McDowell N, On how trees die and predictions of global forest mortality
... Southwestern USA, 2066-2095. ...
... Southwestern USA, 2066-2095. ...
Chapter 6 Climate Science and Politics in the United States
... underscored climate change concerns (Study of Critical Environmental Problems 1970; Study of Man's Impact on Climate 1971). The entrepreneurial professor Caroll Wilson of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, a long-time government science advisor and a member of the Club of Rome, organized both studies ...
... underscored climate change concerns (Study of Critical Environmental Problems 1970; Study of Man's Impact on Climate 1971). The entrepreneurial professor Caroll Wilson of MIT’s Sloan School of Management, a long-time government science advisor and a member of the Club of Rome, organized both studies ...
off the charts: 2013 was australia`s hottest year
... El Niño years are normally warmer than usual, while La Niña years are cooler. Over the past decade all years except one (2011) have recorded annual mean temperatures above average. Australian land surface temperatures have risen by about 1°C over the past century, with most of the rise occurring sin ...
... El Niño years are normally warmer than usual, while La Niña years are cooler. Over the past decade all years except one (2011) have recorded annual mean temperatures above average. Australian land surface temperatures have risen by about 1°C over the past century, with most of the rise occurring sin ...
climate change risks
... Sea levels have risen faster between 1993 and 2011 than during the 20th century as a whole. World ocean temperatures have increased, increasing the volume of ocean water and contributing to sea-level rise. Sea-surface temperatures around Australia have increased faster than the global average. Sea-s ...
... Sea levels have risen faster between 1993 and 2011 than during the 20th century as a whole. World ocean temperatures have increased, increasing the volume of ocean water and contributing to sea-level rise. Sea-surface temperatures around Australia have increased faster than the global average. Sea-s ...
Climate change and plant invasions: restoration opportunities ahead?
... created based on the Mahalanobis distance (Farber & Kadmon, 2003; Tsoar et al., 2007), which is a presenceonly multivariate technique that defines perpendicular major and minor axes and calculates distance from a centroid relative to covariance of axes lengths. The resulting envelope is ellipsoidal ...
... created based on the Mahalanobis distance (Farber & Kadmon, 2003; Tsoar et al., 2007), which is a presenceonly multivariate technique that defines perpendicular major and minor axes and calculates distance from a centroid relative to covariance of axes lengths. The resulting envelope is ellipsoidal ...
Climate change as a threat to biodiversity
... atmospheric concentration of methane has increased from a preindustrial value of about 715 ppb to 1732 ppb in the early 1990s and was 1774 in 2005. The global atmospheric nitrous oxide concentration increased from a pre-industrial value of about 270 ppb to 319 ppb in 2005. The combined radiative for ...
... atmospheric concentration of methane has increased from a preindustrial value of about 715 ppb to 1732 ppb in the early 1990s and was 1774 in 2005. The global atmospheric nitrous oxide concentration increased from a pre-industrial value of about 270 ppb to 319 ppb in 2005. The combined radiative for ...
cop21 and the paris agreement
... a substantial 16,2%. The global share of emissions from those countries had, however, declined from around half in 1990 to less than one-third in 2012.vii Important groundwork for a 2015 agreement was laid at COP18 in Warsaw (2013) and COP19 in Lima (2014). Notable advances were made on the Green Cl ...
... a substantial 16,2%. The global share of emissions from those countries had, however, declined from around half in 1990 to less than one-third in 2012.vii Important groundwork for a 2015 agreement was laid at COP18 in Warsaw (2013) and COP19 in Lima (2014). Notable advances were made on the Green Cl ...
Divestment is a powerful tactic for stigmatising
... businesses and society to choose low-carbon paths and to make those choices now,’ said South Africa’s minister in the presidency, Jeff Radebe, recently.5 But when assessed in terms of their actions, not their words (arguably the only proper way to assess politicians), politicians are failing us. The ...
... businesses and society to choose low-carbon paths and to make those choices now,’ said South Africa’s minister in the presidency, Jeff Radebe, recently.5 But when assessed in terms of their actions, not their words (arguably the only proper way to assess politicians), politicians are failing us. The ...
