Global Environmental Change



Accounting for Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Climate Models
Primary Convener:  Atul K Jain, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Xiaoming Xu, University of Illinois, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States and Peter Lawrence, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiaoming Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States


Adaptation pathways through leveraging the Water Energy Land Nexus in developing countries
Primary Convener:  Muhammad Awais, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Conveners:  Afreen Siddiqi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and Edward Byers, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Muhammad Awais, TU Dresden, Hydroscience and Engineering, Dresden, Germany


Addressing Global and Regional Sustainability Challenges with Satellite Data and Machine Learning
Primary Convener:  Minghao Qiu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Muye Ru, Columbia University of New York, The Earth Institute, New York City, NY, United States and Sebastian David Eastham, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Laboratory for Aviation and the Environment, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Minghao Qiu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States


Advancements, Gaps and Needs in Observing, Understanding and Modeling the High-Latitude Earth Systems
Primary Convener:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States
Conveners:  Milena Veneziani1, Hailong Wang2 and Wilbert Weijer1, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States(2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wieslaw Maslowski, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, United States


Advances in Climate Engineering Research
Primary Convener:  Ben Kravitz, Indiana University Bloomington, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States
Conveners:  Carla Natalia Gulizia, Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmósfera (CIMA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Helene Muri, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway and Lili Xia, Rutgers Univ, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ben Kravitz, Indiana University Bloomington, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States


Advances in Computational Methods for Geologic CO2 Sequestration
Primary Convener:  Bailian Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Jianchun Xu, China University of Petroleum (East China), Department of Petroleum Engineering, Qingdao, China and Wei Jia, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Bailian Chen, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos, NM, United States


Advances in monitoring and mitigation assessments of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and sinks for the land sector
Primary Convener:  Grant M Domke, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, St. Paul, MN, United States
Conveners:  Stephen M Ogle, Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Thomas Charles Wirth, Environmental Protection Agency Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States and John Stellar, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Grant M Domke, US Forest Service, Northern Research Station, St. Paul, MN, United States


Advances in the Application of Earth Observations to Characterize and Address Land Degradation and Associated Ecosystem Responses
Primary Convener:  Radost Stanimirova, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Conveners:  Eric Bullock, US Forest Service, Ogden, UT, United States, Paulo Arturo Arevalo, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States and Gabriel Antunes Daldegan, Conservation International, Arlington, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Radost Stanimirova, Boston University, Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States


Advances in the Use of Earth Observations for Mitigating Major Environmental Challenges in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean Islands
Primary Convener:  Kelsey E. Herndon, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Brian Zutta, SIG, Lima, Peru, Sylvia Wilson, United States Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States and Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kelsey E. Herndon, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States


Advances in Understanding Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover Change in a Changing Climate Using Earth System Records and Models
Primary Convener:  Chi Chen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Yue Li, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Jessica Charlotte Anne Baker, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom and Megan Devlan Fowler, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yue Li, University of California Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States


Advancing Agroecosystem Management in a Changing Climate from Bottom Up: the Hydrogeologist’s Perspective
Primary Convener:  Kathleen Bailey Boomer, Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Ying Fan, Rutgers University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Piscataway, NJ, United States, Holly A Michael, University of Delaware, Geological Sciences, Newark, DE, United States and Eric A Davidson, University of Maryland, Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kathleen Bailey Boomer, Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research, Washington, DC, United States


Advancing Global Imaging Spectroscopy and Thermal Infrared Measurements
Primary Convener:  David R Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Robert O Green, Kerry Cawse-Nicholson and Simon J Hook, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  David R Thompson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States


Advancing Research on the Hydro-climate of South America
Primary Convener:  Roy Rasmussen, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Research Applications Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Monica Ainhorn Ainhorn Morrison, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Philosophy, Bloomington, IN, United States and Maria Laura Bettolli, University of Buenos Aires, Department of Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Primary Liaison:  Maria Laura Bettolli, University of Buenos Aires, Department of Atmosphere and Ocean Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina


Advancing the Science of Natural Climate Solutions
Primary Convener:  Adam La Salle Moreno, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, United States
Conveners:  Alex Yiu, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, United States, Nadia Tase, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), Sacramento, United States and Kathryn Beheshti, California Ocean Protection Council, Sacramento, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adam La Salle Moreno, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA, United States


Agroecosystems and the climate crisis: Fostering resilience through adaptation and mitigation
Primary Convener:  Emile Elias, USDA Southwest Climate Hub, Las Cruces, NM, United States
Convener:  Julian J Reyes, USDA Climate Hub network, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Caitriana M Steele, New Mexico State Univ, Las Cruces, NM, United States


Applications of Earth Observations for Addressing Environmental and Development Challenges in Africa
Primary Convener:  Rebekke Muench, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Robinson M Mugo, Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development, Nairobi, Kenya, Sara Miller, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States and Bako Mamane, AGRHYMET Regional Center, Niamey, Niger
Primary Liaison:  Rebekke Muench, NASA DEVELOP National Program, Hampton, VA, United States


