Editorial: key themes and messages from the Earth System Science 2010 conference

摘要

Earth System Science 2010 was the first AIMES Open Science Meeting, held in Edinburgh in May 2010. AIMES - Analysis, Integration and Modelling of the Earth System - is a networking project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme. It aims to build a deeper and more quantitative understanding of Earth's biogeochemical cycles, their interactions with the physical climate system, and the interplay with the human system. The conference was convened and organized by QUEST (Quantifying and Understanding the Earth System, www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/quest), a major UK research programme on global change that shares that aim, and which has actively supported research and community-strengthening activities in Earth system science.