The Northeast Asia mountain glaciers in the near
... (e.g. Chinn et al., 2005). The projected ELA can be obtained as the intersection of the accumulation and ablation balance profiles for glacier systems (regions). To project glacier change, not only in the case of individual glaciers but also for groups of them (glacier systems), is an important goal ...
... (e.g. Chinn et al., 2005). The projected ELA can be obtained as the intersection of the accumulation and ablation balance profiles for glacier systems (regions). To project glacier change, not only in the case of individual glaciers but also for groups of them (glacier systems), is an important goal ...
About observed and future climate changes in Flanders and Belgium
... Urban heat island The temperature in cities is generally higher than in the surrounding rural areas. As a result, city dwellers are more exposed to heat stress during heat waves. This leads to an increased mortality rate, especially among the elderly and children. Causes of the heat island effect in ...
... Urban heat island The temperature in cities is generally higher than in the surrounding rural areas. As a result, city dwellers are more exposed to heat stress during heat waves. This leads to an increased mortality rate, especially among the elderly and children. Causes of the heat island effect in ...
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... The purpose of this document is not to question the science of climate change but to present the best available data and explore it further in a regional context to assist in developing adaptive responses. The document will be updated annually as our knowledge and understanding of the issues improve ...
... The purpose of this document is not to question the science of climate change but to present the best available data and explore it further in a regional context to assist in developing adaptive responses. The document will be updated annually as our knowledge and understanding of the issues improve ...
Draft Discussion Paper Ilaria Carrozza ESCAP/FfD/04/2015
... The Asia-Pacific 1 is one of the most disaster-prone regions, and the possibility that climate change may exacerbate the frequency and severity of extreme weather events is a real threat to progress made towards sustainable development. In order to secure sustainable development gains and to build r ...
... The Asia-Pacific 1 is one of the most disaster-prone regions, and the possibility that climate change may exacerbate the frequency and severity of extreme weather events is a real threat to progress made towards sustainable development. In order to secure sustainable development gains and to build r ...
Measuring Vulnerability - global change SysTem for Analysis
... concepts; address methodological challenges; interrogate assumptions, hypotheses, and the processes that contribute to vulnerability; They provide a means of depicting differential vulnerability; The output maps can be dangerous if the concepts and methods are not transparent, and if they are taken ...
... concepts; address methodological challenges; interrogate assumptions, hypotheses, and the processes that contribute to vulnerability; They provide a means of depicting differential vulnerability; The output maps can be dangerous if the concepts and methods are not transparent, and if they are taken ...
Arctic Climate Impact Science – an update since ACIA
... With an ice volume of about 2.9 million km , the Greenland Ice Sheet has the potential to contribute much more to global sea-level rise than all of the other glaciers and ice caps combined (excluding the Antarctic Ice Sheet). If the entire Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt, sea level would rise by ab ...
... With an ice volume of about 2.9 million km , the Greenland Ice Sheet has the potential to contribute much more to global sea-level rise than all of the other glaciers and ice caps combined (excluding the Antarctic Ice Sheet). If the entire Greenland Ice Sheet were to melt, sea level would rise by ab ...
Climate change and the natural heritage
... Climate change is one of the most serious threats which we in Scotland face. Rising temperatures, drier summers, wetter winters, sea-level rise, and an increased risk of flooding, will all affect our lives. There is a global need to take action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions which are respon ...
... Climate change is one of the most serious threats which we in Scotland face. Rising temperatures, drier summers, wetter winters, sea-level rise, and an increased risk of flooding, will all affect our lives. There is a global need to take action to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions which are respon ...
Climate change and the marine ecosystem of the western Antarctic
... A subsequent analysis by Hansen et al. (1999) revealed a third region of warming centred on the Antarctic Peninsula and Bellingshausen Sea. In each of these areas, mean annual temperatures have warmed by more than 1.5 K since 1950, compared with a global mean increase of ca 0.6 K. The third assessme ...
