The Lake-Atmosphere Interactions project (LAIP) develops and applies regional and global climate models and surface process models in the context of broadly interdisciplinary research aimed at addressing past, present and future climate hypotheses, questions and issues and at providing climate data for applied research. The project research is conducted across a wide range of temporal (the past 106 years and into the future) and spatial (global to local) scales. Project objectives are achieved by developing and applying a variety of numerical models, visualization techniques, web-based applications and statistical methods to quantify and explain interactions between the atmosphere, lakes, aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, glaciers, and wildfire.
