Paul Alan Dirmeyer

Last Update:  17 November 2006

D.O.B.: 8 February 1964; El Paso, Texas, USA (U.S. Citizen)

Work Address:

Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
Calverton, MD 20705-3106
+1-301-902-1254 or 595-7000 [FAX +1-301-595-9793]

Currently on assignment as Assoc. Program Director:
Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics Program
GEO/ATM, National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd., Room 775
Arlington, VA 22230
+1-703-292-8527 [FAX: +1-703-292-9022]

Home Address:

13639 Highland Road
Clarksville, MD 21029-1424
+1-301-854-3246

E-mail: dirmeyercola.iges.org, pdirmeyeryahoo.com

Employment:

2006-current: Assoc. Program Manager in Climate and Large-Scale Dynamics, ATM/GEO, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia.

2001-current: Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (a Center within the Institute of Global Environment and Society).

1993-2000: Research Scientist at the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies.

1993: Research Associate, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland at College Park.

1989-1992: Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland at College Park.

1986-1989: Graduate Fellow, Department of Meteorology, granted by the College of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Maryland at College Park.

1984-1986: Research Assistant, Department of Meteorology, Texas A&M University.

Positions:

Chair: GEWEX Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) (2003-2005), Member: (2000-).

Chair: GEWEX Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP) (1996-).

Member: GEWEX Modelling and Prediction Panel (GMPP) (2003-2005).

Member: IGBP Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Process Study (ILEAPS) Scientific Steering Committee (2004-2005).

Representative: GEWEX representative to the Integrated Land Ecosystem Atmosphere Processes Study (ILEAPS) (2003-2005).

Member: AMS Committee on Hydrology (2002-2005).

Member: Global Water Cycle Program (GWCP) Science Steering Group (2002-2005).

Member: International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Science Panel (1997-2005).

Member: US-CLIVAR Pan American Panel (1999-2003).

Member: NCAR Climate System Model -- Land Model Working Group, CLM Development Group (1998-2001).

Member: EOS International Working Group (IWG), EOS IWG Land Panel, EOS IWG Hydrometeorology Panel, LBA Science Team (1998-2002)

Contract Faculty Member of the Climate Dynamics Program: George Mason University (Virginia) (2003-2005).

Adjunct Member of the Graduate Faculty: George Mason University (Virginia) (2000, 2002).

Special Member of the Graduate Faculty: University of Maryland at College Park (2000-2002).

Education:

Ph.D. in Meteorology, December 1992, University of Maryland at College Park. Dissertation title: GCM Studies of the Influence of Vegetation on the General Circulation: The Role of Albedo in Modulating Climate Change.

M.S. in Meteorology, December 1988, University of Maryland at College Park. Thesis title: Stationary Solutions in a One-Layer Spectral Model.

B.S. in Meteorology (Magna Cum Laude), May 1986, Texas A&M University.

Teaching:

Su2004: Land-Climate Interactions. Targeted Training Activity, Course on Climate Dynamics for Climate Research Institutes and University Lecturers, International Center for Theoretical Physics, Miramare-Trieste, Italy.

Sp2004, Sp2005: CLIM714 Land-Climate Interactions. George Mason University.

F2000, F2002: CSI759 Land-Climate Interactions. George Mason University.

Publications:
2006

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2006: The hydrologic feedback pathway for land-climate coupling.  J. Hydrometeor., 7, 857-867.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and K. L. Brubaker, 2006: Evidence for trends in the Northern Hemisphere water cycle. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L14712, doi: 10.1029/2006GL026359.

Dirmeyer, P. A., X. Gao, M. Zhao, Z. Guo, T. Oki and N. Hanasaki, 2005: The Second Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2): Multi-model analysis and implications for our perception of the land surface.  Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 87, 1381-1397.

Dirmeyer, P. A., R. D. Koster, and Z. Guo, 2006: Do global models properly represent the feedback between land and atmosphere?  COLA Technical Report 192, 47 pp; J. Hydrometeor. (in press).

Dirmeyer, P. A., and K. L. Brubaker, 2006: Global characterization of the hydrologic cycle from a quasi-isentropic back-trajectory analysis of atmospheric water vapor. J. Hydrometeor. (in press).

Betts, A. K., M. Zhao, P. A. Dirmeyer and A. C. M. Beljaars, 2006: Comparison of ERA40 and NCEP/DOE near-surface datasets with other ISLSCP-II datasets. J. Geophys. Res.,111, D22S04, doi:10.1029/2006JD007174.

Guo, Z., P.  A. Dirmeyer, R. D. Koster, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, H. Davies, T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, S. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, K. Mitchell, T. Oki, K. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. Sud, C. Taylor, D. Verseghy, R. Vasic, Y. Xue, and T. Yamada, 2006: GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. 2. Analysis.  J. Hydrometeor. 7, 611-625.

Koster, R. D., Guo, Z., P.  A. Dirmeyer, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, H. Davies, T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, S. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, K. Mitchell, T. Oki, K. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. Sud, C. Taylor, D. Verseghy, R. Vasic, Y. Xue, and T. Yamada, 2006: GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment. 1. Overview and results. J. Hydrometeor. 7, 590-610.

Kumar, S. V., C. D. Peters-Lidard, Y. Tian, P. R. Houser, J. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J. L. Eastman, B. Doty, P. Dirmeyer, J. Adams, K. Mitchell, E. F. Wood and J. Sheffield, 2006. Land Information System - An Interoperable Framework for High Resolution Land Surface Modeling.  Environmental Modelling & Software,21, 1402-1415.

Seneviratne, S. I., R. D. Koster, Z. Guo and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2006: Soil moisture memory in AGCM simulations: Analysis of Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE) data. J. Hydrometeor., 7, 1090-1112.

Gao, X., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2006: Multi-model analysis, validation, and transferability study for global soil wetness products. J. Hydrometeor. (in press).

Gao X., P.A. Dirmeyer,  Z. Guo, M. Zhao, B. Decharme, G. Niu, and S. Mahanama, 2006, An approach for remote sensing validation of land surface schemes on a global scale.  J Hydrometeor. (in revision).

Guo, Z., P. A. Dirmeyer, X. Gao, and M. Zhao, 2006: Improving the quality of simulated soil moisture with a multi-model ensemble approach. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. (accepted).

Guo, Z., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2006: Isolating the role of the land surface in land-atmosphere coupling strength. J. Hydrometeor. (submitted).

Guo, Z., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2006: Evaluation of GSWP-2 soil moisture simulations, Part I: Inter-model comparison. J. Geophys. Res., (submitted).

Guo, Z., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2006: Evaluation of GSWP-2 soil moisture simulations, Part II: Sensitivity to external meteorological forcing. J. Geophys. Res., (submitted).

Peters-Lidard, C. D., P. R. Houser, Y. Tian, S. V. Kumar, J. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, B. Doty, P. Dirmeyer, J. Adams, K. Mitchell, E.F. Wood, J. Sheffield, 2006: High performance earth system modeling with NASA/GSFC’s Land Information System. Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, (submitted).

2005

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2005: The land surface contribution to boreal summer season predictability.  J. Hydrometeor., 6, 618-632.

Dirmeyer, P. A., X. Gao, M. Zhao, Z. Guo, T. Oki and N. Hanasaki, 2005: The Second Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2): Multi-model analysis and implications for our perception of the land surface.  COLA Technical Report 185 [Available online at:  ftp://grads.iges.org/pub/ctr/ctr_185.pdf], 46 pp.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and K. L. Brubaker, 2005: Global characterization of the hydrologic cycle from a quasi-isentropic back-trajectory analysis of atmospheric water vapor. COLA Technical Report 196 [Available online at: ftp://grads.iges.org/pub/ctr/ctr_186.pdf], 34pp.

