International Arctic Research Center
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The International Arctic Research Center, or IARC, established 1997, is a research institution focused on integrating and coordinating study of climate change in the Arctic. The primary partners in IARC are Japan and the United States. Participants include organizations from Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Norway, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The Center is located at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Study projects are focused within four major themes:
- Arctic ocean models and observation
- Arctic atmosphere: feedbacks, radiation, and weather analysis
- Permafrost/Frozen soil models and observations
- Arctic biota/vegetation (ecosystems models)
IARC is devoting specific effort to answering the following three questions:
- To what extent is climate change due to natural vs man-made causes?
- What parameters, processes and interactions are needed to understand and predict future climate change?
- What are the likely impacts of climate change?
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