Examination of an Emerging Concept to Mitigate Climate Change
... over the last few years. Biochar is similar in appearance to potting soil or to a charred substance, depending on the feedstock (Figure 1). Modern biochar production is based on an ancient Amazon technique for creating a nutrient-rich soil, terra preta. As a charcoal containing high levels of organi ...
... over the last few years. Biochar is similar in appearance to potting soil or to a charred substance, depending on the feedstock (Figure 1). Modern biochar production is based on an ancient Amazon technique for creating a nutrient-rich soil, terra preta. As a charcoal containing high levels of organi ...
Mid-Holocene monsoons - Macquarie University ResearchOnline
... North America, northern Africa and China; ocean feedbacks amplify this response and lead to further increase in monsoon precipitation in these three regions. The atmospheric response to reduced summer insolation at 6 ka in the southern subtropics weakens the southern-hemisphere summer monsoons and l ...
... North America, northern Africa and China; ocean feedbacks amplify this response and lead to further increase in monsoon precipitation in these three regions. The atmospheric response to reduced summer insolation at 6 ka in the southern subtropics weakens the southern-hemisphere summer monsoons and l ...
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... decades, the permafrost is thawing and the sea ice has been thinner and the extent of the summer sea ice reduced since satellite observations started in the 70-ties. Combined effects with Short Lived Climate Forces (black carbon, ozone, etc.) and feedback mechanisms (reduced albedo and increased hea ...
... decades, the permafrost is thawing and the sea ice has been thinner and the extent of the summer sea ice reduced since satellite observations started in the 70-ties. Combined effects with Short Lived Climate Forces (black carbon, ozone, etc.) and feedback mechanisms (reduced albedo and increased hea ...
Climate, Community and Biodiversity Project Design Standards SECOND EDITION
... effects of human-induced climate change on ecosystems, productivity and the global economy. These impacts, which are expected to worsen in the coming decades, will fall disproportionately on the world’s most vulnerable people and ecosystems. Poor communities often rely on natural resources but lack ...
... effects of human-induced climate change on ecosystems, productivity and the global economy. These impacts, which are expected to worsen in the coming decades, will fall disproportionately on the world’s most vulnerable people and ecosystems. Poor communities often rely on natural resources but lack ...
Chapter 6: Glaciers in the Western US
... A glacier is a large mass of ice (usually covered by snow) that is heavy enough to flow like a very thick fluid. Glaciers form in areas where more snow accumulates than is lost each year. As new snow accumulates, it buries and compresses old snow, transforming it from a fluffy mass of snowflakes int ...
... A glacier is a large mass of ice (usually covered by snow) that is heavy enough to flow like a very thick fluid. Glaciers form in areas where more snow accumulates than is lost each year. As new snow accumulates, it buries and compresses old snow, transforming it from a fluffy mass of snowflakes int ...
Coral reef ecosystems and anthropogenic climate change
... systems as a result of the activities of calcifying organisms that live in and around coral reefs. Some of the most prominent organisms in this regard are the reef-building corals, which belong to the order Scleractinia within the Class Anthozoa and the Phylum Cnidaria. Reef-building corals form a m ...
... systems as a result of the activities of calcifying organisms that live in and around coral reefs. Some of the most prominent organisms in this regard are the reef-building corals, which belong to the order Scleractinia within the Class Anthozoa and the Phylum Cnidaria. Reef-building corals form a m ...
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... understanding of the term “ecological flow” by its member states [3]. Modifications of natural flow regimes through water management measures, as well as overexploitation, invasion by exotic species and water pollution, have already caused considerable destruction or degradation of riverine habitats ...
... understanding of the term “ecological flow” by its member states [3]. Modifications of natural flow regimes through water management measures, as well as overexploitation, invasion by exotic species and water pollution, have already caused considerable destruction or degradation of riverine habitats ...
Building resilience to climate-related shocks: farmers` vulnerability to
... 2011; Vincent and Cull 2014). Thus, the occurrence of climate shocks and extreme climatic events such as floods, droughts, strong winds, heat waves, earthquakes, hurricanes is widespread. However, it is not easy to attribute any extreme weather event and climate shock to a change in the climate, as ...
... 2011; Vincent and Cull 2014). Thus, the occurrence of climate shocks and extreme climatic events such as floods, droughts, strong winds, heat waves, earthquakes, hurricanes is widespread. However, it is not easy to attribute any extreme weather event and climate shock to a change in the climate, as ...
