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Session Proposal: Advances in Understanding Water-Energy-Carbon Interactions (AGU25)

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Advances in Understanding Water-Energy-Carbon Interactions

Session ID#: 251290

Session Description:
The responses of the terrestrial biosphere to global changes depend on the coupling of terrestrial water, energy, and carbon (W-E-C) cycles. The mechanisms coupling these cycles—such as changes in precipitation intermittency, humidity-soil moisture feedbacks, stomatal regulation, latent and sensible heat partitioning, changes in water- and light-use efficiency, and land-cover change—manifest across spatial-temporal scales, challenging our process understanding and identification of nature-based climate solutions through enhanced water resilience and carbon metabolism. Our session highlights recent advances in characterizing W-E-C coupling pathways, bridging fine-scale mechanistic processes to large-scale patterns, compiling multi-scale datasets, assessing the sensitivity of W-E-C coupling to future climates, discussing its impacts, and informing climate-smart land management practices. We welcome analysis of natural and managed landscapes from local to global scales, including observational and experimental analyses from ground-based and remotely-sensed approaches, theoretical analyses, characterization of extreme events and disturbance impacts on land-atmosphere interactions, and innovation in Earth System modeling.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
  • H - Hydrology
Index Terms:

0426 Biosphere/atmosphere interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0495 Water/energy interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1813 Eco-hydrology [HYDROLOGY]
Primary Convener:  Yanlan Liu, Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States
Conveners:  Justin S Mankin, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, United States, Dan Gianotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Flavio Lehner, Cornell University, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Ithaca, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Xiangtao Xu, Cornell University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, United States
 
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Jie Hsu, National Taiwan University, Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan, Jinsoo Kim, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Soon-Il An, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea and Min-Hui Lo, National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Understanding Soil Moisture Invariance to the Stomatal Response to CO2 (1865782)
Kaighin A Mccoll, Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States and Tara Gallagher, Harvard University, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
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Meng Zhao1, Geruo A2 and Dr. Lucas Emilio Hoeltgebaum1, (1)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, United States
 
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Jevan Yu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States and Charles Franklin Harvey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, United States
 
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Maoya Bassiouni, University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States, Linnia R Hawkins, Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States and Isla Simpson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD Laboratory, Boulder, United States
 
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Jiameng Xu1, Yuanchao Fan1, Kaighin A. McColl2, Alexis M Berg3, Yu Liang4 and Jian Yang5, (1)Tsinghua University, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen, China, (2)Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Cambridge, United States, (3)University of Montreal, Geography, Montreal, QC, Canada, (4)Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Management, Shenyang, China, (5)University of Kentucky, Forestry and Natural Resources, Lexington, United States
 
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Jianing Fang1, Youngryel Ryu2, Helin Zhang3, Sungchan Jeong3, Weiwei Zhan1, Xu Lian4, Yangmingkai Li5, Jisu Han1 and Pierre Gentine1,6, (1)Columbia University, Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States, (2)Seoul National University, Department of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Seoul National University, Research Institute of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul, South Korea, (4)Peking University, Institute of Carbon Neutrality, Sino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)Peking University, Beijing, China, (6)Columbia University, Center for Learning the Earth with Artificial intelligence and Physics (LEAP), New York, United States
 
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Nadav Bekin, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Be'er Sheva, Israel, Thi Thuc Nguyan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, The Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Beer Sheva, Israel, Dilia Kool, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, The Department of Environmental, Geoinformatics and Urban Planning Sciences, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Elad Levintal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Be'er Sheva, Israel and Nurit Agam, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
 
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Asif Mahmood, George Washington University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington, United States and Leila Farhadi, George Washington University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington, DC, United States
 
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Zexi Shen1, Julia K. Green2, Santiago Valencia1 and David JP Moore3, (1)University of Arizona, Department of Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, (3)University of Arizona, School of Natural Resources and the Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
 
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Shashank Kumar Anand1, Rodolfo Marcondes Silva Souza2, Achla Om Prakash Jha3, Allen Gerhard Hunt4 and Salvatore Calabrese1, (1)Texas A&M University, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, United States, (2)Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, United States, (3)Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, College Station, TX, United States, (4)Wright State University Main Campus, Dayton, United States
 
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Annabel Schreiber1, Arial J. Shogren2, Jacqueline Todd2, Nina Keck2, Mia Berwick3, Kieran Khamis3, Mark Ledger3, Alexander Huryn2, Jonathan Benstead4 and Wyatt Cross5, (1)University of Alabama, Department of Biological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (2)University of Alabama, Department of Biological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, United States, (3)University of Birmingham, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Birmingham, United Kingdom, (4)University of Alabama, Biological Sciences, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States, (5)Montana State University, Department of Ecology, Bozeman, United States
 
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Bella Kamplain1, Bharat Rastogi1, Peter Blanken1 and Jeffrey D Wood2, (1)University of Colorado Boulder, Geography, Boulder, United States, (2)University of Missouri, School of Natural Resources, Columbia, United States
 
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Mohammad Reza Alizadeh, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States, Dan Gianotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States, Jan F Adamowski, McGill University, Department of Bioresource Engineering, Montreal, QC, Canada, Alexandra G Konings, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States and Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cambridge, MA, United States
 
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