Integrative, Large scale, Modeling Category

List of Active NEESPI Projects:

1. Synthesis and Integration of Recent Research Characterizing the Carbon Cycle of Northern Eurasia.
   
2. LCLUC synthesis: Forested Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Far East of Northern Eurasia under the Combined Drivers of Climate and Socio-Economic Transformation.
   
3. Collaborative Research: Crops, Climate, Canals and the Cryosphere in Asia - Changing Water Resources around the Earth's Third Pole.
   
4. European and Russian Extreme Events: Mechanisms, Variability and Future Climate Change.
   
5. Analysis of blocking characteristics and assessment of its influence on extreme weather events in Russian Federation under climate change based on mathematical modelling and monitoring data.
   
6. Investigation of the formation mechanisms and tendencies of change of climatic anomalies and dangerous weather events in the Black Sea region based on climate modelling and instrumental observations.
   
7. Complex studies of the impact of anthropogenic and wildfire atmospheric emissions on air quality and climate in North Eurasia with use of observational data and numerical modeling of the atmospheric composition.
   
8. Climate- and Fire-induced Vegetation, Agricultural and Albedo Change in Northern Eurasia: Consequences to Gases, Aerosols and Radiative Fluxes.
   
9. Synthesis of Forest Growth, Response to Wildfires and Carbon Storage for Russian Forests Using a Distributed, Individual-Based Forest Model.
   
10. Formulating and Evaluating Water Resources Adaptation Options to Climate Change Uncertainty in the Carpathian Region.
    
11. Analysis of blocking characteristics and associated climate anomalies based on observational data and model simulation for the 20th and 21st centuries.
    
12. Impact of climate changes on the hydrological cycle, water resources security, and on adaptive strategy in China.
    
13. Interactive Changes of Ecosystems and Societies on the Mongolian Plateau: From Coupled Regulations of Land Use and Changing Climate to Adaptation.
    
14. NASA Data and Services Supporting Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study in Eastern Asia.
    
15. Changes of Land Cover and Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Northern Eurasia: Impacts on Human Adaptation and Quality of Life at Regional and Global Scales.
    
16. Diagnostics and modelling of climate in polar and subpolar regions.
17. Human Impact on Land-cover Changes in the Heart of Asia.
    
18. Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions Between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use.
19. Collaborative Research. IPY: The Polaris Project: Rising Stars in the Arctic.
20. Quantifying Changes in Northern High Latitude Ecosystems and Associated Feedbacks to the Climate System.
21. Diagnosis and prognosis of changes in lake and wetland extent on the regional carbon balance of northern Eurasia.
22. Data Fusion Grid Infrastructure.
23. Environment and sustanable development of the Mongolian Plateau Region.
24. Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Arctic system carbon cycle research through model-data fusion studies using atmospheric inversion and process-based approaches.
25. The estimation of CO2 and CH4 fluxes in Siberia using a tower observation network.
26. Environmental conditions of the epoch of the earliest human inhabitat of Northern Eurasia in the late pleistocene and holocene.
27. IPY: Collaborative Research on Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a PanArctic Network.
28. Estimation of seasonal snow cover, glacial and lake area changes at the Ob'/Yenisey river heads during the last 40 years using NASA ESE products and in situ data.
29. Assessing forest-tundra transition zone in the Northern Hemisphere with multisensor satellite data.
30. Climate Change impacts and adaptation research on scientific issues -Retrospective Analysis and climate scenarios.
31. Integrated interdisciplinary research on ecological and economic problems in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan.
32. Development of a Network of Permafrost Observatories in North America and Russia: The US Contribution to the International Polar Year.
33. Siberia Integrated Regional Study (SIRS).
34. Integrated study of natural and climatic changes and accompanying land-use risks.
35. Functioning, biodiversity, ecological and resource potential of Siberian forests.
36. Development of distributed informational analytical media for ecological systems study.
37. Evolution of natural processes, man and his culture in late Cenozoic in Siberia and their influence on eco- and geosystems stability.
38. Enviro-RISKS: Man-induced Environmental Risks: Monitoring, Management and Remediation of Man-made Changes in Siberia.
39. ENVIROMIS-2: Environmental Observations, Modeling and Information Systems - 2.
40. Study of Dam/Reservoir-Induced Hydrologic Changes in Large Siberian Watersheds: Regional Analysis to Pan-Arctic Synthesis.
41. Collaborative Research: Understanding Change in the Climate and Hydrology of the Arctic Land Region: Synthesizing the Results of the ARCSS Fresh Water Initiative Projects.
42. Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP): The U.S. contribution to the International Permafrost Observatory Network (INPO).
43. Integrated Study for Terrestrial Carbon Management of Asia in the 21st Century Based on Scientific Advancements [Theme-2: Top-down approach (via atmospheric observation) to a regional carbon budget estimation].
44. Forest fire impact on carbon cycle in Siberia and its contribution to global warming.
45. The Largest River Systems of Northern Eurasia: Hydrological State during Warm Climatic Epochs in Past, Present and Future.
46. Permafrost dynamics within the Northern Eurasia region and related impacts on surface and sub-surface hydrology.
47. Continuous fields of snow cover characteristics derived through coupling satellite data with snowpack model. Application in the river runoff modeling over NEESPI domain.
48. Current climate changes over Eastern Siberia and their impact on permafrost landscapes, ecosystem dynamics, and hydrological regime.
49. An integrated understanding of the terrestrial water and energy cycles across the NEESPI domain through observations and modeling.
50. Understanding the role of changes in land use/land cover and atmospheric dust loading and their coupling on climate change in the NEESPI study domain drylands.
51. Wildfire, Ecosystems, and Climate: Examining the relationships between weather, extreme fire events, and fire-induced land -cover change in the changing climate of Siberia.
52. Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic.
53. Northern Eurasia Landcover Dynamics Analysis (NELDA): Monitoring and validating the distribution and change in land cover across Northern Eurasia.
54. NASA Earth Sciences Data Support System and Services for the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative.
55. Evaluation and Development of the Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Using Observations.
56. Evaluation and Forecasting of the atmospheric concentrations of allergenic pollen in Europe (POLLEN).
57. Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use, and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States.
58. Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Semi-Arid Region of Inner Mongolia.
59. Extreme precipitation events: their origins, predictability and societal impacts.
60. Influence of snow vertical structure on hydrothermal regime and snow-related economical aspects in Northern Eurasia.
61. Snow cover changes over Northern Eurasia during the last Century: Circulation consideration and hydrological consequences (SCCONE).
62. Representativeness of estimates of changes in weather extremes.
63. Diagnosis and Prognosis of Changes in Lake and Wetland Extent on the Regional Carbon Balance of Northern Eurasia.
64. Modeling the carbon dynamics of the Eurasian Boreal Forest.
65. Carbon, Climate and Managed Land in Ukraine: Integrating Data and Models of Land Use for NEESPI.
66. Quantifying CO2 Fluxes from Boreal Forests in Northern Eurasia: An Integrated Analysis of Flux Tower Data, Remote Sensing Data and Biogeochemical Modeling.
67. Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics of China in Support of GOFC/GOLD and NEESPI Sciences.
68. Development of an Integrated System of Ground-, Air- and Space-Based Observations of Biomass Burning in Northern Eurasia.
69. Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains.