SoG for Climate Applications
... minimum of three months of data at the shortest-available recovery period (hourly or one minute data) should be logged on-site, and 12 months for a GCOS site. This reflects the fact that data loss is a serious problem for climate, and it may take some months to recover data from a remote site. This ...
... minimum of three months of data at the shortest-available recovery period (hourly or one minute data) should be logged on-site, and 12 months for a GCOS site. This reflects the fact that data loss is a serious problem for climate, and it may take some months to recover data from a remote site. This ...
Energy Partisanship - Scholarship Repository
... opposed are labeled “members of the Flat Earth Society.” Set against these dysfunctional climate and energy politics, how can progress be made? For people who accept the science of climate change, this has become a critical question. An emerging body of psychological research indicates that strategi ...
... opposed are labeled “members of the Flat Earth Society.” Set against these dysfunctional climate and energy politics, how can progress be made? For people who accept the science of climate change, this has become a critical question. An emerging body of psychological research indicates that strategi ...
Turn Down the Heat - Open Knowledge Repository
... 4.7 Regional sea-level rise projections for 2081–2100 (relative to 1986–2005) under RCP8.5 4.8 Local sea-level rise above 1986–2005 mean level as a result of global climate change 4.9 Low elevation areas in the Vietnamese deltas 4.10 Population size against density distribution. 4.11 Pro ...
... 4.7 Regional sea-level rise projections for 2081–2100 (relative to 1986–2005) under RCP8.5 4.8 Local sea-level rise above 1986–2005 mean level as a result of global climate change 4.9 Low elevation areas in the Vietnamese deltas 4.10 Population size against density distribution. 4.11 Pro ...
3/97 - Population Health Sciences
... Initiated and led Special Colloquium on Land Use Change and Health, Held in Washington, June 2002. Founded the Program on Health Effects of Global Environmental Change at JHBSPH, 1996. Co-developed and taught first JHU course on Global Change and Human Health, piloted Spring semester, 1997. The cour ...
... Initiated and led Special Colloquium on Land Use Change and Health, Held in Washington, June 2002. Founded the Program on Health Effects of Global Environmental Change at JHBSPH, 1996. Co-developed and taught first JHU course on Global Change and Human Health, piloted Spring semester, 1997. The cour ...
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... between adaptation capital investments (e.g., sea walls) and ‡ow expenditures (e.g., increased fertilizer usage). However, as discussed below, my results con…rm that I additionally need to di¤erentiate between adaptive capacity to reduce climate change impacts on production (e.g., in agriculture) an ...
... between adaptation capital investments (e.g., sea walls) and ‡ow expenditures (e.g., increased fertilizer usage). However, as discussed below, my results con…rm that I additionally need to di¤erentiate between adaptive capacity to reduce climate change impacts on production (e.g., in agriculture) an ...
Visual Images and the Rhetoric of Environmental Advocacy
... While making visible the potential risks of climate change is necessary to Greenpeace’s advocacy campaigns, this alone may not be enough to encourage the public to take actions to address the issue. I argue that images taken of Greenpeace image campaigns appeal to news media’s attraction to the nov ...
... While making visible the potential risks of climate change is necessary to Greenpeace’s advocacy campaigns, this alone may not be enough to encourage the public to take actions to address the issue. I argue that images taken of Greenpeace image campaigns appeal to news media’s attraction to the nov ...
The Steady-State Atmospheric Circulation
... anthropogenic forcing: enhanced warming in the tropical troposphere (which mimics increased latent heating by condensation of water vapor in the free tropical troposphere), enhanced cooling in the polar stratosphere (which mimics the cooling associated with polar ozone depletion), and enhanced warmi ...
... anthropogenic forcing: enhanced warming in the tropical troposphere (which mimics increased latent heating by condensation of water vapor in the free tropical troposphere), enhanced cooling in the polar stratosphere (which mimics the cooling associated with polar ozone depletion), and enhanced warmi ...
Proposed NSF Center on Climate Decision Making Carnegie Mellon
... Part 1 become available, we will use them, along with the other sector-specific information we have developed, to begin to create a set of decision support tools that are appropriate given the limitations on the predictive information that we are likely to be able to acquire. As results become avail ...
