International Project Office for the Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System

该项目将支持地球系统的分析、整合和建模，因为认识到了解地球系统需要采取跨学科的方法，将物理、化学和生物科学及其与社会和经济问题的相互作用结合起来。国际项目办公室将支持地球系统分析、综合和建模项目，以便：对人类扰动对地球化学循环的作用及其在改变过去、现在和未来的耦合物理气候系统方面的作用，实现更深入和更定量的科学理解;更好地描述和量化地球化学和气候系统之间的相互作用和反馈，人类活动和这些系统的决定的后果，以及全球环境变化对人类的影响。 IPO将支持AIMES的活动，包括改善人为痕量气体排放的预测，绘制过去人为环境变化的地图，以及整合气候和经济建模。 IPO还将协助AIMES涉及气候建模，生态学，水文学，经济学，人类学，农业和林业等广泛领域的专业知识，以产生新的知识，新一代跨学科科学家，最重要的是，更好地预测地球上的环境变化。IPO还将支持AIMES的努力：考虑制定新的战略，为政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）可能的第五次评估报告制定情景;与北方欧亚地球科学伙伴关系倡议合作，制定一项侧重于跨尺度整合的北方高纬度活动;开发应用地球系统建模的新重点，使全球变化研究议程与发展和政策界更直接相关;并支持AIMES参与全球排放清单活动（GEIA）。

The project will support analysis, integration and modeling of the Earth system based on the recognition that understanding the Earth system requires an interdisciplinary approach to bring together physical, chemical and biological sciences and their interaction with societal and economic issues as well. The International Project Office (IPO) will support the project on Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) to: achieve a deeper and more quantitative scientific understanding of the role of human perturbations to the biogeochemical cycles and their role in altering the coupled physical climate system, in the past, present and future; and better describe and quantify interactions and feedbacks between biogeochemical and climate systems, the consequences of human activities and decisions for these systems, and implications of global environmental changes for humanity. The IPO will support AIMES activities to include activities to improve predictions of human-caused trace gas emissions, map past human-caused environmental changes, and integrate climate and economic modeling. The IPO will also assist AIMES to involve expertise in such wide-ranging areas as climate modeling, ecology, hydrology, economics, anthropology, agriculture and forestry in order to generate new knowledge, a new breed of interdisciplinary scientists, and, most important, better predictions of environmental changes across the Earth. The IPO will also support AIMES efforts: to consider development of new strategies for developing scenarios for a possible Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); to collaborate with the Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) to develop a northern high latitudes activity that focuses on integrating across scales; to develop a new focus on Applied Earth System Modeling to make the global change research agenda much more directly relevant to the development and policy communities; and to support AIMES involvement in the Global Emissions Inventory Activity (GEIA).