Glacial Variability Over the Last Two Million Years: An Extended
... while late Pleistocene deglaciations more often skip one or two obliquity beats, corresponding to 80 or 120 Ka glacial cycles which, on average, give the "100 Ka variability. This continuous obliquity pacing indicates that the glacial theory can be simplified. An explanation for the "100 Ka glacial ...
... while late Pleistocene deglaciations more often skip one or two obliquity beats, corresponding to 80 or 120 Ka glacial cycles which, on average, give the "100 Ka variability. This continuous obliquity pacing indicates that the glacial theory can be simplified. An explanation for the "100 Ka glacial ...
ozone pollution - the ICP Vegetation
... concentrations within months and hence reduce its contribution to global warming. Long-lived greenhouse gases will stay in the atmosphere for a long time, so even when emissions are kept constant at the 2000 level, a further rise in surface temperature of 0.5oC is predicted by the end of the 21st ce ...
... concentrations within months and hence reduce its contribution to global warming. Long-lived greenhouse gases will stay in the atmosphere for a long time, so even when emissions are kept constant at the 2000 level, a further rise in surface temperature of 0.5oC is predicted by the end of the 21st ce ...
Examining the decision-relevance of climate model information for the insurance industry
... temporal scales for insurance decisions. Furthermore, given the high economic stakes associated with enacting strategies to address climate change, it is essential that climate model experiments are designed to thoroughly explore the multiple sources of uncertainty. Determining the reliability of mo ...
... temporal scales for insurance decisions. Furthermore, given the high economic stakes associated with enacting strategies to address climate change, it is essential that climate model experiments are designed to thoroughly explore the multiple sources of uncertainty. Determining the reliability of mo ...
English - unfccc
... impacts of climate change. With its small population, economic size and industrial base, it is one of the countries that contributes least to the emissions of greenhouse gases. However with increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as tropical storms, cyclones, floods and drou ...
... impacts of climate change. With its small population, economic size and industrial base, it is one of the countries that contributes least to the emissions of greenhouse gases. However with increased intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as tropical storms, cyclones, floods and drou ...
KPMG International | KPMG | BQ
... growth will place intense pressures on ecosystems and the supply of natural resources such as food, water, energy and materials.3 Businesses can expect supply challenges and price volatility as a result. This is a threat, but there are also opportunities to grow commerce, create jobs, and to innovat ...
... growth will place intense pressures on ecosystems and the supply of natural resources such as food, water, energy and materials.3 Businesses can expect supply challenges and price volatility as a result. This is a threat, but there are also opportunities to grow commerce, create jobs, and to innovat ...
African mountainous countries and their mountains : The Republic of
... Most African countries are facing tremendous development challenges, yet many others like Cameroon, Ethiopia and Kenya are progressing to a stage of being ‘middle income’ countries, rather than fragile states, and beginning to deal with poverty and creating human well-being without damaging the natu ...
... Most African countries are facing tremendous development challenges, yet many others like Cameroon, Ethiopia and Kenya are progressing to a stage of being ‘middle income’ countries, rather than fragile states, and beginning to deal with poverty and creating human well-being without damaging the natu ...
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... changes in NDVI was significantly and positively correlated with annual air temperature (r = 0.52, p < 0.01) and not associated with annual precipitation (p > 0.1); (5) of the vegetated area, about 24% showed significant correlations between annual mean NDVI and air temperature (93% positive and rem ...
... changes in NDVI was significantly and positively correlated with annual air temperature (r = 0.52, p < 0.01) and not associated with annual precipitation (p > 0.1); (5) of the vegetated area, about 24% showed significant correlations between annual mean NDVI and air temperature (93% positive and rem ...
Observed and Simulated Processes Linked to the Recent Climate
... southern GHA region, the number of wet and extreme wet days is projected to increase, expanding the length of a growing season during DJF. However during MAM, the number of wet days is projected to decrease by the middle of the 21 st century over southern GHA region. Over equatorial GHA region, the ...
... southern GHA region, the number of wet and extreme wet days is projected to increase, expanding the length of a growing season during DJF. However during MAM, the number of wet days is projected to decrease by the middle of the 21 st century over southern GHA region. Over equatorial GHA region, the ...
