Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN)
... adaptation strategy impacts on the amount of coastal flooding Extend work to consider health impacts of 1) combined heat and humidity, and 2) coastal storms Assess and map flood risk for water infrastructure by integrating updated extreme rainfall projections (IDF curves), sea level rise & coastal f ...
... adaptation strategy impacts on the amount of coastal flooding Extend work to consider health impacts of 1) combined heat and humidity, and 2) coastal storms Assess and map flood risk for water infrastructure by integrating updated extreme rainfall projections (IDF curves), sea level rise & coastal f ...
Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) (David Goodrich, GCOS
... Mission: To ensure that the data required to meet the needs of users for climate information are obtained and made available for: Climate system monitoring, climate change detection and attribution; Research, modelling and prediction of the climate system; Assessing impacts, vulnerability & adapt ...
... Mission: To ensure that the data required to meet the needs of users for climate information are obtained and made available for: Climate system monitoring, climate change detection and attribution; Research, modelling and prediction of the climate system; Assessing impacts, vulnerability & adapt ...
poster - Cecilia
... participating countries as covered by the WP2 10 km simulation. Determination of suitable percentiles of precipitation and extremes indices (WMO, STARDEX) for the validation of the present-day experiments and assessment of climate-change simulations. Validation of present-day climate simulations wit ...
... participating countries as covered by the WP2 10 km simulation. Determination of suitable percentiles of precipitation and extremes indices (WMO, STARDEX) for the validation of the present-day experiments and assessment of climate-change simulations. Validation of present-day climate simulations wit ...
Climate-TRAP
... needed just to maintain current air quality. • Surveillance and early warning systems for ...
... needed just to maintain current air quality. • Surveillance and early warning systems for ...
GEMI Benchmark Survey Water Use, Issues & Management
... – Most have not informed shareholders of financial risks – Companies that take steps to address climate change can mitigate losses and even gain competitive advantage Climate Change Benchmarking – March 2003 ...
... – Most have not informed shareholders of financial risks – Companies that take steps to address climate change can mitigate losses and even gain competitive advantage Climate Change Benchmarking – March 2003 ...
Word - ITU
... Global, regional and national polices play a key role in efforts to combat climate change. The world community expects to adopt a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol at Copenhagen in December, 2009. At the national and regional level, ICT regulators, producers and telecommunication operators incr ...
... Global, regional and national polices play a key role in efforts to combat climate change. The world community expects to adopt a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol at Copenhagen in December, 2009. At the national and regional level, ICT regulators, producers and telecommunication operators incr ...
GLP - Squareeye
... Rosario lives with her family in the community of Santa Rosa, in the extreme northeast of Bolivia. The Amazon is their home. Previously, many trees were cut down for wood or to open up land for farming. The community is now reforesting native trees and making use of the wood and fruits in a sustain ...
... Rosario lives with her family in the community of Santa Rosa, in the extreme northeast of Bolivia. The Amazon is their home. Previously, many trees were cut down for wood or to open up land for farming. The community is now reforesting native trees and making use of the wood and fruits in a sustain ...
Earth planet climatography in the geological time scale
... also be caused by a variety of terrestrial factors. One of them is the so-called greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor; absorb the thermal infrared radiation emitted by the Earth's surface, which can then escape into space. With the increase in the content of the atmospher ...
... also be caused by a variety of terrestrial factors. One of them is the so-called greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor; absorb the thermal infrared radiation emitted by the Earth's surface, which can then escape into space. With the increase in the content of the atmospher ...
... There was concern and then a pledge… Policymakers in the Indonesian Government had read the research and knew that the country’s vulnerability to climate change could not be underplayed. They recognized the country could experience significant losses. At first they imagined and then they felt the im ...
From Montreal to Kyoto – can we learn some lessons?
... for science, policy and public awareness that I believe can be drawn from the preceding analysis of parallels and differences between climate change and ozone depletion. Science. In the area of scientific knowledge and research, a crucial lesson from the (comparatively benign) example of ozone deple ...
... for science, policy and public awareness that I believe can be drawn from the preceding analysis of parallels and differences between climate change and ozone depletion. Science. In the area of scientific knowledge and research, a crucial lesson from the (comparatively benign) example of ozone deple ...
EGYPT`S WATER: EGYPT`S WATER: A Quest To Quench Our Thirst
... governance structure, funds from which will be processed and disbursed in the coming months. Different adaptation technologies have been introduced in communities according to local needs. However a majority of currently available adaptation technologies are likely to address only the present climat ...
... governance structure, funds from which will be processed and disbursed in the coming months. Different adaptation technologies have been introduced in communities according to local needs. However a majority of currently available adaptation technologies are likely to address only the present climat ...
Africa hit hardest by Global Warming despite its low Greenhouse
... down the food these animals eat, hence converting some of it to methane gas. Methane is also generated in the waterlogged soil of rice paddies. Fluorocarbons, which are manufactured by human beings for refrigeration and other uses, include chlorofluorocarbons which they trap heat in the atmosphere. ...
... down the food these animals eat, hence converting some of it to methane gas. Methane is also generated in the waterlogged soil of rice paddies. Fluorocarbons, which are manufactured by human beings for refrigeration and other uses, include chlorofluorocarbons which they trap heat in the atmosphere. ...
Climate and Cropping Systems - Crop and Soil Science
... have seen much less in the way of warming and in some cases no change or even reductions in temperature. ...
... have seen much less in the way of warming and in some cases no change or even reductions in temperature. ...
