Lixin’s expertise in climate and ecosystem modeling will help facilitate the interactions between numerical modeling and field observation in the the LTER Network, enhancing understanding of the interactions between the earth and the atmosphere.
“To move those ecosystem models (maize model, etc.) and hydrological models (splash, etc.) to the Supercomputer, and to make them accessible to various research communities can be a highly rewarding project for the LTER Network Office and a crucial step for model integration efforts to the scientific community as a whole,” Lixin says. “I am excited about the possibility of being part of it. At the same time, I am confident that to run the coupled model at high resolution over a long term on a super computer will help further investigate the two- way feedbacks between the atmosphere and biosphere, and also it can be a very good pilot project to demonstrate the importance of cooperations between different research groups.”