Chapter 13 - Clean Air Act
... § 7408(a)(1) (criteria pollutants); CAA § 111(b)(1)(A), 42 U.S.C. § 7411(b)(1)(A), (New Source Performance Standards); CAA § 202(a), 42 U.S.C. § 7521(a) (mobile source emissions limitations). Some programs also apply only to “major” sources that emit threshold amounts of air pollutants. See CAA § 16 ...
... § 7408(a)(1) (criteria pollutants); CAA § 111(b)(1)(A), 42 U.S.C. § 7411(b)(1)(A), (New Source Performance Standards); CAA § 202(a), 42 U.S.C. § 7521(a) (mobile source emissions limitations). Some programs also apply only to “major” sources that emit threshold amounts of air pollutants. See CAA § 16 ...
thailand - Technology Needs Assessment
... Thailand today faces a number of challenges affected by climate change. These include everincreasing natural and human-made disaster – such as, extreme weather events, land-slide, flood, draught, rising sea level, biodiversity loss, and health damage – ,which if not addressed may lead to catastrophi ...
... Thailand today faces a number of challenges affected by climate change. These include everincreasing natural and human-made disaster – such as, extreme weather events, land-slide, flood, draught, rising sea level, biodiversity loss, and health damage – ,which if not addressed may lead to catastrophi ...
Global Climate Change and Coral Reefs
... be expected to survive further climate change (although some of the changes will disadvantage those humans dependent on reefs as they are now). The current scenarios for climate change by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are less extreme than past changes experienced by reefs dur ...
... be expected to survive further climate change (although some of the changes will disadvantage those humans dependent on reefs as they are now). The current scenarios for climate change by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are less extreme than past changes experienced by reefs dur ...
Global Climate Change and Coral Reefs - 400 Bad Request
... be expected to survive further climate change (although some of the changes will disadvantage those humans dependent on reefs as they are now). The current scenarios for climate change by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are less extreme than past changes experienced by reefs dur ...
... be expected to survive further climate change (although some of the changes will disadvantage those humans dependent on reefs as they are now). The current scenarios for climate change by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are less extreme than past changes experienced by reefs dur ...
Climate Change: Costs and Benefits of the
... This report examines seven studies that project the costs of H.R. 2454 to 2030 or beyond. It is difficult (and some would consider it unwise) to project costs up to the year 2030, much less beyond. The already tenuous assumption that current regulatory standards will remain constant becomes more unr ...
... This report examines seven studies that project the costs of H.R. 2454 to 2030 or beyond. It is difficult (and some would consider it unwise) to project costs up to the year 2030, much less beyond. The already tenuous assumption that current regulatory standards will remain constant becomes more unr ...
Linking long-term, large-scale climatic and environmental variability to patterns of
... of ecosystem responsiveness to climatic perturbations such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) can provide insight into how ecosystems will respond to climate change. Although these climate patterns are ocean-based, unders ...
... of ecosystem responsiveness to climatic perturbations such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) can provide insight into how ecosystems will respond to climate change. Although these climate patterns are ocean-based, unders ...
Linking long-term, large-scale climatic and environmental variability
... of ecosystem responsiveness to climatic perturbations such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) can provide insight into how ecosystems will respond to climate change. Although these climate patterns are ocean-based, unders ...
... of ecosystem responsiveness to climatic perturbations such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) and North Pacific Gyre Oscillation (NPGO) can provide insight into how ecosystems will respond to climate change. Although these climate patterns are ocean-based, unders ...
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
... GCMs have been shown to effectively partition ice and liquid in a given atmospheric volume as a monotonic function of atmospheric temperature, even if the GCM does not use a simple function of temperature to determine partitioning [Cesana et al., 2015; McCoy et al., 2015a]. We can characterize the c ...
... GCMs have been shown to effectively partition ice and liquid in a given atmospheric volume as a monotonic function of atmospheric temperature, even if the GCM does not use a simple function of temperature to determine partitioning [Cesana et al., 2015; McCoy et al., 2015a]. We can characterize the c ...
China Meteorological Administration
... Participating in the central government decision-making process in meteorological disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation; organizing a joint trans-regional and inter-departmental prevention campaign to combat major severe weather events; organizing and guiding the efforts to prevent and mi ...
... Participating in the central government decision-making process in meteorological disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation; organizing a joint trans-regional and inter-departmental prevention campaign to combat major severe weather events; organizing and guiding the efforts to prevent and mi ...
