Abrupt Change in Climate and Ecosystems: Where are the Tipping Points?

ACCEDE

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Principal Investigator

Nicholas McKay, Northern Arizona University, United States

Partners

Anne Marie Lezine, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Aline Govin,Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France Julien Emile-Geay, University of Southern California, United States Sarah Ivory, Penn State University, United States John Williams, University of Wisconsin, United States Pao Wang, Academia Sinica, Chinese Taipei

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Project Objective

The major scientific questions ACCEDE will address are: 1) Where are the tipping elements in Earth’s climate and ecosystems? 2) What are the dynamics of ecosystems-climate feedbacks that drove rapid desertification in subtropical North Africa 6,000 years ago? And 3) where can climate models with realistic forcings simulate changes comparable to those observed?

Call Objective

SEI targets initiatives that are well positioned to bring together environmental, social and economic scientists with data scientists, computational scientists, and e-infrastructure and cyber-infrastructure developers and providers for a shared goal; to solve methodological, technological and/or procedural challenges facing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary environmental change research that involves working with large, diverse and transnational, multi-source data. The SEI CRA will closely link research thinking and technological innovation toward accelerating the full path of discovery-driven data use and open science. This will enable a broader scientific community to benefit from the identified new and potentially disruptive demonstrators or pilots toward solutions.

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Duration

48 Months

Call Date

April 16, 2018

Project Award Date

January 10, 2019