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We encourage you to submit an abstract to GC039 of the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting, entitled "Improving the Simulation of Climate Impacts on Agriculture: AgMIP and Related Research".</div>
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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 representation of soils in crop simulations, interactions between agriculture and extreme hydrologic 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.
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<div class="">The 2016 AGU Fall Meeting is December 12-16, 2016 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco (<a href="https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/" class="">https://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/</a>), and the deadline to submit an abstract is August
3, 2016 at 23:59 EDT (<a href="https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start.html" class="">https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm16/preliminaryview.cgi/start.html</a>).<br class="">
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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.<br class="">
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Best,<br class="">
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Jonathan Winter (<a href="mailto:jwinter@dartmouth.edu" class="">jwinter@dartmouth.edu</a>)</div>
<div class="">Alex Ruane (<a href="mailto:alexander.c.ruane@nasa.gov" class="">alexander.c.ruane@nasa.gov</a>)</div>
<div class="">Roberto Valdivia (<a href="mailto:Roberto.Valdivia@oregonstate.edu" class="">Roberto.Valdivia@oregonstate.edu</a>)</div>
<div class="">Bruno Basso (<a href="mailto:basso@msu.edu" class="">basso@msu.edu</a>)</div>
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