Arctic Climate Impact Assessment - Scientific ReportThe Arctic is now experiencing some of the most rapid and severe climate change on earth. Over the next 100 years, climate change is expected to accelerate, contributing to major physical, ecological, social, and economic changes, many of which have already begun. Changes in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels. Arctic Climate Impact Assessment was prepared by an international team of over 300 scientists, experts, and knowledgeable members of indigenous communities. The report has been thoroughly researched, is fully referenced, and provides the first comprehensive evaluation of arctic climate change, changes in ultraviolet radiation and their impacts for the region and for the world. It is illustrated in full color throughout. The results provided the scientific foundations for the ACIA synthesis report - Impacts of a Warming Arctic - published by Cambridge University Press in 2004. |
Contents
Chapter | 2 |
Acknowledgements | 18 |
Past and Present | 21 |
Representatives of Organizations | 647 |
| 942 | |
Lead Authors | 1021 |
Liaisons | 1029 |
Glossary | 1039 |
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ACIA ACIA-designated models air temperature Alaska albedo annual AOGCMs aquatic Arctic char arctic climate arctic ecosystems Arctic Ocean areas Assessment atmospheric Barents Sea Basin biological biomass boreal Canada Canadian carbon climate change climate models coastal cycles decrease distribution downscaling dynamics Ecology ecosystems effects emissions scenario environment environmental change fish fisheries flux freshwater Geophysical Research Letters glaciers Greenland growth habitat HadCM3 high latitudes Holocene hydrological Ice Sheet impacts indigenous interactions IPCC Journal of Geophysical lakes layer marine microbial North Atlantic northern Nunavut nutrient observed occur organic ozone depletion period permafrost plants polar populations potential precipitation processes productivity projected changes rates regions responses result rivers runoff Science sea ice sea-level seasonal simulations snow cover soil spatial species stratospheric studies subarctic summer surface Svalbard temperature increases terrestrial thermohaline circulation tion treeline trends tundra UV radiation UV-B UV-B radiation levels variability variations vegetation warming wetlands winter zone