Flood Inundation Mapping along the Lower Reach of Kelani River
... extents in the Kelani River basin, produced under IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) A2 and B2 scenarios [16]. Both A2 and B2 emphasize on rapidly growing selfreliant nations while B2 accounts for more ecologically friendly growth. If extreme precipitation events are becoming more fre ...
... extents in the Kelani River basin, produced under IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) A2 and B2 scenarios [16]. Both A2 and B2 emphasize on rapidly growing selfreliant nations while B2 accounts for more ecologically friendly growth. If extreme precipitation events are becoming more fre ...
High-latitude cooling associated with landscape
... and severity by the end of the 21st century, due primarily to longer growing seasons and exacerbated mid-summer drought. Studies using fire weather indices or statistical relationships between burn area and climate variables from climate models generally predict increases in burn area on the order o ...
... and severity by the end of the 21st century, due primarily to longer growing seasons and exacerbated mid-summer drought. Studies using fire weather indices or statistical relationships between burn area and climate variables from climate models generally predict increases in burn area on the order o ...
Indoor air pollution
... Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings ...
... Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Benjamin Cummings ...
The Governance of Climate Change in China
... the environment, energy security, and its vulnerability to climate change. As these concerns have achieved greater prominence within China, Chinese policymakers have undertaken considerable domestic efforts to govern climate change. Recognizing the need to improve governance in key sectors related t ...
... the environment, energy security, and its vulnerability to climate change. As these concerns have achieved greater prominence within China, Chinese policymakers have undertaken considerable domestic efforts to govern climate change. Recognizing the need to improve governance in key sectors related t ...
Changing Climate for Carbon Taxes: Who`s
... Waxman (D-CA), along with Rep. Blumenauer (D-OR), and Senators Whitehouse (D-R.I) and Schatz (D-HI) released a discussion draft of a bill that would impose a fee of between $15 and $30 per ton on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, factories, refineries and other major emitters of carbon dio ...
... Waxman (D-CA), along with Rep. Blumenauer (D-OR), and Senators Whitehouse (D-R.I) and Schatz (D-HI) released a discussion draft of a bill that would impose a fee of between $15 and $30 per ton on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, factories, refineries and other major emitters of carbon dio ...
Historical and idealized climate model experiments: an
... Earth system AOGCMs. New subcomponents (for example, continental ice sheets, representations of peatlands, wetlands or permafrost) are often developed within the EMIC framework before they are embedded into coupled AOGCMs, because development and testing is less computationally expensive. In additio ...
... Earth system AOGCMs. New subcomponents (for example, continental ice sheets, representations of peatlands, wetlands or permafrost) are often developed within the EMIC framework before they are embedded into coupled AOGCMs, because development and testing is less computationally expensive. In additio ...
The 2007 Eco Tourism conference held at the Pan
... second conference on climate change and Tourism, providing opportunity for various UN agencies working on climate change to share their perspectives, research findings and strategies with stakeholders in the tourism industry including tour operators, hotel owners, transport sector, airlines, policy ...
... second conference on climate change and Tourism, providing opportunity for various UN agencies working on climate change to share their perspectives, research findings and strategies with stakeholders in the tourism industry including tour operators, hotel owners, transport sector, airlines, policy ...
Simulating climate change and its effects on the wind energy
... Greenhouse gas emissions are having a significant effect on the Earth’s climate. Globally, an increasing rate of warming has taken place over the last 25 years, and 11 of the 12 warmest years on record occurred in the 1990s and 2000s.1 Temperatures in Ireland have mirrored this global trend.2,3 Clim ...
... Greenhouse gas emissions are having a significant effect on the Earth’s climate. Globally, an increasing rate of warming has taken place over the last 25 years, and 11 of the 12 warmest years on record occurred in the 1990s and 2000s.1 Temperatures in Ireland have mirrored this global trend.2,3 Clim ...
Upper bounds on twenty-first-century Antarctic ice loss assessed
... Upper bounds on twenty-first-century Antarctic ice loss assessed using a probabilistic framework Christopher M. Little1 *, Michael Oppenheimer1,2 and Nathan M. Urban1,3 Climate adaptation and flood risk assessments1,2 have incorporated sea-level rise (SLR) projections developed using semi-empirical ...
... Upper bounds on twenty-first-century Antarctic ice loss assessed using a probabilistic framework Christopher M. Little1 *, Michael Oppenheimer1,2 and Nathan M. Urban1,3 Climate adaptation and flood risk assessments1,2 have incorporated sea-level rise (SLR) projections developed using semi-empirical ...
WWF Global 200 Reportfinal
... climate and vegetation change to investigate three important global warming-induced threats to the terrestrial Global 200 ecoregions: 1) Invasions by new habitat types (and corresponding loss of original habitat types) 2) Local changes of habitat types 3) High rates of required species migration. Se ...
... climate and vegetation change to investigate three important global warming-induced threats to the terrestrial Global 200 ecoregions: 1) Invasions by new habitat types (and corresponding loss of original habitat types) 2) Local changes of habitat types 3) High rates of required species migration. Se ...
Observed and simulated full-depth ocean heat
... The new observation-based estimates of OHC presented here use the XBT bias-correction scheme from Cheng et al. (2014) applied to the most recent version of the World Ocean Database (WOD2013; Boyer et al., 2013). MBT bias is corrected using the method provided in Ishii and Kimoto (2009). Because the ...
... The new observation-based estimates of OHC presented here use the XBT bias-correction scheme from Cheng et al. (2014) applied to the most recent version of the World Ocean Database (WOD2013; Boyer et al., 2013). MBT bias is corrected using the method provided in Ishii and Kimoto (2009). Because the ...
