Moderate Resolution Imaging

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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Pacific
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.417.4314; http://www.agci.org/dB/PDFs/BAMS_2009.pdf

An international project aims to better understand and quantify feedbacks between northern Eurasia and global climate. Within northern Eurasia, dramatic climatic, environmental, and socioeconomic changes have occurred during the past century. These include floods and droughts, forest fires and dust storms, massive land and water management projects, social unrest, and revolutions. Some of these changes are of such scope that they not only have regional but also global implications via the climate system. The Northern Eurasian Earth Science Partnership Initiative (NEESPI), whose domain of approximately 28.6 × 10 6 km 2 (Fig. 1) accounts for roughly 60 % of the terrestrial land area north of 40°N, was formed to � Fig. 1. NEESPI study area is loosely defined as the region between 15°E in the west, the Pacific Coast in the east, 40°N in the south, and the Arctic Ocean coastal zone in the north. Territory of the former Soviet Union