Decade-to-Century-Scale Climate Variability and Change:

A Science Strategy

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Publication Year:1998

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Panel on Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales, National Research Council
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Society today may be more vulnerable to global-scale, long-term, climate change than ever before. Even without any human influence, past records show that climate can be expected to continue to undergo considerable change over decades to centuries. Measures for adaption ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Executive Summary	1-5	(skim)
1 Introduction	6-8	(skim)
2 Climate Attributes That Influence Society	9-24	(skim)
3 Modes of Climate Variability	25-38	(skim)
4 Mechanisms and Predictability	39-47	(skim)
5 Climate-System Components	48-110	(skim)
6 Crosscutting Issues	111-123	(skim)
7 Conclusions and Recommendation	124-125	(skim)
References	126-140	(skim)
Acronyms and Abbreviations	141-142	(skim)
Plates 1-6	143-146	(skim)

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Society today may be more vulnerable to global-scale, long-term, climate change than ever before. Even without any human influence, past records show that climate can be expected to continue to undergo considerable change over decades to centuries. Measures for adaption and mitigation will call for policy decisions based on a sound scientific foundation. Better understanding and prediction of climate variations can be achieved most efficiently through a nationally recognized "dec-cen" science plan. This book articulates the scientific issues that must be addressed to advance us efficiently toward that understanding and outlines the data collection and modeling needed.

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