The joint iLEAPS-GEIA (integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study - Global Emission InitiAtive) initiative called CANEXMIP has two major goals;
1) to introduce the experimental community into the use of canopy reactive trace gas and aerosol exchange models as a tool for evaluation of their field measurements
2) to demonstrate the current skills, feasibility but also need to implement these canopy exchange modelling systems in the current generation of Earth system and environmental models.