Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to submit an abstract to the session: B11: Ecosystem Models, Data Assimilation and Flux Networks: Synthesis Efforts From Regional to Global Scales This session will be convened in December at the Fall Meeting of AGU sponsored by the Biogeosciences section. The deadline to submit an abstract is September 3, 2009. Description: Networks of flux towers have been collecting data on exchange processes between biosphere and atmosphere for multiple years across the globe. There is an increasing demand by the research community, policymakers and the general public to synthesize information from these databases to better understand status, mechanisms and trends of biogeophysical processes in the context of climate change. This session focuses on projects that synthesize information from multiple flux tower sites for data assimilation to interpret, train or validate ecosystem and climate models, or use statistical approaches to upscale and synthesize results at multiple temporal and spatial scales. We particularly seek contributions that make extensive use of flux tower data to improving our understanding of the mechanisms that drive biogeochemical processes under climate change. We ask the following general question: What can Flux Networks learn from the ecosystem modeling community and what can this community learn from Flux Networks? We look forward to your participation. Conveners: Mathias Goeckede Rodrigo Vargas Dennis Baldocchi __________________________________________________________ Rodrigo Vargas Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management (ESPM) 137 Mulford Hall (mail) 107 Hilgard Hall (office) University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 ph: 1-(510)-642-2421 Fax: 1-(510)-643-5098 http://nature.berkeley.edu/~rvargas
