Climate Science for Serving Society : Research, Modeling and Prediction Priorities /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Asrar, Ghassem R. (Editor ), Hurrell, James W. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Edición:1st ed. 2013.
Materias:
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.