Adaptive capacity deficits and adaptive capacity of economic
... constrained by institutions (Adger and Kelly, 1999). Therefore, a potentially important contributing factor for climate change vulnerability assessments is the identification of weak, inefficient, or out of date institutions (Adger and Kelly, 1999). Institutions guide economic, social and political ch ...
... constrained by institutions (Adger and Kelly, 1999). Therefore, a potentially important contributing factor for climate change vulnerability assessments is the identification of weak, inefficient, or out of date institutions (Adger and Kelly, 1999). Institutions guide economic, social and political ch ...
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... no till corn, and 75% under no till soybeans. We find that a risk neutral farmer, under current climate patterns and a corn-soybean rotation, prefers both forms of conservation tillage to a moldboard plow. However, moldboard plow dominates conservation tillage practices under continuous corn, especi ...
... no till corn, and 75% under no till soybeans. We find that a risk neutral farmer, under current climate patterns and a corn-soybean rotation, prefers both forms of conservation tillage to a moldboard plow. However, moldboard plow dominates conservation tillage practices under continuous corn, especi ...
Full Report (PDF)
... sustainable development derives from the ability to move beyond the national, political, economic, ideological, racial, ethnic, and gender borders that fragment and divide us (Thiele, 2013, p. 39). For example, pollution does not stop at national borders and climate change cannot be isolated to part ...
... sustainable development derives from the ability to move beyond the national, political, economic, ideological, racial, ethnic, and gender borders that fragment and divide us (Thiele, 2013, p. 39). For example, pollution does not stop at national borders and climate change cannot be isolated to part ...
Variations in Cloud Cover and Cloud Types over the Ocean from
... in the northeast Pacific, concluding that total cloud cover is reduced when SST warmed. These studies have produced a consistent finding that reduced LTS can be caused by increasing SST, which causes a decrease in cloud fraction by initiating a trade-off from stratiform to cumuliform cloud cover. Cl ...
... in the northeast Pacific, concluding that total cloud cover is reduced when SST warmed. These studies have produced a consistent finding that reduced LTS can be caused by increasing SST, which causes a decrease in cloud fraction by initiating a trade-off from stratiform to cumuliform cloud cover. Cl ...
A multistage crucible of revision and approval shapes IPCC
... for the WGII AR4 and WGIII AR5 (Fig. 2), highlighting substantial deletions that occurred during their revision. Across AR5 SPM revisions, we also evaluate several examples of politically sensitive material emphasized in published perspectives and notes (7, 8, 11, 16, 17, 21, 34–36). For some of the ...
... for the WGII AR4 and WGIII AR5 (Fig. 2), highlighting substantial deletions that occurred during their revision. Across AR5 SPM revisions, we also evaluate several examples of politically sensitive material emphasized in published perspectives and notes (7, 8, 11, 16, 17, 21, 34–36). For some of the ...
The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health
... Climate change threatens human health and well-being in the United States. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Climate and Health Assessment has been developed to enhance understanding and inform decisions about this growing threat. This scientific assessment, called for under the Presi ...
... Climate change threatens human health and well-being in the United States. The U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Climate and Health Assessment has been developed to enhance understanding and inform decisions about this growing threat. This scientific assessment, called for under the Presi ...
Playing the Climate Dominoes: Tipping Points and the Cost of
... We integrate three tipping points into the DICE integrated assessment model [14, 15]. DICE combines an economic growth model with a simplified climate module (Schematic 1, left). The policymaker decides how to allocate output between consumption, investment in capital, and emission reductions. Unaba ...
... We integrate three tipping points into the DICE integrated assessment model [14, 15]. DICE combines an economic growth model with a simplified climate module (Schematic 1, left). The policymaker decides how to allocate output between consumption, investment in capital, and emission reductions. Unaba ...
Glacier volume response time and its links to climate
... the scale of the ablation along its terminus” in the words of Jóhannesson et al. (1989a). Paterson (1994, p. 320) applies Eq. (1) to estimate response times for three classes of glacier: glaciers in temperate maritime climate, ice caps in arctic Canada and for the Greenland ice sheet. The resulting ...
... the scale of the ablation along its terminus” in the words of Jóhannesson et al. (1989a). Paterson (1994, p. 320) applies Eq. (1) to estimate response times for three classes of glacier: glaciers in temperate maritime climate, ice caps in arctic Canada and for the Greenland ice sheet. The resulting ...