The Status of Climate Change Data: A Case Study for
... wind speed are collected by nine (9) weather stations, two (2) of which are manned stations and seven (7) of which are automated stations. However, it was determined that only the manned weather stations are considered reliable and are used to supply regional and international databases. This was vi ...
... wind speed are collected by nine (9) weather stations, two (2) of which are manned stations and seven (7) of which are automated stations. However, it was determined that only the manned weather stations are considered reliable and are used to supply regional and international databases. This was vi ...
FINAL 2014 2015 Annual Progress Report
... Climate modeling at Princeton University and GFDL is continually producing new models, including atmospheric, oceanic and land models, coupled models, chemistry-radiative forcing models, cloud resolving models with new microphysics, and a non-hydrostatic limited area model. These models may, in prin ...
... Climate modeling at Princeton University and GFDL is continually producing new models, including atmospheric, oceanic and land models, coupled models, chemistry-radiative forcing models, cloud resolving models with new microphysics, and a non-hydrostatic limited area model. These models may, in prin ...
Slide 1
... Carbon neutral: Commonly accepted terminology for something (e.g. an organisation or product) which has zero net emissions. (2) Carbon literacy: General knowledge or awareness of the concepts, causes, and the effects of atmospheric pollution or greenhouse gases. (2) Climate: Average weather and its ...
... Carbon neutral: Commonly accepted terminology for something (e.g. an organisation or product) which has zero net emissions. (2) Carbon literacy: General knowledge or awareness of the concepts, causes, and the effects of atmospheric pollution or greenhouse gases. (2) Climate: Average weather and its ...
Potential Impacts Of Climate Change On Tourism
... rising at the rate of 8-10mm/yr and some beaches have been retreating at the rate of 2 m/yr (L. Nurse, Phd, 2001). In Recife Brazil, tide gauges recorded sea-level rise of 5.6mm/year between 1946 and 1988 (Viner and Agnew, 1999). The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that g ...
... rising at the rate of 8-10mm/yr and some beaches have been retreating at the rate of 2 m/yr (L. Nurse, Phd, 2001). In Recife Brazil, tide gauges recorded sea-level rise of 5.6mm/year between 1946 and 1988 (Viner and Agnew, 1999). The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicates that g ...
Understanding and Reducing the Risks of Climate Change for
... basins. By today’s standards, the analysis and mapping of these river basins were crude and subject to large errors. Measurements were based on regional maps and taken by hand with a planimeter – a tool today’s generation of digital mappers has never used. In the 1978 assessment, only “first order” ...
... basins. By today’s standards, the analysis and mapping of these river basins were crude and subject to large errors. Measurements were based on regional maps and taken by hand with a planimeter – a tool today’s generation of digital mappers has never used. In the 1978 assessment, only “first order” ...
MTA Adaptations to Climate Change – A Categorical Imperative1
... these longer time scales some climate-change-related threats (e.g. sea level rise and related storm surge inundations) could become severe and may require much more broadly based (regional, multi-agency) land-use and urban planning solutions than the shorter time horizon’s tasks demand. The National ...
... these longer time scales some climate-change-related threats (e.g. sea level rise and related storm surge inundations) could become severe and may require much more broadly based (regional, multi-agency) land-use and urban planning solutions than the shorter time horizon’s tasks demand. The National ...
US Virgin Islands Climate Change Ecosystem
... solutions should be integrated with other adaptation options through multi-agency cooperation and delivered through adaptive management. EBA efforts should be aimed at strengthening the resilience of coastal ...
... solutions should be integrated with other adaptation options through multi-agency cooperation and delivered through adaptive management. EBA efforts should be aimed at strengthening the resilience of coastal ...
WORKING GROUP III CONTRIBUTION TO THE IPCC FIFTH ASSESSMENT REPORT (AR5)
... In close cooperation with WG II, links with adaptation will be examined in an integrated assessment. As different stabilization levels imply different adaptation needs and since feasible paths are determined by mitigative and adaptive capacities alike, mitigation and adaptation are interdependent. D ...