3. STRAW MAN 1: A PRELIMINARY VIEW OF THE TROPICAL
... early Paleogene tropical climate. Rather, these cruises returned to answer questions that have plagued the early Paleogene community for almost two decades. It is important to note that climate models themselves have evolved recently. We can now make predictions that are entirely independent of clim ...
... early Paleogene tropical climate. Rather, these cruises returned to answer questions that have plagued the early Paleogene community for almost two decades. It is important to note that climate models themselves have evolved recently. We can now make predictions that are entirely independent of clim ...
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... the constraints imposed by the structure of the ecosystem and the structure of the economy. These constraints provide the transition equations as well as other possible exhaustibility constraints associated with the optimal control problem. For example in models of resource harvesting with generaliz ...
... the constraints imposed by the structure of the ecosystem and the structure of the economy. These constraints provide the transition equations as well as other possible exhaustibility constraints associated with the optimal control problem. For example in models of resource harvesting with generaliz ...
Bias corrections of global models for regional climate simulations
... important to also remember that the GCM data were generated at a coarse resolution, where local processes and terrain heterogeneity were not taken into account. It also is possible that statistical downscaling methods developed on past climate might not hold true under climate change conditions. An ...
... important to also remember that the GCM data were generated at a coarse resolution, where local processes and terrain heterogeneity were not taken into account. It also is possible that statistical downscaling methods developed on past climate might not hold true under climate change conditions. An ...
Demographics of true and false climate facts
... people base their beliefs about physical reality on what they think would be the socioeconomic or political implications if human-caused climate change were true. One striking feature of public beliefs about climate change has been the pattern of information–elite polarization. Surveys find that col ...
... people base their beliefs about physical reality on what they think would be the socioeconomic or political implications if human-caused climate change were true. One striking feature of public beliefs about climate change has been the pattern of information–elite polarization. Surveys find that col ...
The EPA and Climate Change Contents
... greatest uncertainly lies in how effective global actions will be in reducing GHG emissions. Predicted negative changes in Ireland include: ...
... greatest uncertainly lies in how effective global actions will be in reducing GHG emissions. Predicted negative changes in Ireland include: ...
impacts of climate change on date palm in oman
... Figure 2- Comparison of observed changes in continental and global-scale surface temperatures, with those simulated by models using natural and anthropogenic climatic change forcings (Meehl et al., 2007). The black line represents the decadal averages of observations for the period 1906–2005, plotte ...
... Figure 2- Comparison of observed changes in continental and global-scale surface temperatures, with those simulated by models using natural and anthropogenic climatic change forcings (Meehl et al., 2007). The black line represents the decadal averages of observations for the period 1906–2005, plotte ...
Slide 1 - climateknowledge.org
... • As we go into the climate we will see that energy is transferred around. – From out in space we could reduce it to just some effective temperature, but on Earth we have to worry about transfer of energy between thermal energy and motion of wind and water. ...
... • As we go into the climate we will see that energy is transferred around. – From out in space we could reduce it to just some effective temperature, but on Earth we have to worry about transfer of energy between thermal energy and motion of wind and water. ...
Vol.11, No.2, 2011
... simulated wind oscillation has the observed downward propagation, roughly the right amplitude, and a mean period only somewhat shorter than observed (24 months vs the observed 27 – 28 months). The simulated oscillation, however, is more regular than that observed, the period of almost every cycle lo ...
... simulated wind oscillation has the observed downward propagation, roughly the right amplitude, and a mean period only somewhat shorter than observed (24 months vs the observed 27 – 28 months). The simulated oscillation, however, is more regular than that observed, the period of almost every cycle lo ...
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... While operating within this theoretical framework, the study analyzed the effects of drought and hence the perceptions on drought as necessary incentives for the farmers to be innovative in seeking solutions to adapt to the negative effects of climate change. One assumption made by the induced innov ...
... While operating within this theoretical framework, the study analyzed the effects of drought and hence the perceptions on drought as necessary incentives for the farmers to be innovative in seeking solutions to adapt to the negative effects of climate change. One assumption made by the induced innov ...
