Climate change problems with models

Thus, explanation of the ice-core records demands a creative interaction with other fields of earth system science. We identify two such fields as crucial. The first is global modeling, which is a standard approach to climate change problems (both present / future and past) and is being actively extended to include interactions of the biogeochemical cycles with climate. The second is Quaternary science in the broad sense, especially insofar as Quaternary paleo-environmental records have been standardized and compiled on a global scale. Quaternary scientists have amassed data from widely distributed natural archives such as marine and lacustrine sediments which, when suitably compiled, yield spatially extensive information about many aspects of climate, ecosystem composition, and even some indicators of atmospheric composition such as the... 

Emphasizing that low-resolution ( 3 6 latitude) climate models cannot reliably reconstruct (and, what is more, predict) climate change on a regional scale, Mearns et al. (1999) showed that these problems can be solved with two approaches. 

Constructive prospects to solution of this problem are connected with the development and application of complex models to evaluate possible changes in climate and socio-economic development. Parson and Fisher-Vanden (1997,1999) and Dess-ler and Parson (2005) prepared a detailed overview of the methods and results of numerical modeling of global climate changes with the dynamics of socio-economic processes taken into account, in which basic aspects of so-called integrated assessments (IAs) were discussed. The main goal of such developments is substantiation of recommendations for decision-makers in the sphere of ecological policy. 

The book is aimed at specialists dealing with the development of information technologies to protect the natural world. Global modeling, climate change, the problems inherent in relationships between society and nature, and geopolicy are all studied in depth. 

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