Gao, X., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2005: Multi-model analysis, validation, and transferability study for global soil wetness products. COLA Technical Report 186 [Available online at: ftp://grads.iges.org/pub/ctr/ctr_186.pdf] 43 pp.

Guo, Z., P. A. Dirmeyer, X. Gao, and M. Zhao, 2005: Improving the quality of simulated soil moisture with a multi-model ensemble approach. COLA Technical Report 187 [Available online at:ftp://grads.iges.org/pub/ctr/ctr_187.pdf], 39pp.

Zhao, M. and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2005: The effects of downward fluxes and initial conditions on the skill of climate predictions. COLA Technical Report 197 [Available online at: ftp://grads.iges.org/pub/ctr/ctr_197.pdf] , 39pp.

2004

Dirmeyer, P. A., and M. Zhao, 2004: Flux replacement as a method to diagnose coupled land-atmosphere model feedback. J. Hydrometeor. 5, 1034-1048.

Dirmeyer, P. A., Z. Guo, and X. Gao, 2004: Validation and forecast applicability of multi-year global soil wetness products. J. Hydrometeor. 5, 1011-1033.

Dirmeyer, P. A. (ed), 2004: Part C: The value of land surface data consolidation. Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate: A New Perspective on an Interactive System. Springer Verlag, 245-296.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2004: Soil moisture - muddy prospects for a clear definition.  GEWEX News, 14, No. 3, 11-12.

Boone, A., F. Habets, J. Noilhan, E. Blyth, D. Clark, P. Dirmeyer, Y. Gusev, I. Haddeland, R. Koster, D. Lohmann, S. Mahanama, K. Mitchell, O. Nasonova, G.-Y. Niu, A. Pitman, J. Polcher, A. B. Shmakin, K. Tanaka, B. van den Hurk, S. Verant, D. Verseghy, and P. Viterbo, 2004: The Rhône-aggregation land surface shceme intercomparison project. J. Climate, 17, 187-208.

Gao, X., P. A. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, M. Zhao, B. Decharme, G. Niu, and S. Mahanama, 2004: An approach for remote sensing validation of land surface schemes on a global scale. COLA Technical Report 173 [Available from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705 USA], 42 pp.

Gao, X., P. A. Dirmeyer, and T. Oki, 2004: Update on the Second Global Soil Wetness Project.  GEWEX News, 14, No. 3, 10.

Kabat, P., M. Claussen, P. A. Dirmeyer, J. H. C. Gash, L. Bravo de Guenni, M. Meybeck, R. A. Pielke Sr., C. J. Vörösmarty, R. W. A. Hutjes, and S. Lütkemeier (eds), 2004: Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate: A New Perspective on an Interactive System. Springer Verlag, 545 pp.

Koster, R. D., P. A. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo, G. Bonan, E. Chan, P. Cox, H. Davies, T. Gordon, S. Kanae, E. Kowalczyk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, S. Lu, S. Malyshev, B. McAvaney, K. Mitchell, T. Oki, K. Oleson, A. Pitman, Y. Sud, C. Taylor, D. Verseghy, R. Vasic, Y. Xue, and T. Yamada, 2004: Regions of strong coupling between soil moisture and precipitation.  Science, 305, 1138-1140.

Oleson, K. W., Y. Dai, G. Bonan, M. Bosilovich, R. Dickinson, P. Dirmeyer, F. Hoffman, P. Houser, S. Levis, G.-Y. Niu, P. Thornton, M. Vertenstein, Z.-L. Yang, and X. Zeng, 2004. Technical description of the Community Land Model (CLM). National Center for Atmospheric Research, Technical Note NCAR/TN-461+STR.

Xue, Y., R. W. A. Hutjes, R. J. Harding, M. Claussen, S. D. Prince, T. Lebel, E. F. Lambin, S. J. Allen, P. A. Dirmeyer, and T. Oki, 2004: The Sahelian climate. Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate: A New Perspective on an Interactive System. Springer Verlag, 59-78.

Zhao, M., and P. Dirmeyer, 2004: Pattern and Trend Analysis of Temperature in a Set of Seasonal Ensemble Simulations. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, doi:10.1029/2003GL018579.

2003

Dirmeyer, P. A., M. J. Fennessy, and L. Marx, 2003: Near surface boreal summer climate as simulated by three general circulation models.  J. Climate., 16, 995-1002.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2003: The role of the land surface background state in climate predictability.  J. Hydrometeor., 4, 599-610.

Dirmeyer, P. A. and M. Zhao, 2003:  Diagnosis of coupled land-atmosphere model feedback using surface flux replacement. COLA Technical Report 153 [Available from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705 USA], 57 pp.

Dai, Y., X. Zeng, R. E. Dickinson, I. Baker, G. Bonan, M. Bosilovich, S. Denning, P. Dirmeyer, P. Houser, G. Niu, K. Oleson, C. A. Schlosser, and Z.-L. Yang, 2003: The common land model (CLM). Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 84, 1013-1023.

Misra, V., P. A. Dirmeyer, B. P. Kirtman, 2003: Dynamic downscaling of seasonal simulations over South America. J. Climate, 16, 103-117.

Sudradjat, A., K. L. Brubaker, and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2003:  Interannual variability of surface evaporative moisture sources of warm-season precipitation in the Mississippi River Basin.  J. Geophys. Res., 108, 8612, doi: 10.1029/2002JD003061.

Zhao, M., and P. Dirmeyer, 2003: Pattern and trend analysis of temperature in a set of seasonal ensemble simulations. COLA Technical Report 150 [Available from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705 USA], 22pp.

Zhao, M., and P. Dirmeyer, 2003: Production and analysis of GSWP-2 near-surface meteorology data sets. COLA Technical Report COLA Technical Report 159 [Available from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705 USA], 22pp.

2002

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2002: The role of the land surface background state in climate predictability.  COLA Technical Report 120, [Available from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705 USA], 24 pp.

Koster, R. D., P. A. Dirmeyer, A. N. Hahmann, R. Ijpelaar, L. Tyahla, P. Cox, and M. J. Suarez, 2002: Comparing the degree of land-atmosphere interaction in four atmospheric general circulation models. J. Hydrometeor., 3, 363-375.

Misra, V., P. A. Dirmeyer, B. P. Kirtman, H.-M. H. Juang, and M. Kanamitsu, 2002: Regional simulation of interannual variability over South America.  J. Geophys. Res., 107, 8036, 10.1029/2001JD900216.

Misra, V., P. A. Dirmeyer, B. P. Kirtman, 2002: A comparative study of two land surface schemes in regional climate integrations over South America.  J. Geophys. Res.,  107, 8080, doi:10.1029/2001JD001284.

Reale, O., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2002: Modeling the effect of land-surface variability on precipitation variability. Part I: General response. J. Hydrometeor., 3, 433-450.

Reale, O., P. A. Dirmeyer, and C. A Schlosser, 2002: Modeling the effect of land-surface variability on precipitation variability. Part II: Spatial and timescale structure. J. Hydrometeor., 3, 451-466.

2001

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2001: An evaluation of the strength of land-atmosphere coupling. J. Hydrometeor., 2, 329-344.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2001: Climate drift in a coupled land-atmosphere model. J. Hydrometeor., 2, 89-100.

Dirmeyer, P. A., M. J. Fennessy, and L. Marx, 2001: Near surface boreal summer climate as simulated by three general circulation models. COLA Technical Report 100, [Available from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705 USA], 36 pp.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and L. Tan, 2001: A multi-decadal global land-surface data set of state variables and fluxes. COLA Technical Report 102 [Available from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705 USA], 43 pp.