Assessing linkages between food systems and human health under climate change
Primary Convener:  Kyle Frankel Davis, University of Delaware, Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences; Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States
Conveners:  Carole Dalin, University College London, Institute for Sustainable Resources, The Bartlett School of Environment, Energy, and Resources, London, United Kingdom, Matti Kummu, Aalto University, Water and Development Research Group, Aalto, Finland, Landon Marston, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, IL, United States and Marta Tuninetti, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Kyle Frankel Davis, University of Delaware, Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences; Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States


Changes and impacts of climate variability in South America
Primary Convener:  Laia Andreu-Hayles, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Ernesto Tejedor Vargas, University at Albany State University of New York, Albany, NY, United States, Arturo Pacheco-Solana, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, United States and Valerie Daux, Université de Versailles Sant Quentin en Yvelines, Versailles, France
Primary Liaison:  Laia Andreu-Hayles, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, NY, United States


Changes in Vegetation Health and Urban Heat Islands in the Boston, Massachusetts Region: An Analysis of the Environmental Impacts of Energy Infrastructure Over the Past 20 Years and Into the Future
Primary Convener:  Lauren Allen-Orren, Johns Hopkins University, Saint Paul, MN, United States
Convener:  Rachel Isaacs, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lauren Allen-Orren, Johns Hopkins University, Saint Paul, MN, United States


Climat impacts & Adaptive capacity assessment in long-term pathways
Primary Convener:  Muhammad Awais, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Convener:  Muhammad Awais, TU Dresden, Hydroscience and Engineering, Dresden, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Muhammad Awais, TU Dresden, Hydroscience and Engineering, Dresden, Germany


Climate Intervention, Mitigation, Adaptation, and Restoration Solutions: Interdisciplinary Development and Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy
Primary Convener:  Peter Lawrence, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Monica Ainhorn Ainhorn Morrison, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Philosophy, Bloomington, IN, United States, Leslie A Field, Founder and CEO, Ice911 Research and Lecturer, Stanford University, Arctic Ice Project, and Stanford University, Redwood City, CA, United States and Simone Tilmes, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry, Observations, and Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter Lawrence, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States


Climate Litigation Relevant Research: Hazards, Impacts, and Attribution Science
Primary Convener:  L. Delta Merner, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States
Convener:  Emily L Williams, University of California Santa Barbara, Geography, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  L. Delta Merner, Union of Concerned Scientists Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States


Climate Risk Management for Human-Natural Systems
Primary Convener:  Amanda Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Eric Ross Anderson, NASA-SERVIR, Science Coordination Office, Huntsville, AL, United States, Reid Alan Sherman, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States and Shanna N. McClain, NASA Headquarters, Applied Sciences, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Amanda Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States


CMIP6 highlights and lessons learned
Primary Convener:  J F Lamarque, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Convener:  Vaishali Naik, NOAA GFDL, Princeton, NJ, United States
Primary Liaison:  J F Lamarque, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States


Co-Benefits and Tradeoffs from Combined Mitigation and Adaptation in Agriculture
Primary Convener:  Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Roberto O Valdivia, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Erik Mencos, Columbia University of New York, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, New York, NY, United States


Compounding Climate Extremes: Mechanisms, Diagnostics, and Current and Future Impacts
Primary Convener:  Colin Raymond, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Kai Kornhuber, Columbia University, Earth Institute/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, United States, Karin van der Wiel, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands and Deepti Singh, Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Colin Raymond, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States


Connecting Arctic Change with the North Atlantic Midlatitudes
Primary Convener:  Katharine Duderstadt, University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States
Conveners:  Kristin M Schild, University of Maine, Earth and Climate Sciences, Orono, ME, United States, Erich C Osterberg, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States and Jake Kritzer, Northeastern Regional Association of Coastal and Ocean Observing Systems, Rye, United States
Primary Liaison:  Katharine Duderstadt, University of New Hampshire, Earth Systems Research Center, Durham, NH, United States


Connecting Cause and Effect in Analyses of Coupled Human and Geophysical Systems
Primary Convener:  Marc Muller, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States
Conveners:  Morgan C Levy, University of California San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States and Megan Konar, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marc Muller, UC Berkeley, Albany, CA, United States


Coupled Climate-Agrohydrosystem Modeling to Support Sustainable Agricultural Production
Primary Convener:  Drew Gower, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Xin-Zhong Liang1, You Wu2, Ximing Cai3 and Megan Matthews3, (1)University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, College Park, MD, United States(2)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States(3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Drew Gower, University of Maryland College Park, Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, College Park, MD, United States


Data and modeling advances toward sustainable Food-Energy-Water development on a manageable scale
Primary Convener:  Chaoqun Lu, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States
Conveners:  Hanqin Tian1, Shufen Pan1 and Ruiqing Miao2, (1)Auburn University, International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States(2)Auburn University, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Auburn, AL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chaoqun Lu, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, United States


Deep Learning for Climate Science and Weather Prediction
Primary Convener:  Donald D Lucas, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  Brian L White, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States, Gemma Jayne Anderson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, Antonia Sebastian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Geological Sciences, Chapel Hill, NC, United States and Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Computer Science/Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Donald D Lucas, LLNL, Livermore, CA, United States


Detection and Attribution of Anthropogenic Climate Change and Extreme Weather and Climate Events
Primary Convener:  Huanping Huang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Mark Daniel Risser1, Michael F Wehner1 and Dáithí Stone2, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States(2)National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand
Primary Liaison:  Huanping Huang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States


