About AIMES

CGD is the home of the International Project Office for the new IGBP Earth System modeling project, Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES). The primary emphasis of AIMES is to begin to integrate human processes into coupled carbon-climate models. The AIMES Project Office is responsible for the initiation and implementation of coupled carbon/climate/chemistry and human processes into the future of Earth System Modeling activities.

AIMES is the Earth System synthesis and integration project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP). It builds on the foundation of the Global Analysis, Integration and Modeling (GAIM) task force. The challenge for AIMES is to achieve a deeper and more quantitative understanding of the role of human perturbations to the Earth's biogeochemical cycles and their interactions with the coupled physical climate system. AIMES will focus on:

  • The functioning of global biogeochemical cycles, including interactions and feedbacks with the physical climate system;
  • The interplay between human activities and biogeochemical cycles, both in the past and into the future;
  • How the biogeochemical cycles function on different time scales.

 

Selected AIMES Activities