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COMPASS-GLM: Coastal Observations, Mechanisms, and Predictions Across Systems and Scales (COMPASS) Great Lakes Modeling (GLM)

The COMPASS-GLM project aims to enhance our understanding of coastal areas by studying both natural environments and human influences in great detail. Focusing on the Great Lakes Region, the project examines how local ecosystems and human activities affect each other and how they both respond to climate change. The insights and tools developed from this project can also be applied to other coastal regions to better understand and manage the impacts of climate systems and human actions on these areas.
Keywords coastal modeling, Great Lakes Region, high-resolution watershed modeling, regional modeling
TYPE Project
Principal Investigator (PI)
Rob Hetland
Lead Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Other Collaborators
Argonne National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Baylor University Heidelberg University Michigan Technical University Pennsylvania State University
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