Climate change adaptation of the agricultural seed business
... change mitigation strategy • Why focusing on Climate change adaptation strategy? • Limited focus on climate change impacts or outside-in effects on companies • Cross-country studies, especially comparing between developed and developing countries, are even more infrequent ...
... change mitigation strategy • Why focusing on Climate change adaptation strategy? • Limited focus on climate change impacts or outside-in effects on companies • Cross-country studies, especially comparing between developed and developing countries, are even more infrequent ...
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from... Research Volume Title: The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and...
... their constituencies may find it hard to relate the conditions faced in their region to broader global weather patterns. The results suggest that adaptation should be part of any strategy to cope with climate change. Therefore, it is important to know the extent to which economic adaptation to weath ...
... their constituencies may find it hard to relate the conditions faced in their region to broader global weather patterns. The results suggest that adaptation should be part of any strategy to cope with climate change. Therefore, it is important to know the extent to which economic adaptation to weath ...
Hydrologic modeling of an arctic tundra watershed: Toward Pan
... One approach to modeling the spatial distribution of soil moisture is to work with the details of the watershed topography by explicitly modeling the movement of water from the hillslopes to the valleys [Hinzman and Kane, 1992; Zhang et al., 1997]. However, while this may be satisfactory at the scal ...
... One approach to modeling the spatial distribution of soil moisture is to work with the details of the watershed topography by explicitly modeling the movement of water from the hillslopes to the valleys [Hinzman and Kane, 1992; Zhang et al., 1997]. However, while this may be satisfactory at the scal ...
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... ECMWF re-analysis data reveal that on 22 % of the days between 1980 and 2009 the same circulation type prevailed on both levels (hereafter referred to as matching days). A sensitivity test using the whole available time period (1957–2012) leads to the same result (22 %). The percentage of matching d ...
... ECMWF re-analysis data reveal that on 22 % of the days between 1980 and 2009 the same circulation type prevailed on both levels (hereafter referred to as matching days). A sensitivity test using the whole available time period (1957–2012) leads to the same result (22 %). The percentage of matching d ...
- Ontario Climate Change Data Portal
... climate model PRECIS, which was developed at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre, to develop fine-scale physically based climate projections over the province of Ontario, Canada, by adding regionalized climate physics to the large-scale outputs from the HadCM3 modelling system under the SRES A1B emissio ...
... climate model PRECIS, which was developed at the UK Met Office Hadley Centre, to develop fine-scale physically based climate projections over the province of Ontario, Canada, by adding regionalized climate physics to the large-scale outputs from the HadCM3 modelling system under the SRES A1B emissio ...
Notes on Some studies - Department of Agricultural Economics
... Impact Analysis Method A sector model was developed for Egypt expanding upon an earlier sector model developed by others. An early version of the Egyptian model in the GAMS model library. The model was a Price Endogenous model. ...
... Impact Analysis Method A sector model was developed for Egypt expanding upon an earlier sector model developed by others. An early version of the Egyptian model in the GAMS model library. The model was a Price Endogenous model. ...
Tenaghi Philippon (Greece) Revisited: Drilling a Continuous Lower
... Unprecedented insights into both short-term (i.e., decadalto centennial-scale) and long-term (i.e., orbital-scale) climate variability over the last 740 kyr have been derived from ice cores from polar regions (Dansgaard et al., 1993; EPICA community members, 2004). These records show that the higher ...
... Unprecedented insights into both short-term (i.e., decadalto centennial-scale) and long-term (i.e., orbital-scale) climate variability over the last 740 kyr have been derived from ice cores from polar regions (Dansgaard et al., 1993; EPICA community members, 2004). These records show that the higher ...
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... stations in 33 watershed units throughout Indonesia between 1931 and 1971. Temperature data were estimated based on Brrak (1929). Grids of 0.1 x 0.1 for Java and 0.5 x 0.5 for other islands were established. Based on the grid analysis, changes in temperature and rainfall due to climate change were p ...
... stations in 33 watershed units throughout Indonesia between 1931 and 1971. Temperature data were estimated based on Brrak (1929). Grids of 0.1 x 0.1 for Java and 0.5 x 0.5 for other islands were established. Based on the grid analysis, changes in temperature and rainfall due to climate change were p ...
Climate Change
... climatological conditions dominating those regions today differ from those under which these ice fields originally accumulated and have been sustained. The current warming is therefore unusual when viewed from the long-term perspective. In addition, we have the 160-year record of direct temperature ...
... climatological conditions dominating those regions today differ from those under which these ice fields originally accumulated and have been sustained. The current warming is therefore unusual when viewed from the long-term perspective. In addition, we have the 160-year record of direct temperature ...
The world beyond two degrees: where do we stand?
... The council states that: ‘Given the serious risk of such an increase and particularly the very high rate of change, the council believes that global average temperatures should not exceed 2 degrees above pre-industrial level and that therefore concentration levels lower than 550 ppm CO2 should guide ...
... The council states that: ‘Given the serious risk of such an increase and particularly the very high rate of change, the council believes that global average temperatures should not exceed 2 degrees above pre-industrial level and that therefore concentration levels lower than 550 ppm CO2 should guide ...
Provincial Climate Change Forum - Terms of Reference ToR
... Provide a platform for all relevant departments and local authorities to share information on their various climate change-related policies and measures (including strategies, plans, programmes, legislation, systems and projects); There are various plans, strategies and programmes in addition to the ...
... Provide a platform for all relevant departments and local authorities to share information on their various climate change-related policies and measures (including strategies, plans, programmes, legislation, systems and projects); There are various plans, strategies and programmes in addition to the ...
