Predicting survival, reproduction and abundance of polar bears
... abundance (Amstrup et al., 2007; Hunter et al., 2007), and each of these studies had to rely on some form of extrapolation or expert judgment to parameterize suggested population models due to the lack of data relating present to future conditions. These analyses are important steps, and they provid ...
... abundance (Amstrup et al., 2007; Hunter et al., 2007), and each of these studies had to rely on some form of extrapolation or expert judgment to parameterize suggested population models due to the lack of data relating present to future conditions. These analyses are important steps, and they provid ...
1 - Australian Human Rights Commission
... researcher has put it, the Torres Strait Islands have effectively been ‘left off the map in research on biophysical change in Australia’.8 Yet the Islanders’ cultures, societies and economies rely heavily on the ecosystem and significant changes to the region’s environment are already occurring. For ...
... researcher has put it, the Torres Strait Islands have effectively been ‘left off the map in research on biophysical change in Australia’.8 Yet the Islanders’ cultures, societies and economies rely heavily on the ecosystem and significant changes to the region’s environment are already occurring. For ...
Inclusion of ecologically based trait variation in plant functional types
... without needing to invoke mechanistic processes that are not fully quantified or understood. By quantifying the relationships between observed variation in community mean traits and their environmental drivers and incorporating these into DGVMs, traits can be adjusted every year within the model, al ...
... without needing to invoke mechanistic processes that are not fully quantified or understood. By quantifying the relationships between observed variation in community mean traits and their environmental drivers and incorporating these into DGVMs, traits can be adjusted every year within the model, al ...
ocean-climate.org - Plateforme Océan et Climat
... seawater is the source of most precipitation. The ocean is much more efficient at storing heat (93% of the excess of energy resulting from the human induced Green House Gases content in the atmosphere) than the continents (3%) and the atmosphere (1%). As a result, the ocean is the slow component of ...
... seawater is the source of most precipitation. The ocean is much more efficient at storing heat (93% of the excess of energy resulting from the human induced Green House Gases content in the atmosphere) than the continents (3%) and the atmosphere (1%). As a result, the ocean is the slow component of ...
Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook MODULE 14: Financing Climate-smart agriculture
... growth adapted to specific contexts, as well as poor agricultural value chains (McCarthy et al., 2011). Thus, a key role of public sector finance is to create the conditions and incentives for farmers to make needed investments. However, recent research indicates that public sector investments in ag ...
... growth adapted to specific contexts, as well as poor agricultural value chains (McCarthy et al., 2011). Thus, a key role of public sector finance is to create the conditions and incentives for farmers to make needed investments. However, recent research indicates that public sector investments in ag ...
Saturation of the terrestrial carbon sink
... most of the biological sinks will eventually level-off and subsequently declined to zero (hereafter referred as “sink saturation”) whereby no further C will be removed from the atmosphere. Coupled with this sink decline, global warming and deforestation have the potential to destabilize large biosph ...
... most of the biological sinks will eventually level-off and subsequently declined to zero (hereafter referred as “sink saturation”) whereby no further C will be removed from the atmosphere. Coupled with this sink decline, global warming and deforestation have the potential to destabilize large biosph ...
Processes Responsible for Cloud Feedback
... Clouds are a critical part of the global climate system. They exert a strong radiative cooling on the planet (∼–20 Wm−2 ) as the residual of a larger cooling effect (∼–50 Wm−2 ) and a positive warming effect (∼30 Wm−2 ) [54] depending on cloud type and optical thickness. Any changes to cloud radiati ...
... Clouds are a critical part of the global climate system. They exert a strong radiative cooling on the planet (∼–20 Wm−2 ) as the residual of a larger cooling effect (∼–50 Wm−2 ) and a positive warming effect (∼30 Wm−2 ) [54] depending on cloud type and optical thickness. Any changes to cloud radiati ...
Jessica Ayers - Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and
... interests, so what would be the result of the participation process?”28 An expertdriven, impacts-based perspective on adaptation actually makes inclusiveness problematic because it “run[s] a high risk of encountering elements of local opposition, especially under conditions of scientific uncertainty ...
... interests, so what would be the result of the participation process?”28 An expertdriven, impacts-based perspective on adaptation actually makes inclusiveness problematic because it “run[s] a high risk of encountering elements of local opposition, especially under conditions of scientific uncertainty ...
Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean
... and if anything this surface cooling strengthened the AMOC at least during the first part of the LIA. The fact that LIA coldness seems to have been even more pronounced in South America than in Europe18 further argues against a weak AMOC, as the latter would have warmed the Southern Hemisphere. The ...
... and if anything this surface cooling strengthened the AMOC at least during the first part of the LIA. The fact that LIA coldness seems to have been even more pronounced in South America than in Europe18 further argues against a weak AMOC, as the latter would have warmed the Southern Hemisphere. The ...
Managing Physical Impacts of Climate Change: An Attentional
... So stimuli could be noticed, but still not have any attention devoted to them, if they are not interpreted as having a potential impact. ABV argues that three basic principles determine how firms decide how much attention to devote to stimuli (Ocasio, 1997). First, firms have a selective focus of at ...
... So stimuli could be noticed, but still not have any attention devoted to them, if they are not interpreted as having a potential impact. ABV argues that three basic principles determine how firms decide how much attention to devote to stimuli (Ocasio, 1997). First, firms have a selective focus of at ...
likely effects of global climate change on the purse seine fishery for
... The abundance of phytoplankton in the Benguela upwelling region supports large standing stocks of zooplankton and small pelagic fish, which in turn supports an important commercial purse seine fishery. Two species of small pelagic fish, anchovy Engraulis capensis and sardine Sardinops sagax dominate ...
