Pacific Community

• Day to day weather forecasting is a necessity for people’s lives as well as for industries such as agriculture, fisheries, and tourism. Seasonality in weather is a annual cyclical change repeated year after year. Even if the interest is on a particular community or region, weather forecasting has to be based on a global observation system.
• Climate variability refers to a “relatively short-term shift” in the patters of the natural climate system over years to decade. An example is the El Nino.
• Climate change is refers to long-term changes, from decades to centuries, associated with increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (Eileen Shea, et al., Preparing for a Changing Climate).
• In recent years, concern over the consequences of climate change has led many to investigate the potential effects on human communities (ibid.)
• There are much longer-term changes in the climate and sea levels (see for example, Patrick Nunn, Environmental Change in the Pacific Basin).

Weather,Climate Variability and Climate Change

• Outline
• Weather,Climate Variability and Climate Change
• 1. Seasonal Weather Patterns
• 2. Climate Variability
• 3. Climate Change
• References

Asia Pacific Initiative

• Front
• Origin of Island and Ocean
• Formation of the Pacific Community
• Economic and Social Conditions of Pacific Community