Introduction to Weather and Climate
... b. Rainbows, halos, glories, mirages, and other common phenomena Air masses, cyclonic systems, and severe storms a. Air mass source regions, classification, and weather b. development, vertical structure, spatial distribution, classification, and weather associated with: 1) Mid-latitude cyclones 2) ...
... b. Rainbows, halos, glories, mirages, and other common phenomena Air masses, cyclonic systems, and severe storms a. Air mass source regions, classification, and weather b. development, vertical structure, spatial distribution, classification, and weather associated with: 1) Mid-latitude cyclones 2) ...
Whereas, the scientific basis for global warming is indisputable and
... environmental and climate justice, will continue to engage in active solidarity with allied organizations to resist fossil fuel interests and specific “extreme energy” projects, like Keystone XL and other pipelines, deep sea drilling, tar sands extraction, hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), new cons ...
... environmental and climate justice, will continue to engage in active solidarity with allied organizations to resist fossil fuel interests and specific “extreme energy” projects, like Keystone XL and other pipelines, deep sea drilling, tar sands extraction, hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”), new cons ...
Template Resolution Language
... WHEREAS: Low-income communities and communities of color are disproportionately affected by climate change and existing inequities in chronic disease rates and socioeconomic conditions, such as poverty or lack of access to healthy foods or parks, can increase vulnerability to climate change health i ...
... WHEREAS: Low-income communities and communities of color are disproportionately affected by climate change and existing inequities in chronic disease rates and socioeconomic conditions, such as poverty or lack of access to healthy foods or parks, can increase vulnerability to climate change health i ...
Glimpsing Western Australia`s future climate
... Figure 2: Best estimate (50th percentile of model projections) for Western Australian annual mean temperature change (°C) for 2030, 2050 and 2070 using low, medium and high greenhouse gas emission scenarios. ...
... Figure 2: Best estimate (50th percentile of model projections) for Western Australian annual mean temperature change (°C) for 2030, 2050 and 2070 using low, medium and high greenhouse gas emission scenarios. ...
Biogeophysical versus biogeochemical feedbacks of large
... evaluate the synergism between biogeophysical and biogeochemical contributions (XPC = DPC + CNTL -DP -DC). The contribution factors resulting from the factor-separation analysis are listed in Table 1. The biogeophysical contribution to changes in global and regional temperatures are negative, i.e., ...
... evaluate the synergism between biogeophysical and biogeochemical contributions (XPC = DPC + CNTL -DP -DC). The contribution factors resulting from the factor-separation analysis are listed in Table 1. The biogeophysical contribution to changes in global and regional temperatures are negative, i.e., ...
Book review: Climate Change: The Science, Impacts
... what it means in terms of risk to us, and to our children and grandchildren. Despite all that the contrarians have thrown at it, the science is credible’. Chapter 2 is about learning from the past and is very short. Archaeologists would find this disappointing. The ‘hockey stick debate’ is dealt wit ...
... what it means in terms of risk to us, and to our children and grandchildren. Despite all that the contrarians have thrown at it, the science is credible’. Chapter 2 is about learning from the past and is very short. Archaeologists would find this disappointing. The ‘hockey stick debate’ is dealt wit ...
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
... ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ON CLIMATE CHANGE Marco Tulio Cabral – Ministry of Foreign Relations ...
... ENVIRONMENTAL DATA ON CLIMATE CHANGE Marco Tulio Cabral – Ministry of Foreign Relations ...
The Arctic: A Barometer of Global Change
... importance in the global debate on how to deal with climate change. That's because the Arctic is the barometer of the globe's environmental health. We are indeed the canary in the global coal mine. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment projects dramatic and drastic depletion of sea-ice. In the next f ...
... importance in the global debate on how to deal with climate change. That's because the Arctic is the barometer of the globe's environmental health. We are indeed the canary in the global coal mine. The Arctic Climate Impact Assessment projects dramatic and drastic depletion of sea-ice. In the next f ...
SWAN_workshop_overview_v2
... look at the general and specific changes expected in each climate driver, as well as the size and patterns of the expected change. ...
... look at the general and specific changes expected in each climate driver, as well as the size and patterns of the expected change. ...
COM SEC(2007)
... Cyprus, Bulgaria, S. Romania) The Iberian Peninsula will be most affected by droughts, with yearly rainfall dropping by up to 40% of current annual precipitation. Annual mean temperature increases throughout Southern Europe and the Black Sea region would be in the order of 4-5°C. Less precipitation ...
... Cyprus, Bulgaria, S. Romania) The Iberian Peninsula will be most affected by droughts, with yearly rainfall dropping by up to 40% of current annual precipitation. Annual mean temperature increases throughout Southern Europe and the Black Sea region would be in the order of 4-5°C. Less precipitation ...
GEOENGINEERING: WORTHY OF CAUTIOUS EVALUATION? An
... Tropospheric geoengineering is not only problematic because it requires much more material, but also because the relatively short lifetime of sulfate aerosols would necessitate multiple source regions to achieve roughly even coverage. Such coverage is likely important because the present experience ...
... Tropospheric geoengineering is not only problematic because it requires much more material, but also because the relatively short lifetime of sulfate aerosols would necessitate multiple source regions to achieve roughly even coverage. Such coverage is likely important because the present experience ...
Climate Change and Health Vulnerability Assessment
... -poor countries cannot afford to do basic risk assessment -global rush to cities and to coasts is ever accelerating -effects on food production are impossible to predict (though Africa is thought to be most vulnerable) -mass migration (environmental refugees) highly likely -conflict resulting from b ...
... -poor countries cannot afford to do basic risk assessment -global rush to cities and to coasts is ever accelerating -effects on food production are impossible to predict (though Africa is thought to be most vulnerable) -mass migration (environmental refugees) highly likely -conflict resulting from b ...
