Extremes (M. Wehner, LLNL and UC Berkeley)
... • Pentad precipitation is preferred over daily. • Big storms often last longer than a day, but rarely more than 5 • 00:00 GMT may not be a convenient time • Seasonal is preferable over annual • Winter storms are different than summer storms! • Consecutive dry days is not really extreme. • A interest ...
... • Pentad precipitation is preferred over daily. • Big storms often last longer than a day, but rarely more than 5 • 00:00 GMT may not be a convenient time • Seasonal is preferable over annual • Winter storms are different than summer storms! • Consecutive dry days is not really extreme. • A interest ...
Ice Ages and Climate Change
... snowpacks that, on average, are disappearing a little earlier every spring," - As a result, fire seasons have lengthened by more than 30 days, on average. • He also cited devastating droughts • "Our scientists believe this is due to a change in climate," said Tidwell ...
... snowpacks that, on average, are disappearing a little earlier every spring," - As a result, fire seasons have lengthened by more than 30 days, on average. • He also cited devastating droughts • "Our scientists believe this is due to a change in climate," said Tidwell ...
Aug 14, 2010 - Science and Environmental Policy Project
... six such extreme events that occurred in the "particular year" of 2009, which would have to have been done for no other reason than to imply that these weather extremes were caused by global warming, which flies in the face of their earlier contention that record-breaking low temperatures in any yea ...
... six such extreme events that occurred in the "particular year" of 2009, which would have to have been done for no other reason than to imply that these weather extremes were caused by global warming, which flies in the face of their earlier contention that record-breaking low temperatures in any yea ...
UCU environmental news 43, Nov 15
... Welcome to the Paris Climate Talks special edition. In December, 2015, the United Nations meet for one of the most important international conferences since the end of the 2nd world war. We urgently need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius compar ...
... Welcome to the Paris Climate Talks special edition. In December, 2015, the United Nations meet for one of the most important international conferences since the end of the 2nd world war. We urgently need to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to below 2 degrees Celsius compar ...
The climate and climate change - Dept of Meteorology Home Page
... bubbles in Antarctic Ice. Can recover ice & gases that have been stored for 10 000s of years. Can measure levels of Greenhouse gases in Ancient atmosphere. ...
... bubbles in Antarctic Ice. Can recover ice & gases that have been stored for 10 000s of years. Can measure levels of Greenhouse gases in Ancient atmosphere. ...
GEOL_553_proposal_yo..
... Variations in Earth’s climate are recorded in the geologic record. The melting of the Arctic ice sheet can have catastrophic effects to the human population. Recently, researchers have developed climate models that suggest that when Arctic sea ice disappears, the jet stream shifts north, moving prec ...
... Variations in Earth’s climate are recorded in the geologic record. The melting of the Arctic ice sheet can have catastrophic effects to the human population. Recently, researchers have developed climate models that suggest that when Arctic sea ice disappears, the jet stream shifts north, moving prec ...
DON’T BLOCK UP THE HALL LEIDY KLOTZ
... Megastorms like Sandy and Katrina are canaries in the coal mine. And we can expect more sealevel rise, agriculture shifts, and permanent droughts, all of which displace populations and spark smoldering social instability. It doesn’t take a political scientist to predict frightening events when drou ...
... Megastorms like Sandy and Katrina are canaries in the coal mine. And we can expect more sealevel rise, agriculture shifts, and permanent droughts, all of which displace populations and spark smoldering social instability. It doesn’t take a political scientist to predict frightening events when drou ...
Parliament of Victoria
... Balloon and satellite measurements of lower and mid-tropospheric temperatures show warming rates similar to those at the surface14 ...
... Balloon and satellite measurements of lower and mid-tropospheric temperatures show warming rates similar to those at the surface14 ...
Regional Seminar on Safe, Climate Adaptive and Disaster Resilient
... • The rate of sea level rise since the mid-19th century has been larger than in the previous two millennia. During 1901 to 2010, global mean sea level rose by 0.19 [0.17 to 0.21] m • It is likely that the frequency of heat waves has increased in large parts of Europe, Asia and Australia. There are l ...
... • The rate of sea level rise since the mid-19th century has been larger than in the previous two millennia. During 1901 to 2010, global mean sea level rose by 0.19 [0.17 to 0.21] m • It is likely that the frequency of heat waves has increased in large parts of Europe, Asia and Australia. There are l ...
A noodle, hockey stick, and spaghetti plate: a perspective on high-resolution paleoclimatology
... of new proxy records and techniques, numerous largescale temperature reconstructions in the following two decades were produced.11–36 It was not until the late 1990s that such reconstructions extended far enough back to place recent temperature change in the context of the perhaps temporally nearest ...
... of new proxy records and techniques, numerous largescale temperature reconstructions in the following two decades were produced.11–36 It was not until the late 1990s that such reconstructions extended far enough back to place recent temperature change in the context of the perhaps temporally nearest ...
Phaeton`s Reins: The Human Hand in Climate Change
... trees grew on islands near the North Pole, where the annual mean temperature was about 60°F, far warmer than today’s mean of about 30. There is also some evidence that the earth was almost entirely covered with ice at various times around 500 million years ago; in between, the planet was exceptional ...
