Session 1B |
| | Role of land cover in climate and climate change |
| | CoChair: Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
Chair: Thomas C. Peterson, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC
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| 10:45 AM | 1B.1 | Development of the Shrub Submodel for the Community Land Model-Dynamic Global Vegetation Model (CLM-DGVM) 
Xubin Zeng, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and X. Zeng and M. Barlage |
| 11:00 AM | 1B.2 | Climate, land use and urbanization: a case study in Xinjiang, China
Zhuoting Wu, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and H. Zhang, C. Krause, and N. Cobb |
| 11:15 AM | 1B.3 | Climate change, cities, and the urban heat island
Mark McCarthy, UK Met Office, Exeter, United Kingdom; and M. Best, R. Betts, and M. Hendry |
| 11:30 AM | 1B.4 | Impact of land cover change on climatic variables in Central America
Vani Starry Manoharan, Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL; and R. Welch, D. K. Ray, R. O. Lawton, T. L. Sever, D. Irwin, and R. Griffin |
| 11:45 AM | 1B.5 | Land use change and temperature trends 
Matthew J. Menne, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and T. C. Peterson |