H11J:
Advances in Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions I

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Chairs:  Michael B Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States and Trent Ford, Texas A&M University, Geography, College Station, TX, United States
Primary Conveners:  Steven M Quiring, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
Co-conveners:  Trent Ford, Texas A&M University, Geography, College Station, TX, United States, Joseph A Santanello, NASA, Alexandria, VA, United States and Michael B Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Joseph A Santanello, NASA, Alexandria, VA, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

8:00 AM
 
Land-Atmosphere interaction over North America in the current and future climates using Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM5)
Gulilat Tefera Diro and Laxmi Sushama, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
8:20 AM
 
Local coupling (LoCo) vs. large-scale coupled (LsCo) land-atmosphere interactions in idealized experiments
Pierre Gentine1, Benjamin R Lintner2, Kirsten Lynn Findell3, Nicolas Rochetin4, Adam H Sobel1 and Usama M Anber1, (1)Columbia University, New York, NY, United States, (2)Rutgers, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (3)NOAA, Princeton, NJ, United States, (4)Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY, United States
8:40 AM
 
Using WRF with Water Vapor Tracers to Study the Moisture Sources for the North American Monsoon
Francina Dominguez1, Gonzalo Miguez-Macho2 and Huancui Hu1, (1)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
9:00 AM
 
Land-Atmosphere Coupling Investigated Across Scales
Kelly E Logan and Nathaniel A Brunsell, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States
9:20 AM
 
Evolution of Soil Moisture-Convection Interactions against the Backdrop of Global Oscillations
Ahmed B Tawfik, Center for Ocean-Atmospheric-Land Studies Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and Paul Dirmeyer, COLA, Fairfax, VA, United States
9:40 AM
 
A Mechanism for Land-Atmosphere Feedback Involving Planetary Wave Structures
Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Yehui Chang, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Siegfried D Schubert, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States
 
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