Download: ACI2015 - Summary for Policy-makers
... on its altitude in the atmosphere, the locations of black carbon sources and the details of its transport pathways are important considerations. Black carbon at high altitudes in the Arctic leads to surface cooling. Black carbon found lower in the atmosphere, leading to surface warming and at times ...
... on its altitude in the atmosphere, the locations of black carbon sources and the details of its transport pathways are important considerations. Black carbon at high altitudes in the Arctic leads to surface cooling. Black carbon found lower in the atmosphere, leading to surface warming and at times ...
magnitude and frequency
... increased flood hazard for the UK linked to more extreme precipitation events and greater winter rainfall totals by the 2080s. One study claims that past greenhouse gas emissions (the ‘human fingerprint’) have already increased the risk of major flooding events like autumn 2000. Observed records sho ...
... increased flood hazard for the UK linked to more extreme precipitation events and greater winter rainfall totals by the 2080s. One study claims that past greenhouse gas emissions (the ‘human fingerprint’) have already increased the risk of major flooding events like autumn 2000. Observed records sho ...
Ocean Acidification
... that certain experiments “require rigorous operator control and have time intensive set up and calibration routines” (Waters, 2012, p.15). Rérolle et al. (2012) presented three core methods of measuring pH of seawater which this paper will brief on and discuss advantages and disadvantages. The first ...
... that certain experiments “require rigorous operator control and have time intensive set up and calibration routines” (Waters, 2012, p.15). Rérolle et al. (2012) presented three core methods of measuring pH of seawater which this paper will brief on and discuss advantages and disadvantages. The first ...
An Introduction to the Science of Climate Change
... extensive review document in 2001 that describes the most recent scientific data related to climate change from leading scientists around the world entitled, ‘Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis’. The most recent evidence on the effects of climate change demonstrating changes in global tempera ...
... extensive review document in 2001 that describes the most recent scientific data related to climate change from leading scientists around the world entitled, ‘Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis’. The most recent evidence on the effects of climate change demonstrating changes in global tempera ...
View/Open
... Climate change and its potential consequences are high on the political agenda for environmental policy. The relationship between climate change and economics is two-way. While climate change has repercussions on economic activity, economic activity also plays a role in climate change. The realizati ...
... Climate change and its potential consequences are high on the political agenda for environmental policy. The relationship between climate change and economics is two-way. While climate change has repercussions on economic activity, economic activity also plays a role in climate change. The realizati ...
IOSR Journal of Research & Method in Education (IOSR-JRME)
... consists of all the experiences that a school may select and consistently organize for the purpose of bringing about changes in the behaviours of the learners and as a means of developing the personality of the individuals. Doll (1996), affirms that curriculum is the formal and informal content and ...
... consists of all the experiences that a school may select and consistently organize for the purpose of bringing about changes in the behaviours of the learners and as a means of developing the personality of the individuals. Doll (1996), affirms that curriculum is the formal and informal content and ...
Impact of Climate Change and Human Activity on the Runoff
... and Xiying, converge as Shiyang River in the outlet of the Qilian Mountains, The four tributaries are mainly fed by rainfall, glacier melt and snowmelt from the Qilian Mountains. It is well known that the ecological environment in north-west China is vulnerable to water shortages(Xu&Li, 2007).For Sh ...
... and Xiying, converge as Shiyang River in the outlet of the Qilian Mountains, The four tributaries are mainly fed by rainfall, glacier melt and snowmelt from the Qilian Mountains. It is well known that the ecological environment in north-west China is vulnerable to water shortages(Xu&Li, 2007).For Sh ...
4 The Importance of Methane
... A group of concerned scientists has formed the Arctic Methane Warning Group (AMEG 2013) with a mission to warn the world of the potential for the Arctic region to cause global runaway climate change. In contrast a recent wide-ranging US National Academy of Sciences (NAS 2013) report on abrupt climat ...
... A group of concerned scientists has formed the Arctic Methane Warning Group (AMEG 2013) with a mission to warn the world of the potential for the Arctic region to cause global runaway climate change. In contrast a recent wide-ranging US National Academy of Sciences (NAS 2013) report on abrupt climat ...
Hydrology of a Water-Limited Forest under Climate Change
... Brazilian territory. The Caatinga biome prevails as the main natural forest of this region, a complex tropical and water-limited ecosystem with a wide variety of both herbaceous and arborescent vegetation, characterized by its ability to cope with low soil water content ranges [10,11]. Recently pred ...
