NEESPI NASA Vision: A Retrospective and Perspectives

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1 NEESPI NASA Vision: A Retrospective and Perspectives Looking back Current issues Looking ahead Garik Gutman Land-Cover/Land-Use Change Program NASA Headquarters NEESPI Summit 3-4 May, Helsinki, Finland

2 Looking Back: How It All Started NASA had several projects in Russia, mostly in central Siberia, based on bi-lateral agreements with the Russian Academy of Sciences The original idea was to develop a framework for coordination of these and future projects, and for improved exchange of data, people and ideas

3 Pre-NEESPI Years (early 90s )

4 Pre-NEESPI Workshops St. Petersburg 2001 Novosibirsk Suzdal

5 Yalta Summit: Science Plan Review Crimea Science Plan published! Repino

6 From a NASA-driven to an International Partnership Initiative NASA together with the Russian Academy of Sciences originally led the foundation of the NEESPI infrastructure and scientific content The official NEESPI start: Jan 1, 2005 Since then Restructuring: from NASA-driven to community-driven neespi.gsfc.nasa.gov neespi.org Creation of Focus Research Centers (international and regional) Integration with international programs Recognition and endorsement by IGBP and WCRP International workshops and sessions at big conferences 1 st NEESPI special issue (Global Climate Change journal) published in Apr 07

7 NEESPI Expansion

8 Central Asia Mongolia Kazakhstan Uzbekistan Tadjikistan Kirgizstan Turkmenstan Russia Far East China Japan Korea EU USA Canada NEESPI Baltics Estonia Latvia Lithuania Fennoscandia Finland Sweden Norway Eastern Europe Ukraine Poland Hungary Bolgaria Romania Belarus Moldova Caucasus Georgia Armenia Azerbaidjan

9 NEESPI Institutions 19 institutions in Moscow participate in 22 projects Red dots: Principal Investigators Blue dots: Co-Investigators Green dots: Collaborators Squares: Focus Research Centers and Science Data Support Centers ~400 scientists ~200 institutions ~100 projects 6 institutions in Beijing participate in 5 projects

10 Partnerships Links to Global IGBP, IHDP, WCRP, ESSP Projects ileaps Integrated Land Ecosystem Atmosphere Processes Study Global Land Project GLP Global Water and Energy Cycle Experiment GEWEX Global Carbon Project GCP NEESPI Climate and Cryosphere Project CliC Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study MAIRS Global Water Systems Project GWSP

11 Focus Research Centers Max Planck Institute, Germany Carbon Cycle University of New Hampshire Water Resources Colorado State University LCLUC Georgia Technological Inst Climate-Aerosol University of Alaska Fairbanks Climate- Permafrost FRC for integrated modeling?? Climate-Land Ecosystems-Atmosphere

12 Regional NEESPI LCLUC Meetings North East Asia Regional NEESPI meeting, Harbin, China: February 2005, Ice and Snow Festival Central Asia NEESPI Science Team Meeting Urumqi, China: Sept 2007

13 NASA Role in NEESPI Co- Lead (with ESA and CNES) the NEESPI remote sensing component Develop and maintain a regional satellite data base with raw data and products Develop and distribute special remote-sensing based datasets useful for climate modeling Facilitate access to satellite data and products by NEESPI investigators Support regional calibration/validation activities Partner to support Focus Research Centers, Science Data Centers, NEESPI logistics Support regional network activities Support NEESPI projects with a remote sensing component that were peer-reviewed reviewed and selected for funding by NASA

14 NASA Contributions 30+ research projects NEESPI Project Scientist Meetings Data High-resolution Mid-Decadal Global Dataset MODIS, ASTER products EO-1 1 (ALI, Hyperion) IKONOS from previous acquisitions ACCESS climate dataset

15 Linkages: Gerard Begni s View of Elephants in the Room At least two elephants have been married: NEESPI and SIRS (Siberian Integrated Regional Study)

16 NEESPI Contribution to GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) officially started in April, 2004 at the second Earth Observation Summit in Japan An infrastructure connecting international efforts at Earth Observation Will allow scientists to look at measurements of the land, water and air made from the ground, the air or space in conjunction Will bring together existing observation hardware and software, make it compatible and offer data at no cost NEESPI is a prototype for a regional implementation of GEOSS agenda

