101 research outputs found
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A Report of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources National Science and Technology Council
This report not only addresses climate change, but also other change in the global environment, including water resources, oceans, atmospheric chemistry, land productivity, and ecological systems that may alter the capacity of Earth to sustain life
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A Climate-Oriented Approach for Learners of All Ages
This guide aims to help individuals and communities know and understand Earth’s climate, the impacts of climate change, and approaches to adaptation or mitigation. The guide aims to promote greater climate science literacy by providing an educational framework of principles and concepts. The guide can serve educators who teach climate science as a way to meet content standards in their science curricula
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Scientific Assessment of the Effects of Global Change on the United States: Summary and Findings
This is a fact-sheet for U. S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP). Information relates to the scientific assessment of the effects of global change on the United States
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The First State of the Carbon Cycle Report: North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle: Summary and Frequently Asked Questions
2-sided color pamphlet on the global carbon cycle and North American carbon budget. Answers these questions: Why should we care about the global carbon cycle; What are the activities that produce emissions from fossil fuels in North America; What are the activities in North America that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere; What are the management options for reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations
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Synthesis and Assessment Product
This fact sheet summarizes information from a recent assessment of possible adaptation options to protect climate-sensitive ecosystems in the United States
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Overview of the CCSP Strategic Plan
The Strategic Plan for the Climate Change Science Program was released in July 2003. The document is the first comprehensive update of a national plan for climate and global change research since the original U.S. Global Change Research Program strategy was issued at the inception of the program in 1989
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Planning Climate and Global Change Research: A Review of the Draft U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan
A draft strategic plan for the Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) was released to the scientific community and the public in November 2002. At the request of the CCSP, the National Academies formed a committee to review this draft strategic plan; the results of this review are reported herein
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Synthesis and Assessment Product
This Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product addresses current capabilities to integrate observations of the climate system into a consistent description of past and current conditions through the method of reanalysis. In addition, the Product assesses present capabilities to attribute causes for climate variations and trends over North America during the reanalysis period, which extends from the mid-twentieth century to the present.
This Product reviews the strengths and limitations of current atmospheric reanalysis products. It finds that reanalysis data play a crucial role in helping to identify, describe, and understand atmospheric features associated with weather and climate variability, including high-impact events such as major droughts and floods. Reanalysis data play an important role in assessing the ability of climate models to simulate the average climate and its variations. The data also help in identifying deficiencies in representations of physical processes that produce climate model errors
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Synthesis and Assessment Product
This report critically reviews current knowledge about global distributions and properties of atmospheric aerosols as they relate to aerosol impacts on climate. It assesses possible steps to substantially reduce uncertainties in aerosol radiative forcing estimates
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Synthesis and Assessment Product
This document is a part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Strategic Plan. The report describes how climate affects the design, construction, safety, operations, and maintenance of transportation infrastructure and systems. The prospect of a changing climate raises critical questions regarding how alterations in temperature, precipitation, storm events, and other aspects of the climate could affect the nation's roads, airports, rail, transit systems, pipelines, ports, and waterways. Phase I of this regional assessment of climate change and its potential impacts on transportation systems addresses these questions for the region of the U.S. central Gulf Coast between Galveston, Texas and Mobile, Alabama
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