ARCSS (Environmental & Earth Science)

ARCSS

Published: March 29, 2010, 12:00 am

Updated: December 17, 2011, 9:07 am

Topics:

Environmental Monitoring (main) Oceans and seas (main) Geography (main) Environmental & Ecological Modeling (main)

ARCSS is an abbreviation for ARCtic System Science, an U.S. National Science Foundation global change research program. The goals of ARCSS are to understand the chemical, physical, biological and social processes of the Arctic systems that interact with the total earth system, and thus contributes to or is influenced by global change in order to advance the scientific basis for predicting environmental change on a decadal to centuries time scale.

See Also

• Polar desert
• Seas of the world on Encyclopedia of Earth

This article is written at a definitional level only. Authors wishing to expand this entry are inivited to expand the present treatment, which additions will be peer reviewed prior to publication of any expansion.

Further Reading

• Physical Oceanography Index
• ARCSS Web site

Citation

Baum, S. (2011). ARCSS. Retrieved from http://editors.eol.org/eoearth/wiki/ARCSS_(Environmental_&_Earth_Science)