Human and climate forcing of zooplankton populations

Radiative forcing and climate response

We examine the sensitivity of a climate model to a wide range of radiative forcings, including changes ofsolar irradiance, atmospheric CO2, 03, CFCs, clouds, aerosols, urface •bedo, and a "ghost" forcing introduced at arbitrary heights, latitudes, longitudes, easons, and times of day. We show that, in general, the climate response, specifically the global mean temperature change, issensitive to...

Past and Future Climate Forcing

Climate change is again in the news. First the failure of the COP61 meeting to agree on terms for the Kyoto Protocol and now the apparent rejection of the protocol by President Bush leaves the future of climate policy uncertain. To move forward it is important understand the drivers of climate change in order to inform discussions of where mitigation efforts need to be focused. This paper will ...

Environmental forcing and Southern Ocean marine predator populations: effects of climate change and variability.

The Southern Ocean is a major component within the global ocean and climate system and potentially the location where the most rapid climate change is most likely to happen, particularly in the high-latitude polar regions. In these regions, even small temperature changes can potentially lead to major environmental perturbations. Climate change is likely to be regional and may be expressed in va...

Radiative Forcing of Climate Change

Contributing Authors R. Betts, R. Charlson, C. Chuang, J.S. Daniel, A. Del Genio, R. van Dorland, J. Feichter, J. Fuglestvedt, P.M. de F. Forster, S.J. Ghan, A. Jones, J.T. Kiehl, D. Koch, C. Land, J. Lean, U. Lohmann, K. Minschwaner, J.E. Penner, D.L. Roberts, H. Rodhe, G.J. Roelofs, L.D. Rotstayn, T.L. Schneider, U. Schumann, S.E. Schwartz, M.D. Schwarzkopf, K.P. Shine, S. Smith, D.S. Stevens...

Regime Scale Climate Forcing of Salmon Populations in the Northeast Pacific—some New Thoughts and Findings