Schlosser, C. A., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2001: Potential predicatbility of Eurasian snow cover.  Atmos. Sci. Let., 1, doi:10.1006/asle.2001.0037, http://www.academicpress.com/asl.

Brubaker, K. L., P. A. Dirmeyer, A. Sudradjat, B. Levy, and F. Bernal, 2001: A 36-year climatology of the evaporative sources of warm-season precipitation in the Mississippi River Basin. J. Hydrometeor., 2, 537-557.

Feddes, R. A., H. Hoff, M. Bruen, T. E. Dawson, P. de Rosnay, P. Dirmeyer, R. B. Jackson, P. Kabat, A. Kleidon, A. Lilly, and A. J. Pitman, 2001: Modelling root water uptake in hydrological and climate models. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82, 2797-2809.

Koster, R. D., P. A. Dirmeyer, P. C. D. Milly, and G. L. Russell, 2001: Comparing GCM-generated land surface water budgets using a simple common framework.  Land Surface Hydrology, Meteorology and Climate: Observations and Modeling, V. Lakshmi, J. Albertson, and J. Schaake, eds. Water Science and Applications series, American Geophysical Union, Washington D.C., USA, 3, 95-105.

Leese, J., T. Jackson, A. Pitman, and P. Dirmeyer, 2001: GEWEX/BAHC international workshop on soil moisture monitoring, analysis and prediction for hydrometeorological and hydroclimatological applications. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 82,1423-1430.

Misra, V., P. A. Dirmeyer and B. P. Kirtman, 2001: Dynamic downscaling of seasonal simulations over South America. COLA Technical Report 101, [Available from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302, Calverton, MD 20705 USA], 28 pp.

2000

Dirmeyer, P. A., F. J. Zeng, A. Ducharne, J. Morrill, and R. D. Koster, 2000: The sensitivity of surface fluxes to soil water content in three land surface schemes. J. Hydrometeor., 1, 121-134.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2000: Using a global soil wetness data set to improve seasonal climate simulation. J. Climate, 13, 2900-2922.

Brubaker, K. L., P. A. Dirmeyer, A. Sudradjat, B. Levy, and F. Bernal, 2000: A 36-year climatology of the evaporative sources of warm-season precipitation in the Mississippi River Basin. COLA Technical Report 92, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD, 48 pp.

Reale, O. and P. Dirmeyer, 2000: Modeling the effects of vegetation on Mediterranean climate during the Roman classical period. Part I: History and model sensitivity. Global and Planetary Change, 25, 163-184.

Schlosser, C. A., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2000: Climate variability and potential predictability over continental regions in response to SST variations. COLA Technical Report 91, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD, 44 pp.

1999

Dirmeyer, P. A., A. J. Dolman, and N. Sato, 1999: The Global Soil Wetness Project: A pilot project for global land surface modeling and validation. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 80, 851-878.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and F. J. Zeng, 1999: SSiB sensitivity to infiltration and treatment of convective precipitation. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 77, 291-303.

Dirmeyer, P. A. 1999: Assessing GCM sensitivity to soil wetness using GSWP data. J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 77, 367-385.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and K. L. Brubaker, 1999: Contrasting evaporative moisture sources during the drought of 1988 and the flood of 1993. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 19383-19397.

Oki, T., T. Nishimura, and P. Dirmeyer, 1999: Assessment of annual runoff from land surface models using Total Runoff Integrating Pathways (TRIP). J. Meteor. Soc. Japan, 77, 235-255.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and F. J. Zeng, 1999: An update to the distribution and treatment of vegetation and soil properties in SSiB. COLA Technical Report 78, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD, 27 pp.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1999: Using a global soil wetness data set to improve seasonal climate simulation. COLA Report 68, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD, 42 pp.

Before 1999

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1998: Land-sea geometry and its effect on monsoon circulations. J. Geophys. Res., 103, 11,555-11,572.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and F. J. Zeng, 1997: A two-dimensional implementation of the Simple Biosphere (SiB) model. COLA Technical Report 48, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD, 30 pp.

Dirmeyer, P. A. 1997: Assessing GCM sensitivity to soil wetness using GSWP data. COLA Technical Report 47, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD, 23pp

Dirmeyer, P. A., J. L. Kinter, and B. E. Doty, 1997: Predicting wintertime skill from ensemble characteristics in the NCEP medium range forecasts over North America. COLA Technical Report 42, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD, 31 pp.

Shukla J., Dan Paolino, Ben Kirtman, David DeWitt, Paul Dirmeyer, Brian Doty, Mike Fennessy, Bohua Huang, James Kinter, Larry Marx, Edwin Schneider, David Straus, Z. Zhu, 1997: A Forecast of Precipitation and Surface Air Temperature in North America for Winter (JFM) 1998, COLA Technical Report 50, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD, 14pp.

Oki, T., T. Nishimura, and P. Dirmeyer, 1997: Validating estimates of land surface parameterizations by annual discharge using Total Runoff Integrating Pathways. J. Japan Soc. Hydrol. Water Resour., 9, 416-425.

Kinter, J. L., D. DeWitt, P. A. Dirmeyer, M. J. Fennessy, B. P. Kirtman, L. Marx, E. K. Schneider, J. Shukla, and D. M. Straus, 1997: The COLA atmosphere-biosphere general circulation model. Volume 1: Formulation. COLA Technical Report 51, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, MD , 46 pp.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and J. Shukla, 1996: The effect on regional and global climate of expansion of the world's deserts. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 122, 451-482.

Xue, Y., H.G. Bastable, P. A. Dirmeyer, and P. J. Sellers, 1996: Sensitivity of simulated surface fluxes to changes in land surface parameterizations. J. Appl. Meteor., 35, 386-400.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1995: Problems in initializing soil wetness. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc,76, 2234-2240.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1995: Meeting on problems in initializing soil wetness: Review. COLA Technical Report No. 9, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 33 pp.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1994: Vegetation stress as a feedback mechanism in mid-latitude drought. J. Climate, 7, 1463-1483.

Dirmeyer, P. A. and J. Shukla, 1994: Albedo as a modulator of climate response to tropical deforestation. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 20,863-20,877.

Doddridge, B. G., P. A. Dirmeyer, J. T. Merrill, S. J. Oltmans, and R. R. Dickerson, 1994: Interannual variability over the eastern North Atlantic ocean: Chemical and meteorological evidence for tropical influence on regional-scale transport in the extratropics. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 22,923-22,935.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1994: Land-sea geometry and its effect on monsoon circulations. COLA Technical Report No. 7, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 41 pp.

Dirmeyer, P. A. and J. Shukla, 1994: The effect on climate of doubling deserts. COLA Technical Report No. 3, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 56 pp.

Dirmeyer, P. A. and J. Shukla, 1993: Observational and modeling studies of the influence of soil moisture anomalies on atmospheric circulation. Prediction of Interannual Climate Variations (ed. by J. Shukla), NATO Series I, Vol. 6, Springer-Verlag, 1-23.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1992: GCM studies of the influence of vegetation on the general circulation. Ph.D. Dissertation, [Available from University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A.], 227pp.

Other Published Work and Presentations:

Dirmeyer, P. A., and K. L. Brubaker, 2006: Sources, sinks and trends in the water cycle from a back-trajectory analysis of atmospheric water vapor. American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, A22A-03.

Schlosser, C. A., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2006: Evaluating Land Memory from the Global Soil Wetness Project Phase 2 Simulations: A North American Perspective. American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, A22A-05.

Guo, Z., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2006: Evaluation of GSWP-2 Soil Moisture Simulations and its Implication for Seasonal Prediction. American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, A33D-03.

