Translation of "Circulation planétaire " (French → English) :

1. Notes that the global financial crisis stemming from global macro-economic imbalances and a worldwide credit crisis has inflicted serious damage on financial systems all over the world, including the European Union; notes also that the global financial crisis has brought massive destruction of equity market capitalisation all over the world, that its negative effects on 'real economies' are profound and, in particular, that the implications for employment and the social situation are far-reaching; underlines that financial markets are of crucial importance to the 'real economy' and that one of the priorities – besides safeguarding e ...[+++]mployment – for growth and employment is to get capital flowing again, providing credits and financing to investments, which calls for renewed confidence and trust, through clear commitments and government guarantees, as well as better implemented supervision, covering all financial markets in a global perspective, and regulations supporting responsible provision of credits to the markets;

Research will focus on: understanding and quantification of changes in the carbon and nitrogen cycles; the role of all sources of greenhouse gases and atmospheric pollutants and their sinks in the biosphere; their effects on climate dynamics and variability, ocean and atmospheric chemistry, and their interactions; future stratospheric ozone levels and ultraviolet radiation; prediction of global climatic change and impacts; associated phenomena (e.g. the North Atlantic oscillation, El Niño and changes in sea level and ocean circulation); and mitigation and adaptation strategies.

Yet, it would be a mistake to say that global circulation models have nothing to say on precipitation.

It is true that with global circulation models, they are first of all coarse; they do not take local features into account.

In my work, I have relied on what I call the Canadian global circulation models.

The Institute of Climate Change at the University of Victoria produces the global circulation models.