Call for Papers
Interactions of Land Cover and Climate
European Geophysical Union General Assembly
13-18 April 2008
Vienna, Austria
Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, 14 January 2008
For further information, please go to:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/
Papers are invited for "Interactions of Land Cover and Climate" (session
BG2.1) to be convened at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly
on 13-18 April 2008, in Vienna, Austria.
Session description:
Land cover both responds to the climate and affects the climate, and
these interactions are a major focus of the International
Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) core project Integrated Land
Ecosystem Atmospheric Processes Study (iLEAPS). Changes in land cover
are now recognized as a factor that has contributed to changes in
climate on all scales from local to regional and even global. This
symposium invites papers on the full range of topics relating to the
interactions of changes in land cover and condition and climate,
including changes relating to deforestation, agriculture, and other
development; feedbacks relating to albedo, roughness, carbon storage and
fertilization, trace gas fluxes, and other biogeochemical cycles; and
impacts relating to ecosystem shifts, melting of permafrost, and water
resources and soil moisture.
Convener: Anni Reissell
Co-Conveners: Meinrat O. Andreae and Pavel Kabat
For further information and to submit an abstract, please go to:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2008/