Principal Investigators | Impact of Initialized Land Temperature and Snowpack on Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction (LS4P)

Dr. Yongkang Xue (PI)

Professor, Department of Geography; Professor, Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences at UCLA

Research Expertise: land surface modeling, land/atmosphere interactions, climate variability, regional climate downscaling, and remote sensing

Dr. William Parton

Professor, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory at Colorado State University

Research Expertise: Ecosystem Modeling, Trace Gas Modeling, Biogeochemistry, Atmosphere Biosphere Interactions Soil Carbon Dynamics, Nutrient cycling, Ecosystem Climatic Change, Agroecosystem Dynamics

Dr. Samuel Shen

Distinguished Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics at San Diego State University

Research Expertise: statistical climatology, climate data reconstruction, uncertainty quantification methods, climate signal analysis

Dr. Thomas Gillespie

Professor, Department of Geography at UCLA

Research Expertise: Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing, and Biogeography

Dr. Yu Gu

Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences; Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering at UCLA

Research Expertise: climate modeling and climate change, aerosol/pollution, cloud, and radiation and their interactions with atmosphere

Dr. Fernando De Sales

Assistant Researcher, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography at UCLA

Research Expertise: regional climate modeling, dynamic downscaling, land/atmosphere interactions, and forecast verification