SNAB Topic 5 On the wild side
... Before considering the potential impact of climate change it is necessary to understand what an ecosystem is, and how it functions. In the text book ecosystems and the various ecological terms used to describe their components are discussed, followed by a more detailed consideration of abiotic and b ...
... Before considering the potential impact of climate change it is necessary to understand what an ecosystem is, and how it functions. In the text book ecosystems and the various ecological terms used to describe their components are discussed, followed by a more detailed consideration of abiotic and b ...
Annex D – EEA contributors and resource planning
... projected impacts based on a range of literature sources. JRC focused in the various PESETA projects of the past on key projected impacts through scenarios that are covered by their own models. For various themes of the EEA report JRC could provide contributions based on the PESETA projects and othe ...
... projected impacts based on a range of literature sources. JRC focused in the various PESETA projects of the past on key projected impacts through scenarios that are covered by their own models. For various themes of the EEA report JRC could provide contributions based on the PESETA projects and othe ...
Spatially distributed surface energy balance and ablation modelling
... operated on the ice cap between 2 December 1997 and 12 January 1998. Two stations were placed at 85 and 255 m a.s.l., respectively, while a third station was operated at 385 m a.s.l. but relocated to a site near the top of the study area at 620 m a.s.l. for part of the measurement period (Fig. 1). A ...
... operated on the ice cap between 2 December 1997 and 12 January 1998. Two stations were placed at 85 and 255 m a.s.l., respectively, while a third station was operated at 385 m a.s.l. but relocated to a site near the top of the study area at 620 m a.s.l. for part of the measurement period (Fig. 1). A ...
Climate change alters interannual variation of grassland
... regression to examine interannual variability of monthly MAB and its relationship with climate variables in the preceding (1–12) and current months. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS software (version 11.0, 2001; SPSS, Chicago, IL). In order to investigate interannual variations in ...
... regression to examine interannual variability of monthly MAB and its relationship with climate variables in the preceding (1–12) and current months. All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS software (version 11.0, 2001; SPSS, Chicago, IL). In order to investigate interannual variations in ...
... oxygen molecules, which are roughly proportional to atmospheric temperature (Spencer and Christy, 1990). By measuring emissions at different frequencies, it is possible to retrieve the temperatures of different atmospheric layers. Most scientific attention has focused on MSUderived temperatures for ...
AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY
... gas forcing and internal variability are also thought to have played important roles in global tem- ...
... gas forcing and internal variability are also thought to have played important roles in global tem- ...
b i5607e
... variation indicators based on interpolated gridded and re-analysis weather data that capture the peculiar features of short term (weather) and long term (climate) variations in rainfall and temperature. In particular, we estimate the effects of weather/climate shocks on a rich set of welfare indicat ...
... variation indicators based on interpolated gridded and re-analysis weather data that capture the peculiar features of short term (weather) and long term (climate) variations in rainfall and temperature. In particular, we estimate the effects of weather/climate shocks on a rich set of welfare indicat ...
Climate change effects on human health
... cumulative effects of exposure over successive hot days. This is potentially important as more frequent, more intense and longer lasting heat-waves are expected to occur in future.10 11 Assessing the impacts of such events is often based on identifying periods of high heat intensity and duration.12 ...
... cumulative effects of exposure over successive hot days. This is potentially important as more frequent, more intense and longer lasting heat-waves are expected to occur in future.10 11 Assessing the impacts of such events is often based on identifying periods of high heat intensity and duration.12 ...
Temperature Sensitivity of Guatemala`s Rio Dulce to Climate Change
... temperature under scenarios of climate change has been done for cases in the United States and other mid-latitude regions (Gooseff et al. 2005; Brown at al. 2013; Cloern et al. 2011), but no extensive work has been done on this topic in Central America (Maurer et al. 2008). This study was developed ...
... temperature under scenarios of climate change has been done for cases in the United States and other mid-latitude regions (Gooseff et al. 2005; Brown at al. 2013; Cloern et al. 2011), but no extensive work has been done on this topic in Central America (Maurer et al. 2008). This study was developed ...
