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Climate Change Presentation
... Harming agriculture, promoting soil erosion, reducing water supplies, and triggering fires ...
... Harming agriculture, promoting soil erosion, reducing water supplies, and triggering fires ...
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
... The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is an organization for research, independent policy analysis, and public education in global environmental change. It seeks to provide leadership in understanding scientific, economic, and ecological aspects of this difficult issue, a ...
... The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change is an organization for research, independent policy analysis, and public education in global environmental change. It seeks to provide leadership in understanding scientific, economic, and ecological aspects of this difficult issue, a ...
The Response of Precipitation Minus Evapotranspiration
... any regions with decreases in P 2 E, and it overestimates increases in P 2 E compared to the simulations. Changes in circulation cause deviations from the simple scaling, but they are not sufficient to explain this systematic moist bias. It is shown here that horizontal gradients of changes in tempe ...
... any regions with decreases in P 2 E, and it overestimates increases in P 2 E compared to the simulations. Changes in circulation cause deviations from the simple scaling, but they are not sufficient to explain this systematic moist bias. It is shown here that horizontal gradients of changes in tempe ...
Carbon Dioxide Sequestration
... Few subjects have been more polarizing over the past decade than global warming. A large body of evidence CO2 concentration and temperature. An example of one demonstrates that global temperatures are rising. Eleven such correlation is shown in Figure 1. A strong connection exists between temperatur ...
... Few subjects have been more polarizing over the past decade than global warming. A large body of evidence CO2 concentration and temperature. An example of one demonstrates that global temperatures are rising. Eleven such correlation is shown in Figure 1. A strong connection exists between temperatur ...
2.0 Climate Change: Scenarios for the Indian Ocean Territories
... As with many small islands around the world, the Indian Ocean Territories (IOT) – comprising Christmas Island (CI) and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CKI) – are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are a group of 27 low lying coral atolls located in the Indian Ocean ...
... As with many small islands around the world, the Indian Ocean Territories (IOT) – comprising Christmas Island (CI) and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands (CKI) – are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are a group of 27 low lying coral atolls located in the Indian Ocean ...
Precipitation response of monsoon low
... Pattanaik and Rajeevan, 2010]. Intense rainfall over very short time periods can lead to fatal flooding and landslides, and thus, it is important to understand the meteorological conditions leading to these extreme events. Even though the warming of the climate system due to the increase in greenhous ...
... Pattanaik and Rajeevan, 2010]. Intense rainfall over very short time periods can lead to fatal flooding and landslides, and thus, it is important to understand the meteorological conditions leading to these extreme events. Even though the warming of the climate system due to the increase in greenhous ...
Ensemble projections of future streamflow droughts in Europe
... trend towards decreasing low flows in most regions of Europe where the lowest mean monthly flow occurs in summer. Some regional studies have confirmed the trend towards reduced low-flow conditions in southern and eastern Norway (Wilson et al., 2010), the Pyrenees in France (Renard et al., 2008), and ...
... trend towards decreasing low flows in most regions of Europe where the lowest mean monthly flow occurs in summer. Some regional studies have confirmed the trend towards reduced low-flow conditions in southern and eastern Norway (Wilson et al., 2010), the Pyrenees in France (Renard et al., 2008), and ...
A Multi-Model Assessment of Regional Climate Disparities Caused
... Figure 8: The actual values of D (Equation 3) associated with the top and middle panels of Supplemental Figure 5. For each individual region, small values of D are achievable if only considering temperature. The same is true for precipitation in most, but not all, regions. ...
... Figure 8: The actual values of D (Equation 3) associated with the top and middle panels of Supplemental Figure 5. For each individual region, small values of D are achievable if only considering temperature. The same is true for precipitation in most, but not all, regions. ...
Seattle Public Library Talk
... Figure 11.12. Temperature and precipitation changes over North America from the 21 MMD-A1B GCM simulations. Top row: Annual mean, DJF and JJA temperature change between 1980 to 1999 and 2080 to 2099, averaged over 21 models. Middle row: same as top, but for fractional change in precipitation. Bottom ...
