Joint Session 5
	Land-Atmosphere Interactions: Coupled Model Development, Data Assimilation, Predictability, and Process Studies (Joint with 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and 20th Conference on Hydrology)
	Cochairs: Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA
		J5.1	Noah LSM surface layer formulations used in the operational mesoscale NAM (WRF-NMM) model   M. Ek, NOAA/NWS/NCEP, Suitland, MD; and K. Mitchell and G. Gayno
	1:45 PM	J5.2	Influence of land surface parametrizations on climate simulations at high latitudes   Diana L. Verseghy, MSC, Toronto, ON, Canada; and P. A. Bartlett
	2:00 PM	J5.3	Testing a coupled biophysical/dynamic vegetation model (SSiB-4/TRIFFID) in different climate zones using satellite-derived and ground-measured data   Yongkang Xue, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA; and H. Deng and P. M. Cox
	2:15 PM	J5.4	Recent results from the 12km North American land data assimilation system (NLDASE) project   Brian A. Cosgrove, NASA/GSFC and SAIC, Greenbelt, MD; and C. J. Alonge
		J5.5	Impact of the new Noah Land Surface Model on the NCEP Climate Forecast System (CFS)   Helin Wei, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and C. Lu, K. E. Mitchell, and C. -. J. Meng
	2:30 PM	J5.5A	Using GLDAS/LIS to derive global land climatology for the NOAA Climate Test Bed   Jesse Meng, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Camp Springs, MD; and K. Mitchell and H. Wei
	2:45 PM		Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
	3:15 PM	J5.6	PILPS semi-arid experiment: preliminary results   Luis A. Bastidas, Utah State Univ., Logan, UT; and E. Rosero and B. Nijssen
	3:30 PM	J5.7	(INVITED) Examination of the Bouchet-Morton complementarity relationship throughout a period of increasing irrigation   Guido Salvucci, Boston University, Boston, MA; and M. Ozdogan
	3:45 PM	J5.8	Using observed spatial correlation structures of rainfall and temperature to improve the skill of subseasonal forecasts relying on land surface moisture initialization   Randal D. Koster, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD; and M. J. Suarez
	4:00 PM	J5.9	(INVITED) Do Global Models Properly Represent the Feedback Between Land and Atmosphere?   P. A. Dirmeyer, COLA, Calverton, MD; and Z. Guo and R. D. Koster
	4:15 PM	J5.10	Assessing the land-surface, boundary layer and cloud-field coupling in ERA-40   Alan K. Betts, Atmospheric Research, Pittsford, VT; and P. Viterbo
	4:30 PM	J5.11	Impact of fine-scale landscape and soil-moisture variability in the initiation of deep convection   Fei Chen, NCAR, Boulder, CO
	4:45 PM	J5.12	Influence of variations in low-level moisture and soil moisture on the organization of summer convective systems in the US Midwest   Jimmy O. Adegoke, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO; and S. Vezhapparambu, C. L. Castro, R. Pielke, and A. M. Carleton
	5:00 PM	J5.13	Evaluation of the impact of land surface heterogeneity representations on mesoscale fluxes   Sujay V. Kumar, Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County/GEST, Greenbelt, MD; and C. D. Peters-Lidard, J. Eastman, Y. Tian, and P. R. Houser

Tuesday, 31 January 2006: 1:45 PM-5:45 PM, A313

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