92nd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting (January 22-26, 2012)

Joint Session 13 Land Surface-Atmosphere Interactions II

Wednesday, 25 January 2012: 10:30 AM-12:00 PM
Room 352 (New Orleans Convention Center )
Hosts: (Joint between the 26th Conference on Hydrology; and the 24th Conference on Climate Variability and Change )
Cochairs:  Yongkang Xue, University of California and Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC
Papers:
  10:30 AM
A Probabilistic Bulk Model of Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Pierre Gentine, Columbia University, New York, NY; and A. K. Betts, B. R. Lintner, K. Findell, and F. D'Andrea
  10:45 AM
Diagnosing the Nature of Land-Atmosphere Coupling: A Case Study of Dry/Wet Extremes in the SGP
Joseph A. Santanello Jr., NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and S. Kumar, C. Peters-Lidard, and A. D. Kennedy
  11:00 AM
  11:15 AM
External Climate Forcings and Vegetation Interannual and Decadal Variability in West Africa
Yongkang Xue, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; and G. song and P. M. Cox

  11:30 AM
Role of Vegetation Dynamics in Precipitation Variability in the Amazon Region
Guiling Wang, Univerisity of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; and S. Sun and R. Mei
  11:45 AM
On the Dynamics of the July 2010 Pakistan Precipitation Events and the Central Role of Land Surface–Atmosphere Interactions
Olivia Martius, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; and M. Graf, H. Joos, E. Madonna, B. Mueller, S. Pfahl, J. Sedlacek, S. Schemm, H. Sodemann, M. Sprenger, A. Winschall, and H. Wernli