Developments in reduced complexity modeling and Earth system model emulation
Primary Convener:  Abigail Snyder, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, MD, United States
Conveners:  Claudia Tebaldi, Climate Central, Princeton, NJ, United States and Kalyn Dorheim, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Abigail Snyder, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States


Drivers and Mechanisms of Terrestrial Water Cycle Changes at Global and Regional Scales
Primary Convener:  Sanjiv Kumar, Auburn University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States
Conveners:  Ashok Mishra, Associate Professor, Gelnn Department of Civil Engineering, Clemson, SC, United States and Min-Hui Lo, National Taiwan University, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan
Primary Liaison:  Sanjiv Kumar, Auburn University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States


Drought: Mechanisms and Impacts in the Past, Present and Future.
Primary Convener:  Isla Simpson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Andrew Hoell, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Justin S Mankin, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Department of Earth Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States and Rong Fu, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Isla Simpson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States


Emerging Agricultural Monitoring and Assessment Trends
Primary Convener:  Rick Mueller
Conveners:  Caitlin Kontgis, UW-Madison, Madison, WI, United States and Jessica L McCarty, Miami University Oxford, Oxford, OH, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jesslyn F Brown, USGS/EROS, Sioux Falls, SD, United States


Environmental changes and human migration: advances in modeling and analysis
Primary Convener:  Rachata Muneepeerakul, University of Florida, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
Conveners:  Michael Joseph Puma, Columbia University in the City of New York, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States and David Griffith, East Carolina University, Anthropology, Greenville, NC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Rachata Muneepeerakul, University of Florida, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States


Environmental Indicators to Track Global Trends in Sustainability
Primary Convener:  Martin Johann Johann Wolf, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States
Convener:  Daniel Esty, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, United States
Primary Liaison:  Martin Johann Johann Wolf, Yale University, School of the Environment, New Haven, CT, United States


Environmental Justice/Equity and Global Change- Methodologies, Frameworks, and Results
Primary Convener:  Elisabeth Freese, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
Convener:  Garima Raheja, Columbia University of New York, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elisabeth Freese, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States


Environmental, Socio-Economic and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia
Primary Convener:  Pavel Groisman, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States
Conveners:  Shamil S Maksyutov, NIES, Tsukuba, Japan and Dmitry A Streletskiy, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pavel Groisman, CISESS, Asheville, NC, United States


Exploring The Resilience Of Food-Energy-Water Nexus Infrastructures Through An Alliance Of Scientists And Stakeholders
Primary Convener:  Swarnali Sanyal, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Charles J. Vörösmarty, CUNY City College of New York, Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States, Seth Tuler, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Interdisciplinary and Global Studies Division, Worcester, MA, United States, Swarnali Sanyal, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States; University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States and Nicolas Maxfield, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center at The Graduate Center, Environmental Sciences Initiative, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Charles J. Vörösmarty, CUNY City College of New York, Civil Engineering, New York, NY, United States


Facilitating effective co-produced knowledge of cold region change
Primary Convener:  Yifan Cheng, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Nicole Michelle Herman-Mercer, USGS, Water Resources Mission Area, Lakewood, CO, United States, Andrew James Newman, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Keith N Musselman, University of Colorado, Boulder, Boulder, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yifan Cheng, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States


Fire Impacts on Watershed Hydrology, Biogeochemistry, and Biodiversity
Primary Convener:  Michelle E Newcomer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Andrew B Gray, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States and Rachel Meyer, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew B Gray, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States


Gender and Social Inclusion in Climate Research and Services
Primary Convener:  Emily Caitlin Adams, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Kathryn Grace, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, United States, Shrad Shukla, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United States and Georgia Hartman, US Agency for International Development, GenDev, Falls Church, United States
Primary Liaison:  Emily Caitlin Adams, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States


Global challenges for quantifying air pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions
Primary Convener:  Steven Smith, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Erin E. McDuffie, Washington University in St. Louis, Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, St. Louis, United States, Sagar Dilipbhai Rathod, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Brian C McDonald, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Steven Smith, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States


Global Environmental Change in Mountain Social-Ecological Systems
Primary Convener:  Gabrielle Therese Vance, Mountain Research Initiative, Bern, Switzerland
Convener:  Carolina Adler, Mountain Research Initiative, Bern, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Gabrielle Therese Vance, Mountain Research Initiative, Bern, Switzerland


IMBALANCE OF NATURE WORLDWIDE PROJECT results.
Primary Convener:  Vladimir A Kontar, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Convener:  Lyubov M Shlafman, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  Evgeny Egorov, Federal GEOS Funding, Phoenix, AZ, United States


Implications of climate change, extreme events, and adaptation potentials for global agriculture
Primary Convener:  Jonas Jägermeyr, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States; Columbia University of New York, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Christoph Müller, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, James A Franke, University Of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Center for Robust Decision-making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP), Chicago, IL, United States and Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonas Jägermeyr, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States


