International Center for El Niño Research (CIIFEN)
... 4. Communitarian capacity building through educational campaigns to promote the balanced combination between traditional climate knowledge and new climate information provided by National Meteorological Services and other operational agencies(fig. 4). The activities of CIIFEN contribute directly to ...
... 4. Communitarian capacity building through educational campaigns to promote the balanced combination between traditional climate knowledge and new climate information provided by National Meteorological Services and other operational agencies(fig. 4). The activities of CIIFEN contribute directly to ...
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... continent and brought with them ideas and plants and animals from Europe, nothing fitted very well. The success of subsequent Australian agriculture was very much a story of the success of innovation with a large science component. Australian agriculture has been successful over a long period becaus ...
... continent and brought with them ideas and plants and animals from Europe, nothing fitted very well. The success of subsequent Australian agriculture was very much a story of the success of innovation with a large science component. Australian agriculture has been successful over a long period becaus ...
Effects of Climate Change on Human Health
... surface annual mean warming is in the range of 1.5-3.0 °C for B2 and 3.0-4.5 °C for A2. Meanwhile the SEA maritime surface annual mean warming is 0.5-1.5 °C for B2 and 2.0-3.5 °C for A2. Both the B2 and A2 scenarios show the highest increase in mean annual temperature to occur over western Sumatra, ...
... surface annual mean warming is in the range of 1.5-3.0 °C for B2 and 3.0-4.5 °C for A2. Meanwhile the SEA maritime surface annual mean warming is 0.5-1.5 °C for B2 and 2.0-3.5 °C for A2. Both the B2 and A2 scenarios show the highest increase in mean annual temperature to occur over western Sumatra, ...
The GEO initiative on Carbon and Greenhouse Gases
... “GEO will supply the requisite Earth observations in support of effective policy responses for climate change adaptation, mitigation and other impacts across the SBAs.” ...
... “GEO will supply the requisite Earth observations in support of effective policy responses for climate change adaptation, mitigation and other impacts across the SBAs.” ...
Chapter 8 * Dynamics of Climate Change
... of thermohaline circulation by altering ocean salinity. Warming temperatures increase the rate at which ice melts, which can lead to an increase in fresh water that lowers salinity in northern oceans. At the same time, global warming increases the rate of evaporation, which can lead to an increase i ...
... of thermohaline circulation by altering ocean salinity. Warming temperatures increase the rate at which ice melts, which can lead to an increase in fresh water that lowers salinity in northern oceans. At the same time, global warming increases the rate of evaporation, which can lead to an increase i ...
Brazil`s indigenous tribes
... The study reveals that strengthening community forest rights is a low cost strategy to preserve at least 37 billion tonnes of carbon “safely stored” around the world. It is, according to Andy White, president of the RRI and one of the leading experts on this topic, an effective policy approach to mi ...
... The study reveals that strengthening community forest rights is a low cost strategy to preserve at least 37 billion tonnes of carbon “safely stored” around the world. It is, according to Andy White, president of the RRI and one of the leading experts on this topic, an effective policy approach to mi ...
Climate Change and Development
... Source: Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) “Enhancing the climate risk and adaption fact base for the Caribbean” (preliminary results of ECA study) August 2010 ...
... Source: Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) “Enhancing the climate risk and adaption fact base for the Caribbean” (preliminary results of ECA study) August 2010 ...
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... locations owing to their small size and highly maritime climates, which means that their concerns and information needs in relation to future climate change differ in many ways from those of the larger continental regions that are addressed in SREX chapter 3. • The small land area and often low elev ...
... locations owing to their small size and highly maritime climates, which means that their concerns and information needs in relation to future climate change differ in many ways from those of the larger continental regions that are addressed in SREX chapter 3. • The small land area and often low elev ...
Climate Modeling, Projections, Predictions and Downscaling
... of downscaled regional climate projections for most land regions of the world for use in impact-adaptation-vulnerability research CORDEX has developed regionally-specific, locally-led evaluation and analysis teams, with coupled capacity building and training activities e.g. Africa CORDEX WCRP/START ...
