Major climate change is upon us, and the next 50 years will see dramatic and rapid changes in our environment. The impact will be international, where population migrations in the many tens of millions are a real possibility, and on almost every sector of our economy.

Through CIRUN the University of Maryland is working with partners to mobilize a national effort to build the capacity to predict these changes in advance on time scales of seasons to decades, and to convert these predictions into information that government and industry can use to plan and adapt.

The CIRUN website will serve as a major resource for both the private and public sectors, and individuals, who want to learn about the impact of climate change.

This will open many new opportunities, as the effort will require significant new research in computation, visualization, modeling and earth science.

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