Proceedings Of The Workshop On Canadian Climate System Data

Are extreme weather events becoming more common? How do extreme weather events impact society? These are critical questions that must be examined as we confront the possibility that the world will experience a change in climate over the next century. Much of the research in climatology over the past decade has focused on potential changes in long- term averages of temperature, precipitation and other factors. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that changes in average values will be accompanied by changes in extreme events. Furthermore, extreme weather events will impact society to a greater extent as people around the world continue to locate in more hazard-prone areas such as coastal zones. This book represents a major step forwards in developing a comprehensive set of information about changes in extreme events by providing a review of the problems in data availability, quality and analysis that make deriving a clear picture of world-wide changes in extreme events so difficult. Audience: The book is intended for policy-makers, professionals, graduate students and others interested in learning how extreme weather events have changed, and how they impact society both now and in the future.

Proceedings of a conference on paleoclimatology and the effects of climate on biodiversity over the previous thousand years. Topics of papers include the Sustainable Arid Grassland Ecosystems (SAGE) biodiversity project, paleolimnology, boreal forest fires, dendrochronology, dinoflagellate diversity recorded in varves, dendroclimatic records, tree-ring and paleoecological records of climate change & tree line dynamics, tree-ring evidence for temperature changes following volcanic eruptions, climate changes as revealed in pollen records, and northern Atlantic atmospheric & oceanic temperature trends.