Improving the Nation’s Capacity to Understand and Respond to a Changing Coastline
Primary Convener:  Fred Lipschultz, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States
Conveners:  Gerald L Geernaert, Department of Energy, Washington, DC, United States and Austin Scheetz, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., United States
Primary Liaison:  Fred Lipschultz, US Global Change Research Program, Washington D.C., DC, United States


Improving the Simulation of Climate Impacts on Agriculture: AgMIP and Related Research
Primary Convener:  Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States
Conveners:  Alexander C Ruane, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Bruno Basso, Michigan State University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, East Lansing, MI, United States and Sonali Shukla McDermid, New York University, New York, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College, Department of Geography, Hanover, NH, United States


Integrated investigations of hydroclimate variability and extremes across multiple scales: processes and implications over complex terrains
Primary Convener:  Xiaodong Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change, Richland, WA, United States
Convener:  Xingying Huang, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiaodong Chen, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change, Richland, WA, United States


Leveraging Earth Observations for Mitigating Critical Environmental Challenges in South and Southeast Asia
Primary Convener:  Timothy Mayer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Amanda Weigel, SERVIR - NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States, Birendra Bajracharya, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, MENRIS, Kathmandu, Nepal and Peeranan Towashiraporn, Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, SERVIR-Mekong, Bangkok, Thailand
Primary Liaison:  Helen Blue Baldwin, NASA DEVELOP Program - SSAI, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, United States


Machine Learning approaches for Earth science applications in addressing environmental development challenges
Primary Convener:  Kel Nicolas Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Earth System Science Center, Huntsville, AL, United States
Conveners:  Timothy Mayer, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, United States, Nicholas Clinton, Google Inc., Mountain View, CA, United States and Zhuangfang Yi, Development Seed, Washington DC, DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Kel Nicolas Markert, University of Alabama in Huntsville, NASA-SERVIR, Huntsville, AL, United States


Managing well leakage risk: New insights for characterization, forecasting, and monitoring of wells to demonstrate integrity
Primary Convener:  Greg Lackey, National Energy Technology Laboratory Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Conveners:  Jaisree Iyer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Nicolas J Huerta, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Greg Lackey, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States


Mid-latitude air-sea interaction and inter-basin teleconnections under changing climate
Primary Convener:  Aixue Hu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Shoshiro Minobe, Hokkaido Univ-Grad. School Sci, Natural History Sciences, Sapporo, Japan and Bolan Gan, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
Primary Liaison:  Noel Keenlyside, University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre, Bergen, Norway


MultiSector Dynamics: Bridging systems modelling advances across socio-ecological domains
Primary Convener:  Megan Lickley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States
Conveners:  Amanda Giang, University of British Columbia, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, Vancouver, Canada, Morgan Edwards, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, United States and Sarah Fletcher, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Megan Lickley, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Cambridge, MA, United States


MultiSector Dynamics: Convergent Approaches for Environmental Change, Resilience, and Society in Urban Areas
Primary Convener:  Pouya Vahmani, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
Conveners:  Christa Brelsford1, Deeksha Rastogi1 and Andrew D Jones2, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States(2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Pouya Vahmani, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States


MultiSector Dynamics: Energy-Water-Land Interactions at Multiple Scales
Primary Convener:  Thomas Bernard Wild, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States
Conveners:  Zarrar Khan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park, MD, United States, Makoto Taniguchi, RIHN Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Japan and Adriano Vinca, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Thomas Bernard Wild, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States


MultiSector Dynamics: Extreme Weather and Society
Primary Convener:  Erwan Monier, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Deeksha Rastogi1, Erwan Monier2, Gabriele Messori3 and Maria Rusca3, (1)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States(2)University of California Davis, Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States(3)Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
Primary Liaison:  Deeksha Rastogi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


MultiSector Dynamics: Modeling Advances for Representing Adaptive Human Systems Response to Change
Primary Convener:  Jim Yoon, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Hydrology, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Patricia Romero-Lankao, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, United States, Christian J. A. Klassert, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany and Evelina Trutnevyte, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Primary Liaison:  Jim Yoon, Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States


MultiSector Dynamics: MultiSector Impacts of Energy Transitions
Primary Convener:  Stuart Michael Cohen, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States
Conveners:  Ana Dyreson, Michigan Technological University, Mechanical Engineering - Engineering Mechanics, Houghton, MI, United States, Jochen Markard, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland and Michael Craig, University of Michigan, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stuart Michael Cohen, National Renewable Energy Laboratory Golden, Golden, CO, United States


MultiSector Dynamics: Science & Modeling for Societal Transformations
Primary Convener:  Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
Conveners:  Jennifer F Morris, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Cambridge, MA, United States, Jan H. Kwakkel, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft, Netherlands and Enayat Moallemi, Deakin University, School of Life & Env. Sciences, Melbourne, Australia
Primary Liaison:  Patrick M Reed, Cornell University, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States


MultiSector Dynamics: Uncertainty Characterization for Coupled Natural-Human Systems
Primary Convener:  Vivek Srikrishnan, Cornell University, Biological & Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States
Conveners:  Jonathan Lamontagne, Tufts University, Medford, MA, United States, Riddhi Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Department of Civil Engineering, Mumbai, India and Stefano Galelli, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Pillar of Engineering Systems and Design, Singapore, Singapore
Primary Liaison:  Vivek Srikrishnan, Cornell University, Biological & Environmental Engineering, Ithaca, NY, United States


