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，在区域和次区域基础上开展全球变化研究。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，支持与全球变化有关的试点研究活动以及相关的区域数据和信息系统能力。具体活动预计将针对以下方面：加强区域研究能力和联网能力；制定协调一致的区域研究议程；确定潜在的合作科学家、机构和相关组织的能力；以及开发、规划和实施标准研究技术、方法和协议。这些项目将侧重于规划和确定讲习班的范围：现有知识和数据库的综合和分析；能力建设和网络；以及数据库和其他信息密集型产品的开发，可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/专题包括：东亚土地利用的变化；厄尔尼诺和拉尼娜现象对东南亚的影响；季风系统的区域模拟；二氧化碳增加对水稻生产的影响；东南亚沿海地区河流输入的模拟；南亚和东亚的产业转型；土地利用和退化的研究；全球变化与牧场的可持续性；全球变化与淡水资源；能力建设。其他广泛的重点领域预计将包括气候变异性和变化，重点是区域范围内从季节到年代际的变异性以及由此产生的气候变异性信息的应用；土地利用和生物多样性；以及地中海和非洲的碳循环及其影响。

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.