Agriculture and Climate Session at AGU Fall Meeting

[Jonathan M. Winter]

Dear Colleagues,

We encourage you to submit an abstract to GC042 of the 2017 AGU Fall Meeting, entitled "Improving the Simulation of Climate Impacts on Agriculture: AgMIP and Related Research".

Session Description:  Agricultural models simulate the effects of climate on crop yields, farm income, and trade, making them important tools for examining food security. This session will focus on research at the interface of climate, agriculture, and economics, including results from the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP). Topics of particular interest include the creation of climate and socioeconomic scenarios for agricultural projections, statistical and process-based methods of evaluating food production, the sensitivity of crops to carbon dioxide, water, temperature, and nitrogen, interactions between agriculture and extreme events, seasonal crop monitoring and forecasting, the use of agricultural and economic models to explore climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, and research that enables coordinated global and regional studies of climate impacts on agriculture for IPCC Assessment Reports and US National Climate Assessments.

The AGU Fall Meeting is December 11-15, 2017 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans (http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2017/), and the deadline to submit an abstract is August 2, 2017 at 23:59 EDT (https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm17/preliminaryview.cgi/programs.html).

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Best,

Jonathan Winter (jwi...@dartmouth.edu)

Bruno Basso (ba...@msu.edu)

Roberto Valdivia (Roberto....@oregonstate.edu)

Alex Ruane (alexande...@nasa.gov)