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Study of Dam/Reservoir-Induced Hydrologic Changes in Large Siberian Watersheds: Regional Analysis to Pan-Arctic Synthesis.

Principal Investigator: Alexander Shiklomanov (Alex.Shiklomanov@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Co-Investigators: Richard Lammers, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Collaborators: Vladimir Georgievsky and Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Collaborative Research: Understanding Change in the Climate and Hydrology of the Arctic Land Region: Synthesizing the Results of the ARCSS Fresh Water Initiative Projects.

Principal Investigators: Eric Wood (efwood@princeton.edu), Princeton University, Princeton, USA; Charles Vorosmarty (Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA; John Cassano (cassano@cires.colorado.edu ), University of Colorado, Boulder, USA; Dennis Lettenmaier (dennisl@washington.edu), University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Co-Investigator: Richard Lammers, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
Collaborators: Larry Hinzman, Igor Semiletov, Daquing Yang, and Doug Kane, University of Alaska – Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Glen Liston, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Mark Serreze and Tingjun Zhang, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Laurence Smith, University of California-Los Angeles, Los-Angeles, USA
Tony England, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Marika Holland, NCAR, Boulder, USA
Amanda Lynch, Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Andrew Weaver, University of Victoria, Canada
Alexander Oltchev, Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia

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Thermal State of Permafrost (TSP): The U.S. contribution to the International Permafrost Observatory Network (INPO).

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigator: Jerry Brown, International Permafrost Association, Woods Hole, Mass., USA
Collaborators: Thomas Ostercamp, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Felix Rivkin, Industrial-Research Institute of Engineering Survey for Construction, Moscow, Russia
Alexander Vasiliev, Alexander Pavlov, Natalia Moskalenko, Mikhail Kanevsky, and Anna Kurchatova, All at Institute of Earth Cryosphere, Tyumen and Moscow
Mikhail Zheleznyak, Nikolai Shender, and Yuri Skachkov, All at Institute of Permafrost Strudies, Yakutsk, Russia
David Gilichinsky, Aleksander Kholodov, and Dmitry Feodorov-Davydov, All at Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems of Soil, Puschino, Moscow area, Russia
Gary Clow, USGS, Lakewood, Colorado, USA
Scientists from Magadan and Anadyr of Far Eastern Branch of RAS, Russia
Donald (Skip) Walker, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Larry Hinzman, International Arctic Research Center, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, USA
Frederic Nelson, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA
Hanne Christiansen, The University Center in Svalbard, Norway
Sharon Smith, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Integrated Study for Terrestrial Carbon Management of Asia in the 21st Century Based on Scientific Advancements [Theme-2: Top-down approach (via atmospheric observation) to a regional carbon budget estimation]

