Chairs: Alan V Di Vittorio1, Michael Joseph Puma2, Andrew D Jones1 and Yoshihide Wada3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States(2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States(3)Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Primary Convener: Alan V Di Vittorio, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States
Co-conveners: Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Andrew D Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States and Yoshihide Wada, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
OSPA Liaison: Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States
Mechanisms Linking Land Use and Regional Climate Changes in West Africa (Invited) (2791)
Guiling Wang1, Kazi F Ahmed1, Miao Yu2, Zhenming JI3 and Jeremy S Pal4, (1)University of Connecticut, Groton, CT, United States, (2)University of Connecticut, Storrs, United States, (3)Loyola Marymount University, Department of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (4)Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Hydrological Consequences of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Amazon Agricultural Frontier (Invited) (4853)
Michael Thomas Coe1, Marcia Macedo1, Divino Vicente Silvério2, Prajjwal K Panday3 and Paulo M Brando4, (1)Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, (2)Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia (UFRA), Departamento de Biologia, Capitão Poço, PA, Brazil, (3)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (4)Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States
Future Deforestation in the Amazon and Consequences for South American Climate (Invited) (3463)
Abigail L. S. Swann, University of Washington, Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science and Department of Biology, Seattle, United States, Marcos Longo, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Ryan G Knox, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, Eunjee Lee, Universities Space Research Association, Greenbeltt, United States and Paul R Moorcroft, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Impact of Forests on Local Temperature Based on Satellite Observations (8888)
Yan Li1, Maosheng Zhao2, Safa Motesharrei3, Qiaozhen Mu4, Eugenia Kalnay5 and Shuangcheng Li1, (1)Peking University, Beijing, China, (2)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland College Park, Institute for Physical Science and Technology, College Park, MD, United States, (4)Univ of Montana-NTSG, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States
Advancing Our Understanding of the Impacts of Historic and Projected Land Use in the Earth System: The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) (Invited) (6613)
David M Lawrence, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, United States, George C Hurtt, University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD, United States, Victor Brovkin, MPI for Meteorology, Department of the Land in the Earth System, Hamburg, Germany, Katherine V Calvin, Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, Nathalie De Noblet-Decoudre, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Paris, France, Chris Jones, Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom, Julia Pongratz, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, Sonia I Seneviratne, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Elena Shevliakova, NOAA / Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