Net-Zero Emissions Energy Systems: Geophysical Opportunities, Constraints, and Consequences
Primary Convener:  Jacqueline A. Dowling, California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Ken Caldeira1,2, Candise Henry3, Brian Tarroja4 and Michael O Dioha1, (1)Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology, Stanford, CA, United States(2)Breakthrough Energy, Kirkland, CA, United States(3)RTI International, Durham, United States(4)University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jacqueline A. Dowling, California Institute of Technology, Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Pasadena, CA, United States


New Technologies and Platforms to Measure Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Operations – Methods, Data, and Insights
Primary Convener:  Stuart N Riddick, Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Jiayang Wang, Harrisburg University, Harrisburg, PA, United States, Younki Cho, The University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Civil Engineering, Arlington, United States and Daniel Zimmerle, Colorado State University, Energy Institute, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jiayang Wang, Harrisburg University, Harrisburg, PA, United States


Policy-relevant High-resolution Regional Earth System Modeling: Development, Evaluation and Application
Primary Convener:  Zong-Liang Yang, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Conveners:  Zhenzhong Zeng, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China and Hui Zheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Beijing, China
Primary Liaison:  Vasco Manuel Mantas, University of Coimbra, Portugal, Department of Earth Sciences, Coimbra, Portugal


Population at Risk at High Resolution
Primary Convener:  Nagendra Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Ronita Bardhan, University of Cambridge, Architecture, Cambridge, United Kingdom and Amy Rose, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Primary Liaison:  Nagendra Singh, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States


Prediction, Consequences, and Mitigation of the Near-Term Warming Rate of Upcoming Climate Change
Primary Convener:  Ilissa Ocko, Environmental Defense Fund DC, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Yangyang Xu, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Tianyi Sun, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Tianyi Sun, Environmental Defense Fund, Austin, TX, United States


Predictive Understanding of Compound and Cascading Extremes and their Impacts
Primary Convener:  Moetasim Ashfaq, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Conveners:  Vimal Mishra, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, 382, India and Subimal Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan R. Buzan, University of Bern, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, Bern, Switzerland


Process-Oriented Diagnostics for weather and climate models
Primary Convener:  Fiaz Ahmed, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Conveners:  Eric D Maloney, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, J David Neelin, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Allison A Wing, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
Primary Liaison:  Fiaz Ahmed, University of California Los Angeles, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States


PV+: Co-locating agriculture and renewable energy production (agrivoltaics) to bolster environmental sustainability, ecosystem services, and food, energy, and water security
Primary Convener:  Greg Barron-Gafford, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development & Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States
Conveners:  Jordan Macknick, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, United States, Kyle Proctor Sr, Oregon State University, Biological & Ecological Engineering, Corvallis, United States and Maggie Graham, Oregon State University, Biological & Ecological Engineering, Corvalis, OR, United States
Primary Liaison:  Greg Barron-Gafford, University of Arizona, School of Geography, Development & Environment, Tucson, AZ, United States


Quantifying Nutrient Budgets for sustainable nutrient management
Primary Convener:  Xin Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, MD, United States and luis lassaletta
Conveners:  Jill Baron, US Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Wilfried Winiwarter, IIASA International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria; University of Zielona Gora, The Institute of Environmental Engineering, Zielona Gora, Poland and luis lassaletta
Primary Liaison:  Luis Lassaletta, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, CEIGRAM/Agricultural Production, Madrid, Spain and luis lassaletta


Renewable Energy: Marine and Hydrokinetic
Primary Convener:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States
Conveners:  Vincent S Neary, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, TN, United States, Maria L Beninati, Bucknell University, Mechanical Engineering, Lewisburg, PA, United States and Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States


Renewable Energy: Solar and Integration
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States and Sue Ellen Haupt, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States


Renewable Energy: Wind
Primary Convener:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Scott C James, Baylor University, Geosciences and Mechanical Engineering, Waco, TX, United States and Sue Ellen Haupt, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States


Safe Landing Climates WCRP Lighthouse Activity: Avoiding Extreme Climate Risk
Primary Convener:  Steven C Sherwood, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Conveners:  Gabriele C Hegerl, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9, United Kingdom, Bette L Otto-Bliesner, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Benjamin M Sanderson, CERFACS, Toulouse, France and Victor Bovkin, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Kevin A Reed, Stony Brook University, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook, NY, United States


SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 & UN-SDGs: Earth Observations for assessing and predicting the impacts of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs).
Primary Convener:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University, GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Argyro Kavvada, NASA Headquarters, Booz Allen Hamilton, Washington, DC, United States and Danielle Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Media Arts and Sciences; Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University, GESTAR/MSU, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Social, Ecological and Infrastructure Consequences of Permafrost Degradation
Primary Convener:  Alexander L Kholodov, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  Vera Kuklina, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States and Susan Natali, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Alexander L Kholodov, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States


Sustainable agriculture and climate change: monitoring and modeling soil organic carbon dynamics and greenhouse gas emissions of agroecosystems
Primary Convener:  Bin Peng, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Zhenong Jin, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Saint Paul, MN, United States, Jinyun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States and Kaiyu Guan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jinyun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States


