Antarctic Research Centre Brochure - Victoria University of Wellington
... records of the past. Our research is motivated by a need to understand past climate processes (palaeoclimate), particularly the role of Antarctic ice sheets in the global climate system during ‘warmer-than-present’ times, as a basis for more accurate assessment of future climate and sea-level change ...
... records of the past. Our research is motivated by a need to understand past climate processes (palaeoclimate), particularly the role of Antarctic ice sheets in the global climate system during ‘warmer-than-present’ times, as a basis for more accurate assessment of future climate and sea-level change ...
Burlando-Rosso_Extreme storm rainfall and climatic change
... of global change on hydrological systems can be grouped into three approaches: ( 1 ) the direct use of General Circulation Models (GCMs); (2) the use of paleoclimate analogues; and (3) the analysis of recent climate analogues. Because several things limit the usefulness of paleoctimatic scenarios (i ...
... of global change on hydrological systems can be grouped into three approaches: ( 1 ) the direct use of General Circulation Models (GCMs); (2) the use of paleoclimate analogues; and (3) the analysis of recent climate analogues. Because several things limit the usefulness of paleoctimatic scenarios (i ...
6 and 7 - Climate Change Institute
... Most of the heat energy emitted from Earth’s surface is absorbed by greenhouse gases, which radiate some of it back down to warm the lower atmosphere and the surface. This “greenhouse effect” naturally warms Earth enough to sustain life. Increasing the concentrations of greenhouse gases increases th ...
... Most of the heat energy emitted from Earth’s surface is absorbed by greenhouse gases, which radiate some of it back down to warm the lower atmosphere and the surface. This “greenhouse effect” naturally warms Earth enough to sustain life. Increasing the concentrations of greenhouse gases increases th ...
Climate Change Memo 3 - UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
... important to encourage them to take steps toward reducing GHG emissions and for securing future political support for a climate change bill. A public information campaign should be spearheaded by the White House in coordination with private and nonprofit partners. This campaign should highlight the ...
... important to encourage them to take steps toward reducing GHG emissions and for securing future political support for a climate change bill. A public information campaign should be spearheaded by the White House in coordination with private and nonprofit partners. This campaign should highlight the ...
Spring 2003
... in a near global phase-out of CFCs and related substances. This treaty is considered one of the worlds global environmental success stories. We’ll explore what made it possible and the lessons that can be taken from it to address other global environmental problems. Reading: Protecting the Ozone Lay ...
... in a near global phase-out of CFCs and related substances. This treaty is considered one of the worlds global environmental success stories. We’ll explore what made it possible and the lessons that can be taken from it to address other global environmental problems. Reading: Protecting the Ozone Lay ...
Feedbacks on climate in the Earth system: introduction
... The ice sheets on land react on much longer time scales, and are not included in the traditional short-term definition of climate sensitivity, but of course were the dominant feature of glacial– interglacial changes and some other past climate changes. Their dynamic behaviour is one of the most impo ...
... The ice sheets on land react on much longer time scales, and are not included in the traditional short-term definition of climate sensitivity, but of course were the dominant feature of glacial– interglacial changes and some other past climate changes. Their dynamic behaviour is one of the most impo ...
FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM IS PROVIDED BY ANNENBERG
... COMBINED, GROUND SAMPLES AND AIRCRAFT -- UP TO 100 A DAY. Narrator: FROM THESE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AIR SAMPLES NOAA HAS COMPILED A COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE OF CLIMATE-CHANGING GAS ...
... COMBINED, GROUND SAMPLES AND AIRCRAFT -- UP TO 100 A DAY. Narrator: FROM THESE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF AIR SAMPLES NOAA HAS COMPILED A COMPREHENSIVE DATABASE OF CLIMATE-CHANGING GAS ...
Document
... future, agriculture and crop production will face enormous pressure from the stresses caused by these heat trapping gases. Past changes have presumably resulted in about 0.6 °C increases in global temperature over the last century. Climate models project that there will be even greater warming durin ...
