Projected river discharge in the Euphrates Tigris Basin
... boundary river flow. However, water is still a major point of international contention among the countries in the Middle East, and disputes are expected to intensify in the future as a result of climate change impacts on the region. For instance, in a very recent study, Gleick (2014) assessed the on ...
... boundary river flow. However, water is still a major point of international contention among the countries in the Middle East, and disputes are expected to intensify in the future as a result of climate change impacts on the region. For instance, in a very recent study, Gleick (2014) assessed the on ...
UNCCD News issue 6.1
... Frontline. It gives an overview of the various security touchpoints between desertification, land degradation and drought. These are: Food insecurity If land degrades, its agricultural productivity decreases. The result is less food for an ever growing population, leading to malnutrition and hunger. ...
... Frontline. It gives an overview of the various security touchpoints between desertification, land degradation and drought. These are: Food insecurity If land degrades, its agricultural productivity decreases. The result is less food for an ever growing population, leading to malnutrition and hunger. ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES Yongyang Cai Kenneth L. Judd
... This method can provide valuable information about a possible range of the climateeconomy system, but it always assumes that economic actors have perfect knowledge about all parameters. This approach focuses on the uncertainty of the "modeler", rather than uncertainty faced by the "decision maker". ...
... This method can provide valuable information about a possible range of the climateeconomy system, but it always assumes that economic actors have perfect knowledge about all parameters. This approach focuses on the uncertainty of the "modeler", rather than uncertainty faced by the "decision maker". ...
Climate change and the slow reorientation of the American car
... With regard to the DILC-model, the paper aims to replicate the basic conceptual framework, broadening the model’s empirical base with a new case study. The paper also aims to use three specificities of the case to make conceptual elaborations. First, while the technical solution was relatively clear ...
... With regard to the DILC-model, the paper aims to replicate the basic conceptual framework, broadening the model’s empirical base with a new case study. The paper also aims to use three specificities of the case to make conceptual elaborations. First, while the technical solution was relatively clear ...
Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... with government statistics as necessary (such as population census and energy usage) as well as publicly available observations and peer-reviewed research published through the end of 2008. This new work was carefully selected by the author team with advice from expert reviewers to update key aspect ...
... with government statistics as necessary (such as population census and energy usage) as well as publicly available observations and peer-reviewed research published through the end of 2008. This new work was carefully selected by the author team with advice from expert reviewers to update key aspect ...
Recent Climatology, Variability, and Trends in Global Surface Humidity
... patterns of long-term mean q are largely controlled by climatological surface temperature, with the largest q of 17–19 g kg⫺1 in the Tropics and large seasonal variations over northern mid- and high-latitude land. Surface RH has relatively small spatial and interannual variations, with a mean value ...
... patterns of long-term mean q are largely controlled by climatological surface temperature, with the largest q of 17–19 g kg⫺1 in the Tropics and large seasonal variations over northern mid- and high-latitude land. Surface RH has relatively small spatial and interannual variations, with a mean value ...
Trade And Climate Change - WTO-UNEP Report
... The scientific evidence regarding climate change is compelling. Based on a review of thousands of scientific publications, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that the warming of the Earth’s climate system is “unequivocal”, and that human activities are “very likely” t ...
... The scientific evidence regarding climate change is compelling. Based on a review of thousands of scientific publications, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that the warming of the Earth’s climate system is “unequivocal”, and that human activities are “very likely” t ...
New York City Begins Planning for Climate
... with government statistics as necessary (such as population census and energy usage) as well as publicly available observations and peer-reviewed research published through the end of 2008. This new work was carefully selected by the author team with advice from expert reviewers to update key aspect ...
... with government statistics as necessary (such as population census and energy usage) as well as publicly available observations and peer-reviewed research published through the end of 2008. This new work was carefully selected by the author team with advice from expert reviewers to update key aspect ...
Multiple stressors on upwelling margins: Untangling biological
... ALL upwelling margins are not equal with respect to temperature Oxygen at 800 m ...
... ALL upwelling margins are not equal with respect to temperature Oxygen at 800 m ...
concluded
... ABSTRACT: There is a growing body of evidence supporting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s contestation that changes to hydrological extremes as a result of anthropogenic climate change are likely. There is also a growing level of concern among water resource managers about the nature ...
... ABSTRACT: There is a growing body of evidence supporting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s contestation that changes to hydrological extremes as a result of anthropogenic climate change are likely. There is also a growing level of concern among water resource managers about the nature ...
The Academic Journal of St Clements University
... new feeder road to less expensive learning. This route will create open access to the academic highway allowing participation through a cheaper tollgate – the www. ...
... new feeder road to less expensive learning. This route will create open access to the academic highway allowing participation through a cheaper tollgate – the www. ...
da nang, vietnam: climate change impacts on heat stress by 2050
... (295) days per year in which the heat index was equal to or greater than the MOH’s recommendations of 34°C (30°C) for light (heavy) labor. On average, the number of days per ...
... (295) days per year in which the heat index was equal to or greater than the MOH’s recommendations of 34°C (30°C) for light (heavy) labor. On average, the number of days per ...
