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Mar222010
New Interdisciplinary Program Will Generate Better Climate Change Predictions
Monday, March 22, 2010 at 2:45PM
By Antonia Aguilar - University of New Mexico / Talk Radio News Service
The National Science Foundation (NSF) in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and Agriculture announced Monday the release of a new interdisciplinary research program designed to produce better models for predicting climate change.
“These models will help decision makers develop strategies for adapting to the impact of climate change which is becoming more immediate and profound then anticipated.” said NSF Director Arden Bement.
The new program, Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction Using Earth System Models or EaSM, will be used to form high-resolution models that will make it easier to identify specific areas of greater vulnerability to climate change over a shorter time frame. These models will incorporate the views from a wide range of different authorities such as biologists, mathematicians, physicists and social scientists.
“We need to further improve our understanding about the impacts of climate change,” said Director of the Office of Science at the Energy Department William Brinkman. “We need to move from a global model operating on century long time scale to models that viably capture regional conditions on the scale of a few decades.”
The National Science Foundation (NSF) in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy and Agriculture announced Monday the release of a new interdisciplinary research program designed to produce better models for predicting climate change.
“These models will help decision makers develop strategies for adapting to the impact of climate change which is becoming more immediate and profound then anticipated.” said NSF Director Arden Bement.
The new program, Decadal and Regional Climate Prediction Using Earth System Models or EaSM, will be used to form high-resolution models that will make it easier to identify specific areas of greater vulnerability to climate change over a shorter time frame. These models will incorporate the views from a wide range of different authorities such as biologists, mathematicians, physicists and social scientists.
“We need to further improve our understanding about the impacts of climate change,” said Director of the Office of Science at the Energy Department William Brinkman. “We need to move from a global model operating on century long time scale to models that viably capture regional conditions on the scale of a few decades.”
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