PHYS575 Syllabus - Atmospheric Physics 1
... discussed in the lectures, but a fair degree of latitude will be allowed in the students’ choice. I will be glad to help students pick a topic, to narrow its focus, and to help find reference materials. Students are encouraged to choose a topic that fascinates them and to begin working on their ...
... discussed in the lectures, but a fair degree of latitude will be allowed in the students’ choice. I will be glad to help students pick a topic, to narrow its focus, and to help find reference materials. Students are encouraged to choose a topic that fascinates them and to begin working on their ...
Regional Climate Adaptation Planning Alliance
... Major cities in the arid and semi-arid areas of the Western US have developed a Regional Climate Adaptation Planning Alliance to develop a common regional approach to adaptation planning – including a collective vision of resilience, planning frameworks and information sharing opportunities. This Al ...
... Major cities in the arid and semi-arid areas of the Western US have developed a Regional Climate Adaptation Planning Alliance to develop a common regional approach to adaptation planning – including a collective vision of resilience, planning frameworks and information sharing opportunities. This Al ...
1 Changes in Hurricane Climatology in Recent Decades Anais Orsi
... This failure to account for the uncertainties in PDI due to the uncertainties in the maximum wind speed is a major deficiency of the paper, as pointed out by Gray [8] among others. Major changes have been made in the way that maximum wind speed was estimated over the time span of the databases used ...
... This failure to account for the uncertainties in PDI due to the uncertainties in the maximum wind speed is a major deficiency of the paper, as pointed out by Gray [8] among others. Major changes have been made in the way that maximum wind speed was estimated over the time span of the databases used ...
A guide on climate change for private equity investors
... Investment strategies that do not adequately consider the implications of climate change may be exposed to additional risks. The Economist estimates that climate change will result in US$4.3 trillion of losses in privately held assets due to damage caused by extreme weather including droughts, flood ...
... Investment strategies that do not adequately consider the implications of climate change may be exposed to additional risks. The Economist estimates that climate change will result in US$4.3 trillion of losses in privately held assets due to damage caused by extreme weather including droughts, flood ...
Managing Climate Change Risk in Coastal Canadian Communities
... This division of authority among the federal, provincial and municipal governments for floodrisk management limits both enforcement and effectiveness. Although provinces have put in place land-use legislation designed to limit development in high-risk areas, the implementation of these policies at t ...
... This division of authority among the federal, provincial and municipal governments for floodrisk management limits both enforcement and effectiveness. Although provinces have put in place land-use legislation designed to limit development in high-risk areas, the implementation of these policies at t ...
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... who claim the need of robust science favouring more scientific research over policy actions, to the one of Yohe et al. (2004), who argue that uncertainty provides a reason to take specific policy action on the near term. Between these two positions there are a range of views about the implications o ...
... who claim the need of robust science favouring more scientific research over policy actions, to the one of Yohe et al. (2004), who argue that uncertainty provides a reason to take specific policy action on the near term. Between these two positions there are a range of views about the implications o ...
Variability properties of daily and monthly observed near-surface
... profound effect on developing countries, of which many are located in Africa. Some studies that have documented changes in climate and climate variability and their impacts for Africa include: New et al., (2006); Kruger and Shongwe, (2004); Mahe et al., (2001); King’uyu et al., (2000), amongst other ...
... profound effect on developing countries, of which many are located in Africa. Some studies that have documented changes in climate and climate variability and their impacts for Africa include: New et al., (2006); Kruger and Shongwe, (2004); Mahe et al., (2001); King’uyu et al., (2000), amongst other ...
Climate Change Effects on Marine and Coastal Habitats in
... Ocean water temperatures are expected to rise as global air temperatures rise,15 since the world’s oceans are the main storage reservoir for excess heat energy initially retained within Earth’s atmosphere.16 Since 1961, the oceans have been absorbing more than 80% of the heat added to the climate sy ...
