Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet
... years. Beyond precipitation amount, extreme wet and dry years may differ in other ways, such as the number of precipitation events, event size, and the time between events. We assessed 1614 long-term (100 year) precipitation records from around the world to identify key attributes of precipitation r ...
... years. Beyond precipitation amount, extreme wet and dry years may differ in other ways, such as the number of precipitation events, event size, and the time between events. We assessed 1614 long-term (100 year) precipitation records from around the world to identify key attributes of precipitation r ...
China Meteorological Administration
... China is one of the countries in the world which are often seriously hit by meteorological disasters. Each year, up to 400 million people are affected by various meteorological hazards such as typhoons, heavy rainfall/snowfall, droughts, dust storms, lightning, hailstorms, frost, high winds, heavy f ...
... China is one of the countries in the world which are often seriously hit by meteorological disasters. Each year, up to 400 million people are affected by various meteorological hazards such as typhoons, heavy rainfall/snowfall, droughts, dust storms, lightning, hailstorms, frost, high winds, heavy f ...
Linking long-term, large-scale climatic and environmental variability
... Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) can provide insight into how ecosystems will respond to climate change. Although these climate patterns are ocean-based, understanding of their influences on key ecosystem processes in temperate coastal marine ecosystems is limited. R ...
... Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) can provide insight into how ecosystems will respond to climate change. Although these climate patterns are ocean-based, understanding of their influences on key ecosystem processes in temperate coastal marine ecosystems is limited. R ...
Linking long-term, large-scale climatic and environmental variability to patterns of
... Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) can provide insight into how ecosystems will respond to climate change. Although these climate patterns are ocean-based, understanding of their influences on key ecosystem processes in temperate coastal marine ecosystems is limited. R ...
... Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) can provide insight into how ecosystems will respond to climate change. Although these climate patterns are ocean-based, understanding of their influences on key ecosystem processes in temperate coastal marine ecosystems is limited. R ...
The GLOBE Climate Legislation Study (6 MB) (opens in new window)
... This document is the product of an ongoing co-operation between GLOBE International and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. It was financially supported by the United Kingdom’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). However the views ...
... This document is the product of an ongoing co-operation between GLOBE International and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. It was financially supported by the United Kingdom’s Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO). However the views ...
Observed and Simulated Processes Linked to the Recent Climate
... southern GHA region, the number of wet and extreme wet days is projected to increase, expanding the length of a growing season during DJF. However during MAM, the number of wet days is projected to decrease by the middle of the 21 st century over southern GHA region. Over equatorial GHA region, the ...
... southern GHA region, the number of wet and extreme wet days is projected to increase, expanding the length of a growing season during DJF. However during MAM, the number of wet days is projected to decrease by the middle of the 21 st century over southern GHA region. Over equatorial GHA region, the ...
Climate Change and Migration - Institute for Governance and Policy
... any initiative to modify this definition would risk a renegotiation of the 1951 Refugee Convention, which, would not be justified by actual needs. Moreover, in the current political environment, it could result in a lowering of protection standards for refugees and even undermine the international r ...
... any initiative to modify this definition would risk a renegotiation of the 1951 Refugee Convention, which, would not be justified by actual needs. Moreover, in the current political environment, it could result in a lowering of protection standards for refugees and even undermine the international r ...
The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) - e-Learning
... subtropical region of the North Atlantic (IPCC, 2007). In general, there is a high pressure system over the subtropical region near the Azores, and a low pressure situation over the subpolar region near Iceland (Wanner et al., 2001). The strength of the pressure gradient between the two so-called ce ...
... subtropical region of the North Atlantic (IPCC, 2007). In general, there is a high pressure system over the subtropical region near the Azores, and a low pressure situation over the subpolar region near Iceland (Wanner et al., 2001). The strength of the pressure gradient between the two so-called ce ...
Working 9 to 5 on Climate Change: An Office Guide
... help the environment, and proposed the idea of publicly committing WRI to taking action on climate change by reducing its CO2 emissions. After an Institute-wide staff meeting to present the idea, staff were given opportunities to discuss the suggestion and consider what WRI’s emissions reduction tar ...
... help the environment, and proposed the idea of publicly committing WRI to taking action on climate change by reducing its CO2 emissions. After an Institute-wide staff meeting to present the idea, staff were given opportunities to discuss the suggestion and consider what WRI’s emissions reduction tar ...
Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human
... In this petition, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuk woman and Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, requests the assistance of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in obtaining relief from human rights violations resulting from the impacts of global warming and climate change caused by act ...
... In this petition, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuk woman and Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, requests the assistance of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in obtaining relief from human rights violations resulting from the impacts of global warming and climate change caused by act ...
Petition - Center for International Environmental Law
... In this petition, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuk woman and Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, requests the assistance of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in obtaining relief from human rights violations resulting from the impacts of global warming and climate change caused by act ...
... In this petition, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuk woman and Chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, requests the assistance of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in obtaining relief from human rights violations resulting from the impacts of global warming and climate change caused by act ...
Alteration of the phenology of leaf senescence and fall in winter
... of forests. For example, in a 10-year record of net ecosystemic exchange in a deciduous forest, a delay of 3 d yr 1 in leaf senescence paralleled an increase in net ecosystemic productivity of 5 g C m 2 yr 1 in late summer (Dragoni et al., 2011). Ecosystemic productivity is a key for the functioning ...
