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This chapter briefly reviews, in a historical perspective, the science background for establishing an internationally coordinated Arctic Climate System Study (ACSYS) under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).
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The ACSYS SSG followed this advice and developed (in the late 1990s) a proposal focused on global cryospheric studies within the WCRP. The proposal was approved by the JSC as a core WCRP CliC project.
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Savtchenko, V. (2012). The Origins of ACSYS. In: Lemke, P., Jacobi, HW. (eds) Arctic Climate Change. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2027-5_1
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