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