Dirmeyer, P. A., Z. Guo, and R. D. Koster, 2006: (INVITED) Do global models properly represent the feedback between land and atmosphere?.  American Meteorological Society, Joint 18^th Conf. on Climate Var. and Change and 20^th Conf. on Hydrology, J5.9.

Gao, X., P. A. Dirmeyer, Z. Guo and M. Zhao, 2006: Sensitivity of land surface simulations to the distribution and treatment of vegetation properties in GSWP-2.  American Meteorological Society, Joint 20^th Conf. on Hydrology, 1.9.

Guo, Z., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2006: A global analysis of variability and trends of soil moisture.  American Meteorological Society, 18^th Conf. on Climate Var. and Change , J5.13.

Guo, Z., P. A. Dirmeyer, and R. D. Koster, 2006: The role of land surface schemes on land-atmosphere coupling strength in weather and climate models.  American Meteorological Society, Joint 18^th Conf. on Climate Var. and Change and 20^th Conf. on Hydrology, JP1.34.

Schlosser, C. A., P. A. Dirmeyer, and K. L. Brubaker, 2006: Assessing land memory in the GSWP2 simulations and association to global recycling estimates.  American Meteorological Society, Joint 18^th Conf. on Climate Var. and Change and 20^th Conf. on Hydrology, J1.10.

Dirmeyer, P. A., X. Gao, M. Zhao, Z. Guo, T. Oki, N. Hanasaki, and J. Dunn, 2005: The Second Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2) Multi-Model Analysis.  Proc. 5th Int'l Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle,  p. 113.

Dirmeyer, P.,  Z. Guo, R. Koster, 2005: Do Current Weather and Climate Models Represent Land-Atmosphere
Coupling Correctly? Proc. 5th Int'l Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle,  p. 178.

Dirmeyer, P., and K. Brubaker, 2005: Global Characterization of Recycling and Evaporative Moisture Sources from a Quasi-Isentropic Back-Trajectory Analysis of Atmospheric Water Vapor. Proc. 5th Int'l Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle,  p. 214.

Guo, Z., P. A. Dirmeyer, X. Gao, M. Zhao, 2005: Improving the Quality of Simulated Soil Moisture with a Multi-Model Ensemble Approach.
Proc. 5th Int'l Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle,  p. 117.

Koster , R., Z. Guo, and P. Dirmeyer, 2005: GLACE: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment.  Proc. 5th Int'l Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle,  p. 187.

Oki, T., N. Hanasaki, Y. Shen, S. Kanae, K. Masuda, P. A. Dirmeyer, 2005: Multi-Land Surface Model Analysis of Global Water Balance and Hydrological Cycles by the 2nd Phase of the Global Soil Wetness Project. Proc. 5th Int'l Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle,  p. 144.

Peters-Lidard, C., S.V. Kumar, Y, Tian, J. Geiger, M. Garcia, M. Rodell, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. Sheffi eld, K. Mitchell, J. Meng, P. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, J. Adams, 2005: The Production and Value of High Resolution Land Surface Data Assimilation Products from the NASA/GSFC Land Information System.  Proc. 5th Int'l Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle,  p. 146.

Polcher, J., P. A. Dirmeyer, A. A. M. Holtslag, and C. Jakob, 2005: Improving the representation of water cycle processes in models.  Proc. 5th Int'l Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, p. 197.

Schlosser, C. A.,  P. R. Houser, and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2005: GEWEX Contributions to a Satellite-Era Perspective of the Global Water. Cycle. Proc. 5th Int'l Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle,  p. 238.

Seneviratne, S. I., R. D. Koster, Z. Guo, P. A. Dirmeyer, E. Kowalcyzk, D. Lawrence, P. Liu, C.-H. Lu, D. Mocko, K. W. Oleson, and D. Verseghy, 2005: Soil Moisture Memory in AGCM Simulations: Analysis of Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE) Data. Proc. 5th Int'l Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle,  p. 199.

Dirmeyer, P. A., T. DelSole, 2005: Examination of the Hydrologic Feedback Pathway for Land-Climate Coupling. American Meteorological Society, Symp. on Glob. Change and Climate Variations, 2.6.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and X. Gao, 2005: Transition of the Second Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2) from Modeling Phase to Analysis Phase. American Meteorological Society, 19^th Conf. on Hydrology, 6.1.

Dirmeyer, P. A.,, 2005: The GEWEX Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) – Recent Results and Future Plans. American Meteorological Society, 19^th Conf. on Hydrology, J6.7.

Guo, Z., P. A. Dirmeyer and R. Koster, 2005: The Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE): Model characteristics and comparison.  American Meteorological Society, 19^th Conf. on Hydrology, J4.3.

Guo, Z., P. Dirmeyer, X. Gao, and M. Zhao, 2005: The sensitivity of soil moisture to external forcing in SSiB land surface scheme.  American Meteorological Society, 19^th Conf. on Hydrology, J6.10.

Zhao, M., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2005: Seasonal predictability and the land/air interaction. American Meteorological Society, 19^th Conf. on Hydrology, 2.10.

Gao, X., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2005: Multi-model analysis and validation in GSWP-2. American Meteorological Society, 19^th Conf. on Hydrology, 6.4.

Schlosser, C. A., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2005: The GSWP2 baseline simulations: summary evaluation. American Meteorological Society, 19^th Conf. on Hydrology, 6.3.

Oki, T., N. Hanasaki, Y. Shen, S. Kanae, K. Masuda, and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2005: Global water balance estimated by land surface models participated in the GSWP2. American Meteorological Society, 19^th Conf. on Hydrology, J6.5.

Tian, Y., C. Peters-Lidard, S. V. Kumar, J. V. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J. L. Eastman, P. R. Houser, J. Sheffield, E. F. Wood, K. E. Mitchell, J. Meng, H. Wei, P. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, and J. M. Adams, 2005: Building the GSFC Land Information System with distributed and parallel computing technologies. American Meteorological Society, 21st Int'l Conf. on Interactive Information Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and Hydrology, JP1.3.

Peters-Lidard, C. D., S. V. Kumar, M. Rodell, Y. Tian, J. V. Geiger, S. Olden, L. Lighty, J. L. Eastman, P. R. Houser, E. F. Wood, J. Sheffield, K. E. Mitchell, C. J. Meng, P. A. Dirmeyer, B. Doty, and J. Adams, 2005: Multiscale Evaluation of GLDAS Products for CEOP with the Land Information System. American Meteorological Society, 19^th Conf. on Hydrology, J6.8.

Dirmeyer, P. A., M. Zhao and J. Shukla, 2004: The contribution of land-atmosphere interaction to boreal summer season predictability. Proc. 1st International CLIVAR Science Conference, ST-38, 64.

Fan, M., E.K. Schneider, and P. Dirmeyer, 2004: Impact of Amazon deforestation in a coupled general circulation model.  Proc. 1st International CLIVAR Science Conference, ST-37, 64.

Koster, R., Z. Guo and P. Dirmeyer, 2004: GLACE: Quantifying land-atmosphere coupling strength across a broad range of climate models.  Proc. 1st International CLIVAR Science Conference, ST-36, 63.

Dirmeyer, P. A., Z. Guo, and X. Gao, 2004: A comparison of several multi-year global soil wetness products. Geophys. Res. Abs., 6,  European Geophys. Union General Assembly,  EGU04-A-03328.

Dirmeyer, P. A., M. Zhao and J. Shukla, 2004: The contribution of land-atmosphere interaction to boreal summer season predictability.  American Meteorological Society, 18^th Conf. on Hydrology, J3.1.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and X. Gao, 2004: A progress report on the Second Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2).  American Meteorological Society, 18^th Conf. on Hydrology, 1.1.

