The Steady-State Atmospheric Circulation
... anthropogenic forcing: enhanced warming in the tropical troposphere (which mimics increased latent heating by condensation of water vapor in the free tropical troposphere), enhanced cooling in the polar stratosphere (which mimics the cooling associated with polar ozone depletion), and enhanced warmi ...
... anthropogenic forcing: enhanced warming in the tropical troposphere (which mimics increased latent heating by condensation of water vapor in the free tropical troposphere), enhanced cooling in the polar stratosphere (which mimics the cooling associated with polar ozone depletion), and enhanced warmi ...
Inuit population
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) outlines two key areas for climate policy, mitigation and adaptation, both of which are essential to climate policy in Canada’s Inuit regions. Firstly, the FCCC and its principal update the Kyoto Protocol legally obligates parties to “ ...
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) outlines two key areas for climate policy, mitigation and adaptation, both of which are essential to climate policy in Canada’s Inuit regions. Firstly, the FCCC and its principal update the Kyoto Protocol legally obligates parties to “ ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in Low‐Income Countries
... profitability of a new crop variety that is better suited to changing climate conditions. The uncertainties associated with adaptation decisions are often of a different character than those accommodated by the expected utility framework conventionally used by economists: uncertainty in the form of ...
... profitability of a new crop variety that is better suited to changing climate conditions. The uncertainties associated with adaptation decisions are often of a different character than those accommodated by the expected utility framework conventionally used by economists: uncertainty in the form of ...
Global Warming and the Greenland Ice Sheet
... leaving again the net sea level change to be decided by other factors. Gregory and Oerlemans (1998) used GCM output as a driving mechanism for a more detailed glacier model. Taking a 1% per year increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, they obtained a global average temperature increase of between ...
... leaving again the net sea level change to be decided by other factors. Gregory and Oerlemans (1998) used GCM output as a driving mechanism for a more detailed glacier model. Taking a 1% per year increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration, they obtained a global average temperature increase of between ...
Northern Hemisphere blocking frequency and duration in the CMIP5
... et al., 2010, Barriopedro et al., 2010a]. While detailed causality is still an active area of research, this underestimation has been attributed to the limited model resolution, misrepresentation of surface boundary conditions, and uncertainties in physical parameterizations that lead to the biases ...
... et al., 2010, Barriopedro et al., 2010a]. While detailed causality is still an active area of research, this underestimation has been attributed to the limited model resolution, misrepresentation of surface boundary conditions, and uncertainties in physical parameterizations that lead to the biases ...
Monitoring and evaluating climate change adaptation and
... Climate change is one of the most important global issues, with broad and far reaching ecological, social, economic, and political impact. Uganda is already experiencing impacts of climate variability and climate change manifested through change of weather patterns and resultant disasters including ...
... Climate change is one of the most important global issues, with broad and far reaching ecological, social, economic, and political impact. Uganda is already experiencing impacts of climate variability and climate change manifested through change of weather patterns and resultant disasters including ...
fair shares: a civil society equity review of indcs report
... And it must include a robust assessment process that takes both science and equity into proper account. The institutional architecture established in the Paris agreement should also include an enhanced Technical Examination Process and a robust action agenda with a mandate to advance action beyond t ...
... And it must include a robust assessment process that takes both science and equity into proper account. The institutional architecture established in the Paris agreement should also include an enhanced Technical Examination Process and a robust action agenda with a mandate to advance action beyond t ...
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... methods in Section 3. Discussion of estimation procedure and analysis of empirical results can be found in Section 4. Concluding remarks are contained in Section 5. 2. Conceptual Framework PMT was originally introduced by Rogers in 1975, as an important theory in social cognitive of protective behav ...
... methods in Section 3. Discussion of estimation procedure and analysis of empirical results can be found in Section 4. Concluding remarks are contained in Section 5. 2. Conceptual Framework PMT was originally introduced by Rogers in 1975, as an important theory in social cognitive of protective behav ...
desertification in africa - university of nairobi staff profiles
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments (IPCC 2007) indicates that climate change leading to global and regional warming can increase the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events such as droughts and floods in the drylands of the tropics, and this would increase desertificatio ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessments (IPCC 2007) indicates that climate change leading to global and regional warming can increase the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events such as droughts and floods in the drylands of the tropics, and this would increase desertificatio ...
