2012 WG Meeting Presentations | LMWG Welcome and Introduction Dave Lawrence, NCAR-CGD First results from coupled IAM - ESM (iESM): Influence of model coupling through land use and land cover change Peter Thornton Greenhouse gas policies influence climate via direct effects of land use change Andrew Jones Assessing climate impacts of linked econometric-based land-use projections Adam Schlosser A physically based runoff routing model for land surface and earth system models Hongyi Li On the application of CLM-VIC at multiple scales Maoyi Huang A proposed model development strategy to incorporate 3-D subsurface hydrologic and thermal processes in CLM Gautam Bisht A quasi three-dimensional variably saturated groundwater flow model for climate modeling Zhenghui Xie CLM-related model evaluations and improvements at the University of Arizona Paul Shao Investigation of the effect of realistic land surface initialization on intra‐seasonal to seasonal climate predictability in a changing climate Sanjiv Kumar Investigating the Biogeophysical impacts of land cover change in CLM4 Peter Lawrence