Principal Investigators: Gen Inoue (inouegen@nies.go.jp), Toshinobu Machida (tmachida@nies.go.jp), and Shamil Maksyutov (shamil@nies.go.jp), National Institute for Environmental Studies, Frontier Research Center for Global Change, Tsukuba, Japan
Co-Investigators: Boris Belan and Mikhail Arshinov, Institute of Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia
Nikolay Vinnichenko, Central Aerological Observatory, Dolgoprudny, Russia
Ilyas Gadzhiev, Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, Novosibirsk, Russia
Sergey Mitin, Institute of Microbiology, Moscow, Russia
Innokenti Plusnin, Surgut State University, Surgut, Russia
Nikolay Fedoseev, Permafrost Research Institute, Yakutsk, Russia

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Forest fire impact on carbon cycle in Siberia and its contribution to global warming.

Principal Investigator: Masami Fukuda (mfukuda@pop.lowtem.hokudai.ac.jp or Masami.Fukuda@ma4.seikyou.ne.jp ), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Co-Investigator: Kunihide Takahashi (kun23@for.agr.hokudai.ac.jp), Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Collaborators: Aleksander Fedorov, RAS Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia
Trofim Mikhailov and Roman Desyatkin, both at the RAS Institute of Biological Problems in the Cryosphere, Yakutsk, Russia

The Largest River Systems of Northern Eurasia: Hydrological State during Warm Climatic Epochs in Past, Present and Future.

Principal Investigator: Alexander Georgiadi (galex@online.ru), Institute of Geography, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Co-investigators: Yurii G.Motovilov, State Institute on Applied Ecology MNR of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Irina P. Milyukova, Nikolai I. Koronkevich, and Elena A. Kashutina, all at Institute of Geography,
Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Alexander V. Kislov, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Larry Hinzmann, Water and Environmental Research Center Institute of Northern Engineering, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Tetsuo Ohata, Institute of Observational Research for Global Change (IORGC) Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokosuka, Japan

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Permafrost dynamics within the Northern Eurasia region and related impacts on surface and sub-surface hydrology.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Romanovsky (ffver@uaf.edu) University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigator: Claude Duguay, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Collaborators: John Walsh and Igor Semiletov, both at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Mikhail Zheleznyak, RAS Permafrost Institute, Yakutsk, Russia
Vyacheslav Razuvaev, Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information, Obninsk, Russia
Jens Christensen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Continuous fields of snow cover characteristics derived through coupling satellite data with snowpack model. Application in the river runoff modeling over NEESPI domain.

Principal Investigator: Peter Romanov (Peter.Romanov@noaa.gov) University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
Co-Investigator: Dan Tarpley, NOAA Office of Research and Applications, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
Collaborator: Lev Kuchment, RAS Institute of Water Problems, Moscow, Russia

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Current climate changes over Eastern Siberia and their impact on permafrost landscapes, ecosystem dynamics, and hydrological regime.

Principal Investigator: Larry Hinzman (ffldh@uaf.edu) University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigator: Kenji Yoshikawa and Vladimir Romanovsky both at University of Alaska-Fairbanks, USA
Collaborators: Nikolai Romanovsky, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Aleksander Georgiadi, RAS Institute of Geography, Moscow, Russia

An integrated understanding of the terrestrial water and energy cycles across the NEESPI domain through observations and modeling.

Principal Investigator: Eric Wood (efwood@princeton.edu) Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Co-Investigators: Laura Bowling, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Alexander Oltchev, Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Andrey Sogachev, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Julia Kurbatova and Andrey Varlagin, both at Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems of RAS, Moscow, Russia
Natalia Vygodskaya, Jan Kochanowski University ,Kielce, Poland
Nadezhda Tchebakova, RAS Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Nina Speranskaya, Natalia Lemeshko, and Kirill Tsytsenko, All at State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Oleg Panferov, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany

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Understanding the role of changes in land use/land cover and atmospheric dust loading and their coupling on climate change in the NEESPI study domain drylands.

Principal Investigator: Irina Sokolik (isokolik@eas.gatech.edu) Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Co-Investigators: Robert Dickinson, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Yongjiu Dai, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
George Golitsyn, Obukhov Institute of Atrmospheric Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Rimma Bektursunova, Eurasian National University, Akmolla, Kazakhstan
Beatrice Marticorena, Lab. Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Paris, France
Gilles Bergametti, Lab. Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), Paris, France
Dulam Jugder, Institute Meteorology and Hydrology, Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia
Yaping Shao, City University of Hong Kong, China
Itsushi Uno, Institute Applied Mechanics, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Masao Mikami, Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency, Tsukuba, Japan
Youngsin Chun, Meteorological Research Institute, Seoul, Korea

Wildfire, Ecosystems, and Climate: Examining the relationships between weather, extreme fire events, and fire-induced land -cover change in the changing climate of Siberia.

