Open AccessAssessing Ability to Forecast Geomorphic System Responses to Climate and Land‐Use Changes
Author(s) -
Pelletier Jon D.,
Brad Murray A.,
Pierce Jennifer L.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1002/2014eo010003
Subject(s) - earth system science , natural hazard , environmental resource management , adaptation (eye) , climate change , natural (archaeology) , environmental planning , land use , environmental science , natural disaster , geography , meteorology , engineering , geology , civil engineering , oceanography , physics , optics , archaeology
As the global community faces the effects of ongoing and future climate and land‐use changes (C&LUC), geoscientists are called to action to assess the risks associated with such changes, assist with forecasts of future Earth states, quantify hazards to life, and suggest reasonable adaptation strategies. Earth surface scientists have developed conceptual and mathematical models for how geomorphic systems, including those associated with natural hazards that put trillions of dollars in infrastructure and tens of millions of lives at risk, will respond to and give feedback on C&LUC.