NSF Org:	GEO Directorate for Geosciences
Recipient:	LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date:	August 11, 2005
Latest Amendment Date:	August 11, 2005
Award Number:	0542357
Award Instrument:	Continuing Grant
Program Manager:	Louis B. Brown GEO  Directorate for Geosciences GEO  Directorate for Geosciences
Start Date:	August 18, 2005
End Date:	December 31, 2005 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$20,827.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$20,827.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2004 = $20,827.00
History of Investigator:	Dork Sahagian (Principal Investigator) dork.sahagian@lehigh.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office:	Lehigh University 526 BRODHEAD AVE BETHLEHEM PA  US  18015-3008 (610)758-3021
Sponsor Congressional District:	07
Primary Place of Performance:	Lehigh University 526 BRODHEAD AVE BETHLEHEM PA  US  18015-3008
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	07
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	E13MDBKHLDB5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s):
Primary Program Source:	app-0104
Program Reference Code(s):	0000, OTHR
Program Element Code(s):
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.050

ABSTRACT

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.

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