IEAGHG Information Paper 2014-23: U.S.-China Joint Announcement on
... Original Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-us-china-jointannouncement-climate-change-and-clean-energy-c President Obama Announces Ambitious 2025 Target to Cut U.S. Climate Pollution by 26-28 Percent from 2005 Levels Building on strong progress during the first ...
... Original Source: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/11/fact-sheet-us-china-jointannouncement-climate-change-and-clean-energy-c President Obama Announces Ambitious 2025 Target to Cut U.S. Climate Pollution by 26-28 Percent from 2005 Levels Building on strong progress during the first ...
Slide 1
... committee and implement plans that would best bolster their own economy, while harming others? What about nations that we are not so friendly with? How far would climate change need to advance before most climate scientists would turn to geoengineering as a last-‐ditch effort to avoid catastrophic i ...
... committee and implement plans that would best bolster their own economy, while harming others? What about nations that we are not so friendly with? How far would climate change need to advance before most climate scientists would turn to geoengineering as a last-‐ditch effort to avoid catastrophic i ...
CLIMATE CHANGE
... Est a blish es a llow a ble lev el of g loba l em ission s, dist r ibu t ed equ a lly a m on g t h e popu la t ion , ea c h c ou n t r y g et t in g a n en t it lem en t pr opor t ion a t e t o it s popu la t Ult im a t e objec t iv e is t o c on v er t t o equ a l per c a pit a em ission s ov er a ...
... Est a blish es a llow a ble lev el of g loba l em ission s, dist r ibu t ed equ a lly a m on g t h e popu la t ion , ea c h c ou n t r y g et t in g a n en t it lem en t pr opor t ion a t e t o it s popu la t Ult im a t e objec t iv e is t o c on v er t t o equ a l per c a pit a em ission s ov er a ...
Senators convene climate experts to discuss path to low carbon economic recovery (44 kB) (opens in new window)
... to Low Carbon Economic Recovery Tony Blair joins Senators Bingaman, McCain, Snowe and Stabenow on Capitol Hill for Climate event WASHINGTON, March 3, 2009 – Senators, Governors, business leaders and international experts met in the Capitol today to discuss the prospects for U.S. domestic action on c ...
... to Low Carbon Economic Recovery Tony Blair joins Senators Bingaman, McCain, Snowe and Stabenow on Capitol Hill for Climate event WASHINGTON, March 3, 2009 – Senators, Governors, business leaders and international experts met in the Capitol today to discuss the prospects for U.S. domestic action on c ...
NRC Commission Meeting on Flooding and Other Extreme Weather FLOODING
... Bias correction needed to future meteorological record Relatively short period of climate simulations limits consideration extreme events of even 1-sigma level Forecasts can reduce impacts up to 1-sigma level ...
... Bias correction needed to future meteorological record Relatively short period of climate simulations limits consideration extreme events of even 1-sigma level Forecasts can reduce impacts up to 1-sigma level ...
Responses and feedbacks of coupled biogeochemical cycles to climate change:
... warming. Some of the most pronounced increases in temperature have been observed in high-latitude regions, particularly the Arctic, where the areal extent of summer sea ice has declined substantially over the past 40 years (Figure 5) and temperature increases have been far larger than that of the gl ...
... warming. Some of the most pronounced increases in temperature have been observed in high-latitude regions, particularly the Arctic, where the areal extent of summer sea ice has declined substantially over the past 40 years (Figure 5) and temperature increases have been far larger than that of the gl ...
Global Warming
... Methane is emitted during the production and transport of coal, natural gas, and oil. Methane emissions also result from the decomposition of organic wastes in municipal solid waste landfills, and the raising of livestock. Nitrous oxide is emitted during agricultural and industrial activities, as we ...
... Methane is emitted during the production and transport of coal, natural gas, and oil. Methane emissions also result from the decomposition of organic wastes in municipal solid waste landfills, and the raising of livestock. Nitrous oxide is emitted during agricultural and industrial activities, as we ...
Important Concepts for chemical cycling
... • An “endangered” species is one that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range. A “threatened” species is one that is likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future. ...
... • An “endangered” species is one that is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range. A “threatened” species is one that is likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future. ...
Climate Changes
... • Occur in deeper parts of lakes that do not support bottomdwelling organisms that would obliterate annual layers with their activity • Layers usually result from seasonal alternation between light, mineral-rich debris and dark, organic rich material brought in by runoff – act as proxy of precipitat ...
... • Occur in deeper parts of lakes that do not support bottomdwelling organisms that would obliterate annual layers with their activity • Layers usually result from seasonal alternation between light, mineral-rich debris and dark, organic rich material brought in by runoff – act as proxy of precipitat ...
01_Some_Geoengineeri..
... sulphur cycle of the stratosphere signicantly, it is a small perturbation to the total (stratosphere and troposphere) sulphur cycle. The geoengineering source would thus be a small contributor to the total global source of 'acid rain' that could be compensated for through improved pollution control ...
... sulphur cycle of the stratosphere signicantly, it is a small perturbation to the total (stratosphere and troposphere) sulphur cycle. The geoengineering source would thus be a small contributor to the total global source of 'acid rain' that could be compensated for through improved pollution control ...
RESTORATION OF COMMUNITY DEFORESTED FOREST TO
... the past century and 0.6°C in the past three decades (Hansen et al., 2006), in large part because of human activities (IPCC, 2001). A recent report produced by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences confirms that the last few decades of the 20th century were in fact the warmest in the past 400 years ...
... the past century and 0.6°C in the past three decades (Hansen et al., 2006), in large part because of human activities (IPCC, 2001). A recent report produced by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences confirms that the last few decades of the 20th century were in fact the warmest in the past 400 years ...
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.""