Dear Colleague,
We are writing to call your attention to a special session at the AGU
Fall Meeting titles, “Integrated Understanding of Climate, Carbon,
Nutrient Cycles, Human Activities, and their Interactions in Terrestrial
Ecosystems”. This session will highlight the influence of global carbon,
water, and nutrient cycles in terrestrial ecosystems on future
atmospheric CO_2 concentrations, quantifying climate–carbon cycle and
human activity feedbacks, and benchmarking of Earth system models
(ESMs). Please consider submitting a contributed abstract to this
session from the AGU Fall Meeting website at
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/programs.html. The
deadline for abstract submissions is August 2, 2017.
Full details of the session are described here:
*B041: Integrated Understanding of Climate, Carbon, Nutrient Cycles,
Human Activities, and their Interactions in Terrestrial Ecosystems*
*Session ID#:* 24541
*Conveners:*/Forrest M. Hoffman (ORNL), Xiaojuan Yang (ORNL), Atul
K. Jain (U. Illinois), and Sasha Reed (USGS)/
Assessments of coupled climate–carbon cycle simulations indicate
that terrestrial carbon cycle feedbacks are highly uncertain and
could significantly alter the rate of atmospheric CO_2 increase and,
therefore, climate change over the next one hundred years. The
terrestrial carbon cycle is directly affected by increasing
atmospheric CO_2 levels and by climate change, and, further, is
altered indirectly by feedbacks from potentially limiting nutrients
(e.g., nitrogen and phosphorus). Changes in CO_2 concentration and
climate can affect the availability of these nutrients, and
anthropogenic disturbances—such as tropospheric ozone, nitrogen
deposition, and land cover and land use changes—also influence the
carbon cycle, nutrient cycles, climate change, and the strength of
their interactions. This session will focus on an integrated
understanding of carbon, nutrient cycles, climate change, human
activities, and their interactions and feedbacks to climate in
terrestrial ecosystems.
*Cross-Listed:*
GC - Global Environmental Change
*Index Terms:*
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
040 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1615 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
*Confirmed Invited Presenters:*
James T. Randerson (University of California Irvine)
L. Ruby Leung (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/Session24541
Please forward this message to others who may be interested in
participating in this session. We hope to see you in New Orleans in
December!
Thank you!
Forrest, Xiaojuan, Atul, and Sasha
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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
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