- Wiley Online Library
... under climate change and developing criteria for conservation (Mace and Purvis 2008; Crandall 2009; Gebremedhin et al. 2009). We argue that management plans for species and habitats should aim at developing resilient landscapes where the evolutionary potential of species and populations can be conse ...
... under climate change and developing criteria for conservation (Mace and Purvis 2008; Crandall 2009; Gebremedhin et al. 2009). We argue that management plans for species and habitats should aim at developing resilient landscapes where the evolutionary potential of species and populations can be conse ...
Historical Responsibility in the UNFCCC Mathias Friman
... The primary sources studied in this report derive from official documents published at the UNFCCC website. These sources are very abundant thus it is appropriate to limit the focus of attention, in this case to official reports from meetings of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the UNFC ...
... The primary sources studied in this report derive from official documents published at the UNFCCC website. These sources are very abundant thus it is appropriate to limit the focus of attention, in this case to official reports from meetings of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on the UNFC ...
Shifting plant phenology in response to global change
... indices, have found changes that are consistent with climate warming [24,25]. These phenoclimatic measures represent changes in temperature that are relevant for different phases of plant development. The Spring Indices (SI), a suite of such phenoclimatic measures, found that first leaf dates and la ...
... indices, have found changes that are consistent with climate warming [24,25]. These phenoclimatic measures represent changes in temperature that are relevant for different phases of plant development. The Spring Indices (SI), a suite of such phenoclimatic measures, found that first leaf dates and la ...
Climate change may threaten habitat suitability of threatened plant
... operation characteristic (ROC). AUC values range from 0.5 (i.e., lowest predictive ability or occurrences exhibiting no difference from randomly selected background points) to 1 (i.e., highest predictive ability). Models of each species with cross-validation testing AUC values above 0.7 were conside ...
... operation characteristic (ROC). AUC values range from 0.5 (i.e., lowest predictive ability or occurrences exhibiting no difference from randomly selected background points) to 1 (i.e., highest predictive ability). Models of each species with cross-validation testing AUC values above 0.7 were conside ...
Title style in Arial Bold Sentence case 30pt
... © 2011 KPMG, an Indian Partnership and a member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. All rights reserved. ...
... © 2011 KPMG, an Indian Partnership and a member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”), a Swiss entity. All rights reserved. ...
Projected 21st century decrease in marine productivity: a multi
... has two phytoplankton size classes (small and large), representing nanophytoplankton and diatoms, as well as two zooplankton size classes (small and large), representing microzooplankton and mesozooplankton. Phytoplankton growth is limited by the availability of nutrients and light. The nanophytopla ...
... has two phytoplankton size classes (small and large), representing nanophytoplankton and diatoms, as well as two zooplankton size classes (small and large), representing microzooplankton and mesozooplankton. Phytoplankton growth is limited by the availability of nutrients and light. The nanophytopla ...
Australia`s carbon budget based on global effort sharing
... Australia’s emissions reduction pledge excludes LULUCF emissions, but includes emissions from ARD. To determine the value of the pledge without any forestry related emissions, we use the absolute value related to the pledge as given in Australia’s Emissions Projections 2012 (Department of Climate Ch ...
... Australia’s emissions reduction pledge excludes LULUCF emissions, but includes emissions from ARD. To determine the value of the pledge without any forestry related emissions, we use the absolute value related to the pledge as given in Australia’s Emissions Projections 2012 (Department of Climate Ch ...
Sensitivity analysis of snow patterns in Swiss ski resorts to shifts in
... ABSTRACT: The value of snow as a resource has considerably increased in Swiss mountain regions, in particular in the context of winter tourism. In the perspective of a warming climate, it is thus important to quantify the potential changes in snow amount and duration that could have large repercussi ...
... ABSTRACT: The value of snow as a resource has considerably increased in Swiss mountain regions, in particular in the context of winter tourism. In the perspective of a warming climate, it is thus important to quantify the potential changes in snow amount and duration that could have large repercussi ...
Our Nation’s Air United States Environmental
... Any pollutant that affects the Earth’s energy balance is known as a “climate forcer.” Some climate forcers absorb energy and lead to climate warming, while others reflect the sun’s rays and prevent that energy from reaching the Earth’s surface, leading to climate cooling. Climate forcers can either ...
... Any pollutant that affects the Earth’s energy balance is known as a “climate forcer.” Some climate forcers absorb energy and lead to climate warming, while others reflect the sun’s rays and prevent that energy from reaching the Earth’s surface, leading to climate cooling. Climate forcers can either ...
Growing Season Length Analysis
... length, productivity, and net carbon uptake, indicating that prediction of terrestrial carbon ...
... length, productivity, and net carbon uptake, indicating that prediction of terrestrial carbon ...
Atmospheric fronts in current and future climates
... [Neu et al., 2013; Ulbrich et al., 2013]. The importance of fronts at global and regional scales means that it is vital to know how their spatial distribution and frequency of occurrence may change in the future. A number of studies have suggested that the Southern Hemisphere storm tracks are likely ...
... [Neu et al., 2013; Ulbrich et al., 2013]. The importance of fronts at global and regional scales means that it is vital to know how their spatial distribution and frequency of occurrence may change in the future. A number of studies have suggested that the Southern Hemisphere storm tracks are likely ...
PDF
... more research to increase the sensitivity of the farm models to climate change variables. Projected increase in temperature will have effect on water availability (Mimi and Jamous, 2010) and chill unit accumulation, especially in fruit producing areas. Water resources are of more concern because cha ...
... more research to increase the sensitivity of the farm models to climate change variables. Projected increase in temperature will have effect on water availability (Mimi and Jamous, 2010) and chill unit accumulation, especially in fruit producing areas. Water resources are of more concern because cha ...