Modeling Dynamic Vegetation for Decadal to Multi-Century Climate Change Studies

The team of Drs. Nancy Kiang, Igor Aleinov, Andrew Friend, Paul Moorcroft, Randal Koster, and Wenge Ni-Meister will perform research to develop, evaluate, utilize and disseminate a model of vegetation dynamics for coupling with general circulation models.

First-Year Funding: $72K

Institutions Involved:

• NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS)
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
• Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement - Orme
• Harvard University
• City University of New York

Principal and Co- Investigators:

• Igor Aleinov, NASA GISS, ialeinov@giss.nasa.gov
• Nancy Kiang, NASA GISS, nkiang@giss.nasa.gov