... trees grew on islands near the North Pole, where the annual mean temperature was about 60°F, far warmer than today’s mean of about 30. There is also some evidence that the earth was almost entirely covered with ice at various times around 500 million years ago; in between, the planet was exceptional ...
Introduction Species Interactions – Rainforest Lichens as a
... spore-dispersed lichen-fungi require the prior colonisation of a habitat by asexually-dispersed species with overlapping specificity, which seed a photobiont into the habitat. The spore-dispersed species can then scavenge this photobiont and become established, suggesting that migration rates would ...
... spore-dispersed lichen-fungi require the prior colonisation of a habitat by asexually-dispersed species with overlapping specificity, which seed a photobiont into the habitat. The spore-dispersed species can then scavenge this photobiont and become established, suggesting that migration rates would ...
CSPR Briefing CS PR Br
... Over the last couple of years, the Nordic countries have experienced severe damages and rising costs due weather related events, such as flooding and storms. As a result, insurance companies have had an increase in the number of compensation payments made to homeowners. Over the coming years, paymen ...
... Over the last couple of years, the Nordic countries have experienced severe damages and rising costs due weather related events, such as flooding and storms. As a result, insurance companies have had an increase in the number of compensation payments made to homeowners. Over the coming years, paymen ...
Ice Ages and Climate Change
... • Glaciers can only form on land • As plates move, evidence for a cold climate, in the form of glaciation, can only exist when land masses are present at high latitudes • Movement of land masses also alters the oceanic circulation pattern, a vital factor in determining climate conditions ...
... • Glaciers can only form on land • As plates move, evidence for a cold climate, in the form of glaciation, can only exist when land masses are present at high latitudes • Movement of land masses also alters the oceanic circulation pattern, a vital factor in determining climate conditions ...
The African contribution to the global climate
... Doing a similar calculation of the carbon loss from the Amazon forest shows that in the IPSL-CM4-LOOP model, the Amazon forest gives a much larger contribution than the African rain forest, 15 PgC reduction of 1860–2100 cumulated NEP in COU relative to UNC (Fig. 5). Again, this larger contribution c ...
... Doing a similar calculation of the carbon loss from the Amazon forest shows that in the IPSL-CM4-LOOP model, the Amazon forest gives a much larger contribution than the African rain forest, 15 PgC reduction of 1860–2100 cumulated NEP in COU relative to UNC (Fig. 5). Again, this larger contribution c ...
File - madisonccl.info
... Vote Nov. 8 -- Middleton Climate Referendum November is a big month for Middleton. In addition to voting for the next President of the United States and other elected officials, you have a unique opportunity to vote on the Middleton Climate Referendum -- a nonbinding advisory referendum that says cl ...
... Vote Nov. 8 -- Middleton Climate Referendum November is a big month for Middleton. In addition to voting for the next President of the United States and other elected officials, you have a unique opportunity to vote on the Middleton Climate Referendum -- a nonbinding advisory referendum that says cl ...
2. Climate Change
... The seas surrounding the South West peninsula are the warmest of the UK with a mean annual temperature of between 11°C and 12°C. The South West prevailing winds travel over the sea before coming ashore which helps maintain onshore air temperatures in coastal areas. Inland, the mean temperature decre ...
... The seas surrounding the South West peninsula are the warmest of the UK with a mean annual temperature of between 11°C and 12°C. The South West prevailing winds travel over the sea before coming ashore which helps maintain onshore air temperatures in coastal areas. Inland, the mean temperature decre ...
A regional approach to climate adaptation in the Nile Basin
... 1960 to 1980. This period of 21 years is assumed in this analysis to be representative of the variability for the reference period (1961–1990). The MIKE HYDRO model was then run using bias-corrected values for rainfall and PET over the same period. All other factors such as the operation and operati ...
... 1960 to 1980. This period of 21 years is assumed in this analysis to be representative of the variability for the reference period (1961–1990). The MIKE HYDRO model was then run using bias-corrected values for rainfall and PET over the same period. All other factors such as the operation and operati ...
Summary: Rapid Climate Change
... • During the last 100K yrs there have been repeated oscillations between warm (Dansgaard-Oeschger: D-O) and cold (Heinrich) conditions, with very fast temperature changes (7ºC in 50 yrs in Greenland). • The most recent (strong) cold event occurred about 12K yrs ago (Younger-Dryas) during the transit ...
... • During the last 100K yrs there have been repeated oscillations between warm (Dansgaard-Oeschger: D-O) and cold (Heinrich) conditions, with very fast temperature changes (7ºC in 50 yrs in Greenland). • The most recent (strong) cold event occurred about 12K yrs ago (Younger-Dryas) during the transit ...
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... very serious, large-scale and irreversible impacts. If the worst of these impacts are to be avoided, or at least minimised, urgent action is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In effect, it will be necessary to decarbonise the global economy, and to do so as rapidly as possible. This will ...
... very serious, large-scale and irreversible impacts. If the worst of these impacts are to be avoided, or at least minimised, urgent action is required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In effect, it will be necessary to decarbonise the global economy, and to do so as rapidly as possible. This will ...