Chairs: Fanglin Yang, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, Clarksville, MD, United States and Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Primary Conveners: Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore Nat''l Lab, Livermore, CA, United States
Co-conveners: Jui-Lin F Li, JPL, Pasadena, CA, United States, Brian Medeiros, NCAR/CGD, Boulder, CO, United States and Fanglin Yang, NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons: Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Temperature and Humidity Profiles in the “TqJoint” Data Group of AIRS Version 6 Product for the Climate Model Evaluation
Feng Ding1,2, Fan Fang1,2, Thomas J Hearty III2,3, Michael Theobald1,2, Bruce Vollmer2 and Christopher Lynnes2, (1)ADNET Systems Inc. Greenbelt, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (3)Wyle Information Systems, Inc., Lanham, MD, United States
Impact of soil parameter and physical process on reproducibility of hydrological processes by land surface model in semiarid grassland
Shin Miyazaki1,2, Kazuaki Yorozu3, Jun Asanuma4, Masayuki Kondo1 and Kazuyuki Saito1, (1)JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Kanagawa, Japan, (2)NIPR National Institute of Polar Research, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (4)University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
Errors in the Simulated Heat Budget of CGCMs in the Eastern Part of the Tropical Oceans
Julia Hazel1, Matthew T Masarik1, Carlos R Mechoso1, R. Justin Small2 and Enrique N Curchitser3, (1)UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Rutgers University New Brunswick, Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Key Signatures in the Barotropic Vorticity Budget within Ocean Western Boundary Currents : Understanding the Gulf Stream Pathway
Joseph Arthur Schoonover1, William K Dewar2, Nicolas Wienders3, Jonathan Gula4, James C McWilliams4, Maarten J Molemaker4, Susan C Bates5 and Gokhan Danabasoglu5, (1)Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (2)Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (3)Florida St Univ--OSB 415, Tallahassee, FL, United States, (4)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (5)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States