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... then went on to do post-docs in statistics and in oceanography. I remember sitting in one biological oceanography seminar after another, and realizing that no matter where the research started, it nearly always ended with a discussion of what was happening with climate change. While all the data wer ...
... then went on to do post-docs in statistics and in oceanography. I remember sitting in one biological oceanography seminar after another, and realizing that no matter where the research started, it nearly always ended with a discussion of what was happening with climate change. While all the data wer ...
Radiative Forcing: negative
... – Dust, sea salt and volcanic emissions Anthropogenic sources include – Automobiles, factories and biomass burning. Biomass burning: – Anthropogenic portion: burning of large forests for agriculture Aerosols have ‘short’ relative lifetimes – They can ‘float’ around for a few days to a week or ...
... – Dust, sea salt and volcanic emissions Anthropogenic sources include – Automobiles, factories and biomass burning. Biomass burning: – Anthropogenic portion: burning of large forests for agriculture Aerosols have ‘short’ relative lifetimes – They can ‘float’ around for a few days to a week or ...
The Greatest Challenges of Our Time
... utilization of many natural resources, as well as greater pollution and damage to the environment. Nature has been the loser during this period. Human life and living conditions in the world’s more than sovereign states have become all the more intertwined with each other. National decisions an ...
... utilization of many natural resources, as well as greater pollution and damage to the environment. Nature has been the loser during this period. Human life and living conditions in the world’s more than sovereign states have become all the more intertwined with each other. National decisions an ...
Evaluation of Climate Mitigation Potential for Yeniçağa Gölü (Bolu
... Change (IPCC), 2007). Even if the minimum predicted increase takes place, it will be larger than any century-long trend in the last 10,000 years (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007). It is not only a threat to the biodiversity of the world but it is expected to cause other global ...
... Change (IPCC), 2007). Even if the minimum predicted increase takes place, it will be larger than any century-long trend in the last 10,000 years (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 2007). It is not only a threat to the biodiversity of the world but it is expected to cause other global ...
INTRODUCTION What can demographers contribute to the study of
... development, especially by providing estimates and forecasts of population dynamics, which are fundamental to policy design. This essay is accompanied by a reprint of the two statements made by distinguished international scientists on the importance of placing human populations, and the composition ...
... development, especially by providing estimates and forecasts of population dynamics, which are fundamental to policy design. This essay is accompanied by a reprint of the two statements made by distinguished international scientists on the importance of placing human populations, and the composition ...
unburnable carbon: why we need to leave fossil fuels in the ground
... melting of the Greenland ice-sheet, which would eventually raise sea level by about 7 metres, inundating major cities world-wide, lies between a 1 and 4°C rise, with the risk increasing through that temperature range. Moreover, as scientific knowledge has improved, it is clear that other risks previ ...
... melting of the Greenland ice-sheet, which would eventually raise sea level by about 7 metres, inundating major cities world-wide, lies between a 1 and 4°C rise, with the risk increasing through that temperature range. Moreover, as scientific knowledge has improved, it is clear that other risks previ ...
The COP19Guide to Corporate Lobbying
... corner of the globe, as communities rally against the pollution of their ground water and land with poisonous chemicals and methane, and localised earthquakes. Not to mention the high greenhouse gas emissions due to the energy intensive extraction process and methane leakage. Poland itself had witne ...
... corner of the globe, as communities rally against the pollution of their ground water and land with poisonous chemicals and methane, and localised earthquakes. Not to mention the high greenhouse gas emissions due to the energy intensive extraction process and methane leakage. Poland itself had witne ...
The Climate Change Performance Index - Results
... On the basis of standardised criteria, the index evaluates and compares the climate protection performance of 58 countries that are, together, responsible for more than 90% of global energy-related CO2 emissions. There are other countries with good or even higher climate protection performance, but ...
... On the basis of standardised criteria, the index evaluates and compares the climate protection performance of 58 countries that are, together, responsible for more than 90% of global energy-related CO2 emissions. There are other countries with good or even higher climate protection performance, but ...
Mechanisms of elevation-dependent warming over the Tibetan
... As the highest and largest highland in the world, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) profoundly impacts regional and global climates through thermal and mechanical forcing (An et al. 2001; Yanai and Wu 2006). At the same time, the TP is sensitive and vulnerable to climatic change (Messerli and Ives 1997); as ...