Dirmeyer, P. A., Z. Guo and X. Gao, 2004: Validation and Forecast Applicability of Multi-Year Global Soil Wetness Products.  American Meteorological Society, 15^th Symp. on Glob. Change and Climate Variations, 7.4.

Guo, Z., P. A. Dirmeyer and R. D. Koster, 2004: GLACE: An intercomparison of land-atmosphere coupling strength across a range of atmospheric general circulation models. American Meteorological Society, 18^th Conf. on Hydrology, J3.10.

Zhao, M. and P. Dirmeyer, 2004: Analysis and comparison of GSWP-2 input data sets.  American Meteorological Society, 18^th Conf. on Hydrology, 1.2.

Gao, X., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2004: Remote Sensing Validaiton of Land Surface Schemes on a Global Scale.  American Meteorological Society, 18^th Conf. on Hydrology, 1.7.

Guo, Z., P. A. Dirmeyer, X. Gao, and M. Zhao, 2004: Spatial and temporal variability of global soil wetness. American Meteorological Society, 18^th Conf. on Hydrology, 1.10 .

Schlosser, C. A., R. Koster and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2004:  Land Memory in GSWP 2 and AMIP 2 Simulations. American Meteorological Society, 18^th Conf. on Hydrology, JP4.34.

Zhao, M., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2004: Pattern and trend analysis of temperature in a set of seasonal ensemble simulations. American Meteorological Society, 15^th Symp. on Glob. Change and Climate Variations, P1.12.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2003: GLASS Science Panel Meeting (Recent Results and New Initiatives). GEWEX News, 13, No 4, 9-11.

Koster, R., Z. Guo and P. Dirmeyer, 2003: First results from GLACE (Impact of soil moisture on precip prediction). GEWEX News, 13, No 4, 6-7.

Koster, R., Z. Guo and P. Dirmeyer, 2003: GLACE: Quantifying Land-Atmosphere Coupling Strength Across a Broad Range of Climate Models. CLIVAR Exchanges, 8, No 4, 14-15.

Dirmeyer, P. A., M. Zhao, and C. A. Schlosser, 2003: Spring and Summer Seasonal Predictability and the Land Surface.  American Meteorological Society, 14^th Symp. on Glob. Change and Climate Variations, 5.1.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and T. Oki, 2003: The Second GEWEX Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP2).  American Meteorological Society, 17^th Conf. on Hydrology, JP4.2.

Sudradjat, A., K. L. Brubaker, and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2003: Spatio-temporal source-sing analysis of precipitation supply in the Amazon River Basin.  American Meteorological Society, 17^th Conf. on Hydrology, 2.1.

Dirmeyer, P. A., T. Oki and X. Gao, 2002: GSWP-2 kickoff workshop. GEWEX News, 12, No 4, 11-12.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2002: Dynamical seasonal climate predictability - the role of land surface memory. Amer. Geophys. Union, 2002 Spring Meeting, B42A-05.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and T. Oki, 2002: Second GEWEX/GLASS Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP2). Amer. Geophys. Union, 2002 Spring Meeting, B32A-09.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and C. A. Schlosser, 2002: Dynamical seasonal climate predictabilityover the GAPP domain. Abs. Vol. Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, 33.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and T. Oki, 2002: Second GEWEX/GLASS Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP2). Abs. Vol. Mississippi River Climate and Hydrology Conference, 54.

Dirmeyer, P. A., J. Shukla, C. A. Schlosser, and L. Tan, 2001: Dynamical Seasonal Prediction including the effects of land surface anomalies. Proc. 12^th Symp. on Glob. Change and Cliamte Variations, American Meteorological Society, 105-106.

Dirmeyer, P. A., O. Reale, and C. A. Schlosser, 2001: Climate sensitivity to land surface variability from minutes to years. Proc. 12^th Symp. on Glob. Change and Climate Variations, American Meteorological Society, 5.10.

Brubaker, K. L., P. A. Dirmeyer, A. Sudradjat, and F. Bernal, 2001: Interannual variability of the sources of warm-season precipitation over the Mississippi Basin. Proc. 12^th Symp. on Glob. Change and Cliamte Variations, American Meteorological Society, 3.12.

Schlosser, C. A., J. Shukla, P. A. Dirmeyer, and L. Tan, 2001: The potential impact of proper land-surface representation on spring dynamical seasonal predictions. Proc. 12^th Symp. on Glob. Change and Cliamte Variations, American Meteorological Society, 5.2.

Polcher, J., P. Cox, P. Dirmeyer, H. Dolman, H. Gupta, A. Henderson-Sellers, P. Houser, R. Koster, T. Oki, A. Pitman, and P. Viterbo, 2000: GLASS: Global land-atmosphere system study. GEWEX News, 10, No 2, 3-5.

Dirmeyer, P. A., L. Tan, and C. A. Schlosser, 2000: Global evaluation of the Common Land Model (CLM) within the Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP) framework.  Amer. Geophys. Union, 2000 Spring Meeting, A42D-02.

Fennessy, M. J., P. A. Dirmeyer, J. L. Kinter, A. Schlosser, J. Shukla, J. Huang, and L. Sun, 2000: Impact of initial soil wetness on seasonal atmospheric predictions over the U.S. during March-April-May 2000. Amer. Geophys. Union, 2000 Spring Meeting, A32D-04.

Brubaker, K. L., A. Sudradjat, B. S. Levy, P. A. Dirmeyer, and F. Bernal, 2000: A 36-year climatology of the evaporative sources of warm-season precipitation in the Mississippi River Basin. Amer. Geophys. Union, 2000 Spring Meeting, A41A-07.

Misra, V., P. A. Dirmeyer, and B. P. Kirtman, 2000: High resolution moisture budget over Amazon river basin during three contrasting years of the ENSO cycle.  Amer. Geophys. Union, 2000 Spring Meeting, A41A-10.

Sudradjat, A., P. A. Dirmeyer, K. L. Brubaker, and F. R. Bernal, 2000: Seasonal and interannual variabilities of atmospheric evaporative moisture source regions for the Mississippi basin.  Amer. Geophys. Union, 2000 Spring Meeting, A32D-01.

Reale, O., P. A. Dirmeyer and C. A. Schlosser, 2000: The importance of land surface variability to climate variability. Amer. Geophys. Union, 2000 Spring Meeting, A31D-10.

Venugopal, V., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2000:  Integrating climate and hydrologic models: quantifying subgrid scale rainfall variability and its impact on regional assessments. Amer. Geophys. Union, 2000 Spring Meeting, H31D-09.

Dirmeyer, P. A., K. L. Brubaker, A. Sudradjat, F. Bernal, and B. Levy, 2000: A climatology and analysis of evaporative sources of rainfall over the Mississippi Basin. Proc. 15^th Conf. on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, 87-90.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2000: Climate drift in the coupled land-atmosphere system. Proc. 11^th Symp. on Global Change Studies, American Meteorological Society.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 2000: The importance of land-surface variability to climate variability. Proc. 15^th Conf. on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society.

Schlosser, C. A., P. A. Dirmeyer, and L. Marx, 2000: Modeling issues of snow and land-ice in a general circulation model. Proc. 15^th Conf. on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society.

Venugopal, V., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 2000: Scale-invariance in space-time rainfall: Extension to climate scales. Proc. 15^th Conf. on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, 153-155.

Xue, Y., H. H. Juang, P. A. Dirmeyer, S. Y. Hong, M. Kanamitsu, and Y. Sud, 2000: Sensitivity of GCM simulations to land-surface processes. Proc. 11^th Symp. on Global Change Studies, American Meteorological Society.