Sustainable Energy Transitions in the Developing World
Primary Convener:  Arvind P Ravikumar, Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, Harrisburg, PA, United States
Conveners:  Wei Peng, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States and Ranjit Deshmukh, University of California Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies Department, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Wei Peng, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, United States


Sustaining Scientific Assessment: Approaches to Inform Decision-Making
Primary Convener:  Joshua Hernandez, US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington D.C., DC, United States
Conveners:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead1, Christopher William Avery2 and Allyza Lustig2, (1)U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States(2)US Global Change Research Program, Contractor, Washington D.C., DC, United States
Primary Liaison:  Elizabeth C Weatherhead, U. Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States


The Flows of Energy Through the Climate System
Primary Convener:  Maria Zita Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States
Conveners:  Seiji Kato, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, United States, Lijing Cheng, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences, Beijing, China, Martin Wild Sr, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, Zürich, Switzerland and Karina von Schuckmann, Mercator Ocean, Toulouse, France
Primary Liaison:  Maria Zita Hakuba, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States


The global water cycle: coupling and exchanges between the ocean, land, and atmosphere
Primary Convener:  Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Livermore, CA, United States
Conveners:  John T Reager II, University California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, AER, Inc., Lexington, MA, United States and Francis H Lambert, University of Exeter, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Francis H Lambert, University of Exeter, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom


The known unknowns: Recent changes in nearshore bottom habitats of freshwater and marine systems
Primary Convener:  Sudeep Chandra, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States
Conveners:  Adrianne Smits, University of California Davis, Environmental Science and Policy, Davis, CA, United States, Simon D Stewart, Cawthorn Institute, Nelson, New Zealand and Jill Baron, US Geological Survey, John Wesley Powell Center for Analysis and Synthesis, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sudeep Chandra, University of Nevada Reno, Reno, NV, United States


Tropical land cover change: patterns, drivers and climate feedbacks
Primary Convener:  Zhenzhong Zeng, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China
Conveners:  Chunmiao Zheng1, Zong-Liang Yang2 and Dashan Wang1, (1)Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China(2)Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Chunmiao Zheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China


UNESCO IGCP732 Lessons in anthropogenic impact: a knowledge network of geological signals to unite and assess global evidence of the Anthropocene (LANGUAGE)
Primary Convener:  Michael Wagreich, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Conveners:  Catherine Russell, University of Leicester, Leicester, UNITED KINGDOM; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, United States and Veronika Koukal, University of Vienna, Department of Geology, Vienna, Austria
Primary Liaison:  Michael Wagreich, University of Vienna, Vienna, AUSTRIA


Urban Areas and Global Change
Primary Convener:  Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States
Conveners:  Galina Churkina, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, Germany, Burak Guneralp, Texas A & M University, Geography, College Station, TX, United States; Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and Tirthankar Chakraborty, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lei Zhao, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States


Advanced Methods for Systematic Evaluation and Improvement of Earth System Models
Primary Convener:  Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Andrew Gettelman, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Gregory Elsaesser, Columbia University/NASA GISS, Dept. of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, New York, NY, United States, Peter Martin Caldwell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States and Po-Lun Ma, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marcus van Lier-Walqui, Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research, New York, NY, United States


Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation: Observations, Data Processing, Weather and Water Model Applications
Primary Convener:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Conveners:  Robert Cifelli, NOAA/ESRL Physical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Fort Collins, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Haonan Chen, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Advances in remote sensing and modeling of vertical distributions of aerosols and clouds
Primary Convener:  Jun Wang, University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, & Center of Global and Regional and Environmental Research, & Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States
Conveners:  John E Yorks, SSAI/NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Valentina Aquila, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Zhien Wang, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jun Wang, the University of Iowa, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, & Center of Global and Regional and Environmental Research, & Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States


Aerosols, Clouds, Convection and Precipitation
Primary Convener:  Ali H Omar, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States and Meloë S. Kacenelenbogen, NASA Ames Research Center
Conveners:  Meloe S Kacenelenbogen, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, Gerald G Mace, Univ Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, Derek J Posselt, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Meloë S. Kacenelenbogen, NASA Ames Research Center
Primary Liaison:  Ali H Omar, NASA/Langley Research Ctr, Hampton, VA, United States and Meloë S. Kacenelenbogen, NASA Ames Research Center


Air pollution, greenhouse gases and emissions in Asia and its interactions with the world
Primary Convener:  Jintai Lin, Peking University, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Yu Zhao, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, Zhu Liu, Tsinghua University, Department of Earth System Science, Beijing, China, Zhifu Mi, University College London, Bartlett, London, United Kingdom and Mingxi Du, McGill University, Department of Geography, Montreal, QC, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Jintai Lin, Peking University, Beijing, China


Boundary Layer Clouds and Climate Change
Primary Convener:  David Painemal, SSAI /NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Conveners:  Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Armin Sorooshian, University of Arizona, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Tucson, AZ, United States
Primary Liaison:  David Painemal, Science Systems and Applications, Inc. Hampton, Hampton, VA, United States


Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence
Primary Convener:  Marco Giovanni Giometto, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States
Conveners:  Shane Mayor, California State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Chico, United States, Ying Pan, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States and Scott Salesky, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Marco Giovanni Giometto, Columbia University of New York, New York, NY, United States


