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China's Response to Global Change
China's Response to Global Change
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According to Ye Duzheng, chairman of the Chinese National Committee for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program (CNCIGBP) , Chinese research on global change will have a definite national focus.
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Although China's focus is practical given its population growth, current and projected industrial base, demands for fossil fuel, and rate of economic development, China's impact on global change is important to the international community. Even though China's basic global change research is expected to remain locally and regionally focused, important opportunities for international collaboration still exist that would increase China's and the international community's understanding of the causes and consequences of global environmental change.
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their significance and the fact that China has established national committees for each of them makes these two programs the main focus in this report.) Chinese National Committee for the IGBP Organization arm Membership The Chinese National Committee for the International GeosphereBiosphere Program (CNCIGBP)
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Chen Shupeng, Institute of Geography, CAS; Geographical Society of China Chen Yongning, Institute of Zoology, CAS; Ecological Society of China Cui Hailing, Geography Department, Peking University; Geographical Society of China addend Nan (vice chairman) , vice director, SSTC Also member of the Chinese National Climate Committee.
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, CAST Lu lingting, Department of International Affairs, CAST Lu Shouben, SOA; Chinese Society of Oceanography Ma Yang, Department of Society Activities, CAST Ouyang Ziyuan, Bureau of Resources and Environmental CAS Shen Qiuxing, MOA; Agricultural Society of China Shen Shanmin, director, Institute of Applied Ecology, CAS; Soils Society of China Sun Honglie (vice chairman) , vice president, CAS; director, CISNAR, CAS; China Research Society of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau Wang Lixian, Beijing Forestry University; Soil and Water Conservation Society of China Wang Ren (vice chairman)
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use of proxy data in the IGBP core project on Past Global Changes. In May 1991, the CNCIGBP published its first issue of the Bulletin of the CNCIGBP, which is written in English and is designed to in
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This committee will organize five scientific workshops to help implement the Chinese global change research program, and the following workshop topics have been identified: · Past global change in China. The objective will be to establish the conceptual model of past global change.
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The CNCIGBP provided the panel with the following list of 32 projects relevant to the IGBP that were developed between 1981 and 1990 3 · Study of the air-sea interaction in the tropical west Pacific region and its impact on annual climate change in China · Sino-lapanese cooperative study of the Kuroshio Ocean Current · Study of the Chinese Quaternary coastline and forecasting of sea-level and coastline changes · Study of aerosols over the Antarctic Ocean · Experimental observation and case study of comprehensive development and administration of eco-environmental resources in typical Chinese regions · Development of the Loess Plateau and global environmental change · Study of the content and distribution of carbon, sulfur, and nitrogen in China's lithosphere
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· Comprehensive land restoration experiment on the Sanjiang Plain in northeast China · Study of regional comprehensive development and land restoration strategies in southwest China · Prevention and treatment technologies for acid rain · Study of environmental background concentrations and capacities of trace gases · Comprehensive scientific study of the Karakorum-Kunlun Mountain region · Study of the comprehensive regional development and land restoration in Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region · Study of the environmental impacts of the Three Gorges Project and possible countermeasures · Study of the geochemistry of the boundary layer between sediment and water in lakes · Structural composition and evolution of lithosphere in southeast China and adjacent seas · Study of the numerical forecasting of marine environment · Physical model of rainfall penetration, water transport in aeration zone, and the effects on big-environment Pilot project demonstrating the influence of environmental and geological factors in land development in the regions around the Bohai Sea · Study of Quaternary paleo-ocean of the South China Sea · Sino-Japanese cooperative program on the atmosphere-land surface processes experiment (HEIFE) in the Heihe River region in Gansu Province (1987-1991)
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. Chinese National Climate Committee Organization and Membership In 1987, the SSTC established the Chinese National Climate Committee (CNCC)
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33 FIGURE 2-3 Organization of the Chinese national climate research program (CNCC: Chinese National Climate Committee; SMA: State Meteorological Administration; SSTC: State Science and Technology Commission)
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to describe the overall nature and objectives of climate research in China. The outline presents the Chinese national climate program, which consists of five subprograms parallelling the WMO climate programs: Climate data.
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-D4 for atmosphere is located in the Information Office of China's National Meteorological Center at SMA.5 Climate Research. This subprogram is located at the CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics and is concerned with modeling and numerical simulation, and observational programs.
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, and (4) international climate change agreement negotiations (MOFA)
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