17 Young NEESPI Education component is important Several NEESPI projects include young scientists from Northern Eurasia (Russia, China, etc.) A structure for NEESPI-Education Education is being established (Georgia Tech., U.Michigan,, AEROCOSMOS, CERT)

18 Looking Ahead Stronger involvement of non-nasa US agencies, EU and Japanese organizations NEESPI meetings Integrated modeling Aspen, Co Aug 2007 Drylands Urumqi, China Sep 2007 NEESPI-relevant meetings GOFC (NERIN) Fire workshop Moscow, Nov 2007 ScanEx Conference Moscow, Dec 2007 International Polar Year (IPY) ( ) 2008) NASA recent solicitation has IPY element 3 additional projects for NEESPI NASA ROSES-2007 solicitation (focus on high latitudes) Carbon Cycle Program LCLUC Program

19 NEESPI Urgent Needs International Coordination NEESPI International Project Office (NIPO) at FSU in Jenna, Germany Coordinator TBD international funding Sponsorship and commitments Endorsement of Focus Research Centers and Data Support Centers by NSCC and their coordination Approval of Data policy, organizational structure, and NEESPI Terms Of Reference Development of Implementation Plan Development of Timeline and Milestones for the near future (next years) and for a longer term (5-6 6 years) Planned meetings, educational activities, solicitations

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23 Carbon Cycle Science and LCLUC Funded NEESPI Projects (started in January, 2005) BOREAL (Partners: Russia, China and Germany) Modeling the Carbon Dynamics of the Eurasian Boreal Forest An Integrated Analysis of Flux Tower Data, Remote Sensing Data and a Biogeochemical Modeling Comparative Studies on Carbon Dynamics in Disturbed Forest Ecosystems stems Quantifying Effects of Fire Intensity/ Severity/ Burning Conditions ons on Carbon Stocks and Exchanges Impacts of Lake and Wetland Extent on the Regional Carbon Balance Land-Use and Land-Cover Dynamics of China NON-BOREAL (Partners: Ukraine, IIASA, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia) Carbon, Climate and Managed Land in Ukraine: Integrating Data and d Models of Land Use Quantifying the Effects of Land Use Change on Carbon Budgets in the Black Sea Region Northern Eurasian Carbon-Land Use-Climate Interaction in the Semi-Arid Regions About $1.9 M per year for 3 years

24 LCLUC and Hydrology Funded NEESPI Projects (started in October, 2005) Arid (Partners: Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China) Impacts of Glacial Area Changes in Central Asia During on LCLUC Role of LCLUC in Water Budget and Water Use Across Central Asia Assessing the vulnerability of the Eurasian semi-arid grain belt Ecological Monitoring in Semi-Arid Central and West Asia Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Semi-Arid Region of Inner Mongolia Linking Biophysics and Socio-economics for Addressing Water Vulnerability in Central Asia NON-Arid (Partners: Ukraine) Exacerbation of Flooding Responses Due to LCLUC in Carpathian region About $1.1 M per year for 3 years

25 LCLUC Funded NEESPI Projects (start in January, 2006) Boreal (Russia) Role of LCLUC in Eurasian pan-arctic hydrology Monitoring/Validating the Distribution and Change in NEESPI Land Cover LCLUC in Yamal Peninsula and Novaya Zemlya Weather-Extreme Fire Events-LCLUC relationships in the Changing Climate of Siberia Non-boreal (Central Asian countries, Ukraine) Role of LCLUC and atmospheric dust loading and their coupling on climate change in dry-lands LCLUC effects on surface water quality in Dnieper and Don river basins About $1.1 M per year for 3 years

26 Terrestrial Hydrology Funded NEESPI Projects (start in January, 2006) Permafrost Current climate changes over Eastern Siberia and their impact on permafrost landscapes, ecosystem dynamics, and hydrological regime Permafrost Dynamics within the Northern Eurasia Region and Related ed Impacts on Surface and Sub-Surface Surface Hydrology Suface Water An integrated understanding of the terrestrial water and energy cycles across the NEESPI domain through observations and modeling The Eurasian freshwater cycle from GRACE and in-situ hydrologic networks: distinguishing water cycle behavior in permafrost and non-permafrost regions Area-stage relationships in rivers and wetlands: Tracking the high-latitude water cycle and provision of core knowledge requirements for a Surface Water satellite mission Snow Continuous fields of snow cover characteristics derived through coupling satellite data with snowpack model: Application in the river runoff modeling over NEESPI domain. About $1 M per year for 3 years