... Figure 11.12. Temperature and precipitation changes over North America from the 21 MMD-A1B GCM simulations. Top row: Annual mean, DJF and JJA temperature change between 1980 to 1999 and 2080 to 2099, averaged over 21 models. Middle row: same as top, but for fractional change in precipitation. Bottom ...
Temperature variation makes ectotherms more sensitive to climate
... www.ccafs-climate.org/data/, version IPCC 4, at a spatial resolution of 2.5 min. This climate model and scenario is one of the several possible combinations but has been used in a number of recent ecological studies examining possible effects of climate change (Heikkinen et al., 2010; Lassalle et al ...
... www.ccafs-climate.org/data/, version IPCC 4, at a spatial resolution of 2.5 min. This climate model and scenario is one of the several possible combinations but has been used in a number of recent ecological studies examining possible effects of climate change (Heikkinen et al., 2010; Lassalle et al ...
Phenological response of tundra plants to background climate
... response to climate warming. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) was designed in 1990 to test the sensitivity of high-latitude and alpine plant phenology and growth to increased temperature using a passive warming experiment [10]. A synthesis after the first 4 years of warming revealed that c ...
... response to climate warming. The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) was designed in 1990 to test the sensitivity of high-latitude and alpine plant phenology and growth to increased temperature using a passive warming experiment [10]. A synthesis after the first 4 years of warming revealed that c ...
Ice Information Services:
... month each year, and the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan may remain ice free. It is clear that economic development in ice-affected regions is proceeding at an accelerating rate. Significant resources – oil and gas, metals and minerals, and even diamonds – are being discovered and extracted. Nor ...
... month each year, and the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan may remain ice free. It is clear that economic development in ice-affected regions is proceeding at an accelerating rate. Significant resources – oil and gas, metals and minerals, and even diamonds – are being discovered and extracted. Nor ...
- Opus
... the genetic basis of responses to such changes. The few studies on A. thaliana performed under field conditions (e.g. Weinig et al., 2002; Brachi et al., 2010) suggest that plants in the field can respond very differently from laboratory experiments because they simultaneously experience a larger nu ...
... the genetic basis of responses to such changes. The few studies on A. thaliana performed under field conditions (e.g. Weinig et al., 2002; Brachi et al., 2010) suggest that plants in the field can respond very differently from laboratory experiments because they simultaneously experience a larger nu ...
Scientists - Environmental Defense Fund
... C E R T I F I C A T E O F C O U N S E L P U R S U A N T T O C I R C U I T R U L E 29(d) Counsel for amici curiae scientists hereby certifies, pursuant to D.C. Circuit Rule 29(d), that it is not practicable for these scientists to file a joint amicus brief with the other amici supporting petitioners ...
... C E R T I F I C A T E O F C O U N S E L P U R S U A N T T O C I R C U I T R U L E 29(d) Counsel for amici curiae scientists hereby certifies, pursuant to D.C. Circuit Rule 29(d), that it is not practicable for these scientists to file a joint amicus brief with the other amici supporting petitioners ...
Emerging Vibrio risk in the Baltic Sea in response to ocean warming
... the warmest month since official measurements began. Temperatures peaked during the end of July in the Baltic region (24th-29th July).* • A huge number of Vibrio cases started emerging in the Baltic - V. vulnificus, V. cholerae (non-O1/O139), V. parahaemolyticus and V. ...
... the warmest month since official measurements began. Temperatures peaked during the end of July in the Baltic region (24th-29th July).* • A huge number of Vibrio cases started emerging in the Baltic - V. vulnificus, V. cholerae (non-O1/O139), V. parahaemolyticus and V. ...
Japanese Perceptions of Climate Change and their Behavioral
... more awareness and worry regarding global warming might be attributed by the nearness to nature and environment that people had in their daily lives. Previous studies found that people identified global warming from observing local phenomenon such as decrease of snow or change in flower timing (Vedw ...
