Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to a session that we are organizing during the AGU Fall meeting in San Francisco from Dec 9-13, 2013 on observation and model requirements for understanding drivers of disturbance processes in Arctic and Boreal ecosystems as detailed below. We hope you will consider submitting an abstract to this session if it falls within your research domain. *Session B052: Observations and model requirements for understanding drivers of disturbance processes in Arctic and Boreal terrestrial ecosystems *
*Conveners:* Liza Jenkins, Michigan Tech Research Institute ([email protected]); Santonu Goswami, Oak Ridge National Lab ([email protected]); Nancy French, Michigan Tech Research Institute ([email protected]); Eric Kasischke, University of Maryland ([email protected]) *Description:* Current-generation Earth System Models do not well-represent key ecosystem processes in Arctic and Boreal ecosystems. A range of disturbance processes across the press (e.g. permafrost thaw) to pulse (e.g. fire, insects, and thermokarst) spectrum are causing widespread changes to ecosystem function in these ecosystems. Organizing existing and new data collections within a synthesis framework will facilitate incorporating these processes and their feedbacks in modeling applications and for understanding disturbance for land management. Our session invites papers involving observational, experimental, remote sensing and modeling studies characterizing these disturbance processes and their impacts on the key components of Arctic-Boreal system. Abstract submission is already open and the deadline is August 6, 2013. We hope to see you in San Francisco. Sincerely, Santonu ----------------------------------------------------------------- Santonu Goswami, PhD Climate Change Science Institute Environmental Sciences Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Ph. + 1 865 241 1296 Web: https://sites.google.com/site/santonu/ ------------------------------------------------------------------