... In close cooperation with WG II, links with adaptation will be examined in an integrated assessment. As different stabilization levels imply different adaptation needs and since feasible paths are determined by mitigative and adaptive capacities alike, mitigation and adaptation are interdependent. D ...
A Technological Solution for Climate Change? Storage
... storage options, like ocean storage, are unfeasible due to the lack of public acceptance and risks of negative environmental consequences (Palmgren et al., ...
... storage options, like ocean storage, are unfeasible due to the lack of public acceptance and risks of negative environmental consequences (Palmgren et al., ...
Projected changes in temperature and heating degree
... trends in central Melbourne temperature, and low, average and high greenhouse warming scenarios over this period. Observed temperature trends in Australia, Victoria and Melbourne Australian average temperature increased by 0.89ºC (0.09ºC per decade) from 1910 to 2005. From 1950 to 2005, an accelerat ...
... trends in central Melbourne temperature, and low, average and high greenhouse warming scenarios over this period. Observed temperature trends in Australia, Victoria and Melbourne Australian average temperature increased by 0.89ºC (0.09ºC per decade) from 1910 to 2005. From 1950 to 2005, an accelerat ...
Climate Action Plan - City of Boynton Beach
... education. The plan is comprised of the three pillars that are necessary to achieving a sustainable future; environmental stewardship, economic growth, and social responsibility, all of which are interdependent and connected. In order to achieve the City’s sustainability goals there needed to be an ...
... education. The plan is comprised of the three pillars that are necessary to achieving a sustainable future; environmental stewardship, economic growth, and social responsibility, all of which are interdependent and connected. In order to achieve the City’s sustainability goals there needed to be an ...
Remote Sensing of Cryosphere
... below freezing. Permafrost occurs when the ground is frozen for a long period of time, at least two years below 00 C, and varies in thickness from several meters to thousands of meters (NSIDC, 2011). Glaciers are thick masses of ice on land that are caused by many seasons of snowfall. Glaciers move ...
... below freezing. Permafrost occurs when the ground is frozen for a long period of time, at least two years below 00 C, and varies in thickness from several meters to thousands of meters (NSIDC, 2011). Glaciers are thick masses of ice on land that are caused by many seasons of snowfall. Glaciers move ...
Developing and Applying Scenarios
... and sea-ice extent will be reduced. Models indicate warming below the global average in the North Atlantic and circumpolar southern ocean regions, as well as in southern and southeast Asia and southern South America in June–August. Globally, there will be increases in average water vapor and precipi ...
... and sea-ice extent will be reduced. Models indicate warming below the global average in the North Atlantic and circumpolar southern ocean regions, as well as in southern and southeast Asia and southern South America in June–August. Globally, there will be increases in average water vapor and precipi ...
Good-Bye Kyoto - Carbon Market Watch
... While innovative at the time, the CDM also showed a number of shortcomings: No overall emission reductions: The CDM was designed for countries that did not have commitments to be met under the Kyoto Protocol. Its goal was to reduce emissions in developing countries to compensate for increased emiss ...
... While innovative at the time, the CDM also showed a number of shortcomings: No overall emission reductions: The CDM was designed for countries that did not have commitments to be met under the Kyoto Protocol. Its goal was to reduce emissions in developing countries to compensate for increased emiss ...
A Climate Risk Management Approach to Disaster Reduction
... autonomously generated and may, in numerous cases, be caused by economic decisions taken on the other side of the globe. This territorial complexity of causal factors extends down to include the impacts of national, sectoral and territorial development policies on regions and localities. The scienti ...
... autonomously generated and may, in numerous cases, be caused by economic decisions taken on the other side of the globe. This territorial complexity of causal factors extends down to include the impacts of national, sectoral and territorial development policies on regions and localities. The scienti ...
Towards Policy Integration of Disaster Risk, Climate Adaptation, and
... high as Indonesia’s and Brunei’s fatality rates stood at 0.11 and 0.03 respectively. The occurrence of El-Nino is the reason for recurrent climate-related hazards that severely affected thousands of farmers in various provinces in 2015 and 2016. Cambodia has developed its National Action Plan for Di ...
