Modeling hydrological consequences of climate and land use change
... well-known procedure to simultaneously select random values of the parameter space. The main difference between the Monte Carlo and the Latin Hypercube sampling methods is that the latter uses a stratified sampling approach that allows a more efficient estimation of the output statistics. In the LH ...
... well-known procedure to simultaneously select random values of the parameter space. The main difference between the Monte Carlo and the Latin Hypercube sampling methods is that the latter uses a stratified sampling approach that allows a more efficient estimation of the output statistics. In the LH ...
A Practitioner`s Guide to Climate Change Adaptation
... not known by precisely how much. Generally, the average global temperature is projected to warm 1.1 to 6.4oC1 during the next century, with land areas warming more than the oceans and higher latitudes warming more than lower latitudes (IPCC, 2007a). The additional heat in the atmosphere will likely ...
... not known by precisely how much. Generally, the average global temperature is projected to warm 1.1 to 6.4oC1 during the next century, with land areas warming more than the oceans and higher latitudes warming more than lower latitudes (IPCC, 2007a). The additional heat in the atmosphere will likely ...
Tackling the Limits to Adaptation
... mitigation ambition to comprehensively tackle the problem. When global emission reductions – mitigation – are insufficient to prevent dangerous interference with the global climate, then countries are forced to increase their disaster risk reduction capacity and bear the cost of loss and damage when ...
... mitigation ambition to comprehensively tackle the problem. When global emission reductions – mitigation – are insufficient to prevent dangerous interference with the global climate, then countries are forced to increase their disaster risk reduction capacity and bear the cost of loss and damage when ...
A Practitioner`s Guide to Climate Change Adaptation
... not known by precisely how much. Generally, the average global temperature is projected to warm 1.1 to 6.4oC1 during the next century, with land areas warming more than the oceans and higher latitudes warming more than lower latitudes (IPCC, 2007a). The additional heat in the atmosphere will likely ...
... not known by precisely how much. Generally, the average global temperature is projected to warm 1.1 to 6.4oC1 during the next century, with land areas warming more than the oceans and higher latitudes warming more than lower latitudes (IPCC, 2007a). The additional heat in the atmosphere will likely ...
4.4 GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS 4.4.1 Introduction
... In Massachusetts vs. EPA, the Supreme Court held that United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has the statutory authority under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to regulate GHGs from new motor vehicles. The court did not hold that the U.S. EPA was required to regulate GHG emis ...
... In Massachusetts vs. EPA, the Supreme Court held that United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has the statutory authority under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to regulate GHGs from new motor vehicles. The court did not hold that the U.S. EPA was required to regulate GHG emis ...
Slide 1
... sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activities (GHG emissions and global environmental benefits): to be estimated through historical projects and/or trend analyses ...
... sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activities (GHG emissions and global environmental benefits): to be estimated through historical projects and/or trend analyses ...
GEF Investment in Climate Change Mitigation and Sound Chemicals
... sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activities (GHG emissions and global environmental benefits): to be estimated through historical projects and/or trend analyses ...
... sector, NGO resources, and loans from international financial institutions, including IDA and the Multilateral Fund. The impacts of the baseline activities (GHG emissions and global environmental benefits): to be estimated through historical projects and/or trend analyses ...
UN report: The coming financial climate
... business and the economy. Finance is a keystone in meeting these challenges and opportunities. The financial system exists to support our choices to save, consume and invest. When it works efficiently and effectively, it deploys finance in ways that creates dynamic, inclusive and sustainable economi ...
... business and the economy. Finance is a keystone in meeting these challenges and opportunities. The financial system exists to support our choices to save, consume and invest. When it works efficiently and effectively, it deploys finance in ways that creates dynamic, inclusive and sustainable economi ...
The Role of the Judiciary in Climate Change Action
... Several decades after the initiation of international climate change negotiations, the world still struggles with the issue of how to mobilize climate action. In the meantime, the costs of inaction rise to unprecedented heights. It has proven more than difficult – even impossible for the internation ...
... Several decades after the initiation of international climate change negotiations, the world still struggles with the issue of how to mobilize climate action. In the meantime, the costs of inaction rise to unprecedented heights. It has proven more than difficult – even impossible for the internation ...
Snow and Ice on Planet Earth
... bears. There are initial signs of increased navigation in northern routes, which might raise issues of water sovereignity. M ore offshore oil operations are to be expected as well. An increase in sea traffic and oil operations can produce positive economic impacts but increased pollution as well (Ro ...
... bears. There are initial signs of increased navigation in northern routes, which might raise issues of water sovereignity. M ore offshore oil operations are to be expected as well. An increase in sea traffic and oil operations can produce positive economic impacts but increased pollution as well (Ro ...
Forced Sahel rainfall trends in the CMIP5 archive.
... and scenario cases. The solid and dashed lines are the mean and median of the ensemble runs. agreement across the ensemble is indicated by stippling. As did CMIP3, the CMIP5 ensemble captures the large scale drying of the entire Sahel during the 20th century both in the mean and in most individual m ...
... and scenario cases. The solid and dashed lines are the mean and median of the ensemble runs. agreement across the ensemble is indicated by stippling. As did CMIP3, the CMIP5 ensemble captures the large scale drying of the entire Sahel during the 20th century both in the mean and in most individual m ...
publishable final report - Klima
... taken in time. However, due to the inertia of the system and long lead times for investments early actions are required. If no adaptation takes place, a loss of reliability in the electricity supply could result. The hydrological modelling shows distinct regional patterns of hydrological change. Sea ...
