responses to climate change in 2030
... All of these issues are played out differently in our five Climate Futures scenarios. ...
... All of these issues are played out differently in our five Climate Futures scenarios. ...
Emerging trends in heavy precipitation and hot temperature
... precipitation extremes at four grid points of historical climate model simulations for the periods 1901–2005 as well as future projections forced with representative concentration pathway (RCP) 8.5 for the period 2006– 2100. Note that due to differences in spatial scales, caution is needed when inte ...
... precipitation extremes at four grid points of historical climate model simulations for the periods 1901–2005 as well as future projections forced with representative concentration pathway (RCP) 8.5 for the period 2006– 2100. Note that due to differences in spatial scales, caution is needed when inte ...
Green Resilience: Climate Adaptation + Mitigation Synergies
... Coordinator, National Conference and Global Forum, (NCSE) who helped make this dialogue happen. We would also like to thank John McShane, EPA and Shana Udvardy for their photography. This paper is a product of CCAP’s Weathering Climate Risks Program. The views expressed in this paper represent those ...
... Coordinator, National Conference and Global Forum, (NCSE) who helped make this dialogue happen. We would also like to thank John McShane, EPA and Shana Udvardy for their photography. This paper is a product of CCAP’s Weathering Climate Risks Program. The views expressed in this paper represent those ...
The Pacific Decadal Oscillation
... positive phase of the PDO, but others ventured in semi-quantitative analysis (e.g. Dr. Roy Spencer). Although none of them can be called strong evidence, it's worth looking at this climate feature in more details, obviously starting from describing it. The first thing to note is that the PDO, like an ...
... positive phase of the PDO, but others ventured in semi-quantitative analysis (e.g. Dr. Roy Spencer). Although none of them can be called strong evidence, it's worth looking at this climate feature in more details, obviously starting from describing it. The first thing to note is that the PDO, like an ...
Quantifying Albedo and Surface Temperature
... energy was available during the sensible and latent heat fluxes. Rost and Mayer (2006) examined the energy budget of an adjacent grassland and pine forest site in southwest Germany. Even though both sites were exposed to about the same amount of shortwave radiation, the albedo of both land cover typ ...
... energy was available during the sensible and latent heat fluxes. Rost and Mayer (2006) examined the energy budget of an adjacent grassland and pine forest site in southwest Germany. Even though both sites were exposed to about the same amount of shortwave radiation, the albedo of both land cover typ ...
Two hundred fifty years of aerosols and climate: the end of the age
... The GCAM emission projections using this approach are broadly similar to those from other long-term models (van Vuuren et al., 2011; Riahi et al., 2011), although there are differences in detail. These results can also differ from the projections of more detailed models that contain more specific te ...
... The GCAM emission projections using this approach are broadly similar to those from other long-term models (van Vuuren et al., 2011; Riahi et al., 2011), although there are differences in detail. These results can also differ from the projections of more detailed models that contain more specific te ...
View/Open
... These estimations, however, did not consider the potential for adaptation in farming practices and institutions. With small-scale adaptations such as changes in planting times, the estimated increase in hunger could be reduced to between 5 percent and 50 percent; with substantial adaptations such as ...
... These estimations, however, did not consider the potential for adaptation in farming practices and institutions. With small-scale adaptations such as changes in planting times, the estimated increase in hunger could be reduced to between 5 percent and 50 percent; with substantial adaptations such as ...
- Parliament of Vanuatu
... NDMO means the National Disaster Management Office established under the National Disaster Act [CAP 267]. ...
... NDMO means the National Disaster Management Office established under the National Disaster Act [CAP 267]. ...
2. Reconciling adaptation and migration
... Climate migration is increasingly identified as one of the major challenges resulting from climate change,2 while its scope is only very roughly estimated between 50 million and 1 billion climate migrants by 2050.3 Climate migration results in particular from a rise of the sea level threatening low ...
... Climate migration is increasingly identified as one of the major challenges resulting from climate change,2 while its scope is only very roughly estimated between 50 million and 1 billion climate migrants by 2050.3 Climate migration results in particular from a rise of the sea level threatening low ...
Overview of linkages between gender and climate change – Africa
... to become wetter, with rain falling in more intense storms, causing greater risks of flooding. The models show mixed results for what is likely to happen to West Africa’s rainfall. These shifts in rainfall will bring major impacts on the ground in terms of crop yields, water availability, disease in ...
... to become wetter, with rain falling in more intense storms, causing greater risks of flooding. The models show mixed results for what is likely to happen to West Africa’s rainfall. These shifts in rainfall will bring major impacts on the ground in terms of crop yields, water availability, disease in ...
Climate-driven enrichment of pollutants in peatlands
... gest that about 60% of all peatland area in Canada and a similar proportion in North Eurasia will be severely to extremely severely affected by climate change (Gorham, 1991; Tarnocai and Stolbovoy, 2006), leading to a higher release of carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere. Although the predi ...
