Responding to climate change in national forests: a
... of adaptation in a timely way increases the likelihood that resource management objectives can be attained in a changing climate. ...
... of adaptation in a timely way increases the likelihood that resource management objectives can be attained in a changing climate. ...
Dynamical downscaling from climate
... There is more extensive drying over Victoria and NSW in MAM. During SON drying is now indicated over much of Queensland. For all time periods, the three simulations show agreement in producing reduced rainfall over southern states for all seasons. There are differences between Mk 3.5 and CCAM for th ...
... There is more extensive drying over Victoria and NSW in MAM. During SON drying is now indicated over much of Queensland. For all time periods, the three simulations show agreement in producing reduced rainfall over southern states for all seasons. There are differences between Mk 3.5 and CCAM for th ...
Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
... This seven-module, five-day course starts with an introduction to climate change and climate change adaptation; provides tools and techniques for assessing climate change impacts and vulnerabilities; presents a framework for identification, evaluation, selection, and implementation of climate adapta ...
... This seven-module, five-day course starts with an introduction to climate change and climate change adaptation; provides tools and techniques for assessing climate change impacts and vulnerabilities; presents a framework for identification, evaluation, selection, and implementation of climate adapta ...
The impact of polar stratospheric ozone loss on Southern
... Since the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole in the mid1980s (Farman et al., 1985) rapid advances in the understanding of the causes of high-latitude stratospheric ozone depletion have taken place. The large Southern Hemisphere (SH) spring time ozone losses documented since the mid-1980s result f ...
... Since the discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole in the mid1980s (Farman et al., 1985) rapid advances in the understanding of the causes of high-latitude stratospheric ozone depletion have taken place. The large Southern Hemisphere (SH) spring time ozone losses documented since the mid-1980s result f ...
Urban Climate Change Adaptation and - East
... This seven-module, five-day course starts with an introduction to climate change and climate change adaptation; provides tools and techniques for assessing climate change impacts and vulnerabilities; presents a framework for identification, evaluation, selection, and implementation of climate adapta ...
... This seven-module, five-day course starts with an introduction to climate change and climate change adaptation; provides tools and techniques for assessing climate change impacts and vulnerabilities; presents a framework for identification, evaluation, selection, and implementation of climate adapta ...
RPS-Report template (standard) - University of Technology Sydney
... This guidance manual has been prepared by Dr Jane Inglis and Stella Whittaker from RPS, Andrew Dimitriadis from the City of Canada Bay Council (CCBC), and Stefanie Pillora from The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG). The authors would like to take this opportunity to thank ...
... This guidance manual has been prepared by Dr Jane Inglis and Stella Whittaker from RPS, Andrew Dimitriadis from the City of Canada Bay Council (CCBC), and Stefanie Pillora from The Australian Centre of Excellence for Local Government (ACELG). The authors would like to take this opportunity to thank ...
Adaptive Capacity Benchmarking: Handbook and Tool Kit
... Research shows that organisations can mature and develop (or fail to do so) much like individuals. The organisation takes on something new, hopefully gets better at doing it, learns from the experience and moves on to the next challenge. Like individuals though, many organisations don’t change much ...
... Research shows that organisations can mature and develop (or fail to do so) much like individuals. The organisation takes on something new, hopefully gets better at doing it, learns from the experience and moves on to the next challenge. Like individuals though, many organisations don’t change much ...
About this Sourcebook - Stockholm Environment Institute
... Amanda Fencl Stockholm Environment Institute – US Center An Independent Research Affiliate of Tufts University 11 Curtis Avenue Somerville, MA USA Tel: +1-617-627-3786 ...
... Amanda Fencl Stockholm Environment Institute – US Center An Independent Research Affiliate of Tufts University 11 Curtis Avenue Somerville, MA USA Tel: +1-617-627-3786 ...
FINAL REPORT Queensland Farmers Federation Climate Change
... The industry project participants acknowledged that there may be an accuracy trade-off with some of these climate scenarios but felt an effort should be made to bring the data into a mode where it could be used. It is therefore a strong recommendation of this project that the science effort be conti ...
... The industry project participants acknowledged that there may be an accuracy trade-off with some of these climate scenarios but felt an effort should be made to bring the data into a mode where it could be used. It is therefore a strong recommendation of this project that the science effort be conti ...
Complex coastlines responding to climate change
... summing all the wave occurrences in each bin (Ashton and Murray, 2006b). However, in the model experiments reported here, we used simplified synthetic wave distributions. These generic distributions could represent either systematic differences in wave height as a function of approach angle, or in t ...
