It Depends Which Way the Wind Blows
... and this link is recognised internationally. Engagement with the first nation peoples over the policies and directions of climate change initiatives needs to be a focus of national and state programs. Aboriginal people across South Australia need to be fully included in climate change discussions, p ...
... and this link is recognised internationally. Engagement with the first nation peoples over the policies and directions of climate change initiatives needs to be a focus of national and state programs. Aboriginal people across South Australia need to be fully included in climate change discussions, p ...
Does extreme precipitation intensity depend on the emissions
... heat flux, a fundamental constraint governing its change [e.g., Pendergrass and Hartmann, 2014b]. The change in atmospheric radiative cooling, and thus global-mean precipitation, per degree warming for any component of the forcing in isolation (GHG or aerosols) is similar across emissions scenarios. ...
... heat flux, a fundamental constraint governing its change [e.g., Pendergrass and Hartmann, 2014b]. The change in atmospheric radiative cooling, and thus global-mean precipitation, per degree warming for any component of the forcing in isolation (GHG or aerosols) is similar across emissions scenarios. ...
Questions and Answers about the Environmental Effects of the
... Assessment Panel. Each panel covers a designated area with a natural degree of overlap. The main reports of the Panels are published every four years, as required by the Meeting of the Parties. All three reports have an executive summary that is distributed more widely than the entire reports. It ha ...
... Assessment Panel. Each panel covers a designated area with a natural degree of overlap. The main reports of the Panels are published every four years, as required by the Meeting of the Parties. All three reports have an executive summary that is distributed more widely than the entire reports. It ha ...
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
... the techniques used to couple the components to each other and specifically to the 2-D atmospheric component of the IGSM2 (Section 3). This setup (2-D atmosphere/3-D ocean) is still flexible and efficient and will be used in various studies of uncertainty and in atmospheric CO2 stabilization scenari ...
... the techniques used to couple the components to each other and specifically to the 2-D atmospheric component of the IGSM2 (Section 3). This setup (2-D atmosphere/3-D ocean) is still flexible and efficient and will be used in various studies of uncertainty and in atmospheric CO2 stabilization scenari ...
Obliquity pacing of the late Pleistocene glacial terminations
... promotes basal melting. Enhanced lubrication of the ice-bedrock interface may trigger deglaciation by increasing ice-flux into the ocean or toward lower latitudes, as well as by increasing the thinning rate and causing inward migration of the ablation zone20 . Note that ∼10ky is required for surface ...
... promotes basal melting. Enhanced lubrication of the ice-bedrock interface may trigger deglaciation by increasing ice-flux into the ocean or toward lower latitudes, as well as by increasing the thinning rate and causing inward migration of the ablation zone20 . Note that ∼10ky is required for surface ...
- UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... B.1. Description of Financial Elements of the Project / Programme 5. The Government of Pakistan is requesting full concessionality of GCF resources to carry out the proposed interventions. Without grant resources, the proposed interventions would not be financed. First, with a debt of about 62% of i ...
... B.1. Description of Financial Elements of the Project / Programme 5. The Government of Pakistan is requesting full concessionality of GCF resources to carry out the proposed interventions. Without grant resources, the proposed interventions would not be financed. First, with a debt of about 62% of i ...
Simulating thermal pollution caused by a hypothetical groundwater
... thermal regime. Moreover, climate change is expected to increase surface air temperature and change the precipitation regime leading to frequent and intense extreme events. The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that the ris ...
... thermal regime. Moreover, climate change is expected to increase surface air temperature and change the precipitation regime leading to frequent and intense extreme events. The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that the ris ...
Institutions for Climate Adaptation: An are Relevant for Climate Change
... The 1997 Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement which was adopted as a followup to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Kyoto Protocol sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European Union with respect to their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ...
... The 1997 Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement which was adopted as a followup to the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Kyoto Protocol sets binding targets for 37 industrialized countries and the European Union with respect to their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ...
A georeferenced agent-based model to analyze the
... not match with the reality of ski area operations that require 30-100 cm of snow to open a ski run. A few studies create statistical relationships between the length of season and snow depth or other climatological parameters (Moen and Fredmand, 2007). One of the major limitations of these studies ...
... not match with the reality of ski area operations that require 30-100 cm of snow to open a ski run. A few studies create statistical relationships between the length of season and snow depth or other climatological parameters (Moen and Fredmand, 2007). One of the major limitations of these studies ...
The role played by social-ecological resilience as a method of
... consider SER to be more than a system’s ability to maintain structure and function in the face of disturbance. It is the system’s ability to adapt, learn, and allow for continuous development under climate change. These principles have been largely accepted in the resilience literature. Notwithstand ...
... consider SER to be more than a system’s ability to maintain structure and function in the face of disturbance. It is the system’s ability to adapt, learn, and allow for continuous development under climate change. These principles have been largely accepted in the resilience literature. Notwithstand ...
Assessing resilience of the Nile Delta urban
... deal with these cities as if they exist and function in a vacuum, but rather within their hinterland (context). Accordingly, in this paper, we focus on urban resilience at two levels: the first is at the city level and secondly the surrounding areas within which they exist. The Nile Delta shoreline ...
... deal with these cities as if they exist and function in a vacuum, but rather within their hinterland (context). Accordingly, in this paper, we focus on urban resilience at two levels: the first is at the city level and secondly the surrounding areas within which they exist. The Nile Delta shoreline ...
Interdependence
... responsible for others. It has been deployed in a number of ways and done both academic and political work through the course of the last century, which is reviewed in the opening section. Though it may be a reference point in many contexts and fields, we are applying the term in relation to the mul ...
... responsible for others. It has been deployed in a number of ways and done both academic and political work through the course of the last century, which is reviewed in the opening section. Though it may be a reference point in many contexts and fields, we are applying the term in relation to the mul ...
Self-Governance and Peer Review in Science-for
... IPCC certification that the drafting and review process has been successfully completed. It is an expression of trust in the authors and the process, and is explicitly distinguished from “approval,” or detailed review on a line-by-line basis. Operating under these definitions, the IPCC Plenary “appr ...
... IPCC certification that the drafting and review process has been successfully completed. It is an expression of trust in the authors and the process, and is explicitly distinguished from “approval,” or detailed review on a line-by-line basis. Operating under these definitions, the IPCC Plenary “appr ...
Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
... would need to produce 6.2 metric tons of calcite, a volume of 2.3 m3. By this simple example, it is easy to imagine how the world’s 6.6 billion people can contribute so much CO2 annually to the Earth’s atmosphere. Manufacturing, transport of goods, and production of cement all add to the total. Huma ...
... would need to produce 6.2 metric tons of calcite, a volume of 2.3 m3. By this simple example, it is easy to imagine how the world’s 6.6 billion people can contribute so much CO2 annually to the Earth’s atmosphere. Manufacturing, transport of goods, and production of cement all add to the total. Huma ...
The Response of Precipitation Minus
... 2014), it seems that there may be a robust and widespread mechanism retarding the response of the terrestrial water cycle to global warming. Here, we investigate the physical mechanisms controlling projected changes in P 2 E over all land regions in simulations from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Inte ...
... 2014), it seems that there may be a robust and widespread mechanism retarding the response of the terrestrial water cycle to global warming. Here, we investigate the physical mechanisms controlling projected changes in P 2 E over all land regions in simulations from phase 5 of the Coupled Model Inte ...
How firms can use psychology to create successful energy
... Households’ energy consumption and its inherent CO2 emissions are major causes for global climate change (Levine et al., 2007; Niederberger & Spalding-Fecher, 2006). Any solution to rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere critically depends on decreasing levels of energy consumption and increasing su ...
... Households’ energy consumption and its inherent CO2 emissions are major causes for global climate change (Levine et al., 2007; Niederberger & Spalding-Fecher, 2006). Any solution to rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere critically depends on decreasing levels of energy consumption and increasing su ...