Climate-Driven Basin-Scale Decadal Oscillations of Oceanic
... through the upwelling of cold nutrient-rich water from below (or mixing with these deep waters). Therefore, any change of the overall stratification of the surface ocean has potential effects on phytoplankton growth, which may happen at different spatial and temporal scales. On seasonal-tointerannua ...
... through the upwelling of cold nutrient-rich water from below (or mixing with these deep waters). Therefore, any change of the overall stratification of the surface ocean has potential effects on phytoplankton growth, which may happen at different spatial and temporal scales. On seasonal-tointerannua ...
Temporary storage of carbon in the biosphere does have value for
... best mitigation strategy, according to Kirschbaum’s first two measures, if one did not have advance knowledge of the path that would be followed into the future. Using these three different measures of climate change impact, Kirschbaum explores two scenarios of CO2 emissions, a high-emissions scenar ...
... best mitigation strategy, according to Kirschbaum’s first two measures, if one did not have advance knowledge of the path that would be followed into the future. Using these three different measures of climate change impact, Kirschbaum explores two scenarios of CO2 emissions, a high-emissions scenar ...
Modeled current and future soil thermal regime for northeast Canada
... climate soil model simulation SM_CRCM1 is determined by iteratively running the soil model from chosen conditions, taken as a vertically uniform profile set to the mean annual surface temperature value for the study period (1961 – 1990). Climatological daily values of surface temperature and snow de ...
... climate soil model simulation SM_CRCM1 is determined by iteratively running the soil model from chosen conditions, taken as a vertically uniform profile set to the mean annual surface temperature value for the study period (1961 – 1990). Climatological daily values of surface temperature and snow de ...
Amplification and dampening of soil respiration by changes in
... experiments in which temperature is allowed to vary but without changing the average value. Previous work on this subject has been focused on producing unbiased estimates of annual or large-scale respiration using temperature data that omits diurnal or seasonal fluctuations (Ågren and Axelsson, 198 ...
... experiments in which temperature is allowed to vary but without changing the average value. Previous work on this subject has been focused on producing unbiased estimates of annual or large-scale respiration using temperature data that omits diurnal or seasonal fluctuations (Ågren and Axelsson, 198 ...
2. Global warming is occurring
... Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has solidified the scientific understanding that key heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere "have increased markedly as a result of human activities," and the "net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming." The report states that evidence of the cli ...
... Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has solidified the scientific understanding that key heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere "have increased markedly as a result of human activities," and the "net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming." The report states that evidence of the cli ...
Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean
... persistent subpolar North Atlantic cooling anomaly is a conspicuous feature of the overall global warming pattern (Fig. 1). Model simulations indicate the largest cooling response to a weakening of the AMOC in this same region1 , suggesting this area has so far defied global warming owing to a weake ...
... persistent subpolar North Atlantic cooling anomaly is a conspicuous feature of the overall global warming pattern (Fig. 1). Model simulations indicate the largest cooling response to a weakening of the AMOC in this same region1 , suggesting this area has so far defied global warming owing to a weake ...
global climate change
... not in current models. Could sea level rise be much faster than thought? Some glaciological studies suggest this is transient and will stop. Others suggest it may increase. Future? ...
... not in current models. Could sea level rise be much faster than thought? Some glaciological studies suggest this is transient and will stop. Others suggest it may increase. Future? ...
appeal to authority
... There is absolute and irrefutable proof that the Earth is cooling in spite of the continued increase in atmospheric CO2 falsifying the conjecture that increasing CO2 is the dominant driver of global warming. There is absolute and irrefutable proof that CO2 emissions are not a major contributor to t ...
... There is absolute and irrefutable proof that the Earth is cooling in spite of the continued increase in atmospheric CO2 falsifying the conjecture that increasing CO2 is the dominant driver of global warming. There is absolute and irrefutable proof that CO2 emissions are not a major contributor to t ...
impact of warmer climate on lake Geneva water
... indicate an increase in monthly epilimnic and hypolimnic temperatures of 2.32–3.8 °C and 2.2–2.33 °C, respectively. The rising of epilimnic temperatures corresponds to 55%–98% of the monthly increase in air temperature. The stratification period lasts longer and the lake stability increases. Thus th ...
