84th AMS Annual Meeting

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)

Tuesday, 13 January 2004: 8:30 AM-12:15 PM
Room 609/610
Organizers:  Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC and Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California
Papers:
  8:30 AM
  8:45 AM
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
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
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

  9:45 AM
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

http://www.lamma.rete.toscana.it

Poster PDF (809.9 kB)
  10:00 AM
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

Poster PDF (2.0 MB)
  10:15 AM
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

  10:30 AM
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

  11:00 AM
Coffee Break with Formal Poster Viewing