Interactions between climate and desertification
... now being used worldwide to describe desertification and its impacts, leads to the need to consider carefully the two-way interactions between climate and desertification. Dramatic changes in agricultural practices during the last several decades are one of the main driving forces for land degradati ...
... now being used worldwide to describe desertification and its impacts, leads to the need to consider carefully the two-way interactions between climate and desertification. Dramatic changes in agricultural practices during the last several decades are one of the main driving forces for land degradati ...
Comunicación sobre el cambio climático: Mejorando la eficacia de
... Many authors have emphasized the need to develop more effective campaigns to raise citizens’ awareness, to increase their willingness to accept the measures necessary to mitigate climate change and to ultimately change their behavior patterns ...
... Many authors have emphasized the need to develop more effective campaigns to raise citizens’ awareness, to increase their willingness to accept the measures necessary to mitigate climate change and to ultimately change their behavior patterns ...
global warming and phanerozoic climate change
... derived from burning fossil fuels has a δ13C of -24 per mill. Estimates of the volume of anthropogenic CO2 mixed into the atmosphere are based on atmospheric CO2 concentration and δ13C determinations . On the other hand, as δ13C variations are seasonal and reflect temperature difference between sour ...
... derived from burning fossil fuels has a δ13C of -24 per mill. Estimates of the volume of anthropogenic CO2 mixed into the atmosphere are based on atmospheric CO2 concentration and δ13C determinations . On the other hand, as δ13C variations are seasonal and reflect temperature difference between sour ...
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... Non-productive work such as household chores and many care-giving tasks, such as caring for the children, sick, elderly, the home and assets increases for women, but not so much for men. Women focused on the effects of disasters at the household level: how they were not able to wash their clothes, a ...
... Non-productive work such as household chores and many care-giving tasks, such as caring for the children, sick, elderly, the home and assets increases for women, but not so much for men. Women focused on the effects of disasters at the household level: how they were not able to wash their clothes, a ...
NPS Climate Change Scenario Planning (CCSP) Workshop
... and Aniakchak. Participants included representatives from the parks in question, NPS staff from the Anchorage office, SNAP personnel, and key individuals from other agencies, businesses, and communities with a stake in this region. These individuals contributed a wide range of perspectives and exper ...
... and Aniakchak. Participants included representatives from the parks in question, NPS staff from the Anchorage office, SNAP personnel, and key individuals from other agencies, businesses, and communities with a stake in this region. These individuals contributed a wide range of perspectives and exper ...
Thirty years ago, half the developing world lived in extreme poverty
... problem that is politically and scientifically complex—the quality that could enable us to act differently than we have in the past. Act now, act together, act differently—those are the steps that can put a climate-smart world within our reach. But first it requires believing there is a case for act ...
... problem that is politically and scientifically complex—the quality that could enable us to act differently than we have in the past. Act now, act together, act differently—those are the steps that can put a climate-smart world within our reach. But first it requires believing there is a case for act ...
sea-level rise and its impact on miami-dade county
... THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE It is well-established that climate change has resulted in global sea-level rise.1 The two most significant factors contributing to sea-level rise over the last 20 years have been warming ocean water (39 percent) and freshwater input from melting ice sheets, ice ...
... THE INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE It is well-established that climate change has resulted in global sea-level rise.1 The two most significant factors contributing to sea-level rise over the last 20 years have been warming ocean water (39 percent) and freshwater input from melting ice sheets, ice ...
Global response of the terrestrial biosphere to CO2 and climate
... change on the carbon cycle. That is to say, OCEi and BIOi are calculated using the climate of the Control simulation. The difference between this simulation and the Control one isolates the impact of CO2 increase only on land. [17] The difference in simulated uptakes between the Coupled Scenario run ...
... change on the carbon cycle. That is to say, OCEi and BIOi are calculated using the climate of the Control simulation. The difference between this simulation and the Control one isolates the impact of CO2 increase only on land. [17] The difference in simulated uptakes between the Coupled Scenario run ...
Topic 12: Agriculture, Climate Change and Adaptation
... Adaptation Autonomous adaptations are actions taken voluntarily by decision-makers (such as farmers or city leaders) whose risk management is motivated by information, market signals, co-benefits, and other factors. Planned adaptations are interventions by governments to address needs judged unlike ...
... Adaptation Autonomous adaptations are actions taken voluntarily by decision-makers (such as farmers or city leaders) whose risk management is motivated by information, market signals, co-benefits, and other factors. Planned adaptations are interventions by governments to address needs judged unlike ...
lecture25 - The University of Arizona Department of Atmospheric
... Bottom line: After about two weeks, can’t rely on NWP to provide an accurate and skillful weather forecast. Sometimes called the “butterfly effect” ...
... Bottom line: After about two weeks, can’t rely on NWP to provide an accurate and skillful weather forecast. Sometimes called the “butterfly effect” ...
NEWSLETTER - Forschungszentrum Jülich
... what can be done to minimize extensive release of these substances? In addition to finding answers to these questions we need better model systems so that we can make future projections covering large areas, in the same way that climate researchers do. To achieve these goals, German water research w ...
