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2008-09-18

Review of the ESSP: Report now available

The ICSU-IGFA Review of the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) is now available online. It provides not only an assessment of the progress to date, but options and guidelines for the future development of the partnership.

 

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2008-09-11

PAGES Newsletter: Advances in speleothem research

There is a growing interest among paleoclimatologists in speleothems (stalagmites, stalactites and flowstones), a fairly novel climate archive that has yielded some spectacular climate records. The latest issue of the PAGES Newsletter features a special section on research advances in this field, and focuses on aspects ranging from cave monitoring and quantitative interpretation of the speleothem anaysis to dating issues and the development of long time series. 

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2008-09-05

Press release: Science paper examines role of aerosols in climate change

It appears that aerosol effects on clouds can induce large changes in precipitation patterns, which in turn may change not only regional water resources, but also the regional and global circulation systems that constitute the Earth’s climate. A group of scientists affiliated with IGBP have proposed a new framework to account more accurately for the effects of aerosols on precipitation in climate models. Their work appears in the 5 September issue of Science magazine in an article titled “Flood or Drought: How Do Aerosols Affect Precipitation?”. 

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