Joint Session 3 |
| | Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Joint with the 15th Symp. on Global Change and Climate Variations and 18th Conf on Hydrology; Room 609/610) |
| | Organizers: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
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| 8:30 AM | J3.1 | The contribution of land-atmosphere interaction to boreal summer season predictability
Paul A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and M. Zhao and J. Shukla |
| 8:45 AM | J3.2 | Alternative approaches to land initialization for seasonal precipitation and temperature forecasts
Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Suarez, P. Liu, and U. Jambor |
| 9:00 AM | J3.3 | Impact of land-surface initial conditions spin-up on warm season predictability by the NCEP GFS coupled with the Noah LSM  
Cheng-Hsuan Lu, RSIS Inc. McLean, VA and EMC and NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell |
| 9:15 AM | J3.4 | Role of land surface processes in monsoon development—EAST ASIA AND WEST AFRICA
Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and H. -. M. Juang, W. -. P. Li, S. Prince, R. DeFries, and Y. Jiao |
| 9:30 AM | J3.5 | A stratified diagnosis of the Indian monsoon—Eurasian snow cover relationship
J. Fasullo, PAOS, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO |
| 9:45 AM | | Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing
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| 11:00 AM | J3.6 | A soil moisture initialization method, based on antecedent precipitation approach, for Regional Atmospheric Modeling System: a sensitivity study on precipitation and temperature
Massimiliano Pasqui, Institute of Biometeorology - National Research Council (IBIMET-CNR), Florence, Italy; and C. J. Tremback, F. Meneguzzo, G. Giuliani, and B. Gozzini |
| 11:15 AM | J3.7 | The Mesoscale Impact of Oklahoma's Winter Wheat Belt
Renee A. McPherson, OCS/University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and D. J. Stensrud and K. C. Crawford |
| 11:30 AM | J3.8 | Contrasting land surface processes over basins of the Americas using Eta model forecasts
Ernesto Hugo Berbery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD; and Y. Luo, K. Mitchell, and A. K. Betts |
| 11:45 AM | J3.9 | Why are the lower level cumulus clouds often better organized on the east bank of the Tapajos River? -- a mechanistic study
Lixin Lu, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and S. A. Denning, M. Silva Dias, and P. Silva Dias |
| 12:00 PM | J3.10 | GLACE: An intercomparison of land-atmosphere coupling strength across a range of atmospheric general circulation models
Zhichang Guo, COLA, Calverton, MD; and P. Dirmeyer and R. D. Koster |