"The Atlas of Climate Change--Based on SEAP-CMIP5" is intended to
satisfy readers' curiosity: how will our climate system change over the
next 100 years? It is the first showcase for the state-of -the-art earth
system models that released their CMIP5 simulations for the IPCC AR5.The
atlas focuses on both the past climate system change from 1850 and the
projection of the future climate system change to 2100 using the RCP2.6,
RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios based on climate models. This provides the
research and application community interested in the impact of climate
change on fields such as agriculture, ecosystem, environment, water
resources, energy, health, economy, risk governance and international
negotiation, etc. with the newest climate change projection information.
Additionally, the atlas will show the historical responsibility of the
developed/developing countries and possible contributions to the
mitigation of climate change according to their pledge of GHG emission
reduction after the Cancun Agreement as an extension numerical
experiment to CMIP5 with NCAR's CESM1.0. The authors will update this
atlas after future releases of CMIP5 model outputs and update the
figures in the second edition of the atlas in 2012-2013.
Both Prof. Wenjie Dong and Yan Guo work at the Beijing Normal
University, China. Prof. Fumin Ren works at the China Meteorological
Administration, China. Prof. Jianbin Huang works at the Tsinghua
University, China.