WETLANDS, CARBON STORAGE, AND FUTURE CLIMATE
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated that global surface air temperatures will increase another 2-8F in the next hundred years with a “best guess” increase of 3.5 degrees by 2100. The most significant increases will occur in the northern latitudes. The temperature of wetlan ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated that global surface air temperatures will increase another 2-8F in the next hundred years with a “best guess” increase of 3.5 degrees by 2100. The most significant increases will occur in the northern latitudes. The temperature of wetlan ...
Chapter 19
... Journalists, and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis—and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster. New York: Basic Books. German Advisory Council on Global Climate Change. 2006. The Future Oceans-Warming Up, Rising High, and Turning Sour. http://www.wbgu.de/wbgu_sn2006_en.pdf Gilbert, Chin. 2002. “Clim ...
... Journalists, and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis—and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster. New York: Basic Books. German Advisory Council on Global Climate Change. 2006. The Future Oceans-Warming Up, Rising High, and Turning Sour. http://www.wbgu.de/wbgu_sn2006_en.pdf Gilbert, Chin. 2002. “Clim ...
Self-organizing neural networks based on spatial isomorphism for
... 4. Character and object recognition In this section, we discuss the application of spatial isomorphism to character and object recognition [7,8,10]. The human vision system recognizes patterns in spite of scale changes, rotation and shift. Possibly, this is achieved by a conscious establishment of c ...
... 4. Character and object recognition In this section, we discuss the application of spatial isomorphism to character and object recognition [7,8,10]. The human vision system recognizes patterns in spite of scale changes, rotation and shift. Possibly, this is achieved by a conscious establishment of c ...
Permafrost-and-Climate
... 1. From Slide 11 – Illustration of permafrost migration in response to climate change from: French, H.M. 2007. The Periglacial Environment (3rd ed.). Wiley & Sons, Chichester, is the copyright of Wiley and Sons. Permission should be sought from the copyright holders prior to re-use 2. The name of th ...
... 1. From Slide 11 – Illustration of permafrost migration in response to climate change from: French, H.M. 2007. The Periglacial Environment (3rd ed.). Wiley & Sons, Chichester, is the copyright of Wiley and Sons. Permission should be sought from the copyright holders prior to re-use 2. The name of th ...
For submission to Global Change Biology
... Woody thickening is a global phenomenon that influences landscape C density, regional ecohydrology and biogeochemical cycling. The aim of the work described here is to test the hypothesis that increased atmospheric CO2 concentration, with or without photosynthetic acclimation, can increase GPP and t ...
... Woody thickening is a global phenomenon that influences landscape C density, regional ecohydrology and biogeochemical cycling. The aim of the work described here is to test the hypothesis that increased atmospheric CO2 concentration, with or without photosynthetic acclimation, can increase GPP and t ...
Extreme flood events in changing climate for a long-term
... rain, an annual-mean snowfall is projected to decrease over northern Europe and midlatitude Asia, but to increase in northern Siberia, especially in winter (Krasting et al., 2013). Further, precipitation extremes are projected to increase, the climate model results being robust particularly for nort ...
... rain, an annual-mean snowfall is projected to decrease over northern Europe and midlatitude Asia, but to increase in northern Siberia, especially in winter (Krasting et al., 2013). Further, precipitation extremes are projected to increase, the climate model results being robust particularly for nort ...
Climate Change and Public Health: MALARIA
... Temperatures are not only rising, but they are also see much more drastic and immediate climate becoming more variable, with recent decades showing changes. There is also a large disparity of adaptive unprecedented hot and cold extremes. Extreme heat events capacity between wealthy and poor countrie ...
... Temperatures are not only rising, but they are also see much more drastic and immediate climate becoming more variable, with recent decades showing changes. There is also a large disparity of adaptive unprecedented hot and cold extremes. Extreme heat events capacity between wealthy and poor countrie ...
