H42B:
Advances in Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Environment II

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Session ID#: 34354

Session Description:
Land-atmosphere interactions are a key component of the Earth system. Atmospheric impacts on land as well as land cover perturbations alter land-atmosphere water and energy fluxes. Such changes have important impacts on weather and climate variability, and hydrometeorological extremes such as heatwaves and drought. However, traditional measurements only provide an incomplete picture of such relationships, resulting in poorly understood linkages of water and energy cycle components, thus limiting current modeling applications. This session invites presentations that address the physical processes (from bedrock to boundary layer) through which land-atmosphere coupling occurs in nature, how large scale field experiments and remote sensing can improve understanding of such processes, how processes are represented in numerical models, and how land-atmosphere interactions contribute to our understanding and prediction capabilities of terrestrial climate and water cycle over a range of spatial and temporal scales.
Primary Convener:  Rafael Rosolem, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Alexis M Berg, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States, Nathaniel A Brunsell, University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States and Joseph A Santanello Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 617, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Chairs:  Alexis M Berg, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Rafael Rosolem, University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom
OSPA Liaison:  Nathaniel A Brunsell, University of Kansas, Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science, Lawrence, KS, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

1840 Hydrometeorology [HYDROLOGY]
1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring [HYDROLOGY]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Irrigation Induced Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks and Their Impacts on Indian Summer Monsoon (267580)
Chihchung Chou, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Dongryeol Ryu, The University of Melbourne, Department of Infrastructure Engineering, Parkville, VIC, Australia, Min-Hui Lo, NTU National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Hao-Wei Wey, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Hector M. Malano, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
Land-atmosphere coupling and soil moisture memory contribute to long-term agricultural drought  (290938)
Sanjiv Kumar, Auburn University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, United States, Matthew Newman, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, David M Lawrence, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, Ben Livneh, University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, Boulder, United States and Danica L. Lombardozzi, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD, Boulder, United States
On the harvest of predictability from land surface states (254456)
Paul Dirmeyer, George Mason University Fairfax, Atmospheric, Oceanic & Earth Sciences Department, Fairfax, VA, United States and Subhadeep Halder, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
Why we shouldn’t underestimate the impact of plant functional diversity (227973)
Vivienne Groner1, Thomas Raddatz1, Christian H. Reick1 and Martin Claussen2, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)MPI for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Vegetation physiology controls continental water cycle responses to climate change (280516)
Leo Adrien Lemordant1, Abigail L. S. Swann2, Benjamin Cook3, Jacob Scheff1 and Pierre Gentine4, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science and Department of Biology, Seattle, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
Differential response of surface temperature and atmospheric temperature to the biogeophysical effects of deforestation (225876)
Johannes Winckler1,2, Christian H. Reick1, Quentin Lejeune3 and Julia Pongratz1, (1)Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, (2)International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modeling, Hamburg, Germany, (3)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Remote SST Forcing and Local Land-Atmosphere Moisture Coupling as Drivers of Amazon Temperature and Carbon Cycle Variability (291741)
Paul Alexander Levine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Dr. Min Xu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Computational Sciences and Engineering Division and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, Yang Chen, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, United States, James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States and Dr. Forrest M Hoffman, PhD, Computational Earth Sciences Group and Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States

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