Hoff, H., R. Hutjes, and P. Dirmeyer, 1999: Land-surface data sets for hydrological and climate modelling. Global Change Newsletter, 39, 18-21.

Dirmeyer, P. A., K. L. Brubaker, F. Bernal, A. Sudradjat, and B. Levy, 1999: The evaporative sources of moisture supplying rainfall over the Mississippi basin. Proc. 2^nd International Conference on Reanalyses, World Climate Research Programme WCRP-109, WMO/TD-NO. 985, 205-208.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1999: Impact of GSWP soil moisture and ISLSCP vegetation data sets on the simulation of seasonal climate. 14^th Conf. on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, 228-229.

Dirmeyer, P. A., F. J. Zeng, A. Ducharne, R. D. Koster, and J. Morrill, 1999: Sensitivity of surface fluxes to soil water content in three land surface schemes. 14^th Conf. on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, 225-227.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and K. L. Brubaker, 1999: The sources of moisture for warm season precipitation over the United States. 14^th Conf. on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, 309-311.

Oki, T., T. Nishimura, and P. Dirmeyer, 1999: Validation of runoff by land surface models in major river basins of the globe using TRIP. 14^th Conf. on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, 222-223.

Lead Author: International GEWEX Project Office, 1998: Global Soil Wetness Project: Preliminary report on the pilot phase. IGPO Publication Series No. 29, 48 pp.

Contributing Author: International GEWEX Project Office, 1998: Land surface parameterizations / soil vegetation atmosphere transfer schemes workshop: Conclusions and Working Group Reports. IGPO Publication Series No. 31, 77 pp.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and K. L. Brubaker, 1998: Contrasting the hydrologic cycle during the drought of 1988 and the flood of 1993. Abs. Vol. GCIP Miss. Riv. Climate Conf., 246.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1998: The impact of GSWP soil wetness analyses on GCM simulations of summer climate over the United States. Abs. Vol. GCIP Miss. Riv. Climate Conf., 131.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and K. L. Brubaker, 1998: Using hourly precipitation data and NCEP reanalysis to investigate the hydrologic cycle during the drought of 1988 and the flood of 1993. Special Symp. on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, 314-316.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and K. L. Brubaker, 1998: Contrasting the hydrologic cycle during the drought of 1988 and the flood of 1993. Proc. 9th Symp. Global Change Studies, American Meteorological Society, 36-38.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1997: The Global Soil Wetness Project. GEWEX News, 7, No. 2, 3-6.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1997: Global water and energy flux data from the Global Soil Wetness Project. Eos, Transactions, Amer. Geophys. Union, 1997 Spring Meeting, 78, S156.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1997: Can seasonal climate simulation be improved by the GSWP soil wetness climatology? Proc. 13th Conf. on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, 169.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1997: The sensitivity of soil wetness, runoff and surface fluxes to infiltration properties. Proc. 13th Conf. on Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, 335-336.

Dirmeyer, P. A., J. L. Kinter and B. E. Doty, 1996: Predicting skill for ensemble characteristics in the NCEP medium range forecasts. 11th Conf. Numerical Weather Prediction, American Meteorological Society.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1996: The impact of GSWP soil wetness on seasonal climate simulation and predicctability. Second Intl. Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, World Climate Research Programme, 454.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1996: The sensitivity of GSWP soil wetness to infiltration rate and convective precipitation distribution. Second Intl. Scientific Conf. on the Global Energy and Water Cycle, World Climate Research Programme, 455.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1996: Using the simplified Simple Biosphere model to generate global soil wetness climatologies. Eos, Transactions, Amer. Geophys. Union, 1996 Spring Meeting, 77, S123.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1996: The role of land-sea geometry in determining monsoon circulations. Proc. Symp. Global Ocean-Atmosphere-Land System (GOALS), American Meteorological Society, 140-142.

Dirmeyer, P. A. and J. Shukla, 1995: The effect on climate of expansion of the world's deserts. Proc. 6th Symp. Global Change Studies, American Meteorological Society, 6-9.

Contributing Author: International GEWEX Project Office, 1995: Global Soil Wetness Project, 47 pp.

Reale, O., P. A. Dirmeyer and J. Shukla, 1995: Modeling the effects of the African rainforest on climate. 6th Symp. Global Change Studies, American Meteorological Society.

Dirmeyer, P. A. 1995: An objective river routing scheme for runoff models. Proc. Conf. On Hydrology, American Meteorological Society, 91-92.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1994: The response of climate to subtropical desertification in a GCM with idealized topography. Proc. 6th Conf. Climate Variations, American Meteorological Society, 37-40.

Dirmeyer, P. A., and J. Shukla, 1994: The response of the general circulation to deforestation in the tropics. Proc. 5th Symp. Global Change Studies, American Meteorological Society, 131-134.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1993: Vegetation as a feedback in mid-latitude drought. Eos, Transactions, Amer. Geophys. Union, 1993 Spring Meeting, 74, 64.

Shukla, J., and P. A. Dirmeyer, 1993: The importance of albedo in determining climate response to tropical deforestation. Eos, Transactions, Amer. Geophys. Union, 1993 Spring Meeting, 74, 67.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1991: The impact on climate of Amazon deforestation in a GCM with interactive clouds. Proc. 5th Conf. Climate Variations, American Meteorological Society, 271-273.

Dirmeyer, P. A., 1989: The role of non-linearity in the structure of stationary waves in a one-layer spectral model. Proc. 7th Conf. on Atmospheric and Oceanic Waves and Stability, American Meteorological Society, 60.

Other Lectures, Seminars and Meetings

NASA Energy and Water System (NEWS) PI Meeting, College Park, Maryland, USA, 26-28 September 2006.

"The interplay between soil moisture and climate" Seminar presented at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado, USA 10 May 2006.

US African Monsoon Multi-disciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Workshop, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 4-5 May 2006.

US Dept. Agriculure (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory (HRSL) Review, Beltsville, Maryland, USA, 21 February 2006.

Joint Session of the 21st CAS/JSC Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) and 9th GEWEX Modeling and Prediction Panel (GMPP), St. Petersburg, Russia, 8-12 November 2005.

6th GEWEX Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) Science Panel Meeting, KNMI, DeBilt, Netherlands, 21-23 September 2005.

Joint Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) GEWEX Atmospheric Boundary Layer Study (GABLS) Workshop, KNMI, DeBilt, Netherlands, 19-21 September 2005.

"Do Global Models Properly Represent the Feedback Between Land and Atmosphere?" Seminar presented at NASA/GSFC Climate and Radiation Branch, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA 7 September 2005.

Observational and Modelling Requirements for Predicting Drought on Seasonal to Decadal Time Scales, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, 17-19 May 2005.

International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Science and Evaluation Workshop, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, Maryland, USA, 3-5 May 2005.

European Land Data Assimilation System (ELDAS) workshop on Land Surface Assimilation, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, 8-11 November 2004.

Joint Session of the 20th CAS/JSC Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) and 8th GEWEX Modeling and Prediction Panel (GMPP), United Kingdom Meteorological Office, Exeter, United Kingdom, 11-15 October 2004.

NASA Terrestrial Hydrology Program Meeting, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, 5-8 October 2004.

5th GEWEX Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) Science Panel Meeting, Heian Converence Center, Kyoto, Japan, 13-15 September 2004.

Workshop on the Second Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP-2), Heian Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan, 15-17 September 2004.

Targeted training activity - Course on climate dynamics for climate research centers and university lecturers, The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, 9-27 August, 2004.

Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Process Study (iLEAPS) Scientific Steering Committee Meeting, Helsinki, Finland, 28-29 June 2004.

Symposium on Climate Dynamics and Predictability, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, 18 June 2004.

