[RegCNET] Regional-Scale Forcing of Climate at AGU

[Allison Steiner]

Dear RegCNETers:

We invite you to contribute to the following session at the upcoming  
AGU Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 2008 in San Francisco.  Please note  
the abstract submission deadline of 10 September at 23:59 UTC.

GC13: 	Regional-Scale Forcing of Climate  (co-sponsored by  
Atmospheric Sciences)

Considerable effort has been devoted towards understanding and  
quantifying global climate forcings, including orbital variations,  
greenhouse gases, aerosols, and ice-albedo feedbacks. However, these  
studies often lack the fine-scale spatial and temporal detail needed  
to quantify the forcings that drive local and regional climate  
variability and change. Past research indicates that fine-scale  
processes such as land cover change and aerosol-cloud interactions  
can influence the surface energy balance, convective clouds, and  
precipitation, yet significant uncertainties in these regional  
forcings still exist. Short-lived atmospheric constituents also  
likely alter the local and regional scale climate, yet these are  
largely unexplored or poorly constrained. In this session, we will  
investigate regional climate forcings and feedbacks, including but  
not limited to: short-lived greenhouse gases and atmospheric  
aerosols, land cover change, biogeochemical feedbacks, and local and  
synoptic meteorological forcings. We encourage submissions that focus  
on regional forcings using measurement and/or modeling techniques.

Conveners:
Noah Diffenbaugh, Purdue University
Athanasios Nenes, Georgia Institute of Technology
Allison Steiner, University of Michigan




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Allison Steiner
Assistant Professor
Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences
University of Michigan
2517E Space Research Building
2455 Hayward Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2143
phone:	734.764.5150
alsteiner at umich.edu
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