Building Confidence in Future Projections of Regional Precipitation: Identifying Dynamic Sources of Certainty and Uncertainty
Primary Convener:  Samuel J Smith, Indiana University Bloomington, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States
Conveners:  Jian Lu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Tiffany Shaw, The University of Chicago, Department of Geophysical Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Samuel J Smith, Indiana University Bloomington, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States


Causes and Consequences of Polar Amplification
Primary Convener:  Lantao Sun, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, US
Conveners:  James Screen, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom, Yutian Wu, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States and Qinghua Ding, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lantao Sun, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States


Cirrus in the Tropical Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
Primary Convener:  Peter N Blossey, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States
Convener:  Elisabeth J Moyer, University of Chicago, Department of the Geophysical Sciences, Center for Robust Decision-making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP), Chicago, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Peter N Blossey, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States


Climate change and extreme winter weather: insights from the US cold wave of February 2021.
Primary Convener:  Judah Levi Cohen, Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States
Conveners:  Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist, Falmoth, MA, United States; Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmoth, United States, James Screen, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4, United Kingdom and Jason Furtado, University of Oklahoma, School of Meteorology, Norman, OK, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jennifer Francis, Senior Scientist, Falmoth, MA, United States; Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmoth, United States


Cloud observations and measurements from remote sensing instruments
Primary Convener:  Nofel Lagrosas, Graduate School and Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Conveners:  Tatsuo Shiina, Graduate School and Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan and Hiroaki Kuze, Center for Environmental Remote Sensing, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Primary Liaison:  Nofel Lagrosas, Graduate School and Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan


CMIP6 Climate Model Evaluation
Primary Convener:  Baijun Tian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners:  Shaocheng Xie, Lawrence Livermore Nat''l Lab, Livermore, CA, United States, Ming Zhao, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ, United States and Brian Medeiros, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Baijun Tian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


Constraining Greenhouse Gas Exchange Processes Using Remote Sensing and in Situ Observations
Primary Convener:  Abhishek Chatterjee, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, GMAO, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Conveners:  Andrew E Schuh, Colorado State University, CIRA, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Thomas Lauvaux, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, United States and Mathias Goeckede, MPI Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Primary Liaison:  Abhishek Chatterjee, USRA, Greenbelt, MD, United States


Dust in a changing climate: from small‐scale insights to large‐scale understanding
Primary Convener:  Chun Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China
Conveners:  Adeyemi Adebiyi, University of California – Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, Martina Klose, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Department Troposphere Research, Karlsruhe, Germany and Cassandra Gaston, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Adeyemi Adebiyi, University of California – Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States


Emissions and Air Quality in Africa
Primary Convener:  Claire Granier, Laboratoire d'Aerologie and CIRES/NOAA, Toulouse, France and Boulder, USA, France
Conveners:  Benjamin Gaubert, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States and Evelyne N'datchoh Toure, University Félix Houphouët-Boigny, UFR SSMT - LASMES, Abidjan, Côte D'ivoire
Primary Liaison:  Benjamin Gaubert, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States


Emissions of atmospheric pollutants from oil, gas, and coal operations
Primary Convener:  Scot M Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Joost A de Gouw, University of Colorado, CIRES and Department of Chemistry, Boulder, CO, United States, Sarah Jordaan, Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, Baltimore, MD, United States and Matthew Johnson, Carleton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Ottawa, Canada
Primary Liaison:  Scot M Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States


Extratropical and High-latitude Storm Tracks, Circulation Dynamics, and Extreme Events in the Context of Rapidly Changing Arctic and Antarctic Climate
Primary Convener:  Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States
Conveners:  Kent Moore, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and James E Overland, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Xiangdong Zhang, Univ Alaska, Fairbanks, AK, United States


Extreme Precipitation in Past, Present, and Future Climates
Primary Convener:  Markus Donat, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona, Spain
Conveners:  Erich M Fischer, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, Andreas F Prein, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Angie Pendergrass, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States
Primary Liaison:  Markus Donat, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia


Extreme weather and climate in urban areas, their social impacts, and mitigation
Primary Convener:  Quang Van Doan, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
Conveners:  Ashish Sharma, University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Fei Chen, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, United States and Donald J Wuebbles, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Quang Van Doan, University of Tsukuba, Center for Computational Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan


General Session: Atmospheric Dynamics & Climate
Primary Convener:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  James W Hurrell, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Cecilia M Bitz, University of Washington, Atmospheric Sciences, Seattle, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Geostationary and Polar-orbiting Satellite Constellation for Air Quality and Atmospheric Composition
Primary Convener:  Shobha Kondragunta, NOAA College Park, College Park, MD, United States and None
Conveners:  Diego G Loyola, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, Claus Zehner, European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy, James F Gleason, NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and None
Primary Liaison:  Diego G Loyola, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany and None


High Precision Wide Area Continuous Methane Monitoring
Primary Convener:  Juliano Grigoleto Hayashi, MIRICO, Didcot, United Kingdom
Conveners:  Catlin G Gunn, MIRICO, Didcot, United Kingdom, Arun Kannath, MIRICO, Oxford, United Kingdom and Damien Weidmann, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Space Science and Technology Department, Didcot, United Kingdom
Primary Liaison:  Juliano Grigoleto Hayashi, MIRICO, Didcot, United Kingdom


