Effect of climate change and variability on extreme rainfall intensity
... data was further carried out using statistical non-stationarity tests and NSGPD models in this study. Potential effects of climate change on the IFD relationship were investigated through GPD models in this study following the stationarity analysis. Expected rainfall intensities for return periods o ...
... data was further carried out using statistical non-stationarity tests and NSGPD models in this study. Potential effects of climate change on the IFD relationship were investigated through GPD models in this study following the stationarity analysis. Expected rainfall intensities for return periods o ...
Do climate and soil influence phenotypic variability in leaf litter
... of the P cycle is also among the nine most affected systems. Secondly, climate change due to CO2 atmospheric increases is predicted to result in increased temperatures, decreased precipitation and high variability in both, temperature and precipitation (IPCC 2007). Climate change is considered to be ...
... of the P cycle is also among the nine most affected systems. Secondly, climate change due to CO2 atmospheric increases is predicted to result in increased temperatures, decreased precipitation and high variability in both, temperature and precipitation (IPCC 2007). Climate change is considered to be ...
The Political Impact of Global Warming on Developing Countries
... between climate change and political stability in developing countries. This study utilizes both qualitative and quantitative analyses to investigate the relationship between climate change and its effects on political volatility in developing countries. Using regression models, the author examined ...
... between climate change and political stability in developing countries. This study utilizes both qualitative and quantitative analyses to investigate the relationship between climate change and its effects on political volatility in developing countries. Using regression models, the author examined ...
The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy
... to deploy, to offset, or to mitigate at least some of the more modest consequences of climate change. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that climate change will not be a problem for affluent countries, including the United States. Such nations may also face dire conditions such as permanent ...
... to deploy, to offset, or to mitigate at least some of the more modest consequences of climate change. It would be a mistake, however, to assume that climate change will not be a problem for affluent countries, including the United States. Such nations may also face dire conditions such as permanent ...
The age of consequences—the foreign policy and national security
... temperatures, but some places might see temperature declines due to the complexities of local climate processes. Changes across the board are unlikely to be gradual and predictable and more likely to be uneven and abrupt. Certain ecosystems — such as polar ice regions and tropical rainforests — are ...
... temperatures, but some places might see temperature declines due to the complexities of local climate processes. Changes across the board are unlikely to be gradual and predictable and more likely to be uneven and abrupt. Certain ecosystems — such as polar ice regions and tropical rainforests — are ...
The Age of Consequences - The Web site cannot be found
... temperatures, but some places might see temperature declines due to the complexities of local climate processes. Changes across the board are unlikely to be gradual and predictable and more likely to be uneven and abrupt. Certain ecosystems — such as polar ice regions and tropical rainforests — are ...
... temperatures, but some places might see temperature declines due to the complexities of local climate processes. Changes across the board are unlikely to be gradual and predictable and more likely to be uneven and abrupt. Certain ecosystems — such as polar ice regions and tropical rainforests — are ...
Toronto`s Future Weather and Climate Driver Study
... Ice storms, typically associated with slow or stalled low pressure systems, such as that which hit Ontario and Quebec in 1998, could increase in frequency if the associated storm tracks shift northwards with climate change (Yin, 2005; Roberts & Stewart, 2008). Warmer winter temperatures could result ...
... Ice storms, typically associated with slow or stalled low pressure systems, such as that which hit Ontario and Quebec in 1998, could increase in frequency if the associated storm tracks shift northwards with climate change (Yin, 2005; Roberts & Stewart, 2008). Warmer winter temperatures could result ...
original articles aaem
... information for managing and preventing allergic symptoms. The effect of recent climate warming on vegetation phenology and aerobiology is an important issue which is being taken into account in climate-change studies [28, 53]. Because Quercus pollen emission is a springtime phenomenon, pollen seaso ...
... information for managing and preventing allergic symptoms. The effect of recent climate warming on vegetation phenology and aerobiology is an important issue which is being taken into account in climate-change studies [28, 53]. Because Quercus pollen emission is a springtime phenomenon, pollen seaso ...
Directory of finance sources for climate change mitigation in
... national development banks, and other organizations that can meet the standards of the Fund. Countries can also access funding through accredited international and regional entities (such as multilateral development banks and United Nations agencies, but also through regional development banks and r ...
... national development banks, and other organizations that can meet the standards of the Fund. Countries can also access funding through accredited international and regional entities (such as multilateral development banks and United Nations agencies, but also through regional development banks and r ...
CSKT Climate Change Strategic Plan
... Climate Change: any significant change in measures of climate (such as temperature, precipitation, or wind) lasting for an extended period of time (decades or longer). Climate change may result from natural factors and processes and from human activities that change the at ...
... Climate Change: any significant change in measures of climate (such as temperature, precipitation, or wind) lasting for an extended period of time (decades or longer). Climate change may result from natural factors and processes and from human activities that change the at ...
Special Interests and the Media: Theory and an Application to Climate Change Seminar is joint with Political Economy.
