88th Annual Meeting (20-24 January 2008)

Joint Session 4: Land-Atmosphere Interactions, Part IV

Wednesday, 23 January 2008: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
224 (Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Chairs:  Yongkang Xue, University of California
Cochairs:  Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC
Papers:
  8:30 AM
Initialization of LSM in JMANHM
Daisuke Miura, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tokyo, Japan; and M. Oh'Izumi

  8:45 AM
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and links with Eurasian land-surface variability
Judah Cohen, AER, Lexington, MA; and M. Barlow, P. Kushner, and K. Saito

  9:00 AM
Summer Season Predictions with the NCEP Coupled Forecast System Using Different Land Models and Different Initial Land States
Rongqian Yang, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell, J. Meng, H. Wei, and G. Gayno

  9:15 AM
The Impact of using GLDAS/Noah initial land states on GFS Forecasts
Helin Wei, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell and J. Meng

  9:30 AM
Soil Moisture, Evaporation and Convection: Do better land surface initial conditions produce a better precipitation forecast?
Christa D. Peters-Lidard, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. J. Alonge, J. A. Santanello Jr., S. V. Kumar, J. L. Eastman, W. K. Tao, and J. J. Shi

  9:45 AM
Verification of NAEFS land-surface forecasts
Wanru Wu, NOAA/NWS/OHD, Silver Spring, MD; and K. Mo