Principal Investigator: Amber Soja (a.j.soja@larc.nasa.gov), NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Co-Investigators: David Westberg and Paul Stackhouse both with NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA
Anatoly Sukhinin, Galina Ivanova, Elena Parfenova, and Nadezhda Tsebakova, all at V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Sib. Branch RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
Hank Shugart, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

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Role of land cover and land use change in hydrology of Eurasian Pan-Arctic.

Principal Investigator: Charles Vorosmarty (Charles.Vorosmarty@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Co-Investigators: George Hurtt, Xianming Xiao, Richard Lammers, and Alexander Shiklomanov, all at University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
Collaborator: Igor Shiklomanov, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

Northern Eurasia Landcover Dynamics Analysis (NELDA): Monitoring and validating the distribution and change in land cover across Northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigator: Olga N. Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, USA
Co-Investigators: Jeffrey Morrisette and Jeffrey Masek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Guoqing Sun and Ivan Csiszar, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Warren Cohen, USDA Forest Service
Marc Friedl and Curtis Woodcock, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Collaborators: Evgeney Loupian, Dmitry Ershov, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Evgeny Gordov, Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Tomsk, Russia
Natalia Vandysheva and Alexander Maslov, Center for Development of Information Technologies, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir V. Elsakov, Komi Science Center, Institute of Biology, Syktyvkar, Russia Vladimir Kharuk, V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

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NASA Earth Sciences Data Support System and Services for the Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative.

Principal Investigator: Gregory Leptoukh (Gregory.G.Leptoukh@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Ivan Csiszar and Peter Romanov, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Collaborators: Vladimir Kattsov, Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory of Roshydromet, St.Petersburg, Russia
Konstantin Rubinstein, Hydrometcentre of Russia, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Gershenzon, Research & Development Center ScanEx, Moscow, Russia
Harry Grebenchuk, Scientific-Research Center for Radiobiology and Radiation Ecology, Tbilisi, Georgia
Sergey Venevsky, Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, UK Met Office, Exete United Kingdom

Evaluation and Development of the Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS) Using Observations.

Principal Investigator: Alan Robock (robock@envsci.rutgers.edu), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Co-Investigators: Konstantin Y. Vinnikov, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA
Nina Speranskaya, State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Irina V.Trofimova, Institute of Telecommunications of the UAS, Kiev, Ukraine
Tatiana I. Adamenko, Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Suxia Liu and Xingguo Mo, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Erdenetsetseg Divaa, National Agency of Meteorology, Hydrology, and Environment Monitoring, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

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Evaluation and Forecasting of the atmospheric concentrations of allergenic pollen in Europe (POLLEN).

Principal Investigators: Jaakko Kukkonen (Jaakko.Kukkonen@fmi.fi) and Mikhail Sofiev (mikhail.sofiev@fmi.fi), Finnish Meteorological Institute, Air Quality Research & Meteorological Research, Helsinki, Finland
Co-Investigators: Pilvi Siljamo, Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Drs. Auli Rantio-Lehtimaki and Hanna Ranta, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
Heikki Hanninen and Tapio Linkosalo, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Eero Kubin, The Finnish Forest Research Institute (METLA), Finland
Siegfried Jager, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Alexander Baklanov and Alix Rasmussen, Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Eugene L. Genikhovich, Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg, Russia
Elena Severova Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Kjell Arild Hogda, NORUT IT AS, Norway

Contributions of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover, Water Use, and Climate to the Hydrological Cycle Across the Central Asian States.

Principal Investigator: Charles Vörösmarty (charles.vorosmarty@unh.edu), Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space, University of New Hampshire, USA
Co-Investigators: Richard Lammers, Alexander Shiklomanov, Ellen Douglas, and Xiangming Xiao,University of New Hampshire, USA
Collaborators: Igor Shiklomanov State Hydrological Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Victor Dukhovny, Scientific-Information Center of the Interstate Coordination Water Commission of the Central Asia, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Malik Burlibaev, Kazakhstan Research Institute for Monitoring and Climate, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan

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Effects of Land Use Change on the Energy and Water Balance of the Semi-Arid Region of Inner Mongolia.