Climate system Observational and Prediction Experiment (COPE) Workshop on Seasonal Prediction, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 3-5 November, 2003.

"Global Soil Wetness Products - What Can We Believe?" Seminar presented at the Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA, 16 October, 2003.

Global Water System Project (GWSP) Open Science Conference, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA, 7-9 October 2003.

Project to Intercompare Land-surface Parameterization Schemes (PILPS) Semi-Arid (San Pedro/Sevilleta) Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, USA, 27-29 August, 2003.

4th GEWEX Global Land Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) Science Panel Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, USA, 25-27 August, 2003.

3rd Global Water Cycle Program (GWCP) Science Steering Group Meeting, National Science Foundation, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 18-19 August 2003.

North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) Modeling and Data Assimilation R&D Workshop, College Park, Maryland, USA, 6 June 2003.

NASA/CLIVAR Subseasonal Workshop, College Park, Maryland, USA, 4-5 June 2003.

NAME 4th Scientific Working Group Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 9-10 January 2003.

Global Water Cycle Program (GWCP) Science Steering Group Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland, USA, 6-7 January 2003.

US-CLIVAR Pan-American Panel Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 17-18 December 2002.

ISLSCP Future Strategy and Initiative II Meeting, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 8-9 October 2002.

3rd GLASS Science Panel Meeting, COLA, Calverton, Maryland, USA, 2-4 October, 2002.

GSWP-2 Kickoff Meeting, COLA, Calverton, Maryland, USA, 30 September-1 October 2002.

Global Water Cycle Program (GWCP) Science Steering Group Meeting, Beltsville, Maryland, USA, 29-31 July 2002.

"Three modes of climate drift in coupled land-atmosphere systems."  Workshop on Prospects for Improved Forecasts of Weather and Short-Term Cliamte Variability on Subseasonal Time Scales, Mitchellville, Maryland, USA, 16-18 April 2002.

Climate of the Twentieth Century (C20C) Workshop, COLA, Calverton, Maryland, USA, 22-25 January 2002.

2nd GLASS Science Panel Meeting, Mètèo-France, Toulouse, France, 7-9 November, 2001.

GSWP Rhône/AGG Project Workshop, Mètèo-France, Toulouse, France, 5-7 November, 2001.

"Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Climate Variability." Seminar presented at the Texas Center for Climate Studies, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA, 24 October, 2001.

NASA/NOAA GAPP & Land Surface Hydrology Joint PI Meeting, Potomac, Maryland, USA, 30 April-4 May 2001.

BAHC Synthesis Meeting, Aalsmeer, Netherlands, 7-8 March, 2001

CEOP International Workshop, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, 27 February-1 March 2001.

LBA Ecology Open Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 12-14 February 2001.

ISLSCP Initiative II Mid-Course Workshop, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, 15-17 November 2000.

US CLIVAR Pan-American Principal Investigators Meeting, Potomac, Maryland, USA, 6-8 September 2000.

1st GLASS Science Panel Meeting, Lucas Heights, New South Wales, Australia, 19-21 July 2000.

CLIVAR Pan-American Climate System (PACS) Implementation Panel Meeting, Portland, Oregon, USA, 7-8 June 2000.

CLIVAR Seasonal-to-Interannual Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (SIMAP) Panel Meeting, Calverton, Maryland, USA, 22-24 May 2000.

GEWEX/BAHC International Workshop on Soil Moisture Monitoring, Analysis and Prediction, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 16-18 May 2000.

Global Soil Wetness Project GSWP1.5 & GSWP2 Planning Workshop, Norman, Oklahoma, USA, 15 May 2000.

ISLSCP/BAHC Science Panel Meeting and BAHC Synthesis Editors Meeting, Caracas, Venezuela, 10-15 April 2000.

GCIP PI Meeting and GEWEX America Prediction Project (GAPP) Planning Meeting, Potomac, Maryland, USA, 27-28 March 2000.

US CLIVAR Joint Panel Meeting, Costa Mesa, California, USA, 14-15 January 2000.

GEWEX/INSU International Workshop on Modeling Land-Surface Atmosphere Interactions and Climate Variability, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 4-8 October, 1999.

BAHC/GCTE/GEWEX Workshop on Modeling Root Water Uptake in Hydrological and Climate Models, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, 30 September - 2 October 1999.

GEWEX Continental-scale International Project (GCIP) Principal Investigators Meeting, College Park, Maryland, 17-19 May 1999.

Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) User Workshop, Silver Spring, Maryland, 10-12 May 1999.

"The evaporative sources of moisture supplying rainfall over the central United States"
University of Maryland, Dept. of Civil Engineering seminar, 3 May 1999.

First Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrologic Cycle (BAHC) Synthesis Workshop, Obereggen, Italy, 6-12 March 1999.

Common Land Model Development Workshop, Tucson, Arizona, 1-3 March 1999.

International Workshop on the Land-Surface Water Budget, Tsukuba, Japan, 19-21 January 1999.

Joint CAS/JSC Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) 14^th Session, and GEWEX Modelling and Prediction Panel (GMPP), Second Session, RPN, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2-6 November 1998.

NASA EOS Investigators Working Group Meeting, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, 19-21 October 1998.

ECMWF and WCRP/GEWEX Workshop on Modelling and Data Assimilation for Land-Surface Processes, ECMWF, Reading, England, 29 June - 2 July 1998.

NCAR Climate System Model (CSM) Workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado, 22-24 June 1998.

IGBP Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrologic Cycle (BAHC) 8^th Scientific Steering Committee Meeting, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, 30 April - 1 May 1998.

International Workshop on Land Surface Data in Climate and Weather Models, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, 28-29 April 1998.

International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Science Panel Meeting, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France, 27-28 April 1998.

GCIP Post-2000 Vision Meeting, Wheaton, Maryland, 20-21 April 1998.

Southern Great Plains 1997 (SGP97) Hydrology Project Workshop, Columbia, Maryland, 3-5 March 1998.

CSM Land-Model Working Group Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, 19-20 February 1998

"The Global Soil Wetness Project." Institute for Computational Sciences and Informatics seminar, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA, 3 November 1997.

World Climate Research Programme First International Conference on Reanalyses, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 27-31 October 1997.

"What is the state of global and regional models in simulating precipitation, soil wetness, surface temperature, and runoff?" Modeling Strategy for Regional Climate Prediction and Assessment over North America: A PACS/GCIP Workshop, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 1-3 October 1997.

"The Global Soil Wetness Project." NASA/GSFC Climate and Radiation Branch seminar, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, 17 September 1997.

International Satellite Land-Surface Climatology Project (ISLSCP) Science Panel Meeting, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 10-11 July 1997.

"The Global Soil Wetness Project." NCEP sack lunch seminar, Camp Springs, Maryland, USA, 8 July 1997.

NCAR Climate System Model (CSM) Workshop, Breckenridge, Colorado, USA, 24-26 June 1997.

IGBP Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrologic Cycle (BAHC) 7^th Scientific Steering Committee Meeting, Polson, Montana, USA, 29 May-1 June 1997.

GEWEX/IGBP Workshop on Land-Surface Parameterizations and Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Transfer Schemes, La Jolla, California, USA, 10-14 February 1997.

Session Chair, AMS Conference on Hydrology, Long Beach, California, USA, 2-8 February 1997.

Chair, GEWEX Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP) Final Meeting, Long Beach, California, USA, 8 February 1997.

Large-Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA) Science Meeting, São Jose dos Campos, Brazil, 27-29 June 1996.

Chair, GEWEX Global Soil Wetness Project (GSWP) Meeting, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, 30-31 May 1996.

ISLSCP Science Panel Meeting, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, 29-30 May 1996.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II; Regional Impacts Study Meeting, Washington, DC, USA, 15-16 May 1996.

