Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES)

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2008 AIMES SSC

An aid for the acronym faint of heart: guide to IGBP soup; thanks to IGAC IPO

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Stockholm Resilience 2008 Conference: an IHOPE panel

WGCM/AIMES: "Aspen Protocol" White Paper

Link to the 'Koala Report' (Enting et al., 1994, 2001) that sets the stage for the Aspen Protocol

AIMES

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.

AIMES Highlights

		IPCC New Scenarios In September, 2007, IPCC sponsored a workshop in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands to catalyze development of new scenarios for a possible next coordinated assessment. Participants represented authors and contributing authors from Working Groups I, II and III. Workshop was coordinated by the Technical Support Unit from Working Group III, with participation from AIMES, WGCM and other groups from the international programmes and projects. Click here to download the New Scenarios report submitted to the IPCC XXVIII Plenary in Budapest, Hungary.

		Coupled Carbon Cycle Climate Model Intercomparison Project C4MIP is a joint Earth Systems Modeling activity between IGBP/AIMES and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Working Group on Coupled Modeling (WGCM)

		Global Emissions Inventory Activity The goal of GEIA is to quantify the anthropogenic emissions and natural exchanges of trace gases and aerosols that drive earth system changes.

		Integrated History and Future of People on Earth IHOPE is a multi-year activity with the goal to understand the complex ways in which humans have affected and have been affected by natural systems of the Earth, and to integrate human history with a fairly detailed and spatially explicit natural history of the Earth since early human settlement.

		Young Scholar's Network An interdisciplinary network of young scholars and Earth system science. Visit our website!