Table of Contents

Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Participating Agencies and Executive Offices

Ad hoc Working Group on Climate Modeling

Foreword

Executive Summary

1. Background

2. Summary of Findings

3. Summary of recommen- dations

4. Final Comments

Charge to the Working Group 

Main Report

1. Purpose

2. Current Situation

3. Scope of Document / Underlying Definitions and Assumptions

4. Elements of Climate Science

5. Issues of Computational Systems

6. Human resources

7. Management / Business Practices / Institutional models

8. Recommen- dations

9. Reference Documents

10. Endnotes

Full Report (PDF)

Subcommittee on Global Change Research, Participating Agencies and Executive Offices

• Department of Agriculture
• Department of Commerce
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• Department of Defense
• Department of Energy
• Department of Health and Human Services
• National Institutes of Health
• Department of the Interior
• Department of State
• Environmental Protection Agency
• National Aeronautics and Space Administration
• National Science Foundation
• Smithsonian Institution
• Office of Management and Budget
• Office of Science and Technology Policy