U.S. Department of Energy Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division Strategic Plan
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The U.S. Department of Energy Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division Strategic Plan is a national sectoral strategic plan of the United States of America. Its main vision is to develop an improved capability for Earth system prediction on seasonal to multidecadal time scales to inform the development of resilient U.S. energy strategies.
CESD’s strategic plan is framed by five scientific grand challenges focused on collaborative and integrative research across the Division. This research leverages capabilities of BER’s scientific, computational, and user facilities as well as other BER community resources to achieve these scientific grand challenges.
Integrated Water Cycle Scientific Grand Chal¬lenge: Advance understanding of the integrated water cycle by studying relevant processes involv¬ing the atmospheric, terrestrial, oceanic, and human system components and their interactions and feedbacks across local, regional, and global scales, thereby improving the predictability of the water cycle and reducing associated uncertainties in response to short- and long-term perturbations.
Biogeochemistry Scientific Grand Challenge: Advance a robust, predictive understanding of coupled biogeochemical processes and cycles across spatial and temporal scales by investigating natural and anthropogenic interactions and feedbacks and their associated uncertainties within Earth and environmental systems.
High Latitudes Scientific Grand Challenge: Understand and quantify the drivers, interactions, and feedbacks both among the high-latitude com¬ponents and between the high latitudes and the global system to reduce uncertainties and improve predictive understanding of high-latitude systems and their global impacts.
Drivers and Responses in the Earth Sys¬tem Scientific Grand Challenge: Advance next-generation understanding of Earth sys¬tem drivers and their effects on the integrated Earth-energy-human system.
Data-Model Integration Scientific Grand Chal¬lenge: Develop a broad range of interconnected infrastructure capabilities and tools that support the integration and management of models, exper-iments, and observations across a hierarchy of scales and complexity to address CESD scientific grand challenges.
CESD’s strategic plan is framed by five scientific grand challenges focused on collaborative and integrative research across the Division. This research leverages capabilities of BER’s scientific, computational, and user facilities as well as other BER community resources to achieve these scientific grand challenges.
Integrated Water Cycle Scientific Grand Chal¬lenge: Advance understanding of the integrated water cycle by studying relevant processes involv¬ing the atmospheric, terrestrial, oceanic, and human system components and their interactions and feedbacks across local, regional, and global scales, thereby improving the predictability of the water cycle and reducing associated uncertainties in response to short- and long-term perturbations.
Biogeochemistry Scientific Grand Challenge: Advance a robust, predictive understanding of coupled biogeochemical processes and cycles across spatial and temporal scales by investigating natural and anthropogenic interactions and feedbacks and their associated uncertainties within Earth and environmental systems.
High Latitudes Scientific Grand Challenge: Understand and quantify the drivers, interactions, and feedbacks both among the high-latitude com¬ponents and between the high latitudes and the global system to reduce uncertainties and improve predictive understanding of high-latitude systems and their global impacts.
Drivers and Responses in the Earth Sys¬tem Scientific Grand Challenge: Advance next-generation understanding of Earth sys¬tem drivers and their effects on the integrated Earth-energy-human system.
Data-Model Integration Scientific Grand Chal¬lenge: Develop a broad range of interconnected infrastructure capabilities and tools that support the integration and management of models, exper-iments, and observations across a hierarchy of scales and complexity to address CESD scientific grand challenges.
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