Interdisciplinary environmental information synthesis: examples of jumps, cycles, and trends in the North Pacific climate, 1930-1990

Interdisciplinary synthesis of environmental data is necessary for comprehensive solutions to societal concerns. Three examples illustrate results of examining data drawn from a diverse array of environmental disciplines: (1) a jump in global climate; (2) covariation of many environmental parameters at periods of 10-20 years; and (3) the influence of summer-to-winter diversion of the Columbia River on coastal salinities. These results, obtained by small groups of researchers with modest budgets, argue for interdisciplinary data exchange