Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study, iLEAPS
Tuesday, 11 December 2007

iLEAPS is the land-atmosphere core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). The scientific goal of iLEAPS is to provide understanding how interacting physical, chemical and biological processes transport and transform energy and matter through the land-atmosphere interface. iLEAPS encourages international and crossdisciplinary collaboration, particularly involving scientists from the developing countries.

 
Call for abstracts for EGU2010 with several iLEAPS sessions
Monday, 16 November 2009

Deadline for abstract submission for the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2010 (EGU2010), 2-7 May 2010 in Vienna, Austria, is 18 Jan 2010.

There are in total 12 interesting  iLEAPS  co-sponsored sessions. Eight of the sessions belong to series of sessions called Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions (BAI). iLEAPS will organize a BAI dinner (with 2-3 prominent speakers giving perspective to the sessions) especially for the early career scientists at EGU venue, night before the BAI sessions start.

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Review article on aerosol effects in Nature
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
In the beginning of October 2009 a review article on Untangling aerosol effects on clouds and precipitation in a buffered system was published in Nature (Vol 461, Issue 7264 , p. 607) by Bjorn Stevens and Graham Feingold. The paper is linked to the Aerosol, Clouds, Precipitation, Climate (ACPC ) program initiated by iLEAPS, IGAC and GEWEX .
 
iLEAPS Newsletter issue 7 available
Sunday, 04 May 2008

The latest iLEAPS Newsletter issue 7, June 2009, a special issue on integrated land-ecosystem-atmosphere  processes and climate dynamics guest edited by Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré, is now available.
The electronic version of the Newsletter is available at iLEAPS www-site under Products. Please contact the iLEAPS IPO for a paper copy. 

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First results from LUCID project published
Monday, 10 August 2009

First results from Land-Use and Climate, IDentification of robust impacts (LUCID) project model intercomparison study published in GRL. More information at News. Information about LUCID project can be found under Science and Projects.