... gest that about 60% of all peatland area in Canada and a similar proportion in North Eurasia will be severely to extremely severely affected by climate change (Gorham, 1991; Tarnocai and Stolbovoy, 2006), leading to a higher release of carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere. Although the predi ...
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... agriculture and consequently the livelihoods of people due to changes in temperature, precipitation, soil moisture, soil fertility, the length of the growing season, an increase in the probability of extreme events such as droughts, extreme heat waves, heavy rainfall, cyclones, flooding of the coast ...
... agriculture and consequently the livelihoods of people due to changes in temperature, precipitation, soil moisture, soil fertility, the length of the growing season, an increase in the probability of extreme events such as droughts, extreme heat waves, heavy rainfall, cyclones, flooding of the coast ...
Overpeck and Cole, 2006
... types of millennial events (13). Dansgaard/Oeschger (D/O) events are alternations between warm (interstadial) and cold (stadial) states that recur approximately every 1500 years, although this rhythm is variable. Heinrich events are intervals of extreme cold contemporaneous with intervals of ice-raf ...
... types of millennial events (13). Dansgaard/Oeschger (D/O) events are alternations between warm (interstadial) and cold (stadial) states that recur approximately every 1500 years, although this rhythm is variable. Heinrich events are intervals of extreme cold contemporaneous with intervals of ice-raf ...
MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
... of sun energy that is trapped in the earth system and therefore to changes in the earth’s climate itself. Predictions of these changes are hard as the various inter-related mechanisms of heat storage, carbon storage, cloud processes, effects of additional pollutants and the feedback between the diff ...
... of sun energy that is trapped in the earth system and therefore to changes in the earth’s climate itself. Predictions of these changes are hard as the various inter-related mechanisms of heat storage, carbon storage, cloud processes, effects of additional pollutants and the feedback between the diff ...
CHAPTER 2 OUR CHANGING CLIMATE Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... The conclusion that human influences are the primary driver of recent climate change is based on multiple lines of independent evidence. The first line of evidence is our fundamental understanding of how certain gases trap heat, how the climate system responds to increases in these gases, and how ot ...
... The conclusion that human influences are the primary driver of recent climate change is based on multiple lines of independent evidence. The first line of evidence is our fundamental understanding of how certain gases trap heat, how the climate system responds to increases in these gases, and how ot ...
SYNCHRONIZATION OF POLAR CLIMATE VARIABILITY OVER
... ABSTRACT. Evidence is presented supporting the hypothesis of polar synchronization, which states that during the last ice age, and likely in earlier times, millennial-scale temperature changes of the north and south Polar Regions were coupled and synchronized. The term synchronization as used here d ...
... ABSTRACT. Evidence is presented supporting the hypothesis of polar synchronization, which states that during the last ice age, and likely in earlier times, millennial-scale temperature changes of the north and south Polar Regions were coupled and synchronized. The term synchronization as used here d ...
Updated February, 2016 FRANCINA DOMINGUEZ francina@illinois
... Climate Signals: A New Statistical Approach Using MSSA. J. of Hydrology. V. 398 (1-2), pp. 65-75 12. * J. Cañon, F. Dominguez and J. Valdes, 2011: Vegetation Responses To Precipitation And Temperature: A Spatiotemporal Analysis Of Ecoregions In The Colorado River Basin. Int. J. Remote Sens. DOI:10. ...
... Climate Signals: A New Statistical Approach Using MSSA. J. of Hydrology. V. 398 (1-2), pp. 65-75 12. * J. Cañon, F. Dominguez and J. Valdes, 2011: Vegetation Responses To Precipitation And Temperature: A Spatiotemporal Analysis Of Ecoregions In The Colorado River Basin. Int. J. Remote Sens. DOI:10. ...
Climate change and communicable diseases in the EU
... This handbook was developed as an aid for European Union (EU) Member States to assess and manage changes in the risk of infectious disease transmission posed by climate change. The handbook draws on current scientific knowledge as well as experiences and best practices from previous national risk, v ...
... This handbook was developed as an aid for European Union (EU) Member States to assess and manage changes in the risk of infectious disease transmission posed by climate change. The handbook draws on current scientific knowledge as well as experiences and best practices from previous national risk, v ...
Queensland Climate Adaptation Directions Statement
... The Queensland Government is responsible for maintaining and delivering an array of assets, services and functions, from national parks to public transport, schools to trade-promotion, land-use regulation to healthcare. The Queensland Government is committed to working closely with Queenslanders to ...
... The Queensland Government is responsible for maintaining and delivering an array of assets, services and functions, from national parks to public transport, schools to trade-promotion, land-use regulation to healthcare. The Queensland Government is committed to working closely with Queenslanders to ...
