Climate Science for Serving Society : Research, Modeling and Prediction Priorities - Asrar, Ghassem R.; Hurrell, James W.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
1. The World Climate Research Program Research Strategy and Priorities: Next Decade -- 2. Challenges of a Sustained Climate Observing System -- 3. On the Reprocessing and Reanalysis of Observations For Climate -- 4. Climate Processes: Clouds, Aerosols and Dynamics -- 5. Aerosol Cloud-Mediated Radiative Forcing: Highly Uncertain and Opposite Effects From Shallow and Deep Clouds -- 6. Improving Understanding of the Global Hydrologic Cycle -- 7. Land Cover and Land Use Changes and Their Impacts on Hydroclimate, Ecosystems and Society -- 8. Prediction From Weeks To Decades -- 9. Assessing the Reliability of Climate Models, CMIP5 -- 10. Changes In Variability Associated With Climate Change -- 11. Understanding and Predicting Climate Variability and Change at Regional Scales -- 12. Attribution of Weather and Climate-Related Extreme Events -- 13. Challenges in Estimating and Understanding Recent Changes in the Frequency and Intensity of Extreme Climate and Weather Events -- 14. Carbon Dioxide and Climate: Perspectives on a Scientific Assessment -- 15. Atmospheric Composition, Irreversible Climate Change, and Mitigation Policy -- 16. Building Adaptive Capacity To Climate Change in Less Developed Countries -- 17. A Climate and Health Partnership to Inform the Prevention and Control of Meningococcal Meningitis in Sub-Saharan Africa: The MERIT Initiative.
Keywords: Environmental monitoring; Physical geography; Environmental sciences; Earth sciences; Sustainable development; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Earth System Sciences; Environmental Physics; Earth Sciences, general; Sustainable Development