Impacts of global warming on arctic pelagic ecosystems and pelagic
... THE ARCTIC has an important, but so far inadequately known role on the climate of the globe. Recent observational studies have revealed significant reductions in Arctic sea-ice cover and thickness and increased air and ocean temperatures, indicating that we may already be seeing the early warning si ...
... THE ARCTIC has an important, but so far inadequately known role on the climate of the globe. Recent observational studies have revealed significant reductions in Arctic sea-ice cover and thickness and increased air and ocean temperatures, indicating that we may already be seeing the early warning si ...
CLIMATE IMPACTS ON TOURISM IN SPAIN
... in July or August and thus they may affect the tourism activity just in the high season. Summer temperatures in Spain has increased in the last 50 years (Fig. 2) and further, more intensive increase is projected with the progress of climate change (Cattiaux et al. 2012, Déqué et al., 2012, etc.). He ...
... in July or August and thus they may affect the tourism activity just in the high season. Summer temperatures in Spain has increased in the last 50 years (Fig. 2) and further, more intensive increase is projected with the progress of climate change (Cattiaux et al. 2012, Déqué et al., 2012, etc.). He ...
Climate Change: Law, Policy, and Business
... PM (i.e. right before class) on the days they are due. You may write your term paper on whatever interests you, as long as it has something to do with law, business, and climate change. It should be somewhere in the 5000-6000 word range, but I’d welcome shorter or longer papers if appropriate. (What ...
... PM (i.e. right before class) on the days they are due. You may write your term paper on whatever interests you, as long as it has something to do with law, business, and climate change. It should be somewhere in the 5000-6000 word range, but I’d welcome shorter or longer papers if appropriate. (What ...
Responses to Changing Atmosphere and Climate
... scales of 2.5⬚ ⫻ 3.25⬚ are applied to the region of interest using one of many downscaling methods that provide increased spatial resolution (Houghton et al. 2001; Pan et al. 2001; Leung et al. 2003; Salathe 2003; Wood et al. 2004). There are significant uncertainties at each step of such an analysi ...
... scales of 2.5⬚ ⫻ 3.25⬚ are applied to the region of interest using one of many downscaling methods that provide increased spatial resolution (Houghton et al. 2001; Pan et al. 2001; Leung et al. 2003; Salathe 2003; Wood et al. 2004). There are significant uncertainties at each step of such an analysi ...
Climate Change and Greenhouse Emissions Reduction Act 2007
... The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: ...
... The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: ...
Global Cryosphere Watch - Byrd Polar Research Center
... • IPCC WG 1 and 2 reports highlighted for first time importance of the cryosphere, observed changes of some elements of global cryosphere and potential impacts on societies and countries; • the development of the conceptual framework for the Cryosphere Observing System (CryOS) • ACIA and ICARPII ide ...
... • IPCC WG 1 and 2 reports highlighted for first time importance of the cryosphere, observed changes of some elements of global cryosphere and potential impacts on societies and countries; • the development of the conceptual framework for the Cryosphere Observing System (CryOS) • ACIA and ICARPII ide ...
Marine Ecosystem
... Figure3. Comparisonof paleoenvironmentalrecordsfrom the AntarcticPeninsularegionwith differenttemporalresolutionsand duration.Theblueandpinkshadingrepresentcool andwarmperiods,respectively.Fromleftto right,resolutionof the recordincreases andits durationdecreases.The LallemandFjordrecord(Shevenellet ...
... Figure3. Comparisonof paleoenvironmentalrecordsfrom the AntarcticPeninsularegionwith differenttemporalresolutionsand duration.Theblueandpinkshadingrepresentcool andwarmperiods,respectively.Fromleftto right,resolutionof the recordincreases andits durationdecreases.The LallemandFjordrecord(Shevenellet ...
Water requirements for clover and cotton under climate change
... irrigation so that it does not limit plant growth and crop yield. Furthermore, in estimating crop water requirements, efficiency of the irrigation system should be taken into account. ETc accounts for variations in weather and offers a measure of the "evaporative demand" of the atmosphere. Whereas, ...
