HR: 14:25h
AN: GC53B-04 INVITED    [Abstracts]
TI: Environmental Monitoring in the Northeast US: Foundation for Assessing the Impact of Our Changing Climate
AU: * Wake, C P
EM: cameron.wake@unh.edu
AF: University of New Hampshire, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space, Morse Hall, Durham, NH 03824, United States
AU: Frumhoff, P
EM: pfrumhoff@ucsusa.org
AF: Union of Concerned Scientists, 2 Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA 02238, United States
AU: Spanger-Siegfried, E
EM: esiegfried@ucsusa.org
AF: Union of Concerned Scientists, 2 Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA 02238, United States
AU: Hayhoe, K
EM: katharine.hayhoe@ttu.edu
AF: Texas Tech University, Department of Geosciences, Rm 217 Science Building, Lubbock, TX 79409, United States
AB: Regional assessment of the impacts of climate change have proven to be a valuable tool for providing scientists, policymakers, private sector decision makers, not-for-profit organizations, and the general public with the best available science upon which to base informed choices concerning adaptation and mitigation strategies. Recent examples include a set of regional assessments that were undertaken as part of the US Global Climate Change Research Program in the late 1990s, and more recently four regional assessments that were performed by independent scientists working in collaboration with the Union of Concerned Scientists. The most recent of these the Northeast Climate Impacts Assessment (NECIA), relied upon environmental monitoring of key aspects of our climate system (e.g., temperature, precipitation, snow cover, streamflow, sea level rise, first leaf out dates, etc.) to track changes in the past and provide data sets for evaluating the regional performance of global and regional circulation model simulations. These types of environmental data sets also provide the basis for analyzing the impacts of climate change on society over the past several decades.
UR: http://www.northeastclimateimpacts.org/
DE: 0434 Data sets
DE: 1699 General or miscellaneous
DE: 1848 Monitoring networks
DE: 1895 Instruments and techniques: monitoring
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Global Environmental Change [GC]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting