Polar Bears: Proposed Listing Under the
... best available scientific understanding of the species and how it may be affected by changes in its habitat. Polar bears depend on Arctic sea ice, which most scientists acknowledge will be affected by climate warming causing, at minimum, an earlier annual or seasonal thaw and a later freeze of coast ...
... best available scientific understanding of the species and how it may be affected by changes in its habitat. Polar bears depend on Arctic sea ice, which most scientists acknowledge will be affected by climate warming causing, at minimum, an earlier annual or seasonal thaw and a later freeze of coast ...
References - Palmer LTER
... by E.I. Friedmann, pp. 1-63, Wiley-Liss, New York, 1993. *Karl, D.M., J.R. Christian, J.E. Dore, and R.M. Letelier, Microbiological oceanography in the region west of the Antarctic Peninsula: Microbial dynamics, nitrogen cycle and carbon flux, in Foundations for Ecological Research West of the Antar ...
... by E.I. Friedmann, pp. 1-63, Wiley-Liss, New York, 1993. *Karl, D.M., J.R. Christian, J.E. Dore, and R.M. Letelier, Microbiological oceanography in the region west of the Antarctic Peninsula: Microbial dynamics, nitrogen cycle and carbon flux, in Foundations for Ecological Research West of the Antar ...
Consequences of elevated temperature on prairie plants: legumes, nitrogen, and phenology
... temperature is focused on crop or forage species (Kessler et al. 1990, Zachariassen and Power 1991, Lilley et al. 2001). By contrast, very little research has examined the possible impacts of warming on legumes native to prairies despite the influential role of these species in these often N limited ...
... temperature is focused on crop or forage species (Kessler et al. 1990, Zachariassen and Power 1991, Lilley et al. 2001). By contrast, very little research has examined the possible impacts of warming on legumes native to prairies despite the influential role of these species in these often N limited ...
Maps of lands vulnerable to sea level rise: modeled elevations
... Throughout the 20th century, the level of the oceans rose relative to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States (see, e.g., Lyle et al. 1986, Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level 1999). Because the concentrations of carbon dioxide (Keeling et al. 1989, 1995), concentrations of other greenhou ...
... Throughout the 20th century, the level of the oceans rose relative to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States (see, e.g., Lyle et al. 1986, Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level 1999). Because the concentrations of carbon dioxide (Keeling et al. 1989, 1995), concentrations of other greenhou ...
Aow: Polar Bears and Climate Change
... bear. The arctic is full of leads and polynyas. Leads are cracks in the ice or water channels that stay open anywhere between minutes and months. How long they stay open depends on the weather. Polynyas are yearround areas of water with an ice surrounding. The polynyas provide breathing ground for m ...
... bear. The arctic is full of leads and polynyas. Leads are cracks in the ice or water channels that stay open anywhere between minutes and months. How long they stay open depends on the weather. Polynyas are yearround areas of water with an ice surrounding. The polynyas provide breathing ground for m ...
Glacier volume response time and its links to climate
... leads to longer response times than given by the simple ratio of glacier thickness to ablation at the terminus. Volume response times range from decades to thousands of years for glaciers in maritime (wet-warm) and continental (dry-cold) climates respectively. The combined effect of volume-area and ...
... leads to longer response times than given by the simple ratio of glacier thickness to ablation at the terminus. Volume response times range from decades to thousands of years for glaciers in maritime (wet-warm) and continental (dry-cold) climates respectively. The combined effect of volume-area and ...
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 ...
Strong increase in convective precipitation in response to higher
... precipitation are convection-resolving models. Although no support for intensity increases beyond the Clausius–Clapeyron rate was gained from some studies15,16 , others found that extreme rainfall at high temperatures may increase beyond the Clausius–Clapeyron rate, when the life cycle of individual ...
... precipitation are convection-resolving models. Although no support for intensity increases beyond the Clausius–Clapeyron rate was gained from some studies15,16 , others found that extreme rainfall at high temperatures may increase beyond the Clausius–Clapeyron rate, when the life cycle of individual ...
Man made Global Warming
... collapse of the monsoons in Asia, which can bring severe drought to Indonesia and northern Australia. The phenomenon also causes severe weather disturbances in other parts of the world, such as droughts in areas of Africa and central North America. Nature's Vicious Cycle (by National Geographic) It ...
... collapse of the monsoons in Asia, which can bring severe drought to Indonesia and northern Australia. The phenomenon also causes severe weather disturbances in other parts of the world, such as droughts in areas of Africa and central North America. Nature's Vicious Cycle (by National Geographic) It ...
Sea level variability at the Lithuanian coast of the Baltic Sea
... The long-term climate change has cyclic fluctuations. At present we are experiencing the warming period (IPCC 1992). It is known that to a large extent this warming process is influenced by astronomic and climatic factors, although anthropogenic factors are getting more and more important. According t ...
... The long-term climate change has cyclic fluctuations. At present we are experiencing the warming period (IPCC 1992). It is known that to a large extent this warming process is influenced by astronomic and climatic factors, although anthropogenic factors are getting more and more important. According t ...
Shifting plant phenology in response to global change
... approaches is necessary to understand how phenology will shift in response to different aspects of global change, and to identify the processes that scale between species and ecosystem phenology. Phenology and climate are intimately linked Phenology is a dominant and often overlooked aspect of plant ...
... approaches is necessary to understand how phenology will shift in response to different aspects of global change, and to identify the processes that scale between species and ecosystem phenology. Phenology and climate are intimately linked Phenology is a dominant and often overlooked aspect of plant ...
Annex II Risk profile outline
... review of the impacts of climate change on the dynamics and toxicity of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) (UNEP/AMAP, 2011). The Conference of the Parties (COP) decided to forward the outcome of the review to the POPs Review Committee (POPRC) to consider the possible implications of the interlink ...
... review of the impacts of climate change on the dynamics and toxicity of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) (UNEP/AMAP, 2011). The Conference of the Parties (COP) decided to forward the outcome of the review to the POPs Review Committee (POPRC) to consider the possible implications of the interlink ...
Marine productivity response to Heinrich events
... response of marine biogeochemistry to Heinrich-like events. Schmittner (2005), Obata (2007) and Bozbiyik et al. (2011) studies have been performed under preindustrial background climate, but as seen in Menviel et al. (2008) the structure of the marine productivity changes obtained under preindustria ...
... response of marine biogeochemistry to Heinrich-like events. Schmittner (2005), Obata (2007) and Bozbiyik et al. (2011) studies have been performed under preindustrial background climate, but as seen in Menviel et al. (2008) the structure of the marine productivity changes obtained under preindustria ...
print version
... Climate Trends [10] One of the most significant features in the observed surface data set is the asymmetric warming between maximum and minimum temperatures. Minimum temperatures have risen about 50% faster than maximum temperatures in the observed surface data set since 1950 [Vose et al., 2005]. Th ...
... Climate Trends [10] One of the most significant features in the observed surface data set is the asymmetric warming between maximum and minimum temperatures. Minimum temperatures have risen about 50% faster than maximum temperatures in the observed surface data set since 1950 [Vose et al., 2005]. Th ...
Climate controls on soil respired CO2 in the United States
... the 21st century as a result of increasing atmospheric CO2. The amount of respired CO2 stored in the soil atmosphere is heavily influenced by climate, and the concentration of CO2 in soils controls the concentration of dissolved CO2 ([CO2aq]) in pore water involved in chemical weathering. Therefore, ...
... the 21st century as a result of increasing atmospheric CO2. The amount of respired CO2 stored in the soil atmosphere is heavily influenced by climate, and the concentration of CO2 in soils controls the concentration of dissolved CO2 ([CO2aq]) in pore water involved in chemical weathering. Therefore, ...
a discussion based on contributions from climate modeling
... some studies have devoted efforts to the comparison of different approaches usually leading to the conclusion that they provide compatible results in the absence of severe local noisy conditions (Beck et al., 1992; Shen et al., 1992, 1996). Noise in BTPs is one of the non climatological perturbing f ...
... some studies have devoted efforts to the comparison of different approaches usually leading to the conclusion that they provide compatible results in the absence of severe local noisy conditions (Beck et al., 1992; Shen et al., 1992, 1996). Noise in BTPs is one of the non climatological perturbing f ...
Demographic, ecological, and physiological responses of
... Hudson Bay. Samples were collected in autumn (October to December) in Arviat. In Sanikiluaq, some samples were collected throughout the year but we used only autumn collections for age/sex composition as the late open-water season provides a representative sample of the population (see Holst, Stirl ...
... Hudson Bay. Samples were collected in autumn (October to December) in Arviat. In Sanikiluaq, some samples were collected throughout the year but we used only autumn collections for age/sex composition as the late open-water season provides a representative sample of the population (see Holst, Stirl ...
Carbon dioxide and climate impulse response functions for the
... to 117) × 10−15 yr W m−2 per kg-CO2 . Estimates for timeintegrated response in CO2 published in the IPCC First, Second, and Fourth Assessment and our multi-model best estimate all agree within 15 % during the first 100 yr. The integrated CO2 response, normalized by the pulse size, is lower for pre-i ...
... to 117) × 10−15 yr W m−2 per kg-CO2 . Estimates for timeintegrated response in CO2 published in the IPCC First, Second, and Fourth Assessment and our multi-model best estimate all agree within 15 % during the first 100 yr. The integrated CO2 response, normalized by the pulse size, is lower for pre-i ...
Bony et al., 2006
... although these processes might have a substantial impact on the magnitude, the pattern, or the timing of climate warming (NRC 2003). Water vapor constitutes a powerful greenhouse gas, and therefore an increase of water vapor with temperature will oppose the increase in radiative cooling due to incre ...
... although these processes might have a substantial impact on the magnitude, the pattern, or the timing of climate warming (NRC 2003). Water vapor constitutes a powerful greenhouse gas, and therefore an increase of water vapor with temperature will oppose the increase in radiative cooling due to incre ...
Physical impacts of climate change
This article is about the physical impacts of climate change. For some of these physical impacts, their effect on social and economic systems are also described.