Climate research system

Technical Report · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5398565

Bradely, R S ^[1]; Diaz, H F ^[2]; Kelly, P M; Jones, P D ^[3]

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1. Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA (United States)
2. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO (United States)
3. East Anglia Univ., Norwich (United Kingdom)

This report primarily summarises the results of work accomplished in year 3 of the grant; previous reports have documented earlier progress. At the outset of this project, we set out to accomplish the following goals: (1) to improve and extend the DOE long-term surface climate data set in order to provide more accurate estimates of regional climate variations; (2) to analyse in detail critical regions of the earth, which because of their locations and special climate characteristics provide a natural laboratory where the impacts of global climate change are likely to be felt first and/or most severely; (3) assess temporal and spatial coherence of hydrologic variability, particularly in those regions identified as especially vulnerable to greenhouse gas-induced climatic change; and (4) undertake more detailed comparisons of GCM simulations of future climate with increased greenhouse gas concentrations, in relation to regional climatic patterns over the oceans and continents. Over the past three years, we have addressed each of these topics. In this paper, we provide a summary of research, organised thematically, to highlight the more important findings. 29 refs., 22 figs., 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Univ., Amherst, MA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-89ER69017
• OSTI ID: 5398565
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/69017-3; ON: DE91016903
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AMBIENT TEMPERATURE
ARCTIC REGIONS
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CLIMATE MODELS
CLIMATES
DISASTERS
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GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS
GLOBAL ASPECTS
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
METEOROLOGY
MONSOONS
POLAR REGIONS
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REGIONAL ANALYSIS
RESEARCH PROGRAMS
SEAS
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VOLCANISM