... of downscaled regional climate projections for most land regions of the world for use in impact-adaptation-vulnerability research CORDEX has developed regionally-specific, locally-led evaluation and analysis teams, with coupled capacity building and training activities e.g. Africa CORDEX WCRP/START ...
Northern Alaska is warming
... • How much temperatures rise later in the century depends strongly on global emissions choices, with increases of 5 to 8ºF projected with a lower-emissions scenario, and increases of 8 to 13ºF with a higher-emissions scenario. Climate models also project increases in precipitation over Alaska. • Sim ...
... • How much temperatures rise later in the century depends strongly on global emissions choices, with increases of 5 to 8ºF projected with a lower-emissions scenario, and increases of 8 to 13ºF with a higher-emissions scenario. Climate models also project increases in precipitation over Alaska. • Sim ...
Ameliorating the effects of climate change: Modifying microclimates
... Manhattan was under a massive sheet of ice. You can see the evidence in glacial grooves and erratics in the middle of Central Park. The Earth’s climate has varied a lot over time; it has been much warmer and also much colder than it is today. To complicate things, there is now compelling evidence th ...
... Manhattan was under a massive sheet of ice. You can see the evidence in glacial grooves and erratics in the middle of Central Park. The Earth’s climate has varied a lot over time; it has been much warmer and also much colder than it is today. To complicate things, there is now compelling evidence th ...
Climate Change: The Move to Action
... Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate • In general, similar to IPCC AR4 and IPCC SREX results. • Specific to North America. ...
... Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate • In general, similar to IPCC AR4 and IPCC SREX results. • Specific to North America. ...
Ten Overlooked Issues in the IPCC and US National Assessments of Climate Change
... climate model that reproduces the observed change in global air temperature over the last 50 years, but fails to quantitatively reproduce the observed change in ocean heat content, cannot be correct. The PCM has a relatively low sensitivity (less anthropogenic impact on climate) and captures both th ...
... climate model that reproduces the observed change in global air temperature over the last 50 years, but fails to quantitatively reproduce the observed change in ocean heat content, cannot be correct. The PCM has a relatively low sensitivity (less anthropogenic impact on climate) and captures both th ...
Climate change, fires, and carbon aerosol over N. America
... • Regressions of annual area burned in western US capture 50-57% of interannual variablity. Temperature and fuel moisture are best predictors. • Using GISS GCM output, forest fire emissions of OC predicted to increase by 50% by 2045-2055 (over 1995-2004) resulting in mean summertime OC to increase b ...
... • Regressions of annual area burned in western US capture 50-57% of interannual variablity. Temperature and fuel moisture are best predictors. • Using GISS GCM output, forest fire emissions of OC predicted to increase by 50% by 2045-2055 (over 1995-2004) resulting in mean summertime OC to increase b ...
Multicentury Changes to the Global Climate and Carbon Cycle
... fuel resources were released to the atmosphere. By the year 2300, the global climate warms by about 8 K and atmospheric CO2 reaches 1423 ppmv. The warming is higher than anticipated because the sensitivity to radiative forcing increases as the simulation progresses. In this simulation, the rate of e ...
... fuel resources were released to the atmosphere. By the year 2300, the global climate warms by about 8 K and atmospheric CO2 reaches 1423 ppmv. The warming is higher than anticipated because the sensitivity to radiative forcing increases as the simulation progresses. In this simulation, the rate of e ...
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... • By 2080, London will be between 2C and 6C hotter than it is now, Every part of the UK is likely to be wetter in winter and drier in summer, according to the projections. • Summer rainfall could decrease by about 20% in the south of England and in Yorkshire and Humberside by the middle of the centu ...
... • By 2080, London will be between 2C and 6C hotter than it is now, Every part of the UK is likely to be wetter in winter and drier in summer, according to the projections. • Summer rainfall could decrease by about 20% in the south of England and in Yorkshire and Humberside by the middle of the centu ...
