Motivations:

• John Holdren (US Presidential Science Advisor) “Climate‐Change Science and Policy: What Do We Know? What Should We Do”
• David JC MacKay “Sustainable Energy – without the hot air”
  

Hereby we add a general schema,  some web resources and scientific papers useful to start thinking about webvalley 2011 project.

.Data Hub

Web databases for climate change and environmental risk studies:

IPCC Data Distribuition Centre, Worldclim, PRUDENCE, Goeportal , Geodataportal UNEP , GBIF

Standards for geodata: Open Geo Consortium , Data One

Application Server: Postgis , Geoserver , Django

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User Interface

Kinect: kinecthacks , ROS

WebGIS: ExtJS , Geoext , OpenLayer

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Process modelling

Climate change model downscaling: Global Circulation Model Dowscaling

Reproducible research: Accessible Reproducible Research

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Maps & Results

Tree species distribuition , ClimateWizard , GES-DISC (Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center) Interactive Online Visualization ANd aNalysis Infrastructure ,Climate hot map

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Relevant papers

• Scheffer, 2009. “Early-warning signals for critical transitions.” Nature: 461, 53-59 (3 September 2009)

• Chevin L-M, 2010. Adaptation, Plasticity, and Extinction in a Changing Environment: Towards a Predictive Theory. PLoS Biol 8(4): e1000357. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000357

• Peterson AT, 2008.   Shifting Global Invasive Potential of European Plants with Climate Change. PLoS ONE 3(6): e2441. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002441

• Deyle ER, 2011. Generalized Theorems for Nonlinear State Space Reconstruction. PLoS ONE 6(3): e18295. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018295