To improve regional climate
models necessary to quantitatively predict
the regional features of potential climate change;
The First Science Team meeting was held July 20-22, 1995, in San Francisco, to plan for the joint study, and a second science team meeting was held in Beijing, China in August 15-17, 1996, to discuss the project progress. The expected benefits and the objectives of the joint research are:
To develop the data sets
necessary to detect climate change and improve
and verify regional and global climate models;
Progress is being made in the first year of the joint research including exchanges of guest
scientists and climate data.
To understand the
physical and chemical processes that drive regional climate change (e.g., aerosols, atmospheric
chemistry, and atmospheric radiative balance); and
To improve and verify
the regional components of integrated assessment
models to provide an overall understanding of the consequences of potential
climate change on human and natural systems.