... taken in time. However, due to the inertia of the system and long lead times for investments early actions are required. If no adaptation takes place, a loss of reliability in the electricity supply could result. The hydrological modelling shows distinct regional patterns of hydrological change. Sea ...
Annex II Risk profile outline
... To support informed decision making, the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, in collaboration with the Arctic Council‘s Arctic Monitoring Assessment Program (AMAP) have prepared a systematic and authoritative global review of the impacts of climate change on the dynamics and toxicity of persist ...
... To support informed decision making, the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention, in collaboration with the Arctic Council‘s Arctic Monitoring Assessment Program (AMAP) have prepared a systematic and authoritative global review of the impacts of climate change on the dynamics and toxicity of persist ...
Planning for Climate Change Effects on Coastal Margins
... other coastal ‘drivers’ or physical forcing agents affected by climate change – such as river flows, winds, waves, storm intensity, and perhaps storm frequency – will create their own impacts, besides exaggerating or mitigating the impacts of sea-level rise. If the increasing rate at which people ar ...
... other coastal ‘drivers’ or physical forcing agents affected by climate change – such as river flows, winds, waves, storm intensity, and perhaps storm frequency – will create their own impacts, besides exaggerating or mitigating the impacts of sea-level rise. If the increasing rate at which people ar ...
Metropolitan District of Quito - Programa de las Naciones Unidas
... pressures and in light of climate change. For Quito, this type of analysis was the first of its kind to compile and integrate all the available environmental and socio-economic information into one cohesive report. The experience in producing the report provided the opportunity to strengthen knowled ...
... pressures and in light of climate change. For Quito, this type of analysis was the first of its kind to compile and integrate all the available environmental and socio-economic information into one cohesive report. The experience in producing the report provided the opportunity to strengthen knowled ...
UCLA_IOE_Feb2007 - UCLA: Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
... UCLA Institute of the Environment Environmental Science Colloquium ...
... UCLA Institute of the Environment Environmental Science Colloquium ...
water: impacts, Risks, and Adaptation
... Widespread changes to the climate of the Western United States have occurred over the last fifty years. These include higher temperatures, earlier snowmelt runoff, more rain, less snow, and shifts in storm tracks. Some of these changes have been directly attributed to human activities, such as green ...
... Widespread changes to the climate of the Western United States have occurred over the last fifty years. These include higher temperatures, earlier snowmelt runoff, more rain, less snow, and shifts in storm tracks. Some of these changes have been directly attributed to human activities, such as green ...
Potential climate-change impacts on the Chesapeake Bay
... Received 3 March 2009 Accepted 24 September 2009 Available online 14 October 2009 ...
... Received 3 March 2009 Accepted 24 September 2009 Available online 14 October 2009 ...
The importance of ENSO phase during volcanic eruptions
... Agung, as was the case during 1951–2014, is a very rare occurrence (see section S1 in the supporting information). Also, sampling El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability itself in coupled climate models requires large ensembles or long control simulations [Wittenberg, 2009; Deser et al., 201 ...
... Agung, as was the case during 1951–2014, is a very rare occurrence (see section S1 in the supporting information). Also, sampling El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) variability itself in coupled climate models requires large ensembles or long control simulations [Wittenberg, 2009; Deser et al., 201 ...
Microsoft Word - UWE Research Repository
... should count as a problem or not, etc. The reporting from such surveys also does not seek to expose the degree of correlation at the level of the individual between concern about congestion for the country as a whole and for themselves (although the figures suggest that there must be some correlatio ...
... should count as a problem or not, etc. The reporting from such surveys also does not seek to expose the degree of correlation at the level of the individual between concern about congestion for the country as a whole and for themselves (although the figures suggest that there must be some correlatio ...
On the Climate Crisis, It`s Donald Trump the World
... of his reckless, dangerous positions based more in Reality TV than actual reality. Trump can’t be trusted to protect our planet, our families, or our ...
... of his reckless, dangerous positions based more in Reality TV than actual reality. Trump can’t be trusted to protect our planet, our families, or our ...
4. Financial transfers and adaptation in the South
... adaptation technology aj. The benefit of adaptation is reduced impacts from climate change in period 1. We assume that climate change damage in country j, Dj, is a constant share of output, and that a fraction, αj, of this damage can be avoided through adaptation. Investing in adaptation has decreas ...
... adaptation technology aj. The benefit of adaptation is reduced impacts from climate change in period 1. We assume that climate change damage in country j, Dj, is a constant share of output, and that a fraction, αj, of this damage can be avoided through adaptation. Investing in adaptation has decreas ...
Australian Government response - Coastal Collaboration Cluster
... projections, ocean acidification and the dynamics of Antarctic polar ice sheets. It has also completed work for the Tasmanian Government on the impact of sea level rise on Tasmania. The Australian Research Council has announced funding of $21.4 million over seven years for a new ARC Centre of Excell ...
... projections, ocean acidification and the dynamics of Antarctic polar ice sheets. It has also completed work for the Tasmanian Government on the impact of sea level rise on Tasmania. The Australian Research Council has announced funding of $21.4 million over seven years for a new ARC Centre of Excell ...
Wooldridge et al. 2012. GBR Safeguarding Corals Against CC
... Abstract The threats of wide-scale coral bleaching and reef demise associated with anthropogenic (global) climate change are widely known. Less well considered is the contributing role of conditions local to the reef, in particular reef water quality, in codetermining the physiological tolerance of ...
... Abstract The threats of wide-scale coral bleaching and reef demise associated with anthropogenic (global) climate change are widely known. Less well considered is the contributing role of conditions local to the reef, in particular reef water quality, in codetermining the physiological tolerance of ...