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ORNL part of project to study how tropical forests respond to climate change

Posted at 9:25 pm April 1, 2015
By Oak Ridge National Laboratory 4 Comments

Amazon Tropical Rainforests

The future of tropical rainforests in the Amazon (pictured) and worldwide is the focus of a new research project that combines field experiments and predictive modeling. (Photo courtesy ORNL)

 

Researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory will play key roles in an expansive new project that aims to bring the future of tropical forests and the climate system into much clearer focus by coupling field research with the development of a new ecosystem model.

The project is called the Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments-Tropics, or NGEE-Tropics. Its goal is the development of a model that represents how tropical forests interact with Earth’s climate in much greater ecological detail than ever before. This will help scientists explore, more accurately than is possible today, how rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, increasing greenhouse gas levels, and other natural and human-induced changes affect tropical forests’ influence on Earth’s climate.

Led by DOE’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), the effort includes collaborators from Oak Ridge, Brookhaven, Los Alamos, and Pacific Northwest national laboratories. The study also includes researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, the U.S. Forest Service, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NASA, and several institutions from other nations. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Front Page News, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy Tagged With: Berkeley Lab, Brazil, Brookhaven National Laboratory, climate, climate change, Climate Change Institute, climate system, Colleen Iversen, greenhouse gas levels, Jeff Chambers, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NASA, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Next Generation Ecosystem Experiments-Tropics, NGEE-Arctic, NGEE-Tropics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Office of Science, ORNL, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Panama, precipitation patterns, predictive modeling, Puerto Rico, rainforests, Rich Norby, rising temperatures, Scott Painter, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, tropical forest ecosystem, tropical forests, tropical rainforests, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Forest Service

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