Abrupt Climate Change Focus Of U.S. National Laboratories
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 19:35
in Earth & Climate
Abrupt climate change is the focus of IMPACTS, a major new program bringing together six US Department of Energy national laboratories to investigate the instability of marine ice sheets, warming of the boreal forests and Arctic, megadroughts in the Southwestern United States, and methane release from frozen hydrates.