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AGCI workshops provides a much-needed forum to bring together natural and social scientists – ecologists, oceanographers, atmospheric chemists, and climate experts along with political scientists, population dynamicists, anthropologists, sociologists, and educators – enabling them to work together at the cutting edge of a variety of topics of critical importance in the global change arena.
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Climate Prediction to 2030: Is it possible, what are the scientific issues, and how would those predictions be used?
22 June - 28 June 2008
In 1997, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report expressed interest in "short-term" climate predictions out to 2030. Short-term climate predictions were first discussed in a 2006 AGCI session, and this 2008 session picks up where the 2006 session left off, tackling not only the formidable science issues involved with designing and running short-term climate projections (now more commonly referred to as "decadal prediction") but also addressing the important issues of the utility and applications of this information for decision support and impacts research. View
Northern Eurasia Landsurface Properties and Change and its Role in the Global Earth System
12 August - 17 August 2007
Northern Eurasia, which accounts for 20 percent of the Earth's landmass, is undergoing rapid and significant changes associated with changing climate and socio-economic patterns. This Northern Eurasia Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI) workshop focused on how to incorporate regional biophysical feedbacks associated with terrestria in the northern high latitudes, a key issue for emerging earth system models. Discussions explored issues pertaining to permafrost change, land cover change, climatic change, and the social processes that intertwine and feed back to environmental changes in the region and beyond. View
Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate
25 June - 29 June 2007
One goal of the United States Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) regarding climate extremes is "to reduce uncertainty in projections of how the Earth's climate and related systems may change in the future." With this aim in mind, this AGCI meeting worked to develop and summarize the scientific understanding of weather and climate extremes for the CCSP. View
Exploring the Boundaries of Nature: A Reflective Dialogue on the Environment
13 August - 19 August 2006
The purpose of this workshop was to bring together experts from a diverse range of communities to consider new ways of exploring our relationship to the environment. In this AGCI workshop participants did not assess the science of global environmental change, but worked to understand and explore impediments to reaching a consensus view among five communities, often functioning in separation: science, business, government, media, and education. View
Earth Systems Models: The Next Generation
30 July - 5 August 2006
What form will the next generation Earth system models take? We are entering a crucial period of climate model development where several communities now have functioning components, beyond the traditional global coupled model components of atmosphere, ocean, land surface, and sea ice that could be included in global coupled Earth system models. This meeting addressed the form that the next generation of Earth system models will take, with particular application for the upcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). View
Biodiversity in a Changing Climate: Assessing Uncertainties
21 July - 24 July 2005
A 2004 workshop sponsored by the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) revealed a weakness in the biology field's ability to assess the impact of climate change on biodiversity. In response, this AGCI session aimed to provide a qualitative, if not quantitative, assessment of current uncertainties in biodiversity impact projections. Using the above uncertainty assessment, the meeting also sought to provide guidelines for conservation planners as to the most appropriate use of projections of biodiversity impacts from different sources. In addition, participants worked to provide guidelines for adopting existing methodologies or new research that would aid in reducing uncertainties in impact projections. View
North American Weather and Climate Extremes: Progress in Monitoring and Research
15 July - 21 July 2005
There is preliminary evidence to suggest that in a gradually warming world there will be appreciable changes in the variability and long-term trend of extreme events. If this is the case, then monitoring extremes is an important indicator of climate change and a valuable tool for identifying how society might respond to changes. The primary objective of this workshop was to assess the latest scientific findings related to monitoring and projections of extremes and to see collectively where we are in our efforts to deal with research and monitoring of climate extremes for the North American continent. View
Abrupt Climate Change: Mechanisms, Early Warning Signs, Impacts, and Economic Analyses
9 July - 15 July 2005
Climate change does not only bring about long-term effects. The widespread bleaching of corals and disintegration of polar ice are recent examples of the sudden environmental impacts of climate change. This week-long AGCI workshop brought together a group of experts to uncover the mechanisms of abrupt climate change. Discussion included the detection of early warning signs, impacts of abrupt climate changes, and economic analysis of climate policies under climate thresholds with particular emphasis on near-term mitigation and the value of information. View
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