Climate Change and Restoration of Degraded Land
... addition, some one billion people in over one hundred countries are at risk. These people include many of the world’s poorest, most marginalized, and politically weak citizens. Land degradation issue for world food security and the quality of the environment land surface can be considered as prime o ...
... addition, some one billion people in over one hundred countries are at risk. These people include many of the world’s poorest, most marginalized, and politically weak citizens. Land degradation issue for world food security and the quality of the environment land surface can be considered as prime o ...
Observed relationships of ozone air pollution with temperature and
... Mid-Atlantic was 76 ppbv, and declined by 9 ppbv after 2002. [15] To investigate further the observational data for a relationship between ozone and temperature, we construct conditional ozone distributions corresponding to specific temperature ranges (Figure 3). For all regions, at all times, in an ...
... Mid-Atlantic was 76 ppbv, and declined by 9 ppbv after 2002. [15] To investigate further the observational data for a relationship between ozone and temperature, we construct conditional ozone distributions corresponding to specific temperature ranges (Figure 3). For all regions, at all times, in an ...
Mk3.5 simulations
... Decadal (10-30 year) prediction is a new and major focus of effort overseas. Time scale of greatest interest to planning in a wide range of applications Time scale is short enough that differences in the emissions scenarios of GHGs do not matter much Expect a well initialised model to provide ...
... Decadal (10-30 year) prediction is a new and major focus of effort overseas. Time scale of greatest interest to planning in a wide range of applications Time scale is short enough that differences in the emissions scenarios of GHGs do not matter much Expect a well initialised model to provide ...
Eco-environmental degradation in the northeastern margin of the
... Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau is one area severely affected by these changes. As a part of the Yellow River basin, the northeastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau is one of the most important inland bodies of water for the Yellow River, with about 18.6% of the runoff coming from this region. The so ...
... Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau is one area severely affected by these changes. As a part of the Yellow River basin, the northeastern margin of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau is one of the most important inland bodies of water for the Yellow River, with about 18.6% of the runoff coming from this region. The so ...
concluded
... ASC identified that in order to avoid maladaptation (that is adaptive actions which have a negative impact elsewhere, or at a later point in time), there is a need to quantify the UK’s vulnerability to climate change. Nelson (2011) highlights that both individual and governance risk and decision fra ...
... ASC identified that in order to avoid maladaptation (that is adaptive actions which have a negative impact elsewhere, or at a later point in time), there is a need to quantify the UK’s vulnerability to climate change. Nelson (2011) highlights that both individual and governance risk and decision fra ...
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 ...
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... Nevertheless, CO2-reductions benefits appear to be social and costs private. Agro-environmental programmes must be implemented to compensate resulting income losses. ...
... Nevertheless, CO2-reductions benefits appear to be social and costs private. Agro-environmental programmes must be implemented to compensate resulting income losses. ...
Carbon and climate system coupling on timescales from the
... Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles (last 1 million years), illuminating the links between orbital variability, cryosphere dynamics, ocean circulation and the marine carbon cycle. The post-glacial Holocene period (last 10,000 years) reveals subtler interactions between climate and carbon and sho ...
... Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles (last 1 million years), illuminating the links between orbital variability, cryosphere dynamics, ocean circulation and the marine carbon cycle. The post-glacial Holocene period (last 10,000 years) reveals subtler interactions between climate and carbon and sho ...
Recent pause in the growth rate of atmospheric CO2 associated with
... increased ocean9 and terrestrial uptake1,6–8,10, and has occurred despite an increase in the severity and intensity of regional disruptions to ecosystems in recent years, such as extensive droughts, wildfires and insect damage11–14. On land, reports suggest a decline in the tropical sink15,16, increa ...
... increased ocean9 and terrestrial uptake1,6–8,10, and has occurred despite an increase in the severity and intensity of regional disruptions to ecosystems in recent years, such as extensive droughts, wildfires and insect damage11–14. On land, reports suggest a decline in the tropical sink15,16, increa ...
The Indus Basin of Pakistan
... monsoon in 2009 created drought conditions throughout the country. This followed an already tenuous situation for many rural households faced with high fuel and fertilizer costs and the impacts of rising global food prices. To make matters worse, catastrophic monsoon flooding in 2010 affected more ...
... monsoon in 2009 created drought conditions throughout the country. This followed an already tenuous situation for many rural households faced with high fuel and fertilizer costs and the impacts of rising global food prices. To make matters worse, catastrophic monsoon flooding in 2010 affected more ...
The Conditional Nature of the Local Warming Effect
... that extends past research by exploring the generalizability, conditionality, and durability of the corrective information. It identifies the conditions under which a local warming effect is more or less likely to occur. ...
... that extends past research by exploring the generalizability, conditionality, and durability of the corrective information. It identifies the conditions under which a local warming effect is more or less likely to occur. ...
Future risk of record-breaking summer temperatures and its
... can therefore serve as case studies for a potential future norm. Here, we revisit this issue, using a new generation of climate model simulations and focusing on potential benefits from climate mitigation in light of different emission scenarios. A common approach to exploring the range of potential ...
... can therefore serve as case studies for a potential future norm. Here, we revisit this issue, using a new generation of climate model simulations and focusing on potential benefits from climate mitigation in light of different emission scenarios. A common approach to exploring the range of potential ...
