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

Monday, 15 December 2014: 10:20 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States; University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Siegfried D Schubert, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Conveners:  Yongkang Xue, Univ California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Co-conveners:  Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Siegfried D Schubert, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Juergen Vogt, European Commission, Ispra, Italy
OSPA Liaisons:  Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

10:20 AM
 
Global Drought Services: Collaborations Toward an Information System for Early Warning
Michael J Hayes, National Drought Mitigation Ce, Lincoln, NE, United States, Roger S Pulwarty, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States and Mark Svoboda, Univ of NE/Lincoln-Nat'l Rsrcs, Lincoln, NE, United States
10:32 AM
 
Implications of hydrologic predictability for the development of a global drought information system
Dennis P Lettenmaier, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
10:44 AM
 
Application of Assimilated GRACE Data for Drought Monitoring
Matthew Rodell1, Bailing Li1, Hiroko K Beaudoing1,2, Benjamin F Zaitchik3 and James S Famiglietti4,5, (1)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
10:56 AM
 
The Global Drought Information System - A Decision Support Tool with Global Applications
Michael Brewer, Derek Shane Arndt and Richard R Heim Jr, NOAA Asheville, Asheville, NC, United States
11:08 AM
 
Land-surface processes and monsoon climate system
Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
11:20 AM
 
Landscape Coupling Between Climate, Clouds, Precipitation, Snow and the Surface Radiation Budget
Alan K Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT, United States
11:32 AM
 
Impact of Vegetation Feedback on Climate Predictions at the Seasonal and Multi-Decadal Time Scales
Guiling Wang1, Miao Yu1, Jeremy S Pal2 and Roop Saini1, (1)University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States, (2)Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, United States
11:44 AM
 
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
Aaron Anthony Boone1, Yongkang Xue2, Comer Ruth3, Fernando De Sales2, Samson M Hagos4, Sarith P P Mahanama5, Kathleen Schiro6, Guoqiong Song7, Guiling Wang8, Randal D Koster9 and Carlos R Mechoso10, (1)Météo-France Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 01, France, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)UK MetOffice, Climate Applications, Exeter, United Kingdom, (4)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (5)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (7)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (8)University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States, (9)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (10)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States
11:56 AM
 
The Impact of Land Use Change and Carbon Fertilization on Land-Atmosphere Coupling
Kirsten Lynn Findell1, John P Krasting1, Elena Shevliakova2, Benjamin R Lintner3 and Pierre Gentine4, (1)NOAA / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton, NJ, United States, (3)Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (4)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
12:08 PM
 
Land-Atmosphere Coupling in the CORDEX Central America Region
Raymond W Arritt, Iowa State Univ, Ames, IA, United States
 
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