... future, agriculture and crop production will face enormous pressure from the stresses caused by these heat trapping gases. Past changes have presumably resulted in about 0.6 °C increases in global temperature over the last century. Climate models project that there will be even greater warming durin ...
Box 1.3
... The reason surface temperature changes in different models are not usually compared directly is that the climate sensitivity is poorly known and varies by a factor of three between different climate models (IPCC, 2001, Chapter 9). Further, climate model studies have shown that, for many forcing mech ...
... The reason surface temperature changes in different models are not usually compared directly is that the climate sensitivity is poorly known and varies by a factor of three between different climate models (IPCC, 2001, Chapter 9). Further, climate model studies have shown that, for many forcing mech ...
Extrinsic and intrinsic causes of past abrupt changes in terrestrial
... Locally abrupt changes Time-transgressive & rapid local declines in rainfall • Differential & rapid collapses of species within sites Time-transgressive changes in hydrology ...
... Locally abrupt changes Time-transgressive & rapid local declines in rainfall • Differential & rapid collapses of species within sites Time-transgressive changes in hydrology ...
Impact of Climate Change and Climate Variability on
... High temperature stress decrease yield of sorghum, bean and maize. Reproductive processes of grain sorghum and dry bean are more sensitive to high temperature stress. GCM predict increases in maximum and minimum temperatures and dry spells for El Salvador. However, there are uncertainties in mode ...
... High temperature stress decrease yield of sorghum, bean and maize. Reproductive processes of grain sorghum and dry bean are more sensitive to high temperature stress. GCM predict increases in maximum and minimum temperatures and dry spells for El Salvador. However, there are uncertainties in mode ...
Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund 2016 Request for
... Dr. Peter Snyder will lead the project. He will oversee a post‐‐‐doctoral scholar and a graduate student who will conduct the model simulations and processing of the data. Dr. Snyder will work with university staff to deploy the server. He, the post‐doc, student, and the Minnesota Climate Adaptat ...
... Dr. Peter Snyder will lead the project. He will oversee a post‐‐‐doctoral scholar and a graduate student who will conduct the model simulations and processing of the data. Dr. Snyder will work with university staff to deploy the server. He, the post‐doc, student, and the Minnesota Climate Adaptat ...
Managing the Message in a Variable Climate: Communicating
... But, on the whole, moderate climate change of an additional two degrees will likely be beneficial for the world, says Benny Peiser, an anthropologist at John Moores University in Liverpool, England. For countries like Canada and Russia, though, even more dramatic warmingg wouldn’t be a p problem,, P ...
... But, on the whole, moderate climate change of an additional two degrees will likely be beneficial for the world, says Benny Peiser, an anthropologist at John Moores University in Liverpool, England. For countries like Canada and Russia, though, even more dramatic warmingg wouldn’t be a p problem,, P ...
November 2010 - Climate change - evidence from the geological
... methane hydrates beneath the deep sea floor10, perhaps triggered by volcanic activity superimposed on an underlying gradual global warming trend that peaked some 50 million years ago in the early Eocene. CO2 levels were already high at the time, but the additional CO2 injected into the atmosphere an ...
... methane hydrates beneath the deep sea floor10, perhaps triggered by volcanic activity superimposed on an underlying gradual global warming trend that peaked some 50 million years ago in the early Eocene. CO2 levels were already high at the time, but the additional CO2 injected into the atmosphere an ...
Lecture 13 - Lakehead University
... Africa is one of the regions that will be hit the hardest by climate change, and it will likely slow down - or inhibit - the progress we have been seeing. The projected changes for possible changes in agriculture are not very clear. Please note that this map does not show existing agricultural land, ...
... Africa is one of the regions that will be hit the hardest by climate change, and it will likely slow down - or inhibit - the progress we have been seeing. The projected changes for possible changes in agriculture are not very clear. Please note that this map does not show existing agricultural land, ...
Climate Change
... as cells of air (or water) and the equations are applied to see how much air/heat flows between each pair of cells – This is repeated all around the Earth – The models have improved by making the cells smaller – They are now about 110 km square by 1 km high ...