Chair, GEWEX GSWP production team meeting, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, Maryland, USA, 24-25 August 1995.

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, XXI General Assembly, Boulder, Colorado, USA, 2-14 July 1995.

ISLSCP Science Panel Meeting, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, 15-16 June 1995.

Review Panelist, NOAA Climate and Global Change Program FY95, GEWEX Panel, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA, 14-15 December 1994.

GEWEX Global Soil Wetness Workshop, Longmont, Colorado, USA, 4-6 October 1994.

Chair, Meeting on Problems in Initializing Soil Wetness, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Calverton, Maryland, USA, 19 August 1994.

"Aspects of tropical deforestation and their effects on climate." Seminar presented at the Department of Meteorology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA, 20 January 1994.

"GCM studies of vegetation and climate: From drought to deforestation." Seminar presented at the Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 14 June 1993.

NATO Workshop on Prediction of Interannual Climate Variations, July 1991, International Center for Advanced Studies, Trieste, Italy, sponsored by the NATO Science Committee.

Summer School for Earth Sciences, "Processes of Global Change", August 1990, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA, sponsored by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Mini Symposium on Climate and Global Change, June 1990, International Center for Earth and Environmental Sciences, Trieste, Italy, sponsored by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

Workshop on the 1988 United States Drought, May 1990, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Department of Meteorology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

"The role of non-linearity in the structure of stationary waves in a one-layer spectral model." Paper presented at Graduate Research Interaction Day, University of Maryland, sponsored by the Graduate Student Association, 19 April 1989.

Current Support:

Investigation of land-atmosphere predictability using a multi-model strategy
P.I.: Paul A. Dirmeyer (COLA)
Co-PIs: Vasubandhu Misra, Zhichang Guo (COLA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NA06OAR4310067)
1 June 2006 - 31 May 2009

Demonstrating the Value of NASA Research Satellite Data, Data Assimilation Products and Models for Improving Seasonal Prediction of Tropical Climate
P.I.: James L. Kinter III (COLA)
Co-PIs: Paul A. Dirmeyer, Bohua Huang, Ben P. Kirtman, V. Krishnamurthy, Vasubandhu Misra, Paul Schopf, David M. Straus, and Mei Zhao (COLA), Siegfried Schubert (NASA/GSFC), Cort Willmott (University of Delaware), Menas Kafatos (George Mason University)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NNG06GB54G)
15 December 2005 - 14 December 2008

Predictability of  Earth's Climate
P.I.: J. Shukla (COLA)
Co-PIs: J. Kinter, E. Schneider, P. Schopf, D. Straus, T. DelSole, P. Dirmeyer, B. Huang, and B. Kirtman (COLA)
National Science Foundation  (ATM-0122850), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NA16-OGP2248) , and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NAG5-11656)
1 January 2004 - 31 December 2008

Previous Support:

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Land Surface Memory to Advance Climate Prediction
P.I.: Paul A. Dirmeyer (COLA) {Role of PI was surrendered for NSF IPA in Dec 2005}
Co-PIs: Timothy DelSole (COLA), Kaye L. Brubaker (U. Maryland College Park), C. Adam Schlosser (U. Maryland Baltimore County)
National Science Foundation NSF-02-101
1 July 2003 - 30 June 2006

Land Information Systems
P.I.: Paul R. Houser (NASA/GSFC)
Co-Is: C. Peters-Lidard (Ga. Tech), P. Dirmeyer (COLA), S. Denning (CSU), K. Mitchell (NOAA/NCEP), E. Wood (Princeton), K. Bender (Northwest H.S.), and B. Doty (COLA)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration NAG5-12274
1 March 2002 - 28 February 2005 (no-cost extension through May 2005)

Multi-model Investigations of CLimate in the Global Land-Atmosphere System
P.I.: Paul A. Dirmeyer (COLA)
Co-PIs: Paul R. Houser, Randal D. Koster (NASA/GSFC)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration NAG5-11579
1 Feb 2002 - 31 Jan 2005

Analysis of Atmospheric Water Cycling over the United States
P.I.: Kaye L. Brubaker (U. Maryland)
Co-I.: Paul A. Dirmeyer (COLA)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NA96GP0353
1 August 1999 - 31 July 2002

Coupled High-Resolution Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Simulation of Seasonal-Interannual Climate Variability over Amazonia
P.I.: Paul A. Dirmeyer (COLA)
Co-Is: Benjamin P. Kirtman (COLA), Charles J. Vörösmarty (U. New Hampshire)
Collaborators: José Marengo (CPTEC, Brazil), Humberto R. da Rocha (U. São Paulo)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration NAG5-8416
15 March 1999 - 14 March 2002

Predictability and Variability of the Present Climate
P.I.: J. Shukla (COLA)
Co-PIs: J. Kinter, E. Schneider, P. Schopf, and D. Straus (COLA)
Co-Is: D. DeWitt, P. Dirmeyer, B. Huang, and B. Kirtman (COLA)
National Science Foundation  (ATM-9814295), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NA96GP0056) , and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NAG5-8202)
1 March 1999 - 29 February 2004

The Global Soil Wetness Project
P.I.: Paul A. Dirmeyer (COLA)
Collaborators: Pavel Kabat (Winand Staring Centre, Netherlands)
A. J. Dolman (Winand Staring Centre, Netherlands)
National Aeronautics and Space Administration NAG8-1526
1 April 1998 - 31 March 2001

Integrating Climate, Hydrologic and Decision-Support Models for Regional Assessments
P.I.: Paul A. Dirmeyer (COLA)
Co-PIs: James L. Kinter (COLA), Peter P. Rogers (Harvard U.)
National Science Foundation ATM-9712057
1 Sep 1997 - 31 Aug 2001

Reviewer for the following professional journals:

J. Hydrometeor., J. Climate, Mon. Wea. Rev., Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc, J. Applied Meteor., J. Geophys. Res., Water Resour. Res., Geophys. Res. Lett.,  J. Hydrology, J. Meteor. Soc. of Japan, Atmosphere-Ocean, Climate Dynamics, Int. J. Climatol., Global and Planetary Change, Meteor. Atmos. Phys., Intl. Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation and Global Change Biology. 

Reviewer for the following programs:

National Research Council (Committee to Review the GAPP Science and Implementation Plan), NOAA Global Change Program, PACS, GCIP, GAPP and GOALS programs; the National Science Foundation; NASA Earth Science Enterprise, Mission to Planet Earth, Land-Surface Hydrology, Global Water and Energy Cycle, Energy and Water System (NEWS), Earth Science Scholar, Earth Observing System, and Seasonal-Interannual Prediction Project; the NCAR Scientific Computing Division; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Guest Editor:

Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (1999).

Professional Organizations:

American Meteorological Society (AMS; 1985-present).

American Geophysical Union (AGU; 1990-present).

Awards:

AMS Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award, 2006

ISLSCP Award of Appreciation for work on the ISLSCP Initiative II Data Project, 2005.

ISLSCP Award of Appreciation for work as chairman of the Global Soil Wetness Project, 1996.

Meteorology Department: Global Change Essay Award for paper entitled, "Overview of global climate change: Causes and effects." 1990.

Graduate Studies and Research: Graduate Fellowships; 1986/87, 1987/88 and 1988/89.

University of Maryland, Graduate Studies and Research: Conference Travel Award, 1989.

College of Geosciences, Texas A&M University: Outstanding Student Award, 1986.

Phi Kappa Phi, 1986.

Hobbies:

Woodworking, carpentry, gardening, landscaping, graphic design, photography, videography

Ambition:

To be a scholar and gentleman-farmer in the Jeffersonian tradition.