PDF Format - Department of Environmental Sciences
... their remote influence on the North Pacific and North Atlantic summer anticyclones. J. Climate, 26, 45964611, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00343.1. DeAngelis, A. M., A. J. Broccoli, and S. G. Decker, 2013: A comparison of CMIP3 simulations of precipitation over North America with observations: Daily stati ...
... their remote influence on the North Pacific and North Atlantic summer anticyclones. J. Climate, 26, 45964611, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00343.1. DeAngelis, A. M., A. J. Broccoli, and S. G. Decker, 2013: A comparison of CMIP3 simulations of precipitation over North America with observations: Daily stati ...
A Brewing Storm - The Climate Institute
... intense weather events, such as torrential downpours and droughts, as well as long-term climatic shifts. As today’s suitable areas shrink, some producers will try to push further up the mountain, potentially bringing coffee into conflict with other land uses (Fig. 2 ‘Coffee Farming in a Changing Cli ...
... intense weather events, such as torrential downpours and droughts, as well as long-term climatic shifts. As today’s suitable areas shrink, some producers will try to push further up the mountain, potentially bringing coffee into conflict with other land uses (Fig. 2 ‘Coffee Farming in a Changing Cli ...
Implications of recent sea level rise science for low
... elevation datasets that quantify potential socioeconomic and ecological impacts of SLR, omission of hydrological connectivity may result in overestimations of possible impacts. Exclusion of tidal wetlands landward of specified shorelines also may generate impact estimates that are too high. Incorpor ...
... elevation datasets that quantify potential socioeconomic and ecological impacts of SLR, omission of hydrological connectivity may result in overestimations of possible impacts. Exclusion of tidal wetlands landward of specified shorelines also may generate impact estimates that are too high. Incorpor ...
Climate and carbon cycle dynamics in a CESM simulation from 850
... a prognostic fire module, which is governed by near-surface soil moisture conditions and fuel availability. The ocean component is the Parallel Ocean Program version 2 (POP2; Smith et al., 2010; Danabasoglu et al., 2012) with an nominal 1◦ horizontal resolution and 60 depth levels. The horizontal re ...
... a prognostic fire module, which is governed by near-surface soil moisture conditions and fuel availability. The ocean component is the Parallel Ocean Program version 2 (POP2; Smith et al., 2010; Danabasoglu et al., 2012) with an nominal 1◦ horizontal resolution and 60 depth levels. The horizontal re ...
Managing Physical Impacts of Climate Change: An Attentional
... change of December 2015, adaptation has finally achieved equal footing with the need for mitigation. In the development of the global agreement on climate change, countries no longer just developed plans to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also set out how they would adapt to physical impa ...
... change of December 2015, adaptation has finally achieved equal footing with the need for mitigation. In the development of the global agreement on climate change, countries no longer just developed plans to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, but also set out how they would adapt to physical impa ...
National Capacity Self Assessment
... Weak central planning at the national level for the UNFCCC activities Weak mobilization of capacities at the national level for the UNFCCC activities Need for implementation of activities necessary for the capacity of monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning. No regulations to set obli ...
... Weak central planning at the national level for the UNFCCC activities Weak mobilization of capacities at the national level for the UNFCCC activities Need for implementation of activities necessary for the capacity of monitoring, evaluation, reporting and learning. No regulations to set obli ...
Accessing and Using Climate Data and Information in Fragile, Data
... sustainable interventions. Information on current conditions and short-term forecasts can influence immediate response and relief operations, while longer-term forecasts and threat assessments can feed into preparedness planning, such as decisions on where to locate refugee camps or access water sou ...
... sustainable interventions. Information on current conditions and short-term forecasts can influence immediate response and relief operations, while longer-term forecasts and threat assessments can feed into preparedness planning, such as decisions on where to locate refugee camps or access water sou ...
A Critical Analysis of the Kyoto Protocol using Monte Carlo
... objective towards the stabilisation of GHGs in the atmosphere at a level preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system (UNFCCC, 2012). Signatory parties are bound to an aggregated reduction commitment of around five percent below 1990 levels for a range of gases, by measure ...
... objective towards the stabilisation of GHGs in the atmosphere at a level preventing dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system (UNFCCC, 2012). Signatory parties are bound to an aggregated reduction commitment of around five percent below 1990 levels for a range of gases, by measure ...
