Spring Land Temperature in Tibetan Plateau and Global-Scale Summer Precipitation – Initialization and Improved Prediction --The GEWEX/LS4P Phase I Experiment

Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Geography, and department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Ismaila Diallo, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, Aaron Anthony Boone, CNRS, CNRM-Meteo-France, Paris Cedex 16, France, Tandong Yao, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, Yang Zhang, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Xubin Zeng, University of Arizona, Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences, Tucson, United States, J David Neelin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, William K-M Lau, University of Maryland, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States; Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College PARK, United States, Peter J van Oevelen, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States, Haraprasad Nayak, University of California, Los Angeles, los Angeles, United States, Daniel Klocke, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany and The GEWEX/LS4P Team