changes in high flows in Sweden in the past and the future (1911
... Schmocker-Fackel and Naef, 2010) or process-based numerical modeling and a scenario approach (e.g., Dankers and Feyen, 2008; Arheimer et al., 2012; Bergström et al., 2012). Both these strategies have potential advantages but also many challenges, as discussed by Hall et al. (2014). The two fundament ...
... Schmocker-Fackel and Naef, 2010) or process-based numerical modeling and a scenario approach (e.g., Dankers and Feyen, 2008; Arheimer et al., 2012; Bergström et al., 2012). Both these strategies have potential advantages but also many challenges, as discussed by Hall et al. (2014). The two fundament ...
Environmental Degradation, Social Sin, and the Common Good
... global climate. Effects on crop productivity are particularly problematic in seasonally dry and tropical regions where it is projected to decrease with small local temperature increases of 1-2 degrees Centigrade. Yields from rain-fed agriculture in some African countries could be reduced by up to 50 ...
... global climate. Effects on crop productivity are particularly problematic in seasonally dry and tropical regions where it is projected to decrease with small local temperature increases of 1-2 degrees Centigrade. Yields from rain-fed agriculture in some African countries could be reduced by up to 50 ...
Simulated Global-Mean Sea Level Changes over the Last Half
... GCM (HadCM3) with anthropogenic and natural (solar and volcanic) forcings have been analyzed. Globalmean surface temperature change during the twentieth century is well reproduced. Simulated contributions to global-mean sea level rise during recent decades due to thermal expansion (the largest term) ...
... GCM (HadCM3) with anthropogenic and natural (solar and volcanic) forcings have been analyzed. Globalmean surface temperature change during the twentieth century is well reproduced. Simulated contributions to global-mean sea level rise during recent decades due to thermal expansion (the largest term) ...
22. Predictions and Projections of Pine Productivity and Hydrology
... and maximum air temperature, total precipitation, and solar radiation) and species-specific process coefficients to predict evapotranspiration (ET), water drainage and net primary productivity (NPP) from the stand level (< one hectare (ha)) to a 0.5° x 0.5° grid cell resolution (approximately 50 x 7 ...
... and maximum air temperature, total precipitation, and solar radiation) and species-specific process coefficients to predict evapotranspiration (ET), water drainage and net primary productivity (NPP) from the stand level (< one hectare (ha)) to a 0.5° x 0.5° grid cell resolution (approximately 50 x 7 ...
Impacts of climate change on plant food allergens: a previously
... demonstrate that allergenic food plants, like many other plants, are responsive to increases in [CO2] and temperature, and add weight to the suggestion that such atmospheric changes could influence their allergenic characteristics. In particular, for peanut, impacts on the peanut seeds themselves, s ...
... demonstrate that allergenic food plants, like many other plants, are responsive to increases in [CO2] and temperature, and add weight to the suggestion that such atmospheric changes could influence their allergenic characteristics. In particular, for peanut, impacts on the peanut seeds themselves, s ...
the full ITEP workshop booklet
... atmosphere. The levels of these gases are increasing at a faster rate than at any time in hundreds of thousands of years. We know that greenhouse gases trap heat. If human activities continue to r ...
... atmosphere. The levels of these gases are increasing at a faster rate than at any time in hundreds of thousands of years. We know that greenhouse gases trap heat. If human activities continue to r ...
Communicating Climate Change
... Paper presented at the conference on “Climate Change Politics in North America,” Woodrow Wilson International ...
... Paper presented at the conference on “Climate Change Politics in North America,” Woodrow Wilson International ...
Global Warming and its Impact on Cane Production under Pakistan
... Global warming is a long term universal challenge being faced in Agricultural sectors in all contents of the world. It is directly associated with increasing atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases like nitrous oxide and methane. It results in climatic change with change in rainfall pattern and t ...
... Global warming is a long term universal challenge being faced in Agricultural sectors in all contents of the world. It is directly associated with increasing atmospheric CO2 and other greenhouse gases like nitrous oxide and methane. It results in climatic change with change in rainfall pattern and t ...
'Sensitivity of climate change detection and attribution to the characterization of internal climate variability'
... data set to test the sensitivity of the results to the addition of the last seven years of obser- ...
... data set to test the sensitivity of the results to the addition of the last seven years of obser- ...
connell_ukcip - Global Change System for Analysis, Research
... natural climate variability* vs. human-induced climate change • For temperature, human effect dominates • For precipitation, 2020s, intra-ensemble range ensemble mean change ...
... natural climate variability* vs. human-induced climate change • For temperature, human effect dominates • For precipitation, 2020s, intra-ensemble range ensemble mean change ...
Environmental Justice and Climate Change in Latin America
... the continued exclusions from political processes. It is also worth remembering that the burdens of climate change are unequally shared not only among nations of the global South and the global North, but as important, among the different socioeconomic strata of these societies, which are among the ...
... the continued exclusions from political processes. It is also worth remembering that the burdens of climate change are unequally shared not only among nations of the global South and the global North, but as important, among the different socioeconomic strata of these societies, which are among the ...
幻灯片 1
... – With melting ice caps, along with an increase of precipitation (降水) at high latitudes, the normal ocean circulation pattern may be altered, with possible changes in the average global surface temperature – This feedback effect on average surface temperature is very difficult to predict, which may ...
... – With melting ice caps, along with an increase of precipitation (降水) at high latitudes, the normal ocean circulation pattern may be altered, with possible changes in the average global surface temperature – This feedback effect on average surface temperature is very difficult to predict, which may ...