固碳林业与碳贸易 - EESC European Economic and Social Committee
... average temperature has risen by 0.74C±0.18C. Temperature rise range in the northern hemisphere during the 20th century might be the highest in the past 1000 years. The rainfall distribution has changed as well. Rainfall in continental areas, especially in middle and high altitude has increased, w ...
... average temperature has risen by 0.74C±0.18C. Temperature rise range in the northern hemisphere during the 20th century might be the highest in the past 1000 years. The rainfall distribution has changed as well. Rainfall in continental areas, especially in middle and high altitude has increased, w ...
Research and Information Gathering on Climate Change Mitigation
... (GGH). 2. To provide land-use planning best practices from leading comparable jurisdictions (city regions), including key land-use indicators, land-use planning objectives, key information needs, planning tools, policies and performance measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change. 3. To provide ...
... (GGH). 2. To provide land-use planning best practices from leading comparable jurisdictions (city regions), including key land-use indicators, land-use planning objectives, key information needs, planning tools, policies and performance measures to mitigate and adapt to climate change. 3. To provide ...
Climate evolution in the last five centuries
... in the absence of large anthropogenic influences. This level of natural variability, either caused by the internal dynamics of the climate system or induced by variations in the external forcing, forms the framework in which the global tropospheric warming observed in the 20th century has to be inte ...
... in the absence of large anthropogenic influences. This level of natural variability, either caused by the internal dynamics of the climate system or induced by variations in the external forcing, forms the framework in which the global tropospheric warming observed in the 20th century has to be inte ...
Drivers for the renaissance of coal
... increasingly rely on coal to satisfy their growing energy demand. The low price of coal relative to gas and oil has played an important role in accelerating coal consumption since the end of the 1990s. In this article, we show that in the increasingly integrated global coal market the availability o ...
... increasingly rely on coal to satisfy their growing energy demand. The low price of coal relative to gas and oil has played an important role in accelerating coal consumption since the end of the 1990s. In this article, we show that in the increasingly integrated global coal market the availability o ...
Linköping University Postprint Technology obscuring equity
... prelude to intense negotiations leading to the creation of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The CDM is one of three instruments designed to contribute to the Kyoto Protocol’s ambitions of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the North, in the first commitment period, to at least on average 5% ...
... prelude to intense negotiations leading to the creation of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The CDM is one of three instruments designed to contribute to the Kyoto Protocol’s ambitions of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the North, in the first commitment period, to at least on average 5% ...
Earth`s Climate System
... With all the media reports about climate change, people in your community turn to you to help them figure out if it is really happening. They ask you to generate a common sense index of climate change that could be used by long-time residents (longer than 20 years) of your community. The index shoul ...
... With all the media reports about climate change, people in your community turn to you to help them figure out if it is really happening. They ask you to generate a common sense index of climate change that could be used by long-time residents (longer than 20 years) of your community. The index shoul ...
Climate Change: Northern Australia (CERF)
... Capricorn). First is to identify adaptive strategies to deal with climate change in each jurisdiction. Second the work identifies issues for adaptation in water resource management across the region in light of potential impacts and local conditions. Over half of Australia‘s annual runoff occurs in ...
... Capricorn). First is to identify adaptive strategies to deal with climate change in each jurisdiction. Second the work identifies issues for adaptation in water resource management across the region in light of potential impacts and local conditions. Over half of Australia‘s annual runoff occurs in ...
Cosmic rays and space weather: effects on global climate change
... Received: 1 February 2011 – Revised: 12 September 2011 – Accepted: 9 October 2011 – Published: 4 January 2012 ...
... Received: 1 February 2011 – Revised: 12 September 2011 – Accepted: 9 October 2011 – Published: 4 January 2012 ...
Guidelines for Responding to the Effects of Climate Change in
... environment, although highly variable, remains statistically static and that probability distributions for prime environmental factors such as wind speed, wave height, flood frequency and sea level are unchanging with time. Efforts have therefore centred on the already difficult problem of estimatin ...
... environment, although highly variable, remains statistically static and that probability distributions for prime environmental factors such as wind speed, wave height, flood frequency and sea level are unchanging with time. Efforts have therefore centred on the already difficult problem of estimatin ...
