Call for Papers
Land Cover/Land Use Change Session
Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting
7-11 March 2006
Chicago, Illinois
Abstract Submission Deadline: Tuesday, 11 October 2005
For further information and to register, please go to:
http://www.aag.org/
Local to regional land surface processes related to land cover/land use
change represent an important first-order forcing of climate
variability. Changes in land cover due to urbanization, agriculture, and
engineering projects have important consequences for vegetation, soil
moisture, sensible and latent heat fluxes, air temperature,
precipitation, atmospheric circulation, the distribution of frozen
ground (in high latitude/altitude regions), etc. In areas where rapid
and extensive alterations to the land surface have occurred - such as
China, parts of North America and Europe, high-latitude areas, as well
as many other regions - the analogous land surface processes can have
widespread climatic and environmental consequences. This special session
will therefore focus on the contribution of surface processes related to
land cover/land use change on climate variability at a variety of
spatial scales: local, regional, and potentially hemispheric and global.
To participate in this session, please register for the meeting and
submit your abstract online at the AAG website (http://www.aag.org/).
Then, please e-mail your abstract along with your Presenter
Identification Number to one/both of the conveners (below) by Tuesday,
11 October 2005. Feel free to e-mail prior to abstract submission if you
have questions about this session.
Conveners:
Oliver W. Frauenfeld
CIRES/National Snow and Ice Data Center
University of Colorado at Boulder
E-mail: oliverf [at] colorado.edu
Rezaul Mahmood
Department of Geography and Geology and Kentucky Climate Center
Western Kentucky University
E-mail: rezaul.mahmood [at] wku.edu
Sponsors: Climate Specialty Group, Cryosphere Specialty Group