Global Increasing Trends in Annual Maximum Daily Precipitation
... Index 2 (HadEX2) dataset (Donat et al. 2013). The calculation of these annual precipitation extremes follows the definition of the Rx1day (annual maximum 1-day precipitation amount) index recommended by the joint World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Climatology (CCl)/Climate Variab ...
... Index 2 (HadEX2) dataset (Donat et al. 2013). The calculation of these annual precipitation extremes follows the definition of the Rx1day (annual maximum 1-day precipitation amount) index recommended by the joint World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission for Climatology (CCl)/Climate Variab ...
On the tropical origin of uncertainties in the global land precipitation
... over the oceanic regions given the lack of direct measurements of precipitation. Satellite estimates do exist, but the length of the record is still too short to be useful for trend analysis. Global atmospheric reanalyses are also available, but are not sufficiently reliable and homogeneous (changes i ...
... over the oceanic regions given the lack of direct measurements of precipitation. Satellite estimates do exist, but the length of the record is still too short to be useful for trend analysis. Global atmospheric reanalyses are also available, but are not sufficiently reliable and homogeneous (changes i ...
View/Open
... interference with the climate system. Further, the latest IPCC report indicates that the observed impacts of climate change are already “widespread and consequential” (IPCC, 2014). The U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA) reiterated the warnings of the IPCC regarding climate change, suggesting tha ...
... interference with the climate system. Further, the latest IPCC report indicates that the observed impacts of climate change are already “widespread and consequential” (IPCC, 2014). The U.S. National Climate Assessment (NCA) reiterated the warnings of the IPCC regarding climate change, suggesting tha ...
AAWG Conference Abstracts 2014
... Title: Four billion years of climate change – a volcanic contribution Throughout Earth history there have been well-documented changes in Earth’s climate, i.e. periods of Snowball Earth, or periods of unusually high temperatures. Earth’s climate is affe cted by many factors, including extra-terrestr ...
... Title: Four billion years of climate change – a volcanic contribution Throughout Earth history there have been well-documented changes in Earth’s climate, i.e. periods of Snowball Earth, or periods of unusually high temperatures. Earth’s climate is affe cted by many factors, including extra-terrestr ...
Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and Programme of Action for the Palestinian Authority PDF
... high-resolution regional climate models give clear scientific backing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections for the region. In its Fourth Assessment Report, the IPCC predicts that, for the southern and eastern Mediterranean, warming over the 21st century will be larger ...
... high-resolution regional climate models give clear scientific backing to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections for the region. In its Fourth Assessment Report, the IPCC predicts that, for the southern and eastern Mediterranean, warming over the 21st century will be larger ...
Small Satellite Constellation for Global Aerosol Monitoring of the
... Radiation Management (SRM) program. Detection, attribution, and efficacy of such efforts require not only monitoring but also a proper characterization of the prior state of the aerosol layer. Furthermore, as such scenarios are being explored in climate models, it has become apparent that the models ...
... Radiation Management (SRM) program. Detection, attribution, and efficacy of such efforts require not only monitoring but also a proper characterization of the prior state of the aerosol layer. Furthermore, as such scenarios are being explored in climate models, it has become apparent that the models ...
Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering
... attempting to address will have a big impact on the resulting climate response. The specific goal of geoengineering will also affect the response. This touches on the larger scale question of, ‘‘Whose hand will be on the ...
... attempting to address will have a big impact on the resulting climate response. The specific goal of geoengineering will also affect the response. This touches on the larger scale question of, ‘‘Whose hand will be on the ...
Mountain Environment and Climate Change in Nepal Country
... mechanisms and approaches such as payments for environmental services. Supportive and enabling environment for the promotion of high-quality niche products and services from mountain areas would be critical for improving livelihoods and protecting mountain environments. This would require assuring a ...
... mechanisms and approaches such as payments for environmental services. Supportive and enabling environment for the promotion of high-quality niche products and services from mountain areas would be critical for improving livelihoods and protecting mountain environments. This would require assuring a ...
Multi-model trends in the Sahara induced by increasing CO2
... (senh) gets more positive (energy leaving the surface) and reaches about 1.2 W/m2. Not much change occurs in the latent heat flux (ltnt). Though these trends are multi-model ensemble means of four 20-year mean periods, they are consistent with trends in surface temperature in Figure 3c. The net surf ...
... (senh) gets more positive (energy leaving the surface) and reaches about 1.2 W/m2. Not much change occurs in the latent heat flux (ltnt). Though these trends are multi-model ensemble means of four 20-year mean periods, they are consistent with trends in surface temperature in Figure 3c. The net surf ...
Cusk (Brosme brosme) and climate change: assessing the threat to
... can be dramatically different. For example, in European waters many fishery species have declined in abundance by more than 70%, which is the criteria for an endangered classification under the International Union for Conservation of Nature framework (World Conservation Union, 2001), yet remain abov ...
... can be dramatically different. For example, in European waters many fishery species have declined in abundance by more than 70%, which is the criteria for an endangered classification under the International Union for Conservation of Nature framework (World Conservation Union, 2001), yet remain abov ...
Ted Hamilton∗ - Vermont Journal of Environmental Law
... based. Legal action at the core usually seeks government intervention to stop public or private contributions to warming or to provide relief from climate-change harms. The climate periphery is where issues indirectly related to global warming form the substance of legal conflict. Legal action here ...
... based. Legal action at the core usually seeks government intervention to stop public or private contributions to warming or to provide relief from climate-change harms. The climate periphery is where issues indirectly related to global warming form the substance of legal conflict. Legal action here ...
