Climate Change: Challenges & Priorities for Basic Research - Slide Index

Slide 1 - Title slide

Slide 2 - Japanese Cherry Blossoms

Slide 3 - Chart From IPCC: Global Average Warming and Sea Level, Northern Hemisphere Snow

Slide 4 - Rapid Changes in Arctic Systems

Slide 5 - Shrinking Greenland Ice Sheet

Slide 6 - Arctic Sea Ice Minimums

Slide 7 - Meridional Overturning Circulation

Slide 8 - Melting Permafrost

Slide 9 - Ecosystem Changes

Slide 10 - Changing Climate, Changing Lives

Slide 11 - Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapse

Slide 12 - Collapse of Larsen B Ice Shelf

Slide 13 - Fate of Polar Ice Sheets?

Slide 14 - Changing Climate

Slide 15 - Population Concentration on Coasts

Slide 16 - Global Average Temperature

Slide 17 - Eroding Coastlines

Slide 18 - Droughts

Slide 19 - Floods

Slide 20 - Forest Fires

Slide 21 - Loss of Biodiversity

Slide 22 - Severe Weather Events

Slide 23 - Moving Forward

Slide 24 - POLENet Installations

Slide 25 - Arctic Observing Network

Slide 26 - Two Decades of Ocean Time Series Research Reveals Changes in the Surface Ocean Environment

Slide 27 - Deploying Ocean Buoy in North Pacific

Slide 28 - The Atmosphere-Ocean Balance

Slide 29 - Carbon Cycling in the Oceans

Slide 30 - Carbon Sequestration in Forests

Slide 31 - Climate Models

Slide 32 - Earth Systems Grid

Slide 33 - Confronting the Impacts

Slide 34 - Growth in World Population, 1950-2050

Slide 35 - Energy

Slide 36 - Moving Beyond Current Energy Systems

Slide 37 - Energy Research

Slide 38 - New Nano Materials for Hydrogen and CO₂ Capture

Slide 39 - Water: A Scarce Resource

Slide 40 - Water Consumption and Energy

Slide 41 - Water on Planet Earth

Slide 42 - Himalayan Glaciers

Slide 43 - International Collaboration

Slide 44 - Earth (with Moon)

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