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Selected Translated Abstracts of Russian-Language Climate-Change Publications: IV. General Circulation Models (ORNL/CDIAC-94, Proceedings of RIHMI-WDC: Issue 165, 99 pp.)

Vyacheslav N. Razuvaev and Sergej G. Sivachok, All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information (RIHMI)-World Data Center, Obninsk, Kaluga Region, Russia;
Marvel Burtis, Compiler

Under an agreement on cooperation signed between the United States and U.S.S.R. in 1972, a working group was established to address the effects of environmental changes on climate. Since 1990, CDIAC has been active in the working group on data exchange, providing, in collaboration with research institutions in the former U.S.S.R., the quality-assured data sets needed to quantify the relationship between changes in atmospheric composition and changes in climate.

In response to requests from the international research community, CDIAC and the All-Russian Research Institute of Hydrometeorological Information-World Data Center (RIHMI) in Obninsk, Russia, produced a series of dual-language bibliographies of Russian literature that had not previously been translated into English.

The first three volumes dealt with the surface energy budget, clouds, and aerosols. This fourth and last volume deals with GCMs, including such topics as modeling atmospheric circulation and mesoscale atmospheric processes, atmospheric waves, calculation of radiation heat influxes, the relationship between wind flux and orography, ocean-water-temperature effects on the atmosphere, parameterization of radiative fluxes, stationary planetary waves, eddy processes, zonal circulation, nonadiabatic processes, numerical simulation of clouds, statistical filtration of trends, boundary-layer parameterization, simulating large-scale dynamics of the atmosphere, and data visualization.

The report presents English-translated abstracts of important Russian-language literature concerning general circulation models as they relate to climate change. In addition to the bibliographic citations and abstracts translated into English, this report presents the original citations and abstracts in Russian. Although the listed abstracts appear in both English and Russian, most of the original papers they represent have not been translated into English. The entries are indexed by author and title.

The English text will appear on the Internet as part of the CDIAC web site.

Environmental Sciences Division: Summaries of Research in FY 1995 (DOE/ER-0693T, September 1996, 311 pp.)

B. M. Parra; F. M. O'Hara, Jr.; D. P. Henderson; and Laura O'Hara, Compilers

Each year, the Environmental Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Research has issued several reports detailing research performed in a variety of disciplines. For fiscal year 1995, it issued a consolidated report that covers all of the research sponsored by the Division. That report is divided into two main sections, one dealing with global-change research and one covering environmental remediation.

Each section describes the research projects funded and, where appropriate, provides results to date for each project. The projects are grouped by programmatic area. Global change covers the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Program, atmospheric science, climate modeling, education, information, National Institute for Global Environmental Change, Ocean Margins Program, ocean research, Program on Ecosystem Research, Quantitative Links Program, and terrestrial carbon processes (the carbon cycle and vegetation). Environmental remediation covers the Subsurface Science Program, Microbial Genome Program, and environmental radon. Two appendixes include the names and addresses of all principal investigators and definitions of acronyms used within the research programs. The contents are indexed by subject, institution, and investigator. The data are also available at http://www.doe.gov/waisgate/er.html.

Site Scientific Mission Plan for the Southern Great Plains CART Site: January-June 1996, ARM-96-001 (January 1996)

R. A. Peppler, P. J. Lamb, and D. L. Sisterson

The Southern Great Plains (SGP) Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) Site is the first of several locations chosen and instrumented for the collection of data by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program. The variety, surface density, and atmospheric volumetric coverage of the SGP instrumentation are more comprehensive than those at any other ARM site, and the SGP site experiences a wider variety of atmospheric conditions than any other ARM site. As a result, the masses of rich data from this site support a great range and depth of scientific investigation on:

• Radiative transfer in cloudless, partly cloudy, and overcast conditions
• Cloud formation, maintenance, and dissipation
• Nonradiative flux parameterizations
• The role of surface physical and vegetative properties in the column energy balance
• Other complications in the radiative balance in the atmosphere, particularly those caused by aerosols, cloud condensation nuclei, and cloud-aerosol radiative interactions
• Feedback processes between different phenomena and different domains

This Site Scientific Mission Plan defines the scientific priorities for site activities during the six months beginning January 1, 1996, and looks forward in lesser detail to subsequent six-month periods. It describes the operational status of the site, the primary site activities envisioned, and the approved and proposed intensive observation periods. This plan is updated every six months as the observational facilities are developed, tested, and augmented and as priorities are adjusted in response to developments in scientific planning and understanding. However, this edition of the Mission Plan is the last to be issued in hard copy; future editions will be made available on the SGP CART Site home page at http://www.arm.gov/docs/sites/sgp/sgp.html.

Proceedings of the Fifth Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Science Team Meeting (CONF-9503140, April 1996, 402 pp.)

This document summarizes the papers that were presented at the 1995 ARM Science Team meeting in San Diego, California, Mar. 19-23, 1995.

The ARM program was designed (1) to improve the treatment of radiative transfer in climate models under all relevant conditions and (2) to improve the treatment of clouds in climate models, including the representation of the cloud life cycle and the prognosis of cloud radiative properties. The program was divided into groups that set the scientific foundation of the Program and planned the design and construction of the needed observational facilities. Three such facilities are now completed or being implemented: the Southern Great Plains Site in Oklahoma (SGP), the North Slope Site in Alaska (NSA), and the Tropical West Pacific Site in Papua New Guinea (TWP).

At its annual meeting, the Science Team reviews the progress of each of its scientific projects, plans future scientific experiments, and explores the possibility of interagency and international cooperation to leverage the program's resources. In San Diego, the Science Team heard:

• The SGP central facility was essentially complete
• The SGP extended facilities were about 50% complete
• Additional instrumentation and facilities were to be provided at the SGP site
• Scientific results from eight intensive operational periods
• Deployment of the first instruments to the TWP site on the island of Manus was firmly committed
• Planning had been initiated for deployment to the NSA site.

The low-level jet, a complex response of the atmospheric boundary layer to the
diurnal cycle of thermal forcing, transports water vapor from the Gulf of
Mexico across the great plains. It is shown here for three June
evenings in 1993 as a high-speed wind at an altitude of about
600 m. From Fifth ARM Science Team Meeting