Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2015

Presentation information

Oral

Symbol A (Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences) » A-CG Complex & General

[A-CG30] Material circulations in Terrestrial Ecosystem: Water, Carbon and Nitrogen etc.

Mon. May 25, 2015 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM 301B (3F)

Convener:*Tomomichi Kato(Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University), Takashi Hirano(Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University), Hisashi Sato(Department of Environmental Geochemical Cycle Research, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)), Ryuichi Hirata(National Institute for Environmental Studies), Chair:Ryuichi Hirata(National Institute for Environmental Studies)

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

[ACG30-21] A design for the new Earth System Model with terrestrial carbon/nitrogen cycle processes

*Tomohiro HAJIMA1, Shingo WATANABE1, Michio KAWAMIYA1, Michio WATANABE1, Maki NOGUCHI1, Hideki OKAJIMA1, Hiroaki TATEBE1, Akinori ITO1, Dai YAMAZAKI1, Kaoru TACHIIRI1, Etsushi KATO2, Masahiro SUGIYAMA3, Akihiko ITO4, Rumi OHGAITO1 (1.Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, 2.The Institute of Applied Energy, 3.UTokyo Policy Alternatives Research Institute, 4.National Institute for Environmental Studies)

Keywords:terrestrial ecosystems, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, Earth system models, Climate change projection, Biogeochemistry

Changes in the natural environment that are the result of human activities are becoming evident, and these changes are interrelated and can not be investigated without interdisciplinary collaboration between scientific fields. In order to understand the interrelated mechanism within the Earth's environment and to evaluate/project the anthropogenic impact on it, Earth system models (ESMs) have been developed by incorporating the biogeochemical processes of terrestrial/marine ecosystems into atmosphere-ocean general circulation models. These models have joined the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) and contributed to the assessment report of IPCC. We finished a process of reviewing our modeling and scientific activities up to the IPCC 5th assessment report, and we have started to design a new generation of ESMs. In this presentation, we briefly summarize the scientific/modeling tasks with ESM, and illustrate the design of the new ESM we are now developing.