... A subsequent analysis by Hansen et al. (1999) revealed a third region of warming centred on the Antarctic Peninsula and Bellingshausen Sea. In each of these areas, mean annual temperatures have warmed by more than 1.5 K since 1950, compared with a global mean increase of ca 0.6 K. The third assessme ...
Ehlers and Poulsen, Influence of Andean uplift on climate and
... Regional climate models require climatological information along the boundaries of their domain. This information can be supplied by (1) observational or reanalysis data or (2) global GCMs, in which case the regional model is “nested” within the global GCM. We have used both techniques. In the first ...
... Regional climate models require climatological information along the boundaries of their domain. This information can be supplied by (1) observational or reanalysis data or (2) global GCMs, in which case the regional model is “nested” within the global GCM. We have used both techniques. In the first ...
Climate Change Adaptation Discussion Paper MS Word
... Future Melbourne 2026 is City of Melbourne’s second Future Melbourne plan, which will provide long-term strategic direction to guide the development of the city and its activities from 2016 until 2026. In 2015-2016 the City of Melbourne undertook considerable community engagement and consultation to ...
... Future Melbourne 2026 is City of Melbourne’s second Future Melbourne plan, which will provide long-term strategic direction to guide the development of the city and its activities from 2016 until 2026. In 2015-2016 the City of Melbourne undertook considerable community engagement and consultation to ...
Environics Climate Change Mitigation Messaging
... action (self-efficacy) and the overall value of such efforts (response efficacy). It is also critical that individuals see action on the part of governments and businesses, so they don’t feel they are shouldering the burden on their own. There is a gap in understanding of the connection between home ...
... action (self-efficacy) and the overall value of such efforts (response efficacy). It is also critical that individuals see action on the part of governments and businesses, so they don’t feel they are shouldering the burden on their own. There is a gap in understanding of the connection between home ...
Using the past to understand the future
... There have been many attempts to place the present and projected global climate change into an historical context (eg Crowley32). However, most of these attempts are undertaken by palaeoclimatologists interested in the comparisons of rates and magnitudes of physical change, but not the corresponding ...
... There have been many attempts to place the present and projected global climate change into an historical context (eg Crowley32). However, most of these attempts are undertaken by palaeoclimatologists interested in the comparisons of rates and magnitudes of physical change, but not the corresponding ...
Local climate change adaptation planning A guide for
... The purpose of this document is to provide local and state government officials with guidance on the process of effectively considering climate change impacts in policy development and delivery, with an emphasis on place-based adaptation. The guide is an introduction to a suite of widely applicable ...
... The purpose of this document is to provide local and state government officials with guidance on the process of effectively considering climate change impacts in policy development and delivery, with an emphasis on place-based adaptation. The guide is an introduction to a suite of widely applicable ...
IJGW-Article "Limits to autonomous adaptation in response to
... FSM, measured by satellite altimeters since 1993, has risen more than 10 mm per year, significantly more than the global average of 3.2 mm per year [ABM and CSIRO, (2011), p.64]. It is estimated that the mean global sea level will continue to rise over the course of the 21st century, with some studi ...
... FSM, measured by satellite altimeters since 1993, has risen more than 10 mm per year, significantly more than the global average of 3.2 mm per year [ABM and CSIRO, (2011), p.64]. It is estimated that the mean global sea level will continue to rise over the course of the 21st century, with some studi ...
The anatomy of a climatic oscillation: vegetation change in eastern
... differences among regional climate changes, and attendant vegetation changes, during the YDC can be illustrated using the paleoclimate simulations and the ...
... differences among regional climate changes, and attendant vegetation changes, during the YDC can be illustrated using the paleoclimate simulations and the ...
4 Framework for ICTs` integration in cities climate change
... (FG-SSC) and responds to the need to explore how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their infrastructure can support cities' adaptation to climate change. It is a contribution to the ongoing work on climate change adaptation within Question 15/5 of ITU-T Study Group 5, which leads ...
... (FG-SSC) and responds to the need to explore how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and their infrastructure can support cities' adaptation to climate change. It is a contribution to the ongoing work on climate change adaptation within Question 15/5 of ITU-T Study Group 5, which leads ...