The Effect of Climate Change on the Variability of the Northern
... able to travel through regions of westerly winds by virtue of the Charney–Drazin criterion (Charney et al. 1961). Such large-scale dynamical events have been linked with tropospheric blocking (Woollings et al. 2010) and have been shown to influence surface climate directly (e.g., Baldwin and Dunkert ...
... able to travel through regions of westerly winds by virtue of the Charney–Drazin criterion (Charney et al. 1961). Such large-scale dynamical events have been linked with tropospheric blocking (Woollings et al. 2010) and have been shown to influence surface climate directly (e.g., Baldwin and Dunkert ...
ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
... Only political parties which are rooted in society and disposed of ample organizational structures are capable to fulfill their functions, consisting of aggregating and articulating social interests, developing political programmes, promoting participation and organizing the government. In order to ...
... Only political parties which are rooted in society and disposed of ample organizational structures are capable to fulfill their functions, consisting of aggregating and articulating social interests, developing political programmes, promoting participation and organizing the government. In order to ...
lepidoptera larvae as an indicator of multi
... Larvae were classified as being hairy, spiky, or smooth skinned. This method of classification was chosen because species identification (through raising larvae to adulthood) was not possible due to the constraints of each method: observations occurred within the established climate manipulation exp ...
... Larvae were classified as being hairy, spiky, or smooth skinned. This method of classification was chosen because species identification (through raising larvae to adulthood) was not possible due to the constraints of each method: observations occurred within the established climate manipulation exp ...
8. equal per capita entitlements
... expansion of the global economy and attendant GHG emissions into the globally common atmosphere. This realization stimulated the associated debate on the sharing of scarce atmospheric resources, that is, establishing equitable access to this limited space, as the right to emit implies scarcity, and ...
... expansion of the global economy and attendant GHG emissions into the globally common atmosphere. This realization stimulated the associated debate on the sharing of scarce atmospheric resources, that is, establishing equitable access to this limited space, as the right to emit implies scarcity, and ...
Assessing the Risk of a Collapse of the Atlantic Thermohaline
... up to 8°C warmer than other longitudes at its latitude, with the largest effect in winter. It is this comparatively mild European climate, as well as the interrelated climates elsewhere, that has given concern about the possible effect of a collapse of the THC, in terms of political and economic ins ...
... up to 8°C warmer than other longitudes at its latitude, with the largest effect in winter. It is this comparatively mild European climate, as well as the interrelated climates elsewhere, that has given concern about the possible effect of a collapse of the THC, in terms of political and economic ins ...
Chlorophyll a reconstruction from in situ measurements: 2. Marked
... planetary scale, changes in cloudiness and atmospheric transmission terminated the dimming in the 1980s followed by a “brightening” until nowadays [Wild et al., 2005; Wild, 2009]. Most pronounced in the Madeira Basin was the moment from early brightening to global dimming in the 1940s (Figure 5). Th ...
... planetary scale, changes in cloudiness and atmospheric transmission terminated the dimming in the 1980s followed by a “brightening” until nowadays [Wild et al., 2005; Wild, 2009]. Most pronounced in the Madeira Basin was the moment from early brightening to global dimming in the 1940s (Figure 5). Th ...
Cities: The new frontier
... in urban slums, often in overcrowded conditions, decrepit housing with no clean water or sanitation. This number is expected to rise to nearly 2 billion by 2030. However, wellmanaged urbanisation can facilitate poverty reduction through economic growth and job creation, and social and political tran ...
... in urban slums, often in overcrowded conditions, decrepit housing with no clean water or sanitation. This number is expected to rise to nearly 2 billion by 2030. However, wellmanaged urbanisation can facilitate poverty reduction through economic growth and job creation, and social and political tran ...
What Is El Niño? - Institute For Global Environmental Strategies
... water to rise to the surface to nourish plankton, fishes, seabirds, sea lions, and other marine life of the coastal region. The trade winds pile up warm water in the western Pacific north of Australia, keeping surface water temperatures and sea level in the western Pacific higher than elsewhere. ...
... water to rise to the surface to nourish plankton, fishes, seabirds, sea lions, and other marine life of the coastal region. The trade winds pile up warm water in the western Pacific north of Australia, keeping surface water temperatures and sea level in the western Pacific higher than elsewhere. ...
NorthSouth asymmetry in the modeled phytoplankton community
... larger heat capacity and thermal inertia in the SH compared to the NH [e.g., Bryan et al., 1988; Manabe et al., 1991; Flato and Boer, 2001]. Higher evaporative latent heat loss over the oceans and a strong ice-albedo positive feedback in the Arctic further enhance the interhemispheric asymmetry [Wan ...
... larger heat capacity and thermal inertia in the SH compared to the NH [e.g., Bryan et al., 1988; Manabe et al., 1991; Flato and Boer, 2001]. Higher evaporative latent heat loss over the oceans and a strong ice-albedo positive feedback in the Arctic further enhance the interhemispheric asymmetry [Wan ...