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Science 24 December 2004:
Vol. 306. no. 5705, p. 2171
DOI: 10.1126/science.306.5705.2171c
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TRIESTE, ITALY-- Italy will host a new Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change Study (CMCC) to operate from the National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology (INGV) in Bologna, with headquarters and a dedicated supercomputer at the University of Lecce. Officials made the announcement during last week's meeting in Buenos Aires to review the Kyoto Protocol, a global pact to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

The four Italian ministries that created the center have pledged $36 million through 2007. CMCC will coordinate research on climate change and disaster planning, complementing work in the United States, the U.K., Germany, and Japan. INGV currently concentrates on climate simulations based on models of the atmosphere's circulation, the oceans, the Mediterranean Sea, and marine ice. "We aim to take this a step further," explains new CMCC head Antonio Navarra, by coupling these models with models of the earth's biosphere, marine ecosystems, and chemistry of the atmosphere to allow "simulations that are more reliable and have higher resolution."




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