Featured research in the area of climate forcing

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Featured research in the area of climate forcing

These are examples of the projects, publications and data sets used to answer the NTL framework question. Other projects and data sets may be found using the keywords 'long-term change', 'climate forcing', 'drivers', or 'ecosystem services'.

Biblio

Climate perturbations and lakes: estimating sensitivities of water and carbon budgets
Coherence between lake ice cover, local climate and teleconnections (Lake Mendota, Wisconsin).

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Research Highlights

Climate Change Impacts on Wisconsin’s Water Resources

NTL-LTER is an active participant in the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts, a project that was initiated in the fall of 2007 to assess and anticipate the impact of climate change on Wisconsin’s natural resources, ecosystems and regions. The primary mission of WICCI is to evaluate risks and vulnerabilities in each of these areas and to develop strategies for adaptation that can be used in natural resource management, municipal decision making, economic development, public health, and other critical components of Wisconsin’s quality of life. WICCI is governed by a Science Council whose 22 members are chosen from an array of disciplines within the University of Wisconsin System, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and other state and federal agencies, universities and institutions. The primary function of the Science Council is to organize and coordinate Working Groups that have the scientific expertise to assess climate change ....

Transformational Science

NTL has transformed our understanding of aquatic ecosystems by pioneering new approaches and perspectives for studying these environments. These transformations include:

SCIENCE, SCENARIOS AND SURPRISE

Scenarios are a structured process for integrating complex information about the future, including traditional scientific data, model runs and perspectives of diverse stakeholders. Scenarios help the public, decision makers and scientists organize ideas about unpredictable changes in regional social-ecological systems, and build resilience against plausible but unpredictable events.

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