We would like to encourage you to submit an abstract to Session ID# 1789 of the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco (December 15-19, 2014):  Characterizing, Understanding, and Modeling Climate Extremes.  The goal of this session is to discuss the capabilities and limitations of assessing extreme events using climate models and downscaling methods.

The session description is as follows: "Climate extremes produce high-impact damaging events, and changes in the frequency and severity of extremes are of great concern to the climate impacts community, practitioners, and stakeholders.  However, a variety of scientific issues emerge when monitoring, predicting, and evaluating the impacts of climate extremes.  This session will bring together scientists working on novel approaches and current questions related to the characterization, understanding, and modeling of climate extremes.  Welcomed contributions include, but are not limited to, the modeling of climate extremes, stakeholder use of climate extreme data, statistical and dynamical downscaling, assessing extremes in the tropics, bias correction methods, and the cascade of uncertainties in climate extreme predictions and impacts."

We look forward to a stimulating set of talks and discussion, and hope that you will consider participating.  Please note that the strict deadline for abstract submission is August 6, 2014 at 23:59 ET (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm14/webprogrampreliminary/start.html).