... Ocean water temperatures are expected to rise as global air temperatures rise,15 since the world’s oceans are the main storage reservoir for excess heat energy initially retained within Earth’s atmosphere.16 Since 1961, the oceans have been absorbing more than 80% of the heat added to the climate sy ...
Potentials for Adaptation to Climate Change in Human
... availability of a precious mineral but ignored risks such as flooding potential, limited water, food or fuel supplies, or the presence of health threats. Oftentimes urbanites severely exploited their environments, polluting ground water and adjacent water bodies, building in unsafe and fragile locat ...
... availability of a precious mineral but ignored risks such as flooding potential, limited water, food or fuel supplies, or the presence of health threats. Oftentimes urbanites severely exploited their environments, polluting ground water and adjacent water bodies, building in unsafe and fragile locat ...
Climate Change Adaptation Plan – City of Red Deer Part One
... average conditions are no longer the type of norm we might expect to continue. Over the past century, Alberta’s average temperature has warmed by approximately 1.4 degrees Celsius. Projections indicate that by 2050 the warming could be as much as 3C.4 However, climate change planning is not just ab ...
... average conditions are no longer the type of norm we might expect to continue. Over the past century, Alberta’s average temperature has warmed by approximately 1.4 degrees Celsius. Projections indicate that by 2050 the warming could be as much as 3C.4 However, climate change planning is not just ab ...
Evolution in response to climate change
... most obvious and ultimate constrain is a lack of additive genetic variance in a trait under selection. While most traits are commonly thought to be heritable in most populations and able to evolve in response to selection [39], several recent studies indicate either total lack or very limited additi ...
... most obvious and ultimate constrain is a lack of additive genetic variance in a trait under selection. While most traits are commonly thought to be heritable in most populations and able to evolve in response to selection [39], several recent studies indicate either total lack or very limited additi ...
The carbon cycle in a changing climate
... concentrations (190 ppm) and warmer interglacial periods with higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations (280 ppm).3 The temperature changes associated with glacial cycles have been much larger than one would expect from changes in incident radiation from the Sun. Thus Earth’s climate system must have st ...
... concentrations (190 ppm) and warmer interglacial periods with higher atmospheric CO2 concentrations (280 ppm).3 The temperature changes associated with glacial cycles have been much larger than one would expect from changes in incident radiation from the Sun. Thus Earth’s climate system must have st ...
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... spend their summer holidays in the Mediterranean countries”, the strategy states. “The total stream of holidaymakers from central and northern Europe to southern Europe, with around 116 million arrivals, is the biggest tourist migration worldwide, and accounts for 41% of internal tourism within Euro ...
... spend their summer holidays in the Mediterranean countries”, the strategy states. “The total stream of holidaymakers from central and northern Europe to southern Europe, with around 116 million arrivals, is the biggest tourist migration worldwide, and accounts for 41% of internal tourism within Euro ...
ZEF
... somehow hopeless to convince him about the ‘uselessness of research work’ due to the low political uptake of scholarly advice. In his eyes, my mission was good and involved really important work. To my surprise, the driver also took the same line when listening to my somehow doubtful ...
... somehow hopeless to convince him about the ‘uselessness of research work’ due to the low political uptake of scholarly advice. In his eyes, my mission was good and involved really important work. To my surprise, the driver also took the same line when listening to my somehow doubtful ...
Review of the UN-REDD Policy Board Structure
... be met but there is a deficit in electricity based on current generation plans of 9%. • One way to reduce this deficit could be to import biomass or import electricity. ...
... be met but there is a deficit in electricity based on current generation plans of 9%. • One way to reduce this deficit could be to import biomass or import electricity. ...
The weather@home regional climate modelling project for Australia
... turbation is applied thereafter so as to allow for the continuous integration of the model under its specific climate scenario. Further initial condition perturbations are also applied to the first year of the model integration using a range of starting conditions with different large-scale circulat ...
... turbation is applied thereafter so as to allow for the continuous integration of the model under its specific climate scenario. Further initial condition perturbations are also applied to the first year of the model integration using a range of starting conditions with different large-scale circulat ...