... As the highest and largest highland in the world, the Tibetan Plateau (TP) profoundly impacts regional and global climates through thermal and mechanical forcing (An et al. 2001; Yanai and Wu 2006). At the same time, the TP is sensitive and vulnerable to climatic change (Messerli and Ives 1997); as ...
Altai Sayan Ecoregion
... Though there may not have been an overall tendency for heavy droughts or periods of extreme humidity on a broad scale from 1900 to 1995, nevertheless in some regions of Asia and Africa in the 1990s there was a significant increase in the periodicity and intensity of droughts. There were particular c ...
... Though there may not have been an overall tendency for heavy droughts or periods of extreme humidity on a broad scale from 1900 to 1995, nevertheless in some regions of Asia and Africa in the 1990s there was a significant increase in the periodicity and intensity of droughts. There were particular c ...
Managing Climate Change Risk in Coastal Canadian Communities
... prevention and recovery from natural disasters.1 The expansion of insurance in coastal communities can help the government achieve both of these objectives. Insurance can take away some of the financial responsibility of disaster recovery from governments, and the use of risk-adjusted premiums provi ...
... prevention and recovery from natural disasters.1 The expansion of insurance in coastal communities can help the government achieve both of these objectives. Insurance can take away some of the financial responsibility of disaster recovery from governments, and the use of risk-adjusted premiums provi ...
Climate Change, Human Rights and the Problem of Motivation
... most scientists working in the field that climate change is real, man-made and harmful: the average global temperature is rising mostly because of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and the effects of this warming on the climate are overwhelmingly harmful for most forms of life on Earth, in ...
... most scientists working in the field that climate change is real, man-made and harmful: the average global temperature is rising mostly because of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and the effects of this warming on the climate are overwhelmingly harmful for most forms of life on Earth, in ...
COP22: Strengthening the world`s response to climate change
... COP22 was in many ways a technical conference aimed at establishing the processes and protocols necessary for delivering the Paris Agreement. However, some clear signals for business emerged from the meeting: —— Whatever climate policy the new US administration adopts, at least 110 other countries w ...
... COP22 was in many ways a technical conference aimed at establishing the processes and protocols necessary for delivering the Paris Agreement. However, some clear signals for business emerged from the meeting: —— Whatever climate policy the new US administration adopts, at least 110 other countries w ...
Water Quality and Quantity, Climate Change and Public Health
... High quality, abundant water is essential to Minnesota economy, culture, future Understanding the basic properties of the water cycle and the atmosphere is fundamental to understanding impacts of climate change on water ...
... High quality, abundant water is essential to Minnesota economy, culture, future Understanding the basic properties of the water cycle and the atmosphere is fundamental to understanding impacts of climate change on water ...
2Ccastellanos.pdf
... be H1 = 2500 pc and H= 4740 pc. The observed profile can be written, n(z) = n0 exp(-z/H) Taking into account that the intensity of Halfa, in a clumpy medium is prop. to ne2 f, then the modelled profile can be written as n(z) = n0 exp(-z/H1) / f0.5 where f is a function of radius into the structure. ...
... be H1 = 2500 pc and H= 4740 pc. The observed profile can be written, n(z) = n0 exp(-z/H) Taking into account that the intensity of Halfa, in a clumpy medium is prop. to ne2 f, then the modelled profile can be written as n(z) = n0 exp(-z/H1) / f0.5 where f is a function of radius into the structure. ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Physical Characteristics of
... 2006) and ice phenology. One of the best integrators of regional temperature is the timing of ice cover on lakes and rivers, because long-term records are available for this metric. A 1.2°C warming of air temperatures in northern temperate regions has led to freeze dates that average 5.7 ± 2.4 days ...
... 2006) and ice phenology. One of the best integrators of regional temperature is the timing of ice cover on lakes and rivers, because long-term records are available for this metric. A 1.2°C warming of air temperatures in northern temperate regions has led to freeze dates that average 5.7 ± 2.4 days ...
high confidence
... [low confidence, limited evidence, low agreement], assuming no change in emissions, but the implications for future particulate pollution (which is more health-damaging) are very uncertain Higher temperatures may have affected trends in ground level tropospheric ozone [low confidence] Climate change ...
... [low confidence, limited evidence, low agreement], assuming no change in emissions, but the implications for future particulate pollution (which is more health-damaging) are very uncertain Higher temperatures may have affected trends in ground level tropospheric ozone [low confidence] Climate change ...
