27. record low northern hemisphere sea ice extent in march 2015
... pressure over the western Aleutian Islands associated with positive 2-m air temperature over the Sea of Okhotsk in March 2015 likely due to southerly surface wind that substantially contributed to the negative SIC there (Kimura and Wakatsuchi 1999), while the negative SIC in the Bering Sea is more d ...
... pressure over the western Aleutian Islands associated with positive 2-m air temperature over the Sea of Okhotsk in March 2015 likely due to southerly surface wind that substantially contributed to the negative SIC there (Kimura and Wakatsuchi 1999), while the negative SIC in the Bering Sea is more d ...
Climate change drives a shift in peatland ecosystem plant
... The composition of a peatland plant community has considerable effect on a range of ecosystem functions. Peatland plant community structure is predicted to change under future climate change, making the quantification of the direction and magnitude of this change a research priority. We subjected in ...
... The composition of a peatland plant community has considerable effect on a range of ecosystem functions. Peatland plant community structure is predicted to change under future climate change, making the quantification of the direction and magnitude of this change a research priority. We subjected in ...
Climate Change and Small Island Developing States
... Despite the difficulties with defining both SIDS and climate change, SIDS’ experiences with climate change are helping to frame discussions beyond SIDS. SIDS are seen as one of the globe’s barometers of climate change, so plenty of attention is being focused on them, with the highest profile example ...
... Despite the difficulties with defining both SIDS and climate change, SIDS’ experiences with climate change are helping to frame discussions beyond SIDS. SIDS are seen as one of the globe’s barometers of climate change, so plenty of attention is being focused on them, with the highest profile example ...
Impact of weather on commuter cyclist behaviour and implications
... on an hourly basis 365 days per year, it is perhaps less common for data on active transport users to be collected at such fine granularity. Researchers who have explored the link between weather and travel behaviour have relied on either travel surveys or observational data to quantify the latter. ...
... on an hourly basis 365 days per year, it is perhaps less common for data on active transport users to be collected at such fine granularity. Researchers who have explored the link between weather and travel behaviour have relied on either travel surveys or observational data to quantify the latter. ...
Innovation in the realm of institutional complexity
... this type of rain; they are outdated and do neither take into account the increasing population density of these new areas. In the Kvaernerbyen case, the newly built culvert, being jointly owned by the municipality and the private property developer responsible for the housing project, was not able ...
... this type of rain; they are outdated and do neither take into account the increasing population density of these new areas. In the Kvaernerbyen case, the newly built culvert, being jointly owned by the municipality and the private property developer responsible for the housing project, was not able ...
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... variation indicators based on interpolated gridded and re-analysis weather data that capture the peculiar features of short term (weather) and long term (climate) variations in rainfall and temperature. In particular, we estimate the effects of weather/climate shocks on a rich set of welfare indicat ...
... variation indicators based on interpolated gridded and re-analysis weather data that capture the peculiar features of short term (weather) and long term (climate) variations in rainfall and temperature. In particular, we estimate the effects of weather/climate shocks on a rich set of welfare indicat ...
Climate Change and the Emergence of New Organizational
... boost following President Obama’s election in 2008, has since been stalled at the federal level. In Europe, public spending cuts have seen renewable energy subsidies suffer, most notably in the solar power industry (Fortson, 2012). If investments in renewable technologies are crucial to address cli ...
... boost following President Obama’s election in 2008, has since been stalled at the federal level. In Europe, public spending cuts have seen renewable energy subsidies suffer, most notably in the solar power industry (Fortson, 2012). If investments in renewable technologies are crucial to address cli ...
Climate Change and First Nations: Recommendations for Action
... that First Nations may take to adapt to climate changes in First Nations. As such, the primary focus of recommendations will be on adaptation responses. The recommendations offered below do not represent an exhaustive list of needs, but are meant catalyze discussions among First Nation and other gov ...
... that First Nations may take to adapt to climate changes in First Nations. As such, the primary focus of recommendations will be on adaptation responses. The recommendations offered below do not represent an exhaustive list of needs, but are meant catalyze discussions among First Nation and other gov ...
