H33J:
Advances in Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions II


Session ID#: 10573

Session Description:
Land-atmosphere interactions are a key component of the global climate system. Water, energy and carbon transfer between the land surface and planetary boundary layer (PBL) have important impacts on weather and climate variability, predictability, and extremes such as drought. This session focuses on land-atmosphere interactions and characterization of water, energy and carbon cycle fluxes, and subsequent feedbacks and coupling between the surface and PBL. In particular, the impacts of soil moisture and evapotranspiration on PBL, cloud and precipitation development remain a challenge to quantify across a range of scales. We invite observation, satellite and model-based studies of land-atmosphere interactions, particularly at the process-level, and their applications in weather and climate modeling and predictability.
Primary Convener:  Joseph A Santanello Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 617, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Larry K Berg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Yunyan Zhang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Trent Ford, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Chairs:  Joseph A Santanello Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 617, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Yunyan Zhang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Larry K Berg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
Index Terms:

1818 Evapotranspiration [HYDROLOGY]
1866 Soil moisture [HYDROLOGY]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Understanding Spatial Variabilities in Clouds, Precipitation, Land/Surface Properties at the Southern Great Plains at Different Time Scales (65710)
Qi Tang1, Shaocheng Xie1, Karl E. Taylor2, Yunyan Zhang1, Thomas J Phillips1, Laura Riihimaki3 and Krista Gaustad3, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI), Livermore, CA, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Using ARM Observations to Evaluate Model Predictions of Land-Atmosphere Coupling on the U.S. Southern Great Plains (81204)
Thomas J Phillips, Stephen A Klein and Hsi-Yen Ma, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Data Length Requirements for Observational Estimates of Land-Atmosphere Coupling Strength (Invited) (72845)
Kirsten Lynn Findell, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States, Benjamin R Lintner, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, Earth Institute, New York, United States and Benoit P Guillod, University of Oxford, ECI/School of Geography and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom
Evaluation of Irrigation Physics in a Land Surface Modeling Framework and Impacts on Coupled Prediction (67496)
Patricia Lawston Parker, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States and Joseph A Santanello Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 617, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Using Observations to Models to Understand the Effects of Irrigation, Groundwater Dynamics, Land Surface/Subsurface Heterogeneity on Land-Atmosphere-Cloud-Interactions: Evidence from the Southern Great Plains (Invited) (82151)
Maoyi Huang1, Larry K Berg1, Yun Qian1, Heng Xiao2, William I Gustafson Jr1 and Ying Liu2, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division, Richland, WA, United States, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Observed Local Soil Moisture-Atmosphere Feedbacks within the Context of Remote SST Anomalies: Lessons From Recent Droughts (67993)
Ahmed Bayoumy Tawfik, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Paul Dirmeyer, George Mason University, Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies, Fairfax, United States and David M Lawrence, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States

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