Adaptive Capacity Benchmarking: Handbook and Tool Kit
... 1.1 Overview Climate change presents society with massive challenges, which go far beyond business as usual. As weather patterns change in ways that are both predictable and unpredictable, altering sea and river levels and the water cycle more generally, there will be impacts on communities, on asse ...
... 1.1 Overview Climate change presents society with massive challenges, which go far beyond business as usual. As weather patterns change in ways that are both predictable and unpredictable, altering sea and river levels and the water cycle more generally, there will be impacts on communities, on asse ...
Sustainable grape and wine production in the context of climate
... progress, for example in multi-criteria assessment of adaptation options. Favouring the dialogue between disciplines, AAFCC provides a framework for the various research projects on adaptation of agriculture and forests to climate change. Discipline-related skills in human and social sciences, agron ...
... progress, for example in multi-criteria assessment of adaptation options. Favouring the dialogue between disciplines, AAFCC provides a framework for the various research projects on adaptation of agriculture and forests to climate change. Discipline-related skills in human and social sciences, agron ...
Economic Analysis of Climate-Proofing Investment Projects
... Adjusting to the need for climate-resilient development will mean integrating responses to the physical, social, and economic impacts of climate change into all aspects of development planning and investment. The long-term strategic framework of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Strategy 2020, and i ...
... Adjusting to the need for climate-resilient development will mean integrating responses to the physical, social, and economic impacts of climate change into all aspects of development planning and investment. The long-term strategic framework of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Strategy 2020, and i ...
How will organic carbon stocks in mineral soils
... distribution or changes in anthropogenic land use. Furthermore, Sim-CYCLE implements a single soil C pool module to simulate SOC dynamics (Ito, 2005). However, Jones et al. (2005) have shown that such a simplification leads to an overall higher sensitivity of SOC to changes in climate and plant inpu ...
... distribution or changes in anthropogenic land use. Furthermore, Sim-CYCLE implements a single soil C pool module to simulate SOC dynamics (Ito, 2005). However, Jones et al. (2005) have shown that such a simplification leads to an overall higher sensitivity of SOC to changes in climate and plant inpu ...
Climate change during the last 150 million years: reconstruction
... Ca dissolution from the HTP region and the eroded HTP materials into the ocean to the worldwide total supply of Ca due to the global chemical weathering. This expression is used in this study because it may be more reasonable than that presented by Berner [6] to express the effect of the HTP uplift ...
... Ca dissolution from the HTP region and the eroded HTP materials into the ocean to the worldwide total supply of Ca due to the global chemical weathering. This expression is used in this study because it may be more reasonable than that presented by Berner [6] to express the effect of the HTP uplift ...
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... Only a subset of this land is economically feasible (incorporating both carbon and fibre values) Broad scale afforestation in Canada seems to be profitable if: – focus on fast growing species > 12 m³ / ha / yr at 20 yr rotation (economics very sensitive to growth rates) – market exists for carbon an ...
... Only a subset of this land is economically feasible (incorporating both carbon and fibre values) Broad scale afforestation in Canada seems to be profitable if: – focus on fast growing species > 12 m³ / ha / yr at 20 yr rotation (economics very sensitive to growth rates) – market exists for carbon an ...
The Economy, The Biosphere and Planetary Boundaries: Towards
... and the coevolving nature of people and the biosphere. Research can improve our understanding, but we will never be able to fully predict the future evolution of the global social-ecological system because of its complex and potentially chaotic dynamics. (Polasky et al., 2011a; Carpenter et al., 201 ...
... and the coevolving nature of people and the biosphere. Research can improve our understanding, but we will never be able to fully predict the future evolution of the global social-ecological system because of its complex and potentially chaotic dynamics. (Polasky et al., 2011a; Carpenter et al., 201 ...
Sensitivity of terrestrial precipitation trends to the structural evolution
... indicating that the leading PC of intermodel SST differences is associated with global mean SST increases (supporting information Figure S2). The largest related LSP changes occur over Australia, South America, the Horn of Africa, and the Arctic. Elsewhere, this relationship is relatively weak and s ...
... indicating that the leading PC of intermodel SST differences is associated with global mean SST increases (supporting information Figure S2). The largest related LSP changes occur over Australia, South America, the Horn of Africa, and the Arctic. Elsewhere, this relationship is relatively weak and s ...
Assessing the Impacts of Land Cover Change on
... according to land use/cover change, whereby regions with increased wind speed reduce warm day temperature extremes, despite increasing mean temperature trend, and have a greater impact on atmospheric water demand than those regions that mainly increase sensible heat fluxes. These results can explain ...
... according to land use/cover change, whereby regions with increased wind speed reduce warm day temperature extremes, despite increasing mean temperature trend, and have a greater impact on atmospheric water demand than those regions that mainly increase sensible heat fluxes. These results can explain ...
Global patterns in lake ecosystem responses to warming based on
... example, if the activation energy of a metabolismlinked variable were only 0.25 eV, the arctic/high-elevation site would have to warm only 1.75 times faster than the tropical/low-elevation site to have a larger metabolic response. Thus, global patterns in metabolic responses to climate warming in a ...
... example, if the activation energy of a metabolismlinked variable were only 0.25 eV, the arctic/high-elevation site would have to warm only 1.75 times faster than the tropical/low-elevation site to have a larger metabolic response. Thus, global patterns in metabolic responses to climate warming in a ...