Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing, Communicating, and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Decision Making (open access)

Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing, Communicating, and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Decision Making

This report provides a tutorial for the climate analysis and decision-making communities on current best practice in describing and analyzing uncertainty in climate-related problems.
Date: January 2009
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes (open access)

Past Climate Variability and Change in the Arctic and at High Latitudes

This report discusses changes in temperature as well as land and sea ice mass and its effects on ecosystems and sea level.
Date: January 2009
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atmosphere Aerosol Properties and Climate Impacts (open access)

Atmosphere Aerosol Properties and Climate Impacts

"This report critically reviews current knowledge about global distributions and properties of atmospheric aerosols, as they relate to aerosol impacts on climate."
Date: January 2009
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems (open access)

Thresholds of Climate Change in Ecosystems

This report provides a synthesis of the present state of scientific understanding to the climate and decision making communities on potential abrupt state changes or regime shifts in ecosystems in response to climate change.
Date: January 2009
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library