Simulation of regional climate change under the IPCC A2 scenario
... Zou et al. (2010), but relaxed to ERA-40 data from 1958 to 2001. Zou et al. (2010) concluded that such a dynamical downscaling improves not only the climatology of monsoon major rain band but also the inter-annual variability modes of rainfall over eastern China in comparison to that of ERA40. The a ...
... Zou et al. (2010), but relaxed to ERA-40 data from 1958 to 2001. Zou et al. (2010) concluded that such a dynamical downscaling improves not only the climatology of monsoon major rain band but also the inter-annual variability modes of rainfall over eastern China in comparison to that of ERA40. The a ...
The RCP greenhouse gas concentrations and their extensions from
... concentration datasets, forthcoming CMIP5 intercomparisons will allow our understanding of the relationship between emissions and concentrations to be re-defined. This study describes how the IAM emissions were processed to produce the RCP GHG concentration values, including the compilation of histo ...
... concentration datasets, forthcoming CMIP5 intercomparisons will allow our understanding of the relationship between emissions and concentrations to be re-defined. This study describes how the IAM emissions were processed to produce the RCP GHG concentration values, including the compilation of histo ...
Stream 3.1 Marine ecosystem change Stream goals
... assessing the current state of key biota and ecosystems, against which change in ecosystem structure and function can be measured; identifying critical processes, mechanisms and feedbacks that directly influence the population responses of biota to change in their habitats and that will be critical ...
... assessing the current state of key biota and ecosystems, against which change in ecosystem structure and function can be measured; identifying critical processes, mechanisms and feedbacks that directly influence the population responses of biota to change in their habitats and that will be critical ...
Empathy and Climate Change
... some impacts of global warming today, the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict with strong certainty that the problems will get worse for future generations. Even if we take concerted action immediately, we are already locked into major and damaging climate impacts, even ...
... some impacts of global warming today, the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predict with strong certainty that the problems will get worse for future generations. Even if we take concerted action immediately, we are already locked into major and damaging climate impacts, even ...
Forests of Borneo
... Sabah, and the largest part of Borneo (72,000 km2), belonging to Indonesia, is called Kalimantan. Borneo contains a wide variety of forest habitats, including mangroves, peat swamps and freshwater swamp forests, mixed dipterocarp forests, montane forests and forests on limestone and ultrabasic soils ...
... Sabah, and the largest part of Borneo (72,000 km2), belonging to Indonesia, is called Kalimantan. Borneo contains a wide variety of forest habitats, including mangroves, peat swamps and freshwater swamp forests, mixed dipterocarp forests, montane forests and forests on limestone and ultrabasic soils ...
Working Paper - University of Sussex
... standard errors report in Table 1, depict the 95% confidence interval. This is probably an underestimate of the true uncertainty, as experts tend to be overconfident and as the 27 estimates were derived by a group of researchers who know each other well. Taking the confidence interval at face value, ...
... standard errors report in Table 1, depict the 95% confidence interval. This is probably an underestimate of the true uncertainty, as experts tend to be overconfident and as the 27 estimates were derived by a group of researchers who know each other well. Taking the confidence interval at face value, ...
IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS)
... by-product of burning fossil fuels and biomass, as well as land-use changes and other industrial processes. It is the reference gas against which other green house gases are measured and therefore has a global warming potential. Henson (2006:24) cites that, “carbon dioxide, the chief offender, accou ...
... by-product of burning fossil fuels and biomass, as well as land-use changes and other industrial processes. It is the reference gas against which other green house gases are measured and therefore has a global warming potential. Henson (2006:24) cites that, “carbon dioxide, the chief offender, accou ...
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... particularly in large river basins such as Changjiang, is likely to decrease due to climate change, along with population growth and rising standards of living that could adversely affect more than a billion people by the 2050s. Projected sea-level rise is very likely to result in significant losses ...
... particularly in large river basins such as Changjiang, is likely to decrease due to climate change, along with population growth and rising standards of living that could adversely affect more than a billion people by the 2050s. Projected sea-level rise is very likely to result in significant losses ...
here - Cloudfront.net
... climate change is happening and want to do more to address climate change The effect of the zoo experience on climate change behaviors is mediated by three main factors: •Instrumentality (ability do be effective) •Concern (for animals, human health) •Certainty (that Climate Change is happening) ...
... climate change is happening and want to do more to address climate change The effect of the zoo experience on climate change behaviors is mediated by three main factors: •Instrumentality (ability do be effective) •Concern (for animals, human health) •Certainty (that Climate Change is happening) ...
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... deep ocean, at least, became highly corrosive to CaCO3. These same models applied to modern fossil fuel release project a substantial decline in surface water saturation state in the next century. So, there may be no precedent in Earth history for the type of disruption we might expect from the phen ...
... deep ocean, at least, became highly corrosive to CaCO3. These same models applied to modern fossil fuel release project a substantial decline in surface water saturation state in the next century. So, there may be no precedent in Earth history for the type of disruption we might expect from the phen ...
medieval warm period in south america
... were as warm then as they are currently, there is no need to consider the temperature increase of the past century as anything other than the natural progression of the persistent millennialscale oscillation of climate that regularly brings the earth several-hundred-year periods of modestly higher a ...
... were as warm then as they are currently, there is no need to consider the temperature increase of the past century as anything other than the natural progression of the persistent millennialscale oscillation of climate that regularly brings the earth several-hundred-year periods of modestly higher a ...
Identification of knowledge needs on climate policy
... 8TH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: C ONTRIBUTING TO DEEP DECARBONIZATION ...
... 8TH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON ENERGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: C ONTRIBUTING TO DEEP DECARBONIZATION ...