Update on the International Context, IPCC 2100 goal, and road to
... 4. On-the-ground support for NAMA design, in-country workshops 5. Global dialogues, policy lunches for negotiators ...
... 4. On-the-ground support for NAMA design, in-country workshops 5. Global dialogues, policy lunches for negotiators ...
Hilal Elver
... national policy agenda. There was one recent article in the New York Times (October 25), as well as some mention of this development in alternative media outlets, including the internet. After the third TV debate on foreign policy, Al Gore, a long-time politician and environmentalist, asked on Twitt ...
... national policy agenda. There was one recent article in the New York Times (October 25), as well as some mention of this development in alternative media outlets, including the internet. After the third TV debate on foreign policy, Al Gore, a long-time politician and environmentalist, asked on Twitt ...
Coral Reefs and Environmental Change
... course the special values humans place on while projections suggest a rise in the next particular reefs and ecosystems as protec- 100 years of about 15 to 95 cm (IPCC, tive barriers, tourist attractions, breeding 1996, Chapter 7). grounds for fisheries, and so on. Thus expected rates of temperature ...
... course the special values humans place on while projections suggest a rise in the next particular reefs and ecosystems as protec- 100 years of about 15 to 95 cm (IPCC, tive barriers, tourist attractions, breeding 1996, Chapter 7). grounds for fisheries, and so on. Thus expected rates of temperature ...
Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change through
... materials usually results in less GHG emissions over a product’s life cycle. High levels of energy and materials consumption in industrialized countries are the driving force behind the decline in virtually all major life support systems on Planet Earth. Over the last decade, Sheehan (2000), an incr ...
... materials usually results in less GHG emissions over a product’s life cycle. High levels of energy and materials consumption in industrialized countries are the driving force behind the decline in virtually all major life support systems on Planet Earth. Over the last decade, Sheehan (2000), an incr ...
1To the Secretary of State for Business
... other life-forms cannot be overestimated. We write to you especially about the link between coal extraction and its use in power plants. If all of the international plans for mines and coal-fired power plants for the next five years actually results in their use, then limiting the temperature increa ...
... other life-forms cannot be overestimated. We write to you especially about the link between coal extraction and its use in power plants. If all of the international plans for mines and coal-fired power plants for the next five years actually results in their use, then limiting the temperature increa ...
Climate change and tree responses in Central European forests
... referring to species occurrences as baseline data and are most often used to project species range shifts under various climate change scenarios (e.g., Elith et al. 2006). Two applications are presented in this special issue. By means of ensemble distribution models, Vacchiano and Motta (2015) proje ...
... referring to species occurrences as baseline data and are most often used to project species range shifts under various climate change scenarios (e.g., Elith et al. 2006). Two applications are presented in this special issue. By means of ensemble distribution models, Vacchiano and Motta (2015) proje ...
Climate Change Policy: Mixing Politics and Uncertainty
... greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will be the equivalent of having doubled the amount of carbon dioxide since the year 1860. This could cause the earth's surface temperature to rise from between one and five degrees centigrade (two to nine degrees Fahrenheit). To me, this is and should be a very fr ...
... greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will be the equivalent of having doubled the amount of carbon dioxide since the year 1860. This could cause the earth's surface temperature to rise from between one and five degrees centigrade (two to nine degrees Fahrenheit). To me, this is and should be a very fr ...
Environment Sustainabilty Approach Capiel HV Part C The
... It is important to underline that SF6 gas is used not only in electrical industry but also in aluminium and magnesium foundries, tires inflating, semiconductors industry, as tracer gas for meteorological measurements, sport shoes, noiseinsulated windows, etc. In the case of most non-electric applica ...
... It is important to underline that SF6 gas is used not only in electrical industry but also in aluminium and magnesium foundries, tires inflating, semiconductors industry, as tracer gas for meteorological measurements, sport shoes, noiseinsulated windows, etc. In the case of most non-electric applica ...
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.""