Energy Supply and the Sustainability of Endogenous Growth
... Regarding the use of energy as an input two threats to sustainability are regularly highlighted: the source problem, i.e. the supply of energy, and the sink problem, i.e. pollution generated by the consumption of energy resources. Ever since the Club of Rome’s publication of the "Limits to Growth" a ...
... Regarding the use of energy as an input two threats to sustainability are regularly highlighted: the source problem, i.e. the supply of energy, and the sink problem, i.e. pollution generated by the consumption of energy resources. Ever since the Club of Rome’s publication of the "Limits to Growth" a ...
Progress in Physical Geography Sea levels: resolution and uncertainty
... sea-level rise. This employs a simple semiempirical model based on the relationship between global sea level (derived from Church and White, 2006) and temperature (derived from Hansen et al., 2001) for the period 1880–2001. When driven by future warming scenarios of 1.4–5.8˚C, the model simulates 0. ...
... sea-level rise. This employs a simple semiempirical model based on the relationship between global sea level (derived from Church and White, 2006) and temperature (derived from Hansen et al., 2001) for the period 1880–2001. When driven by future warming scenarios of 1.4–5.8˚C, the model simulates 0. ...
Deceitful Tongues: Is Climate Change Denial A Crime?
... GLOBAL WARMING 20 (2009); Naomi Oreskes, The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change, 306 SCIENCE 1686 (2004) (noting that consensus existed as early as 1993); Reuven S. Avi-Yonah & David M. Uhlmann, Combating Global Climate Change: Why a Carbon Tax is a Better Response to Global Warming Than Cap and ...
... GLOBAL WARMING 20 (2009); Naomi Oreskes, The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change, 306 SCIENCE 1686 (2004) (noting that consensus existed as early as 1993); Reuven S. Avi-Yonah & David M. Uhlmann, Combating Global Climate Change: Why a Carbon Tax is a Better Response to Global Warming Than Cap and ...
Climate change hastens the turnover of stream fish assemblages
... live in. Most of the previous studies exploring climate change impacts on freshwater fish have been conducted in North America (Minns & Moore, 1995; Eaton & Sheller, 1996; Magnuson et al., 1997; Jackson & Mandrak, 2002; Mohseni et al., 2003; Chu et al., 2005; Sharma et al., 2007) and frequently conc ...
... live in. Most of the previous studies exploring climate change impacts on freshwater fish have been conducted in North America (Minns & Moore, 1995; Eaton & Sheller, 1996; Magnuson et al., 1997; Jackson & Mandrak, 2002; Mohseni et al., 2003; Chu et al., 2005; Sharma et al., 2007) and frequently conc ...
article - American Scientist
... the order of 0.3 percent per year. Plass pointed out that humanity was conducting a large-scale experiment on the atmosphere, the results of which would not be available for several generations: “If at the end of this century, the average temperature has continued to rise and in addition measurement ...
... the order of 0.3 percent per year. Plass pointed out that humanity was conducting a large-scale experiment on the atmosphere, the results of which would not be available for several generations: “If at the end of this century, the average temperature has continued to rise and in addition measurement ...
Climate-change studies in the western Himalaya
... percentage, number of occurrences of western disturbances and number of snowfall days at 18 SASE station locations, situated in different ranges of the western Himalaya, are considered. It should be noted that data for different parameters are available for different time periods. Only years when co ...
... percentage, number of occurrences of western disturbances and number of snowfall days at 18 SASE station locations, situated in different ranges of the western Himalaya, are considered. It should be noted that data for different parameters are available for different time periods. Only years when co ...
Climate Smart Agriculture
... collaboration, innovation and capacity investments by all stakeholders – at an unprecedented scale. Food, resources, fresh water, energy and climate change are entangled ...
... collaboration, innovation and capacity investments by all stakeholders – at an unprecedented scale. Food, resources, fresh water, energy and climate change are entangled ...
Institutional and technological innovation: Understanding
... conditions, and their supporting institutions, while the others are scientific knowledge embedded in the institutions that are designed to minimize uncertainties at the decision level. Yet, much of what is known about the process of technological innovations in agriculture and the role of institution ...
... conditions, and their supporting institutions, while the others are scientific knowledge embedded in the institutions that are designed to minimize uncertainties at the decision level. Yet, much of what is known about the process of technological innovations in agriculture and the role of institution ...