A31I
Intraseasonal to Decadal Climate Variability, Prediction, and Predictability Associated with Land-Atmosphere Interactions I

Wednesday, 16 December 2015: 08:00-10:00
3006 (Moscone West)
Primary Conveners:  Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Paul Dirmeyer, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States and William K-M Lau, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Paul Dirmeyer, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Fernando De Sales, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
08:15
Assessing Local Land-Atmosphere Coupling from a Global Land Data Assimilation Reanalysis (Invited) (67896)
Michael B Ek, Environmental Modeling Center, NOAA NWS NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States
08:30
The impact of land initialization on seasonal forecasts of surface air temperature: role of snow data assimilation in the Northern Hemisphere (80465)
Peirong Lin1, Jiangfeng Wei1, Yongfei Zhang1 and Zong-Liang Yang2, (1)University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, (2)Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States
08:45
The impact of quantified land surface uncertainties on seasonal forecast skill (72790)
Dave MacLeod, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
09:00
Understanding Land-Atmosphere Coupling and its Predictability at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site (Invited) (68088)
Craig R Ferguson, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States, Hyo-Jong Song, KIAPS Korea Insititute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, South Korea and Joshua K Roundy, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States
09:15
Impacts of drought, woody encroachment, and gap-filling technique on estimated land-atmosphere coupling strength and scale (80484)
Kelly E Logan and Nathaniel A Brunsell, University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States
09:30
Spring Land Temperature Anomalies in Northwestern U.S. and Southern Plains Summer Extreme: Texas Droughts and Floods (68303)
Yongkang Xue1, Catalina M Oaida2, Ismaila Diallo3, Ratko Vasic4, J David Neelin3, Suosuo Li5, Jiwoo Lee3, Fernando De Sales6, Wei Li4, David A Robinson7 and Yuejian Zhu8, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)NOAA/NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States, (5)CAS Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijng, China, (6)San Diego State University, Geography, San Diego, CA, United States, (7)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (8)NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
09:45
Understanding the land-atmospheric interaction in drought forecast from CFSv2 for the 2011 Texas and 2012 Upper Midwest US droughts (70510)
Yu Zhang1, Joshua K Roundy2, Michael B Ek3 and Eric F Wood1, (1)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, United States, (3)Environmental Modeling Center, NOAA NWS NCEP/EMC, College Park, MD, United States
 
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