Climate diagnostics

Henderson-Sellers a.. Climate sensitivity variations in vegetated land surface albedos. In Proc. 6th Annual Climate Diagnostic Workshop, Columbia University , 155, 144 (October 14-16, 1981). 

K. Wolter and M. S. Timlin, 17th Climate Diagnostics Workshop, CIMMS and School of Meteorology, Univ. of Oklahoma (1993), pp. 52-57. 

HOTMAC/RAPTAD requires very extensive meteorological and terrain data input. The program user s guide and diagnostics are inadequate. HOTMAC does not model multiple scale eddy turbulence and does not provide for dispersion of gases that are denser-than air. It must be tailored to reflect the climatic characteristics of specific sites. 

Fig. 18-11 Records of atmospheric CO2 in Antarctica for the past 1000 years. Open circles are ice-core data from Law Dome, on the coast of east Antarctica (Etheridge et al., 1996). Plus signs are direct measurements of CO2 in air samples collected monthly at the South Pole (NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado).

Fig. 18-17 Ice core records of N2O. (a) Data of Machida et al. (1995) from the H15 ice core, east Antarctica, for the time period 1750-1950, and monthly atmospheric N2O measurements at the South Pole from the NOAA Climate and Diagnostics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, for the period 1989-1998. (b) Data from Leuenberger and Siegenthaler (1992) from the Byrd ice core in West Antarctica.

Harrje, D.T., Hubbard, L.M., and Sanchez, D.C., Diagnostic approaches to better solutions of radon IAQ problems, Healthy Buildings 88—Planning, Physics and Climate Technology for Healthier Buildings, Vol. 2, Swedish Council for Building Research, Stockholm, Sweden, D20, pp. 143-152.1988. 

The Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory of die National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides up-to-date graphs and illustrations on the changes in various atmospheric components, such as carbon dioxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, and many more. 

This address itemizes the atmosphericprcjects of the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostic Laboratory of the Mauna Loa Weather Observatory. Links to the Network for the Detection of Stratospheric Changes are included. 

In order to answer the above questions, the reliability of observational data is fundamental. Without such observational data adequate empirical diagnostics of climate remains impossible. Yet the information concerning numerous meteoro-... 

Conclusions about observed and, even more so, potential future climatic changes are very uncertain, both with respect to the data of diagnostics of present climate dynamics and to the results of numerical modeling. According to IPCC (2001), developments in the following seven fields should receive top priority ... 

It should be added that in order to understand the physical laws governing present and future climates, studies of paleoclimate are also important, especially of sudden short-term changes. The intensive development of space-borne remote sensing has not provided adequate global information about the diagnostics of the climate system because the way the existing system of space-borne and conventional observation works remains far from optimal. 

Adamenko V.N. and Kondratyev K.Ya. (1999). Global climate changes and their empirical diagnostics. In Yu.A. Izrael, G.V. Kalabin, and V.V. Nikonov (eds.), Anthropogenic Impact on the Nature of the North and its Ecological Implications. Kola Scientific Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, pp. 17-34 [in Russian]. 

Climate Monitoring and Diagnostic Laboratory. http //www.cmdl.noaa.gov/ozone.html... 

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