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Introduction
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... Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcings such as modulations of the solar cycles, volcanic eruptions, and persistent anthropogenic changes in the atmosphere's composition or land use. The climate system is the highly complex system consisting of five major components: atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere and the interactions among them.
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... e The immportance of answering these and related questions ex a d xtends beyond explaining the d recent slowdown in surface warm ming: The abil to anticipa and event lity ate, tually predict, such , change is importan to decision-making. Plan ners and polic makers wa information es nt cy ant about decadal varia ability to make decisions in a range of sec e ctors, includin for ng ructure, water resources, ag infrastr r griculture, and energy.
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... . The workshop included a number of panels followed by open discussions, as well as breakout groups focused on specific modeling and observational challenges, and concluded with reflections on the workshop's key messages and lessons on communicating these messages (see workshop agenda in Appendix B)


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