Examining climate-biome - Wildlife Conservation Society Canada
... indication that such thresholds occur disproportionately between any two particular cliomes. The distance values allow interpretation of which shifts between cliomes represent potentially profound ecological changes. However, the metric does not take into account threshold differences between cliome ...
... indication that such thresholds occur disproportionately between any two particular cliomes. The distance values allow interpretation of which shifts between cliomes represent potentially profound ecological changes. However, the metric does not take into account threshold differences between cliome ...
... The extent and pace of climate changes will lead to potential impacts on food, water, energy and economic security. Observed change in the climate system is an issue of ongoing concern for the US. Recent unusual extreme weather phenomena worldwide, such as droughts, floods, severe storms, and heat w ...
Carbon stock accounts - UNSD
... 19. The flow based approach to accounting has encouraged policies that assume the mitigation value of carbon in different reservoirs is equal. By design, a stock-based approach can recognise that the mitigation value of carbon depends on the qualities of the reservoir in which it is embodied, namel ...
... 19. The flow based approach to accounting has encouraged policies that assume the mitigation value of carbon in different reservoirs is equal. By design, a stock-based approach can recognise that the mitigation value of carbon depends on the qualities of the reservoir in which it is embodied, namel ...
Evans - NERC
... There is good evidence that changes in climate are associated with distributional shifts and population trends in some UK fauna (see below and other report card papers). A complete assessment of climate change impacts requires understanding the mechanisms driving these changes. This is essential for ...
... There is good evidence that changes in climate are associated with distributional shifts and population trends in some UK fauna (see below and other report card papers). A complete assessment of climate change impacts requires understanding the mechanisms driving these changes. This is essential for ...
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... in a scenario with unchecked atmospheric CO2 concentration increase. We compare the modeled vegetation to a map of present-day potential vegetation distribution, and to paleovegetation distributions inferred from pollen data. The future scenario allows us then to assess the sensitivity of Arctic veg ...
... in a scenario with unchecked atmospheric CO2 concentration increase. We compare the modeled vegetation to a map of present-day potential vegetation distribution, and to paleovegetation distributions inferred from pollen data. The future scenario allows us then to assess the sensitivity of Arctic veg ...
Native wildlife on rangelands to minimize methane and produce
... industry, retail outlets and also as pet food (Kelly 2005). Kangaroo skins are valued for their high strength:weight ratio. Kangaroo harvesters are generally independent, small businesses paid per kilogram for the kangaroo carcasses they supply to processors. Quotas are set to ensure that harvests a ...
... industry, retail outlets and also as pet food (Kelly 2005). Kangaroo skins are valued for their high strength:weight ratio. Kangaroo harvesters are generally independent, small businesses paid per kilogram for the kangaroo carcasses they supply to processors. Quotas are set to ensure that harvests a ...
Potential Impacts of Changes in Climate on Water Quality in New
... sources of uncertainty. (Kundzewicz, 2010). Projections also muddle the ‘risk’ term used in a cost-benefit approach to planning, as there is no exact uncertainty range, or probability estimate, to the individual projections. Bottom up vulnerability analyses are focused on the responses of the system ...
... sources of uncertainty. (Kundzewicz, 2010). Projections also muddle the ‘risk’ term used in a cost-benefit approach to planning, as there is no exact uncertainty range, or probability estimate, to the individual projections. Bottom up vulnerability analyses are focused on the responses of the system ...
GCC Institutional Capacity Assessment Tool v1.0
... During the facilitated session, the facilitators should begin by asking for objective data relevant to the area at hand, encouraging the partner organization participants to consider that information before they start to interpret it and ascribe scores. The facilitators guide the process, helping t ...
... During the facilitated session, the facilitators should begin by asking for objective data relevant to the area at hand, encouraging the partner organization participants to consider that information before they start to interpret it and ascribe scores. The facilitators guide the process, helping t ...
7 Forest Health in a Changing Environment
... evolved. However, when a forest ecosystem is subjected to disturbances outside its historical range, such as those expected from rapid climate change, large-scale land use-change, or logging, its resilience may be inadequate and collapse becomes possible. The challenge ahead is to ensure that forest ...