... irrigation so that it does not limit plant growth and crop yield. Furthermore, in estimating crop water requirements, efficiency of the irrigation system should be taken into account. ETc accounts for variations in weather and offers a measure of the "evaporative demand" of the atmosphere. Whereas, ...
Atmospheric Circulations Do Not Explain the Temperature
... claim. Tests for outlier influence, spatial autocorrelation, endogeneity bias, residual nonlinearity and other problems are discussed. KEYWORDS: global warming, data quality, industrialization, spatial autocorrelation Author Notes: I thank Werner Antweiler and Glen Waddell for assistance in the econ ...
... claim. Tests for outlier influence, spatial autocorrelation, endogeneity bias, residual nonlinearity and other problems are discussed. KEYWORDS: global warming, data quality, industrialization, spatial autocorrelation Author Notes: I thank Werner Antweiler and Glen Waddell for assistance in the econ ...
Kyoto and Beyond - European Business Council for Sustainable
... The IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) (IPCC, 2001 a) highlighted the following observed changes in climate indicators: • The global average surface temperature has increased over the 20th century by about 0.6°C. Globally, it is very likely that the 1990s was the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest ...
... The IPCC Third Assessment Report (TAR) (IPCC, 2001 a) highlighted the following observed changes in climate indicators: • The global average surface temperature has increased over the 20th century by about 0.6°C. Globally, it is very likely that the 1990s was the warmest decade and 1998 the warmest ...
The Strategy of Chinese Insurance Industry to Address Global Climate Change
... issued a "weather conditions in 2009," the report noted that over the past 30 years, average global surface and lower troposphere temperatures significantly higher than in previous decades, from 2000 to 2009 is the warmest since instrumental records 10 years. Warming in the Northern Hemisphere, espe ...
... issued a "weather conditions in 2009," the report noted that over the past 30 years, average global surface and lower troposphere temperatures significantly higher than in previous decades, from 2000 to 2009 is the warmest since instrumental records 10 years. Warming in the Northern Hemisphere, espe ...
The Ivory Lighthouse: communicating climate change
... change and negotiating actions such as limiting greenhouse gas emissions. The social sciences and humanities have a much larger role to play in understanding what ...
... change and negotiating actions such as limiting greenhouse gas emissions. The social sciences and humanities have a much larger role to play in understanding what ...
Simulating effects of land use changes on carbon fluxes: past
... sink capacity reduced compared to area covered by forests (Gitz and Ciais, 2004). This limitation can be overcome by endogenous modelling of LULUC processes based on spatially explicit land use maps. Previous global studies taking this approach used terrestrial models either forced by prescribed cli ...
... sink capacity reduced compared to area covered by forests (Gitz and Ciais, 2004). This limitation can be overcome by endogenous modelling of LULUC processes based on spatially explicit land use maps. Previous global studies taking this approach used terrestrial models either forced by prescribed cli ...
Climate change, threat multiplier and internal conflicts in Northeast
... The proposition that environmental degradation is or should be a security concern is no longer a novelty in the non-traditional security agenda. Put broadly, environmental security falls within two sometimes competing approaches to non-traditional security (other terms include new security, transnat ...
... The proposition that environmental degradation is or should be a security concern is no longer a novelty in the non-traditional security agenda. Put broadly, environmental security falls within two sometimes competing approaches to non-traditional security (other terms include new security, transnat ...
CLIMATE CHANGE
... adaptation” would be the installation of seawalls to curb intensifying shoreline erosion in some low-lying coastal villages. There are also examples of “anticipatory adaptation” being implemented in the region. This type of adaptation focuses on “anticipating” and reducing the impacts of future clim ...
... adaptation” would be the installation of seawalls to curb intensifying shoreline erosion in some low-lying coastal villages. There are also examples of “anticipatory adaptation” being implemented in the region. This type of adaptation focuses on “anticipating” and reducing the impacts of future clim ...
Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme
... infrastructure planning. Adopt a range of water harvesting techniques, such as low-cost groundwater recharge methods, efficient irrigation systems and ...
... infrastructure planning. Adopt a range of water harvesting techniques, such as low-cost groundwater recharge methods, efficient irrigation systems and ...
- Divecha Centre for Climate Change
... Predictors selected: 2m surface air temperature, MSLP, geopotential height at 500 hPa and surface specific humidity ...
... Predictors selected: 2m surface air temperature, MSLP, geopotential height at 500 hPa and surface specific humidity ...
Infosylva 22/2010
... carbon emitters. The reason: it has one of the world's fastest rates of deforestation, mainly for palm oil production. As trees are felled, the carbon stored in them and the soil is released into the atmosphere. Indonesia eyeing $1bn climate aid to cut down forests, says Greenpeace Vague legal defin ...
... carbon emitters. The reason: it has one of the world's fastest rates of deforestation, mainly for palm oil production. As trees are felled, the carbon stored in them and the soil is released into the atmosphere. Indonesia eyeing $1bn climate aid to cut down forests, says Greenpeace Vague legal defin ...
Impact of climate change on infectious diseases of animals
... 4.1. Climate change in the Arctic 4.1.1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4; 17 Nov. 2007, http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessmentreport/ar4/syr/ar4_syr.pdf) provides an integrated view of climate change. There is now major consensus of ongoing global ...
... 4.1. Climate change in the Arctic 4.1.1. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) The IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4; 17 Nov. 2007, http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessmentreport/ar4/syr/ar4_syr.pdf) provides an integrated view of climate change. There is now major consensus of ongoing global ...
The Reinforced Strategy for Europe
... - Provide a framework that enables local governments to integrate climate protection and resilience policies with actions that address immediate municipal concerns such as cost reduction, urban infrastructure improvements, pollution control, enhanced community liveability and bio-diversity. - Encour ...
... - Provide a framework that enables local governments to integrate climate protection and resilience policies with actions that address immediate municipal concerns such as cost reduction, urban infrastructure improvements, pollution control, enhanced community liveability and bio-diversity. - Encour ...
Mr. President, His Excellency and other heads of delegations, Good
... The Philippines may have fallen victim this early, but we will all eventually become victims of climate change. We do not wish to happen to anyone what happened in our country, but these can happen to you too. And hopefully these events, not only in the Philippines but in other countries as well, wi ...
... The Philippines may have fallen victim this early, but we will all eventually become victims of climate change. We do not wish to happen to anyone what happened in our country, but these can happen to you too. And hopefully these events, not only in the Philippines but in other countries as well, wi ...
What is causing rapid change in the Arctic at the moment?
... additional black carbon (BC), emitted and hence deposited on snow and ice, could decrease albedo and speed up melting. A study led by researchers at the University of Leeds brought together Arctic shipping inventories for 2004, projected inventories for 2050 and a global aerosol model and found that ...
... additional black carbon (BC), emitted and hence deposited on snow and ice, could decrease albedo and speed up melting. A study led by researchers at the University of Leeds brought together Arctic shipping inventories for 2004, projected inventories for 2050 and a global aerosol model and found that ...
Million Species
... 11\ 1,IIIdpm disturbance events (e.g., epidemics, severe storms) with a IIi "wl/lIl"m bilur<.: to recover to a viable population (Blois and Hadly, '( 1)')), !\ C()llJlllOllly cited g<': llcralization is that larger-bodied verte 1".1 11" , (w il'll I'he L'xtrctne rccwr t()rm being the Quaternary meg ...
... 11\ 1,IIIdpm disturbance events (e.g., epidemics, severe storms) with a IIi "wl/lIl"m bilur<.: to recover to a viable population (Blois and Hadly, '( 1)')), !\ C()llJlllOllly cited g<': llcralization is that larger-bodied verte 1".1 11" , (w il'll I'he L'xtrctne rccwr t()rm being the Quaternary meg ...
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.""