Dear all,
This email is to encourage you to submit abstracts to a session *Representing Soil Carbon Dynamics in Global Land Models to Improve Future IPCC Assessments* at 2014 AGU Fall Meeting. A detailed description, conveners and invited speakers of this session are at the end of this email. Please submit your abstract before the deadline *August 6*, 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT. We look forward to your participation and appreciate your contributions to the topic. Thank you! Sincerely yours, Lifen Jiang On behalf of all conveners ************************** *Description: * A large amount of carbon is stored in terrestrial soils and dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) are a critical component determining future climate. However, most evaluations thus far indicate that global land models predict SOC poorly. Several approaches have recently been developed to improve behaviors of global land models in simulating SOC, for example, data assimilation with global observational datasets, developing of a vertically-resolved soil carbon model, and incorporating microbially driven processes and wetland processes into models. This session will feature results and new developments in various areas of soil carbon research, including global model development, benchmark analysis, data assimilation, database development, and observations for constraining or testing simulations. It is aimed at presentations of approaches that have the potential to be incorporated into global land models or bring new perspectives to reduce the uncertainty in soil carbon prediction and ultimately improve future IPCC assessments. *Conveners: * Lifen Jiang, University of Oklahoma Philippe Ciais, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement (LSCE), CEA CNRS UVSQ, France Yiqi Luo, University of Oklahoma *Invited speakers:* Charles Koven, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Katherine Todd-Brown, University of Oklahoma Margaret Torn, University of California, Berkeley Yaxing Wei, Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xiaofeng Xu Assistant Professor of Ecology Department of Biological Sciences University of Texas at El Paso Cell: 334-559-2437 E-mail: [email protected] https://sites.google.com/site/xiaofengxuwebpage/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