... evolved. However, when a forest ecosystem is subjected to disturbances outside its historical range, such as those expected from rapid climate change, large-scale land use-change, or logging, its resilience may be inadequate and collapse becomes possible. The challenge ahead is to ensure that forest ...
Projected effects of climate change on water supply reliability in Mid
... recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report. The climate change data for 2040 have been produced by statistically downscaling global climate model output to the grid of New Zealand’s Virtual Climate Network, thus providing data every day and approximately every 5 ...
... recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report. The climate change data for 2040 have been produced by statistically downscaling global climate model output to the grid of New Zealand’s Virtual Climate Network, thus providing data every day and approximately every 5 ...
Securing the Fresh Water Systems of the Nepal Himalaya
... existing lakes, and disappearing of some small lakes. The accelerating melting rate of snow and glacier will have an impact, for example, on water flows in rivers, health of the people and food and biomass productivity which depend on water derived from the Himalayas. Nevertheless, the efforts to re ...
... existing lakes, and disappearing of some small lakes. The accelerating melting rate of snow and glacier will have an impact, for example, on water flows in rivers, health of the people and food and biomass productivity which depend on water derived from the Himalayas. Nevertheless, the efforts to re ...
Adaptation Strategy and Mitigation of Biological Resources
... Therefore, it is necessary for a fundamental change in development planning. Problem of climate variability today and the next should be used as one important variable in determining the basics of national planning development of short, medium and long term as well. Tackling climate change requires ...
... Therefore, it is necessary for a fundamental change in development planning. Problem of climate variability today and the next should be used as one important variable in determining the basics of national planning development of short, medium and long term as well. Tackling climate change requires ...
Global Warming and Science
... Wegman, Edward J., David W. Scott and Yasmin H. Said, 2006: Ad hoc committee report on the ‘Hockey stick’ global climate reconstruction, To The Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, US House of Representatives. The IPCC ...
... Wegman, Edward J., David W. Scott and Yasmin H. Said, 2006: Ad hoc committee report on the ‘Hockey stick’ global climate reconstruction, To The Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, US House of Representatives. The IPCC ...
COP15 side event
... • Favour adaptation strategies which will yield benefits (for other, less uncertain, policy concerns) regardless of whether or not climate impacts will occur. ...
... • Favour adaptation strategies which will yield benefits (for other, less uncertain, policy concerns) regardless of whether or not climate impacts will occur. ...
Sea Level Rise - Parliament UK
... effect of climate change on ice-sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers and the potential impacts this will have on sea level rise. Box 3. Ice2sea The response of ice-sheets to climate change Ice2sea is a research project studying the response of ice-sheets to climate change, funded by the European U ...
... effect of climate change on ice-sheets, ice caps and mountain glaciers and the potential impacts this will have on sea level rise. Box 3. Ice2sea The response of ice-sheets to climate change Ice2sea is a research project studying the response of ice-sheets to climate change, funded by the European U ...
5. Hydrology - Skagit County
... 2010). All GCMs, however, project increasing trends in temperature through the 21st century. Increases in winter, spring and fall precipitation coupled with summer drying are also a common feature of the GCM simulations for the PNW (See Chapter 3). The sensitivities of the streamflow and peak SWE i ...
... 2010). All GCMs, however, project increasing trends in temperature through the 21st century. Increases in winter, spring and fall precipitation coupled with summer drying are also a common feature of the GCM simulations for the PNW (See Chapter 3). The sensitivities of the streamflow and peak SWE i ...
National Arrangements
... After having read this Presentation, in combination with the related documentation, the reader should: have an overview of how important national arrangements are for the regular development of GHG inventories; have a general understanding of the methods and tools available, as well as of the ...
... After having read this Presentation, in combination with the related documentation, the reader should: have an overview of how important national arrangements are for the regular development of GHG inventories; have a general understanding of the methods and tools available, as well as of the ...
Singapore`s Second National Climate Change Study Climate
... and current climate, and capturing the range of plausible future changes projected by the latest set of global climate models. The regional climate model used for downscaling was configured to have a 12 km horizontal resolution grid centred on Singapore, and covers much of Southeast Asia. For each o ...
... and current climate, and capturing the range of plausible future changes projected by the latest set of global climate models. The regional climate model used for downscaling was configured to have a 12 km horizontal resolution grid centred on Singapore, and covers much of Southeast Asia. For each o ...
