A43M:
Land-Atmosphere Interactions of the Tibetan Plateau and Their Impacts on Weather and Climate II

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Session ID#: 33382

Session Description:
Thermodynamic and mechanical influences of the elevated Tibetan Plateau play an important role in regional and global extreme weather and climate events. Integrated observations and modeling are two components critical for advancing our understanding of the role of land-atmosphere interactions over the Tibetan Plateau. This session provides a forum to discuss recent progress in establishing observation networks in Tibet and data 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 interactions on 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; Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Beijing, China
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, Yimin Liu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS, Beijing, United States and Kun Yang, Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
OSPA Liaison:  Ping Zhao, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather, Beijing, China

Cross-Listed:
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

1840 Hydrometeorology [HYDROLOGY]
3310 Clouds and cloud feedbacks [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3355 Regional modeling [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Cloud vertical structure, precipitation, and cloud radiative effects over Tibetan Plateau (217303)
Yimin Liu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Yafei Yan, Shanghai Institude of Meteorological Science, Shanghai, HI, China and Jianhua Lu, Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, China
Microphysical Properties and Water Budget for Summer Convective Clouds over the Tibetan Plateau (219221)
Xueliang Guo, Jie Tang and Yi Chang, Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences, Beijing, China
Challenges in land model representation of heat transfer in snow and frozen soils (Invited) (233957)
Keith N Musselman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Martyn P Clark, Hydrometeorological Applications Program, Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Bart Nijssen, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States and Dr. Jeffrey Richard Arnold, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle, WA, United States
Glaciers bring more precipitation over south slope of the Himalayas and less moisture to the Tibetan Plateau (Invited) (267007)
Kun Yang1, Changgui Lin2 and Deliang Chen2, (1)ITP Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Gothenburg, Department of Earth Sciences, Gothenburg, Sweden
Impact of topography-radiation interaction on surface energy budget of the Tibetan Plateau in GCM simulations (224907)
Wei-Liang Lee1, Kuo-Nan Liou2, Yu Gu3, Chia-chi Wang4, Chi-Hua Wu5 and Huang-Hsiung Hsu5, (1)Research Center for Environmental Changes Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)UCLA, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (4)Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, (5)Academia Sinica, Research Center for Environmental Changes, Taipei, Taiwan
Evaluation of Three 1-D Lake Models’ Performance in Simulating the thermal structure of Lake Namco on Tibetan Plateau (211245)
Anning Huang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China and Yang Wu, Student, School of atmospheric Sciences,Nanjing University, NanJing, China
Environmental effects on water vapour and carbon dioxide exchange above two alpine grassland ecosystems on the Tibetan Plateau (228152)
Lei Wang and Huizhi Liu, Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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