Climate science for serving society [electronic resource] : research, modeling and prediction priorities / Ghassem R. Asrar, James W. Hurrell, editors.
This volume offers a comprehensive survey and a close analysis of efforts to develop actionable climate information in support of vital decisions for climate adaptation, risk management and policy. Arising from submissions and discussion at the 2011 Open Science Conference (OSC) of the World Climate...
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Table of Contents:
- The World Climate Research Program Strategy and Priorities: Next Decade / Ghassem R. Asrar, James W. Hurrell
- Challenges of a Sustained Climate Observing System / Kevin E. Trenberth, Richard A. Anthes, Alan Belward
- On the Reprocessing and Reanalysis of Observations for Climate / Michael G. Bosilovich, John Kennedy, Dick Dee
- Climate Processes: Clouds, Aerosols and Dynamics / Steven C. Sherwood, M. Joan Alexander, Andy R. Brown
- Aerosol Cloud-Mediated Radiative Forcing: Highly Uncertain and Opposite Effects from Shallow and Deep Clouds / Daniel Rosenfeld, Robert Wood, Leo J. Donner
- Improving Understanding of the Global Hydrologic Cycle / Peter H. Gleick, Heather Cooley
- Land Use and Land Cover Changes and Their Impacts on Hydroclimate, Ecosystems and Society / Taikan Oki, Eleanor M. Blyth, Ernesto Hugo Berbery
- Prediction from Weeks to Decades / Ben Kirtman, David Anderson, Gilbert Brunet
- Assessing the Reliability of Climate Models, CMIP5 / Bart van den Hurk, Pascale Braconnot
- Changes in Variability Associated with Climate Change / Karen H. Rosenlof, Laurent Terray, Clara Deser
- Understanding and Predicting Climate Variability and Change at Monsoon Regions / Carolina Vera, William Gutowski, Carlos R. Mechoso
- Attribution of Weather and Climate-Related Events / Peter A. Stott, Myles Allen, Nikolaos Christidis
- Climate Extremes: Challenges in Estimating and Understanding Recent Changes in the Frequency and Intensity of Extreme Climate and Weather Events / Francis W. Zwiers, Lisa V. Alexander
- Carbon Dioxide and Climate: Perspectives on a Scientific Assessment / Sandrine Bony, Bjorn Stevens, Isaac H. Held
- Atmospheric Composition, Irreversible Climate Change, and Mitigation Policy / Susan Solomon, Raymond T. Pierrehumbert
- Building Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Less Developed Countries / Maria Carmen Lemos, Arun Agrawal, Hallie Eakin
- A Climate and Health Partnership to Inform the Prevention and Control of Meningoccocal Meningitis in Sub-Saharan Africa: The MERIT Initiative / Madeleine C. Thomson, E. Firth, M. Jancloes.