Climate Projections for Metro Vancouver
... average of 22 days per year to 55 days per year. The 1-in-20 hottest temperature (i.e., a temperature that has a 5% chance of occurring in any year) is projected to increase from 34°C to 38°C by the 2050s. This projected warming has implications for future energy supply, as heating demand for buildi ...
... average of 22 days per year to 55 days per year. The 1-in-20 hottest temperature (i.e., a temperature that has a 5% chance of occurring in any year) is projected to increase from 34°C to 38°C by the 2050s. This projected warming has implications for future energy supply, as heating demand for buildi ...
Future Changes in Northern Hemisphere Snowfall
... Compared with other climate variables, such as surface air temperature and total precipitation, less attention has been given to analyzing climate model projections of snowfall. Kunkel et al. (2002) analyzed results from two atmosphere–ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) in an attempt to bette ...
... Compared with other climate variables, such as surface air temperature and total precipitation, less attention has been given to analyzing climate model projections of snowfall. Kunkel et al. (2002) analyzed results from two atmosphere–ocean general circulation models (AOGCMs) in an attempt to bette ...
Climate Change and Our Natural Resources A Report from the
... Figure 5: Egg-to-migrant survival for juvenile chinook in the Stillaguamish River under a range of annual peak flow magnitudes. Source: Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians...................................................................................................................................... ...
... Figure 5: Egg-to-migrant survival for juvenile chinook in the Stillaguamish River under a range of annual peak flow magnitudes. Source: Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians...................................................................................................................................... ...
FORESTS, LAND MANAGEMENT AND AGRICULTURE Chapter 13
... likely increase at the lower levels of warming due to climate suitability for higher yielding crop varieties and lower probabilities of low temperatures limiting growth. However, in warmest areas, increased heat units during the growing season may cause a slight decrease in yields since warmer tempe ...
... likely increase at the lower levels of warming due to climate suitability for higher yielding crop varieties and lower probabilities of low temperatures limiting growth. However, in warmest areas, increased heat units during the growing season may cause a slight decrease in yields since warmer tempe ...
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... 28) Winds are deflected by ________, caused by the rotation of Earth. A) the Coriolis effect B) the greenhouse effect C) the Milankovitch cycles D) gyres Answer: A Diff: 1 Topic/Section: Circulation Patterns Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge Nat Geo Standard: 7. Physical Systems: The physical processes th ...
... 28) Winds are deflected by ________, caused by the rotation of Earth. A) the Coriolis effect B) the greenhouse effect C) the Milankovitch cycles D) gyres Answer: A Diff: 1 Topic/Section: Circulation Patterns Bloom's Taxonomy: Knowledge Nat Geo Standard: 7. Physical Systems: The physical processes th ...
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... B) be relatively arid. C) have higher levels of evaporation than with warm currents. D) be subtropical. Answer: B Diff: 2 Topic/Section: Circulation Patterns Bloom's Taxonomy: Application Nat Geo Standard: 7. Physical Systems: The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's surface Learnin ...
... B) be relatively arid. C) have higher levels of evaporation than with warm currents. D) be subtropical. Answer: B Diff: 2 Topic/Section: Circulation Patterns Bloom's Taxonomy: Application Nat Geo Standard: 7. Physical Systems: The physical processes that shape the patterns of Earth's surface Learnin ...
Refrigerants for commercial refrigeration applications
... According to the National Academy of Scientists, the temperature of the earth’s surface has risen by about one degree Fahrenheit (0.5 degree Kelvin) in the past century2. There is evidence that suggests that much of the warming during the last 50 years is because of greenhouse gases, many of which a ...
... According to the National Academy of Scientists, the temperature of the earth’s surface has risen by about one degree Fahrenheit (0.5 degree Kelvin) in the past century2. There is evidence that suggests that much of the warming during the last 50 years is because of greenhouse gases, many of which a ...
ocean fertilization
... counteract the effects of changes in atmospheric chemistry”. Ocean fertilization represents one geoengineering approach undertaken by humans with the principal intention of stimulating primary productivity in the oceans. Fertilization proposals are loosely divided into 'micronutrient' and 'macronutr ...
... counteract the effects of changes in atmospheric chemistry”. Ocean fertilization represents one geoengineering approach undertaken by humans with the principal intention of stimulating primary productivity in the oceans. Fertilization proposals are loosely divided into 'micronutrient' and 'macronutr ...
Improving runoff estimates from regional climate models: a
... In light of this situation, it is essential to analyse several alternatives that will enable us to obtain simulated stream flow series and can be introduced in water resources models to estimate climate change impacts. In the present study, we consider the use of direct surface runoff series simulat ...
... In light of this situation, it is essential to analyse several alternatives that will enable us to obtain simulated stream flow series and can be introduced in water resources models to estimate climate change impacts. In the present study, we consider the use of direct surface runoff series simulat ...
The Economic Effects of Long-Term Climate
... with the historical evidence on the negative economic e¤ects of the Little Ice Age. Then, I test the robustness of this result. While it is safe to assume that temperature changes are exogenous to economic growth, they are not necessarily distributed randomly across space. It is also well establishe ...
... with the historical evidence on the negative economic e¤ects of the Little Ice Age. Then, I test the robustness of this result. While it is safe to assume that temperature changes are exogenous to economic growth, they are not necessarily distributed randomly across space. It is also well establishe ...