... more awareness and worry regarding global warming might be attributed by the nearness to nature and environment that people had in their daily lives. Previous studies found that people identified global warming from observing local phenomenon such as decrease of snow or change in flower timing (Vedw ...
Potential Arctic tundra vegetation shifts in
... al., 2005). Given the large soil organic carbon stocks in permafrost (Zimov et al., 2006a; Tarnocai et al., 2009), there is a major concern that these stocks get decomposed and subsequently released as CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere (Dutta et al., 2006; McGuire et al., 2009). An increase in greenhous ...
... al., 2005). Given the large soil organic carbon stocks in permafrost (Zimov et al., 2006a; Tarnocai et al., 2009), there is a major concern that these stocks get decomposed and subsequently released as CO2 and CH4 to the atmosphere (Dutta et al., 2006; McGuire et al., 2009). An increase in greenhous ...
Internal and forced climate variability during the last millennium: a
... imposed as well as the forcing associated with tropospheric ozone changes. The forcing due to change in land-use is based on Ramankutty and Foley (1999) and is applied in the model through a reduction of the area covered by trees and an increase in grassland as VECODE does not include a specific vege ...
... imposed as well as the forcing associated with tropospheric ozone changes. The forcing due to change in land-use is based on Ramankutty and Foley (1999) and is applied in the model through a reduction of the area covered by trees and an increase in grassland as VECODE does not include a specific vege ...
The North Sea — A shelf sea in the Anthropocene
... the shift in observed SST — effected mainly by rising autumn temperatures — is best explained by high air temperature and local air–sea interactions (Meyer et al., 2011). The analysis of Meyer et al. (2011) ended with the year 2007. Low temperatures from the very last years (2007– 2013), however, il ...
... the shift in observed SST — effected mainly by rising autumn temperatures — is best explained by high air temperature and local air–sea interactions (Meyer et al., 2011). The analysis of Meyer et al. (2011) ended with the year 2007. Low temperatures from the very last years (2007– 2013), however, il ...
Modelling the effects of climate change and
... change including thawing of permafrost and altered hydrology. Permafrost thaw has occurred in areas of Alaska (Osterkamp 2005) and Canada (Halsey et al. 1995) as a result of higher temperatures (Serreze et al. 2000, Chapin et al. 2005) and altered snow cover. Modelling results predict that small, su ...
... change including thawing of permafrost and altered hydrology. Permafrost thaw has occurred in areas of Alaska (Osterkamp 2005) and Canada (Halsey et al. 1995) as a result of higher temperatures (Serreze et al. 2000, Chapin et al. 2005) and altered snow cover. Modelling results predict that small, su ...
Inter-hemispheric linkages in climate change
... The focus for much of this work has centred on the termination of the last ice-age. The primary reason for this is that the warming associated with this termination is of similar or even larger magnitude than the human-induced climate modification expected under future greenhouse-gas scenarios (Wats ...
... The focus for much of this work has centred on the termination of the last ice-age. The primary reason for this is that the warming associated with this termination is of similar or even larger magnitude than the human-induced climate modification expected under future greenhouse-gas scenarios (Wats ...
Dialogue on Long Term Persistence
... If the temperature of this year is not related to that of last year or next year we can use statistics to determine whether the increase in global temperature is significant or not. In such an “uncorrelated climate”, i.e. if the temperature of this year is fully independent of other years, the avera ...
... If the temperature of this year is not related to that of last year or next year we can use statistics to determine whether the increase in global temperature is significant or not. In such an “uncorrelated climate”, i.e. if the temperature of this year is fully independent of other years, the avera ...
Adaptation models of mountain glacier tourism to climate change: a
... Mountain glaciers have an obvious location advantage and tourist market condition over polar and high latitude glaciers. Due to the enormous economic benefit and heritage value, some mountain glaciers will always receive higher attention from commercial media, government departments and mountain tou ...
... Mountain glaciers have an obvious location advantage and tourist market condition over polar and high latitude glaciers. Due to the enormous economic benefit and heritage value, some mountain glaciers will always receive higher attention from commercial media, government departments and mountain tou ...
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.