[ESIP-all] Spring 2008 AGU: Understanding and Predicting Water and Energy Cycle Changes

[Paul R. Houser]

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We cordially solicit your contribution to the AGU 2008 Joint Assembly
special session:

	U3: Understanding and Predicting Water and Energy Cycle Changes

The Spring AGU 2008 Joint Assembly to be held on 26-30 May at Ft.
Lauderdale, FL.  A special session has been scheduled on understanding and
predicting water and energy cycle changes in the face of a changing climate.
Abstracts are DUE MARCH 5th.

U03: Understanding and Predicting Water and Energy Cycle Changes 
	
http://www.agu.org/meetings/ja08/?content=search&show=detail&sessid=78

Description: This session is focused on understanding and predicting water
and energy cycle changes in the face of a changing climate. This includes
improved physical understanding of water and energy cycle variability and
its interactions with other climate system components, identification of the
key uncertainties in water and energy cycle predictions, and evaluations of
the consequences of water and energy cycle change. Our economic, political
and social systems are being greatly affected by alterations in the global
water and energy cycle, particularly regional precipitation shifts and
extreme hydrologic events, such as floods and droughts. The water and energy
cycle is driven by a multiplicity of complex processes and interactions at
all time and space scales, many of which are inadequately understood and
poorly represented in model predictions. Improving water and energy cycle
process understanding, model prediction and societal consequences requires
inter-disciplinary integration of many traditional disciplines, including
atmospheric, terrestrial and ocean scientists, observationalists, modelers
and stakeholders, and weather, climate and geologic researchers. We
therefore solicit contributions for this session that integrate across these
inter-disciplinary topics to provide insight to the problem of understanding
and predicting water and energy cycle changes. 
 
ABSTRACTS DUE MARCH 5

Conveners:  

Paul R Houser
	GMU/CREW; 4041 Powder Mill Rd. #302; Calverton, MD, USA  20705
	301-613-3782; phouser at gmu.edu

Robert Schiffer
	UMBC; 5523 Research Park Dr. Suite 320; Baltimore, MD, USA  21250
	410-455-8010; schiffer at umbc.edu

Jared K Entin
	NASA; 300 E Street, SW; Washington, DC, USA  20546
	202-358-0275; jentin at hq.nasa.gov

C. Adam Schlosser
	MIT;  E40-413; 1 Amherst St.; Cambridge, MA, USA  01239
	617-253-3983; casch at mit.edu