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 from the AGU Fall Meeting website at
http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/abstract-submissions/. The deadline for
abstract submissions is August 3, 2016.
*New Mechanisms, Feedbacks, and Approaches for Improving Predictions
of the Global Carbon Cycle in Earth System Models*
*Session ID#:* 12575
*Conveners:* /Forrest M. Hoffman (ORNL), James T. Randerson (UC
Irvine), ///Atul K. Jain (U. Illinois), /and J. Keith Moore (UC Irvine)/
Predictions of future atmospheric CO_2 levels are influenced by
global carbon and nutrient cycles, climate interactions, and
feedbacks. Relevant processes operate at different spatial and
temporal scales and vary across terrestrial, coastal, and marine
ecosystems. Uncertain biogeochemical 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 change. This session focuses on integrated understanding
of feedback mechanisms, methods for evaluating and benchmarking
process representations in Earth system models, and approaches for
constraining future climate projections (e.g., emergent constraints).
*Confirmed Invited Presenters:*
Heather Graven (Imperial College, London, U.K.)
Charles D. Koven (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley,
California, USA)
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session12575
Please forward this message to others who may be interested in
participating in this session. We hope to see you in San Francisco in
December!
Forrest, Jim, Atul, and Keith
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Forrest M. Hoffman
Climate Change Science Institute
Computational Earth Sciences Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Building 4500N, Room F106, MS 6301
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6301
[email protected]
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