Flexible_Mechanisms_of_the_Kyoto_Protocol
... Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter – Kyoto Protocol); 2) assigned amount – the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions, which has been specified for the Republic of Latvia according to the Kyoto Protocol for the first period of commitment from 1 January 2008 to 31 December ...
... Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (hereinafter – Kyoto Protocol); 2) assigned amount – the total amount of greenhouse gas emissions, which has been specified for the Republic of Latvia according to the Kyoto Protocol for the first period of commitment from 1 January 2008 to 31 December ...
Climate change - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
... altitude with a temperature of, on average, -19°C, in balance with the net incoming solar radiation, whereas the Earth’s surface is kept at a much higher temperature of, on average, +14°C. An increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases leads to an increased infrared opacity of the atmosphere, ...
... altitude with a temperature of, on average, -19°C, in balance with the net incoming solar radiation, whereas the Earth’s surface is kept at a much higher temperature of, on average, +14°C. An increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases leads to an increased infrared opacity of the atmosphere, ...
Domestic dynamics and international influence
... These laws are not always motivated exclusively by concern about anthropogenic climate change, and they do not add up to a global response that would limit climate change risks to an acceptable level, often understood to mean less than 2oC of average warming. Nevertheless, they constitute a growing ...
... These laws are not always motivated exclusively by concern about anthropogenic climate change, and they do not add up to a global response that would limit climate change risks to an acceptable level, often understood to mean less than 2oC of average warming. Nevertheless, they constitute a growing ...
Quick overview of the activities in this module
... 7. To study the effects of climate change on lakes, researchers use models, because it is impossible to manipulate factors such as solar radiation and wind on real lakes at the whole-lake scale. The model we are going to use is GLM (the General Lake Model), developed as an open-source model by resea ...
... 7. To study the effects of climate change on lakes, researchers use models, because it is impossible to manipulate factors such as solar radiation and wind on real lakes at the whole-lake scale. The model we are going to use is GLM (the General Lake Model), developed as an open-source model by resea ...
Shiri Avnery
... Depending on depth, soil columns may be represented by up to 10 layers and snow columns by up to five layers in the CLM. Vegetated landunit subgrids (as identified in the first-order landunit division) can be further divided into the final subgrid level: patches of plant functional types. Each PFT ...
... Depending on depth, soil columns may be represented by up to 10 layers and snow columns by up to five layers in the CLM. Vegetated landunit subgrids (as identified in the first-order landunit division) can be further divided into the final subgrid level: patches of plant functional types. Each PFT ...
Effective education and communication strategies to
... understanding of the psychology behind environmental decision-making, particularly regarding why individuals often fail to understand the risks associated with the issue, and fail to make energy-saving decisions. In addition to studying such behavior, researchers have developed a number of technique ...
... understanding of the psychology behind environmental decision-making, particularly regarding why individuals often fail to understand the risks associated with the issue, and fail to make energy-saving decisions. In addition to studying such behavior, researchers have developed a number of technique ...
Intended National Determined Contribution (INDC)
... by 1.3ºC and annual and seasonal rainfall has decreased significantly across Uganda. Rainfall has also become more unpredictable and evenly distributed over the year. Extreme events such as droughts, floods and landslides are increasing in frequency and intensity. Climate change is affecting a wide ...
... by 1.3ºC and annual and seasonal rainfall has decreased significantly across Uganda. Rainfall has also become more unpredictable and evenly distributed over the year. Extreme events such as droughts, floods and landslides are increasing in frequency and intensity. Climate change is affecting a wide ...
Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan
... the closest level of government to the community, is well placed to respond to local vulnerabilities and priorities arising as a result of climate change, however local government is not sufficiently funded to undertake all adaptation measures that may be identified. Given the uncertainty of climate ...
... the closest level of government to the community, is well placed to respond to local vulnerabilities and priorities arising as a result of climate change, however local government is not sufficiently funded to undertake all adaptation measures that may be identified. Given the uncertainty of climate ...