Current Issues in Climate Research

Proceedings of the EC Climatology Programme Symposium, Sophia Antipolis, France, October 2-5, 1984

Opening address. - Rapporteur s Reports. - Palaeoclimate in the E. C. climate programme. - Climate modelling. - Anthropogenic climate perturbations. - Impact of climate and climate variations on European resources. - I: Reconstitution of Past Climate. - The impact on Europe of large-scale climatic changes: the onset of glaciation and the last deglaciation. - Climatic history from ice core studies in Greenland Data correction procedures. - Air-Sea interaction during the last 100 years and time scales of climatic fluctuations. - Modelling the astronomical theory of paleoclimates in the time and frequency domain An example of the relationship between long term and short term climate changes. - Climate reconstruction using historical sources. - Stages of climatic change from full glacial to holocene in northwest Spain, southern France and Italy: a comparison of the Atlantic coast and the Mediterranean basin. - Paleoclimatic reconstruction in Belgium and in Greece based on Quaternary lithostratigraphic sequences. - II: Climate Modelling. - Evidence of bimodality in the statistics of northern hemisphere circulation. - Simulation of European climate with an atmospheric general circulation model. - Modelling the impact of soil properties on European climate. - Interactive ocean-atmosphere models for climate forecasting. - Climate modelling activities at the Max-Planck-Institute of meteorology, Hamburg. - Ocean modelling in Cambridge. - Subpolar circulation, deep water formation and air-sea-ice interactions in Labrador and Greenland seas. - Development of an economical soil model for climate simulation. - III: Anthropogenic Climate Perturbations. - On modelling the effects of CO2 on climate. - CO2 and climate: Information from Antarctic ice core studies. - Atmospheric CO2 concentration insubantarctic countries. - The influence of man-made SO2, and particle emission on the global aerosol concentration and the optical properties of the atmosphere. - IV: Climatic Impacts. - Socio-economic impacts of a climatic change due to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 content. - The use of crop models in assessing likely effects of variation in climate. - The effects of elevated carbon dioxide levels on the growth of crop plants: an attempt to predict the consequences for grassland and maize production in Europe. - Agroclimatic classification of central Italy. - V: General Topics. - World climate research programme, plan and implementation. - CO2 programme of US department of energy. - Satellite climatology Study of the earth radiation budget from in flight ultrasensitive accelerometer techniques. - Measurement of the radiation pressures by accelerometry: a new way to the determination of the earth radiation budget Result obtained with CASTOR/CACTUS experiment. - List of Participants. - List of Authors.