National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate

Advancing the Science of Climate Change

Climate change is occurring, is caused largely by human activities, and poses significant risks for-and in many cases is already affecting-a broad ran...

Review of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program's Synthesis and Assessment Product 5.2, "Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing, Communicating, and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Decision Making"

This report reviews the U.S. Climate Change Science Program's new draft assessment product on characterizing and communicating uncertainty information...

Communicating Uncertainties in Weather and Climate Information

A Workshop Summary

The report explores how best to communicate weather and climate information by presenting five case studies, selected to illustrate a range of time sc...

Enhancing Participation in the U.S. Global Change Research Program

The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to unde...

Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Methods to Support International Climate Agreements

The world's nations are moving toward agreements that will bind us together in an effort to limit future greenhouse gas emissions. With such agreement...

Informing an Effective Response to Climate Change

Global climate change is one of America's most significant long-term policy challenges. Human activity-especially the use of fossil fuels, industrial ...

Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change

Climate change, driven by the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, poses serious, wide-ranging threats to human societies a...

The Atmospheric Sciences

Entering the Twenty-first Century

In a detailed look at five subdisciplines - physics, chemistry, dynamics and weather forecasting, upper atmosphere and near-Earth space physics, clima...

Weather Radar Technology Beyond NEXRAD

Weather radar is a vital instrument for observing the atmosphere to help provide weather forecasts and issue weather warnings to the public. The curre...

The Ongoing Challenge of Managing Carbon Monoxide Pollution in Fairbanks, Alaska

Interim Report

Carbon monoxide (CO) is a toxic air pollutant produced largely from vehicle emissions. Breathing CO at high concentrations leads to reduced oxygen tra...

Ozone Depletion, Greenhouse Gases, and Climate Change

Proceedings of a Joint Symposium by the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and the Committee on Global Change, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources, National Research Council

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