... summing all the wave occurrences in each bin (Ashton and Murray, 2006b). However, in the model experiments reported here, we used simplified synthetic wave distributions. These generic distributions could represent either systematic differences in wave height as a function of approach angle, or in t ...
Climate Change in Latin America
... future actions in this field. Within this framework, the European Commission decided to fund a study which would ascertain the problems related to climate change within Latin America. This study aims to identify the extent of climate change effects, the question of vulnerability and the ecological f ...
... future actions in this field. Within this framework, the European Commission decided to fund a study which would ascertain the problems related to climate change within Latin America. This study aims to identify the extent of climate change effects, the question of vulnerability and the ecological f ...
Northern Ireland Climate Change Adaptation Programme
... to as the Adaptation Programme) as required by Section 60 of the UK Climate Change Act 20081. The Adaptation Programme contains the Government’s response to the risks and opportunities identified in the Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) for Northern Ireland2, which was produced in January 2012, ...
... to as the Adaptation Programme) as required by Section 60 of the UK Climate Change Act 20081. The Adaptation Programme contains the Government’s response to the risks and opportunities identified in the Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) for Northern Ireland2, which was produced in January 2012, ...
Ranking Port Cities with High Exposure and Vulnerability to Climate
... subsidence and population growth and urbanisation. The assessment provides a much more comprehensive analysis than earlier studies, focussing on the 136 port cities around the world that have more than one million inhabitants. Most of these largest port cities are found in Asia (38%), and many of th ...
... subsidence and population growth and urbanisation. The assessment provides a much more comprehensive analysis than earlier studies, focussing on the 136 port cities around the world that have more than one million inhabitants. Most of these largest port cities are found in Asia (38%), and many of th ...
Impacts of deforestation on weather PATTERNs and agriculture
... – increasingly appears to be counterproductive if it leads to changes in weather and climate systems that impact agricultural production. Voldoire & Royer (2004) suggest that deforestation could cause more intense climatic extremes, which would result in larger negative impacts to agriculture than t ...
... – increasingly appears to be counterproductive if it leads to changes in weather and climate systems that impact agricultural production. Voldoire & Royer (2004) suggest that deforestation could cause more intense climatic extremes, which would result in larger negative impacts to agriculture than t ...
Permafrost thermal state in the polar Northern Hemisphere during
... no significant trend in air temperature but there does appear to be an increase in the past few years, particularly in the northernmost regions. A similar pattern in North America was observed (with some regional differences in timing), but greater warming was observed in the 1990s especially in Alas ...
... no significant trend in air temperature but there does appear to be an increase in the past few years, particularly in the northernmost regions. A similar pattern in North America was observed (with some regional differences in timing), but greater warming was observed in the 1990s especially in Alas ...
Report on the Activities of the Working Group on Climate Change
... indices is difficult as the data is less readily available. We have also put an emphasis on delivering a range of other indices to IPCC. Towards that end, our activities started with a workshop in Bracknell in 1998. This workshop particularly sought to identify and refine appropriate climate change ...
... indices is difficult as the data is less readily available. We have also put an emphasis on delivering a range of other indices to IPCC. Towards that end, our activities started with a workshop in Bracknell in 1998. This workshop particularly sought to identify and refine appropriate climate change ...
Surviving climate change in small islands
... earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, droughts, floods, heat waves and mini-ice ages as well as numerous other forms of environmental hazards. Yet human beings have not had to cope with a warming of the planet at the speed and scale that is currently occurring and that is expected to increase ove ...
... earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunami, droughts, floods, heat waves and mini-ice ages as well as numerous other forms of environmental hazards. Yet human beings have not had to cope with a warming of the planet at the speed and scale that is currently occurring and that is expected to increase ove ...
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
... proposed action. We also recognize the difficulties and uncertainties involved in such an impact analysis. Accordingly, NHTSA has reviewed existing credible scientific evidence which is relevant to this analysis and summarized it in this DEIS consistent with Council on Environmental Quality regulati ...
... proposed action. We also recognize the difficulties and uncertainties involved in such an impact analysis. Accordingly, NHTSA has reviewed existing credible scientific evidence which is relevant to this analysis and summarized it in this DEIS consistent with Council on Environmental Quality regulati ...
ABSTRACT - Coastal Environmental Change Lab
... Sustained changes in the relative influence of waves coming from different directions will ultimately alter the shape of a coastline. Model simulations of a cuspate coastline using the Coastline Evolution Model (CEM; Ashton and Murray, 2006a) predict that increased patterns of storminess and associa ...