Principal Investigator: Jiquan Chen (jiquan.chen@utoledo.edu), University of Toledo, USA
Co-Investigators: Asko Noormets, Univ. of Toledo, USA
Steve McNulty & Ge Sun, Southern Global Change Program, USA
Weixin Cheng, Univ. of California - Santa Cruz, USA
Guanghui Lin, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Yanfen Wang, The Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Xiangming Xiao, University of New Hampshire, USA
Collaborators: Prof. Jiaguo Qi, Michigan State University, USA
Dennis Ojima & Dr. Scott Denning, Colorado State University, USA
Osbert Sun, Xingguo Han, Dr. Linhao Li, and Dr. Ke Guo, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Ming Xu, Rutgers University, USA
Stable Isotope Laboratory for Ecological & Environmental Research at Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, China

Extreme precipitation events: their origins, predictability and societal impacts.

Principal investigators: Clemens Simmer, Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn (csimmer@uni-bonn.de) and Sergey Gulev, P.P. Shirshov Instititute of Oceanology, Russia (gul@sail.msk.ru)
Co-Investigators: Alexander Gershunov, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA
Sergey Ivanov, Odessa State Ecological University, Odessa, Ukraine

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Influence of snow vertical structure on hydrothermal regime and snow-related economical aspects in Northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigators: Andrey Shmakin (climate@igras.geonet.ru), Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Meinhard Breiling (meinhard.breiling@tuwien.ac.at), Technical University Vienna, Department for Landscape Planning, Vienna, Austria
Co-Investigators: Marcia Phillips, Swiss Federal Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Davos, Switzerland
Konstantin Rubinstein, The Hydrometeorological Centre of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Golubev, Moscow State University, Faculty of Geography, Moscow, Russia
Maxim Petrov, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Zdeno Kostka, Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovakia (kostka@svslm.sk)

Snow cover changes over Northern Eurasia during the last Century: Circulation consideration and hydrological consequences (SCCONE).

Principal Investigator: Raino Heino, (Raino.Heino@fmi.fi) Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland
Co-Investigators: Eiric Førland, Norwegian Hydrometeorological Institute, Norway
Lev Kitaev, RAS Institute of Geography, Russia
Aleksander N. Krenke, RAS Institute of Geography, Russia
Vycheslav N. Razuvaev, Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Russia

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Representativeness of estimates of changes in weather extremes.

Principal Investigator: Pavel Ya. Groisman (Pasha.Groisman@noaa.gov), University Corporation for Atmospheric Research at NOAA/NESDIS/ National Climatic Data Center, USA
Co-Investigators: David R. Easterling, NOAA National Climatic Data Center, USA
Vyacheslav N. Razuvaev Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information, Russia
Vladimir K. Petukhov, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany
Collaborators: Xuebin Zhang, Climate Research Unit, Meteorological Service of Canada
Gabriele Hegerl, Duke University, USA

Diagnosis and Prognosis of Changes in Lake and Wetland Extent on the Regional Carbon Balance of Northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigator: Dennis Lettenmaier (dennisl@washington.edu), University of Washington, USA
Co-Investigators: Laura Bowling, Purdue University, USA
Kyle McDonald, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Collaborators: Nina A. Speranskaya and Kirill V. Tsitsenko State Hydrological Institute, Russia
Daniil Kozlov and Yury N. Bochkarev, Moscow State University, Russia
Reiner Schnur, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Martin Heimann, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Gianfranco De Grandi, Joint Research Centre, Italy

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Principal Investigators: Herman H. Shugart (hhs@virginia.edu), University of Virginia, USA and
Aleksander S. Isaev, RAS Center for Ecological Problems and Productivity of Forests, Russia
Co-Investigators: Vyacheslav Kharuk, RAS Forest Institute, Russia
Georgiy N. Korovin, RAS Center for Ecological Problems and Productivity of Forests, Russia
Dmitri V. Ershov, RAS Center for Ecological Problems and Productivity of Forests, Russia
Dmitri G. Zamolodchikov, RAS Center for Ecological Problems and Productivity of Forests, Russia
Vladislav G. Sukhovolski, RAS Forest Institute, Russia

Carbon, Climate and Managed Land in Ukraine: Integrating Data and Models of Land Use for NEESPI.

Principal Investigator: Francesco Tubiello (tubiello@iiasa.ac.at), Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, USA
Co- Investigators: Cynthia Rosenzweig, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, USA
Gunther Fischer, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Anatoly Shvidenko, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria
Mykola Zalogin, Institute of Sustainable Development of Ukraine, Ukraine

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Quantifying CO2 Fluxes from Boreal Forests in Northern Eurasia: An Integrated Analysis of Flux Tower Data, Remote Sensing Data and Biogeochemical Modeling.

Principal Investigator: Changsheng Li (changsheng.li@unh.edu), University of New Hampshire, USA
Co-Investigators: Xiangming Xiao, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, University of New Hampshire, USA
Annette Schloss, University of New Hampshire, USA
Collaborators: Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Max-Plank-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Germany
Natalia N. Vygodskaya, RAS Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution Problems, Russia
Sergey A. Bartalev, RAS Space Research Institute, Russia
Sergey A. Blagodatsky, RAS Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Sciences, Russia

Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics of China in Support of GOFC/GOLD and NEESPI Sciences.