... as cells of air (or water) and the equations are applied to see how much air/heat flows between each pair of cells – This is repeated all around the Earth – The models have improved by making the cells smaller – They are now about 110 km square by 1 km high ...
Eco-ethics and the Biosphere
... will not be even throughout the planet, so the increase could be 12°C in some areas and 1-2°C in others. For some species (e.g., tropical diseases), even small temperature increases may expand their range. Other species may be pushed above their tolerance limits, which could happen to any species, i ...
... will not be even throughout the planet, so the increase could be 12°C in some areas and 1-2°C in others. For some species (e.g., tropical diseases), even small temperature increases may expand their range. Other species may be pushed above their tolerance limits, which could happen to any species, i ...
Lecture Outlines Natural Disasters, 5th edition
... Timescale in Millions of Years Late Cenozoic Ice Age Long-term cooling from temperature peak at 55 million years ago current Ice Age • 55 million years ago: methane reduced in atmosphere, began cooling • 40 million years ago: Antarctica surrounded by cold water • 34 million years ago: glaciers wid ...
... Timescale in Millions of Years Late Cenozoic Ice Age Long-term cooling from temperature peak at 55 million years ago current Ice Age • 55 million years ago: methane reduced in atmosphere, began cooling • 40 million years ago: Antarctica surrounded by cold water • 34 million years ago: glaciers wid ...
Agriculture & Climate Change
... • Uzbekistan is one of most vulnerable countries to climate change in the Europe and Central Asia Region • Climate variability and change are already impacting Uzbekistan and will accelerate in the future • Business as usual approach will result in missed opportunities and negative impacts for agric ...
... • Uzbekistan is one of most vulnerable countries to climate change in the Europe and Central Asia Region • Climate variability and change are already impacting Uzbekistan and will accelerate in the future • Business as usual approach will result in missed opportunities and negative impacts for agric ...
OVERVIEW OF CLIMATE SCIENCE
... – Climate changes in response to movement of landmasses • 1 degree of latitude per million years (100 km/million years) • Slow changes in solar heating • Average temperature over the continent keeps pace with average changes in solar radiation because of the short response time of land and water ...
... – Climate changes in response to movement of landmasses • 1 degree of latitude per million years (100 km/million years) • Slow changes in solar heating • Average temperature over the continent keeps pace with average changes in solar radiation because of the short response time of land and water ...
Climate Change Education for Physics Teachers
... Figure 5: The huge invisible radiation fluxes; the radiative disbalance of 3 W/m2 (2 W/m2 more probably) might hold for a non-real case when no cooling aerosols would be produced by mankind The longwave (>3 μm) infrared flux down to the Earth is almost twice larger than solar radiation, taken as an ...
... Figure 5: The huge invisible radiation fluxes; the radiative disbalance of 3 W/m2 (2 W/m2 more probably) might hold for a non-real case when no cooling aerosols would be produced by mankind The longwave (>3 μm) infrared flux down to the Earth is almost twice larger than solar radiation, taken as an ...
03.1 Steps in Clean Development Mechanis
... •Conditions for entry into force 55 parties and at least 55% CO2 1990 emissions by UNFCCC Annex I parties. (NB condition met on 16 February 2007) •Parties 175 countries and other governmental entities (as of November 2007) •175 parties have ratified the protocol. Of these, 36 developed countries (pl ...
... •Conditions for entry into force 55 parties and at least 55% CO2 1990 emissions by UNFCCC Annex I parties. (NB condition met on 16 February 2007) •Parties 175 countries and other governmental entities (as of November 2007) •175 parties have ratified the protocol. Of these, 36 developed countries (pl ...
Click to - MMR-EIS
... from an industrial process or the use of steam from electric power generation as a source of heat Industrial process alterations all process• E.g. coal-intensive industry hascan thereduce potential to reduce its related GHGs significantly or even eliminate them entirely. CO by half, without switchin ...
... from an industrial process or the use of steam from electric power generation as a source of heat Industrial process alterations all process• E.g. coal-intensive industry hascan thereduce potential to reduce its related GHGs significantly or even eliminate them entirely. CO by half, without switchin ...