... The abundance of phytoplankton in the Benguela upwelling region supports large standing stocks of zooplankton and small pelagic fish, which in turn supports an important commercial purse seine fishery. Two species of small pelagic fish, anchovy Engraulis capensis and sardine Sardinops sagax dominate ...
Climate Change and Agricultural Vulnerability
... The sensitivity of agro-ecosystems to climate change, as determined by the FAO/IIASA Agro-ecological Zones (AEZ) model, was assessed within the socioeconomic scenarios defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Emissions (SRES). For this purpose, IIASA’s global ...
... The sensitivity of agro-ecosystems to climate change, as determined by the FAO/IIASA Agro-ecological Zones (AEZ) model, was assessed within the socioeconomic scenarios defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Emissions (SRES). For this purpose, IIASA’s global ...
Climate change enhances interannual variability of the Nile river flow
... The human population living in the Nile basin countries is projected to double by 2050, approaching one billion1 . The increase in water demand associated with this burgeoning population will put significant stress on the available water resources. Potential changes in the flow of the Nile River as ...
... The human population living in the Nile basin countries is projected to double by 2050, approaching one billion1 . The increase in water demand associated with this burgeoning population will put significant stress on the available water resources. Potential changes in the flow of the Nile River as ...
Climate Change and India: A 4x4 Assessment
... treated as a threat. International efforts to address climate change began with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992. The importance and significance of the vulnerability of natural and human systems to climatic changes and adaptation to such changes is i ...
... treated as a threat. International efforts to address climate change began with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992. The importance and significance of the vulnerability of natural and human systems to climatic changes and adaptation to such changes is i ...
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CITY OF AKKAD BY A COSMIC
... accuracy as latest model-‐‑data comparisons prove [2]. limestone deposits or volcanoes are impossible to Obvious reasons: All models exclude 5 major climate exist, therefore, no ground subsidence sinkholes macroforcings [3], are based on a g ...
... accuracy as latest model-‐‑data comparisons prove [2]. limestone deposits or volcanoes are impossible to Obvious reasons: All models exclude 5 major climate exist, therefore, no ground subsidence sinkholes macroforcings [3], are based on a g ...
Xeni Gwet`in Community-based Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... presents the world is so pervasive and complex. The mean surface temperature of Earth has increased an average 0.6°C (Celsius) since the Industrial Revolution, and increasing scientific evidence suggests that this is due to the accumulation of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) in the atmosphere.2 Historicall ...
... presents the world is so pervasive and complex. The mean surface temperature of Earth has increased an average 0.6°C (Celsius) since the Industrial Revolution, and increasing scientific evidence suggests that this is due to the accumulation of greenhouse gasses (GHGs) in the atmosphere.2 Historicall ...
Module 1: Introduction to climate change in the context of
... The IPCC Scientific Assessments are among the most widely used and most credible in this regard. The fourth IPCC Scientific Assessment was published in 2007, and includes a synthesis report [IPCC, 2007a], and summaries for policy makers [IPCC, 2007c]. We suggest that you read these two documents for ...
... The IPCC Scientific Assessments are among the most widely used and most credible in this regard. The fourth IPCC Scientific Assessment was published in 2007, and includes a synthesis report [IPCC, 2007a], and summaries for policy makers [IPCC, 2007c]. We suggest that you read these two documents for ...
Going Global - The George Wright Society
... practices for the establishment and management of protected area systems, and many of IUCN’s member organisations are the national parks and protected area management agencies of the world, including some of the largest and smallest agencies. The ability to develop and share lessons across these age ...
... practices for the establishment and management of protected area systems, and many of IUCN’s member organisations are the national parks and protected area management agencies of the world, including some of the largest and smallest agencies. The ability to develop and share lessons across these age ...
Regional Climate Information – Evaluation and Projections
... • errors in the reproduction of present day regional climate characteristics; • wide range in the simulated regional climatic changes by different models; • need to more comprehensively use regionalisation techniques to study the sub-AOGCM grid scale structure of the climate change signal. Other poi ...
... • errors in the reproduction of present day regional climate characteristics; • wide range in the simulated regional climatic changes by different models; • need to more comprehensively use regionalisation techniques to study the sub-AOGCM grid scale structure of the climate change signal. Other poi ...
Designing Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives
... The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) states unequivocally that the world is warming. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of how climate change is affecting natural and human systems. There is increasing concern about the likely implicatio ...
... The Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2007) states unequivocally that the world is warming. The report provides a comprehensive analysis of how climate change is affecting natural and human systems. There is increasing concern about the likely implicatio ...
Annex I Annex D in the Convention
... In the review of new POPs regional differences in climate change as observed and projected by IPCC should be taken into account. Climate change is predicted by the UNEP/AMAP expert group (2011) to increase the transport of POPs to the Arctic and other remote regions. Climate change is also predicted ...
... In the review of new POPs regional differences in climate change as observed and projected by IPCC should be taken into account. Climate change is predicted by the UNEP/AMAP expert group (2011) to increase the transport of POPs to the Arctic and other remote regions. Climate change is also predicted ...
Climate 2020, rising to the challenge
... Bali to Paris, I have worked hard to elevate the issue on the global agenda and support efforts to forge a universal climate agreement. I have engaged directly with world leaders, visited some of the worst-affected parts of the world, and undertaken a wide variety of other initiatives to heighten th ...
... Bali to Paris, I have worked hard to elevate the issue on the global agenda and support efforts to forge a universal climate agreement. I have engaged directly with world leaders, visited some of the worst-affected parts of the world, and undertaken a wide variety of other initiatives to heighten th ...