the global warming- extreme weather link
... (billions of tons) on an annual basis, while human emissions are estimated to be about 15–20 Gt per year, or about 10–15% of the total carbon dioxide exchange between atmosphere and ocean. The paper by Revelle and Suess has led to a number of computer-based modelling studies in the last 30 years. Th ...
... (billions of tons) on an annual basis, while human emissions are estimated to be about 15–20 Gt per year, or about 10–15% of the total carbon dioxide exchange between atmosphere and ocean. The paper by Revelle and Suess has led to a number of computer-based modelling studies in the last 30 years. Th ...
Seager and Battisti, 2007
... is just one. How orbital changes cause ice sheet growth and decay remains a major unsolved problem but will be probably be solved as it becomes computationally feasible to integrate coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (GCMs) through orbital cycles. It is only in recent years that tim ...
... is just one. How orbital changes cause ice sheet growth and decay remains a major unsolved problem but will be probably be solved as it becomes computationally feasible to integrate coupled atmosphere-ocean general circulation models (GCMs) through orbital cycles. It is only in recent years that tim ...
Global changes in seasonal means and extremes of precipitation
... Figure 1. The calculation method used to define a dry or a wet period. The example is for the winter (DJF) season at the location of De Bilt, Netherlands (5.6°E, 51.3°N). On the x and y axis we report the seasonal mean and extreme values, respectively, expressed in mm/d. The two black open circles a ...
... Figure 1. The calculation method used to define a dry or a wet period. The example is for the winter (DJF) season at the location of De Bilt, Netherlands (5.6°E, 51.3°N). On the x and y axis we report the seasonal mean and extreme values, respectively, expressed in mm/d. The two black open circles a ...
The Climate Change Debate in the United
... political views has relatively counter-balanced each other throughout the years. But in the recent years the parties have increasingly grown divided regarding to all the main policy dimensions in politics. The Republican Party has seen itself increasingly holding conservative lines whereas the Democ ...
... political views has relatively counter-balanced each other throughout the years. But in the recent years the parties have increasingly grown divided regarding to all the main policy dimensions in politics. The Republican Party has seen itself increasingly holding conservative lines whereas the Democ ...
Climate change and the human right to health
... change as changes to the physical environment resulting from climate change that have significant deleterious effects on human health and welfare. Article 3 calls upon Parties to the Convention to take measures to minimize the causes of climate change and minimize its adverse effects, including on ...
... change as changes to the physical environment resulting from climate change that have significant deleterious effects on human health and welfare. Article 3 calls upon Parties to the Convention to take measures to minimize the causes of climate change and minimize its adverse effects, including on ...
Development of a metamodel tool for regional integrated climate
... stakeholders across the agricultural, hydrological, biodiversity and coastal sectors. The Regional Impact Simulator contains the: Metamodels – a range of calibrated and validated metamodels simulating fluvial and coastal flooding; rural landuse change and agricultural production; water resources, ...
... stakeholders across the agricultural, hydrological, biodiversity and coastal sectors. The Regional Impact Simulator contains the: Metamodels – a range of calibrated and validated metamodels simulating fluvial and coastal flooding; rural landuse change and agricultural production; water resources, ...
Climate Change Position Statement and 2020 Action Plan
... and practices that are consistent with the investment required to limit global warming to less than two degrees11 and address its impacts. ...
... and practices that are consistent with the investment required to limit global warming to less than two degrees11 and address its impacts. ...
The Ten Warning Signs of Global Warming
... politically-motivated organization. While there can never be indisputable certainty as to humankind’s role in warming the atmosphere, the conclusions have been stronger with each study by the IPCC. In its most recent (2001) report, the IPCC estimated that surface temperatures could rise up to 10.4 d ...
... politically-motivated organization. While there can never be indisputable certainty as to humankind’s role in warming the atmosphere, the conclusions have been stronger with each study by the IPCC. In its most recent (2001) report, the IPCC estimated that surface temperatures could rise up to 10.4 d ...
01_Grids_intro - Indico
... • Anybody (belonging to the donating institutes) can use the donated resources for solving her/his own applications • Symmetric relationship between donors and users: ...
... • Anybody (belonging to the donating institutes) can use the donated resources for solving her/his own applications • Symmetric relationship between donors and users: ...
A multi-century ice-core perspective on 20th
... for the longer cores. The annual Z score is the standardized deviation from its respective mean (annual Z score ¼ (annual value – record mean)/record standard deviation). The annual Z scores are shown (Fig. 1) as unweighted 10 year (decadal) averages plotted at the midpoint of the decade. The goal h ...
... for the longer cores. The annual Z score is the standardized deviation from its respective mean (annual Z score ¼ (annual value – record mean)/record standard deviation). The annual Z scores are shown (Fig. 1) as unweighted 10 year (decadal) averages plotted at the midpoint of the decade. The goal h ...
A multi-century ice-core perspective on 20th
... for the longer cores. The annual Z score is the standardized deviation from its respective mean (annual Z score ¼ (annual value – record mean)/record standard deviation). The annual Z scores are shown (Fig. 1) as unweighted 10 year (decadal) averages plotted at the midpoint of the decade. The goal h ...
... for the longer cores. The annual Z score is the standardized deviation from its respective mean (annual Z score ¼ (annual value – record mean)/record standard deviation). The annual Z scores are shown (Fig. 1) as unweighted 10 year (decadal) averages plotted at the midpoint of the decade. The goal h ...
