GC33F:
Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia and Their Feedbacks to the Global Earth System II

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
Chairs:  Pavel Ya Groisman, UCAR at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States and Sergey Gulev, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, ., Sea Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Lab, Moscow, Russia
Primary Conveners:  Sergey Gulev, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, ., Sea Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Lab, Moscow, Russia
Co-conveners:  Sergey Gulev, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, ., Sea Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Lab, Moscow, Russia, Ranjeet John, University of Toledo, Landscape Ecology & Ecosystem Science, Dprt. of Environmental Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States and Erwan Monier, MIT, Center for Global Change Science, Cambridge, MA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Ranjeet John, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

1:40 PM
 
NEESPI Update, 1 min
1:41 PM
 
Assessing the Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Carbon Balance of the Terrestrial Biosphere in Response to Climate Change in 1911-2000
Jianlong Li1, Chengcheng Gang1, Yizhao Chen1, Jingming Chen2, Jiaguo Qi3, Inakwu Odeh4 and Pavel Ya Groisman5, (1)Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, (2)University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States, (4)University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, (5)UCAR at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
1:54 PM
 
The Influences of Land Surface Properties on Soil Thermal Regimes in the Low Arctic of Northwestern Siberia
Howard E Epstein1, Gerald V Frost Jr1,2, George V Matyshak3, Donald A Walker4 and Victoria M Meakem1, (1)University of Virginia Main Campus, Environmental Sciences, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (2)Alaska Biological Research, Inc., Fairbanks, AK, United States, (3)Lomonosov Moscow State University, Soil Science, Moscow, Russia, (4)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States
2:07 PM
 
Potential Influence of Climate-Induced Vegetation Shifts on Future Land Use and Associated Land Carbon Fluxes in Northern Eurasia
David W Kicklighter1, Yongxia Cai2, Qianlai Zhuang3, Elena I. Parfenova4, Sergey Paltsev5, Andrei P Sokolov5, Jerry M Melillo1, John M Reilly5, Nadezhda M Tchebakova4 and Xiaoliang Lu1, (1)MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)Research Triangle Institute, Social, Statistical, and Environmental Sciences, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (3)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (4)V.N.Sukachev Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, (5)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Cambridge, MA, United States
2:20 PM
 
Simulations of Forest Structure and Biomass across Russia for Biomass Estimation under a Changing Climate.
Herman Henry Shugart Jr, University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States and Jacquelyn K Shuman, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, United States
2:33 PM
 
Bottom-up assessment of the Net Ecosystem Carbon Balance of Russian forests in 2010 for comparison to Top-down estimates.
Shamil S Maksyutov1, Anatoly Shvidenko2 and Dmitry Shchepashchenko2, (1)National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan, (2)IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
2:46 PM
 
Divergences of Two Coupled Human and Natural Systems on the Mongolian Plateau
Jiquan Chen, Michigan State University, Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States
2:59 PM
 
Early Career Scientist Presentations
3:09 PM
 
Assessment of Model Estimates of Land-Atmosphere CO2 Exchange Across Northern Eurasia
Michael A Rawlins, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, Anthony David McGuire, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Institute of Arctic Biology, Fairbanks, AK, United States, John S Kimball, The University of Montana, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Polson, MT, United States and Pawlok Dass, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Geosciences, Amherst, MA, United States
3:22 PM
 
Changes of paddy rice planting areas in Northeastern Asia from 1986 to 2014 based on Landsat data
Jinwei Dong1, Xiangming Xiao2, Weili Kou2, Yuanwei Qin1, Jie Wang2, Geli Zhang2, Cui Jin2, Yuting Zhou1, Michael A Menarguez3 and Berrien Moore III2, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, United States