Changes in temperature and precipitation extremes in the CMIP5
... and climate extremes observed in the late 20th century are projected to continue into the future. A subsequent assessment by the IPCC in its special report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) confirms these assessments (Seneviratne et al. 2012). The li ...
... and climate extremes observed in the late 20th century are projected to continue into the future. A subsequent assessment by the IPCC in its special report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) confirms these assessments (Seneviratne et al. 2012). The li ...
climate change document
... sunlight passes through the atmosphere without being absorbed. Some of the sunlight striking the earth 1 is absorbed and converted to heat, which warms the surface. The surface 2 emits heat to the atmosphere, where some of it 3 is absorbed by greenhouse gases and 4 re-emitted toward the surface; som ...
... sunlight passes through the atmosphere without being absorbed. Some of the sunlight striking the earth 1 is absorbed and converted to heat, which warms the surface. The surface 2 emits heat to the atmosphere, where some of it 3 is absorbed by greenhouse gases and 4 re-emitted toward the surface; som ...
A mechanism for dust-induced destabilization of
... modern, an inversion develops (State 3, Fig. 1). In this state deep convection shuts off completely and deep convective precipitation is reduced by more than an order of magnitude ...
... modern, an inversion develops (State 3, Fig. 1). In this state deep convection shuts off completely and deep convective precipitation is reduced by more than an order of magnitude ...
Inter-hemispheric linkages in climate change
... J. Shulmeister et al.: PEP overview changes in heat transport through ocean (thermohaline) circulation (e.g. Broecker, 2000; Stocker, 2000). The focus for much of this work has centred on the termination of the last ice-age. The primary reason for this is that the warming associated with this termin ...
... J. Shulmeister et al.: PEP overview changes in heat transport through ocean (thermohaline) circulation (e.g. Broecker, 2000; Stocker, 2000). The focus for much of this work has centred on the termination of the last ice-age. The primary reason for this is that the warming associated with this termin ...
Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Carpathian region
... addition, the number of days with extreme water temperature (>28˚C) increases. This would have definite impacts on aquatic ecosystems. There is clear spatial variation in the identified climateinduced trends in thermal and runoff conditions, and consequently in the impacts on aquatic ecosystems. Whi ...
... addition, the number of days with extreme water temperature (>28˚C) increases. This would have definite impacts on aquatic ecosystems. There is clear spatial variation in the identified climateinduced trends in thermal and runoff conditions, and consequently in the impacts on aquatic ecosystems. Whi ...
Transboundary Water Management
... (UNEP, 2002). Such cooperation often starts with exchanging information between countries. Over time, cooperation may come to pass on different water management issues like joint projects and even joint planning (Enderlein, 1999). It should be noted, however, that while many initiatives are in place ...
... (UNEP, 2002). Such cooperation often starts with exchanging information between countries. Over time, cooperation may come to pass on different water management issues like joint projects and even joint planning (Enderlein, 1999). It should be noted, however, that while many initiatives are in place ...
Full English report
... Egypt was among the first Arab states to participate in the international initiatives on climate change, and has ratified both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. Egypt has several domestic initiatives to address climate change, including an int ...
... Egypt was among the first Arab states to participate in the international initiatives on climate change, and has ratified both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. Egypt has several domestic initiatives to address climate change, including an int ...
Developments - Burges Salmon
... one country (due to climate change policies) results in increase in the another country that lacks such laws. The result is that certain sectors suffer a material disadvantage to their competitors located in other regions without strict climate change laws. ...
... one country (due to climate change policies) results in increase in the another country that lacks such laws. The result is that certain sectors suffer a material disadvantage to their competitors located in other regions without strict climate change laws. ...
pdf file - Polar Science Center
... paleo evidence has clearly shown the tipping of one system due to the tipping of another. Tipping Elements and their tipping potential The most recent comprehensive assessment of a number of Tipping Elements and their interlinkage was presented by Kriegler et al. (2009). They conducted an expert eli ...
... paleo evidence has clearly shown the tipping of one system due to the tipping of another. Tipping Elements and their tipping potential The most recent comprehensive assessment of a number of Tipping Elements and their interlinkage was presented by Kriegler et al. (2009). They conducted an expert eli ...
The business aviation community has long been committed to
... depend equally on efficiency improvements that are projected from infrastructure modernization, operations and alternative fuels. Our community pledges an average of 2% improvement in fuel efficiency per year from now until 2020 on a fleetwide basis. We acknowledge the need for appropriately structu ...
... depend equally on efficiency improvements that are projected from infrastructure modernization, operations and alternative fuels. Our community pledges an average of 2% improvement in fuel efficiency per year from now until 2020 on a fleetwide basis. We acknowledge the need for appropriately structu ...
Severe Weather and Restaurants
... where or how they do business. For example, as ocean temperatures have risen, some fish species are migrating north to cooler waters. Among those affected most are American cod fishermen. In 2013, commercial fishing vessels caught less than 5 million pounds of Atlantic Cod in New England, a 71 perce ...
... where or how they do business. For example, as ocean temperatures have risen, some fish species are migrating north to cooler waters. Among those affected most are American cod fishermen. In 2013, commercial fishing vessels caught less than 5 million pounds of Atlantic Cod in New England, a 71 perce ...
Transformational adaptation
... a myriad of interconnected pressures, thresholds and boundaries. However, these terms may also threaten our sense of stability; a steady change from business as usual may be far more ...
... a myriad of interconnected pressures, thresholds and boundaries. However, these terms may also threaten our sense of stability; a steady change from business as usual may be far more ...