HR: 1340h
AN: A13B-0100    [Abstracts]
TI: A New Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI): Science Plan of Integrated Approach to Regional Climate and Environment Change Studies
AU: * Groisman, P Y
EM: Pasha.Groisman@noaa.gov
AF: UCAR/NCDC, National Climatic Data Center, Federal Building, 151 Patton Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801 United States
AU: Bartalev, S A
EM: : bartalev@d902.iki.rssi.ru
AF: Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science, 84/32 Profsoyuznaya str., Moscow, 117997 Russian Federation
AB: The Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) is an international large-scale, integrated, regional program of research focusing on the area of Northern Eurasia initiated by NASA and Russian Academy of Sciences. A brief introduction of the NEESPI Science Plan (SP) will be presented. While extensive and diverse, Northern Eurasia has common (and unique) features, the studying of which in a corroborated fashion under the NEESPI umbrella will produce synergetic effects. SP specifically addresses the reasons to look on the region as a "single" piece: transitional economies and land use (the legacy of the former USSR), geographical features (largest landmass in the extratropics mostly isolated from humid air masses), one of the world highest sensitivities to climatic and environmental changes with feedbacks of global concern and extensive and fluent transitional zones between ecosystems. The major NEESPI science question is: How do Northern Eurasia's terrestrial ecosystems dynamics interact with and alter the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the Earth? These dynamics have several facets: Biogeochemical Cycles, Surface Energy and Water Cycles, and Interactions with Human Society, each of which have to be studied in their interactions and complexity. Studying of Ecosystem-Climate Interactions mechanisms and Modeling component became a centerpiece of the SP. These studies can be conducted within a suite of models that are considered as a major instrument to assess our predictive capabilities of environmental changes and ecosystem sustainability in Northern Eurasia to support numerous applications and decision making. The creation of such a suite of models and providing it with an appropriate input data stream emerges as a focus of the Initiative. Remote sensing has an important role in the NEESPI science program, providing up to date and historical, spatially explicit information to inventory and quantify changes in the land surface and in the coastal zone for use in process and modeling studies. Social aspects of the NEESPI SP include the Education and land use components.
DE: 1823 Frozen ground
DE: 1615 Biogeochemical processes (4805)
DE: 1620 Climate dynamics (3309)
DE: 1655 Water cycles (1836)
SC: Atmospheric Sciences [A]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting