Climate Change
... change; aerosols such as black carbon and land use changes such as deforestation and agriculture also cause global warming.2 The definition of climate change is still under debate, concerning primarily whether it is due to climate variability (natural processes) or anthropogenic actions (human induc ...
... change; aerosols such as black carbon and land use changes such as deforestation and agriculture also cause global warming.2 The definition of climate change is still under debate, concerning primarily whether it is due to climate variability (natural processes) or anthropogenic actions (human induc ...
PRECIS – The Hadley Centre Regional Climate Modelling system
... How will the boundary conditions for PRECIS be supplied? The boundary conditions and other Hadley Centre fields required to drive PRECIS will be supplied on tape or hard disk. Requests for these data will be made through the PRECIS web site. In order to reduce costs, Hadley Centre boundary condition ...
... How will the boundary conditions for PRECIS be supplied? The boundary conditions and other Hadley Centre fields required to drive PRECIS will be supplied on tape or hard disk. Requests for these data will be made through the PRECIS web site. In order to reduce costs, Hadley Centre boundary condition ...
An Inconvenient Trial - Digital Commons @ Liberty University
... no court has authority to enforce remedies, then there is little motivation to expend resources to support this effort. If climate-change proponents are able to prove their case, but the court does not have the authority to enforce remedies, then you might ask why even bother with this proposal. The ...
... no court has authority to enforce remedies, then there is little motivation to expend resources to support this effort. If climate-change proponents are able to prove their case, but the court does not have the authority to enforce remedies, then you might ask why even bother with this proposal. The ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Context of Sustainable
... measure of the threats to a system (IPCC 2001, Kelly and Adger 2000). The IPCC (2001) definition of vulnerability, as mentioned earlier2, is a function of the character, magnitude and rate of climate variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Exposure is defined a ...
... measure of the threats to a system (IPCC 2001, Kelly and Adger 2000). The IPCC (2001) definition of vulnerability, as mentioned earlier2, is a function of the character, magnitude and rate of climate variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Exposure is defined a ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in the context of Sustainable
... measure of the threats to a system (IPCC 2001, Kelly and Adger 2000). The IPCC (2001) definition of vulnerability, as mentioned earlier2, is a function of the character, magnitude and rate of climate variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Exposure is defined a ...
... measure of the threats to a system (IPCC 2001, Kelly and Adger 2000). The IPCC (2001) definition of vulnerability, as mentioned earlier2, is a function of the character, magnitude and rate of climate variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Exposure is defined a ...
Understanding Earth`s Deep Past: Lessons for Our Climate Future
... because of the timescales over which the natural feedbacks in the climate system sweep CO2 from the atmosphere. Consequently, the changes to the hydrosphere, cryosphere, chemosphere, and biosphere that are occurring now and projected within this century could pale in comparison to those that are pos ...
... because of the timescales over which the natural feedbacks in the climate system sweep CO2 from the atmosphere. Consequently, the changes to the hydrosphere, cryosphere, chemosphere, and biosphere that are occurring now and projected within this century could pale in comparison to those that are pos ...
Report
... The phenomenon of global climate change has been a focus of the international scientific community for more than two decades. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a scientific body set up by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, has been ...
... The phenomenon of global climate change has been a focus of the international scientific community for more than two decades. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a scientific body set up by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme, has been ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES Yongyang Cai Kenneth L. Judd
... parameters and conducts a Monte Carlo analysis with many simulations, each being itself a deterministic run of the model with a picked set of parameter values. This method can provide valuable information about a possible range of the climateeconomy system, but it always assumes that economic actors ...
... parameters and conducts a Monte Carlo analysis with many simulations, each being itself a deterministic run of the model with a picked set of parameter values. This method can provide valuable information about a possible range of the climateeconomy system, but it always assumes that economic actors ...
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... capacity needs for applying risk assessment methods in developing countries. It also considers risk assessment application to decision-making. Parties may wish to use the information contained in this paper as they consider approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts ...
