Chairs: Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and 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
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: Siegfried D Schubert, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, MD, United States
The Attribution of Land-Atmosphere Interactions on the Seasonal Predictability of Drought
Joshua K Roundy, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Joseph A Santanello, NASA, Alexandria, VA, United States, Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Eric F Wood, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Linking Siberian Snow Cover to Precursors of Stratospheric Variability and Intraseasonal Predictability
Judah Levi Cohen, Atmos and Environ Res Inc., Lexington, MA, United States, Jason C Furtado, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Lexington, MA, United States, Mathew A Barlow, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, 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
Yoshimitsu Chikamoto1, Axel Timmermann1, Samantha L Stevenson2, Pedro N Di Nezio1 and Sally Langford3, (1)IPRC, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (2)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Investigation of North American vegetation variability under recent climate – A study using the SSiB4/TRIFFID biophysical/dynamic vegetation model
Zhengqiu Zhang, CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Glen M MacDonald, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 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
Hua Shi, InuTeq, USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, James E Vogelmann, USGS EROS Center, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Xiaoyang Zhang, Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence, Brookings, SD, United States, Todd J Hawbaker, US Geological Survey, Lakewood, CO, 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
Numerical Study of Urbanization Effect on 2012 Heavy Storm Precipitation in Beijing
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, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States