News Headline

Forecast ocean variability

Source
Nature

Publication Date
2016-11-08

The ocean modulates Earth's climate and provides us with food, coastal protection, clean seawater and oxygen.Only the latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)1, 2, in 2014, had dedicated chapters on the oceans. Now the IPCC is preparing a special interdisciplinary report on the ocean and cryosphere (Earth's snowy and icy regions). Next month, a group of scientists will decide what to include in the report, which will be published in 2019.

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http://www.nature.com/news/forecast-ocean-variability-1.20934