Chairs: Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States and 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
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: Siegfried D Schubert, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Effects of Land Use on the Predictability of Land-Atmosphere Fluxes and Moisture Transport in the North American Monsoon Region (7078)
Theodore J Bohn, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, Giuseppe Mascaro, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, AZ, United States, Dave D White, Arizona State University, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Tempe, United States and Enrique R Vivoni, Arizona State University, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Tempe, United States
The Attribution of Land-Atmosphere Interactions on the Seasonal Predictability of Drought (8770)
Dr. Joshua K Roundy, PhD, University of Kansas, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Lawrence, United States, Joseph A Santanello Jr, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States and Eric F Wood, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Linking Siberian Snow Cover to Precursors of Stratospheric Variability and Intraseasonal Predictability (12640)
Judah Levi Cohen, Atmos and Environ Res Inc., Lexington, MA, United States, Jason C Furtado, University of Oklahoma, School of Meterology, Norman, OK, United States, Mathew A Barlow, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Department of Environmental, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Lowell, United States, David P Whittleston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, CEE, Cambridge, MA, United States and Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
Decadal Potential Predictability of Soil Water, Vegetation, and Wildfire Frequency over North America (14413)
Yoshimitsu Chikamoto1, Axel Timmermann2, Samantha Stevenson3, Pedro N DiNezio2 and Sally Langford4, (1)Utah State University, Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Logan, UT, United States, (2)IPRC, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, (4)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Investigation of North American vegetation variability under recent climate – A study using the SSiB4/TRIFFID biophysical/dynamic vegetation model (14830)
Zhengqiu Zhang, CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Glen M MacDonald, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, Peter Michael Cox, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom and George James Collatz, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Mapping Fuel Load and Its Dynamics in Shrubland and Grassland Using eMODIS Data (16778)
Hua Shi, InuTeq, USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, James E Vogelmann, USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Xiaoyang Zhang, South Dakota State University, Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence (GSCE), Department of Geography & Geospatial Sciences, Brookings, United States, Todd J Hawbaker, US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center, Lakewood, United States, Matthew C Reeves, US Forest Service Missoula, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, MT, United States and Zhengpeng Li, Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Impact of burned areas on the northern African seasonal climate from the perspective of regional modeling (17023)
Dr. Fernando De Sales, PhD., San Diego State University, Department of Geography, San Diego, United States, Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States and Greg S Okin, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Climate-Vegetation Interactions over Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Multi-Scale Causality Analysis (21729)
Annalisa Molini, Masdar Institute, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Civil Infrastructure and Environmental Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Masdar Institute, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and Erik Casagrande, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, iWATER, Institute Centre for Water Advanced Technology & Environmental Research, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Understanding the Influence of Terrestrial Water Anomalies on Summer Surface Air Temperature Variability over North America (26252)
Anna Merrifield, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, United States, Nathaniel C Johnson, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, Yu Kosaka, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States and Shang-Ping Xie, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, United States
Numerical Study of Urbanization Effect on 2012 Heavy Storm Precipitation in Beijing (28408)
Zhenxin Liu1,2, Shuhua Liu2, Yongkang Xue3 and Keith W Oleson4, (1)IAP Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China, (3)University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, Boulder, CO, United States
