H34A:
Advances in Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions III


Session ID#: 10574

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
Convener:  Yunyan Zhang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States
Chairs:  Larry K Berg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Trent Ford, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Joseph A Santanello Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 617, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, 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:

Vegetation controls on surface heat flux partitioning, and land-atmosphere coupling (Invited) (58980)
Ian N Williams, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States, Margaret S Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Yaqiong Lu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Lara M Kueppers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, United States and Justin E Bagley, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Evaluation of soil moisture simulations in the GLACE-CMIP5 experiment using satellite and in situ observations over CONUS (69869)
Shanshui Yuan, Texas A&M University, College Station, United States and Steven M Quiring, Texas A & M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States
Water cycle dynamic increases resilience of vegetation under higher atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (63485)
Leo Adrien Lemordant, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Marc Stéfanon, CEA Saclay DSM / LSCE, Gif sur Yvette, France, Philippe J Drobinski, CNRS, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Palaiseau Cedex, France and Simone Fatichi, ETH Zurich, Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
Role of Runoff-Infiltration Partitioning and Resolved Overland Flow on Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks: A Case-Study with the WRF-Hydro Coupled Modeling System for West Africa (68201)
Joel Arnault1, Sven Wagner2, Thomas Rummler3, Benjamin Fersch2, Jan Bliefernicht3, Sabine Andresen3 and Harald Kunstmann4, (1)Karlsruhe Institute of Technologie, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, (2)Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, Garmisch-Partenkirch, Germany, (3)Augsburg Universitiy, Augsburg, Germany, (4)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
An Atmosphere-based Method for Detection and Quantification of Methane Emisions from Natural Gas Infrastructure in an Urban Environment (Invited) (67384)
Kathryn McKain1,2, Adrian Down3, Steve M Raciti4, John Budney5, Lucy Hutyra6, Cody R Floerchinger7, Scott C. Herndon8, Thomas Nehrkorn9, Mark S Zahniser7, Maryann R Sargent10, Robert B Jackson11, Nathan G Phillips12 and Steven C Wofsy5, (1)NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Division, Boulder, United States, (2)NOAA, Global Monitoring Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)Duke University, Durham, NC, United States, (4)Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, United States, (5)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States, (6)Boston University, Earth & Environment, Boston, MA, United States, (7)Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, MA, United States, (8)Aerodyne Research Inc., Billerica, United States, (9)Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States, (10)Harvard University, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States, (11)Stanford University, School of Earth, Energy, and Environmental Sciences, Stanford, CA, United States, (12)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States
A Novel Concept for Observing Land-Surface-Atmosphere Feedback Based on a Synergy of Scanning Lidar Systems (79708)
Volker Wulfmeyer1, David D Turner2, Matthias Mauder3, Andreas Behrendt1, Joachim Ingwersen4, Thilo Streck4 and Land-Atmosphere Interaction Experiments, (1)University of Hohenheim, Institute of Physics and Meteorology, Stuttgart, Germany, (2)National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Systems Laboratory, Boulder, United States, (3)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Geography and Geoecology (IfGG), Karlsruhe, Germany, (4)University of Hohenheim, Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, Stuttgart, Germany

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