Climate change and the Antarctic marine ecosystem: an essay on
... of these activities on ecosystem processes are relatively minor (Halpern et al. 2008), though they have been much greater in the past (Bonner 1980, 1984, Kock 1992). In contrast, indirect human impacts, particularly those arising as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions originating from beyond t ...
... of these activities on ecosystem processes are relatively minor (Halpern et al. 2008), though they have been much greater in the past (Bonner 1980, 1984, Kock 1992). In contrast, indirect human impacts, particularly those arising as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions originating from beyond t ...
Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: Scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments (opens in new window)
... the GCMs as well as the downscaling models are tuned toward the present-day climate. In this study, the breadth of the scenario set is constrained by the condition that modeling and approaches are grounded in scientific theory and published in the peer-reviewed literature. Our constraint is supported ...
... the GCMs as well as the downscaling models are tuned toward the present-day climate. In this study, the breadth of the scenario set is constrained by the condition that modeling and approaches are grounded in scientific theory and published in the peer-reviewed literature. Our constraint is supported ...
PDF Full Publication in PDF Format
... climate change. As with drought, there is a strong divergence between countries. Figure 4 also shows results for Lesotho under the four alternative scenarios. Impacts are less severe under B1 than under A1, primarily because climate change is less pronounced under B1 (cf. Figure 2). Impacts are more ...
... climate change. As with drought, there is a strong divergence between countries. Figure 4 also shows results for Lesotho under the four alternative scenarios. Impacts are less severe under B1 than under A1, primarily because climate change is less pronounced under B1 (cf. Figure 2). Impacts are more ...
Australian rangelands and climate change – pastoral production
... available natural resource (i.e. soil and vegetation) to grazing and a fundamental recognition of the requirement for conservative use of these available resources through time. Thus, various and mixed management tactics may be applied but these are underpinned by such sentiments as ‘managing for ev ...
... available natural resource (i.e. soil and vegetation) to grazing and a fundamental recognition of the requirement for conservative use of these available resources through time. Thus, various and mixed management tactics may be applied but these are underpinned by such sentiments as ‘managing for ev ...
Rapporteurs Report (RapporteurReport2012)
... is a barrier to understanding of key phenomena. He further mentioned on the sea level risks in the Southeast Asia (SEA). Various analyses have been performed to study the sea level variation such as El Nino, Pacific Warm Pool and Cold Tongue Index which appear to be mirrored each other while the El ...
... is a barrier to understanding of key phenomena. He further mentioned on the sea level risks in the Southeast Asia (SEA). Various analyses have been performed to study the sea level variation such as El Nino, Pacific Warm Pool and Cold Tongue Index which appear to be mirrored each other while the El ...
2015 Issue - Northwest Climate Science Center
... priorities, and set of deliverables—many of which are described in the profiles in this issue. In part because of our differences, our respective federal organizations have done an excellent job collaborating effectively to build synergies and avoid redundancies. We developed this magazine as one of ...
... priorities, and set of deliverables—many of which are described in the profiles in this issue. In part because of our differences, our respective federal organizations have done an excellent job collaborating effectively to build synergies and avoid redundancies. We developed this magazine as one of ...
Adapting to drought in the Sahel: Lessons for
... framed by the conventional paradigm of climate change defined in terms of more frequent and intense extreme events. Such is the challenge of drought in the Sahel. Less understood ideas of abrupt or dangerous climate change, involving in example, a reversal of the sign (or direction) of a climate par ...
... framed by the conventional paradigm of climate change defined in terms of more frequent and intense extreme events. Such is the challenge of drought in the Sahel. Less understood ideas of abrupt or dangerous climate change, involving in example, a reversal of the sign (or direction) of a climate par ...
Creating a Climate Smart DFID
... The table below sets out suggested descriptions of different “response levels” against which offices are encouraged to assess themselves: bronze, silver and gold. You will need to agree the level of response which your office aims to reach with your Director and when you want to start your SPR by th ...
