Workshop on Land Surface Modeling in Support of NWP and Sub-Seasonal Climate Prediction
		George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia
		Thursday 5 December
	Time	Title	Speaker
	12:00-1:00	Lunch @ Boxwoods Restaurant
Introduction and Project Background
	1:00	Welcoming remarks
	1:15	Scope of workshop	Paul Dirmeyer
	1:25	Development of Global NWP Model: KIAPS-GM	Emilia Kyung Jin
	1:55	Current status of land surface model in KIAPS-GM	Kyung Hee Seol
	2:15	Impacts of soil moisture initialization on operational global NWP model forecasts	Kyoungmi Cho
	2:35-3:00	Break & Group Picture
Scale interactions and mismatches between models of land and atmosphere
		Chairs: Christa Peters-Lidard, Gab Abramowitz; Rapporteur: Mike Barlage
	3:00	Calibration, compensating errors and data-based realism in land surface models	Gab Abramowitz
	3:25	Scaling the heterogeneously heated convective boundary layer - (animation)	Chiel van Heerwaarden
	3:50	Emergent Pathways of Predictability - The Diurnal Cycle and the Role of Landform and Landcover on the Organization of Moist Processes at Multiple Scales	Ana Barros
	4:15	Land Surface model Scaling issues over West Africa: Perspectives from the AMMA Land surface Model Inter-comparison Project (ALMIP)	Aaron Boone
	4:40	Multiscale land surface impacts on regional weather and climate	Dev Niyogi
	5:05	Adjourn
	5:15	Reception & Dinner
		Friday 6 December
	Time	Title	Speaker
	8:00-8:45	Continental Breakfast
Land surface memory and L-A feedbacks in the transition beyond NWP time scales
		Chairs: Siegfried Schubert, Guiling Wang; Rapporteur: Sanjiv Kumar
	9:00	Land-surface controls over evaporation variance	Randal Koster
	9:25	Representing natural land surface heterogeneity in Numerical Weather Prediction and Earth System models: benefits and limitations of current schemes in presence of large contrasts	Gianpaolo Balsamo
	9:50	Impact of soil moisture initialization on AMIP type simulations in JSBACH	Tobias Stacke
	10:15-10:30	Break
	10:30	Noah-MP: A New Paradigm for Land Surface Modeling	Zong-Liang Yang
	10:55	The impact of land surface on sub-seasonal atmospheric prediction and its variability	Zhichang Guo
	11:20	Discussion
	12:00-1:00	Lunch @ Boxwoods Restaurant
The coupled evolution of the diurnal cycle between land and ABL
		Chairs: Joe Santanello, Rich Neale; Rapporteur: Craig Ferguson
	1:15	Coupling of Diurnal Climate to Clouds, Land-use and Snow	Alan Betts
	1:40	Land-atmosphere interaction and cloud formation	Michael Ek
	2:05	Modelled contrast in the response of the surface energy balance to heatwaves for forest and grassland	Bart van den Hurk
	2:30	Stable boundary Layers and Diurnal Cycles - Challenges for Weather and Climate Models	Bert Holtslag
	2:55	Land-atmosphere interactions: from local to synoptic scale	Pierre Gentine
	3:20	When is the Land Surface Important for Triggering Convection?	Ahmed Tawfik
	3:45	Discussion and white-paper formulation
	5:00	Adjourn