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... sources, such as national statistical offices, other governmental institutions or trade associations. Data are mostly in the form of number of trips to destinations beyond a nonnegligible distance from the place of residence, and involve at least one overnight stay. For some countries, data in this ...
... sources, such as national statistical offices, other governmental institutions or trade associations. Data are mostly in the form of number of trips to destinations beyond a nonnegligible distance from the place of residence, and involve at least one overnight stay. For some countries, data in this ...
Atlantic meridional heat transports computed from balancing Earth`s
... 2003b; Trenberth and Caron, 2001; Trenberth and Fasullo, 2008; Fasullo and Trenberth, 2008; Trenberth, 2009; Liu et al., 2015]. The vertically integrated atmospheric energy transports and their divergence have been computed from several atmospheric reanalyses [Berrisford et al., 2011; Dee et al., 20 ...
... 2003b; Trenberth and Caron, 2001; Trenberth and Fasullo, 2008; Fasullo and Trenberth, 2008; Trenberth, 2009; Liu et al., 2015]. The vertically integrated atmospheric energy transports and their divergence have been computed from several atmospheric reanalyses [Berrisford et al., 2011; Dee et al., 20 ...
American Indians, Climate Change, and Ethics for a Warming World
... Yet as important as it is to highlight its environmental justice aspects, global warming’s spatial and temporal dispersions render it a global and intergenerational collective action problem that is not susceptible to typical environmental justice solutions. Global warming is caused by human emissio ...
... Yet as important as it is to highlight its environmental justice aspects, global warming’s spatial and temporal dispersions render it a global and intergenerational collective action problem that is not susceptible to typical environmental justice solutions. Global warming is caused by human emissio ...
A new scenario framework for climate change research: the concept
... concept of a scenario matrix that combines so-called shared socioeconomic reference pathways (SSPs) with climate forcing outcomes as described by the representative concentration pathways (RCPs, van Vuuren et al. 2011). The RCPs reach different levels of climate forcing in the year 2100 and thus can ...
... concept of a scenario matrix that combines so-called shared socioeconomic reference pathways (SSPs) with climate forcing outcomes as described by the representative concentration pathways (RCPs, van Vuuren et al. 2011). The RCPs reach different levels of climate forcing in the year 2100 and thus can ...
Project Document for CEO Approval
... mitigation options that have been identified in A1 activities, with support from regional and international experts. The results of the 1st CCEAP will be used as basis for the study. Surveys and interviews of relevant stakeholders will also be conducted. Output A2.2. Matrix showing the technical, so ...
... mitigation options that have been identified in A1 activities, with support from regional and international experts. The results of the 1st CCEAP will be used as basis for the study. Surveys and interviews of relevant stakeholders will also be conducted. Output A2.2. Matrix showing the technical, so ...
Climate change and the Antarctic marine ecosystem: an essay on
... potentially introduces a greater level of ecosystem uncertainty, successful ecosystem outcomes potentially mean that management practices may need to be more conservative. A recent synthesis of Antarctic climate change (Turner et al. 2009a) summarizes some of the most important physical effects and ...
... potentially introduces a greater level of ecosystem uncertainty, successful ecosystem outcomes potentially mean that management practices may need to be more conservative. A recent synthesis of Antarctic climate change (Turner et al. 2009a) summarizes some of the most important physical effects and ...
Paper Title (use style: paper title) - G
... deterministic computable model of general equilibrium of economic sectors of Makarov [5] by adding additive noise to the right sides of the model’s dynamical equations, was considered as an example of theoretical results applications. The problem of parametrical identification of the researched mode ...
... deterministic computable model of general equilibrium of economic sectors of Makarov [5] by adding additive noise to the right sides of the model’s dynamical equations, was considered as an example of theoretical results applications. The problem of parametrical identification of the researched mode ...
Climate change inspector with intentionally biased bootstrapping
... variations of precipitation under the global warming condition. From the Clausius–Clapeyron (C–C) relation, saturation vapor pressure increases by 6–7 % for each 1 ◦ C increase in temperature, and rainfall intensity also increases at a similar rate with warming (Trenberth and Shea, 2005). Lenderink ...
... variations of precipitation under the global warming condition. From the Clausius–Clapeyron (C–C) relation, saturation vapor pressure increases by 6–7 % for each 1 ◦ C increase in temperature, and rainfall intensity also increases at a similar rate with warming (Trenberth and Shea, 2005). Lenderink ...