Bio-hydro-atmosphere interactions of

Energy, Aerosols, Carbon, H2O,

Organics & Nitrogen

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Program Lead:
Alex Guenther

Program Seconds:
Elisabeth Holland
Roy Rasmussen

Other Experts:
Gordon Bonan
Sean Burns
Fei Chen
David Gochis
Jim Greenberg
Peter Harley
Sherri Heck
Andy Held
Thomas Karl
Julia Lee-Taylor
Peggy LeMone
Don Lenschow
Changhai Liu
Xianfang Ma
Steve Oncley
Ned Patton
Steve Shertz
Jim Smith
Britt Stephens
Jielun Sun
Peter Thornton
Andrew Turnipseed
John Tuttle
Xuemei Wang
Christine Wiedinmyer
Lulin Xue

BEACHON

The BEACHON project conducts experimental and numerical research studies to enhance understanding of the roles of biogenic aerosols, nitrogen trace gases and oxidants in linking and regulating the carbon and water cycles.  

The Earth system has undergone extensive change during the last 60 years, with important implications for human health, resource management, ecosystem services and the environment.  The ability to predict these changes and their impacts on time scales of months to a decade is becoming increasingly important.  Key to improving the predictability of Earth system behavior over these time scales is an improved understanding of the coupling between water, energy and biogeochemical cycles in a multi-scale modeling framework.  Robust predictions at these time scales require coordinated modeling, observations and process studies that explicitly address the coupled water, energy and biogeochemical cycles at multiple temporal and spatial scales.