Report - The University of Texas at Austin
... equivalent decreased minimally in the first year because the temperature was far below the threshold where snowfall turns into rainfall (Figure 2a). As it warmed in the spring of the following year, the temperature rose to the threshold to turn what was snowfall before the warming to rainfall. The ...
... equivalent decreased minimally in the first year because the temperature was far below the threshold where snowfall turns into rainfall (Figure 2a). As it warmed in the spring of the following year, the temperature rose to the threshold to turn what was snowfall before the warming to rainfall. The ...
- MIT Press Journals
... GHG). A yet more remote possibility, which in principle should also be included, is heat-induced releases of the even-vaster offshore deposits of CH4 trapped in the form of hydrates (clathrates)—for which there is a decidedly nonzero probability of destabilized methane seeping into the atmosphere if ...
... GHG). A yet more remote possibility, which in principle should also be included, is heat-induced releases of the even-vaster offshore deposits of CH4 trapped in the form of hydrates (clathrates)—for which there is a decidedly nonzero probability of destabilized methane seeping into the atmosphere if ...
EThekwini - Urban Energy Support
... resultant mitigation spin-offs in terms of the buildings energy efficiency project, very little internal institutional momentum and knowledge was built around the issue of climate change per se. This was the result, in part, of the fact that the CCP campaign in South Africa did not offer the partici ...
... resultant mitigation spin-offs in terms of the buildings energy efficiency project, very little internal institutional momentum and knowledge was built around the issue of climate change per se. This was the result, in part, of the fact that the CCP campaign in South Africa did not offer the partici ...
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... This report focuses on the contribution of livestock to climate change. While this is only one of several aspects of environmental sustainability, it has been a question of particular interest and debate. In 2006, FAO published Livestock’s long shadow – Environmental issues and options that provided ...
... This report focuses on the contribution of livestock to climate change. While this is only one of several aspects of environmental sustainability, it has been a question of particular interest and debate. In 2006, FAO published Livestock’s long shadow – Environmental issues and options that provided ...
Introduction “The UN should take a series of steps to enhance links
... low understanding of the ability of disaster risk reduction for reducing climate impact and achieving sustainable development. According to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, one dollar in disaster risk reduction can save 4-7 dollars in disaster response and recovery. Mozambique’s succes ...
... low understanding of the ability of disaster risk reduction for reducing climate impact and achieving sustainable development. According to the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, one dollar in disaster risk reduction can save 4-7 dollars in disaster response and recovery. Mozambique’s succes ...
PPT
... • Development of a Registry Alliance Working Group with state participation and stakeholder feedback Winter 2006 – Fall 2007: • Phase I Implementation of Registry Alliance work plan ...
... • Development of a Registry Alliance Working Group with state participation and stakeholder feedback Winter 2006 – Fall 2007: • Phase I Implementation of Registry Alliance work plan ...
Biodiversity in the Eastern Himalayas
... people, who are dependent on the biological resources. Realising the importance of mountains as ecosystems of crucial significance, the Convention on Biological Diversity specifically developed a Programme of Work on Mountain Biodiversity in 2004 aimed at reducing the loss of mountain biological div ...
... people, who are dependent on the biological resources. Realising the importance of mountains as ecosystems of crucial significance, the Convention on Biological Diversity specifically developed a Programme of Work on Mountain Biodiversity in 2004 aimed at reducing the loss of mountain biological div ...
Coping with the uncertainties in the climate change adaptation of
... There has been a growing concern on the adaptation to the impact of climate change due to the recent overwhelming consensus on global warming. Since the occurrence of floods is highly susceptible to climatic condition, much attention should be put on the adaptation to the uncertain effect of climate ...
... There has been a growing concern on the adaptation to the impact of climate change due to the recent overwhelming consensus on global warming. Since the occurrence of floods is highly susceptible to climatic condition, much attention should be put on the adaptation to the uncertain effect of climate ...
Variability and Triggering Factors of Observed Global Mean Land
... precipitation sums are also grouped; one group consisting of precipitation sums higher than average, one with the precipitation sums lower or equal average. Based on this grouping a parameter-free consistency test can be performed which results in the significance of the statement “precipitation is ...
... precipitation sums are also grouped; one group consisting of precipitation sums higher than average, one with the precipitation sums lower or equal average. Based on this grouping a parameter-free consistency test can be performed which results in the significance of the statement “precipitation is ...
potential economic value of carbon sequestration
... the possibility of using forests as a means of sequestering and reducing emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. As globally important storehouses of carbon, forests play a critical role in influencing the Earth's climate. Reducing GHGs can be achieved by controlling and avoiding land use cha ...
... the possibility of using forests as a means of sequestering and reducing emissions of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. As globally important storehouses of carbon, forests play a critical role in influencing the Earth's climate. Reducing GHGs can be achieved by controlling and avoiding land use cha ...
Evaluating the climate and air quality impacts of short
... on these RF calculations, the Global Temperature change Potential metric for a time horizon of 20 years (GTP20 ) was calculated for each SLCP emission type. This climate metric was then used in an integrated assessment model to identify all emission mitigation measures with a beneficial air quality ...
... on these RF calculations, the Global Temperature change Potential metric for a time horizon of 20 years (GTP20 ) was calculated for each SLCP emission type. This climate metric was then used in an integrated assessment model to identify all emission mitigation measures with a beneficial air quality ...
No Regrets Charter
... The latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) world climate report emphasises the likelihood of global temperature increases in excess of two degrees. It states that sea levels are rising more rapidly than had previously been predicted. Even if we can stay within the threshold of a two ...
... The latest IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) world climate report emphasises the likelihood of global temperature increases in excess of two degrees. It states that sea levels are rising more rapidly than had previously been predicted. Even if we can stay within the threshold of a two ...
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.""