- ID
- 259201
- Banca
- CESPE / CEBRASPE
- Órgão
- MMA
- Ano
- 2011
- Provas
- Disciplina
- Inglês
- Assuntos
1 Climate change is a defining issue of our time, a
challenge that already affects and will increasingly impact all
nations, including some whose very survival is at risk. The
4 complexity of the problem is intrinsically linked with
overarching societal issues, such as poverty reduction,
economic development and population growth
7 After a decade of work on integrating Earth- and
satellite-based observing networks, thereby establishing new
observation methods that have made a tremendous impact on
10 the way climate change and physical oceanic variability is
measured, scientists are once again exploring uncharted waters
and looking to set a new course for the future at the
13 OceanObs'09 Conference in Venice, Italy on September 21-25.
Ten years ago — at the first conference for a comprehensive
ocean observing system — scientists envisioned measuring
16 satellite altimetry of sea-surface height with tide gauges and
buoy measurements in order to forecast ocean currents. They
brainstormed methods for monitoring changes in temperature
19 and salinity in the Southern Ocean and the South Atlantic
which had never been systematically monitored. They also
drew up a plan for implementing a global array of temperature
22 and salinity floats that would profile the water column down to
a depth of 2,000 meters in real time. The initiatives launched
at that conference a decade ago have since provided data that
25 fed the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
assessments of human influence on climate change, improved
seasonal forecasts crucial for agriculture, hydropower, and
28 storm prediction and provided information invaluable to the
lives and safety of mariners.
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