GC34A:
Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia and Their Feedbacks to the Global Earth System III

Wednesday, 17 December 2014: 4:00 PM-6:00 PM
Chairs:  Sergey Gulev, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, ., Sea Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Lab, Moscow, Russia and Erwan Monier, MIT, Center for Global Change Science, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Conveners:  Pavel Ya Groisman, UCAR at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States
Co-conveners:  Erwan Monier, MIT, Center for Global Change Science, Cambridge, MA, United States, Sergey Gulev, P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, RAS, ., Sea Atmosphere Interaction and Climate Lab, Moscow, Russia and Ranjeet John, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  Ranjeet John, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States; University of Toledo, Landscape Ecology & Ecosystem Science, Dprt. of Environmental Sciences, Toledo, OH, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

4:00 PM
 
Water Control on Vegetation Growth Pattern in Eurasia from GRACE
Geruo A1, Isabella Velicogna1,2, John S Kimball3 and Youngwook Kim3, (1)University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (2)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)The University of Montana, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Polson, MT, United States
4:15 PM
 
Impacts of Changing Climate and Land Cover on Water and Carbon Dynamics in Northern Eurasia
Yaling Liu1, Qianlai Zhuang1, David W Kicklighter2, Nadja Tchebakova3, Jiquan Chen4 and Jerry M Melillo2, (1)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (2)MBL, The Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (3)Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, (4)Michigan State University, Geography, East Lansing, MI, United States
4:30 PM
 
Prospects of the New Science and Outreach Network Baltic Earth with Results of the Second Climate Change Assessment for the Baltic Sea Region (BACC II)
Hans Von Storch1, Anders Tuve Omstedt2, Markus Meier3, Anna Rutgersson4 and Marcus Reckermann1, (1)Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research, Geesthacht, Germany, (2)University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, (3)Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping, Sweden, (4)Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
4:45 PM
 
Arctic Cities and Climate Change: A Geographic Impact Assessment
Nikolay I Shiklomanov and Dmitry A Streletskiy, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
5:00 PM
 
Trend and interannual variability of summer precipitation and the atmospheric water vapor convergence in the Arctic circumpolar region
Tetsuya Hiyama1, Hatsuki Fujinami1 and Kazuhiro Oshima2, (1)Nagoya University, Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya, Japan, (2)Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan
5:15 PM
 
Increasing precipitation intensity under a warming climate over Northern Eurasia
Hengchun Ye1, Eric J Fetzer2, Ali Behrangi2, Sun Wong2, Bjorn Lambrigtsen2, Crysti Y Wnag3, Judah Levi Cohen4 and Brandi Gamelin5, (1)California State University Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, United States, (4)Atmos and Environ Res Inc., Lexington, MA, United States, (5)University of California, Santa Barbra, Geography, Santa Barbra, CA, United States
5:30 PM
 
Change in streamflow across Eurasian pan-Arctic, contemporary trajectories and possible causes
Alexander I Shiklomanov, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States, Dmitry A Streletskiy, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, Pavel Ya Groisman, UCAR at NOAA/NCDC, Asheville, NC, United States and Richard B Lammers, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States
5:45 PM
 
Permafrost and Hydrology in the High Latitudes of Eurasia
Dmitry A Streletskiy, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States, Nikita Tananaev, Russian Academy of Sciences Siberian Branch, Melnikov Permafrost Institute Igarka Geocryology Laboratory, Igarka, Russia, Igor Tokarev, Saint-Petersburg State University, Research Center "Geomodel", Saint-Petersburg, Russia and Alexander I Shiklomanov, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States