Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309060818
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Efforts to understand climate variability and predict future climate change have highlighted many aspects of the hydrologic cycle and the exchange of energy and water at the atmosphere-surface interface as areas of critically needed study. The very nature of weather and climate demands that an international perspective and a comprehensive research approach be applied to understand these important issues. In response to this need, the international partners of the World Climate Research Program developed GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Experiment) as a major focus of international study. As the first of five continental-scale experiments, the GEWEX Continental Scale International Project (GCIP) was established to quantitatively assess the hydrologic cycle and energy fluxes of the Mississippi River basin. GCIP focuses on understanding the annual, interannual, and spatial variability of hydrology and climate within the Mississippi River basin; the development and evaluation of regional coupled hydrologic/atmospheric models; the development of data assimilation schemes; and the development of accessible, comprehensive databases. Improved water resource management on seasonal to interannual time scales is also a key GCIP goal. This book reviews the GCIP program, describes progress to date, and explores promising opportunities for future progress.
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Continental-Scale International Project
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309060818
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Efforts to understand climate variability and predict future climate change have highlighted many aspects of the hydrologic cycle and the exchange of energy and water at the atmosphere-surface interface as areas of critically needed study. The very nature of weather and climate demands that an international perspective and a comprehensive research approach be applied to understand these important issues. In response to this need, the international partners of the World Climate Research Program developed GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Experiment) as a major focus of international study. As the first of five continental-scale experiments, the GEWEX Continental Scale International Project (GCIP) was established to quantitatively assess the hydrologic cycle and energy fluxes of the Mississippi River basin. GCIP focuses on understanding the annual, interannual, and spatial variability of hydrology and climate within the Mississippi River basin; the development and evaluation of regional coupled hydrologic/atmospheric models; the development of data assimilation schemes; and the development of accessible, comprehensive databases. Improved water resource management on seasonal to interannual time scales is also a key GCIP goal. This book reviews the GCIP program, describes progress to date, and explores promising opportunities for future progress.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309060818
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Efforts to understand climate variability and predict future climate change have highlighted many aspects of the hydrologic cycle and the exchange of energy and water at the atmosphere-surface interface as areas of critically needed study. The very nature of weather and climate demands that an international perspective and a comprehensive research approach be applied to understand these important issues. In response to this need, the international partners of the World Climate Research Program developed GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Experiment) as a major focus of international study. As the first of five continental-scale experiments, the GEWEX Continental Scale International Project (GCIP) was established to quantitatively assess the hydrologic cycle and energy fluxes of the Mississippi River basin. GCIP focuses on understanding the annual, interannual, and spatial variability of hydrology and climate within the Mississippi River basin; the development and evaluation of regional coupled hydrologic/atmospheric models; the development of data assimilation schemes; and the development of accessible, comprehensive databases. Improved water resource management on seasonal to interannual time scales is also a key GCIP goal. This book reviews the GCIP program, describes progress to date, and explores promising opportunities for future progress.
Global Energy and Water Cycles
Author: K. A. Browning
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521560573
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A comprehensive treatment of models and processes related to water fluxes for meteorologists, hydrologists and oceanographers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521560573
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
A comprehensive treatment of models and processes related to water fluxes for meteorologists, hydrologists and oceanographers.
Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX)
Author: JSC Scientific Steering Group for GEWEX. Session
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric radioactivity
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Atmospheric radioactivity
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
UK National Plan for GEWEX (the Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment)
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854034543
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780854034543
Category : Water
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Energy and Water Cycles in the Climate System
Author: Ehrhard Raschke
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642769578
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Water is the most effective agent in the climate system to modulate energy transfer by radiative processes, through its exchanges of latent heat and within cascades of chemical processes. It is the source of all life on earth, and once convective clouds are formed, it enables large vertical transports of momentum, heat and various atmospheric constituents up to levels above the tropical tropopause. Water triggers very complex processes at the earth's continental surfaces and within the oceans. At last, water in its gaseous phase is the most important greenhouse-gas! Numerical modelling and measurements of the state of the present climate system needs a very thorough understanding of all these processes and their various interactions and forcings. This is a prerequisite for more substantial forecasts of future states in all scales of time, from days to centuries. Therefore, the management of the World Climate Research Programme established in 1988 the new programme GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment). GEWEX is specifically defined to determine the energy and water transports in the fast components of the climate system with the presently available modelling and measurement means and to provide new capabilities for the future. Research in GEWEX must further develop methods to determine the influence of climatic anomalies on available water resources.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642769578
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Water is the most effective agent in the climate system to modulate energy transfer by radiative processes, through its exchanges of latent heat and within cascades of chemical processes. It is the source of all life on earth, and once convective clouds are formed, it enables large vertical transports of momentum, heat and various atmospheric constituents up to levels above the tropical tropopause. Water triggers very complex processes at the earth's continental surfaces and within the oceans. At last, water in its gaseous phase is the most important greenhouse-gas! Numerical modelling and measurements of the state of the present climate system needs a very thorough understanding of all these processes and their various interactions and forcings. This is a prerequisite for more substantial forecasts of future states in all scales of time, from days to centuries. Therefore, the management of the World Climate Research Programme established in 1988 the new programme GEWEX (Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment). GEWEX is specifically defined to determine the energy and water transports in the fast components of the climate system with the presently available modelling and measurement means and to provide new capabilities for the future. Research in GEWEX must further develop methods to determine the influence of climatic anomalies on available water resources.
U.S. Geological Survey Circular
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Strategic Plan for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program
Author: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category : Biotic communities
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biotic communities
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Selected Water Resources Abstracts
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Hydrology
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
An Agenda of Science for Environment and Development Into the 21st Century
Author: James Dooge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521437615
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The world scientific community's definitive statement on strategies needed to safeguard the environment and promote development.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521437615
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The world scientific community's definitive statement on strategies needed to safeguard the environment and promote development.
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
Book Description