Planning and Assessment For a Study of Enviornmental Arctic Change (SEARCH)

由于高纬度冰雪融化造成的气候反馈，北极预计将是第一个感受到全球变暖的地方。 该项目设立了一个办公室，将促进从一个多学科的北极研究人员小组收集信息，这些研究人员单独确定北极环境的显著变暖至少已经持续了十年。 该办公室将为北极环境变化研究项目收集信息并开展规划活动，以评估可能与温室效应开始有关的北极变暖的原因和影响。 该办公室将作为一个研究计划的科学规划的重点，该计划旨在支持协调的跨机构努力，以收集足够的信息来评估当前变暖的原因，并预测变暖趋势的可能进展及其对环境和社会的潜在影响。

The Arctic is predicted to be the first place to sense global warming due to the climate feedbacks created from melting of snow and ice cover at high latitudes. This project establishes an office that will facilitate collection of information from a multidisciplinary group of Arctic researchers who have individually determined that a significant warming of the Arctic environment has been underway for at least a decade. The office will gather information and conduct planning activities for the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) project in order to assess the cause and effects for a warming of the Arctic that may be related to initiation of greenhouse warming. The SEARCH office will serve as the focus for scientific planning of a research program that will be designed to support a coordinated, interagency effort to gather enough information to assess the causes of the current warming and predict the likely progress of the warming trend and its potential impacts on the environment and society.