Climate Science for Serving Society: Research, Modeling and Prediction Priorities

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
The World Climate Research Program Strategy and Priorities: Next Decade....Pages 1-12
Challenges of a Sustained Climate Observing System....Pages 13-50
On the Reprocessing and Reanalysis of Observations for Climate....Pages 51-71
Climate Processes: Clouds, Aerosols and Dynamics....Pages 73-103
Aerosol Cloud-Mediated Radiative Forcing: Highly Uncertain and Opposite Effects from Shallow and Deep Clouds....Pages 105-149
Improving Understanding of the Global Hydrologic Cycle....Pages 151-184
Land Use and Land Cover Changes and Their Impacts on Hydroclimate, Ecosystems and Society....Pages 185-203
Prediction from Weeks to Decades....Pages 205-235
Assessing the Reliability of Climate Models, CMIP5....Pages 237-248
Changes in Variability Associated with Climate Change....Pages 249-271
Understanding and Predicting Climate Variability and Change at Monsoon Regions....Pages 273-306
Attribution of Weather and Climate-Related Events....Pages 307-337
Climate Extremes: Challenges in Estimating and Understanding Recent Changes in the Frequency and Intensity of Extreme Climate and Weather Events....Pages 339-389
Carbon Dioxide and Climate: Perspectives on a Scientific Assessment....Pages 391-413
Atmospheric Composition, Irreversible Climate Change, and Mitigation Policy....Pages 415-436
Building Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Less Developed Countries....Pages 437-457
A Climate and Health Partnership to Inform the Prevention and Control of Meningoccocal Meningitis in Sub-Saharan Africa: The MERIT Initiative....Pages 459-484