... what can be done to minimize extensive release of these substances? In addition to finding answers to these questions we need better model systems so that we can make future projections covering large areas, in the same way that climate researchers do. To achieve these goals, German water research w ...
Climate Change and Children`s Health—A Call for Research
... background concentrations [13]. Climate change related wildfires could be an important source of particular matter [13]. Chang et al. projected the impact of climate change on ozone concentration and found that the average ozone concentration will increase by 0.43 ppb during the 2040s compared to 20 ...
... background concentrations [13]. Climate change related wildfires could be an important source of particular matter [13]. Chang et al. projected the impact of climate change on ozone concentration and found that the average ozone concentration will increase by 0.43 ppb during the 2040s compared to 20 ...
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... significant contribution of transportation emissions to the climate change via the so-called greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the process by which absorption and emission of infrared radiation by gases in the atmosphere warm a planet's lower atmosphere and surface. It was discovered by Jo ...
... significant contribution of transportation emissions to the climate change via the so-called greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect is the process by which absorption and emission of infrared radiation by gases in the atmosphere warm a planet's lower atmosphere and surface. It was discovered by Jo ...
Forest Processes and Global Environmental Change: Predicting the
... relatively well known. We also know which primary environmental drivers—precipitation, temperature, and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), ozone (O3), and nitrogen (N), for example—are being altered by human activities, and we can directly measure temporal change in these parameters ...
... relatively well known. We also know which primary environmental drivers—precipitation, temperature, and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), ozone (O3), and nitrogen (N), for example—are being altered by human activities, and we can directly measure temporal change in these parameters ...
Typologies of Loss and Damage and Associated Actions
... Under the Risk Management typology, separating L&D which can and cannot be adapted to might be perceived as unhelpful. In contrast, under this typology stakeholders’ ...
... Under the Risk Management typology, separating L&D which can and cannot be adapted to might be perceived as unhelpful. In contrast, under this typology stakeholders’ ...
2015 NGPR Leadership Symposium
... My research interests are paleoclimate, ice cores, abrupt climate change, atmospheric trace gas records and firn dynamics. My expertise is in numerical modeling of firn processes, and applying this to broader paleoclimatic problems, such as Greenland temperature evolution, the interhemispheric phasi ...
... My research interests are paleoclimate, ice cores, abrupt climate change, atmospheric trace gas records and firn dynamics. My expertise is in numerical modeling of firn processes, and applying this to broader paleoclimatic problems, such as Greenland temperature evolution, the interhemispheric phasi ...
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... are important adaptation measures under different climate scenarios. This paper provides evidence on how anthropogenic systems utilizing nature such as crop management, animal husbandry, and forestry would react to the natural climate which is expected to be disequilibrated by centuries of industrial ...
... are important adaptation measures under different climate scenarios. This paper provides evidence on how anthropogenic systems utilizing nature such as crop management, animal husbandry, and forestry would react to the natural climate which is expected to be disequilibrated by centuries of industrial ...
Workplace heat stress in the context of rising
... were located in civil hospitals. During the next 70–80 years, the two professions continued independently without any contact. This study7 shows concern between seasonally locked disease pattern and disease dynamics such as flu, respiratory diseases in winter, dengue, malaria and water borne disease ...
... were located in civil hospitals. During the next 70–80 years, the two professions continued independently without any contact. This study7 shows concern between seasonally locked disease pattern and disease dynamics such as flu, respiratory diseases in winter, dengue, malaria and water borne disease ...
Impact analysis of climate change for an Alpine catchment using
... Global climate change affects spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation and so has a major impact on surface and subsurface water balances. While global climate models are designed to describe climate change on global or continental scales, their resolution is too coarse for them to be suitable ...
... Global climate change affects spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation and so has a major impact on surface and subsurface water balances. While global climate models are designed to describe climate change on global or continental scales, their resolution is too coarse for them to be suitable ...
5. Determining vulnerability to climate change
... Sea level rise could have adverse effect on different sectors and infrastructure along the coast with the most vulnerable sectors being coastal communities and coastal tourism infrastructure15. Climate variability and change, coupled with human-induced changes, may also affect ecosystems; for exampl ...
... Sea level rise could have adverse effect on different sectors and infrastructure along the coast with the most vulnerable sectors being coastal communities and coastal tourism infrastructure15. Climate variability and change, coupled with human-induced changes, may also affect ecosystems; for exampl ...
Analyzing Vulnerability of the Belize Coastal Tourism Sector
... Sea level rise could have adverse effect on different sectors and infrastructure along the coast with the most vulnerable sectors being coastal communities and coastal tourism infrastructure15. Climate variability and change, coupled with human-induced changes, may also affect ecosystems; for exampl ...
... Sea level rise could have adverse effect on different sectors and infrastructure along the coast with the most vulnerable sectors being coastal communities and coastal tourism infrastructure15. Climate variability and change, coupled with human-induced changes, may also affect ecosystems; for exampl ...