A13K:
Impacts of Land-Atmosphere Interactions in the Tibetan Plateau on Weather and Climate: Observations and Modeling I

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Session ID#: 16235

Session Description:
Thermal and dynamic influences of the elevated Tibetan Plateau play an important role in regional and global climate. Integrated observations and modeling are two components critical for advancing our understanding of the impacts of land-atmosphere interactions over the Tibetan Plateau. This session provides a forum to discuss recent progress in establishing observation networks in Tibet and its applications, and in studying physical processes involved in land-atmosphere interactions. It focuses on process studies of land-surface and hydrology, boundary layer, cloud-precipitation, and troposphere-stratosphere exchange of mass and chemical composition. It encourages contributions making novel utilization of multi-scale interdisciplinary modeling and analysis to investigate effects of land-atmosphere interaction on regional and global weather and climate. Similar studies in other regions with complex terrains are encouraged. This session also welcomes papers on the assessment of changes in Tibetan surfaces characteristics (snow, glacier, soil moisture, ecosystem, etc) in the context of climate variability. 
Primary Convener:  Fei Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Ping Zhao, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Beijing, China and Yimin Liu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Chairs:  Fei Chen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Ping Zhao, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Beijing, China
OSPA Liaison:  Ping Zhao, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Beijing, China
Index Terms:

3305 Climate change and variability [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3362 Stratosphere/troposphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Integrated Research Plan on the Tibetan Plateau Land-Air Coupled System and Its Impact on Global Climate Change (Invited) (118352)
Guo-Xiong Wu1, Xiuji Zhou2, Yucheng Cai3, Yu Liu3 and Chaolin Zhang3, (1)Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)CAMS, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing, China, (3)National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Beijing, China
Effect of Intraseasonal Oscillation on the Vortices Moving off the Tibetan Plateau (Invited) (154739)
Renhe Zhang and Lun Li, CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
An important mechanism sustaining the atmospheric “water tower” over the Tibetan Plateau (160745)
Xiangde Xu, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Beijing, China and Tianliang Zhao, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Two types of summertime heating over the Asian large-scale orography and excitation of potential vorticity forcing (120226)
Yimin Liu1, Haifeng Zhuo2, Guo-Xiong Wu2 and Ziqian Wang3, (1)Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)Sun Yat-Sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Guangzhou, China
Role of the Tibetan Plateau in the Link between Asian and African Climate (145927)
Song Yang, Sun Yat-sen University, School of Atmospheric Sciences, Zhuhai, China
Warming amplification over the Tibetan Plateau since the end of 1990s (129558)
Anmin Duan, Insititute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Improvements of modern land surface model and impacts on the regional climate modeling in the Tibet Plateau (168448)
Yanhong Gao, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, CAS, Lanzhou, China, Xiao Linhong Sr., CAREERI/CAS Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Lanzhou, China and Fei Chen, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States
Analysis of Entrainment-Mixing Processes in Cumulus Clouds Observed over the Tibetan Plateau (123896)
Chunsong Lu1, Xingcan Jia2, Guangxian Lu3, Xueliang Guo3, Kai Bi2, Yang Gao2, Delong Zhao4, Hua Jin2, Xiaohao Guo1, Shi Luo5 and Yangang Liu6, (1)NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (2)Beijing Weather Modification Office, Beijing, China, (3)CAMS Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)Beijing Weather Modification Center, Beijing, China, (5)Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, (6)Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, United States

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