The interest and level of research into climate variability has
risen dramatically in recent years, and major breakthroughs have
been achieved in the understanding and modelling of seasonal to
interannual climate variability and prediction. At the same time,
the documentation of longer term variability and its underlying
mecha nisms have progressed considerably. Within the European
Commission's Environment and Climate research programs several
important projects have been supported in these areas - including
the "Dec adal and Interdecadal Climate variability Experiment"
(DICE) which forms the basis of this book. Within the EC supported
climate research, we see an increasing importance of research into
climate variability, as is evidenced in the upcoming Fifth
Framework Programme's Key Action on Global Change, Climate and
Biodi versity. This is because of the obvious potential
socio-economic benefits from sea sonal to decadal scale climate
prediction and equally important for the fundamental understanding
of the climate system to help improve the quality and reliability
of future climate change and mankind's current interference with
it. The DICE group has performed important and pioneering work, and
we hope this book will receive the wide distribution and
recognition it deserves. We wel come the contributions from
distinguished researchers from US, Japan and Canada to the EC's
DICE group towards completing the scope of the book and as an exam
ple of international cooperation which is essential in such a
high-level scientific endeavor."
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