IGBP Reports are available free of charge from: IGBP Secretariat, Royal Swedish
Academy of Sciences, Box 50005, S-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. Report Nos. 1-11
and reports marked * are no longer available.
No.12
The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme: A Study of
Global Change (IGBP). The Initial Core Projects (1990). IGBP
Secretariat, Stockholm, 330 pp.
The IGBP science plan is composed of research projects aimed at
answering a number of key questions related to global change,
through the establishment of Core Projects on the distinct
sub-components of the Earth system, and related activities on
data systems and research centres. An implementation strategy
provides for its fulfilment.
No.13
Terrestrial Biosphere Exchange with Global Atmospheric
Chemistry. Terrestrial Biosphere Perspective of the IGAC Project:
Companion to the Dookie Report. Report on the Recommendations
from the SCOPE / IGBP Workshop on Trace-Gas Exchange in a Global
Perspective. Sigtuna, Sweden, 19-23 February, 1990. Edited by
P.A.Matson and D.S.Ojima (1990). IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm,
103 pp.
The Sigtuna workshop contributed to the development of a
scientific action plan on terrestrial ecosystem gas exchange,
complementing the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry
Project (an IGBP Core Project) in areas of natural variability,
boreal regions, global integration and modelling of fluxes, and
trace gas fluxes in mid-latitude ecosystems.
No.14
Coastal Ocean Fluxes and Resources. Report of a CP2 Ad Hoc
Workshop, Tokyo, Japan, 19-22 September 1989. Edited by
P.Holligan (1990). IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 53 pp.
The focus of IGBP Coordinating Panel 2 on Marine Biosphere-
Atmosphere Interactions is the elucidation and prediction of the
feedback loops between climate and ocean biogeochemistry under
conditions of significant anthropogenic changes to the trace gas
composition of the atmosphere. The workshop concentrated on
global change and the coastal oceans.
No.15
Global Change System for Analysis, Research and Training (START).
Report of a Meeting at Bellagio, December 3-7, 1990. Edited by
J.A.Eddy, T.F.Malone, J.J.McCarthy and T.Rosswall (1991). IGBP
Secretariat, Stockholm, 40 pp. Also available in Spanish and
French.
START is a plan for the development of an international network
of regional research centres and sites to gather data and study
global change problems in their regional contexts. These regions
are identified. Issues to be addressed are: How changes in land
use and industrial practices alter the water cycles, atmospheric
chemistry and ecosystems dynamics; how regional changes affect
global biogeochemical cycles and climate; and how global change
leads to further regional change in the biospheric life support
system.
No.16
Report from the IGBP Regional Meeting for South America.
Sao Jose dos Campos, SP, Brazil, 5-9 March 1990 (1991).
IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 58 pp.
The workshop discussed, in a South American context, past global
changes, the effects of climate change on terrestrial ecosystems,
the role of ocean processes in global change, land transformation
and global change processes, the importance of the Andes for
general circulation models, and regional research centres.
Recommendations promote the role of South American science in
global change research.
No.17
Plant-Water Interactions in Large-Scale Hydrological Modelling.
Report of a Workshop, Vadstena, Sweden, 5-8 June 1990 (1991).
IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 44 pp.
The workshop addressed plant-water interrelationships at landscape
to continental scales: the spatial pattern at landscape level of
the dynamics of water flows and waterborne fluxes of dissolved and
suspended mater; plant / vegetation characteristics and properties
affecting return flow to the atmosphere; methodological issues of
large-scale modelling; research in humid tropical, semi-arid and
temperate zones.
No.18:1
The Recommendations of the Asian Workshop, New Delhi, India,
February 11-15, 1991. Edited by R.R.Daniel (1991).
IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 36 pp.
Recommendations of the Workshop address issues of prime concern
to Asian countries, with reports and recommendations from Working
Groups on IGBP Core Projects and key activities.
No.18:2
Proceedings of the Asian Workshop, New Delhi, India, 11-15
February 1991. Edited by R.R.Daniel and B.Babuji. Madras,
Committee on Science and Technology in Developing Countries
(COSTED) and the Indian National Committee for the IGBP (1992).
Madras, COSTED, Asia Regional Office, 152 pp.
The Proceedings include 19 papers on Earth system research and
global environmental change in Asia, and national reports on
global change programmes.
No.19*
PAGES Past Global Changes Project: Proposed Implementation Plans
for Research Activities. Edited by John A.Eddy (1992).
IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 112 pp.
The Past Global Changes (PAGES) project will secure better
understanding of the natural and human-induced variations of the
Earth system in the past, through studies of both natural and
written records. Focus is on changes within two temporal streams:
global changes for the period 2000 BP, and changes through a full
glacial cycle. Implementation plans address: solar and orbital
forcing and response, Earth system processes, rapid and abrupt
global changes, multi-proxy mapping, palaeoclimatic and
palaeoenvironmental modelling, advances in technology, management
of palaeodata, and improved chronologies for palaeoenvironmental
research.