... Sustained changes in the relative influence of waves coming from different directions will ultimately alter the shape of a coastline. Model simulations of a cuspate coastline using the Coastline Evolution Model (CEM; Ashton and Murray, 2006a) predict that increased patterns of storminess and associa ...
Report on the Activities of the Working Group on Climate
... indices is difficult as the data is less readily available. We have also put an emphasis on delivering a range of other indices to IPCC. Towards that end, our activities started with a workshop in Bracknell in 1998. This workshop particularly sought to identify and refine appropriate climate change ...
... indices is difficult as the data is less readily available. We have also put an emphasis on delivering a range of other indices to IPCC. Towards that end, our activities started with a workshop in Bracknell in 1998. This workshop particularly sought to identify and refine appropriate climate change ...
5. integrated impacts on coastal areas and river flooding
... while in the Fens it is expected to revert to a mixture of grazing marsh and fenland, although this will also depend on the land management regime (e.g. amount of grazing). Order-of-magnitude calculations of average annual flood damage to properties at the region-scale show that all climate change s ...
... while in the Fens it is expected to revert to a mixture of grazing marsh and fenland, although this will also depend on the land management regime (e.g. amount of grazing). Order-of-magnitude calculations of average annual flood damage to properties at the region-scale show that all climate change s ...
UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
... The general pattern in these maps representing wave height parameters are dominated by large zonal features with a clear poleward increase. Maximum values are found during each respective hemisphere winter, located in the North Pacific around the 50◦ N, in the North Atlantic at about 60◦ N and in th ...
... The general pattern in these maps representing wave height parameters are dominated by large zonal features with a clear poleward increase. Maximum values are found during each respective hemisphere winter, located in the North Pacific around the 50◦ N, in the North Atlantic at about 60◦ N and in th ...
Climate Trends, Hazards and Extremes – Taranaki Synthesis Report
... results regarding present climate come from several other reports prepared for the New Plymouth District Council and Taranaki Regional Council prepared between 2006 and 2008. New results are presented for an analysis of the drought hazard, and showing the climate changes predicted for the Taranaki r ...
... results regarding present climate come from several other reports prepared for the New Plymouth District Council and Taranaki Regional Council prepared between 2006 and 2008. New results are presented for an analysis of the drought hazard, and showing the climate changes predicted for the Taranaki r ...
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Coastal Habitats
... America’s coasts, including climate change and resilience. The input of land managers, decision-makers, and researchers across agencies was sought to ensure that the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Coastal Habitats (CCVATCH) would provide results that could be directly applied to cu ...
... America’s coasts, including climate change and resilience. The input of land managers, decision-makers, and researchers across agencies was sought to ensure that the Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment Tool for Coastal Habitats (CCVATCH) would provide results that could be directly applied to cu ...
Malawi`s Strategy on Climate Change Learning
... situation, and to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Evidence of Malawi’s commitment to both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and to the Kyoto Protocol include the various measures undertaken towards the fulfilment of ...
... situation, and to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Evidence of Malawi’s commitment to both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and to the Kyoto Protocol include the various measures undertaken towards the fulfilment of ...
Climate change feedback
Climate change feedback is important in the understanding of global warming because feedback processes may amplify or diminish the effect of each climate forcing, and so play an important part in determining the climate sensitivity and future climate state. Feedback in general is the process in which changing one quantity changes a second quantity, and the change in the second quantity in turn changes the first. Positive feedback amplifies the change in the first quantity while negative feedback reduces it.The term ""forcing"" means a change which may ""push"" the climate system in the direction of warming or cooling. An example of a climate forcing is increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. By definition, forcings are external to the climate system while feedbacks are internal; in essence, feedbacks represent the internal processes of the system. Some feedbacks may act in relative isolation to the rest of the climate system; others may be tightly coupled; hence it may be difficult to tell just how much a particular process contributes. Forcings, feedbacks and the dynamics of the climate system determine how much and how fast the climate changes. The main positive feedback in global warming is the tendency of warming to increase the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere, which in turn leads to further warming. The main negative feedback comes from the Stefan–Boltzmann law, the amount of heat radiated from the Earth into space changes with the fourth power of the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere.Some observed and potential effects of global warming are positive feedbacks, which contribute directly to further global warming. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report states that ""Anthropogenic warming could lead to some effects that are abrupt or irreversible, depending upon the rate and magnitude of the climate change.""