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From site to GCM grid box: Building interactive hierarchies of data and models to assess carbon cycle and climate feedbacks due to agriculture and forestry practices in the conterminous U.S. and China

Project Leader:

Francesco Tubiello
(franciny@yahoo.com)

Earth Institute Contact:

EI Collaborators:
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Richard Goldberg

Locations: China, United States of America

Description:
Building an interactive climate-carbon cycle model to analyze options for carbon sequestration and adaptation strategies under climate change in the US and China.

EI Unit:
Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)

Cross Cutting Themes:
Climate and Society

Core Disciplines:
Earth Sciences

Collaborating Institutions:
MIT, Woods HOle, IIASA (austria)

Funding Agency:
NOAA (597K for 2003-2005)

Last Modified: 10-14-2003