Principal Investigator: Jiaguo Qi (qi@msu.edu), Michigan State University, USA
Co-Investigators: Changsheng Li, University of New Hampshire, USA
Cuizhen Wang, University of Missouri - Columbia, USA
Guoqing Sun, University of Maryland, USA
Jiyuan Liu, Institute of Geographic Information and Natural
Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Drs. Joseph Messina, Mark Cochrane, Runsheng Yin, USA
Peng Gong, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Shuguang Liu, EROS Data Center, USA
Shuming Bao, University of Michigan, USA
Wei Gao, Colorado State University, USA
William Salas, Applied Geosolutions, LLC, USA
Xiangming Xiao, University of New Hampshire, USA
Yongyun Yin, British Columbia, Canada
Collaborators: Drs. Genian Lv and Wanchang Zhang, Nanjing University, China
Guoping Lei, Northeast Agricultural University, China
Jiaping Wu, Zhejiang University, China
Jiemin Wang, Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Institute, China
Jintao Xu, Institute of Geographic Information and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Lin Zheng, Jiangxi Normal University, China
Drs. Qingdong Shi and Xiaoling Pan, Xinjiang University, China
Drs. Yanhua Bao and Zhigang Li, Heilongjiang Bureau of Survey and Mapping, China
Ya-Qiu Jin, Fudan University, China
Zhongdong Feng, Lanzhou University, China

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Development of an Integrated System of Ground-, Air- and Space-Based Observations of Biomass Burning in Northern Eurasia.

Principal Investigator: Ivan Csiszar (icsiszar@hermes.geog.umd.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Tatiana Loboda, University of Maryland, Department of Geography, USA
Collaborators: Dmitry Ershov, Center of Forest Ecology and Productivity, Moscow, Russia
Alexey Mazurov, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir Belov, Institute for Atmospheric Optics, Tomsk, Russia
Anatoly Sukhinin, Sukachev Forest Institute, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Sergei Tashchilin, Institute for Solar and Terrestrial Physics, Irkutsk, Russia

Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains.

Principal Investigators: Libor Jansky (Jansky@hq.unu.edu), Environment and Sustainable Development Programme, United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan and
Anna Tengberg (Anna.Tengberg@unep.org ), Land Degradation Unit, UNEP/GEF Division, United Nations Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Co-Investigators: Hans Hurni, Center for Environment and Development, University of Berne, Switzerland
Michael Stocking, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Teiji Watanabe, Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
Kazuo Mizushima, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan
Fabrice Renaud, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security, Bonn, Germany
Collaborators: Kokul Kasirov, State Directorate for Protected Areas "Tajik National Park", State Committee on Environment Conservation and Forestry, Tajikistan
Turuzbek Tashybekov, National Center for Mountain Region Development, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Francis Turkelboom, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria
Zakir Khalikulov, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Thomas Schaaf, Division of Ecological and Earth Sciences, Man and Biosphere Programme, UNESCO, Paris, France

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Siberia Integrated Regional Study (SIRS)

Among Projects integrated into SIRS are those funded by the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences as Integrated Interdisciplinary Projects for 2006-2008, and Basic Research Projects for 2007-2009 (due to a specifics of the RAS funding mechanism each large Project is undergoing a thorough review each year in order to secure continuous support) as well as Cooperative International Projects funded by several foreign Agencies and International Programs

