Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting an abstract to the following session at the AGU 2015 Fall meeting in San Francisco, CA (14-18 December 2015). The session focuses on the interplay between hydrology, vegetation, and climate in mountainous regions, and is geared to attract a variety of unique perspectives and exciting new research. The deadline for abstract submissions is 5 August 2015 at 11:59 P.M. EDT.
H103: The Hydrology-Vegetation-Climate Nexus: Identifying Process Interactions and Environmental Shifts in Mountain Catchments Session Description: The hydrology-vegetation-climate nexus in mountain environments presents an important indicator of global environmental change. However, observations in these regions remain limited and typically confined to non-vegetated areas. A need therefore exists to (1) improve knowledge of ecohydrological and hydroclimatological baseline conditions, (2) identify how perturbations in vegetation and climate processes interact with hydrology, (3) discriminate between short-term (e.g., multi-year) variability and long-term (e.g., multi-decadal) shifts, and (4) evaluate how vegetation, water and energy processes co-evolve to determine variability and system change. We invite contributions investigating the response of hydrologic fluxes (e.g., precipitation, evapotranspiration, streamflow) and storages (e.g., soil moisture, snowpack) to short- or long-term changes in vegetation (e.g., forest disturbances, land use change) and climate (e.g., change and natural variability, energy availability), and how hydrologic change consequently impacts local vegetation in mountainous catchments. We welcome studies that employ mechanistic modeling, field observations, and/or remote sensing at plot to catchment scales. Invited Speakers (confirmed) + Roger Bales (University of California, Merced) + Anne Kelly (USGS) + Lara Kueppers (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Submission Link: https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm15/preliminaryview.cgi/Session8586 Conveners: (1) Mark S Raleigh University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (2) Keith N Musselman University of Saskatchewan Thank you in advance for your consideration and for sharing this advertisement with any colleagues who might also be interested. Sincerely, Mark Raleigh and Keith Musselman