Global Warming`s Increasingly Visible Impacts
... direct causal link to global warming has been established for some observed changes, such as sea-level rise and worldwide glacial retreat, such a link is difficult to definitively establish for other changes, such as the increased incidence of droughts or the migration of a particular species. Howev ...
... direct causal link to global warming has been established for some observed changes, such as sea-level rise and worldwide glacial retreat, such a link is difficult to definitively establish for other changes, such as the increased incidence of droughts or the migration of a particular species. Howev ...
Mediterranean Sea response to climate change in an
... boundary forcings (air–sea fluxes, Atlantic ocean hydrography, rivers and Black Sea inputs). We adopt the same modelling approach as followed by Somot et al. (2006), which consisted in using a regional Mediterranean ocean model forced by fluxes extracted from a regional atmospheric model and the Atl ...
... boundary forcings (air–sea fluxes, Atlantic ocean hydrography, rivers and Black Sea inputs). We adopt the same modelling approach as followed by Somot et al. (2006), which consisted in using a regional Mediterranean ocean model forced by fluxes extracted from a regional atmospheric model and the Atl ...
The Climate Change Issue: Beyond the `True` or `Not True`
... Spring in 1962, provides a good starting point in order to discern which paradoxical tropes and calls for action inform ‘green’ political engagement in general. In its incessant compulsion to cover over its own internal contradictions namely, environmentalism has mutated into climate change activism ...
... Spring in 1962, provides a good starting point in order to discern which paradoxical tropes and calls for action inform ‘green’ political engagement in general. In its incessant compulsion to cover over its own internal contradictions namely, environmentalism has mutated into climate change activism ...
ocean climate change, phytoplankton community
... used here to include both anthropogenic climate change as well as the large-scale decadal oceanographic patterns such as the ENSO, Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and NAO. This use is in contrast to ‘‘weather,’’ which occurs over short timescales of days to weeks (cf. Moore et al. 2008b). The eart ...
... used here to include both anthropogenic climate change as well as the large-scale decadal oceanographic patterns such as the ENSO, Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), and NAO. This use is in contrast to ‘‘weather,’’ which occurs over short timescales of days to weeks (cf. Moore et al. 2008b). The eart ...
Bringing in Irrigation
... Height of Bar indicates Price SD and number next to bar is the yield SD ...
... Height of Bar indicates Price SD and number next to bar is the yield SD ...
how will new zealand`s forests respond to climate
... plantation forests a further 1.3 million ha (4.6%) (Turland& Neumann 1991). The production forest is mainly Pinus radiata (89%), with the remainder mainly Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco. Export earnings from forest products currently exceed $ 1.4 billion per year (Ministry of Forestry 1991). T ...
... plantation forests a further 1.3 million ha (4.6%) (Turland& Neumann 1991). The production forest is mainly Pinus radiata (89%), with the remainder mainly Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco. Export earnings from forest products currently exceed $ 1.4 billion per year (Ministry of Forestry 1991). T ...
Natural Variability, Anthropogenic Climate Change, and Impacts on
... March) that supplies most of the year’s precipitation is heavily affected by climate fluctuations. In other areas, such as the eastern part of the United States, each season has the potential to contribute significantly to the annual total at that location. But in California, the warm-season months ...
... March) that supplies most of the year’s precipitation is heavily affected by climate fluctuations. In other areas, such as the eastern part of the United States, each season has the potential to contribute significantly to the annual total at that location. But in California, the warm-season months ...
350.ORG - Earthjustice
... Fisheries in the Pacific are predicted to be harmed by the effects of climate change, including sea temperature rise, increasing acidity, changing currents, and cyclone damage.14 As fish become harder to catch, citizens will have to reduce the amount of fish (and thus protein essential for good nutr ...
... Fisheries in the Pacific are predicted to be harmed by the effects of climate change, including sea temperature rise, increasing acidity, changing currents, and cyclone damage.14 As fish become harder to catch, citizens will have to reduce the amount of fish (and thus protein essential for good nutr ...
amoeba downing
... Recent climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula Whilst there are no direct temperature records available from this part of Alexander Island, Lazarev Bay is within a region likely to have recently undergone significant recent warming (Fig. 1) [7]. The closest decadal scale instrumental meteorologica ...
... Recent climate change on the Antarctic Peninsula Whilst there are no direct temperature records available from this part of Alexander Island, Lazarev Bay is within a region likely to have recently undergone significant recent warming (Fig. 1) [7]. The closest decadal scale instrumental meteorologica ...
ProgressReport 2003-2004
... agricultural ecosystems. In addition to improving predictions of the future land sink, this model will predict nutrient inputs into coastal waters. CICS is also performing a series of modeling experiments to investigate the causes of the current terrestrial sink (e.g., CO2 fertilization vs. land use ...
... agricultural ecosystems. In addition to improving predictions of the future land sink, this model will predict nutrient inputs into coastal waters. CICS is also performing a series of modeling experiments to investigate the causes of the current terrestrial sink (e.g., CO2 fertilization vs. land use ...
Impact of climate change on soil frost under snow cover in a forested
... Typical maximum annual soil frost depths in centraleastern Finland are 15 to 20 cm. In northern Finland, both snow depth and frost sum have larger values than in central-eastern Finland, and on average the maximum annual soil frost depths are greater than 100 cm. The thickness of the snow cover is i ...
... Typical maximum annual soil frost depths in centraleastern Finland are 15 to 20 cm. In northern Finland, both snow depth and frost sum have larger values than in central-eastern Finland, and on average the maximum annual soil frost depths are greater than 100 cm. The thickness of the snow cover is i ...