Climate Change in Southern South America During the Last
... the high latitudes and the tropics, most notably the Southern Annual Mode (SAM) or the Antarctic Oscillation (AAO) and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Both of these large-scale ocean-atmosphere processes play a role in altering not only temperatures at seasonal to interannual timescales, bu ...
... the high latitudes and the tropics, most notably the Southern Annual Mode (SAM) or the Antarctic Oscillation (AAO) and the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Both of these large-scale ocean-atmosphere processes play a role in altering not only temperatures at seasonal to interannual timescales, bu ...
Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific
... framework on climate change and disaster risk management, to succeed the two separate regional frameworks on disaster risk management and climate change. The terms of the Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management Framework for Action (commonly referred to as the Regional Framework for ...
... framework on climate change and disaster risk management, to succeed the two separate regional frameworks on disaster risk management and climate change. The terms of the Pacific Disaster Risk Reduction and Disaster Management Framework for Action (commonly referred to as the Regional Framework for ...
Managing Physical Impacts of Climate Change: An Attentional
... notice given the multiplicity of potential impacts (Berkhout, 2012), and whether firms perceive physical climate impacts as a unique problem in need of a tailored solution, or as a business-as-usual problem for which existing practices suffice (Winn et al., 2011). This article examines the adaptati ...
... notice given the multiplicity of potential impacts (Berkhout, 2012), and whether firms perceive physical climate impacts as a unique problem in need of a tailored solution, or as a business-as-usual problem for which existing practices suffice (Winn et al., 2011). This article examines the adaptati ...
CURRICULUM VITAE
... and associated program funds for energy. Dr. Easterling was advised by a Coordinating Council consisting of faculty representatives from each of the 8 member Colleges and was responsible to an Executive Committee consisting of College Deans and the Senior VicePresident for Research. 1997-1998 Associ ...
... and associated program funds for energy. Dr. Easterling was advised by a Coordinating Council consisting of faculty representatives from each of the 8 member Colleges and was responsible to an Executive Committee consisting of College Deans and the Senior VicePresident for Research. 1997-1998 Associ ...
Climate Vulnerability in Asia`s High Mountains
... spatial gradients in precipitation regimes throughout AHM, and management strategies based on regional estimates of climate change are unlikely to apply at smaller scales. Distinct climatological influences, such as summer monsoons and winter westerly disturbances, and substantially different topogr ...
... spatial gradients in precipitation regimes throughout AHM, and management strategies based on regional estimates of climate change are unlikely to apply at smaller scales. Distinct climatological influences, such as summer monsoons and winter westerly disturbances, and substantially different topogr ...
Why Regulation of Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act`s
... ecosystems; and loss of coastal lands to rising sea levels.5 Climate change is quickly becoming a human rights issue due to the looming threats, including disease, increase in heat stroke death, loss of agriculture, and the displacement of entire communities to rising sea levels.6 Climate change pos ...
... ecosystems; and loss of coastal lands to rising sea levels.5 Climate change is quickly becoming a human rights issue due to the looming threats, including disease, increase in heat stroke death, loss of agriculture, and the displacement of entire communities to rising sea levels.6 Climate change pos ...
Climatic Research Unit documents
Climatic Research Unit documents including thousands of e-mails and other computer files were stolen from a server at the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in a hacking incident in November 2009. The documents were redistributed first through the blogosphere of global warming skeptics, and allegations were made that they indicated misconduct by leading climate scientists. A series of investigations rejected these allegations, while concluding that CRU scientists should have been more open with distributing data and methods on request. Precisely six committees investigated the allegations and published reports, finding no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct. The scientific consensus that global warming is occurring as a result of human activity remained unchanged by the end of the investigations.The incident occurred shortly before the opening December 2009 Copenhagen global climate summit. It has prompted general discussion about increasing the openness of scientific data (though the majority of climate data have always been freely available). Scientists, scientific organisations, and government officials have stated that the incident does not affect the overall scientific case for climate change. Andrew Revkin reported in the New York Times that ""The evidence pointing to a growing human contribution to global warming is so widely accepted that the hacked material is unlikely to erode the overall argument.""