Parameterization of Snow Albedo
... Observations - Strong cooling of Arctic climate by aerosols largely offsets warming influence of GHGs ...
... Observations - Strong cooling of Arctic climate by aerosols largely offsets warming influence of GHGs ...
US Army Corps of engineers tools and resources for climate change
... Introduction to Regional Literature Summaries ...
... Introduction to Regional Literature Summaries ...
impacts of present and future climate variability and change
... parts of southern Africa. 1.4°C in equatorial countries Rise in SSTs: less than the global average (about 0.6–0.8°C) Coastal regions of the continent therefore will warm more slowly than the continental interior. ...
... parts of southern Africa. 1.4°C in equatorial countries Rise in SSTs: less than the global average (about 0.6–0.8°C) Coastal regions of the continent therefore will warm more slowly than the continental interior. ...
The Impact of Agriculture on Climate Change
... can have a significant cooling effect by increasing the albedo. The NCAR model predicted that increases in soil albedo by reduced tillage have a potential global cooling effect of 0.2°C. This value is comparable to the biogeochemical cooling from the expected global soil carbon sequestration potenti ...
... can have a significant cooling effect by increasing the albedo. The NCAR model predicted that increases in soil albedo by reduced tillage have a potential global cooling effect of 0.2°C. This value is comparable to the biogeochemical cooling from the expected global soil carbon sequestration potenti ...
Current and future climate of the Fiji Islands
... year since 1993. This is larger than the global average of 2.8–3.6 mm per year. This higher rate of rise may be partly related to natural fluctuations that take place year to year or decade to decade caused by phenomena such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. The natural variation in sea level can ...
... year since 1993. This is larger than the global average of 2.8–3.6 mm per year. This higher rate of rise may be partly related to natural fluctuations that take place year to year or decade to decade caused by phenomena such as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. The natural variation in sea level can ...
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 2014
... American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 2014. What We Know: The Reality, Risks and Response to Climate Change. AAAS. http://whatweknow.aaas.org/ ...
... American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 2014. What We Know: The Reality, Risks and Response to Climate Change. AAAS. http://whatweknow.aaas.org/ ...
Climate Change, Wildlife, and Wildlands
... will be approximately 20 inches higher than they were in 1990. There is even a 5 percent chance that the sea will rise by as much as 36 inches. ...
... will be approximately 20 inches higher than they were in 1990. There is even a 5 percent chance that the sea will rise by as much as 36 inches. ...
Exploring the role of local adaptation in the response
... The main effects and interactions of temperature and population as independent variables were determined on all measured dependent variables with two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) performed with SPSS statistics software (Rel. 7.5.1., SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). To assess the overall effect of climat ...
... The main effects and interactions of temperature and population as independent variables were determined on all measured dependent variables with two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) performed with SPSS statistics software (Rel. 7.5.1., SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL). To assess the overall effect of climat ...
Executive Summary: Impact of Climate Change on the Ecology of
... lake trophic status and cyanobacterial taxon. Nutrients were the most important factor in oligotrophic lakes, temperature was most important in mesotrophic lakes, while the interaction between nutrients and temperature was highly significant in eutrophic lakes. The species of cyanobacteria have vary ...
... lake trophic status and cyanobacterial taxon. Nutrients were the most important factor in oligotrophic lakes, temperature was most important in mesotrophic lakes, while the interaction between nutrients and temperature was highly significant in eutrophic lakes. The species of cyanobacteria have vary ...
PDF - The Marine Biological Association
... adaptations enable fish to tolerate warmer conditions or move to previously uninhabitable locations. Although the temperature of the world’s oceans has gradually risen through the twentieth century, the northeast Atlantic has experienced particularly intense warming, resulting in the North Sea mean ...
... adaptations enable fish to tolerate warmer conditions or move to previously uninhabitable locations. Although the temperature of the world’s oceans has gradually risen through the twentieth century, the northeast Atlantic has experienced particularly intense warming, resulting in the North Sea mean ...
Climatic Change - Department of Agricultural Economics
... Strongest effects fall on springflow and the Ag sector Shifts in the sectoral water use share from Ag to M&I Decrease in M&I welfare Farm income falls 16-30% under the 2030 scenario and 30-45% under the 2090 scenario. Decrease in Comal springflows by 10-16% under the 2030 scenarios and by 20-24% und ...
... Strongest effects fall on springflow and the Ag sector Shifts in the sectoral water use share from Ag to M&I Decrease in M&I welfare Farm income falls 16-30% under the 2030 scenario and 30-45% under the 2090 scenario. Decrease in Comal springflows by 10-16% under the 2030 scenarios and by 20-24% und ...