Principal Investigators:
Evgeny Vaganov (eavaganov@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Institute of Forest Studies, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Evgeny Gordov (gordov@scert.ru), Siberian Center for Environmental Research, Tomsk, Russia
Michael Kabanov (kabanov@imces.ru), RAS Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Tomsk, Russia
Mikhail I. Kuzmin (isc@isc.irk.ru), Institute of Geochemistry SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia
Vasily Lykosov (lykossov@inm.ras.ru), RAS Institute for Numerical Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
Vladimir P. Melnikov (melnikov@ikz.ru), Tyumen Scientific Center SB RAS, RAS Earth Cryosphere Institute, Tyumen, Russia
Oleg F. Vasiliev (vasiliev@ad-sbras.nsc.ru), Novosibirsk Branch Institute for Water and Environmental Problems, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Co-Investigators:
Alexander Baklanov (alb@dmi.dk), Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
Andrey G. Degermendzhi (ibp@ibp.ru), Institute of Biophysics SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Anatoly P. Derevyanko (derev@archaeology.nsc.ru), Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Anatoly M. Fedotov (fedotov@sbras.ru), Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Vyacheslav I. Kharuk (kharuk@ksc.krasn.ru), Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Nikolay A. Kolchanov (kol@bionet.nsc.ru), Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Vladimir N. Krupchatnikov (vkrup@ommfao1.sscc.ru), Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Victor I. Kuzin (kuzin@sscc.ru), Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Alexander A. Onuchin (onuchin@ksc.krasn.ru), Institute of Forest SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Vladimir V. Penenko (penenko@sscc.ru), Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Petr Yu. Pushistov (push@uriit.ru), Ugra Research Institute of Information Technologies, Khanty-Mansiisk, Russia
Vladimir V. Shaidurov (shidurov@icm.krasn.ru), Institute of Computational Modeling SB RAS, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Collaborators:
Gerard Begni (begni@medias.cnes.fr), MEDIAS-FRANCE, Toulouse, France
Nikolay N. Filatov (nfilatov@nwpi.krc.karelia.ru), Northern Water Problems Institute KRC RAS, Petrozavodsk, Russia
Martin Heimann (martin.heimann@bgc-jena.mpg.de), Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Kostas Karatzas (kkara@eng.auth.gr), Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Igor L. Karol’ (karol@main.mgo.rssi.ru), Main Geophysical Observatory, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Igor I. Mokhov (mokhov@ifaran.ru), A.M.Obukhov Institute for Atmospheric Physics, RAS, Moscow, Russia
Gennady N. Panin (panin@aqua.laser.ru), Institute of Water Problems RAS, Moscow, Russia
Anatoly Shvidenko (shvidenk@iiasa.ac.at), International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Galina Tolkacheva (nigmi@albatros.uz), Research Institute for Hydrometeorological Information, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Edige Zakarin (zakarin@kgc.kz), KazGeoKosmos, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Sergey Zilitinkevich (sergej.zilitinkevich@fmi.fi), Finnish Meteorological Institute, Helsinki, Finland

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Integrated study of natural and climatic changes and accompanying land-use risks
    Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigator: Michael V. Kabanov (post@imces.ru), SB RAS Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Tomsk, Russia.

Functioning, biodiversity, ecological and resource potential of Siberian forests
    Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigator: Evgeney A. Vaganov (institute@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Institute of Forest Studies, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

Integrated Interdisciplinary SIRS Research Projects

Development of distributed informational analytical media for ecological systems study
    Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigators: Nikolay A. Kolchanov (kol@bionet.nsc.ru), Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Anatoly M. Fedotov (fedotov@sbras.ru), Institute of Computational Technologies SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Evgeny P. Gordov, (gordov@scert.ru), SB RAS Institute of Monitoring of Climatic and Ecological Systems, Tomsk, Russia.

Evolution of natural processes, man and his culture in late Cenozoic in Siberia and their influence on eco- and geosystems stability     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigators: Anatoly P. Derevyanko (derev@archaeology.nsc.ru), Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
Evgeny A. Vaganov (eavaganov@forest.akadem.ru), RAS Institute of Forest Studies, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Mikhail I. Kuzmin (isc@isc.irk.ru), Institute of Geochemistry SB RAS, Irkutsk, Russia

Cooperative International SIRS Research projects

Enviro-RISKS: Man-induced Environmental Risks: Monitoring, Management and Remediation of Man-made Changes in Siberia     Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigator: Alexander Baklanov (alb@dmi.dk), Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

ENVIROMIS-2: Environmental Observations, Modeling and Information Systems - 2.
    Member of SIRS Mega-project.

Lead Investigator: Evgeny Gordov (gordov@scert.ru), Siberian Center for Environmental Research, Tomsk, Russia.

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Development of a Network of Permafrost Observatories in North America and Russia: The US Contribution to the International Polar Year.

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Integrated interdisciplinary research on ecological and economic problems in the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan.

Climate Change impacts and adaptation research on scientific issues -Retrospective Analysis and climate scenarios.

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Assessing forest-tundra transition zone in the Northern Hemisphere with multisensor satellite data.

Principal Investigator: K. Jon Ranson (jon.ranson@nasa.gov), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Co-Investigators: Ross F. Nelson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
Guoqing Sun, Dept. of Geography, University of Maryland-College Park, Maryland, USA
Hank Margolis, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Vyacheslav I. Kharuk, RAS Sukachev Institute of Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Estimation of seasonal snow cover, glacial and lake area changes at the Ob'/Yenisey river heads during the last 40 years using NASA ESE products and in situ data.

Principal Investigator: Vladimir Aizen (aizen@uidaho.edu), University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Co-Investigators: Elena Aizen and Arzhan Surazhakov, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, USA
Collaborators: Stanislav A. Nikitin and Uriu K. Narojniy, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia

IPY: Collaborative Research on Carbon, Water, and Energy Balance of the Arctic Landscape at Flagship Observatories and in a PanArctic Network.

