GC21C:
Global Environmental Change General Contributions Posters

Tuesday, 16 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Malcolm K Hughes, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, Rong Fu, Jackson School of Geosciences, Austin, TX, United States and Ali H Omar, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Figen Mekik, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, United States; American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, United States
Co-conveners:  Ali H Omar, NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States and Steven Andrew Lloyd, NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Columbia, MD, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Figen Mekik, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Carbon Management In the Post-Cap-and-Trade Carbon Economy-Part II
Forrest A DeGroff, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States
 
The Decrease of Snow Occurrence Under Future Warming over the Eastern United States
Liang Ning and Raymond S Bradley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
 
Interdecadal Changes in the Austral Winter Large-Scale Circulation
Ana Carolina Vasques Freitas1, Jorgen S Frederiksen2, Jennifer Whelan2, Terence O'Kane3 and Tercio Ambrizzi1, (1)USP University of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, (2)CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Aspendale, Aspendale, Australia, (3)CSIRO Hobart, Hobart, Australia
 
Using a Statistical Approach to Anticipate Leaf Wetness Duration Under Climate Change in France
Frédéric Huard1, Arnold-Fred Imig1 and Pierre Perrin2, (1)INRA - AgroClim, AVIGNON, France, (2)INRA - Agir, TOULOUSE, France
 
Assessing the Factors of Regional Growth Decline of Sugar Maple
Daniel A Bishop1,2, Colin M Beier2, Neil Pederson1, Gregory Brad Lawrence3, John C Stella2 and Timothy J Sullivan4, (1)Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Forest and Natural Resources Management, Syracuse, NY, United States, (3)USGS, Troy, NY, United States, (4)E&S Environmental Chemistry, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Projected Shifts in Köppen Climate Zones over China and Their Temporal Evolution in CMIP5 Multi-Model Simulations
Qigang Wu, Duo Chan, Guixiang Jiang and Xianglin Dai, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
 
Sensitivity of Ocean Chemistry and Oxygen Change to the Uncertainty in Climate Change
Long Cao, Shuangjing Wang, Meidi Zheng and Han Zhang, Department of Earth Sciences, ZheJiang University, Hangzhou, China
 
Relationship between SST Patterns and the Hadley circulation in CMIP5
Lijun Tao and Yongyun Hu, Peking University, Beijing, China
 
Changes in the global divergent overturning circulation, including the Hadley and Walker Circulations
Gilbert P Compo1,2 and Prashant D Sardeshmukh1,2, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Precipitation regime drives soil microbial responses to warming in temperate steppes
Weixing Liu1, Jianyang Xia2, Lingli Liu1 and Shiqiang Wan3, (1)IB Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (2)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (3)Henan University, Key State Laboratory of Cotton Biology, College of Life Sciences, Kaifeng, China
 
Thermal Response of Shallow Aquifers to Recent Climate Change
Kathrin Menberg1,2, Philipp Blum2, Barret L Kurylyk3 and Peter Bayer1, (1)ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences, Zurich, Switzerland, (2)Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute for Applied Geosciences, Karlsruhe, Germany, (3)University of New Brunswick, Department of Civil Engineering and Canadian Rivers Institute, Fredericton, NB, Canada
 
Evaluating the synchronicity in yield variations of staple crops at global scale
Masayuki Yokozawa, Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan
 
Primary productivity estimation in Liaodong Bay and Liaohe River Delta, China
Shaofeng Pei1, Siyuan Ye1 and Edward A. Laws2, (1)CGS China Geological Survey, Key Laboratory of Coastal Wetland Biogeosciences, Nanjing, China, (2)Louisiana State University, School of the Coast & Environment, Baton Rouge, LA, United States
 
Dispersal of Shallow-Water Benthic Foraminifera – a Key to Current and Potential Future Distribution Patterns
Anna E Weinmann and Susan T Goldstein, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
 
Shortwave heating response to water vapor as a significant source of uncertainty in global hydrological sensitivity in CMIP5 models
Anthony M DeAngelis1, Xin Qu1, Alexander D Hall1 and Stephen A Klein2, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Sources of spatial and intermodel variability in CMIP5 precipitation projections for the western and northwestern USA
David Earl Rupp1, John T Abatzoglou2 and Philip Mote1, (1)Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Department of Geography, Moscow, ID, United States
 
On Improving the Quality and Interpretation of Environmental Assessments using Statistical Analysis and Geographic Information Systems
Ramkumar Karuppiah, Alessandro Faldi, Ian Laurenzi, Adam Usadi and Aranya Venkatesh, ExxonMobil Annandale, Annandale, NJ, United States
 
Blackbird Creek Monitoring Program to Study the impact of Climate Change and Land Use
Gulnihal Ozbay, Latadevi Karuna Chintapenta, Kris P Roeske, Matthew Stone and Laurieann Phalen, Delaware State University, Dover, DE, United States
 
Effects of Extratropical Cyclone Frequency and Intensity on mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet
Jeff Auger1, Sean D Birkel1, Kirk Allen Maasch2 and Paul Andrew Mayewski3, (1)University of Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (2)Univ Maine, Orono, ME, United States, (3)University of Maine, Climate Change Institute, Orono, ME, United States
 
NDVI and Land Cover Change Analysis Using MODIS data in Tunisia
Damin Kim, Korea University, Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea
 
Evaluation of precipitation variability over northern South America based on CMIP5 historical model simulations
Sara Cristina Vieira, Juan Pablo Sierra and Paola Andrea Arias, Universidad de Antioquia, Escuela Ambiental, Grupo de Ingeniería y Gestión Ambiental (GIGA), Medellín, Colombia
 
Systems Science, Catastrophe Theory, and Sub-regional Climate Change: Two Case Studies
Gregory Vickrey, Squaw Valley Academy, Olympic Valley, CA, United States
 
Periodic Analysis Between Solar Variability and the Earth’s Temperature From Centuries to Ten Thousand Years
Xinhua Zhao and Xue Shang Feng, NSSC National Space Science Center, CAS, Beijing, China
 
Loss of Homeostatic Gas Exchange in Eastern Hemlock in Response to Pollution and Rising CO2?
Shelly A Rayback1, Mary H Gagen2, Andrea Lini1 and Charles V Cogbill3, (1)University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, (2)Swansea University, Geography, Cardiff, United Kingdom, (3)Harvard Forest, Forestry, Petersham, MA, United States
 
An Ekman Transport Mechanism for the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
Vaughan R Pratt, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States