A12D:
Intraseasonal-to-Decadal Prediction and Predictability Associated with Terrestrial Surface Processes and Drought I

Session ID#: 1802

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
3001 (Moscone West)
Chairs:  Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States; University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Siegfried D Schubert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Convener:  Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States
Co-conveners:  Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States, Siegfried D Schubert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Juergen Vogt, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
OSPA Liaison:  Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • C - Cryosphere
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0416 Biogeophysics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1833 Hydroclimatology [HYDROLOGY]
3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

A12D-01
Global Drought Services: Collaborations Toward an Information System for Early Warning (Invited) (6310)
Michael J Hayes, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, United States, Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA, Boulder, United States and Mark D. Svoboda, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, National Drought Mitigation Center, Lincoln, United States
A12D-02
Implications of hydrologic predictability for the development of a global drought information system (28687)
Dennis P Lettenmaier, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
A12D-03
Application of Assimilated GRACE Data for Drought Monitoring (Invited) (2777)
Matthew Rodell, NASA GSFC HSL, Greenbelt, United States, Bailing Li, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Hiroko K Kato-Beaudoing, NASA GSFC HSL (ESSIC University of Maryland), Greenbelt, MD, United States; Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, United States, Benjamin F Zaitchik, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, United States and James S Famiglietti, University of Saskatchewan, School of Environment and Sustainability, Saskatoon, Canada; University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
A12D-05
Land-surface processes and monsoon climate system (9035)
Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States
A12D-06
Landscape Coupling Between Climate, Clouds, Precipitation, Snow and the Surface Radiation Budget (Invited) (2639)
Alan K Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT, United States
A12D-07
Impact of Vegetation Feedback on Climate Predictions at the Seasonal and Multi-Decadal Time Scales (Invited) (2792)
Guiling Wang, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, Miao Yu, University of Connecticut, Storrs, United States, Jeremy S Pal, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Roop Saini, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States
A12D-08
Characterization of the impact of land degradation in the Sahel on the West African monsoon using an ensemble of climate models from the WAMME project (28851)
Aaron Anthony Boone, CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, GMME, Toulouse, France, Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, Comer Ruth, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, Dr. Fernando De Sales, PhD., University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Samson M Hagos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, United States, Sarith P P Mahanama, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Kathleen A Schiro, University of Virginia, Department of Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, Guoqiong Song, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Guiling Wang, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States and Carlos R Mechoso, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
A12D-09
The Impact of Land Use Change and Carbon Fertilization on Land-Atmosphere Coupling (Invited) (3576)
Kirsten Lynn Findell, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, John P Krasting, NOAA / GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States, Elena Shevliakova, NOAA / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States, Benjamin R Lintner, Rutgers, New Brunswick, United States and Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
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