Global Analysis, Integration, and Modelling (GAIM)

该奖项为国际地圈生物圈计划（IGBP）全球分析、整合和建模工作组（GAIM）办公室的活动提供资金。GAIM的目标是利用数据和模型推进对地球系统耦合动力学的研究。GAIM办公室设在新罕布什尔州大学，面临的挑战是发起和促进各种活动，这些活动将导致快速开发和应用一套全球预测生物地球化学模型。GAIM今后三年活动的一个主要新重点将是提高科学界利用模型耦合和集成处理整个地球系统的能力。第一个挑战将是协调世界各地的研究小组开发地球系统中等复杂性模型（EMIC）。这些模型显示出很大的希望，突出关键的反馈和相互作用，控制地球系统的稳定性和敏感性人为扰动。接下来，将开发具有系统级集成的模型，将完全复杂的子系统模型集成到综合地球系统模型中。这些模型在空间、时间尺度和边界条件方面给研究人员带来了一系列不同的挑战。

This award funds the activities of the Global Analysis, Integration, and Modelling Task Force (GAIM) Office of the International Geosphere Biosphere Program (IGBP). The goal of GAIM is to advance the study of the coupled dynamics of the Earth system using data and models. The challenge of the GAIM office, housed at the University of New Hampshire, is to initiate and facilitate activities that will lead to the rapid development and application of a suite of Global Prognostic Biogeochemical Models. A major new focus for the next three years of GAIM activities will be to enhance the scientific community's capability to address the Earth system as a whole using model coupling and integration. The first challenge will be to coordinate the development of Earth-system Models of Intermediate Complexity (EMICs) by research groups throughout the world. These models show great promise for highlighting critical feedbacks and interactions that control the stability and sensitivity of the Earth system to anthropogenic perturbations. Next, models with system-level integration will be developed that integrate full-complexity subsystem models into Comprehensive Earth System models. Such models pose a different set of challenges to researchers in terms of space, time scale, and boundary conditions.