Climate projections for ecologists
... output from multiple climate models • report the range or standard deviation in the results if presenting the mean of data from multiple climate models • choose a baseline appropriate to the study subject • state all choices explicitly and acknowledge the impact of these choices on the results. ...
... output from multiple climate models • report the range or standard deviation in the results if presenting the mean of data from multiple climate models • choose a baseline appropriate to the study subject • state all choices explicitly and acknowledge the impact of these choices on the results. ...
Climate-change-answer-sheet
... partial blanket for the longwave radiation coming from the surface. This blanketing is known as the natural greenhouse effect. The most important greenhouse gases are water vapor and carbon dioxide. The two most abundant constituents of the atmosphere – nitrogen and oxygen – have no such effect. Clo ...
... partial blanket for the longwave radiation coming from the surface. This blanketing is known as the natural greenhouse effect. The most important greenhouse gases are water vapor and carbon dioxide. The two most abundant constituents of the atmosphere – nitrogen and oxygen – have no such effect. Clo ...
161110_Climatechange_SubmissionJSCOT_ParisAgreement
... Global sea level rise at 1.5°C warming would reach 40 cm above current levels by 2100, compared to 50 cm at 2°C. However this does not take into account the longer-term post- 2100 commitment to further sea level rise, nor does it include the risk of crossing a threshold to irreversible melt of parts ...
... Global sea level rise at 1.5°C warming would reach 40 cm above current levels by 2100, compared to 50 cm at 2°C. However this does not take into account the longer-term post- 2100 commitment to further sea level rise, nor does it include the risk of crossing a threshold to irreversible melt of parts ...
Municipal Adaptation and Resiliency Service (MARS)
... Ensemble projections are current best-practices and represent due diligence, consideration of uncertainty New IPCC projections are consistent with historical trends We appear to be on the ‘high’ projection pathway based upon our ...
... Ensemble projections are current best-practices and represent due diligence, consideration of uncertainty New IPCC projections are consistent with historical trends We appear to be on the ‘high’ projection pathway based upon our ...
Resilient Coastal City Regions - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
... Similarly, in Australia the last decade has seen tens of billions of dollars in damage from floods in Brisbane and Victoria, fires in Melbourne and Canberra, and Cyclones Yasi and Larry. This book deals with both mitigation (the reduction of GHG emissions) and adaptation (managing the climate-impact ...
... Similarly, in Australia the last decade has seen tens of billions of dollars in damage from floods in Brisbane and Victoria, fires in Melbourne and Canberra, and Cyclones Yasi and Larry. This book deals with both mitigation (the reduction of GHG emissions) and adaptation (managing the climate-impact ...
International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme
... Increases in the global land and ocean carbon sinks About half of the total CO2 emissions is currently taken up by the land and oceans, but models predict a decline in future carbon uptake by these reservoirs. This may in turn result in a further increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, ...
... Increases in the global land and ocean carbon sinks About half of the total CO2 emissions is currently taken up by the land and oceans, but models predict a decline in future carbon uptake by these reservoirs. This may in turn result in a further increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. However, ...
Years Of Living Dangerously
... cousins are all failed farmers / humans are like chameleons – they adapt to different climate and circumstances / someone in charge of you may turn to you with his back / this is the revolution of freedom, of hungry people ...
... cousins are all failed farmers / humans are like chameleons – they adapt to different climate and circumstances / someone in charge of you may turn to you with his back / this is the revolution of freedom, of hungry people ...
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... Mike Purucker, Anne Mee Thompson, Matthew Lazzara Over the past decades, satellite technologies and related sciences have advanced to provide observations on global scale on various parameters (temperature, clouds, snow/ice coverage, magnetic field, sea level, ocean colour, surface roughness) from w ...
... Mike Purucker, Anne Mee Thompson, Matthew Lazzara Over the past decades, satellite technologies and related sciences have advanced to provide observations on global scale on various parameters (temperature, clouds, snow/ice coverage, magnetic field, sea level, ocean colour, surface roughness) from w ...
Okey et al 2035 modeling challenge
... • Assembly of a special journal issue compendium of examples of available approaches resulting from the 2035 modelling challenge; • Development of a more standardized approach to impacts scenario development, while embracing the diversity of approaches; • Incorporation of the results of the modellin ...
... • Assembly of a special journal issue compendium of examples of available approaches resulting from the 2035 modelling challenge; • Development of a more standardized approach to impacts scenario development, while embracing the diversity of approaches; • Incorporation of the results of the modellin ...
CLIMATE CHANGE THE DEA STRATEGIC PLAN 2010
... • Published sector mitigation action guidelines in respect of energy, transport, industry, LULUCF and waste • Mitigation action monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system in place ...
... • Published sector mitigation action guidelines in respect of energy, transport, industry, LULUCF and waste • Mitigation action monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) system in place ...
A societal sea change
... reducing fossil-fuel use, have broadly been long understood. The governance of climate change, not merely mitigation and adapta tion, is a tortuous problem and is hardly well developed theoretically, but it remains a key area of interdisciplinary research and real-world policy. We are just at the b ...
... reducing fossil-fuel use, have broadly been long understood. The governance of climate change, not merely mitigation and adapta tion, is a tortuous problem and is hardly well developed theoretically, but it remains a key area of interdisciplinary research and real-world policy. We are just at the b ...
