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
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
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
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
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
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