| 项目编号: | 1356386
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| 项目名称: | Regional Climate Resilience and Sensitivity in the Tropics and Subtropics |
| 作者: | Kerry Cook
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| 承担单位: | University of Texas at Austin
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| 批准年: | 2013
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| 开始日期: | 2014-04-01
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| 结束日期: | 2018-03-31
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| 资助金额: | USD709113
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| 资助来源: | US-NSF
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| 项目类别: | Standard Grant
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| 国家: | US
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| 语种: | 英语
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| 特色学科分类: | Geosciences - Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences
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| 英文关键词: | climate system
; sensitivity
; resilience
; regional climate model
; various climate process
; tropical/subtropical climate
; regional-scale climate process
; regional climate modeling
; climate change
; regional physical process
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| 英文摘要: | The objective of this study is to use observations of the developing global warming signal to better understand sensitivity and resilience within the climate system to climate forcing. The study will focus on the tropical and subtropical climate system's response to tropical/subtropical forcing, and on regional-scale climate processes. Are some regions more resilient to change under greenhouse gas forcing, while other regions more vulnerable to the same forcing? If so, why? What regional physical processes operate to produce or resist change?
The research activity combines an analysis of observed climate change during the satellite era with regional climate modeling to improve fundamental understanding of how the tropical/subtropical climate responds to tropical forcing over a range of time scales. The focus is on the tropics and subtropics (35°S to 35°N), and the analysis begins with an in-depth investigation of changes in the surface heat budget. Multiple datasets, including atmospheric and ocean reanalyses and satellite observations, will be included to evaluate confidence. Simulations using regional climate models, with and without coupling between the atmosphere and oceans, are used in process studies to simulate and further evaluate the role of various climate processes.
This effort will shed insights into sensitivity and resilience in the climate system, emphasizing the tropical and subtropical region. This has substantial broader impacts. |
| 资源类型: | 项目
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| 标识符: | http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/97203
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| Appears in Collections: | 影响、适应和脆弱性
气候减缓与适应
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| Recommended Citation: | |
Kerry Cook. Regional Climate Resilience and Sensitivity in the Tropics and Subtropics. 2013-01-01.
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