... of forests. For example, in a 10-year record of net ecosystemic exchange in a deciduous forest, a delay of 3 d yr 1 in leaf senescence paralleled an increase in net ecosystemic productivity of 5 g C m 2 yr 1 in late summer (Dragoni et al., 2011). Ecosystemic productivity is a key for the functioning ...
Projected expansion of the subtropical biome and contraction of the
... and is composed of separate atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and land models that interact through an online flux coupler (Delworth et al., 2006). The ocean model has a resolution of 18 in latitude and longitude north of 308N, whereas south of 308N the latitudinal resolution progressively becomes higher, ...
... and is composed of separate atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, and land models that interact through an online flux coupler (Delworth et al., 2006). The ocean model has a resolution of 18 in latitude and longitude north of 308N, whereas south of 308N the latitudinal resolution progressively becomes higher, ...
- Lancaster EPrints
... stratosphere during austral spring in the last few decades (−2.2 K dec-1). This cooling ...
... stratosphere during austral spring in the last few decades (−2.2 K dec-1). This cooling ...
MASUD-DISSERTATION-2016
... Currently, RCMs offer higher spatial resolution than AOGCMs and therefore are preferred for assessing impact of climate change on different components of the hydrological cycle at regional domains of interest. The overall purpose of this research was to evaluate the impact of climate change on dry a ...
... Currently, RCMs offer higher spatial resolution than AOGCMs and therefore are preferred for assessing impact of climate change on different components of the hydrological cycle at regional domains of interest. The overall purpose of this research was to evaluate the impact of climate change on dry a ...
Here - Permafrost Carbon Network
... (Schuur et al. 2015) summarizes the findings across a range of individual synthesis products produced by the Permafrost Carbon Network. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society paper (Koven et al. 2015) combines a number of individual synthesis products with Earth System Model projections ...
... (Schuur et al. 2015) summarizes the findings across a range of individual synthesis products produced by the Permafrost Carbon Network. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society paper (Koven et al. 2015) combines a number of individual synthesis products with Earth System Model projections ...
Solar Influences on Climate
... the Earth absorbs solar energy at the rate of (1 – A)ITS/4, where A is the Earth’s albedo and ITS is the total solar irradiance (TSI), i.e., the total electromagnetic power per unit area of cross section arriving at the mean distance of Earth from the Sun (149,597,890 km). The factor of 4 arises sin ...
... the Earth absorbs solar energy at the rate of (1 – A)ITS/4, where A is the Earth’s albedo and ITS is the total solar irradiance (TSI), i.e., the total electromagnetic power per unit area of cross section arriving at the mean distance of Earth from the Sun (149,597,890 km). The factor of 4 arises sin ...
Assessment Report on the Potential Effects of Climate Change on
... patterns shifted between anticyclonic and cyclonic every 5-8 years. Storm activity has increased in strength (depth of the low pressure) but not in frequency. Storms appear to have a strong control on sea ice break-up, motion and resulting thickness distributions. Seven climate and ice variables con ...
... patterns shifted between anticyclonic and cyclonic every 5-8 years. Storm activity has increased in strength (depth of the low pressure) but not in frequency. Storms appear to have a strong control on sea ice break-up, motion and resulting thickness distributions. Seven climate and ice variables con ...
Petition - Center for Biological Diversity
... modern resurvey (Moritz 2007), suggesting an upslope range shift of 500 feet. Temperatures in Yosemite National Park have increased by 3°C (5.4°C) over 100 years, more than the mean increase in California or western United States temperatures over the same period (Moritz 2007). Moritz (2007) conclud ...
... modern resurvey (Moritz 2007), suggesting an upslope range shift of 500 feet. Temperatures in Yosemite National Park have increased by 3°C (5.4°C) over 100 years, more than the mean increase in California or western United States temperatures over the same period (Moritz 2007). Moritz (2007) conclud ...
Simulating Transient Climate Evolution of the Last
... Through the late Quaternary period of past one million years, the Earth has experienced rather regular ice age cycles once every 100,000 years [Hays et al., 1976]. Various natural archives of the Earth have preserved rich climatic information for these ice age cycles. Scientists take advantage of th ...
... Through the late Quaternary period of past one million years, the Earth has experienced rather regular ice age cycles once every 100,000 years [Hays et al., 1976]. Various natural archives of the Earth have preserved rich climatic information for these ice age cycles. Scientists take advantage of th ...
The resilience renaissance? Unpacking of resilience for tackling
... Change (IPCC) and the Global Assessment Report, and international policy processes of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Hyogo Framework for Action. Those involved in international development efforts in the context of climate change and extreme events have therefore been for ...
... Change (IPCC) and the Global Assessment Report, and international policy processes of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Hyogo Framework for Action. Those involved in international development efforts in the context of climate change and extreme events have therefore been for ...
Waste and Climate Change
... climate change. As a first step to realize these co-benefits, this paper seeks (a) to examine the potential climate impacts and benefits of different waste management activities, and (b) to present a UNEP-led framework strategy to assist member countries in prioritising their resources and efforts f ...
... climate change. As a first step to realize these co-benefits, this paper seeks (a) to examine the potential climate impacts and benefits of different waste management activities, and (b) to present a UNEP-led framework strategy to assist member countries in prioritising their resources and efforts f ...