The International Semi-Open Workshop

2nd Symposium on Water Cycle in Northern Eurasia

Date： December 14-16, 2005 Place： Lecture hall in Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University. Organized by： Committee of Symposium on Water Cycle in Northern Eurasia Sponsored by： Institute of Low Temperature/Hokkaido Univ., IORGC/JAMSTEC, CREST(WECNoF)/JST Published in February, 2006, Nagoya

Proceedings (downloadable)

• Cover
  
• Table of contents
  

Preface (Ohata T, Ohta T)
Program of the symposium

Participants list

Organizing Committee

Extended abstracts
[Topics]

• Influence of Eurasian Continent on the East Asian Monsoon
  　　M. Kimoto
  
  
• Role of boreal forest in northern Eurasia on maintenance and variability
  　　of continental-scale hydro-climate and water cycle
  　　T. Yasunari
  

[Glacier and Snow]

• Snow Survey in the Tuul River Basin, Mongolia, 2002-2005
  　　K. Sugiura, T. Kadota, Y. Zhang, M. Ishikawa, T. Yamazaki, K. Purevdagva,
  　　Y. Amarsanaa, D. Oyunbaatar, G. Davaa, N. Sharkhuu, B. Dorjgotov, T. Ohata
  
  
• Climatology of the Influence of Atmospheric Conditions on Snow Melting in Eastern Siberia
  　　Y. Iijima1, T. Yamazaki, H. Yabuki, T. Ohata
  
  
• Glacier observation in Suntar-Khayata Range, Eastern Siberia*
  　　S. Takahashi, T. Kameda, K. Sugiura, Y. Kononov, M. D. Ananicheva
  
  
• Energy transport in glacial water channels
  　　E. Isenko
  

[Permafrost]

• Permafrost Thawing under Climate Change Scenarios projected by using a High Resolution Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model
  　　H. Kitabata, K. Nishizawa, Y. Yoshida, K. Maruyama
  
  
• Summary and Perspective of Mongolian frozen ground studies
  　　M. Ishikawa, Y. Zhang, T. Kadota, T. Ohata, N. Sharkhuu D. Battogtokh
  

[Observations]

• An improved method to correct the sonic anemometer angle of attack errors
  　　T. Nakai, M. K. van Der Molen, J. H.C. Gash, Y. Kodama
  
  
• Scintillometer Measurement of the Large Scale Sensible Heat Flux over Mongolia Semi-Arid Grassland*
  　　J. Asanuma, K. Iemoto
  

[Vegetation and Forest]

• Leaf-level gas exchange traits of Betula trees growing in boreal forests: Are there any variations in stomatal responses to microclimatic conditions?
  　　K. Kato, T. Kuwada, N. Miki, T. Kobayashi, K. Matsumoto, K. Homma, V. P. Vetrova,
  　　T. C. Maximov, A. Sumida, T. Ohta, T. Hara
  
  
• How does long-term elevated CO2 alter size structure and competition in forest stands?
  　　M. Toda, M. Yokozawa, T. Hara
  
  
• Transpiration of birch forest in Uryu Experimental Forest, northern Japan
  　　M. Yamada, K. Laska, K. Kato, M. Toda, A. Sumida, T. Hara
  
  
• Observation of soil CO2 efflux at Poker Flat forest fire burned site in 2005
  　　Y. Kodama, Y. Ishii, Y. Kim
  
  
• Comparison of structure among five mature larch forests in eastern Siberia
  　　T. Shirota, H. Saito, A. Makisimov, A. Kononov, A. P. Isaev, T. C. Maximov,
  　　M. Shibuya, T. Yajima, K. Takahashi
  
  
• Impacts of forest fire on hydrological environments in interior Alaska (Preliminary report)
  　　Y. Ishii, Y. Kodama, Y.-W. Kim, K. Harada, Y. Sawada, M. Fukuda
  
  
• Parameterization of aerodynamic roughness over the forest
  　　T. Nakai, A. Sumida, T. Kuwada, K. Kato, K. Daikoku, K. Matsumoto, T. Ohta,
  　　Y. Kodama, T. C. Maximov
  
  
• Climatic Controls on Vegetation Geographical Distribution and Interannual Change in Northern Eurasia
  　　R. Suzuki
  
  
• Changing precipitation regimes and leaf area in a canopy of mature larch forest in eastern Siberia*
  　　H. Saito, T. Shirota, L. Lopez, G. Iwahana, T. C. Maximov, K. Takahashi
  

[Modeling and Large Scale Phenomena]

• Land surface model simulation on boreal forest using measured leaf-scale physiological parameters
  　　T. Yamazaki, K. Kato, T. Kuwada, T. Nakai, H. Park, T. Ohta
  
  
• Modelling Water and Energy Fluxes in Eastern Siberia
  　　H. Park, T. Yamazaki, K. Kato, K. Yamamoto, T. Ohta
  
  
• Influence of Spring Siberian Snow Anomalies in the Summer Atmospheric Circulation with an AGCM
  　　S. Matsumura, K. Yamazaki, T. Tokioka
  
  
• Role of vegetation and large-scale orography in shaping Northern Eurasian hydroclimate under the Global Change
  　　K. Saito, T. Yasunari, K. Takata
  
  
• Impact of Global Warming on the East Asian Winter Monsoon as revealed by nine Coupled
  　　Atmosphere-Ocean GCMs
  　　M. E. Hori
  

[Water Cycle]

• The long year variation of Evaporation characteristics in tundra region, eastern Siberia.
  　　H. Yabuki, Y. Kodama, T. Ohata
  
  
• Summary of water and energy balances in the southern mountainous taiga of eastern Siberia
  　　K. Suzuki, J. Kubota, T. Ohata, V. Vuglinsky
  
  
• Variability of evapotranspiration on Mongolia grassland
  　　Y. Zhang, T. Kadota, M. Ishikawa, T. Ohata, D. Oyunbaatar
  
  
• Soil moisture storage function of permafrost and role of vegetation in Eastern Siberia
  　　A. Sugimoto
  
  
• Water cycle processes of the Tuul River basin, Mongolia
  　　X. MA, K. Sugiura, T. Ohata, T. Kadota , Y. Zhang , H. Yabuki, M. Ishikawa
  
  
• Characteristics of the semi-derivatives of air temperature variation and their application to heat flux estimation*
  　　H. Kiyosawa
  

[Projects]

• Long-Term Ground-Based Monitoring of Soil Moisture and Its Estimation in Mongolia by AMSR-E Observation
  　　I. Kaihotsu, T. Yamanaka, T. Koike, D. Oyunbaatar, G. Davaa
  
  
• Recent findings from RAISE project and future plan
  　　M. Sugita, J. Asanuma
  
  
• Overview of WECNoF/CREST project results
  　　T. Ohta
  
  
• WCRP/CliC and other international activities which has relation to water/energy cycle in Northern Eurasia
  　　T. Ohata
  
  
• Northern Eurasian Study at IORGC and collaboration between IORGC/FRCGC
  　　T. Ohata and T.Yamazaki
  
  
• Forest Fire Impacts to Carbon Cycle in Eastern Siberia*
  　　M. Fukuda