Enhancing Regional Capabilities and Partnerships to Conduct Global Change Research

分析、研究和培训系统（START）将加强区域能力和伙伴关系，以便在区域和次区域基础上进行全球变化研究。拟议的活动特别侧重于温带东亚、东南亚、南亚、非洲、地中海和大洋洲的区域合作。这些活动的目的是在这些区域发展网络，支助有关全球变化和有关区域数据和信息系统能力的试验规模研究活动。预期具体活动将针对：加强区域研究能力和联网能力；制订连贯的区域研究议程；确定潜在的合作科学家、机构和相关组织；以及标准研究技术、方法和协议的开发、规划和实施。这些项目将侧重于规划和确定范围讲习班：现有知识和数据库的综合和分析；能力建设和网络；发展数据库和其他信息密集型产品，为国家和区域政策进程提供有用的投入。美国科学家可能特别感兴趣的具体活动/主题包括东亚土地利用变化的研究；厄尔尼诺和拉尼娜对东南亚的影响；季风系统的区域模拟；二氧化碳富集对水稻生产的影响东南亚沿海地区河流输入的模拟；南亚和东亚的产业转型；土地利用和退化研究；全球变化与牧场可持续性；全球变化与淡水资源；和能力建设。预计其他广泛的重点领域将包括气候变率和变化，重点是在区域基础上的季节至年代际变率以及由此产生的气候变率信息的应用；土地利用和生物多样性；碳循环及其对地中海和非洲的影响。

The SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training (START) will enhance regional capabilities and partnerships to conduct global change research on a regional and sub-regional basis. The proposed activities have a special focus on regional cooperation in Temperate East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Africa, the Mediterranean, and Oceania. These activities are intended to develop networks in these regions which would support pilot-scale research activities related to global change and related regional data and information system capabilities. Specific activities are expected to be directed towards: enhancement of regional resarch capacities and networking capabilities; formulation of coherent regional research agendas; identificationof potential collaborating scientists, institutions, and related organizations; and development, planning and implementation of standard research technologies, methodologies, and protocols. These projects will focus on planning and scoping workshops: syntheses and analysis of existing knowledge and databases; capacity building and networks; and developpment of databases and other information intensive products which may provide useful input for national and regional policy processes. Specific activities/topics likely to be of special interest to U.S. scientists include studies of land use change in East Asia; impacts of El Nino and La Nina on SOutheast Asia; regional modeling of monsoon systems; effects of carbon dioxide enrichment on rice production; modeling of river inputs to coastal zones of Southeast Asia; industrial transformation in South and East Asia; studies of land use and degradation; global change and sustainability of rangelands; globalchange and freshwater resources; and capacity-building. Additional broad areas of emphasis are expected to include climate variability and change with emphasis on seasonal-to decadal variability on a regional basis and the resulting applications of information on climate variability; land use and biodiversity; and the carbon cycle and its influence inthe Mediterranean and Africa.