[CCSM-LandWG] Linking Land Use and Land Management to Models of the Earth System (AGU Fall 2008)

[Lisa Butler]

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Subject: 	Linking Land Use and Land Management to Models of the Earth 
System (AGU Fall 2008)
Date: 	Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:51:05 -0600
From: 	Samuel Levis <slevis at ucar.edu>
To: 	Lisa Butler <lbutler at ucar.edu>



Dear Colleagues,

Chris Kucharik and I encourage you to submit an abstract to our Fall AGU 
session. Feel free to share information about the session with 
colleagues who may consider it interesting. We apologize in advance for 
cross listings.


Session B29: Linking Land Use and Land Management to Models of the Earth 
System

Global climate modelers have developed progressively more complex 
representations of the land surface, hoping to improve the simulated 
biogeophysics (e.g., atmosphere-land-ocean energy-mass-momentum 
transfers) and biogeochemistry (e.g., carbon and nitrogen cycles, dust 
and biogenic emissions). With increasing complexity we begin to refer to 
such coupled systems as Earth System Models (ESMs). Groups developing 
ESMs cannot neglect the human footprint on the landscape in simulations 
of historical and future climates. Traditionally we have represented 
this footprint with a vegetation category mimicking crop behavior, 
sometimes even using grassland or savanna as a proxy for managed 
ecosystems. Most efforts have yet to incorporate more explicit 
representations of land management such as crop type, planting, 
harvesting, tillage, fertilization, and irrigation, particularly because 
global scale datasets of these factors have lagged behind vegetation 
mapping. This is beginning to change, so we increasingly look to models 
that will predict the biogeophysical and biogeochemical effects not only 
of natural but now also human-managed land cover. Along these lines, 
this session will address the following issues:
- Land use (e.g. crop) and land management (e.g. irrigation) model 
development for ESM applications
- Land use and land management datasets for ESM applications
- Land use and land management interactions with climate


The Fall AGU will be held Dec. 15-19, 2008, in San Francisco. Abstract 
submission information below.


Sam Levis, National Center for Atmospheric Research
Chris Kucharik, University of Wisconsin-Madison


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Subject: 	Deadlines are quickly approaching
Date: 	Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:38:04 -0400
From: 	AGU Fall Meeting <fm-help at agu.org>

	


To:  Conveners of Special Sessions

The deadline for submitting abstracts to the AGU Fall Meeting is 10 SEPTEMBER, 
2359 Universal Time. There will be NO exceptions. 
Detailed information about the cut-off time in your location, the First Author 
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Authors should apply for AGU membership by 31 August to ensure they are able 
to submit their abstract as a member before the deadline.

All authors, including invited and lecturers, must meet the 10 September deadline. 
Late submissions will NOT be accepted.

A final email notice with this information will be sent to the entire membership 
on 3 September.

Please share this message with your colleagues - SUBMIT NOW: http://submissions3.agu.org/submission/entrance.asp


Joanna Ward, CMP
AGU Meetings Manager



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Lisa Butler
Administrative Assistant
AIMES Program and Climate Analysis Section
Climate and Global Dynamics Division
National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Boulder, CO 80307, USA

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