(pro české čtenáře / in Czech : <a href="README.cz.html">README.cz.html</a>)


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<em>Official Czech translations</em> of the four
<em>Summaries for Policymakers from AR4 as issued in 2007/2008
</em> and translations of some other IPCC documents:
Glossary from SYR (hypertext versions, even in English), Climate Change and Water (summary, 2008), 
and SPM of SREX (2012).
</h3>

A commentary on IPCC from RealClimate 
added in 2010.
Additional comments present in this directory 
are working remarks by Jan Hollan 
regarding The Physical Science Basis. 

<h3>
2008 and later, 

<h3>2007 chronology:
</h3>

<P>Nov 27, a working version of a translation of the existing English version
of Synthesis Report SPM has been added, Nov 30 updated to the un-edited version 
prepared for COP-13, Dec 4 all figures included, Dec 23 all figures are in Czech. 
(for their source files see subdirectory syr/figures).

<P>Dec 10, a hypertext version of the
<A href="glossary.htm">Glossary</A> from Synthesis report has been added
(from a html as produced by google from Dec 10 version of 
ar4_syr_appendix.pdf). 2008, 

<h3>2008:
</h3>

Jan 11, a bilingual version draft of the Glossary (Czech by Jiří Došek) 
added (Feb 17 replaced by a near-to-final version), 
Jan 14 Topic 6 from Synthesis report translation 
(Czech draft by Alexander Ač, edited version Oct 7). 
A bilingual Glossary as well as a Czech one added Feb/March. 

<p>Oct 9, SPM from the Climate Change and Water added.


<P>Figures in Czech for all 4 SPMs are available in 
<A href=wg1>wg1</A>,
<A href=wg2>wg2</A>
<A href=wg3>wg3</A>
 and 
<A href=syr>syr</A>
directories, even as editable 
vector *.ai and *.pdf files, thanks
to the source files provided by these WGs.

<address>(The source *.odt or *.doc in Czech may be obtained from 
hollan at ped.muni.cz)</address> 

<H3>Remark on expressing units and quantities</H3>

The AR4 deals with this task in a rather loose manner, what may 
occasionally make complicate the understanding.
Czech translations try to adhere a bit more 
(even if not fully) to the recommended rules
as published within SP811, see NIST: PDFs Available,
<A href="http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/pdf.html">
http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/pdf.html</A>. For a quick introduction,
read the checklist, at pages v and vi.