... indicate an increase in monthly epilimnic and hypolimnic temperatures of 2.32–3.8 °C and 2.2–2.33 °C, respectively. The rising of epilimnic temperatures corresponds to 55%–98% of the monthly increase in air temperature. The stratification period lasts longer and the lake stability increases. Thus th ...
Combinations of Natural and Anthropogenic Forcings in Twentieth
... compared to equivalent residual responses calculated as differences from other forcing runs. If there is good agreement between the two time series, the global-mean response to the forcing can be assumed to be additive. Though all show seemingly relatively good agreement by eye both for the ensemble ...
... compared to equivalent residual responses calculated as differences from other forcing runs. If there is good agreement between the two time series, the global-mean response to the forcing can be assumed to be additive. Though all show seemingly relatively good agreement by eye both for the ensemble ...
Of mast and mean: differentialtemperature cue makes mast seeding
... fail to show that the difference between Tn-1 and Tn-2 gives a good fit (as is explicit in the DT model). One or both variables thus might be dropped from candidate models (e.g. Selas et al. 2002), consistent with their being rarely reported in the literature. In this article, we show that the DT mo ...
... fail to show that the difference between Tn-1 and Tn-2 gives a good fit (as is explicit in the DT model). One or both variables thus might be dropped from candidate models (e.g. Selas et al. 2002), consistent with their being rarely reported in the literature. In this article, we show that the DT mo ...
Simulated and Observed Preindustrial to Modern
... interval was insufficient to significantly enhance photosynthesis. Fung instead proposed that increasing temperatures might have accelerated snowmelt and lengthened the growing season, thereby enhancing photosynthesis, while the melting of permafrost might have released trapped nutrients. Lucht et a ...
... interval was insufficient to significantly enhance photosynthesis. Fung instead proposed that increasing temperatures might have accelerated snowmelt and lengthened the growing season, thereby enhancing photosynthesis, while the melting of permafrost might have released trapped nutrients. Lucht et a ...
Global Warming and Science
... “An essential role for remote stars in everyday weather on Earth has been revealed by an experiment at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen. It is already well-established that when cosmic rays, which are high-speed atomic particles originating in exploded stars far away in the Milky Way ...
... “An essential role for remote stars in everyday weather on Earth has been revealed by an experiment at the Danish National Space Center in Copenhagen. It is already well-established that when cosmic rays, which are high-speed atomic particles originating in exploded stars far away in the Milky Way ...
Noel L. Bankston - Old Dominion University
... water vapor regulate the Earth’s temperature. These represent the “greenhouse” gases. Excess greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere reflect more radiant heat back onto the surface causing an increase of surface heat (National Research Council, 2012). Earth emits and processes gas naturally durin ...
... water vapor regulate the Earth’s temperature. These represent the “greenhouse” gases. Excess greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere reflect more radiant heat back onto the surface causing an increase of surface heat (National Research Council, 2012). Earth emits and processes gas naturally durin ...
After which threshold do anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions
... forcings is not necessarily linear in its parameters. Intuitively, this suggests that anthropogenic forcings may have an influence on temperature only after a threshold value, or more generally that the correlation between the two is not constant over time. Such a hypothesis is in line with the fact ...
... forcings is not necessarily linear in its parameters. Intuitively, this suggests that anthropogenic forcings may have an influence on temperature only after a threshold value, or more generally that the correlation between the two is not constant over time. Such a hypothesis is in line with the fact ...
Paleoecological evidence for abrupt cold reversals during peak
... cold stenotherm Oliveridia/Hydrobaenus dominated the chironomid assemblage (Fig. 3 and Fig. 4). Oliveridia/Hydrobaenus was abruptly replaced by an assemblage dominated by the subtribe Tanytarsina (including Tanytarsus lugens/Corynocera oliveri type and Micropsectra) beginning ∼11 cal ka BP, and infe ...
... cold stenotherm Oliveridia/Hydrobaenus dominated the chironomid assemblage (Fig. 3 and Fig. 4). Oliveridia/Hydrobaenus was abruptly replaced by an assemblage dominated by the subtribe Tanytarsina (including Tanytarsus lugens/Corynocera oliveri type and Micropsectra) beginning ∼11 cal ka BP, and infe ...