... Brazilian territory. The Caatinga biome prevails as the main natural forest of this region, a complex tropical and water-limited ecosystem with a wide variety of both herbaceous and arborescent vegetation, characterized by its ability to cope with low soil water content ranges [10,11]. Recently pred ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... Climate change is defined a change in the statistical properties of the climate system in particular region when considered over long periods of time, regardless of cause. Beside according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change refers to any change in climate over ti ...
... Climate change is defined a change in the statistical properties of the climate system in particular region when considered over long periods of time, regardless of cause. Beside according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change refers to any change in climate over ti ...
Should we believe model predictions of future climate
... is known as calibration. The latter is also referred to as tuning, but that word has a negative undertone of being dishonest and adjusting parameters to get the right effect for the wrong reason, when in fact calibration involves estimating parameters based on either limited observations or physical ...
... is known as calibration. The latter is also referred to as tuning, but that word has a negative undertone of being dishonest and adjusting parameters to get the right effect for the wrong reason, when in fact calibration involves estimating parameters based on either limited observations or physical ...
text_2ed_rev - Department of the Geophysical Sciences
... reflects more light than vegetation does. Smoke emitted from coal-burning power plants produces a haze of sulfuric acid droplets that can reflect light. The Earth is kept significantly warmer than it would be by the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere. Most of the gases in the air are completely tra ...
... reflects more light than vegetation does. Smoke emitted from coal-burning power plants produces a haze of sulfuric acid droplets that can reflect light. The Earth is kept significantly warmer than it would be by the greenhouse effect in the atmosphere. Most of the gases in the air are completely tra ...
- University of Surrey
... This intuitive approach was initially very successful, but in many places progress has stalled or even reversed. Communicating climate change more clearly is failing to convert skeptics into believers10, and climate change is slipping down the list of public priorities in many countries5,6. This is ...
... This intuitive approach was initially very successful, but in many places progress has stalled or even reversed. Communicating climate change more clearly is failing to convert skeptics into believers10, and climate change is slipping down the list of public priorities in many countries5,6. This is ...
ELPIS-JP: a dataset of local-scale daily climate change scenarios for
... Table 1 summarizes the climate models used for the ELPIS-JP dataset. All seven climatic variables (Tave , Tmax , Tmin , Pr, SR, RH and WS) were available from most GCMs. The GCM transient monthly outputs for the 130 year period 1971–2100 were obtained from the CMIP3 database [26]. Only one represent ...
... Table 1 summarizes the climate models used for the ELPIS-JP dataset. All seven climatic variables (Tave , Tmax , Tmin , Pr, SR, RH and WS) were available from most GCMs. The GCM transient monthly outputs for the 130 year period 1971–2100 were obtained from the CMIP3 database [26]. Only one represent ...
The Short-Term Temptations and Long
... B. Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb In 1968, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, which was cowritten by his then uncredited wife, Anne Ehrlich.27 The Population Bomb warned that human overpopulation would produce widespread starvation: “The birth rate must be brought into ...
... B. Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb In 1968, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, which was cowritten by his then uncredited wife, Anne Ehrlich.27 The Population Bomb warned that human overpopulation would produce widespread starvation: “The birth rate must be brought into ...
Projected ocean warming creates a conservation challenge for river
... contributing to changes in fish abundance, and as a factor that can magnify the effects of fishing, which include not only changes in abundance but also changes in population demographics, distributions, trophic interactions, and ecosystem resiliency (Planque et al., 2010; Shelton and Mangel, 2011). ...
... contributing to changes in fish abundance, and as a factor that can magnify the effects of fishing, which include not only changes in abundance but also changes in population demographics, distributions, trophic interactions, and ecosystem resiliency (Planque et al., 2010; Shelton and Mangel, 2011). ...
Trends in the land and ocean carbon uptake
... important quantity to understand and monitor. By definition, AF is a measure of the capacity of the CO2 sinks to keep up with the CO2 emissions, which I call the ‘sink efficiency’ in this paper. Although AF is only an indirect measure of the sink efficiency, it is the only available long time series ...
... important quantity to understand and monitor. By definition, AF is a measure of the capacity of the CO2 sinks to keep up with the CO2 emissions, which I call the ‘sink efficiency’ in this paper. Although AF is only an indirect measure of the sink efficiency, it is the only available long time series ...
Projected impacts of climate change and ocean
... and temperate zones, G. ruber in the subtropical gyres, N. pachyderma in the subpolar and polar regions and G. sacculifer dominating in the tropical and subtropical regions in between (Fig. S3). The model reproduced 43 % of the observed species dominance from surface plankton tow data (Table 2). Thi ...