... one representing each state. A journalist possesses the extant facts and may report all or some of them to the voter, who then chooses a policy to try to match the state. Two frictions may interact to prevent the journalist from reporting the full set of facts to the voter. First, each special inter ...
... one representing each state. A journalist possesses the extant facts and may report all or some of them to the voter, who then chooses a policy to try to match the state. Two frictions may interact to prevent the journalist from reporting the full set of facts to the voter. First, each special inter ...
Pension Fund Trustees and climate change: one Year on Discussion PaPer
... feeding into these new predictions include new findings relating to the ice that is melting from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. This melting appears to be ...
... feeding into these new predictions include new findings relating to the ice that is melting from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. This melting appears to be ...
Climate change reduces warming potential of nitrous oxide by an
... Due to the long lifetime of N2O, we choose a time horizon of H = 100 years for integrating the radiative forcing. For this time horizon we calculate a N2O GWP of 290 ± 2 CO2-equivalents for the CTRL simulation. This value is similar to the currently assumed present-day N2O GWP of 298 CO2-equivalents ...
... Due to the long lifetime of N2O, we choose a time horizon of H = 100 years for integrating the radiative forcing. For this time horizon we calculate a N2O GWP of 290 ± 2 CO2-equivalents for the CTRL simulation. This value is similar to the currently assumed present-day N2O GWP of 298 CO2-equivalents ...
Special Interests and the Media
... one representing each state. A journalist possesses the extant facts and may report all or some of them to the voter, who then chooses a policy to try to match the state. Two frictions may interact to prevent the journalist from reporting the full set of facts to the voter. First, each special inter ...
... one representing each state. A journalist possesses the extant facts and may report all or some of them to the voter, who then chooses a policy to try to match the state. Two frictions may interact to prevent the journalist from reporting the full set of facts to the voter. First, each special inter ...
Research Project Final Report
... in local currents, when the simulated salmon followed the same fixed trajectories. The bioenergetic model, together with future predictions of sea surface temperature, was used to simulate growth of salmon over the period 1990–2100 under one scenario for future climate change (i.e. observed anthropo ...
... in local currents, when the simulated salmon followed the same fixed trajectories. The bioenergetic model, together with future predictions of sea surface temperature, was used to simulate growth of salmon over the period 1990–2100 under one scenario for future climate change (i.e. observed anthropo ...
A brief description of models used in this staff working document
... developments in the energy and agricultural system (Bouwman et al. 2006). Within IMAGE, energy scenarios are developed using the energy model TIMER (Van Vuuren et al. 2006b). The climate policy model FAIR (den Elzen & Lucas 2005) is used to calculate global emission pathways that lead to a stabiliza ...
... developments in the energy and agricultural system (Bouwman et al. 2006). Within IMAGE, energy scenarios are developed using the energy model TIMER (Van Vuuren et al. 2006b). The climate policy model FAIR (den Elzen & Lucas 2005) is used to calculate global emission pathways that lead to a stabiliza ...
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... includes Sri Lanka, the temperature increase has been projected to be within 1.0 to 3.0 0 C by 2100 under the different emission scenarios. It is expected that the frequency and magnitude of rainfall and humidity to rise. Temperatures are also expected to be high and generally uniform throughout the ...
... includes Sri Lanka, the temperature increase has been projected to be within 1.0 to 3.0 0 C by 2100 under the different emission scenarios. It is expected that the frequency and magnitude of rainfall and humidity to rise. Temperatures are also expected to be high and generally uniform throughout the ...
National Capacity Self-Assessment
... institutions are unaware of climate change concerns and the fact that there is a role for them in the implementation of the Convention; some of the human resources that is require is present in the institutions, some skills are lacking. The problem is that these resources are not tailored to fit the ...
... institutions are unaware of climate change concerns and the fact that there is a role for them in the implementation of the Convention; some of the human resources that is require is present in the institutions, some skills are lacking. The problem is that these resources are not tailored to fit the ...
Climate change impacts on the waters around the UK and Ireland
... The salinity of the upper ocean (0-800 m) to the west and north of the UK (Region 8) has been generally increasing since a fresh period in the 1970s. A minimum occurred in the mid 1990s, and present day conditions are relatively saline. The decadal-scale pattern of change around the UK reflects the ...
... The salinity of the upper ocean (0-800 m) to the west and north of the UK (Region 8) has been generally increasing since a fresh period in the 1970s. A minimum occurred in the mid 1990s, and present day conditions are relatively saline. The decadal-scale pattern of change around the UK reflects the ...
CLIMATE ASSESSMENT REPORT
... wet conditions alone provided a modicum of predictability that 2011 would more likely be a high rather than a low runoff year in the upper basin. Such a prediction is not synonymous with forecasting a flood event, however, and its limited predictive power was apparent in 2012 when the same anteceden ...
... wet conditions alone provided a modicum of predictability that 2011 would more likely be a high rather than a low runoff year in the upper basin. Such a prediction is not synonymous with forecasting a flood event, however, and its limited predictive power was apparent in 2012 when the same anteceden ...