PPT - unece
... • Transport statistics (in aviation detailed data on flights) • Industrial output statistics • Agriculture statistics • Land use, land use change and forestry statistics • Data from emission registries Emission inventories are annually reviewed by expert review teams at the UNFCCC. ...
... • Transport statistics (in aviation detailed data on flights) • Industrial output statistics • Agriculture statistics • Land use, land use change and forestry statistics • Data from emission registries Emission inventories are annually reviewed by expert review teams at the UNFCCC. ...
AMAP Efforts on Short-Lived Climate Forcing Agents
... alternative to action on CO2 • Black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and methane may contribute to Arctic warming to a degree comparable to the impacts of carbon dioxide … still considerable uncertainty regarding the magnitude of their effects ...
... alternative to action on CO2 • Black carbon, tropospheric ozone, and methane may contribute to Arctic warming to a degree comparable to the impacts of carbon dioxide … still considerable uncertainty regarding the magnitude of their effects ...
"Methodological constrains and need in the area of V&A assessment
... • The Region, as a whole, is not adapted to current climate. • Diferentiated vulnerarability to CC adverse impacts at the national and regional level, and within the region, there are populations with greatest risk to be impacted, those coincide with the areas where there is greatest geo-ecosystem, ...
... • The Region, as a whole, is not adapted to current climate. • Diferentiated vulnerarability to CC adverse impacts at the national and regional level, and within the region, there are populations with greatest risk to be impacted, those coincide with the areas where there is greatest geo-ecosystem, ...
Climate Variability and Change: Introduction to Course
... 20th century average of 15.8°C (60.4°F). The global land surface temperature was 0.78°C (1.40°F) above the 20th century average of 14.3°C (57.8°F), marking the eighth warmest July on record. For the ocean, the July global sea surface temperature was 0.54°C (0.97°F) above the 20th century average of ...
... 20th century average of 15.8°C (60.4°F). The global land surface temperature was 0.78°C (1.40°F) above the 20th century average of 14.3°C (57.8°F), marking the eighth warmest July on record. For the ocean, the July global sea surface temperature was 0.54°C (0.97°F) above the 20th century average of ...
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... Many areas in Alaska are already showing signs of a warming climate. Observed changes include species shifts, permafrost thaw, coastal erosion, wetland drying, glacial and sea ice recession, and an increase in fire frequency and intensity. A better understanding of where and when changes could occur ...
... Many areas in Alaska are already showing signs of a warming climate. Observed changes include species shifts, permafrost thaw, coastal erosion, wetland drying, glacial and sea ice recession, and an increase in fire frequency and intensity. A better understanding of where and when changes could occur ...
Evidence for carbon dioxide and moisture interactions from the leaf
... “CO2–water synergy”. Synergy indicates a result which is contributed solely by the joint action of two or more factors. In addition, particularly these CO2–water synergies may emerge at different spatial scales. GCMs rely on a relatively coarse grid-interval of the order of 100-km, which necessitate ...
... “CO2–water synergy”. Synergy indicates a result which is contributed solely by the joint action of two or more factors. In addition, particularly these CO2–water synergies may emerge at different spatial scales. GCMs rely on a relatively coarse grid-interval of the order of 100-km, which necessitate ...
Hydrologic Forecasting - University of Washington
... •Precipitation changes remain uncertain and (unlike temperature) seem most clearly associated with decadal variability rather than long-term trends. •Hydrologic changes in the West include earlier and reduced peak snowpack, more runoff in winter, earlier snowmelt and peak flows, less runoff in summe ...
... •Precipitation changes remain uncertain and (unlike temperature) seem most clearly associated with decadal variability rather than long-term trends. •Hydrologic changes in the West include earlier and reduced peak snowpack, more runoff in winter, earlier snowmelt and peak flows, less runoff in summe ...
Climate Change Risks and Control Strategies
... associated impacts) is a better than even bet. Few security agencies, businesses or health establishments would accept such high odds of potentially dangerous outcomes without implementing hedging strategies to protect themselves, societies and Nature from the risks—of climate change in our case. Th ...
... associated impacts) is a better than even bet. Few security agencies, businesses or health establishments would accept such high odds of potentially dangerous outcomes without implementing hedging strategies to protect themselves, societies and Nature from the risks—of climate change in our case. Th ...
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... The Consequences of a Warmer Earth • The impacts of global warming could include a number of potentially serious environmental problems. • These problems range from the disruption of global weather patterns and a global rise in sea level to adverse impacts on human health, agriculture, and animal an ...
... The Consequences of a Warmer Earth • The impacts of global warming could include a number of potentially serious environmental problems. • These problems range from the disruption of global weather patterns and a global rise in sea level to adverse impacts on human health, agriculture, and animal an ...
Atmospheric circulation as a source of uncertainty in climate change
... between the North Atlantic Oscillation, with its associated modulation of the position of the North Atlantic storm track, and wintertime weather conditions over Europe3. More generally, there is a relationship between the amplitude of mid-latitude planetary waves and particular regional weather extr ...
... between the North Atlantic Oscillation, with its associated modulation of the position of the North Atlantic storm track, and wintertime weather conditions over Europe3. More generally, there is a relationship between the amplitude of mid-latitude planetary waves and particular regional weather extr ...