High resolution Earth system modeling on large supercomputers
Primary Convener:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Conveners:  Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, Malcolm J Roberts, Met Office Hadley center for Climate Change, Exeter, United Kingdom, Pier Luigi Vidale, University of Reading, Department of Meteorology and National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS), Reading, United Kingdom and Rein Haarsma, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, Netherlands
Primary Liaison:  L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Large Ensemble Climate Model Simulations as Tools for Exploring Natural Variability, Change Signals, and Impacts
Primary Convener:  Sebastian Milinski, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Conveners:  Nicola Maher, CIRES/ATOC CU Boulder, Boulder, United States, Raul R. Wood, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Geography, Munich, Germany and Yohei Takano, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Primary Liaison:  Sebastian Milinski, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany


Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer: Basic Research and Applications
Primary Convener:  Ping Yang, Texas A&M University College Station, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, College Station, TX, United States
Convener:  Lazaros Oreopoulos, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Ping Yang, Texas A&M Univ, College Station, TX, United States


Light-Absorbing Carbon Aerosol from Observations and Models
Primary Convener:  Chao Liu, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, School of Atmospheric Physics, Nanjing, China
Conveners:  Yuan Wang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Dantong Liu, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom and Joshua Peter Schwarz, NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL), Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yuan Wang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


Microphysical and Macrophysical Properties and Processes of Ice and Mixed-Phase Clouds: Linking in Situ, Remote Sensing Observations and Multiscale Models
Primary Convener:  Minghui Diao, San Jose State University, Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA, United States
Conveners:  Yu Gu, UCLA 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA, United States, Xiaohong Liu, Texas A&M University College Station, College Station, TX, United States and James R Campbell, Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Minghui Diao, San Jose State University, Meteorology and Climate Science, San Jose, CA, United States


Modeling Across Scales From Global to Convection-permitting: Weather, Climate, and Air Quality
Primary Convener:  Guangxing Lin, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Bryce E Harrop, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Chun Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China, School of Earth and Space Sciences, Hefei, China, Colin M. Zarzycki, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, University Park, PA, United States and Changhai Liu, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison:  Guangxing Lin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States


Observation and model studies of cloud properties and associated processes
Primary Convener:  Chuanfeng Zhao, Beijing Normal University, College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing, China
Conveners:  Jonathan H. Jiang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Xiquan Dong, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, United States and Kuan-Man Xu, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Jonathan H. Jiang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States


Planetary Boundary Layer Science-Focused Remote Sensing
Primary Convener:  Stephen Sylvain Leroy, Atmospheric and Environmental Research Lexington, Lexington, MA, United States
Conveners:  Chi O Ao, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Feiqin Xie, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, TX, United States
Primary Liaison:  Stephen Sylvain Leroy, Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA, United States


Regional climate: modeling, analysis, and impacts
Primary Convener:  Paul Aaron Ullrich, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Conveners:  Melissa S Bukovsky, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CISL&RAL/RISC, Boulder, CO, United States and L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Paul Aaron Ullrich, University of California Davis, Land, Air & Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States


Regional climatic responses to global warming of 1.5ºC
Primary Convener:  Xu Yue, NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China
Conveners:  Zhihong Jiang, NUIST, Nanjing, China, Zhengyu Liu, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States and Weidong Guo, Nanjing University, School of Atmospheric Sciences,Joint International Research Laboratory of Atmospheric and Earth System Sciences, Nanjing, China
Primary Liaison:  Yadong Lei, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China


Remote Sensing of CH4 and CO2 from Space: The Expanding Observing System
Primary Convener:  Scot M Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States
Conveners:  Chris O'Dell, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Vivienne Payne, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States and Jonathan E Franklin, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Scot M Miller, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States


Small Satellites as Pathfinders for New Mission Capabilities
Primary Convener:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States
Conveners:  Charles D Norton, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Pamela Millar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States and David M Klumpar, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, United States
Primary Liaison:  William H Swartz, Johns Hopkins Univ, Laurel, MD, United States


Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Prediction, Processes, and Services
Primary Convener:  Andrew William Robertson, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States
Conveners:  Arun Kumar, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States, Kathleen Pegion, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States and Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
Primary Liaison:  Andrew William Robertson, Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY, United States


The Dynamics of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation in Past, Present, and Future Climate: Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Stationary Waves, and Monsoons
Primary Convener:  Lei Wang, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Conveners:  Isla Simpson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Gang Chen, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Simona Bordoni, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Primary Liaison:  Lei Wang, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States


The past and future of fire
Primary Convener:  Yang Li, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States
Convener:  Pengfei Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Yang Li, Baylor University, Waco, TX, United States


Understanding Climate and Ozone Impacts From Anthropogenic and Natural Stratospheric Aerosol Emissions Through Observational and Modeling Studies
Primary Convener:  Christopher Maloney, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners:  Karen Hepler Rosenlof, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Pengfei Yu, Jinan University China, Institute for Environment and Climate Research, Guangzhou, China and Martin Ross, The Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Christopher Maloney, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States