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Modeling climate change in the absence of climate change data. editorial comment
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Skiles, J. W. |
| Copyright Year | 1995 |
| Description | Practitioners of climate change prediction base many of their future climate scenarios on General Circulation Models (GCM's), each model with differing assumptions and parameter requirements. For representing the atmosphere, GCM's typically contain equations for calculating motion of particles, thermodynamics and radiation, and continuity of water vapor. Hydrology and heat balance are usually included for continents, and sea ice and heat balance are included for oceans. The current issue of this journal contains a paper by Van Blarcum et al. (1995) that predicts runoff from nine high-latitude rivers under a doubled CO2 atmosphere. The paper is important since river flow is an indicator variable for climate change. The authors show that precipitation will increase under the imposed perturbations and that owing to higher temperatures earlier in the year that cause the snow pack to melt sooner, runoff will also increase. They base their simulations on output from a GCM coupled with an interesting water routing scheme they have devised. Climate change models have been linked to other models to predict deforestation. |
| File Size | 339847 |
| Page Count | 6 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19970003259 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t5v74c711 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1995-01-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Environment Pollution Deforestation Thermodynamics Climate Change Hydrology Atmospheric General Circulation Models Data Acquisition Predictions Carbon Dioxide Environment Effects Heat Balance Climate Models Water Vapor Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