Naomi Oreskes - Merchants of Doubt
... been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.' So the IPCC said that in 2001. But in fact the science had actually coalesced earlier than that. In the second assessment report of the IPCC published in 1995, the scientists had written, 'The balance of evidence suggests a discernible huma ...
... been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.' So the IPCC said that in 2001. But in fact the science had actually coalesced earlier than that. In the second assessment report of the IPCC published in 1995, the scientists had written, 'The balance of evidence suggests a discernible huma ...
IPRC News
... conclusions of IPRC’s Assistant Researcher Oliver Elison Timm, who has been studying the effects of climate change on rainfall, drought, and evapotranspiration across the Hawaiian Islands with Mami Takahashi, Tom Giambelluca (UH Mānoa Geography Department), and Henry Diaz (U. Colorado). To study wh ...
... conclusions of IPRC’s Assistant Researcher Oliver Elison Timm, who has been studying the effects of climate change on rainfall, drought, and evapotranspiration across the Hawaiian Islands with Mami Takahashi, Tom Giambelluca (UH Mānoa Geography Department), and Henry Diaz (U. Colorado). To study wh ...
Vulnerabilities of the global carbon cycle in the 21st Century
... In addition to C exchange between land and atmosphere, lateral transport of DOC from thawing permafrost is another process by which C is lost from peatlands. Cold permafrost watersheds in Western Siberia release little DOC to the rivers while permafrost-free watersheds show considerably higher amoun ...
... In addition to C exchange between land and atmosphere, lateral transport of DOC from thawing permafrost is another process by which C is lost from peatlands. Cold permafrost watersheds in Western Siberia release little DOC to the rivers while permafrost-free watersheds show considerably higher amoun ...
Climate Change Special Interest Group 2nd November 2016 The
... activity and survival. Thus, it is not clear how species can actually respond to changing climates at higher latitudes. Here, we analyse the range expansion velocity during a 40-year period (1973-2013) in 571 species of Swedish butterfly and moth species in relation to latitudinal bands (55-69 °N), ...
... activity and survival. Thus, it is not clear how species can actually respond to changing climates at higher latitudes. Here, we analyse the range expansion velocity during a 40-year period (1973-2013) in 571 species of Swedish butterfly and moth species in relation to latitudinal bands (55-69 °N), ...
climate science and the uncertainty monster
... Scenarios of future climate Natural internal Long range variability processes ...
... Scenarios of future climate Natural internal Long range variability processes ...
Sustainable Land Management Practices for Climate Change
... from climate change in the coming decades (Tubiello, et al., 2008). At the same time it will continue to be, a major driver of environmental and climate change at local, regional and planetary scales. First, it is a major user of land resources. About 14 billion hectares (10 percent of total ice-fre ...
... from climate change in the coming decades (Tubiello, et al., 2008). At the same time it will continue to be, a major driver of environmental and climate change at local, regional and planetary scales. First, it is a major user of land resources. About 14 billion hectares (10 percent of total ice-fre ...
used by Dr. Glantz on October 11
... • Adequate and reliable precipitation, temperature, seasonality, among other climate conditions make climate a resource for many countries • As a resource, it provides for adequate food production and water resources in a region • Experience from similar ecosystems of coping with climate conditions ...
... • Adequate and reliable precipitation, temperature, seasonality, among other climate conditions make climate a resource for many countries • As a resource, it provides for adequate food production and water resources in a region • Experience from similar ecosystems of coping with climate conditions ...
The Greenhouse Effect o
... most stable climates observed. Yet, during the 20th century, we have observed a rapid change in the climate and atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases attributable to human activities. These recent changes in greenhouse gases far exceed the extremes of the ice ages, and the global mean temper ...
... most stable climates observed. Yet, during the 20th century, we have observed a rapid change in the climate and atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases attributable to human activities. These recent changes in greenhouse gases far exceed the extremes of the ice ages, and the global mean temper ...
User-driven downscaling: advances in data apportioning and
... • Little advantage to weighting GCMs according to skill • Most important to have “ensembles of runs with enough realizations to reduce the effects of natural internal climate variability” [Pierce et al., 2009] • Maybe 10-14 GCMs is enough? ...
... • Little advantage to weighting GCMs according to skill • Most important to have “ensembles of runs with enough realizations to reduce the effects of natural internal climate variability” [Pierce et al., 2009] • Maybe 10-14 GCMs is enough? ...
An Abrupt Climate Change Scenario and Its
... continue to thrive and growing seasons will lengthen. Northern Europe, Russia, and North America will prosper agriculturally while southern Europe, Africa, and Central and South America will suffer from increased dryness, heat, water shortages, and reduced production. Overall, global food production ...
... continue to thrive and growing seasons will lengthen. Northern Europe, Russia, and North America will prosper agriculturally while southern Europe, Africa, and Central and South America will suffer from increased dryness, heat, water shortages, and reduced production. Overall, global food production ...
Advancing agricultural greenhouse gas quantification ∗ PERSPECTIVE
... agricultural emissions to the UNFCCC have used only Tier I default emissions factors (Nihart 2012, unpublished data), yet default numbers are based on a very limited number of studies. Furthermore, most non-Annex I countries have reported their National Communications only one or two times in the pe ...
... agricultural emissions to the UNFCCC have used only Tier I default emissions factors (Nihart 2012, unpublished data), yet default numbers are based on a very limited number of studies. Furthermore, most non-Annex I countries have reported their National Communications only one or two times in the pe ...