MONITORING CHANGES IN CLIMATE EXTREMES: A Tale of International Collaboration

The Second Assessment Report (SAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 1996, concluded that the available data and analyses were inadequate for any assessment to be made about the nature of global changes in extreme climate events. Since the SAR, a number of interna...

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Published in:Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 2008-09, Vol.89 (9), p.1266-1271
Main Authors: Peterson, Thomas C., Manton, Michael J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
Climate models
Climatology
Computer software
Countries
DATA ANALYSIS
Educational environment
Global climate models
Heat waves
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
International
International cooperation
International environmental cooperation
Meetings
Oceanic climates
Precipitation
Quality control
Software
Time series
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Summary:The Second Assessment Report (SAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published in 1996, concluded that the available data and analyses were inadequate for any assessment to be made about the nature of global changes in extreme climate events. Since the SAR, a number of international projects have moved the focus of climate analysis from monthly to daily data so that today there is a better understanding of the extent and character of changes around the world in extreme climate events, such as heavy rainfall and heat waves. Because of the traditional focus of climatologists on monthly data and the proprietary view many countries have toward data on shorter time scales, the international exchange of long-term daily climate records has been limited, and in 1996 there was no international dataset of long-term daily terrestrial data available.
ISSN:0003-0007
1520-0477
DOI:10.1175/2008bams2501.1