Joint Session 3 Advances in Understanding Land–Atmosphere Interactions III

Tuesday, 8 January 2019: 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
North 127ABC (Phoenix Convention Center - West and North Buildings)
Hosts: (Joint between the 33rd Conference on Hydrology; and the 32nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs:
Joseph A. Santanello, NASA GSFC, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory (617), Greenbelt, MD; Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Fairfax, VA; Yunyan Zhang, LLNL, PLS/AEED/CPRM, Livermore, CA and Dan Li, Boston Univ., Earth and Environment, Boston, MA

Land-atmosphere (L-A) interactions are a key component of the global climate system. Water, energy, and carbon transfer between the land surface and planetary boundary layer (PBL) have important impacts on weather and climate variability, predictability, and extremes such as drought. This session focuses on land-atmosphere interactions and characterization of water, energy, and carbon cycle fluxes, and subsequent feedbacks and coupling between the surface and PBL. In particular, the impacts of soil moisture and evapotranspiration on PBL, cloud, and precipitation development remain a challenge to quantify across a range of scales. We invite observation, satellite, and model-based studies of land-atmosphere interactions, particularly at the process-level, and their applications in weather and climate modeling and predictability.  In particular, we emphasize studies that utilize satellite observations and remote sensing for L-A studies.

Papers:
1:30 PM
J3.1A
Challenges in Representing Hydroclimatic Effects of Agriculture Management in Earth-System Models
Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and X. Xu, M. Barlage, D. J. Gochis, X. Liu, D. Niyogi, A. Mahalov, and L. Di
1:45 PM
J3.2
Complex Biophysical Climate Effects of Changing Temperate Forests
Gensuo Jia, CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China; and W. Ma

2:00 PM
J3.3
Isolating the Influence of Vegetation Variability of La Plata River Basin on the Climate of South America
Divyansh Chug, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign, Urbana, IL; and F. Dominguez
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