Dear Colleague,
We are writing to call your attention to a special session at the AGU
Fall Meeting titled, "New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for
Improving Predictions of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System
Models". This session will highlight the influence of global carbon and
nutrient cycles on future atmospheric CO_2 concentrations, quantifying
climate-carbon cycle feedbacks, and benchmarking of Earth System
Models. Please consider submitting a contributed abstract to this
session. The deadline for abstract submissions is August 6, 2013.
*B050. New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Improving
Predictions of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System Models*
/Co-conveners: Forrest Hoffman (ORNL), Atul Jain (U. Illinois), and
James Randers//on (UC-Irvine)/
*** Invited Speakers ***
* Markus Reichstein, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
* Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institute
* Colin Prentice, Macquarie University
* R. Quinn Thomas, Virginia Tech University
Predictions of future atmospheric CO_2 concentrations are influenced
by global carbon and nutrient cycles, climate interactions, and
feedbacks. Relevant processes operate at different spatial and
temporal scales, vary across marine and terrestrial ecosystems and
remain uncertain. Moreover, feedbacks may be altered by
anthropogenic disturbance agents, including tropospheric O_3 ,
acceleration of the N and H_2 O cycles, eutrophication, and land
cover/use changes. This session focuses on integrated understanding
of feedback mechanisms, structure and function of critical and
vulnerable ecosystems, human activities, and approaches for
evaluating and benchmarking Earth System Models.
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2013/scientific-program/session-search/sessions/b050-new-mechanisms-feedbacks-and-approaches-for-improving-predictions-of-the-global-carbon-cycle-in-earth-system-models-2/
Please feel free to forward this message to others who might be
interested in participating in this session. We hope to see you in San
Francisco in December!
Forrest, Atul, and Jim
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Forrest Hoffman [email protected]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory http://www.climatemodeling.org/~forrest
Computational Earth Sciences Group (865) 576-7680 voice
Building 2040, Room E249, MS 6301 (865) 574-9501 fax
P.O. Box 2008 Deliveries: One Bethel Valley Road
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