... capacity needs for applying risk assessment methods in developing countries. It also considers risk assessment application to decision-making. Parties may wish to use the information contained in this paper as they consider approaches to address loss and damage associated with climate change impacts ...
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... households, and communities to climate change is exacerbated by rising energy costs and a regulatory system that constrains the adaptive flexibility needed to cope with impacts on livelihoods. Socioeconomic and cultural change notwithstanding, the well-being of rural native communities is still depe ...
... households, and communities to climate change is exacerbated by rising energy costs and a regulatory system that constrains the adaptive flexibility needed to cope with impacts on livelihoods. Socioeconomic and cultural change notwithstanding, the well-being of rural native communities is still depe ...
Climate Change and Its Impact on Groundwater
... humidity, and wind speed, and sometimes plant physiological properties. The estimated effect of a change in climate on potential evaporation depends on the characteristics of the site Many rivers and streams that are fed by glacier runoff could be significantly impacted as a result of climate change ...
... humidity, and wind speed, and sometimes plant physiological properties. The estimated effect of a change in climate on potential evaporation depends on the characteristics of the site Many rivers and streams that are fed by glacier runoff could be significantly impacted as a result of climate change ...
Interannual climatic variation mediates elevated CO2
... cycle: that changes in climate can affect the function of C sources and sinks, both abiotic (e.g. carbonate rock weathering and reprecipitation, Liu & Zhao, 1999) and biotic (e.g. photosynthesis and respiration, Lenton, 2000). However, relatively little is known about the second linkage, thus few ha ...
... cycle: that changes in climate can affect the function of C sources and sinks, both abiotic (e.g. carbonate rock weathering and reprecipitation, Liu & Zhao, 1999) and biotic (e.g. photosynthesis and respiration, Lenton, 2000). However, relatively little is known about the second linkage, thus few ha ...
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... Early studies have sought to estimate the effect of crop prices on corn yields for the pre1990 period (Houck and Gallagher, 1976; Menz and Pardey, 1983; Choi and Helmberger, 1993). More recent studies on crop yields include climate variables but in general ignore the effect of input and output price ...
... Early studies have sought to estimate the effect of crop prices on corn yields for the pre1990 period (Houck and Gallagher, 1976; Menz and Pardey, 1983; Choi and Helmberger, 1993). More recent studies on crop yields include climate variables but in general ignore the effect of input and output price ...
Ocean acidification - Natural England publications
... complex impacts on ocean chemistry. A major area of interest is biologically important nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphates, silica and iron which often limit plankton growth in large parts of the ocean. As conditions become more acidic this could, at least in theory, reduce their availability. Al ...
... complex impacts on ocean chemistry. A major area of interest is biologically important nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphates, silica and iron which often limit plankton growth in large parts of the ocean. As conditions become more acidic this could, at least in theory, reduce their availability. Al ...
Climate Risk Management for Agriculture in Peru
... Climate change has the potential to exacerbate conflict, cause humanitarian crises, displace people, destroy livelihoods and set-back development and the fight against poverty for millions of people across the globe. For example it is estimated that over 20 million people in the Mekong Delta and 20 ...
... Climate change has the potential to exacerbate conflict, cause humanitarian crises, displace people, destroy livelihoods and set-back development and the fight against poverty for millions of people across the globe. For example it is estimated that over 20 million people in the Mekong Delta and 20 ...
Quantifying uncertainties of permafrost carbon
... The coupling between the global carbon cycle and the rest of the climate system gives rise to a range of feedbacks to climate on multiple time scales. These feedbacks are expressed in the future by either amplifying or mitigating any change implied by a given fossil fuel and cement production emissi ...
... The coupling between the global carbon cycle and the rest of the climate system gives rise to a range of feedbacks to climate on multiple time scales. These feedbacks are expressed in the future by either amplifying or mitigating any change implied by a given fossil fuel and cement production emissi ...
