Advancing Climate Dynamics Toward Reliable Regional Climate Projections

With a scientific consensus reached regarding the anthropogenic effect on global mean temperature, developing reliable regional climate projections has emerged as a new challenge for climate science. A national project was launched in China in 2012 to study ocean's role in regional climate change. This paper starts with a review of recent advances in the study of regional climate re-sponse to global warming, followed by a description of the Chinese project including the rationale, objectives, and plan for field ob-servations. The 15 research articles that follow in the special issue are highlighted, representing some of the initial results from the project.

气候小说:缘起、界定、类型及面临的挑战

作为传达人类世独特环境经验的气候小说,自20世纪70年代到21世纪经历了从边缘文类到主流文学的曲折历程。这一过程伴随着西方世界对自然史和人类历史的认识论变革,也折射出对气候小说再现人类世审美、情感和生活经验有效性的认识转型。当代气候小说代表作及其关键概念既勾勒出广泛的文化分析图谱,也描绘了持久的世界存在模式和广阔的人类世前景,更为人类命运共同体的构建提供了全新视域。