CCE banner
 
Funded Research

Advancing Our Understanding of the Earth System Through Coupled Carbon-Climate Modeling and Observations

Moore III, Berrien: University of Oklahoma (Project Lead)
Frolking, Steve: University of New Hampshire (Institution Lead)

Project Funding: 2007 - 2010

NRA: 2006 NASA: Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science   

Funded by NASA

Abstract:
Accurate predictions of the future of the Earth system rely upon our ability to simulate the many complex interactions between ecosystems, the hydrosphere, and the atmosphere. These simulations must also account for changes in forcing related to human and natural perturbations. This proposal is focused on the continued development and application of the Earth System Model at GFDL. The new land component of this model has been developed through a collaboration between NOAA GFDL and NASA with previous IDS support (NRA-03-OES-03) and is based on an integrated set of submodels developed at NOAA/GFDL, Princeton, and the University of New Hampshire. It consists of a new dynamic global vegetation model that is able to simulate ecosystem dynamics and exchanges of water, energy, and CO2 and other gases with the atmosphere, accounting for the effects of climate variability, atmosphere, and land-use changes. The model includes state-of-the-art tracking of secondary (recovering) lands that have resulted from prior land-use and logging activities-- now 10-44 million km2 worldwide and the dominant net carbon sink in at least some regions. This proposal will build on this collaboration and specifically address Subelement 4: Coupled Carbon-Climate Modeling of the Interdisciplinary Research in Earth Science Program as part of NASA ROSES 2006. Our project will focus on model development and global model validation using NASA remote sensing. We will address research Goals 1-5 of the of U.S. Climate Change Science Program’s Strategic Plan, and NASA Earth science questions: How does the carbon cycle respond to and affect global environmental change? How can predictions of climate variability and change be improved?

2011 NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop Poster(s)

  • Minimizing the Impact of Thin Clouds on CO2 Measurements from an Intensity-Modulated Continuous-Wave Laser Absorption Spectrometer   --   (Fenton Wallace Harrison, Jeremy Todd Dobler, Bing Lin, Douglas McGregor, Edward V. Browell, Susan Kooi)   [abstract]   [poster]

2010 NASA Terrestrial Ecology Science Team Meeting Poster(s)

  • Harmonization of Global Land-Use Scenarios for the Period 1500-2100 for the 5th IPCC Assessment   --   (Louise Parsons Chini, George Hurtt, Steve Frolking, Richard Betts, Johannes Feddema, Gunther Fischer, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Kathy Hibbard, Anthony Janetos, Chris Jones, Georg Kindermann, Tsuguki Kinoshita, Keywan Riahi, Elena Shevliakova, Steve Smith, Elke Stehfest, Allison Thomson, Peter Thornton, Detlef van Vuuren, Yingping Wang)   [abstract]
  • Projecting the past and future impacts of hurricanes on the carbon balance of eastern U.S. forests (1851-2100)   --   (Justin P Fisk, George C Hurtt, Jeffrey Q Chambers, Hongcheng Zeng)   [abstract]

2008 NASA Carbon Cycle & Ecosystems Joint Science Workshop Posters

  • Canopy Nitrogen, Carbon Assimilation and Surface Reflectance features in U.S. Forest Ecosystems   --   (Scott V Ollinger, David Y Hollinger, Mary E Martin, Andrew D Richardson, Steve E Frolking, Lucie C Plourde, Peter B Reich)   [abstract]
  • MODIS-based mapping of cropping intensity, crop calendar, irrigation and paddy rice agriculture   --   (Xiangming Xiao, Chandrashekhar M Biradar, Christina Czarnecki, Gopala Mulukutla, Michael Routhier, Justin Fisk, Berrien Moore)   [abstract]
  • Global Irrigation Water Demand: Variability and Uncertainties Arising from Agricultural and Climate Data Sets   --   (Dominik Wisser, Steve Frolking, Ellen Douglas, Balazs Fekete, Charles Vorosmarty, Andreas Schumann)   [abstract]   [poster]
  • Airborne In Situ CO2 Measurements Used in Validation of Remote Sensing Measurements   --   (Stephanie A. Vay, Edward V. Browell, Yonghoon Choi, Fenton W. Harrison)   [abstract]   [poster]
  • Global Land-Use Harmonization 1500-2300   --   (George Hurtt, Louise Parsons Chini, Steve Frolking, Kees Klein Goldewijk, Elke Stehfest, Detlef van Vuuren, Elena Shevliakova)   [abstract]   [poster]
  • Comparison of dynamic vegetation model and satellite remote sensing derived terrestrial primary productivity   --   (Justin Fisk, George Hurtt, Elena Shevliakova, Sergey Malyshev)   [abstract]

More details may be found in the following project profile(s):