TY - JOUR
T1 - The Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership
T2 - An example of science applied to societal needs
AU - Groisman, Pavel Ya
AU - Clark, Elizabeth A.
AU - Kattsov, Vladimir M.
AU - Lettenmaierb, Dennis P.
AU - Sokolik, Irina N.
AU - Aizen, Vladimir B.
AU - Cartus, Oliver
AU - Chen, Jiquan
AU - Conard, Susan
AU - Katzenberger, John
AU - Krankina, Olga
AU - Kukkonen, Jaakko
AU - Machida, Toshinobu
AU - Maksutov, Shamil
AU - Ojima, Dennis
AU - Qi, Jianguo
AU - Romanovsky, Vladimir E.
AU - Sanotoro, Maurizio
AU - Schmullius, Christiane C.
AU - Shiklomanov, Alexander I.
AU - Shimoyama, Kou
AU - Shugart, Herman H.
AU - Shuman, Jacquelyn K.
AU - Sofiev, Mikhail A.
AU - Sukhinin, Anatoly I.
AU - Vörösmarty, Charles
AU - Walker, Donald
AU - Wood, Eric F.
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Northern Eurasia, the largest land-mass in the northern extratropics, accounts for ∼20% of the global land area. However, little is known about how the biogeochemical cycles, energy and water cycles, and human activities specific to this carbon-rich, cold region interact with global climate. A major concern is that changes in the distribution of land-based life, as well as its interactions with the environment, may lead to a self-reinforcing cycle of accelerated regional and global warming. With this as its motivation, the Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) was formed in 2004 to better understand and quantify feedbacks between northern Eurasian and global climates. The first group of NEESPI projects has mostly focused on assembling regional databases, organizing improved environmental monitoring of the region, and studying individual environmental processes. That was a starting point to addressing emerging challenges in the region related to rapidly and simultaneously changing climate, environmental, and societal systems. More recently, the NEESPI research focus has been moving toward integrative studies, including the development of modeling capabilities to project the future state of climate, environment, and societies in the NEESPI domain. This effort will require a high level of integration of observation programs, process studies, and modeling across disciplines.
AB - Northern Eurasia, the largest land-mass in the northern extratropics, accounts for ∼20% of the global land area. However, little is known about how the biogeochemical cycles, energy and water cycles, and human activities specific to this carbon-rich, cold region interact with global climate. A major concern is that changes in the distribution of land-based life, as well as its interactions with the environment, may lead to a self-reinforcing cycle of accelerated regional and global warming. With this as its motivation, the Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) was formed in 2004 to better understand and quantify feedbacks between northern Eurasian and global climates. The first group of NEESPI projects has mostly focused on assembling regional databases, organizing improved environmental monitoring of the region, and studying individual environmental processes. That was a starting point to addressing emerging challenges in the region related to rapidly and simultaneously changing climate, environmental, and societal systems. More recently, the NEESPI research focus has been moving toward integrative studies, including the development of modeling capabilities to project the future state of climate, environment, and societies in the NEESPI domain. This effort will require a high level of integration of observation programs, process studies, and modeling across disciplines.
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U2 - 10.1175/2008BAMS2556.1
DO - 10.1175/2008BAMS2556.1
M3 - Article
SN - 0003-0007
VL - 90
SP - 671
EP - 688
JO - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
JF - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
IS - 5
ER -