Significant decrease in yield under future climate conditions
... future primary production. In this context, gene bank material and exotic accessions can possess traits to be exploited in the development of stable and high yielding climate resilient cultivars. An obstacle to the use of these resources is the limited information on climate tolerance of plant acces ...
... future primary production. In this context, gene bank material and exotic accessions can possess traits to be exploited in the development of stable and high yielding climate resilient cultivars. An obstacle to the use of these resources is the limited information on climate tolerance of plant acces ...
Working Paper 219 - Kessler (opens in new window)
... locked in permafrost and in ocean shallow clathrates are mobilized by warming by an increase of the equilibrium climate sensitivity parameter from 3 ◦ C to 5 ◦ C. The third line of research has focused on exploring economic and physical uncertainties in IAMs through the use of Monte Carlo methods: A ...
... locked in permafrost and in ocean shallow clathrates are mobilized by warming by an increase of the equilibrium climate sensitivity parameter from 3 ◦ C to 5 ◦ C. The third line of research has focused on exploring economic and physical uncertainties in IAMs through the use of Monte Carlo methods: A ...
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... However, the magnitude of the projected impacts of climate change on agricultural production in Sub-Saharan Africa varies widely among different studies (Kurukulasuriya et al 2006, Challinor et al 2007). Due to the varying sensitivity of crops requiring different climate requirements, climate change ...
... However, the magnitude of the projected impacts of climate change on agricultural production in Sub-Saharan Africa varies widely among different studies (Kurukulasuriya et al 2006, Challinor et al 2007). Due to the varying sensitivity of crops requiring different climate requirements, climate change ...
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MONTSERRAT
... responsible for many observed climate changes, but noted that use of this knowledge to support decision making, manage risks and engage stakeholders is inadequate. The international transport sector is a relevant case in point. Several studies have examined the contribution of both air and sea trans ...
... responsible for many observed climate changes, but noted that use of this knowledge to support decision making, manage risks and engage stakeholders is inadequate. The international transport sector is a relevant case in point. Several studies have examined the contribution of both air and sea trans ...
adaptation to climate change: key terms
... At its meeting on 23 March 2005, the Annex I Expert Group requested the Secretariat to prepare a paper on key adaptation concepts and terms that have entered the UNFCCC lexicon such as ‘adaptation’, ‘vulnerability’, ‘adverse effect’, ‘adaptive capacity’, and others. The aim of the task is to collect ...
... At its meeting on 23 March 2005, the Annex I Expert Group requested the Secretariat to prepare a paper on key adaptation concepts and terms that have entered the UNFCCC lexicon such as ‘adaptation’, ‘vulnerability’, ‘adverse effect’, ‘adaptive capacity’, and others. The aim of the task is to collect ...
Growth of climate change commitments from HFC banks and
... G. J. M. Velders et al.: Growth of climate change commitments from HFC banks and emissions 2050 is fully saturated; i.e., the demand up to 2100 is kept constant at the 2050 level (see also Xu et al., 2013). Annual emissions are calculated as a constant fraction of the bank. These fractions (emissio ...
... G. J. M. Velders et al.: Growth of climate change commitments from HFC banks and emissions 2050 is fully saturated; i.e., the demand up to 2100 is kept constant at the 2050 level (see also Xu et al., 2013). Annual emissions are calculated as a constant fraction of the bank. These fractions (emissio ...
Final CHNEP Vulnerability Assessment.indd
... Figure 5: Historic Calendar of Hurricanes Figure 6: Greenhouse Effect Figure 7: Climate Change Drivers and Stressors Figure 8: Hurricanes within 50 miles of Fort Myers Figure 9: Intense Wildfires can burn Wetlands Figure 10: A new inlet (Charley Pass) Figure 11: Sea Level Rates (6000 years) Figure 1 ...
... Figure 5: Historic Calendar of Hurricanes Figure 6: Greenhouse Effect Figure 7: Climate Change Drivers and Stressors Figure 8: Hurricanes within 50 miles of Fort Myers Figure 9: Intense Wildfires can burn Wetlands Figure 10: A new inlet (Charley Pass) Figure 11: Sea Level Rates (6000 years) Figure 1 ...