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    Wissen auf einen Klick
    (Stuttgart : Raabe, Fachverl. für Wiss.-Information, 2014) Heller, Lambert; Tullney, Marco
    Früher schrieben Forscherinnen und Forscher dicke Bücher. Heute kommt neues Wissen vor allem durch Aufsätze in Fachzeitschriften in die Welt – immer häufiger auch online. Das verheißt neue Chancen: Kolleginnen und Kollegen können die Texte leichter finden, schneller zitieren und verlinken. Worauf ist beim digitalen Publizieren zu achten?
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    The Global Aerosol Synthesis and Science Project (GASSP): Measurements and Modeling to Reduce Uncertainty
    (Boston, Mass. : ASM, 2017) Reddington, C.L.; Carslaw, K.S.; Stier, P.; Schutgens, N.; Coe, H.; Liu, D.; Allan, J.; Browse, J.; Pringle, K.J.; Lee, L.A.; Yoshioka, M.; Johnson, J.S.; Regayre, L.A.; Spracklen, D.V.; Mann, G.W.; Clarke, A.; Hermann, M.; Henning, S.; Wex, H.; Kristensen, T.B.; Leaitch, W.R.; Pöschl, U.; Rose, D.; Andreae, M.O.; Schmale, J.; Kondo, Y.; Oshima, N.; Schwarz, J.P.; Nenes, A.; Anderson, B.; Roberts, G.C.; Snider, J.R.; Leck, C.; Quinn, P.K.; Chi, X.; Ding, A.; Jimenez, J.L.; Zhang, Q.
    The largest uncertainty in the historical radiative forcing of climate is caused by changes in aerosol particles due to anthropogenic activity. Sophisticated aerosol microphysics processes have been included in many climate models in an effort to reduce the uncertainty. However, the models are very challenging to evaluate and constrain because they require extensive in situ measurements of the particle size distribution, number concentration, and chemical composition that are not available from global satellite observations. The Global Aerosol Synthesis and Science Project (GASSP) aims to improve the robustness of global aerosol models by combining new methodologies for quantifying model uncertainty, to create an extensive global dataset of aerosol in situ microphysical and chemical measurements, and to develop new ways to assess the uncertainty associated with comparing sparse point measurements with low-resolution models. GASSP has assembled over 45,000 hours of measurements from ships and aircraft as well as data from over 350 ground stations. The measurements have been harmonized into a standardized format that is easily used by modelers and nonspecialist users. Available measurements are extensive, but they are biased to polluted regions of the Northern Hemisphere, leaving large pristine regions and many continental areas poorly sampled. The aerosol radiative forcing uncertainty can be reduced using a rigorous model–data synthesis approach. Nevertheless, our research highlights significant remaining challenges because of the difficulty of constraining many interwoven model uncertainties simultaneously. Although the physical realism of global aerosol models still needs to be improved, the uncertainty in aerosol radiative forcing will be reduced most effectively by systematically and rigorously constraining the models using extensive syntheses of measurements.
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    German climate change impact study
    (Stuttgart : Gebrueder Borntraeger Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2015) Gerstengarbe, F.-W.; Hattermann, F.; Gräfe, P.
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    Modeling Ice Shelf/Ocean Interaction in Antarctica: A Review
    (Rockville, MD : The Oceanography Society, 2016) Dinniman, Michael; Asay-Davis, Xylar; Galton-Fenzi, Benjamin; Holland, Paul; Jenkins, Adrian; Timmermann, Ralph
    The most rapid loss of ice from the Antarctic Ice Sheet is observed where ice streams flow into the ocean and begin to float, forming the great Antarctic ice shelves that surround much of the continent. Because these ice shelves are floating, their thinning does not greatly influence sea level. However, they also buttress the ice streams draining the ice sheet, and so ice shelf changes do significantly influence sea level by altering the discharge of grounded ice. Currently, the most significant loss of mass from the ice shelves is from melting at the base (although iceberg calving is a close second). Accessing the ocean beneath ice shelves is extremely difficult, so numerical models are invaluable for understanding the processes governing basal melting. This paper describes the different ways in which ice shelf/ocean interactions are modeled and discusses emerging directions that will enhance understanding of how the ice shelves are melting now and how this might change in the future.