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Appendix B
Statement of Task

The CRC will prepare a brief report that assesses the capacity of the U.S. climate modeling community to support national and international climate assessments, including an evaluation of the allocation and availability of computational resources for this purpose. The report should address three issues relevant to the climate modeling effort within the purview of the USGCRP:

1. Do USGCRP agencies have a coordinated approach for prioritizing from a national perspective their climate modeling research and assessment efforts?

2. Are resources allocated effectively to address such priorities?

3. How can the U.S. climate modeling community make more efficient use of its available resources?

These issues should be addressed in the context of other international climate modeling activities. The report should not contain recommendations, but should include findings and conclusions with supporting analysis and discussion.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B - Statement of Task." National Research Council. 1998. Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling to Support Climate Change Assessment Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6365.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B - Statement of Task." National Research Council. 1998. Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling to Support Climate Change Assessment Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6365.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B - Statement of Task." National Research Council. 1998. Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling to Support Climate Change Assessment Activities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/6365.
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The U.S. government has pending before it the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement to limit the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), which is largely based on the threat GHGs pose to the global climate. Such an agreement would have significant economic and national security implications, and therefore any national policy decisions regarding this issue should rely in part on the best possible suite of scenarios from climate models.

The U.S. climate modeling research community is a world leader in intermediate and smaller climate modeling efforts-research that has been instrumental in improving the understanding of specific components of the climate system. Somewhat in contrast, the United States has been less prominent in producing high-end climate modeling results, which have been featured in recent international assessments of the impacts of climate change. The fact that U.S. contributions of these state-of-the-art results have been relatively sparse has prompted a number of prominent climate researchers to question the current organization and support of climate modeling research in the United States, and has led ultimately to this report.

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