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... over tropical waters in the Atlantic Ocean. They are fueled by the latent heat energy released by condensing water vapor. The latent heat required for a hurricane’s creation is only possible over warm, tropical oceans during summer.19 Severe hurricanes can produce damaging winds, torrential rainfall ...
... over tropical waters in the Atlantic Ocean. They are fueled by the latent heat energy released by condensing water vapor. The latent heat required for a hurricane’s creation is only possible over warm, tropical oceans during summer.19 Severe hurricanes can produce damaging winds, torrential rainfall ...
- American Meteorological Society
... Rasmussen et al. 2011). These climate change impacts can be considered predictable, at least to some extent, because of growing confidence that temperatures will increase throughout much of the globe in the coming decades (e.g., Meehl et al. 2007). The relatively high confidence that we have in the ...
... Rasmussen et al. 2011). These climate change impacts can be considered predictable, at least to some extent, because of growing confidence that temperatures will increase throughout much of the globe in the coming decades (e.g., Meehl et al. 2007). The relatively high confidence that we have in the ...
Twentieth-Century Global-Mean Sea Level Rise: Is the Whole
... (thus the red solid line of corrected V models in Fig. 1 meets the black line of the non-V models at 2000). Solar forcing, also included in the V models, is estimated to have increased over this period (Forster et al. 2007), which will have reduced the size of the correction. Making the correction c ...
... (thus the red solid line of corrected V models in Fig. 1 meets the black line of the non-V models at 2000). Solar forcing, also included in the V models, is estimated to have increased over this period (Forster et al. 2007), which will have reduced the size of the correction. Making the correction c ...
UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 Synthesis Report
... with a trend towards milder winters and hotter summers in recent decades. Sea levels globally and around the UK have risen by 15-20 centimetres since 1900. Whilst natural variability in the climate will continue to have a large influence on individual weather events, the recent episodes of severe an ...
... with a trend towards milder winters and hotter summers in recent decades. Sea levels globally and around the UK have risen by 15-20 centimetres since 1900. Whilst natural variability in the climate will continue to have a large influence on individual weather events, the recent episodes of severe an ...
Future changes in Mekong River hydrology
... its hydrology and the characteristics of its exceptional flood pulse. The rapid economic development of the riparian countries has led to massive plans for hydropower construction, and projected climate change is expected to alter the monsoon patterns and increase temperature in the basin. The aim o ...
... its hydrology and the characteristics of its exceptional flood pulse. The rapid economic development of the riparian countries has led to massive plans for hydropower construction, and projected climate change is expected to alter the monsoon patterns and increase temperature in the basin. The aim o ...
Friending Planet Earth - Catholic Climate Covenant
... of the world. The impacts of climate change are real and are taking their toll on the earth and its people. Youth worry about their future in a world where rain forests and oceans, clean water and air are threatened, and where rising temperatures create bigger storms and longer droughts. The Catholi ...
... of the world. The impacts of climate change are real and are taking their toll on the earth and its people. Youth worry about their future in a world where rain forests and oceans, clean water and air are threatened, and where rising temperatures create bigger storms and longer droughts. The Catholi ...
Gregory et al. (2013) - American Meteorological Society
... (thus the red solid line of corrected V models in Fig. 1 meets the black line of the non-V models at 2000). Solar forcing, also included in the V models, is estimated to have increased over this period (Forster et al. 2007), which will have reduced the size of the correction. Making the correction c ...
... (thus the red solid line of corrected V models in Fig. 1 meets the black line of the non-V models at 2000). Solar forcing, also included in the V models, is estimated to have increased over this period (Forster et al. 2007), which will have reduced the size of the correction. Making the correction c ...
Understanding Climate Induced Changes in Arctic Ice
... the surface air temperature and ice extent. Students plot time series data and use linear regressions for a few locations around the ~80° north latitude to quantify the changes in temperature and sea ice extent and rates of these changes. 3. Predict future changes in surface air temperature with a G ...
... the surface air temperature and ice extent. Students plot time series data and use linear regressions for a few locations around the ~80° north latitude to quantify the changes in temperature and sea ice extent and rates of these changes. 3. Predict future changes in surface air temperature with a G ...
Observed groundwater temperature response to recent climate
... revealed that they contain certain minor seasonal effects with annual variations up to ±0.2 K, which indicates an impact of ambient air temperature on the GWT during the sampling. The natural temperature variations due to seasonal GST variations in depths of over 20 m (Table 2) are expected to be le ...
... revealed that they contain certain minor seasonal effects with annual variations up to ±0.2 K, which indicates an impact of ambient air temperature on the GWT during the sampling. The natural temperature variations due to seasonal GST variations in depths of over 20 m (Table 2) are expected to be le ...
Module 1: Introduction to climate change in the context of
... contextual explanations are to be found in a) the dominant model of economic development and its fundamental dependence on energy; b) the challenges facing political leaders and policy makers to agree and enact courses of action for mitigation and adaptation. While human beings impact on climate ch ...
... contextual explanations are to be found in a) the dominant model of economic development and its fundamental dependence on energy; b) the challenges facing political leaders and policy makers to agree and enact courses of action for mitigation and adaptation. While human beings impact on climate ch ...
Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems
... synthesis of 688 separate published studies (Table S1) that have each examined the effect of at least one GEC driver on at least one interaction type (Figs S1–S5), totalling over 1000 specific species interactions. The number of specific pairwise interactions (or entire communities, when interaction ...
... synthesis of 688 separate published studies (Table S1) that have each examined the effect of at least one GEC driver on at least one interaction type (Figs S1–S5), totalling over 1000 specific species interactions. The number of specific pairwise interactions (or entire communities, when interaction ...
Changes in potential habitat of 147 North American breeding bird
... We used long-term (30-yr averages), downscaled, monthly data for current and future climates, provided by Hayhoe et al. (2006) from three general circulation model outputs: the HadleyCM3 model (hereafter abbreviated HAD) (Pope 2000), the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) (GFDL CM2.1) mode ...
... We used long-term (30-yr averages), downscaled, monthly data for current and future climates, provided by Hayhoe et al. (2006) from three general circulation model outputs: the HadleyCM3 model (hereafter abbreviated HAD) (Pope 2000), the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) (GFDL CM2.1) mode ...
Noctilucent Clouds
... CH4 oxidizes with OH in the stratosphere to become water: CH4 + OH > CH3 + H2O •NLCs are therefore a visible indication of climate change “The miners canary” of climate change ...
... CH4 oxidizes with OH in the stratosphere to become water: CH4 + OH > CH3 + H2O •NLCs are therefore a visible indication of climate change “The miners canary” of climate change ...
Common Concern and Global Public Goods: Evidence, Bits and
... of mitigation and adaptation, many uncertainties persist. One of the biggest problems is the difficulty of defining the appropriate costs of climate change and of opportunity costs thereof. Both are crucial for future cost–benefit analysis.6 As projection periods extends further into the future, sma ...
... of mitigation and adaptation, many uncertainties persist. One of the biggest problems is the difficulty of defining the appropriate costs of climate change and of opportunity costs thereof. Both are crucial for future cost–benefit analysis.6 As projection periods extends further into the future, sma ...
A Hybrid Approach to the Valuation of Climate Change
... the nature of the forest ecosystem service. For example, cultural values reveal to be more sensitive to the four IPCC scenarios than the other ones, with the wood forest products being the more resilient to climate change. Second, the distributional impacts of climate change on the provision of thes ...
... the nature of the forest ecosystem service. For example, cultural values reveal to be more sensitive to the four IPCC scenarios than the other ones, with the wood forest products being the more resilient to climate change. Second, the distributional impacts of climate change on the provision of thes ...
S1501174_en.pdf
... The views expressed in this document, that has been reproduced without formal editing, are strictly those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Organization or of the partner institutions. Text was prepared by Julie Lennox, Diana Ramírez and Jaime Olivares, Staff of the Agri ...
... The views expressed in this document, that has been reproduced without formal editing, are strictly those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Organization or of the partner institutions. Text was prepared by Julie Lennox, Diana Ramírez and Jaime Olivares, Staff of the Agri ...
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... By the middle of the twenty-first century, world population is expected to reach 9.6 billion (United Nations 2013). This growth is projected to occur primarily in developing countries, where dependency on cereal imports is already high and is likely to increase. International trade will play an impo ...
... By the middle of the twenty-first century, world population is expected to reach 9.6 billion (United Nations 2013). This growth is projected to occur primarily in developing countries, where dependency on cereal imports is already high and is likely to increase. International trade will play an impo ...
climate change - Saskatchewan.ca
... to be solved for the sake of current and future generations. Climate change is real. Science tells us it is caused by factors that can be divided into two categories: factors related to natural processes and factors related to human activity.1 As we go about the business of feeding people and buildi ...
... to be solved for the sake of current and future generations. Climate change is real. Science tells us it is caused by factors that can be divided into two categories: factors related to natural processes and factors related to human activity.1 As we go about the business of feeding people and buildi ...
- Student Organizations
... The impacts of climate change are likely to affect the lives of millions of people around the globe. With the predicted dangers of climate change displacement, the existing international legal framework and its laws and institutions do not adequately address the emerging crisis. There is no legally ...
... The impacts of climate change are likely to affect the lives of millions of people around the globe. With the predicted dangers of climate change displacement, the existing international legal framework and its laws and institutions do not adequately address the emerging crisis. There is no legally ...
Defining the climate adaptation-migration nexus: what role for
... shape migration patterns, and how such patterns in turn affect the livelihoods and resilience of individuals, households and communities in areas experiencing the impacts of climate change in the form of desertification, soil degradation, disrupted rainfall patterns and changes in temperature. Altho ...
... shape migration patterns, and how such patterns in turn affect the livelihoods and resilience of individuals, households and communities in areas experiencing the impacts of climate change in the form of desertification, soil degradation, disrupted rainfall patterns and changes in temperature. Altho ...
Climate Vulnerability in Asia`s High Mountains
... In its 2013 Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identified AHM as a region likely to receive increasingly extreme and variable weather due to shifts in climate (IPCC, 2013b). Regional studies have shown that a single extreme weather event can account for as much a ...
... In its 2013 Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) identified AHM as a region likely to receive increasingly extreme and variable weather due to shifts in climate (IPCC, 2013b). Regional studies have shown that a single extreme weather event can account for as much a ...