The role of direct observation in predicting climatic change
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Center for Ocean Analysis and Prediction (COAP) in Monterey, California, has assembled information to suggest how NOAA's facilities for observing the ocean and atmosphere might be applied to studies of paleoclimate. This effort resulted, indirectly, in several projects that combine direct observations of the ocean/atmosphere system with studies of past climate of the Pacific region. This article considers concepts that link the two kinds of investigations. It defines the thesis that direct observation of systems that generate paleoclimatic information is the nexus upon which understanding of climatic variability begins and upon which prediction of climate and global change depends.
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Main Author: | Anderson, Roger Y. |
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Format: | conference_item biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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1991
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Subjects: | Atmospheric Sciences, Earth Sciences, Oceanography, PACLIM, |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/31434 |
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