RCN: MSM: ETBC: Integrated Network for Terrestrial Ecosystem Research on Feedbacks to the Atmosphere and ClimatE: Linking experimentalists, ecosystem and Earth system modelers

随着人类活动增加大气中吸热气体的浓度，气候模式正在发生变化。预计本世纪气候将发生巨大变化，全球平均气温上升1.1-6.4摄氏度，降水模式发生广泛变化。气候的这些变化将影响人类社会的功能、生态系统的功能和生物多样性的状况。对未来气候变化的最佳预测来自复杂的计算机程序，这些程序模拟了大气、海洋和陆地之间的能量和物质的相互作用。直到最近，陆地表面对大气的影响才以有限的方式纳入这些模型。然而，最近的研究表明，陆地生态系统对大气和气候变化的反应方式本身将强烈影响气候变化的速度，因此必须考虑这些生态系统的反应。从历史上看，研究这些问题的科学家社区一直由独立的、传统上不互动的研究小组组成。该接口网络将通过将它们聚集在一系列国际会议和讲习班上促进相互作用，这些会议和讲习班的目的是在地球系统建模和实验中的一系列重要的、可处理的挑战方面取得进展。INTERFACE将专注于培训和打造不同职业生涯早期阶段的研究人员之间的合作，从大四的本科生到博士后。学生和博士后将被招募在所有界面会议上扮演积极的角色，作为会议报告的作者和结果论文的共同作者。INTERFACE还将通过赞助一系列研讨会和实验室交流来扩大学生的工具包，将学生与建模和实验社区聚集在一起。通过在下一代科学家职业生涯之初为他们提供跨学科的培训，INTERFACE可以强烈地影响未来研究的轨迹。

As human actions increase the concentrations of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere, climatic patterns are changing. Climate is projected to change dramatically over the course of this century, with average global temperature increases of 1.1-6.4 °C and widespread changes in precipitation patterns. These changes in climate will affect the functioning of human society, the functioning of ecosystems, and the status of biodiversity. The best available projections of future climate change come from complex computer programs that simulate interactions of energy and matter among the atmosphere, oceans, and land. Until very recently, the effects of the land surface on the atmosphere were only incorporated into these models in a limited way. However, recent research suggests that the way in which ecosystems on land respond to changes in atmosphere and climate will itself strongly affect the rate of climate change, and so the responses of these ecosystems must be considered. Historically, the community of scientists examining these issues has consisted of separate, traditionally non-interactive research groups. The INTERFACE network will facilitate interactions by bringing them together in a series of international meetings and workshops that are designed to make progress on a set of important, tractable challenges in Earth system modeling and experimentation. INTERFACE will focus on training and forging collaborations among researchers at different early career stages, from senior undergraduates to post-docs. Students and post-docs will be recruited for active roles at all INTERFACE meetings, as authors of meeting reports and co-authors of resultant papers. INTERFACE will also broaden students' toolkits by sponsoring a series of workshops and lab exchanges that bring students together with the modeling and experimental communities. By providing cross-disciplinary training for the next generation of scientists at the beginning of their careers, INTERFACE can strongly influence the trajectory of future research.