GCIP
                              Water and Energy
                          Budget Synthesis (WEBS)
                                      
   
   We provide herein a Water and Energy Budget Synthesis (WEBS) for the
   Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment's (GEWEX's) Continental Scale
   International Project (GCIP). The synthesis includes a brief
   description of the Mississippi River Basin climate, physiographic
   characteristics, available observations, representative types of
   models used for GCIP investigations, as well as a comparison of water
   and energy variables and budgets from models and observations for the
   recent period. Our goal was to close the Mississippi River Basin water
   and energy budgets.
   
WEBS Document

   Title Page
   Abstract
   1. Introduction
   2. Physiography
          2.1 Soils
          2.2 Land Cover and Vegetation Characteristics
          2.3 Topographic Characteristics
   3. Climate
   4. Water and Energy Cycle Equations
          4.1 Conservation of Water
          4.2 Conservation of Energy
   5. Observations
          5.1 Radiosondes
          5.2 Surface Meteorology
          5.3 Runoff
          5.4 NEXRAD
          5.5 Tower Measurements
          5.6 Soil Moisture
          5.7 Snow Water Equivalent
          5.8 Satellite Products
                5.8.1 Precipitation
                5.8.2 TOVS
                5.8.3 Solar Radiation
                5.8.4 NVAP Water Vapor
   6. GCIP Models
          6.1 NCEP Global Spectral Model and Global Reanalysis
          6.2 Regional Spectral Model
          6.3 Operational Eta Analysis
          6.4 Macroscale Hydrologic Model
   7. Basin Budgets
   8. Water and Energy Cycle Processes
          8.1 Precipitable Water
          8.2 Surface Water
          8.3 Snow
          8.4 Surface Temperature
          8.5 Precipitation
          8.6 Evaporation
          8.7 Moisture Convergence
          8.8 Runoff
          8.9 Dry Static Energy Convergence
          8.10 Sensible Heating
          8.11 Atmospheric Radiative Cooling
          8.12 Surface Radiative Heating
          8.13 Radiation Fluxes
   9. Summary
   Acknowledgements
   References
   
WEBS CD-ROM Contact

  If you have questions about this CD-ROM, please contact:
  Dr. John Roads
  Email: jroads@ucsd.edu
  Phone: 858-534-2099
  Web: http://ecpc.ucsd.edu/
  
WEBS Data Files

   All the monthly mean data used for this WEBS document (except for the
   Eta output, which should be obtained directly from H. Berbery
   (berbery@atmos.umd.edu)) are provided in the following directories.
   The data files used are located in separate directories. Model data
   are labeled by model name (gsm, rean1, rean2, rsm, vic). Observations
   are labeled by the contributors name or data type (i.e. pinker,
   higgins, janowiak, grdc, meyers, etc.). Each directory has a
   readme.htm file with a description of the data and/or filenames.
   Please contact the appropriate individuals when making use of their
   data or observations to find out appropriate references and possible
   updates to what is shown here.
   
   /data/models/
          gsm contains monthly data from the Global Spectral Model.
          rean1 contains monthly data from the Reanalysis I.
          rean2 contains monthly data from the Reanalysis II.
          rsm contains monthly data from the Regional Spectral Model.
                Additional information on the RSM model at:
                http://ecpc.ucsd.edu/projects/RSM/
          vic contains monthly data from the Variable Infiltration Capacity Model.
                Additional information on the VIC model at:
               http://www.hydro.washington.edu/Lettenmaier/Models/VIC/VIChome.html
   /data/obs/
          grdc contains runoff data provided by B. Fekete and C. Vorosmarty.
          higgins contains precipitation data provided by W. Higgins.
          janowiak contains temperature data provided by J. Janowiak.
          meyers contains flux data provided by T. Meyers.
          nexrad contains radar precipitation data provided by J. Smith.
          nvap contains precipitable water data from the NASA NVAP project.
          pinker contains flux data provided by R. Pinker.
          soilm contains soil moisture data provided by A. Robock et al.
          swe contains snow water equivalent data provided by T. Mote and D. Robinson.
          yarosh contains moisture convergence data provided by E. Yarosh.
   /html contains the WEBS document in HTML.
          images contains figures and images in jpg and gif.
          ps_figs contains figures in postscript.
          tables contains tables from document in HTML.
   /msdocs contains the WEBS document and tables in MS Word.
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