Managing biodiversity in the light of climate change
... issued a World Scientists’ Call of Action. They stated, ‘Climate change will accelerate the appalling pace at which species are now being extirpated, especially in vulnerable ecosystems. One-fourth of the known species of mammals are threatened, and half of these may be gone within a decade. Possibl ...
... issued a World Scientists’ Call of Action. They stated, ‘Climate change will accelerate the appalling pace at which species are now being extirpated, especially in vulnerable ecosystems. One-fourth of the known species of mammals are threatened, and half of these may be gone within a decade. Possibl ...
Global Warming
... Strong northward movement of near-surface waters are cooled when they arrive near Greenland The water cools, becomes saltier and denser, and it sinks to the bottom Current then flows southward around Africa Huge amounts of warm water keep Europe warmer than it would be otherwise © 2012 Pears ...
... Strong northward movement of near-surface waters are cooled when they arrive near Greenland The water cools, becomes saltier and denser, and it sinks to the bottom Current then flows southward around Africa Huge amounts of warm water keep Europe warmer than it would be otherwise © 2012 Pears ...
PRESENT AND FUTURE CLIMATE SCENARIOS OF SIERRA LEONE
... above picture, the sea has eaten more that 10m length of land in just 15 years. A visit to Konakry Dee will show that the beautiful presidential resort of President Stevens’ days is no more as the sea has taken over the whole area ...
... above picture, the sea has eaten more that 10m length of land in just 15 years. A visit to Konakry Dee will show that the beautiful presidential resort of President Stevens’ days is no more as the sea has taken over the whole area ...
New Report Highlights the Complexity of Climate Change
... Bellingshausen Sea. It is unclear at present whether this change is a result of anthropogenic activity. 7. Reconstructions of surface temperature for West Antarctica suggest that it has warmed markedly over the last 50 years with the Siple region identified as one of the most rapidly warming areas o ...
... Bellingshausen Sea. It is unclear at present whether this change is a result of anthropogenic activity. 7. Reconstructions of surface temperature for West Antarctica suggest that it has warmed markedly over the last 50 years with the Siple region identified as one of the most rapidly warming areas o ...
Earth_Day - Caldwell County Schools
... groups, there are radical environmental groups such as Earth First!, and Greenpeace International, which sometimes use confrontational techniques such as driving hidden metal spikes into forest trees, to prevent them from being processed in saw mills, and harassing whaling ships from small boats. "D ...
... groups, there are radical environmental groups such as Earth First!, and Greenpeace International, which sometimes use confrontational techniques such as driving hidden metal spikes into forest trees, to prevent them from being processed in saw mills, and harassing whaling ships from small boats. "D ...
Analysis of trends in temperature and rainfall in selected
... The temperature data for Victoria and Western Australia spans 1907 – 2012, and for Queensland, the temperature data spans 1962 – 2012. For this reason, Victorian and Western Australian data were divided into two sets of 53 samples, 1907 – 1959 and 1960 – 2012, and Queensland data two sets of samples ...
... The temperature data for Victoria and Western Australia spans 1907 – 2012, and for Queensland, the temperature data spans 1962 – 2012. For this reason, Victorian and Western Australian data were divided into two sets of 53 samples, 1907 – 1959 and 1960 – 2012, and Queensland data two sets of samples ...
Mediterranean climate change scenarios: Impacts on the north
... resolution model are smaller • The effects on sea level are opposite. Thermosteric and halosteric changes could compensate each other, thus keeping the steric sea level component (average for the whole Mediterranean Sea) in the range -22 to +31 • It is necessary the development of high resolution re ...
... resolution model are smaller • The effects on sea level are opposite. Thermosteric and halosteric changes could compensate each other, thus keeping the steric sea level component (average for the whole Mediterranean Sea) in the range -22 to +31 • It is necessary the development of high resolution re ...
Climate Misconceptions - University of Florida
... animals from extending their ranges. There are no guarantees that all of the organisms that make a functional forest (e.g., fungi, insects, microorganisms) will migrate together. In addition, seed dispersal varies by species and is fairly limited for most trees. Because trees grow slowly and may not ...
... animals from extending their ranges. There are no guarantees that all of the organisms that make a functional forest (e.g., fungi, insects, microorganisms) will migrate together. In addition, seed dispersal varies by species and is fairly limited for most trees. Because trees grow slowly and may not ...
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.