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Updated 12 October, 2003

Images from
Our Changing Planet FY 2003

 

 

See:
Our Changing Planet
The Fiscal Year 2003 US Global Change Research Program and Climate Change Research Initiative [PDF, 1.6 Mb]

 

Figure 1.1.  Climate Change Science and Technology Management Structure

Figure 2.1.  Spring dust storm smothers Beijing

Figure 2.2.  Air pollution plume from Southeast Asia moving over the Pacific Ocean and Reaching North America (March 2000).

Figure 3.1.  1997-98 El Niño event, water temperature and sea-surface topography in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

Figure 3.2  Changes in cold season extreme precipitation (left) and mean annual snowpack (right) based on simulations of current and mid-21st century climate conditions

Figure 3.3.  Modeling the climate system (illustration)

Figure 3.4.  The development of climate models: Past, present, and future. 

Figure 4.1.  North American terrestrial carbon sink: Contribution of increasing CO2 and climate to carbon storage by ecosystems in the United States

Figure 4.2  Carbon Dioxide Measurements and Experiments -- (a) AmeriFlux tower; (b) Free Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE); (c) Elevated CO2 concentration experiment

Figure 5.1.  Conceptualization of the Water Cycle

Figure 5.2.  The "Blue Marble" -- Global Water and Energy Cycles.  (a) Western Hemisphere; (b) Eastern Hemisphere

Figure 5.3.  North Carolina Coast After Hurricane Floyd

Figure 6.1.  Trends in surface temperature, vegetation greenness, and duration of growing season, North America and Eurasia, 1982-1999. 

Figure 7.1.  Land Cover Change in Eastern U.S. Ecosystems, 1973-2000

Figure 7.2.  Forest cover increase and abandonment of marginal agricultural lands in the Upper Midwest

Figure 8.1.  Urban Population Density of North America

Figure 8.2.  Groundwater Overdraft in Response to Drought in Arizona's Urban Areas, 2025. 


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