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... atmosphere but also due to irreversibility and threshold effects. Therefore, the transfers needed would need to be sustained over a long time horizon as well. Secondly, the involved amounts could be substantial due to the potentially high impacts from climate change. Thirdly, since already getting a ...
... atmosphere but also due to irreversibility and threshold effects. Therefore, the transfers needed would need to be sustained over a long time horizon as well. Secondly, the involved amounts could be substantial due to the potentially high impacts from climate change. Thirdly, since already getting a ...
adaptation to climate change: key terms
... At its meeting on 23 March 2005, the Annex I Expert Group requested the Secretariat to prepare a paper on key adaptation concepts and terms that have entered the UNFCCC lexicon such as ‘adaptation’, ‘vulnerability’, ‘adverse effect’, ‘adaptive capacity’, and others. The aim of the task is to collect ...
... At its meeting on 23 March 2005, the Annex I Expert Group requested the Secretariat to prepare a paper on key adaptation concepts and terms that have entered the UNFCCC lexicon such as ‘adaptation’, ‘vulnerability’, ‘adverse effect’, ‘adaptive capacity’, and others. The aim of the task is to collect ...
GDI 12 – Warming Core – Final
... eruptions, as well as a look at what happened thousands or even millions of years ago, when atmospheric CO2 levels were much higher due to natural causes. As this handy chart from New Scientist shows, most of these studies have been converging around the same range of answers: Doubling the amount of ...
... eruptions, as well as a look at what happened thousands or even millions of years ago, when atmospheric CO2 levels were much higher due to natural causes. As this handy chart from New Scientist shows, most of these studies have been converging around the same range of answers: Doubling the amount of ...
Net carbon uptake has increased through warming-induced changes in temperate forest phenology LETTERS
... forests4,9 . Here we assess changes in phenology of temperate forests over the eastern US during the past two decades, and quantify the resulting changes in forest carbon storage. We combine long-term ground observations of phenology, satellite indices, and ecosystem-scale carbon dioxide flux measur ...
... forests4,9 . Here we assess changes in phenology of temperate forests over the eastern US during the past two decades, and quantify the resulting changes in forest carbon storage. We combine long-term ground observations of phenology, satellite indices, and ecosystem-scale carbon dioxide flux measur ...
Decadal co-variability of Atlantic SSTs and western Amazon dry
... Intermediate amounts of total variance are explained by the decadal component of JASSPI (16%) and RNWL (32%) shown in Fig. 1. The correlation between the two decadal time series is 0.79, significant at P<0.01, tested using a random-phase method designed for serially correlated time series [Ebisuzaki ...
... Intermediate amounts of total variance are explained by the decadal component of JASSPI (16%) and RNWL (32%) shown in Fig. 1. The correlation between the two decadal time series is 0.79, significant at P<0.01, tested using a random-phase method designed for serially correlated time series [Ebisuzaki ...
The Land Use Model Intercomparison Project (LUMIP) contribution
... – What are the impacts of land management on surface fluxes of carbon, water, and energy? – Are there regional land-use or land-management strategies with the promise to help mitigate climate change? In addressing these questions, LUMIP will also address a range of more detailed science questions to ...
... – What are the impacts of land management on surface fluxes of carbon, water, and energy? – Are there regional land-use or land-management strategies with the promise to help mitigate climate change? In addressing these questions, LUMIP will also address a range of more detailed science questions to ...
Solar radiation management
Solar radiation management (SRM) projects (proposed and theoretical) are a type of climate engineering which seek to reflect sunlight and thus reduce global warming. Proposed examples include the creation of stratospheric sulfate aerosols. They would not reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, and thus do not address problems such as ocean acidification caused by excess carbon dioxide (CO2). Their principal advantages as an approach to climate engineering is the speed with which they can be deployed and become fully active, as well as their potential low financial cost. By comparison, other climate engineering techniques based on greenhouse gas remediation, such as ocean iron fertilization, need to sequester the anthropogenic carbon excess before any reversal of global warming would occur. Solar radiation management projects can therefore be used as a climate engineering ""quick fix"" while levels of greenhouse gases can be brought under control by greenhouse gas remediation techniques.