... and temperate zones, G. ruber in the subtropical gyres, N. pachyderma in the subpolar and polar regions and G. sacculifer dominating in the tropical and subtropical regions in between (Fig. S3). The model reproduced 43 % of the observed species dominance from surface plankton tow data (Table 2). Thi ...
Manyatsi, AM - IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
... 15 oC higher than the long-term average. The high temperatures were accompanied by a dramatic melting of Arctic sea ice in September 2007 to the lowest levels ever recorded (Connor, 2007). 1.3 Institutions responsible for climatic change issues The Swaziland Meteorological Services is mandated to m ...
... 15 oC higher than the long-term average. The high temperatures were accompanied by a dramatic melting of Arctic sea ice in September 2007 to the lowest levels ever recorded (Connor, 2007). 1.3 Institutions responsible for climatic change issues The Swaziland Meteorological Services is mandated to m ...
submission for the carbon tax bill
... with science. Climate prediction is not science, it is pseudo-science, and sooner or later more real scientists are going to wake up to this fact.”…..“If the IPCC were a pharmaceutical company it could face fraud charges for doing this. This is a good analogy. The IPCC claims to have diagnosed a pla ...
... with science. Climate prediction is not science, it is pseudo-science, and sooner or later more real scientists are going to wake up to this fact.”…..“If the IPCC were a pharmaceutical company it could face fraud charges for doing this. This is a good analogy. The IPCC claims to have diagnosed a pla ...
Mechanisms of Southern Ocean Heat Uptake and Transport in a
... of the net global uptake in CM2.6. In the control simulation, the sea surface temperature is on average warmer than the atmosphere over most of the Southern Ocean, and therefore the sensible heat flux cools the ocean. The prominent Southern Ocean heat uptake peak, between 508 and 608S, is dominated ...
... of the net global uptake in CM2.6. In the control simulation, the sea surface temperature is on average warmer than the atmosphere over most of the Southern Ocean, and therefore the sensible heat flux cools the ocean. The prominent Southern Ocean heat uptake peak, between 508 and 608S, is dominated ...
- CReaTE - Canterbury Christ Church University
... GHG emissions, and were against increased taxation to reduce GHG emissions. Forty-four percent stated that they did not trust scientists to tell the truth (YouGov, 2009). Thus, while the British public widely agree that climate change is happening, far fewer are convinced that it is anthropogenic, a ...
... GHG emissions, and were against increased taxation to reduce GHG emissions. Forty-four percent stated that they did not trust scientists to tell the truth (YouGov, 2009). Thus, while the British public widely agree that climate change is happening, far fewer are convinced that it is anthropogenic, a ...
E El Niñ ño 2015 5/2016
... warming of the Central and Eastern Pacific, affecting the atmosphere and weather patterns. The effects of El Niño depend strongly on location and season. The main threat comes from reduced rainfall and drought in some regions, but El Niño can also cause heavy rainfall and flooding in others, making ...
... warming of the Central and Eastern Pacific, affecting the atmosphere and weather patterns. The effects of El Niño depend strongly on location and season. The main threat comes from reduced rainfall and drought in some regions, but El Niño can also cause heavy rainfall and flooding in others, making ...
CLIMAP builds on ongoing and recently completed adaptation
... A simple ‘conceptual model’ was developed, using first principles (including the rational method) to estimate flood depths for different segments of the study area. The estimates were based on 1 hour rainfall intensities for given return periods. The model was validated using observed flooding depth ...
... A simple ‘conceptual model’ was developed, using first principles (including the rational method) to estimate flood depths for different segments of the study area. The estimates were based on 1 hour rainfall intensities for given return periods. The model was validated using observed flooding depth ...
Climate Change Regulation and PRediCtion maRkets
... as the United States could clearly do a better job of protecting their most vulnerable populations from heat waves.) All of those climatic events are routinely monitored internationally, so that even in remote parts of the planet, weather anomalies are susceptible to measurement and counting. If, in ...
... as the United States could clearly do a better job of protecting their most vulnerable populations from heat waves.) All of those climatic events are routinely monitored internationally, so that even in remote parts of the planet, weather anomalies are susceptible to measurement and counting. If, in ...
Instrumental temperature record
The instrumental temperature record shows fluctuations of the temperature of earth's climate system. Initially the instrumental temperature record only documented land and sea surface temperature, but in recent decades instruments have also begun recording ocean temperature. Data is collected from thousands of meteorological stations around the globe and through satellite observations. The longest-running temperature record is the Central England temperature data series, that starts in 1659. The longest-running quasi-global record starts in 1850.