AS33C:
Land-Atmosphere Interactions: From Models and Observations III

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Session ID#: 6957

Session Description:
The increased recognition of the importance of land-atmosphere interactions and feedbacks in modulating regional climate has led to several studies on this aspect in recent years.
Some of these studies, using climate models, demonstrated that land-atmosphere interactions can amplify climate extremes such as heat waves and heavy precipitation events.
Given the complex nature of the underlying processes involved in land-atmosphere interactions, more research is required, including studies focussed on the projected changes to these interactions in a future warmer climate. The aim of this session is to bring together both observational and modelling studies investigating various aspects of land-atmosphere interactions.
The session encourages presentations on topics related to:

- Land-atmosphere interactions in the context of land cover change, climate variability/change

- Role of soil moisture, vegetation, snow on surface energy/water budgets and on climate

- Importance of land surface memory and initialization for sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction

OSPA Liaison:  Arman Ganji, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
Chairs:  Gulilat Tefera Diro1, Laxmi Sushama1, Patrick Samuelsson2 and Alvaro Montenegro3, (1)University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada(2)Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden(3)The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Primary Convener:  Gulilat Tefera Diro, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
Conveners:  Laxmi Sushama, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada, Alvaro Montenegro, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States and Patrick Samuelsson, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden
Index Terms:

1843 Land/atmosphere interactions [HYDROLOGY]
3322 Land/atmosphere interactions [ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES]
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • H - Hydrology

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

AS33C-01
On the Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Change on the West African Monsoon: Approach and Results from the WAMME Inter-comparison Project (Invited) (35554)
Aaron Anthony Boone, CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, GMME, Toulouse, France, Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Geography, Los Angeles, United States, Comer Ruth, UKMetOffice, Exeter, United Kingdom, Dr. Fernando De Sales, PhD., UCLA, Geography, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Samson M Hagos, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Sarith P P Mahanama, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Ibrah Sanda, AGRHYMET, Niamey, Nigeria, Kathleen A. Schiro, UCLA, Atmospheric Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, Guoqiong Song, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Guiling Wang, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, Randal D Koster, NASA Goddard SFC, Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, Greenbelt, United States and Carlos R Mechoso, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
AS33C-03
First Estimates of Continental Energy Storage from CMIP5 Simulations (35469)
Francisco José Cuesta-Valero1, Almudena García-García1 and Hugo Beltrami2,3, (1)St. Francis Xavier University, Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, Antigonish, Canada, (2)Université du Québec à Montréal, Centre ESCER pour l'étude et la simulation du climate à l'échelle régionale, Montréal, QC, Canada, (3)St. Francis Xavier University, Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, Antigonish, NS, Canada
AS33C-04
Climate/Hydrology Sensitivity to Frozen Soil Parameterization (35239)
Arman Ganji and Laxmi Sushama, University of Quebec at Montreal UQAM, Montreal, QC, Canada
AS33C-05
Mechanism behind the spring to summer drought memory and its impact on predictability of the summer drought over US Great Plains (35813)
Rong Fu, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geological Sciences, Austin, TX, United States
AS33C-06
Seasonal and Diurnal Changes in Soil and Ground Water at a Mixed Forest at Borden Ontario (35699)
Norma Froelich, Northern Michigan University, Chelsea, MI, United States, Ralf M Staebler, Environment Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada and Paul A Bartlett, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Climate Research Division, Toronto, ON, Canada
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