PLATE TECTONICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
... clouds dominate planetary albedo (see entry on Albedo feedback), the surface is the dominant absorber of solar energy, responsible for 65% of the total absorbed solar radiation and for transferring energy to the atmosphere through longwave radiation, and fluxes of sensible and latent heat. Conseque ...
... clouds dominate planetary albedo (see entry on Albedo feedback), the surface is the dominant absorber of solar energy, responsible for 65% of the total absorbed solar radiation and for transferring energy to the atmosphere through longwave radiation, and fluxes of sensible and latent heat. Conseque ...
LEARN ABOUT… Climate change and ozone depletion
... driven by large temperature differences between outside and inside the Antarctic area. Temperatures within the stratospheric Antarctic vortex are well under the threshold of formation of PSCs, which means that further cooling is not likely to change the frequency of their formation to a large extent ...
... driven by large temperature differences between outside and inside the Antarctic area. Temperatures within the stratospheric Antarctic vortex are well under the threshold of formation of PSCs, which means that further cooling is not likely to change the frequency of their formation to a large extent ...
Climate Change and Energy: Issues and Prospect for
... f) Generate empirical data for policy and decision making on climate change in the country g) Coordinate inter-agency and inter-ministerial cooperation on mitigating and adapting to climate change and its consequences h) Create awareness on climate change and its consequences to the policy and decis ...
... f) Generate empirical data for policy and decision making on climate change in the country g) Coordinate inter-agency and inter-ministerial cooperation on mitigating and adapting to climate change and its consequences h) Create awareness on climate change and its consequences to the policy and decis ...
Climate-System Tipping Points and Extreme Weather Events
... sheets on Greenland and Antarctica, which may start to disappear in an irreversible manner once certain critical thresholds (“tipping points”) with respect to key environmental parameters are transgressed. Although this disappearance is expected to happen on timescales of hundreds to probably thousa ...
... sheets on Greenland and Antarctica, which may start to disappear in an irreversible manner once certain critical thresholds (“tipping points”) with respect to key environmental parameters are transgressed. Although this disappearance is expected to happen on timescales of hundreds to probably thousa ...
Climate Change in the United States: The Prohibitive Costs of
... and the village of Newtok—would cost $405 million (Ruth, Coelho, and Karetnikov 2007). Impacts on Public Health If emissions continue to grow unabated, extreme heat waves that now occur once every 20 years are projected to occur about every other year in much of the country by the end of this centur ...
... and the village of Newtok—would cost $405 million (Ruth, Coelho, and Karetnikov 2007). Impacts on Public Health If emissions continue to grow unabated, extreme heat waves that now occur once every 20 years are projected to occur about every other year in much of the country by the end of this centur ...
Secondary Sample Maps
... Frankenstein’s monster is more human than his creator ‘Frankenstein’s tragedy is not that he creates a monster but that he becomes one.’ What do you think? 2000 English exam, paper 2, NSW ...
... Frankenstein’s monster is more human than his creator ‘Frankenstein’s tragedy is not that he creates a monster but that he becomes one.’ What do you think? 2000 English exam, paper 2, NSW ...
Climate Change and Public Health 101
... Winter temperatures have been rising about twice as fast as annual average temperatures Minimum or ‘overnight low’ temperatures have been rising faster than maximum or ‘daytime high’ temperatures ...
... Winter temperatures have been rising about twice as fast as annual average temperatures Minimum or ‘overnight low’ temperatures have been rising faster than maximum or ‘daytime high’ temperatures ...
Microfinance and Climate Change: Threats and Opportunities C
... 380 ppm since the beginning of the Industrial Age, the earth’s mean temperature has increased about 0.8º C. Scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict temperature increases of between 1.8º C and 4.0º C by the end of this century. To put this in perspective, t ...
... 380 ppm since the beginning of the Industrial Age, the earth’s mean temperature has increased about 0.8º C. Scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predict temperature increases of between 1.8º C and 4.0º C by the end of this century. To put this in perspective, t ...
Climate Change and Public Health 101
... Winter temperatures have been rising about twice as fast as annual average temperatures Minimum or ‘overnight low’ temperatures have been rising faster than maximum or ‘daytime high’ temperatures ...
... Winter temperatures have been rising about twice as fast as annual average temperatures Minimum or ‘overnight low’ temperatures have been rising faster than maximum or ‘daytime high’ temperatures ...
Metamorphosis of Religious and Visual Signs in the Context of
... of the possible outcomes. Substantial and sometimes dangerous changes occur in the cryosphere, a sphere of zero or lower temperature, which covers part of atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. These include glaciers and mountain glaciers, ice covering of water bodies and ice clouds, snow covering ...
... of the possible outcomes. Substantial and sometimes dangerous changes occur in the cryosphere, a sphere of zero or lower temperature, which covers part of atmosphere, hydrosphere and lithosphere. These include glaciers and mountain glaciers, ice covering of water bodies and ice clouds, snow covering ...
Climate change
... adequate attention is given to reducing the vulnerability of smallholder farmers to increased climatic uncertainty. Steps are also being taken to ensure that mitigation measures are credible and can be feasibly implemented. IFAD’s programmes and projects primarily support four types of adaptation ac ...
... adequate attention is given to reducing the vulnerability of smallholder farmers to increased climatic uncertainty. Steps are also being taken to ensure that mitigation measures are credible and can be feasibly implemented. IFAD’s programmes and projects primarily support four types of adaptation ac ...