... Part 1 become available, we will use them, along with the other sector-specific information we have developed, to begin to create a set of decision support tools that are appropriate given the limitations on the predictive information that we are likely to be able to acquire. As results become avail ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in Low‐Income Countries
... refereed journal project was launched at the “Conference on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-Income Countries,” May 18 - 19, 2011 in Washington, DC, organized by George Washington University (IIEP, Economics Department, and CISTP) in partnership with the World Bank (Development R ...
... refereed journal project was launched at the “Conference on the Economics of Adaptation to Climate Change in Low-Income Countries,” May 18 - 19, 2011 in Washington, DC, organized by George Washington University (IIEP, Economics Department, and CISTP) in partnership with the World Bank (Development R ...
Washing Away Our Heritage: The Impacts of Rising Sea
... spectrum of effects caused by the anthropogenicly caused warming of the Earth. Rising sea levels is just on offshoot of this event. Charleston and Boston were chosen as case studies for this thesis for a number of reasons. First, it would be almost impossible under the time constraints given to com ...
... spectrum of effects caused by the anthropogenicly caused warming of the Earth. Rising sea levels is just on offshoot of this event. Charleston and Boston were chosen as case studies for this thesis for a number of reasons. First, it would be almost impossible under the time constraints given to com ...
Adapting to climate change in The Netherlands: an inventory of
... in which adaptation takes place, including the factors that determine the capacity of the country or system to adapt”. By involving local stakeholders and experts in the development of a national adaptation strategy the gap between the top-down and bottom-up approaches to adaptation can be bridged, ...
... in which adaptation takes place, including the factors that determine the capacity of the country or system to adapt”. By involving local stakeholders and experts in the development of a national adaptation strategy the gap between the top-down and bottom-up approaches to adaptation can be bridged, ...
Regional Climate Information – Evaluation and Projections
... performance, although greatly depending on the methodological implementation and application. Simulation of climate change for the late decades of the 21st century Climate means The following conclusions are based on seasonal mean patterns at sub-continental scales emerging from current AOGCM simula ...
... performance, although greatly depending on the methodological implementation and application. Simulation of climate change for the late decades of the 21st century Climate means The following conclusions are based on seasonal mean patterns at sub-continental scales emerging from current AOGCM simula ...
Do Not Cite, Quote, or Distribute IPCC WGII AR5 Chapter 7
... The chapter presents a very interesting analysis of likely climate change effecst on various food production systems. The discussion of literature on direct effects of climate change on crop yields and other food production systems is extensive and covers all important crops and regions. In contrast ...
... The chapter presents a very interesting analysis of likely climate change effecst on various food production systems. The discussion of literature on direct effects of climate change on crop yields and other food production systems is extensive and covers all important crops and regions. In contrast ...
Directory of finance sources for climate change mitigation in
... This directory was prepared at the request of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) to contribute to research outcomes in low emissions agriculture. CCAFS and its partners have been supporting research for the development of low emissions paddy rice, liv ...
... This directory was prepared at the request of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) to contribute to research outcomes in low emissions agriculture. CCAFS and its partners have been supporting research for the development of low emissions paddy rice, liv ...
High Resolution Version - American Meteorological Society
... ABSTRACT—Stephanie C. Herring, Martin P. Hoerling, James P. Kossin, Thomas C. Peterson, and Peter A. Stott Understanding how long-term global change affects the intensity and likelihood of extreme weather events is a frontier science challenge. This fourth edition of explaining extreme events of th ...
... ABSTRACT—Stephanie C. Herring, Martin P. Hoerling, James P. Kossin, Thomas C. Peterson, and Peter A. Stott Understanding how long-term global change affects the intensity and likelihood of extreme weather events is a frontier science challenge. This fourth edition of explaining extreme events of th ...
solas 2015-2025 - Surface Ocean
... In 2004, the Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) was established to provide international science coordination and capacity building whose objective was: To achieve quantitative understanding of the key biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and the atmosphere, ...
... In 2004, the Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) was established to provide international science coordination and capacity building whose objective was: To achieve quantitative understanding of the key biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and the atmosphere, ...
the compendium of adaptation models for climate
... Adaptation models and tools have the ability to weigh many interacting factors to better understand the sensitivities and consequences of many driving forces, especially under climate change. Several different types of decision models currently contain only modest options for adaptation. In contrast ...
... Adaptation models and tools have the ability to weigh many interacting factors to better understand the sensitivities and consequences of many driving forces, especially under climate change. Several different types of decision models currently contain only modest options for adaptation. In contrast ...
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.""