Program Activities
In FY11, ISP conducted 3 ongoing research projects, each of which was initiated in FY10.
- The Integrated
Assessment Modeling (IAM)
project is focused on developing and applying integrated socio-economic
and biophysical models of the climate system.
- The NCAR
Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation (NVIA) project is focused on conducting
interdisciplinary basic research on social, economic, and political
activities related to climate at local, regional and global scales.
- The Weather Communication and Warning (WCW) project is focused on improving communication of weather, climate, and hydrological forecast information to the public and decision makers.
ISP initiated development of 2 new projects during FY11:
- Climate
Change and Marine Ecosystems
is focused on modeling, understanding and projecting the impacts of
climate change on marine ecosystems.
- Carbon Cycle Observations and Modeling is focused on comparison of carbon cycle observations to simulation results from Community Earth System Model (CESM) and other biogeochemical modeling systems.
ISP is also hosting the scientific support office for Analysis, Integration, and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES), which is one of the core projects of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP). AIMES is focused on achieving a deeper and more quantitative understanding of the role of human perturbations to the Earth's biogeochemical cycles and their interactions with the coupled physical climate system.