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1 online resource (294 pages) |
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""Research Strategies for the U.S. Global Change Research Program""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Summary of Recommendations""; ""INTEGRATED MODELING OF THE EARTH SYSTEM""; ""FOCUSED STUDIES TO IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF GLOBAL CHANGE""; ""Earth System History and Modeling""; ""Human Sources of Global Change""; ""Water-Energy-Vegetation Interactions""; ""Terrestrial Trace Gas and Nutrient Fluxes""; ""Biogeochemical Dynamics in the Ocean""; ""DOCUMENTING GLOBAL CHANGE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""1 Introduction""; ""THE U.S. GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM"" |
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""INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS: IGBP AND WCRP""""OBJECTIVES AND ORGANIZATION OF THIS REPORT""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Integrated Modeling of the Earth System""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""ATMOSPHERE-TERRESTRIAL SUBSYSTEM""; ""A Modeling Strategy: Prognosis for Progress""; ""Research Priorities""; ""Summary""; ""PHYSICAL-CHEMICAL INTERACTIONS IN THE ATMOSPHERE""; ""A Modeling Strategy: Prognosis for Progress""; ""Research Priorities""; ""Summary""; ""ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SUBSYSTEM""; ""Uncoupled Models""; ""Coupled Models""; ""A Modeling Strategy: Prognosis for Progress""; ""Bottom-Up: A Focus on Key Processes"" |
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""Key Processes: Small Scales""""Limiting Processes: Mesoscales""; ""Limiting Processes: Basin and Global Scales""; ""Top-Down: A Focus on Phenomena""; ""Research Priorities""; ""Summary""; ""CRITICAL MODEL TESTS""; ""The Challenge and Critical Tests""; ""The Interface Models""; ""Atmosphere-Terrestrial Subsystem""; ""Physical-Chemical Interactions in the Atmosphere""; ""Atmosphere-Ocean Subsystem""; ""INFRASTRUCTURE""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Earth System History and Modeling""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""Contribution of Geologic Studies to Global Change""; ""Specific Research Initiatives""; ""Priorities"" |
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""Themes of the Proposed Research""""Implementation of the Research Plan""; ""HOLOCENE HIGH-RESOLUTION ENVIRONMENTAL RECONSTRUCTIONS""; ""The Last 1,000 to 2,000 Years""; ""Global Network of Environmental Change""; ""Observational Needs.""; ""Modeling Needs""; ""Little Ice Age""; ""Observational Needs""; ""Modeling Needs""; ""Regional Process Studies""; ""Observational Needs""; ""Modeling Needs""; ""Earlier Holocene Millennial-Scale Fluctuations""; ""Observational Needs""; ""Modeling Needs""; ""GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLES""; ""The Last 40,000 Years""; ""Abrupt Changes"" |
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""Observational Needs""""Modeling Needs""; ""Resolving Model-Data Discrepancies over the Last 20,000 Years""; ""Observational Needs""; ""Modeling Needs""; ""The Last Glacial Cycle (Last 130,000 Years)""; ""Global Carbon Cycle""; ""Observational Needs""; ""Modeling Needs""; ""The Previous Interglacial""; ""Observational Needs""; ""Modeling Needs""; ""Regional Variations in Climate over a Glacial Cycle""; ""Observational Needs""; ""The Last Few Glacial-Interglacial Cycles (Last 500,000 Years)""; ""Observational Needs""; ""Modeling Needs""; ""SYSTEM RESPONSES TO LARGE CHANGES IN FORCING"" |
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""Environments of Extreme Warm Periods"" |
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Print version record |
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U.S. Global Change Research Program.
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U.S. Global Change Research Program fast |
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Climatic changes -- Research -- Government policy -- United States
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Geodynamics -- Research -- Government policy -- United States
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Global warming -- Research -- Government policy -- United States
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Climatic changes -- Research -- Government policy
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Geodynamics -- Research -- Government policy
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Global warming -- Research -- Government policy
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Research -- Government policy
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Earth (Planet) -- Research -- Government policy -- United States
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Earth (Planet)
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United States
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309543705 |
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0309543703 |
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