No.20*
Improved Global Data for Land Applications: A Proposal for a
New High Resolution Data Set, Report of the Land Cover
Working Group of IGBP-DIS. Edited by John R. Townshend (1992).
IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 75 pp.
This report outlines a proposal to produce a global data set at
a spatial resolution of 1 km derived from the Advanced Very High
Resolution Radiometer primarily for land applications. It defines
the characteristics of the data set to meet a number of
requirements of IGBP's science plan and outlines how it could be
created. It presents the scientific requirements for a 1 km data
set, the types and uses of AVHRR data, characteristics of a
global 1 km data set, procedures, availability of current AVHRR
1 km data, and the management needs.
No.21*
Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems: The Operational Plan.
Edited by W.L.Steffen, B.H.Walker, J.I.Ingram and G.W.Koch (1992).
IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 97 pp.
The objectives of GCTE are: to predict the effects of changes in
climate, atmospheric composition, and land use on terrestrial
ecosystems, including agricultural and production forest systems,
and to determine how these effects lead to feedbacks to the
atmosphere and the physical climate system. The research plan is
divided into four foci: ecosystem physiology, change in ecosystem
structure, global change impact on agriculture and forestry, and
global change and ecological complexity. Research strategies are
presented.
No.22
Report from the START Regional Meeting for Southeast Asia.
Arranged by The International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme:
A Study of Global Change (IGBP), in collaboration with Human
Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (HDGEC) Programme
(1992). IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 114 pp.
The report presents general recommendations on global change
research in the region, thematic studies relating to IGBP Core
Project science programmes, global change research in studies of
eight countries in the area, and conclusions from working groups
on the participation of the region in research under the five
established IGBP Core Projects and the related HDGEC programme.
No.23
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study: Implementation Plan. Jointly
published with the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR)
(1992). IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 78 pp. (JGOFS Report No.9)
The Report describes how the aims of JGOFS are being, and will be,
achieved through global synthesis, large scale surveys, process
studies, time series studies, investigations of the sedimentary
record and continental margin boundary fluxes, and the JGOFS data
management system.
No.24
Relating Land use and Global Land-Cover Change: A Proposal for an
IGBP-HDP Core Project. A report from the IGBP / HDP Working
Group on Land-Use / Land-Cover Change. Edited by B.L.Turner,
R.H.Moss, and D.L.Skole (1993). IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 65 pp.
(Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change Programme,
HDP Report No. 5)
The report presents the main findings of the joint Working Group
of the IGBP and the International Social Science Council on
Land-Use / Land-Cover Change; it describes the research questions
defined by the group and identifies the next steps needed to
address the human causes of global land-cover change and to
understand its overall importance. It calls for the development
of a system to classify land-cover changes according to the
socioeconomic driving forces. The knowledge gained will be used
to develop a global land-use and land-cover change model that can
be linked to other global environmental models.
No.25
Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Science Plan.
Edited by P.M.Holligan and H. de Boois, with the assistance of
members of the LOICZ Core Project Planning Committee (1993).
IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 50 pp.
The report describes the new IGBP Core Project, giving the
scientific background and objectives, and the four research foci.
These are: the effects of global change (land and freshwater use,
climate) on fluxes of materials in the coastal zone; coastal
biogeomorphology and sea-level rise; carbon fluxes and trace gas
emissions on the coastal zone; economic and social impacts of
global change on coastal systems. The LOICZ project framework
includes data synthesis and modelling, and implementation plans
cover research priorities and the establishment of a Core Project
office in the Netherlands.
No.26
Towards a Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS): Detecting
and Monitoring Change in Terrestrial Ecosystems. Report of the
Fontainebleau Workshop. Edited by O. W. Heal, J.-C. Menaut and
W.L.Steffen (1993). Paris: MAB, 71 pp. (UNESCO Man and the
Biosphere Digest 14)
The Fontainebleau Workshop, July 1992, defined a strategy to
initiate a global terrestrial monitoring system for the IGBP
project on Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems, the French
Observatory for the Sahara and the Sahel, and the UNESCO Man and
the Biosphere programme, in combination with other existing and
planned monitoring programmes. The report reviews existing
organisations and networks, and drafts an operational plan.
No.27*
Biospheric Aspects of the Hydrological Cycle. The Operational Plan.
1993. Edited by BAHC Core Project Office, Berlin (1993). IGBP
Secretariat, Stockholm, 103 pp.
A presentation of the mandate, scope, principal subjects and
structure of the BAHC research plan is followed by a full
description of the four BAHC Foci:
1) Development, testing and validation of 1-dimensional
soil-vegetation-atmosphere transfer (SVAT) models;
2) Regional-scale studies of land-surface properties and fluxes;
3) Diversity of biosphere-hydrosphere interactions;
4) The Weather Generator Project.
No.28
The IGBP in Action: The Work Plan 1994-1998. 1994.
IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 151 pp.
This Report provides an overview of the global change research to
be carried out under the aegis of the International Geosphere-
Biosphere Programme over the next five years. It represents a
follow-up to IGBP Report No.12 (1990) that described the basic
structure of the global change research programme, the scientific
rationale for its component Core Projects and proposals for their
development. The IGBP Core Projects and Framework Activities
present their aims and work programme in an up-to-date synthesis
of their science, operational and implementation plans.