WCRP Grand Challenge: Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal
... Over the coming decades, regional sea level changes and variability will significantly deviate from global mean values. The detailed sea level change along coastlines can therefore potentially be far ...
... Over the coming decades, regional sea level changes and variability will significantly deviate from global mean values. The detailed sea level change along coastlines can therefore potentially be far ...
Sea-level Rise, Storm Surges, and Extreme Precipitation in Coastal
... Maine. Over the past ten years, the largest storm surges observed at Fort Point, New Hampshire occurred during nor’easters, which may impact the region for several days and produce a storm surge with or without the addition of inland runoff from heavy precipitation. No research consistently finds a ...
... Maine. Over the past ten years, the largest storm surges observed at Fort Point, New Hampshire occurred during nor’easters, which may impact the region for several days and produce a storm surge with or without the addition of inland runoff from heavy precipitation. No research consistently finds a ...
The tipping point trend in climate change communication
... social referents, a potential conflation introduced by Gladwell’s (2000) interpretation of epidemiological perspectives. Is the notion appropriate as a description of the way physical components of the climate system change, or as a means of understanding social behavior, or both? Is it intended as a ...
... social referents, a potential conflation introduced by Gladwell’s (2000) interpretation of epidemiological perspectives. Is the notion appropriate as a description of the way physical components of the climate system change, or as a means of understanding social behavior, or both? Is it intended as a ...
Communication for Climate Change Multi
... communication for development in support of climate change awareness. The main objectives of the MDTF are to: • Raise awareness about climate change and its impacts at various levels: public at large, private sector, and policy and decision-makers • Promote commitment among the public, private secto ...
... communication for development in support of climate change awareness. The main objectives of the MDTF are to: • Raise awareness about climate change and its impacts at various levels: public at large, private sector, and policy and decision-makers • Promote commitment among the public, private secto ...
An Economic Analysis of Climate Adaptations to Hurricane Risk in St
... change does impact on the frequency and/or severity of extreme climate events in the future, a crucial feature will lie in its irreversibility.8 This paper proposes a simple model that captures this irreversibility element. We use a growth model ((1 þ a)t model) to integrate the cumulative effect of ...
... change does impact on the frequency and/or severity of extreme climate events in the future, a crucial feature will lie in its irreversibility.8 This paper proposes a simple model that captures this irreversibility element. We use a growth model ((1 þ a)t model) to integrate the cumulative effect of ...
FACING UNCERTAINTY: the value of climate information for
... winds, and temperature over a day to several seasons and years into the future. These forecasts are generated from global indicators such as sea surface temperatures (SSTs; see figure 3) and presented by meteorological services over different spatial scales such as subnational, national (see figure ...
... winds, and temperature over a day to several seasons and years into the future. These forecasts are generated from global indicators such as sea surface temperatures (SSTs; see figure 3) and presented by meteorological services over different spatial scales such as subnational, national (see figure ...
Rethinking Support for Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change
... is rapidly increasing understanding of how the climate is likely to change at the global scale under various emissions scenarios, what is less well understood is the exact magnitude of future temperature and rainfall changes at the local level, and how these are influencing bio-physical systems. Glob ...
... is rapidly increasing understanding of how the climate is likely to change at the global scale under various emissions scenarios, what is less well understood is the exact magnitude of future temperature and rainfall changes at the local level, and how these are influencing bio-physical systems. Glob ...
Working Paper 219 - Kessler (opens in new window)
... that the main carbon-climate feedbacks included in IAMs are those which enter through the climate sensitivity parameter, and which correspond primarily to the “fast” feedbacks: namely, water vapour, temperature lapse rate, surface albedo and clouds. Many other feedback processes, such as, for instan ...
... that the main carbon-climate feedbacks included in IAMs are those which enter through the climate sensitivity parameter, and which correspond primarily to the “fast” feedbacks: namely, water vapour, temperature lapse rate, surface albedo and clouds. Many other feedback processes, such as, for instan ...
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.