Response of Trees to CO2 Increase
... Among the principal abiotic requirements for plant growth, namely, light, water, nutrients and carbon dioxide, CO2 is an anthropogenic gas associated with potential global warming. Any change in the availability of the above abiotic elements will impact not only plants, but the entire living systems ...
... Among the principal abiotic requirements for plant growth, namely, light, water, nutrients and carbon dioxide, CO2 is an anthropogenic gas associated with potential global warming. Any change in the availability of the above abiotic elements will impact not only plants, but the entire living systems ...
A Briefing for Councillors
... opinion concluded that, “the precise choice of investment may be influenced by wider social, ethical or environmental considerations, so long as that that does not risk material financial detriment to the fund.”27 A wider review of fiduciary duties was produced by the Law Commission (England & Wales ...
... opinion concluded that, “the precise choice of investment may be influenced by wider social, ethical or environmental considerations, so long as that that does not risk material financial detriment to the fund.”27 A wider review of fiduciary duties was produced by the Law Commission (England & Wales ...
A simple carbon cycle representation for
... see Hof et al, 2012; van Vuuren et al, 2011), but linearized representations cannot fully reproduce the ocean response to increased atmospheric CO2 : rapid initial uptake followed by a slow ‘long-tail’ equilibration stage. In state-of-the-art climate models, about half of a CO2 perturbation is lost ...
... see Hof et al, 2012; van Vuuren et al, 2011), but linearized representations cannot fully reproduce the ocean response to increased atmospheric CO2 : rapid initial uptake followed by a slow ‘long-tail’ equilibration stage. In state-of-the-art climate models, about half of a CO2 perturbation is lost ...
An ensemble analysis to predict future habitats of striped marlin
... using generalized additive models fitted to data from longline fisheries. Future distributions were predicted using an ensemble analysis, which represents the uncertainty due to several global climate models and greenhouse gas emission scenarios. The increase in water temperature driven by climate cha ...
... using generalized additive models fitted to data from longline fisheries. Future distributions were predicted using an ensemble analysis, which represents the uncertainty due to several global climate models and greenhouse gas emission scenarios. The increase in water temperature driven by climate cha ...
DownloadTéléchargez - Canadian Institute of Planners
... middle income countries with a basic knowledge of climate change and the desire to address it. While it is targeted at local government planners in particular, it recognizes that all types of planners (e.g., transportation planners, local economic development specialists, civil engineers, architects ...
... middle income countries with a basic knowledge of climate change and the desire to address it. While it is targeted at local government planners in particular, it recognizes that all types of planners (e.g., transportation planners, local economic development specialists, civil engineers, architects ...
Poverty in Central Asia
... abundance of arable land,3 the region has nonetheless been dogged by persistent poverty, both in the more developed, urbanized, oil-rich west (near the Aral and Caspian Seas) and in the isolated, mountainous east. As we are all quite well aware, despite the amazing advances in science, technology, ...
... abundance of arable land,3 the region has nonetheless been dogged by persistent poverty, both in the more developed, urbanized, oil-rich west (near the Aral and Caspian Seas) and in the isolated, mountainous east. As we are all quite well aware, despite the amazing advances in science, technology, ...
- NERC Open Research Archive
... present day changes exceed the natural range. Palaeorecords show that periods of long-term stability and periods of change are both normal. In addition, non-linear abrupt climate changes can also occur. 3. Concentrations of the greenhouse gas CO2 in the atmosphere have ranged from ~3000 ppm (parts p ...
... present day changes exceed the natural range. Palaeorecords show that periods of long-term stability and periods of change are both normal. In addition, non-linear abrupt climate changes can also occur. 3. Concentrations of the greenhouse gas CO2 in the atmosphere have ranged from ~3000 ppm (parts p ...
Earth System
... A star is close enough to warm Earth and its atmosphere. Temp. permits liquid water, thus, weathering and erosion. Biotic evolution has transformed the planet. ...
... A star is close enough to warm Earth and its atmosphere. Temp. permits liquid water, thus, weathering and erosion. Biotic evolution has transformed the planet. ...