GC13J:
The Effects of Anthropogenic Land-Use and Land-Cover Change on Local to Global Climate: Forcings and Feedbacks from the Past to the Future I Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 1:40 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Michael Joseph Puma1, Andrew D Jones2, Benjamin Cook3 and Alan V Di Vittorio2, (1)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States(2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States(3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
Primary Conveners:  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, Benjamin Cook, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States and Andrew D Jones, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Assessing Meso-Scale Equivalent Temperature in Kentucky
Keri Younger1,2, Rezaul Mahmood1,2, Gregory Goodrich1, Roger Pielke Sr.3 and Xingang Fan1, (1)Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, United States, (2)Kentucky Climate Center, Bowling Green, KY, United States, (3)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Land Use Change and Temperature Trends Over the Canadian Agricultural Regions
Lorna Raja Nayagam1, Raymond L Desjardins2, Devon L Worth2 and Darrel Cerkowniak2, (1)Self Employed,, Pathanamthitta, India, (2)Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Center, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
 
Climate Change Studies over Bangalore using Multi-source Remote Sensing Data and GIS
Shyla B1, Krushna Chandra Gouda2, Lakshmikantha B P1 and Nagaraj Bhat3, (1)Karnataka State Remote Sensing Applications center, Bangalore, India, (2)CSIR CENTRE FOR MATHEMATICAL MODELLING AND COMPUTER SIMULATION, CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT MODELLING, BANGALORE, India, (3)Shri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology and Management, Computer science & Engineering, UDUPI, India
 
Seasonally and diurnally different response of surface air temperature to historical urbanization in Sapporo, North Japan
Tomonori Sato1, Shiori Sugimoto2 and Tomonori Sasaki1, (1)Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (2)Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
 
Reconstruction of RegCM4-simulated Surface-layer Meteorology over a Megacity Using the Vegetated Urban Canopy Model
Sang-Hyun Lee and Myoung-Seok Suh, Kongju National University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Gongju, South Korea
 
Analyses of the Observed and Simulated Major Summer Climate Features of Northwestern China and Their Sensitivity to Land Surface Processes
Qian Li, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China and Yongkang Xue, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
 
Impacts of Land Cover Changes on Climate over China
Liang Chen, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, United States and Oliver W Frauenfeld, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States
 
Assessing Climatic Impacts due to Land Use Change over Southeast Asian Maritime Continent base on Mesoscale Model Simulations
Nan Feng, Sundar Anand Christopher and Udaysankar S Nair, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
 
Modeling and Satellite Remote Sensing of the Meteorological Effects of Irrigation during the 2012 Central Plains Drought
Clint Aegerter1, Jun Wang1, Cui Ge1, Amy L Kessner1, Ambrish Sharma1, Laura Judd1,2, Brian Wardlow1, Jinsheng You1, Martha Shulski1, Suat Irmak1 and Ayse Kilic1, (1)University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States, (2)University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
 
Simulated changes in precipitation intensity due to large-scale cropland irrigation in the Great Plains
Ross E Alter1, Ying Fan2, Benjamin R Lintner1 and Christopher P Weaver3, (1)Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick, NJ, United States, (2)Rutgers Univ, Piscataway, NJ, United States, (3)Executive Office of the President, Washington, DC, United States
 
Impacts of Irrigation on Surface Temperature and Precipitation Distributions in the United States
Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Benjamin Cook, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
 
Impact of potential large-scale and medium-scale irrigation on the West African Monsoon and its dependence on location of irrigated area
Elfatih A B Eltahir, MIT, Cambridge, MA, United States and Eun-Soon IM, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore, Singapore
 
Potential Impacts of Wintertime Agricultural Irrigation at Low Latitudes on Global Climate
Hao-wei Wey1, Min-Hui Lo1, Shih-Yu Lee2 and Jin-Yi Yu3, (1)National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, (2)Research Center for Environmental Changes Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, (3)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
 