No.29
Africa and Global Change. A Report from a Meeting at Niamey,
Niger, 23-27 November, 1992. (1994). IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm.
(English and French under the same cover). 55 pp.
A summary is given of the conference arranged by the Global Change
System for Analysis, Research and Training (START) on behalf of
the IGBP, the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Programme (HDP), and the Joint Research Centre of the Commission
of the European Communities (CEC) that describe the global change
scientific research situation in Africa today.
No.30
IGBP Global Modelling and Data Activities, 1994-1998. 1994.
Strategy and Implementation Plans for Global Analysis,
Interpretation and Modelling (GAIM) and the IGBP Data and
Information System (IGBP-DIS). IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 86 pp.
This report sets out the goals and directions for GAIM and
IGBP-DIS over the next five years, expanding on the recent overview
of their activities within IGBP Report 28 (1994). It describes the
work within IGBP-DIS directed at the assembly of global databases
of land surface characteristics, and within GAIM, directed at
modelling the global carbon cycle and climate-vegetation
interaction.
No.31
African Savannas and the Global Atmosphere. Research Agenda. 1994.
Report of a joint IGBP / START / IGAC / GCTE / GAIM / DIS Workshop
on African Savannas, Land use and Global Change: Interactions
of Climate, Productivity and Emissions, 1-5 June 1993, Victoria
Falls, Zimbabwe. Edited by C.Justice, B.Scholes and P.Frost.
IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 53 pp.
The workshop focused on interactions between African savannas and
the global atmosphere, specifically addressing land-atmosphere
interactions, with emphasis on sources and sinks of trace gases
and aerosol particles. The report discusses the ecology of
African savannas, the research issues related to carbon
sequestration, ongoing and proposed activities, and gives
a research agenda.
No.32
International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project. The
Operational Plan. 1994. IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 134 pp.
The goals of IGAC are to: develop a fundamental understanding of
the processes that determine atmospheric composition; understand
the interactions between atmospheric chemical composition and
biospheric and climatic processes, and predict the impact of
natural and anthropogenic forcings on the chemical composition of
the atmosphere. The Operational Plan outlines the organisation of
the project. The plan describes the seven Foci, their related
Activities and Tasks, including for each the scientific rationale,
the goals, strategies.
No.33
Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone. Implementation Plan.
1995. Edited by J.C.Pernetta and J.D.Milliman. IGBP Secretariat,
Stockholm, 215 pp.
LOICZ is that component of the IGBP which focuses on the area of
the Earth's surface where land, ocean and atmosphere meet and
interact. The implementation plan describes the research , its
activities and tasks, and the management and implementation
requirements to achieve LOICZ's science goals. These are, to
determine at regional and global scales: the nature of these
dynamic interactions, how changes in various compartments of the
Earth system are affecting coastal zones and altering their role
in global cycles, to assess how future changes in these areas
will affect their use by people, and to provide a sound scientific
basis for future integrated management of coastal areas on
a sustainable basis.
No.34
BAHC-IGAC-GCTE Science Task Team. Report of First Meeting.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
USA, 10-12 January, 1994. 1995. IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm,
45 pp.
The Science Task Team discussed and developed recommendations for
multi-Core Project collaboration within the IGBP under three
headings: process studies in terrestrial environments, integrated
modelling efforts, and partnership with developing country
scientists. Three interrelated themes considered under process
studies are: transects and large-scale land surface experiments,
fire, and wetlands. Methods for implementation and projects are
identified.
No.35
Land-Use and Land-Cover Change. Science / Research Plan. 1995.
Edited by B.L.Turner II, D.Skole, S.Sanderson, G.Fischer, L.Fresco
and R.Leemans. IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, HDP Secretariat,
Geneva, (IGBP Report 35 / HDP Report 7) 132 pp.
The Science / Research Plan presents land-use and land-cover change
and ties it to the overarching themes of global change. It briefly
outlines what is currently known and what knowledge will be
necessary to address the problem in the context of the broad
agendas of IGBP and HDP. The three foci address by the plan are:
(i) landuse dynamics, land-cover dynamics - comparative case study
analysis, (ii) landcover dynamics - direct observation and
diagnostic models, and (iii) regional and global models -
framework for integrative assessments.
No.36
The IGBP Terrestrial Transects: Science Plan. 1995. Edited by
G.W.Koch, R.J.Scholes, W.L.Steffen, P.M.Vitousek and B.H.Walker.
IGBP Secretariat, Stockholm, 53 pp. Also available in Chinese.
The IGBP Terrestrial Transects are a set of integrated global
change studies consisting of distributed observational studies
and manipulative experiments coupled with modelling and synthesis
activities. The transects are organised geographically, along
existing gradients of underlying global change parameters, such
as temperature, precipitation, and land use. The initial transects
are located in four key regions, where the proposed transects
contribute to the global change studies planned in each region.
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