CLIMATE ASSESSMENT REPORT
... led to Missouri Basin flooding. Ensemble methods are used in which the period has been simulated repeatedly (40 times) — each experiment was subjected to identical time evolving ocean and trace gas evolutions but was begun from slightly different initial conditions in 1979. Averaging the runs ident ...
... led to Missouri Basin flooding. Ensemble methods are used in which the period has been simulated repeatedly (40 times) — each experiment was subjected to identical time evolving ocean and trace gas evolutions but was begun from slightly different initial conditions in 1979. Averaging the runs ident ...
Health Effects of Climate Change in the UK, Department of Health
... against comparing the estimated reduction in cold related deaths with the increase in summer deaths, since the mechanism and time-frame by which temperature affects health differ between cold and warm weather. 6. Cases of food poisoning in the UK that are linked to warm weather have been increasing ...
... against comparing the estimated reduction in cold related deaths with the increase in summer deaths, since the mechanism and time-frame by which temperature affects health differ between cold and warm weather. 6. Cases of food poisoning in the UK that are linked to warm weather have been increasing ...
A Climate Risk Report - Blue Mountains City Council
... © Copyright Climate Risk Pty Ltd, 2009. This document is protected by copyright. Reproduction is authorised provided that Climate Risk Pty Ltd is appropriately cited and any diagrams used retain the CR logo if it is present. ...
... © Copyright Climate Risk Pty Ltd, 2009. This document is protected by copyright. Reproduction is authorised provided that Climate Risk Pty Ltd is appropriately cited and any diagrams used retain the CR logo if it is present. ...
12th Annual Global CEO Survey
... CEOs around the world are retrenching, indeed many claim to be entering ‘survival mode.’ Our 12th Annual Global CEO survey shows how the financial crisis shattered short-term confidence. The percentage of CEOs who were ‘very confident’ about their one-year revenue growth prospects dropped to 21%, th ...
... CEOs around the world are retrenching, indeed many claim to be entering ‘survival mode.’ Our 12th Annual Global CEO survey shows how the financial crisis shattered short-term confidence. The percentage of CEOs who were ‘very confident’ about their one-year revenue growth prospects dropped to 21%, th ...
climate change - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
... CO2 remains the major anthropogenic GHG, accounting for three quarters (75%) of total anthropogenic GHG emissions. The remaining 25 per cent of non-CO2 GHG emissions are made up of methane (2010: 16 per cent), nitrous oxide (2.6 per cent) and fluorinated gases (2.0 per cent). Despite occurring in mu ...
... CO2 remains the major anthropogenic GHG, accounting for three quarters (75%) of total anthropogenic GHG emissions. The remaining 25 per cent of non-CO2 GHG emissions are made up of methane (2010: 16 per cent), nitrous oxide (2.6 per cent) and fluorinated gases (2.0 per cent). Despite occurring in mu ...
Report Workshop on Regional and National Climate
... population dependent on rain-fed agriculture. The most dominant economic activity is smallscale subsistence farming in spite of low and erratic rainfall with recurrent droughts in most parts of the region. Over 90% of natural disasters in the region are related to extreme climate events such as floo ...
... population dependent on rain-fed agriculture. The most dominant economic activity is smallscale subsistence farming in spite of low and erratic rainfall with recurrent droughts in most parts of the region. Over 90% of natural disasters in the region are related to extreme climate events such as floo ...
Report
... likely impacts of climate change on the New York harbor, Gateway should consider incorporating climate change adaptation into its new GMP. Climate change refers to a significant alteration of the average climate persisting for several decades or longer. Increased levels of greenhouse gases drive mod ...
... likely impacts of climate change on the New York harbor, Gateway should consider incorporating climate change adaptation into its new GMP. Climate change refers to a significant alteration of the average climate persisting for several decades or longer. Increased levels of greenhouse gases drive mod ...
Global warming hiatus
A global warming hiatus, also sometimes referred to as a global warming pause or a global warming slowdown, is a period of relatively little change in globally averaged surface temperatures. In the current episode of global warming many such periods are evident in the surface temperature record, along with robust evidence of the long term warming trend.The exceptionally warm El Niño year of 1998 was an outlier from the continuing temperature trend, and so gave the appearance of a hiatus: by January 2006 assertions had been made that this showed that global warming had stopped. A 2009 study showed that decades without warming were not exceptional, and in 2011 a study showed that if allowances were made for known variability, the rising temperature trend continued unabated. There was increased public interest in 2013 in the run-up to publication of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, and despite concerns that a 15-year period was too short to determine a meaningful trend, the IPCC included a section on a hiatus, which it defined as a much smaller increasing linear trend over the 15 years from 1998 to 2012, than over the 60 years from 1951 to 2012. Various studies examined possible causes of the short term slowdown. Even though the overall climate system had continued to accumulate energy due to Earth's positive energy budget, the available temperature readings at the earth's surface indicated slower rates of increase in surface warming than in the prior decade. Since measurements at the top of the atmosphere show that Earth is receiving more energy than it is radiating back into space, the retained energy should be producing warming in at least one of the five parts of Earth's climate system.A July 2015 paper on the updated NOAA dataset cast doubt on the existence of this supposed hiatus, and found no indication of a slowdown. This analysis incorporated the latest corrections for known biases in ocean temperature measurements, and new land temperature data. Scientists working on other datasets welcomed this study, though the view was expressed that the short term warming trend had been slower than in previous periods of the same length.