B51J-07
The Modern Era of Research in Biosphere Atmosphere Interactions
Friday, 18 December 2015: 09:30
2008 (Moscone West)
Inez Y Fung, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Piers J Sellers, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, David A Randall, Colorado State University, Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Compton J Tucker, NASA Goddard Space Flight Cen., Greenbelt, MD, United States, Christopher B Field, Carnegie Inst Washington, Washington, DC, United States, Joseph A Berry, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA, United States and Susan Ustin, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
Abstract:
Dr. Diane Wickland, the Program Scientist for NASA’s EOS InterDisciplinary Science (IDS), encouraged and nurtured the growth of the field of global ecology and eco-climatology. This talk reviews the developments in, and integration of, theory, satellite and field observations that enabled the global modeling of biosphere-atmosphere interactions. Emphasis will be placed on the advances made during the EOS era in global datasets and global coupled carbon-climate models. The advances include functional classifications of the land surface using the NDVI, a global terrestrial carbon-energy-water model, and the greening of the CSU GCM. An equally important achievement of the EOS-IDS program is a new generation of multi-disciplinary scientists who are now leaders in the field.