... high as Indonesia’s and Brunei’s fatality rates stood at 0.11 and 0.03 respectively. The occurrence of El-Nino is the reason for recurrent climate-related hazards that severely affected thousands of farmers in various provinces in 2015 and 2016. Cambodia has developed its National Action Plan for Di ...
Climate Change and Justice: A Non-Welfarist Treaty Negotiation
... Such a conception would be the focus of an overlapping consensus.13 This means that a treaty proposal justified in its terms could be offered in the belief that it is not unjust, and with the reasonable expectation that those to whom it is offered will not find any good reason to reject it as unjust ...
... Such a conception would be the focus of an overlapping consensus.13 This means that a treaty proposal justified in its terms could be offered in the belief that it is not unjust, and with the reasonable expectation that those to whom it is offered will not find any good reason to reject it as unjust ...
An Earth-System Prediction Initiative for the 21st Century
... strategies. These achievements and opportunities are the culmination of investments by governments, international agencies and other stakeholders in underpinning science and technology and their transition to operational services. These investments greatly expanded our capability to observe the atmo ...
... strategies. These achievements and opportunities are the culmination of investments by governments, international agencies and other stakeholders in underpinning science and technology and their transition to operational services. These investments greatly expanded our capability to observe the atmo ...
Partisan Group Identity and Belief in Human
... condition. However, between the introduction (mentioning being asked about climate change and the definition) and the consensus information, the following passage appeared: As you have likely heard, the role that humans’ actions play in driving climate change has been a point of debate. Politics nea ...
... condition. However, between the introduction (mentioning being asked about climate change and the definition) and the consensus information, the following passage appeared: As you have likely heard, the role that humans’ actions play in driving climate change has been a point of debate. Politics nea ...
The Public Discourse of Climate Change in the United States
... are very likely to be sharing information and discussing risks and preferences with one another. And, if this is so, then citizens may not be just passive recipients of information and knowledge flows from media and other elite sources, but may actually be working together to frame issues, problems, ...
... are very likely to be sharing information and discussing risks and preferences with one another. And, if this is so, then citizens may not be just passive recipients of information and knowledge flows from media and other elite sources, but may actually be working together to frame issues, problems, ...
Towards Critical Studies of Climate Adaptation - diss.fu
... rational and comprehensive approaches to overcome uncertainty and produce “win-win” benefits (e.g., Godschalk, Brody, and Burby 2003; While and Whitehead 2013). Operationally, adaptation planning, especially in the global North, focuses on infrastructure and land use planning solutions. Northern pr ...
... rational and comprehensive approaches to overcome uncertainty and produce “win-win” benefits (e.g., Godschalk, Brody, and Burby 2003; While and Whitehead 2013). Operationally, adaptation planning, especially in the global North, focuses on infrastructure and land use planning solutions. Northern pr ...
Grassland Carbon Stock Calculation and
... and management programmes. Such programs may not be directly linked to significant climate change outcomes, however indirectly they lead to conservation or expansion of carbon pools in biomass and in soil. They demonstrate GHG (greenhouse gas) mitigation opportunity in the agriculture sector relatin ...
... and management programmes. Such programs may not be directly linked to significant climate change outcomes, however indirectly they lead to conservation or expansion of carbon pools in biomass and in soil. They demonstrate GHG (greenhouse gas) mitigation opportunity in the agriculture sector relatin ...
Agricultural Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation and
... to the development, diffusion and use of relevant technologies can surface at several levels – from the inception and innovation stages to the transfer of technologies and the access to agricultural innovations by vulnerable smallholders in developing countries. Potential constraints to innovation i ...
... to the development, diffusion and use of relevant technologies can surface at several levels – from the inception and innovation stages to the transfer of technologies and the access to agricultural innovations by vulnerable smallholders in developing countries. Potential constraints to innovation i ...
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.""