Here are some USGS Web pages with more information on climate change and Anywhere:
Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Home page for Coastal and Marine Geology with links to topics of interest (sea-level change, erosion, corals, pollution, sonar mapping, and others), Sound Waves monthly newsletter, field centers, regions of interest, and subject search system.
(Score: 3.000)
Assessing the impacts of climate variability and change on the Nations resources
Site for a USGS project under the U.S. Global Change Research Program for a national assessment of the impacts of climate variability and change on resources with links to impacts in Alaska, western U.S., public lands, and water resources.
(Score: 1.000)
Climate history
Brief discussion of USGS projects studying climate change and links to several online reports giving data and results.
(Score: 1.000)
Earth Surface Processes
Homepage for Earth Surface Processes Team with research studies in two general categories: climate change and geologic mapping. Links to research activities, available data sets, workhop, and programs.
(Score: 1.000)
Global Change Hydrology Program (hydroclimatology)
Review of the Global Change Hydrology Program components relating to hydroclimatology and studies of the biogeochemistry of greenhouse gases with links to research activities, datasets, fact sheets, and other publications and websites.
(Score: 1.000)
Global change research: a focus on mountain ecosystems
Overview of interdisciplinary research studies in Glacier National Park to understand how this mountain wilderness responds to present climatic variability and other external stressors, such as air pollution, and links to detailed reports.
(Score: 1.000)
Global change research - earth surface dynamics
Homepage for USGS Global Change Research projects which seek to understand the interrelationships among earth surface processes, ecological systems, and human activities. Links to projects with descriptions and products and downloadable poster.
(Score: 0.690)
Hydro-Climatic Data Network (HCDN): streamflow data set, 1874 - 1988
The Hydro-Climatic Data Network, or HCDN, consists of streamflow records for 1,659 sites throughout United States and its Territories. Records span the period 1874 through 1988, and represent a total of 73,231 water years of information.
(Score: 0.690)
The carbon cycle in lakes of the Upper Mississippi Basin
Summary of part of the USGS interdivisional Mississippi Basin Carbon project that will study the changes in climate and the environment through carbon cycle changes recorded in lake sediments in the Upper Mississippi River Basin.
(Score: 0.535)
Western lake catchment systems - Bear Lake region, Idaho-Utah
Homepage for project on Bear Lake, Idaho-Utah, to study past climate change and effect on lake catchment basins. Includes link to summary, personnel, geology, methods used including coring and seismic surveying, and publications.
(Score: 0.275)
Definition:
Alterations in the characteristic weather of a region, particularly as regards temperature and precipitation, averaged over some significant interval of time. [Adapted from Glossary of Geology, 4th ed.]