CCCI_Mongolia_Executive_Summary_20110411
... built up apartments in the south part, and traditional Ger areas in the north, which has been newly settled since 2000, due to the mass migration from rural areas after consequent dzud disasters occurred in Mongolia during 1999-2002. The UNUR is comparatively close to the City Center (in distance of ...
... built up apartments in the south part, and traditional Ger areas in the north, which has been newly settled since 2000, due to the mass migration from rural areas after consequent dzud disasters occurred in Mongolia during 1999-2002. The UNUR is comparatively close to the City Center (in distance of ...
Vulnerability of New Zealand pastoral farming to the impacts of
... likely to be experienced through regional-scale impacts on the hydrological cycle. There is abundant evidence in the palaeoclimate record that relatively small past changes in climate have resulted in significant regional changes in hydrology1 (Roberts 1998) and simulations of future climate using g ...
... likely to be experienced through regional-scale impacts on the hydrological cycle. There is abundant evidence in the palaeoclimate record that relatively small past changes in climate have resulted in significant regional changes in hydrology1 (Roberts 1998) and simulations of future climate using g ...
International Journal of Web Information Systems
... Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis of whether more complex and emergent hashtags can be sufficient pointers to climate change events. Human-induced climate change is one of this century’s greatest unbalancing forces to have affected our planet. Capturing the public awarene ...
... Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to test the hypothesis of whether more complex and emergent hashtags can be sufficient pointers to climate change events. Human-induced climate change is one of this century’s greatest unbalancing forces to have affected our planet. Capturing the public awarene ...
CIAS
... individual modules which may (but do not necessarily) originate from different institutions which have similar complexity but are based on different modelling paradigms or value judgements originating from the different researchers who may be based at different institutions. Thus a broad range of pe ...
... individual modules which may (but do not necessarily) originate from different institutions which have similar complexity but are based on different modelling paradigms or value judgements originating from the different researchers who may be based at different institutions. Thus a broad range of pe ...
Draft Risk Assessment Framework Outline
... revisited at a later time. Potential changes that bridges may be assessed with a high likelihood of impacts from sea level should not be screened out at this stage are rise, storms, and/or increased precipitation. those that are relatively uncertain but possibly Consider cumulative effects. Heavier ...
... revisited at a later time. Potential changes that bridges may be assessed with a high likelihood of impacts from sea level should not be screened out at this stage are rise, storms, and/or increased precipitation. those that are relatively uncertain but possibly Consider cumulative effects. Heavier ...
How much disease could climate change cause?
... Given the clear evidence that many health outcomes are highly sensitive to climate variations, it is inevitable that long-term climate change will have some effect on global population health. Climate change is likely to affect not only health but also many aspects of ecological and social systems, ...
... Given the clear evidence that many health outcomes are highly sensitive to climate variations, it is inevitable that long-term climate change will have some effect on global population health. Climate change is likely to affect not only health but also many aspects of ecological and social systems, ...
Assessment of Climate Change Impacts in Greece: A General
... therefore that winter runoff increases and spring snowmelt decreases [9-11]. The above mentioned changes in the streamflow pattern, will lead to an increased river flooding risk, which seasonally will be shifted form spring to winter time. As concern is rising, several studies have been conducted by ...
... therefore that winter runoff increases and spring snowmelt decreases [9-11]. The above mentioned changes in the streamflow pattern, will lead to an increased river flooding risk, which seasonally will be shifted form spring to winter time. As concern is rising, several studies have been conducted by ...
How reversible is sea ice loss?
... intermediate waters become a store of heat that can be accessed through mixed layer entrainment as the climate cools, slowing the rate of recovery of the sea ice in some regions of Antarctica. In the Arctic, a surface freshening reduces the mixed layer depth and prevents a surface release of the sto ...
... intermediate waters become a store of heat that can be accessed through mixed layer entrainment as the climate cools, slowing the rate of recovery of the sea ice in some regions of Antarctica. In the Arctic, a surface freshening reduces the mixed layer depth and prevents a surface release of the sto ...