Climate Science for Serving Society - Research, Modeling and Prediction Priorities

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 Research Program (WCRP), the book addresses research and intellectual challenges which span the full range of Program activities.

List of contents

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.

Summary

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 Research Program (WCRP), the book addresses research and intellectual challenges which span the full range of Program activities.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ghassem R. Asrar (Editor), Asrar Ghassem (Editor), James W. Hurrell (Editor), Ghasse R Asrar (Editor), Ghassem R Asrar (Editor), W Hurrell (Editor), W Hurrell (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9789400792654
• ISBN: 978-94-0-079265-4
• No. of pages: 484
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 27 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 774 g
• Illustrations: XXXI, 484 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature and society: general, reference works; B, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, environmental science, engineering & technology, Environmental Social Sciences, Earth and Environmental Science, Pollution & threats to the environment, Earth Sciences, Earth System Sciences, Physical geography, Environmental Sciences, Earth Sciences, general, Environmental Monitoring, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Environmental Physics