Dear Colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the following session to be held at the Fall 2014 AGU meeting:
Evaluating the impacts of land use and land cover change on local, regional, and global meteorology and climate Land use and land cover change are local phenomena with local to global climate impacts depending on the geographic extent of change. The most recent analyses of CMIP5 simulations indicate significant effects of land use change on regional climate variables, but the directions and magnitudes of these effects vary by model. This uncertainty indicates the need to incorporate a better understanding of land change effects on the atmosphere into coupled models, and this session will highlight the current knowledge state of land change-atmosphere interactions. We welcome modeling studies identifying key sensitivities and unknowns regarding the role of land use and land cover change in modulating land-atmosphere mass and energy exchange, and also observational studies that can inform these processes and constrain models. Such studies might examine how land change affects temperature or humidity at a variety of scales, depending on the extent of change and the degree of spatial heterogeneity. We welcome your paper submissions. Sincerely, Alan DiVittorio, Andrew Jones
