co-PIs and Co-Is: Gabriel Katul (Duke U.), Kirsten Findell, Elena Shevliakova & Ming Zhao (NOAA/GFDL), Joseph Santanello, Randal Koster & Nathan Arnold (NASA/GSFC), David Lawrence & Michael Ek (NCAR), L. Ruby Leung & Po-Lun Ma (DOE PNNL), Forrest Hoffman (DOE ORNL)

NOAA / NESDIS
via CISESS

Validating Coupled Land-Atmosphere Processes in UFS

PI: Paul Dirmeyer
Co-PI: Mike Ek (NCAR)

NOAA / CPO / MAPP
NA20OAR4310422

Combined Land and Ocean Drivers of U.S. Drought Determined from Information Theoretic Evaluation of Observations and Coupled Models

PI: Paul Dirmeyer
Co-PIs Bohua Huang & Chul-Su Shin

NASA / SMAP
80NSSC20K1803

Soil Moisture as Regulator of Water and Energy Cycle Feedbacks between Land and Atmosphere

PI: Paul Dirmeyer
Co-I: Joseph Santanello (NASA/GSFC)
Collaborator: Martin Jung (MPI-BGC Jena)

Past Projects

An incomplete list

NSF
AGS1419445

Land Use Change and Land Atmosphere Feedback Processes as Regulators of Regional Climate Change

PI: Paul Dirmeyer
Collaborative with Dave Lawrence & Rich Neale (NCAR)

NOAA / CPO / MAPP
NA160AR4310072

Improving Subseasonal to Seasonal Forecast Skill of North American Precipitation and Surface Air Temperature Using a Multi-Model Strategy

PI: Zhichang Guo
Co-PI: Paul Dirmeyer

NASA / ESP / MAP
NNX13AQ21G

Diagnosis and Validation of Land-Atmosphere Feedback in Two Global Models

PI: Paul Dirmeyer
Co-PIs: Joseph Santanello & Michael Bosilovich (NASA/GSFC), Michael Ek (NOAA/NCEP/EMC)

Korea Institute For Atmospheric
Prediction Systems (KIAPS)

Improving the Initialization of Soil Moisture in Numerical Weather Prediction

PI: Paul Dirmeyer
Co-I: Zhichang Guo

NASA / ESP / MAP
NNX09AI84G

Weather and Climate Analysis of Water Vapor Transport and Surface Interactions Coupling to Precipitation Processes

PI: Paul Dirmeyer
Co-PI: Michael Bosilovich (NASA/GSFC)

NASA
NAG5-11579, NAG8-1526

The Global Soil Wetness Project

PI: Paul Dirmeyer
Co-PI: Randal Koster (NASA/GSFC)
Co-Is: Pavel Kabat and Han Dolman (Winand Staring Centre, Netherlands)

NOAA
NA06OAR4310067

Investigation of land-atmosphere predictability using a multi-model strategy

PI: Paul Dirmeyer

NSF
EAR-0233320

Characterizing Land Surface Memory to Advance Climate Prediction

PIs: Paul Dirmeyer, Timothy DelSole
Co-I: Kaye Brubaker (UMCP), C. Adam Schlosser (MIT)

NASA
NAG5-8416

Coupled High-Resolution Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Simulation of Seasonal-Interannual Climate Variability over Amazonia

PI: Paul Dirmeyer
Co-I: Benjamin Kirtman
Co-I: Charles Vörösmarty (U. New Hampshire)
Collaborators: Humberto T. da Rocha (U. São Paulo, Brazil), José Marengo (CPTEC, Brazil)

NOAA
NA96GP0353

Analysis of Atmospheric Water Cycling over the United States

PI: Paul Dirmeyer
Co-PI: Kaye Brubaker (UMCP)