Primary Convener:
Yanlan Liu, Ohio State University Main Campus

Convener:
Dan Gianotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Flavio Lehner, Cornell University
Justin Mankin, Dartmouth College

Early Career Convener:
Xiangtao Xu, Cornell University

Chair:
Yanlan Liu, The Ohio State University
Justin Mankin, Dartmouth College
Flavio Lehner, Cornell University
Dan Gianotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Index Terms
0426 Biosphere|atmosphere interactions
0495 Water|energy interactions
1631 Land|atmosphere interactions
1813 Eco-hydrology

Suggested Itineraries:
Disasters‚ Calamities and Extreme Events
Climate Change and Global Policy

Neighborhoods:
3. Earth Covering

Cross-Listed:
H - Hydrology
GC - Global Environmental Change