Principal Investigator: Syndonia Bret-Harte (ffmsb@uaf.edu), Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Co-Investigators: Gus Shaver (gshaver@mbl.edu), Marine Biological Lab., Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
John Hobbie (jhobbie@mbl.edu), Marine Biological Lab., Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Ed Rastetter (erastett@mbl.edu), Marine Biological Lab., Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
Brian Barnes (ffbmb@uaf.edu), Institute of Arctic Biology,University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Sergey Zimov (sazimov@cher.sakha.ru), North-East Science Station, Cherskii, Sakha (Yakutia), Russia
Katey Walter (ftkmw1@uaf.edu), Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA

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Environmental conditions of the epoch of the earliest human inhabitat of Northern Eurasia in the late pleistocene and holocene.

Principal Investigator: Andrey A. Velichko (paleo_igras@mail.ru, paleo@online.ru), RAS Institute for Geography, Moscow, Russia
Collaborators: Eleva Y. Novenko, RAS Institute for Geography, Moscow, Russia
Nancy Bigelow (ffnhb@uaf.edu), University of Alaska - Fairbanks, Fairbanks, USA
Jacques Cinq-Mars (jacques.cinqmars@sympatico.ca), Canadian Museum of Civilisation, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Pavel M. Dolukhanov (Pavel.Dolukhanov@ncl.ac.uk), University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Roger Engelmark, University of Umeo, Umeo, Sweden
Petri Halinen, Lavento Mika, and Matti Saarnisto, all three from University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Knut Helskog, Jakob Moller, and Bjornar Olsen, all three from University of Tromso, Tromso, Norway
David Yesner (AFDRY@uaa.alaska.edu) University of Alaska, Anchorage, USA
Svend Funder (Svf@snm.ku.dk, svf@savik.geomus.ku.dk) Geological Museum, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

The estimation of CO2 and CH4 fluxes in Siberia using a tower observation network.


Principal Investigators: Toshinobu Machida (tmachida@nies.go.jp) and Shamil Maksyutov (shamil@nies.go.jp), National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan
Co-Investigators: Boris Belan and Mikhail Arshinov, Institute of Atmospheric Optic, Tomsk, Russia
Sergey Mitin, Institute of Microbiology, Moscow, Russia
Innokentiy Plusnin, Surgut State University, Surgut, Russia
Nikolay Fedoseev, Permafrost Research Institute, Yakutsk, Russia

Collaborative Research: Synthesis of Arctic system carbon cycle research through model-data fusion studies using atmospheric inversion and process-based approaches.

Environment and sustanable development of the Mongolian Plateau Region.

Data Fusion Grid Infrastructure.

Diagnosis and prognosis of changes in lake and wetland extent on the regional carbon balance of northern Eurasia.

Quantifying Changes in Northern High Latitude Ecosystems and Associated Feedbacks to the Climate System.

Collaborative Research. IPY: The Polaris Project: Rising Stars in the Arctic.

Northern Eurasian Landscapes: Interactions Between Humans, Hydrology, Land Cover and Land Use.

Human Impact on Land-cover Changes in the Heart of Asia.
Principal Investigator: Igor Okladnikov (oig@scert.ru), Siberian Center for Environmental research and Training, Tomsk, Russia
Collaborators:Olga Krankina (olga.krankina@oregonstate.edu), Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA
Renchin Tsolmon (tsolmon@num.edu.mn), National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Diagnostics and modelling of climate in polar and subpolar regions.

Changes of Land Cover and Land Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Northern Eurasia: Impacts on Human Adaptation and Quality of Life at Regional and Global Scales.

NASA Data and Services Supporting Monsoon Asia Integrated Regional Study in Eastern Asia.

Interactive Changes of Ecosystems and Societies on the Mongolian Plateau: From Coupled Regulations of Land Use and Changing Climate to Adaptation.

Impact of climate changes on the hydrological cycle, water resources security, and on adaptive strategy in China.

Synthesis of Forest Growth, Response to Wildfires and Carbon Storage for Russian Forests Using a Distributed, Individual-Based Forest Model.    Abstract.

Climate- and Fire-induced Vegetation, Agricultural and Albedo Change in Northern Eurasia: Consequences to Gases, Aerosols and Radiative Fluxes. Abstract.

Complex studies of the impact of anthropogenic and wildfire atmospheric emissions on air quality and climate in North Eurasia with use of observational data and numerical modeling of the atmospheric composition.    Abstract.

Investigation of the formation mechanisms and tendencies of change of climatic anomalies and dangerous weather events in the Black Sea region based on climate modelling and instrumental observations.    Abstract.

Analysis of blocking characteristics and assessment of its influence on extreme weather events in Russian Federation under climate change based on mathematical modelling and monitoring data.    Abstract.

European and Russian Extreme Events: Mechanisms, Variability and Future Climate Change.    Abstract.

Collaborative Research: Crops, Climate, Canals and the Cryosphere in Asia - Changing Water Resources around the Earth's Third Pole.    Abstract.

LCLUC synthesis: Forested Land-Cover and Land-Use Change in the Far East of Northern Eurasia under the Combined Drivers of Climate and Socio-Economic Transformation.
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