CAREER: Expanding Earth System Modeling Through Research and Education: An Integrated Assessment of Interactions between the Ocean, Atmosphere, Carbon Cycle and Climate Change

职业：通过研究和教育扩展地球系统建模：海洋、大气、碳循环和气候变化之间相互作用的综合评估

• 批准号: 0238668
• 负责人: Atul Jain
• 金额: $ 49.22万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-01 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0238668&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Expanding; Earth; System; Modeling

This project addresses some broad issues in climate change uncertainties using a 2D Integrated Science Assessment Model (ISAM). In particular, the main objectives are to (1) strengthen parametric representation in the current ISAM framework, and (2) use the strengthened ISAM framework to evaluate the impact of key feedback processes within the climate system involving atmospheric CO2, global warming, the hydrological cycle, ocean circulation, the marine carbon cycle, and their contribution to spatial and temporal changes in ocean carbon uptake. A focus will be on the investigation of possible changes in the Thermohaline Circulation (THC) and its impact on ocean biology, on the distribution of temperature and tracers in the ocean, the evolution of the atmospheric CO2 concentration, and atmospheric temperature change.ISAM results will be compared with other 2-D and 3-D atmosphere-ocean general circulation models This research has the potential to increase knowledge and understanding of physical processes that influence the concentration levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This is turn is important for assessing the role of human-induced forcing on climate change, an important societal issue.

该项目使用二维综合科学评估模型（ISAM）解决了气候变化不确定性中的一些广泛问题。 具体而言，主要目标是（1）加强当前ISAM框架中的参数表示，以及（2）使用加强的ISAM框架来评估气候系统中关键反馈过程的影响，包括大气CO2，全球变暖，水文循环，海洋环流，海洋碳循环及其对海洋碳吸收时空变化的贡献。 重点将是调查温盐环流（THC）的可能变化及其对海洋生物的影响，海洋中温度和示踪剂的分布，大气CO2浓度的演变，ISAM的结果将与其他二维和三维大气进行比较，海洋环流模式这项研究有可能增加对影响大气中二氧化碳浓度水平的物理过程的知识和了解。这反过来对于评估人类引起的强迫对气候变化的作用非常重要，这是一个重要的社会问题。