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Electronic Publications About Climate

The environment since 1970 - Ausubel, Jesse et al., Consequences, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1995

A review of environmental change since 1970. It considers change in three ways: assessing the underlying forces of economic and population growth, indicators of the environment itself, and changes in management and institutions.

The use of the information highway to explore climate variability - Baker, C. B. and D. E. Brinegar, NOAA

An overview of the Global Climate Perspectives System (GCPS) designed to examine regional to global scale climate changes by using station and gridded climate data.

The quality control of long-term climatological data using objective data analysis - Baker, C. B., et al., NOAA

An objective quality control analysis scheme is used to examine global climate data for temporal and spatial outliers.

Climate models: How reliable are their predictions? - Barron, Eric J., Consequences, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1995

A summary of U.S. Global Change Forum convened in late 1994 to develop a statement on the credibility of modeled projections of climate change and to provide background to the government for considering and developing national policy options.

Interactive species distribution reporting, mapping and modelling using the World Wide Web - Boston, Tony and David Stockwell

A description of links between the WWW and the Australian Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) to allow fast and easy access to information on the distribution of plants and animals, nature conservation, and other environmentally related data sets.

The Global Climate Perspective System: An intelligent database system for the analysis of environmental data - Carroll, T. J. and C. B. Baker, NOAA

A description of the Global Climate Perspectives System (GCPS) as an implementation of an intelligent database system.

Climate research and the Web: Integrating World Wide Web and Mosaic capabilities into the Climate Diagnostics Center - Collins, Julia A.

A discussion of the transition of the CDC from a traditional data storage and distribution paradigm to a site that emphasizes the use of WWW capabilities.

Remembrance of things past: Greenhouse lessons from the geologic record - Crowley, Thomas J., Consequences, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996

A review of some of the research that allows modeled projections of greenhouse warming to be plaved in the context of past climates, sometimes called paleoclimates.

Impacts of a projected deplection of the ozone layer - de Gruijl, Frank R., Consequences, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1995

A review of the effects of ozone depletion and the resultant increase in ultraviolet radiation.

Advanced energy technologies and climate change: An analysis using the Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM) - Edmonds, J. A. et al., PNL

The probability of sea level rise - EPA

A report that develops probability-based projections that can be added to local tide-gauge trends to estimate future sea level changes at particular locations.

Future on-line data access at NOAA's NCDC - Faas, Wayne, and R. J. Snodgrass, NCDC, NOAA

Palynological data from Pliocene sediments, DSDP Leg 5 site 32, Northeastern Pacific Ocean - Fleming, R. Farley, USGS Open File Report 92-712

Palynological data from DSDP Site 32, located in the northeast Pacific Ocean approximately 380 km off the coast of California. The data consists of a matrix of absolute count data (numbers of specimens) and a matrix of relative abundance data (percentages). These data are used to make semi-quantitative and qualitative estimates of climatic parameters during the Pliocene for western North America.

America's water supply: status and prospects for the future - Frederick, K. D., Consequences, Vol. 1, 1995

A review of various aspects of the water supply, including the uncertaintly of the supply, the rising costs of developing new supplies, the vulnerability of present resources, the importance of the resource, and present institutional shortcomings.

The use of NOAA-AVHRR data for assessment of the urban heat island effect - Gallo, K. P. et al., NCDC, NOAA

Economic interest in global climate change/variability - Green, Christopher, CCGCR, McGill University

Databasing Diversity - Green, David G., ANU

A review of the solutions offered by distributed, public domain databases to the problems that hinder the compilation of information on diversity.

Live visualization and extraction of climate data with Mosaic and FERRET - Hankin, Steve and Jerry Davison

Global and U.S. national population trends - Haub, Carl, Consequences, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1995

IPCC Second Assessment Report - IPCC, IPCC

The sythesis report and the summaries for policymakers reports from all three working groups are avaialable online.

Geological indicators of rapid environmental change: An international checklist - IUGS

Global warming update - Karl, T. R. and C. B. Baker, NOAA

Trends in U.S. climate during the twentieth century - Karl, T. R. et al., Consequences, Vol. 1, 1995

Indices of climate change for the United States - Karl, T. R. et al., NCDC, NOAA, 1995

A new perspective on recent global warming: Asymmetric trends of daily maximum and minimum temperature - Karl, T. R. et al., NCDC, NOAA, 1993

The sun and climate - Lean, Judith and David Rind, Consequences, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996

The winter of `95-`96 - A season of extremes - Lott, Neal, et al., NCDC, NOAA

The winter of `96-`97 - West coast flooding - Lott, Neal, et al., NCDC, NOAA

Mosiac, HDF and EOSDIS: Providing access to earth sciences data - Meyer, Theodore et al.

Past and present land use and land cover in the USA - Meyer, William B., Consequences, Vol. 1, 1995

Seasonal change of the diurnal cycle of precipitation over Japan and Malaysia - Oki, Taikan and Katumi Musiake, GSFC, NASA

A simple model for estimating methane concentration and lifetime variations - Osborn, T. J. and T. M. L. Wigley, 1994

Potential impacts of climate change on agriculture and food supply - Rosenzweig, Cynthia and Daniel Hillel, Consequences, Vol. 1, No. 2, 1995

How bountiful are ocean fisheries? - Rothschild, Brian J., Consequences, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1996

Missing carbon sinks, beaver ponds, and the boreal carbon budget - Roulet, Nigel, et al., CCGCR, McGill University

What can analysis tell us about the stability of the thermohaline circulation? - Schmidt, Gavin, CCGCR, McGill University

Salinity and temperature anomalies in the northern North Atlantic: Can the Great Salinity Anomaly be traced in coastal tree-ring chronologies? - Slonosky, Victoria, and L. A. Mysak, CCGCR, McGill University

Mosaic access to realtime data from the TOGA-TAO array of moored buoys - Soreide, N. et al.

Climate Change Fact Sheets - UNEP

Over 90 online fact sheets about climate divided into three series: causes, impacts and international response.

Forum on global change modeling - USGCRP

A report of a conference intended to develop a statement on the credibility of projections of climate change provided by general circulation models in the context of developing and considering national policy options.

Our changing planet: The FY 1996 USGCRP - USGCRP

MAGICC (Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse-gas Induced Climate Change: User's Guide and Scientific Reference Manual - Wigley, T. M. L., 1994

Thermal expansion of sea water associated with global warming - Wigley, T. M. L. and S. C. B. Raper, 1987

Implications for climate and sea level of revised IPCC emissions scenarios - Wigley, T. M. L. and S. C. B. Raper, 1992

Information for a changing world: CIESIN's use of WWW to facilitate access to data and information relevant to human interactions in the environment - Zimmerman, Frederick and Peter Young

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