Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling to Support Climate Change Assessment Activities
Title | Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling to Support Climate Change Assessment Activities PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 77 |
Release | 1999-01-27 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309173434 |
The U.S. government has pending before it the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which is largely based on the threat GHGs pose to the global climate. Such an agreement would have significant economic and national security implications, and therefore any national policy decisions regarding this issue should rely in part on the best possible suite of scenarios from climate models. The U.S. climate modeling research community is a world leader in intermediate and smaller climate modeling efforts-research that has been instrumental in improving the understanding of specific components of the climate system. Somewhat in contrast, the United States has been less prominent in producing high-end climate modeling results, which have been featured in recent international assessments of the impacts of climate change. The fact that U.S. contributions of these state-of-the-art results have been relatively sparse has prompted a number of prominent climate researchers to question the current organization and support of climate modeling research in the United States, and has led ultimately to this report.
Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling to Support Climate Change Assessment Activities
Title | Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling to Support Climate Change Assessment Activities PDF eBook |
Author | Climate Research Committee |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 78 |
Release | 1999-02-10 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309592798 |
The U.S. government has pending before it the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which is largely based on the threat GHGs pose to the global climate. Such an agreement would have significant economic and national security implications, and therefore any national policy decisions regarding this issue should rely in part on the best possible suite of scenarios from climate models. The U.S. climate modeling research community is a world leader in intermediate and smaller climate modeling efforts-research that has been instrumental in improving the understanding of specific components of the climate system. Somewhat in contrast, the United States has been less prominent in producing high-end climate modeling results, which have been featured in recent international assessments of the impacts of climate change. The fact that U.S. contributions of these state-of-the-art results have been relatively sparse has prompted a number of prominent climate researchers to question the current organization and support of climate modeling research in the United States, and has led ultimately to this report.
Implementing Climate and Global Change Research
Title | Implementing Climate and Global Change Research PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 109 |
Release | 2004-09-16 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309088658 |
The report reviews a draft strategic plan from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a program formed in 2002 to coordinate and direct U.S. efforts in climate change and global change research. The U.S. Climate Change Science Program incorporates the decade-old Global Change Research Program and adds a new component -the Climate Change Research Initiative-whose primary goal is to "measurably improve the integration of scientific knowledge, including measures of uncertainty, into effective decision support systems and resources."
Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Title | Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program PDF eBook |
Author | Climate Change Science Program (U.S.) |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Biotic communities |
ISBN |
Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling
Title | Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 145 |
Release | 2001-05-18 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309072573 |
Information derived from climate modeling has become increasingly important in recent years. More and more we understand that climate variability and change impacts society and that dealing with climate-related disasters, conflicts, and opportunities requires the best possible information about the past, present, and future of the climate system. To this end, Improving the Effectiveness of U.S. Climate Modeling describes ways to improve the efficacy of the U.S. climate modeling enterprise, given the current needs and resources. It discusses enhanced and stable resources for modeling activities, focused and centralized operational activities, how to give researchers access to the best computing facilities, the creation of a common modeling and data infrastructure, and research studies on the socioeconomic aspects of climate and climate modeling.
The U.S. national climate change assessment
Title | The U.S. national climate change assessment PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 88 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
New Directions in Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment
Title | New Directions in Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Total Pages | 44 |
Release | 2009-03-17 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309130069 |
With effective climate change mitigation policies still under development, and with even the most aggressive proposals unable to halt climate change immediately, many decision makers are focusing unprecedented attention on the need for strategies to adapt to climate changes that are now unavoidable. The effects of climate change will touch every corner of the world's economies and societies; adaptation is inevitable. The remaining question is to what extent humans will anticipate and reduce undesired consequences of climate change, or postpone response until after climate change impacts have altered ecological and socioeconomic systems so significantly that opportunities for adaptation become limited. This book summarizes a National Research Council workshop at which presentations and discussion identified specific needs associated with this gap between the demand and supply of scientific information about climate change adaptation.