[RegCNET] Regional Climate Modeling session at Fall AGU Meeting

[Raymond Arritt]

Dear RegCNET friends,

We encourage you to present your research in the special session A41 on "Regional 
Climate Modeling" to be held at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, 
5-9 December 2011 in San Francisco, California, USA.

The session description follows:


      A41: Regional Climate Modeling

*Conveners:*

*Lai-Yung (Ruby) Leung*, ruby.leung at pnl.gov <mailto:ruby.leung at pnl.gov>

*Raymond Arritt, *rwarritt at bruce.agron.iastate.edu 
<mailto:rwarritt at bruce.agron.iastate.edu>

*Description:*  This session will survey the current state of the art in regional 
climate modeling on seasonal to centennial time scales. The session will include new 
developments such as modeling earth system processes at the regional scale; human 
influences such as land use, aerosol effects, and greenhouse gas effects; process 
studies using regional climate models; ensemble methods and uncertainty analyses; 
and development and comparison of dynamical cores and physics parameterizations. 
Contributions also are solicited on topics such as regional downscaling of IPCC 
climate change scenarios, coordinated regional modeling projects (e.g., CORDEX, 
ENSEMBLES and NARCCAP among others), and applications of regional climate 
projections for economic, social, or policy considerations.

For instructions on abstract submission please see the AGU web page at 
http://sites.agu.org/fallmeeting/scientific-program/submit-policies/

The abstract deadline is *5 August 2011* at *03:59 UTC *(note this is the afternoon 
or evening of 4 August in the Western Hemisphere).  Please be  aware that *the AGU 
is very strict about deadlines* and they will not accept late abstracts under *any* 
circumstances!   We urge you to submit your abstract at least few days ahead of time 
as the AGU system sometimes becomes overloaded on the deadline date.

AGU has a limited amount of funds for U.S. and international students who are 
presenting a paper for the first time and have no other access to funds.  See their 
web page at http://www.agu.org/education/grants/travel.shtml for details.  To my 
knowledge travel support is not available for other attendees.  For persons from 
certain low and middle income countries the abstract submission fee is waived and 
the registration fee is either waived or reduced (depending on the country).  To 
find out if you qualify please see the list of countries at 
http://www.agu.org/meetings/fm09/registration/low-income-countries.php

Please let Ruby or me know if you have any questions.  We look forward to meeting 
you in San Francisco!

Regards,
Ray Arritt
(for the conveners)

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