Alternative Title
Past Global Changes
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Publication Date
February 2012
Publication Title
PAGES News
Volume
20
Issue Number
1
Abstract
Contents: Inside PAGES -- Eulogy: Mohammed Umer Mohammed -- PAGES calendar -- Program News -- Ocean2k Working group – Call for participation -- Scientific Ocean Drilling: Voyage of Discovery beyond 2013 -- New SCOR/IGBP working group on modern planktonic foraminifera kicked off -- Special Section: Paired Perspectives on Global Change – Editorial -- Harnessing the past and the present in the service of the future -- Science Highlights -- Earth System models: How well do Earth system models simulate global change? -- Climate sensitivity: How sensitive is Earth’s climate to CO2 ? -- Carbon cycle: How are C sinks and sources varying with global change? -- Ocean circulation: Does large-scale circulation vary with climate change? -- Marine nutrient cycling: How will the ocean’s capacity of carbon pumping vary? -- Arctic sea ice: When will the Arctic Ocean become ice-free? -- Aerosols and climate: How sensitive is earth’s climate to atmospheric aerosols? -- Land cover change: How does human land cover dynamics affect climate change? -- Fire: Are we facing an increase in wildfires? -- Monsoon climate: Will summer rain increase or decrease in monsoon regions? -- El Niño-Southern Oscillation: What is the outlook for ENSO? -- Sea level rise: How much and how fast will sea level rise over the coming centuries? -- Hurricanes/Typhoons: Will tropical cyclones become stronger and more frequent? -- Coastlines: How do environmental changes affect coastlines and river deltas? -- Ocean Acidification: How will ongoing ocean acidification affect marine life? -- Water resources: How severe will freshwater shortages be on a regional scale? -- Ecosystem: How do ecosystems respond to climate change? -- Abrupt changes: Are tipping points a concern in coping with global change? -- Open Section -- Science Highlights -- Is there a global Holocene climate mode? -- Workshop Reports -- 2nd PAGES 2k Network Meeting: Review of current status -- The 1st Workshop of the PAGES Antarctica2k Working Group -- The nitrogen cycle in the ocean, past and present -- Sediment and carbon fluxes under human impact and climate change -- Ice sheet modeling, sea level and isostasy -- PMIP3: Tropical Climate Variability -- NAM2k: North American Dendroclimatic Data -- 3rd Polar Marine Diatom Taxonomy and Ecology Workshop -- Climate change in the Carpathian-Balkan region -- International conference of young scientists
Keywords
Education, Environment
Language
English
Identifier
K26-03237
Recommended Citation
Bondre, Ninad R.; Kiefer, Thorsten; and von Gunten, Lucien, "PAGES News, Volume 20, No. 1, February 2012" (2012). PAGES. 51.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/pages/51
