H12B:
Advances in Understanding Land–Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Environment II


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Session ID#: 62337

Session Description:
Land-atmosphere interactions are a key component of the Earth System. Spatial and temporal variations in surface characteristics (e.g., soil moisture, vegetation) and attendant land-atmosphere fluxes (e.g., evapotranspiration) can feed back on local climate, including hydrometeorological extremes such as heatwaves and drought. Observing, and hence, modeling of coupled land-atmospheric processes is a major challenge due to the complexity of the processes involved and scale heterogeneity of the land surface. This session invites studies employing novel observational or modeling frameworks to elucidate time and space variations in the strength of coupled land-atmosphere processes and feedbacks (from bedrock to boundary layer). Studies integrating meso-scale networks (e.g., OKMESONET, ARM-SGP, and AmeriFlux), field campaign data (e.g., PECAN, LAFE, HI-SCALE), or satellite data are of particular interest. Also, studies addressing the quantifiable role of land-atmosphere processes in weather predictability and climate variability and change, for example in the context of the CMIP6 participating models, are welcomed.
Primary Convener:  Alexis M Berg, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Craig R Ferguson, SUNY at Albany, Albany, United States, Kaighin A Mccoll, Harvard University, Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Joseph A Santanello Jr, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alexis M Berg, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States
Chairs:  Craig R Ferguson, SUNY at Albany, Albany, United States and Joseph A Santanello Jr, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Alexis M Berg, Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, United States
Co-Organized with:
Hydrology, and Atmospheric Sciences

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

Proposed Co-Organized Session with:
  • A - Atmospheric Sciences
Index Terms:

1843 Land/atmosphere interactions [HYDROLOGY]
1866 Soil moisture [HYDROLOGY]
3307 Boundary layer processes [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Evaluating the climate impact of different land-surface properties: separating the role of atmospheric feedbacks from surface-driven changes (Invited) (346452)
Marysa M Lague, University of Utah, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Salt Lake City, United States, Abigail L. S. Swann, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science and Department of Biology, Seattle, United States and Gordon B Bonan, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Elucidating Observed Land Surface Feedbacks across Sub-Saharan Africa (433733)
Michael Notaro1, Fuyao Wang1 and Yan Yu2,3, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research, Madison, WI, United States, (2)LASG, Institute of Atmospheric Physics,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States
On the role of upwind land–atmosphere feedbacks during the 2010 Russian heatwave (386459)
Dominik L. Schumacher1, Jessica Keune2, Raquel Nieto3, Anita Drumond4, Luis Gimeno4, Chiel van Heerwaarden5, Jordi Vila-Guerau Arellano6 and Diego G. Miralles7, (1)Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extreme Lab (H–CEL), Ghent, Belgium, (2)European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Forecast and Services, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)Centro de Investigación Mariña, Universidade de Vigo, Environmental Physics Laboratory (EPhysLab), Ourense, Spain, (4)University of Vigo, Environmental Physics Laboratory, Ourense, Spain, (5)Wageningen University, Meteorology and Air Quality Group, Wageningen, Netherlands, (6)Wageningen University and Research Center, Department of Meteorology and Air Quality, Wageningen, Netherlands, (7)Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Ghent, Belgium
Precipitation-Driven Consistency in Spatial Variability and Temporal Changes of Hydro-Climatic Land-Atmosphere Interactions from Catchment to Global Scale (457686)
Georgia Destouni, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, Fernando Jaramillo, Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden and Carmen Prieto, Stockholm University, Physical Geography & Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden
CLASS4GL: A new tool to investigate land–atmosphere interactions based on global balloon soundings (420265)
Hendrik Wouters, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium, Diego G. Miralles, Ghent University, Hydro-Climate Extremes Lab (H-CEL), Ghent, Belgium, Chiel van Heerwaarden, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, Jordi Vila-Guerau Arellano, Wageningen Univiersity, Wageningen, Netherlands, Irina Petrova, Ghent University, Environment, Gent, Belgium and Ryan Teuling, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
The Great Plains Irrigation Experiment (GRAINEX) – Investigating the Impacts of Irrigation on Regional Weather (405651)
Udaysankar S Nair, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Department of Atmospheric Science, Huntsville, AL, United States, Rezaul Mahmood, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Norman, OK, United States, Eric Rappin, Western Kentucky University, geology, Bowling Green, KY, United States, Christopher Edward Phillips, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, United States, Aaron S Kaulfus, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, United States, Roger A Pielke Sr Sr, University of Colorado, Broomfield, CO, United States, Joseph A Santanello Jr, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, Edward J Kim, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Rajat Bindlish, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, United States

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