The relevance of climate change integrated assessment models in
... of future generations to meet their own needs’), we can understand why weak and fragmented actions against global warming can lead to undesirable growth paths. From this perspective the priority is to set up the most effective policies to curb increasing emissions over time (Holtz-Eakin and Selden, ...
... of future generations to meet their own needs’), we can understand why weak and fragmented actions against global warming can lead to undesirable growth paths. From this perspective the priority is to set up the most effective policies to curb increasing emissions over time (Holtz-Eakin and Selden, ...
Poster template
... White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-32. ...
... White (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-32. ...
Review on Ocean Heat Content and Ocean
... upper 3000 m of the water column estimated from observations and a similar set of heat-content changes, relative to a 300-year control run climate, which was computed from five different realizations of the PCM forced by observed and estimated concentrations of greenhouse gases and the direct effect ...
... upper 3000 m of the water column estimated from observations and a similar set of heat-content changes, relative to a 300-year control run climate, which was computed from five different realizations of the PCM forced by observed and estimated concentrations of greenhouse gases and the direct effect ...
1 United Nations, Department of Public Information, NGO Relations
... Greenland ice sheet. Professor Zaelke put forward the view that only half the problem of climate change was caused by CO2. He suggested that the other causes had to be addressed and quickly – namely the twenty percent of warming caused by HFCs. As a significant greenhouse gas, HFCs were traded under ...
... Greenland ice sheet. Professor Zaelke put forward the view that only half the problem of climate change was caused by CO2. He suggested that the other causes had to be addressed and quickly – namely the twenty percent of warming caused by HFCs. As a significant greenhouse gas, HFCs were traded under ...
Radiative forcing - UW Atmospheric Sciences
... Things that respond to temperature changes (but themselves affect temperature too!) ...
... Things that respond to temperature changes (but themselves affect temperature too!) ...
NIR-15-12 - Global Warming: Canada`s Melting Glaciers
... Isolated oceanic islands, coastal cities, towns and villages would find themselves underwater. While the process of melting would take thousands of years (10 000 by some estimates), the direct cause of the melting would be the fossil fuels we burn today because carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphe ...
... Isolated oceanic islands, coastal cities, towns and villages would find themselves underwater. While the process of melting would take thousands of years (10 000 by some estimates), the direct cause of the melting would be the fossil fuels we burn today because carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphe ...
20080102-Karl-ESIP-Winter-Mtg-Climate
... to be less frequent but more intense. Precipitation extremes are very likely to increase. For a mid-range emission scenario, daily precipitation so heavy that it now occurs only once every 20 years is projected to occur every eight years or so by the end of this century over much of Eastern Nort ...
... to be less frequent but more intense. Precipitation extremes are very likely to increase. For a mid-range emission scenario, daily precipitation so heavy that it now occurs only once every 20 years is projected to occur every eight years or so by the end of this century over much of Eastern Nort ...
The problem of a national communication
... Information from initial national communications on vulnerability and adaptations assessment • Difficulties in applying the current methodologies • Limited information on extreme events and their relation to CC • Difficulties in dissociating impacts from CC and from climate variability • Limitation ...
... Information from initial national communications on vulnerability and adaptations assessment • Difficulties in applying the current methodologies • Limited information on extreme events and their relation to CC • Difficulties in dissociating impacts from CC and from climate variability • Limitation ...
Article - Cerfacs
... downscaling uncertainties and assess the robustness of the results obtained with the statistical downscaling method, two other downscaling approaches are used. The first one is a dynamical downscaling methodology based on a variable resolution atmospheric model, with a quantile-quantile bias correct ...
... downscaling uncertainties and assess the robustness of the results obtained with the statistical downscaling method, two other downscaling approaches are used. The first one is a dynamical downscaling methodology based on a variable resolution atmospheric model, with a quantile-quantile bias correct ...
Increasing Mississippi river discharge throughout the 21st century
... [Piao et al., 2007; Shi et al., 2011], but how future land use would contribute to changes in river discharge still remains far from clear. Given that warmer climatic conditions and more intensive land use change have been projected to occur in nearly all major regions across the globe, there is an ...
... [Piao et al., 2007; Shi et al., 2011], but how future land use would contribute to changes in river discharge still remains far from clear. Given that warmer climatic conditions and more intensive land use change have been projected to occur in nearly all major regions across the globe, there is an ...
Forests and Climate Change
... The current generation of models has capability beyond hydrometeorology and incorporates ecological advances in biogeochemical and biogeographical modeling (10). Many models simulate the carbon cycle (Fig. 2C) and vegetation dynamics (Fig. 2D). In these models, the biosphere and atmosphere form a co ...
... The current generation of models has capability beyond hydrometeorology and incorporates ecological advances in biogeochemical and biogeographical modeling (10). Many models simulate the carbon cycle (Fig. 2C) and vegetation dynamics (Fig. 2D). In these models, the biosphere and atmosphere form a co ...
the response of crop to temperature
... during 2080s can be offset by elevated CO2 at 560-720 ppm and other adaptation, but very high costs may need. An increase in investments of 8 ~ 34.8 billion US dollars per year (in 1990 price) is necessary, otherwise the agriculture will lose 32.3 ~ 80 billion US dollars per year (Lin, & Zhang, 2005 ...
... during 2080s can be offset by elevated CO2 at 560-720 ppm and other adaptation, but very high costs may need. An increase in investments of 8 ~ 34.8 billion US dollars per year (in 1990 price) is necessary, otherwise the agriculture will lose 32.3 ~ 80 billion US dollars per year (Lin, & Zhang, 2005 ...