... The table below sets out suggested descriptions of different “response levels” against which offices are encouraged to assess themselves: bronze, silver and gold. You will need to agree the level of response which your office aims to reach with your Director and when you want to start your SPR by th ...
Assessing ``Dangerous Climate Change
... year, has plummeted by more than a third in the past few decades, at a faster rate than in most models [21], with the sea ice thickness declining a factor of four faster than simulated in IPCC climate models [22]. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets began to shed ice at a rate, now several hundre ...
... year, has plummeted by more than a third in the past few decades, at a faster rate than in most models [21], with the sea ice thickness declining a factor of four faster than simulated in IPCC climate models [22]. The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets began to shed ice at a rate, now several hundre ...
New Observations Show - The Science and Public Policy Institute
... oceans are warming, "as they absorb most of the extra heat being added to the climate system from the build-up of heat-trapping gases," which contention is far from a proven fact, and is -in fact -- merely an hypothesis ... and a bad one at that, as we shall soon see. Another fault of the Report is ...
... oceans are warming, "as they absorb most of the extra heat being added to the climate system from the build-up of heat-trapping gases," which contention is far from a proven fact, and is -in fact -- merely an hypothesis ... and a bad one at that, as we shall soon see. Another fault of the Report is ...
GCOS Switzerland
... Switzerland shows a total warming of +1.6 ◦ C from 1864 to 2010. In the terrestrial domain, substantial advances were made in all three subdomains hydrosphere, cryosphere and biosphere. As example for the use of satellite data within GCOS Switzerland, the 10-yr MODIS monthly mean cloud fraction clim ...
... Switzerland shows a total warming of +1.6 ◦ C from 1864 to 2010. In the terrestrial domain, substantial advances were made in all three subdomains hydrosphere, cryosphere and biosphere. As example for the use of satellite data within GCOS Switzerland, the 10-yr MODIS monthly mean cloud fraction clim ...
Meteorologists` Views About Global Warming: A Survey of American
... warming is happening, and the second assessed the respondents’ level of certainty that it is happening. The first question was worded as follows: “In this survey, the term “global warming” refers to the premise that the world’s average temperature has been increasing over the past 150 years, may be ...
... warming is happening, and the second assessed the respondents’ level of certainty that it is happening. The first question was worded as follows: “In this survey, the term “global warming” refers to the premise that the world’s average temperature has been increasing over the past 150 years, may be ...
Projecting global marine biodiversity impacts
... 2006; Pearson et al. 2006). These include the lack of considerations of biotic interactions, evolutionary change and species dispersal, and the assumption that the observed distributions are in equilibrium with their environment (e.g. Pearson and Dawson 2003; Guisan and Thuiller 2005). On the other ...
... 2006; Pearson et al. 2006). These include the lack of considerations of biotic interactions, evolutionary change and species dispersal, and the assumption that the observed distributions are in equilibrium with their environment (e.g. Pearson and Dawson 2003; Guisan and Thuiller 2005). On the other ...
Science Communication
... They also reflect behaviors adopted with the public good in mind and grounded in the virtues of care, compassion, and justice that usually emerge in the private sphere of the home. Last, rather than defining membership according to defined space or state territory, ecological citizenship focuses on ...
... They also reflect behaviors adopted with the public good in mind and grounded in the virtues of care, compassion, and justice that usually emerge in the private sphere of the home. Last, rather than defining membership according to defined space or state territory, ecological citizenship focuses on ...
Observed Climate Variability and Trends
... cold, glacial period that peaked around 21 000 years ago at the Last Glacial Maximum. Global average sea level at that time was around 120 m lower than that of today, due to the vast amounts of water that were locked up in expanded (Northern Hemisphere) ice sheets. The climate of the Holocene has be ...
... cold, glacial period that peaked around 21 000 years ago at the Last Glacial Maximum. Global average sea level at that time was around 120 m lower than that of today, due to the vast amounts of water that were locked up in expanded (Northern Hemisphere) ice sheets. The climate of the Holocene has be ...