Travel Grant: Workshop on Impacts of Unusual Weather Events and Climate Anomalies on a Tropical Rainforest

旅行补助金：异常天气事件和气候异常对热带雨林的影响研讨会

• 批准号: 2340946
• 负责人: Jose Fuentes
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Pennsylvania State Univ University Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2340946&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Travel; Grant; Workshop; Impacts; Unusual

Tropical forests around the world play a significant role in the regulation of regional and global climate systems. The Amazon rainforest is the greatest land-based global sink of greenhouse gases and the massive thunderstorm complexes that develop over the region transport moisture and energy that affect global circulation. Due to these factors, it is important to understand how the rainforest is changing in response to warmer conditions and extreme weather events. This travel award provides funding for US scientists to attend a meeting to collaborate with regional scientists on the current state and next steps for research projects aimed at better understanding the impact of climate on the Amazon rainforest and the subsequent global impacts. Included in the meeting will be Indigenous residents of the region who will share their traditional knowledge of observing and anticipating changes in weather and climate. Early career scientists from diverse backgrounds will assume leadership roles in organizing and prioritizing the workshop deliberations.The Amazon rainforest is experiencing unprecedented transformations in response to extreme climate change features such as accelerated warming, prolonged droughts, and biomass burning. The goals of the collaborative US/Brazil workshop are to summarize the state of the science, identify future research topics and methods, and forge partnerships between US and Brazilian scientists. The workshop will be planned around the following session topics:• Summarizing the occurrences of unusual weather events and extreme climate anomalies in the Amazon during the last 50 years and projected climate through 2050.• Examining the extent that climate change and land use shifts have recently contributed to modifying the water cycling in the Amazon Basin.• Discussing future field and numerical modeling studies to develop unified approaches to determine net ecosystem exchange for Amazonian regions with variable topography and for all relevant atmospheric stability conditions.• Identifying the emerging data assimilation methods for in-situ and satellite observations to generate improved analysis fields over the region and identifying the most suitable AI techniques to process large amounts of data related to the condition of the rainforest and its responses to climate-related events.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

世界各地的热带森林在区域和全球气候系统的调节中起着重要作用。亚马逊雨林是温室气体的最大陆基全球水槽，以及在整个地区运输的水分和能量，影响全球循环的大规模雷暴综合体。由于这些因素，重要的是要了解雨林如何响应温暖的状况和极端天气事件。该旅行奖为美国科学家提供了一场会议，以与区域科学家合作就当前状态和下一步的研究项目进行合作，以更好地了解攀登对亚马逊雨林的影响以及随后的全球影响。会议中包括该地区的土著居民，他们将分享其传统的观察和预期天气和气候变化的知识。来自潜水员背景的早期职业科学家将在组织和优先考虑研讨会的审议中担任领导角色。亚马逊雨林正在经历前所未有的转型，以应对极端气候变化特征，例如加速变暖，长期的干旱和生物量燃烧。美国/巴西合作研讨会的目标是总结科学的状态，确定未来的研究主题和方法，并在我们与巴西科学家之间建立伙伴关系。研讨会将围绕以下会议主题进行计划：•总结在过去50年中亚马逊中不寻常的天气事件和极端气候异常发生的发生，并预计到2050年至2050年的气候。•检查气候变化和土地利用转变最近有助于修改ECOS的范围，并确定埃克斯的逐渐建模的范围，以确定未来的模型。具有可变地形和所有相关大气稳定条件的亚马逊地区地区。•确定现场和卫星观察的新出现的数据同化方法，以产生对该地区的分析领域的改进分析领域，并确定最合适的AI技术，以确定与危险范围内的大量数据相关的大量数据，并宣布宣传的范围，并反映了该范围。通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评估标准通过评估来支持。