Irrigation As an Historical Climate Forcing
Benjamin Cook1, Michael Joseph Puma2, Sonali Prabhat McDermid3 and Larissa Nazarenko1, (1)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Inst Space Stud, New York, NY, United States
 
Impacts of agricultural intensification on extreme temperatures in the US Midwest
Nathaniel D Mueller, Ethan E Butler, Noel M Holbrook and Peter J Huybers, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Current and Future Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Crop Intensification and Expansion
Kimberly M Carlson1, James S Gerber1, Nathaniel D Mueller2, Christine O'Connell1 and Paul C West1, (1)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (2)Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Brazilian Semiarid Region: Environmental, Climate and Social Constraints
Eraclito R Sousa Neto1, Jean Pierre Ometto1, Ana Paula Dutra Aguiar2 and Maria Vitoria Mata3, (1)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)INPE National Institute for Space Research, Earth System Science Center, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (3)Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil
 
Surface Roughness Variations control the Regional Atmospheric Response to Contemporary Deforestation in Rondônia, Brazil
Jaya Khanna1 and David Medvigy1,2, (1)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
 
Extratropical Respones to Amazon Deforestation
Andrew Badger and Paul Dirmeyer, George Mason University Fairfax, Fairfax, VA, United States
 
Increasing surface albedo in the dry subtropical forests of South America: the role of agriculture expansion and management
Javier Houspanossian1, Sylvain Kuppel2, Raul Gimenez1, Esteban G Jobbagy2 and Marcelo D Nosetto2, (1)CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina, (2)National University of San Luis, San Luis, Argentina
 
Persistent spread in seasonal albedo change radiative forcings linked to forest cover changes at northern latitudes
Ryan M. Bright1, Gunnar Myhre2, Rasmus A. Astrup3, Clara Antón-Fernández3 and Anders Hammer Strømman1, (1)Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Energy and Process Engineering, Industrial Ecology Program, Trondheim, Norway, (2)Center for International Climate and Environmental Research Oslo, Oslo, Norway, (3)Norwegian Forest and Landscape Institute, Ås, Norway
 
Regionally Differentiated Scenarios of Future Albedo Forcing from Anthropogenic Land Cover Change
Andrew D Jones1, Katherine V Calvin2, William Collins1 and James Edmonds3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
 
The Potential Radiative Forcing of Global Land Use and Land Cover Change Activities
Daniel S Ward, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States, Natalie M Mahowald, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States and Silvia Kloster, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
 
Sub-biome variability in the biophysical influence of forests on climate using the Community Earth System Model
Benjamin Ahlswede and R. Quinn Thomas, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
 
Investigating the biogeophysical impacts of land cover change on future climate
Xiaoying Shi1, Jiafu Mao2, Peter E Thornton1, Alan V Di Vittorio3, Ben P Bond-Lamberty4, John Truesdale5, Louise P Chini6, Allison M Thomson4, William Collins7, James Edmonds8 and George C Hurtt9, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Joint Global Change Research Institute, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, College Park, MD, United States, (5)Independent contractor with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (9)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
 
Quantifying the relative importance of climate-forced and land-use forced land cover changes in the representative concentration pathways
Taraka Davies-Barnard1, Paul J Valdes1, Joy Sargita Singarayer2, Andy Wiltshire3 and Chris Jones3, (1)University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom, (2)University of Reading, Reading, United Kingdom, (3)Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter, United Kingdom
 
Future changes in global terrestrial carbon cycle under RCP scenarios
Cheol Lee1, Kyung-On Boo1, Jinkyu Hong2, Hyunmin Seong3, Tae-kyung Heo1, Kyung-Hee Seol4, Nary La1, Sungbo Shim1 and Jong-ho Lee1, (1)National Institute of Meteorological Research, Seogwipo-si, South Korea, (2)Yonsei University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (3)Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, (4)KIAPS Korea Insititute of Atmospheric Prediction Systems, Seoul, South Korea