Maize migration: key crop expands to higher altitudes
... increase in the north and decrease in the southern parts of the continent (Elsgaard et al., 2012; Tuck, Glendining, Smith, House, & Wattenback, 2006). Another simulation shows that in northeast Iran, pearl millet performs better than maize under current climatic conditions, while rising future tempe ...
... increase in the north and decrease in the southern parts of the continent (Elsgaard et al., 2012; Tuck, Glendining, Smith, House, & Wattenback, 2006). Another simulation shows that in northeast Iran, pearl millet performs better than maize under current climatic conditions, while rising future tempe ...
Risk-based assessment of climate change impacts
... Lastly, there is no regional atmospheric climate model with active ocean and ice components. The 50-year projections for key atmospheric variables include a general increase in air temperature and precipitation with seasonal and regional variations, a poleward shift in storm tracks, and an increase ...
... Lastly, there is no regional atmospheric climate model with active ocean and ice components. The 50-year projections for key atmospheric variables include a general increase in air temperature and precipitation with seasonal and regional variations, a poleward shift in storm tracks, and an increase ...
Misconceptions PowerPoint KB
... By measuring reflected and emitted radiation, and comparing it to incoming solar radiation “scientists have concluded that more energy is being absorbed from the Sun than is emitted back to space, throwing the Earth's energy "out of balance" and warming the planet.” * * National Aeronautics and Spac ...
... By measuring reflected and emitted radiation, and comparing it to incoming solar radiation “scientists have concluded that more energy is being absorbed from the Sun than is emitted back to space, throwing the Earth's energy "out of balance" and warming the planet.” * * National Aeronautics and Spac ...
Africa Talks Climate
... global climate change? What do African opinion leaders know and understand about climate change and what are their views on their country’s responses to climate change? African citizens are least responsible for climate change and will be among the most affected; yet, according to this research, the ...
... global climate change? What do African opinion leaders know and understand about climate change and what are their views on their country’s responses to climate change? African citizens are least responsible for climate change and will be among the most affected; yet, according to this research, the ...
Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts
... Extreme droughts, heat waves, frosts, precipitation, wind storms and other climate extremes may impact the structure, composition and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, and thus carbon cycling and its feedbacks to the climate system. Yet, the interconnected avenues through which climate extremes ...
... Extreme droughts, heat waves, frosts, precipitation, wind storms and other climate extremes may impact the structure, composition and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, and thus carbon cycling and its feedbacks to the climate system. Yet, the interconnected avenues through which climate extremes ...
Modelling the effects of climate and land cover change on
... In November 2006, CSIRO was commissioned to undertake an assessment of sustainable yields of surface and groundwater systems within the 1 M km2 Murray-Darling Basin in southeastern Australia. The project provided a rigorous and detailed basin-scale assessment of the anticipated impacts of climate ch ...
... In November 2006, CSIRO was commissioned to undertake an assessment of sustainable yields of surface and groundwater systems within the 1 M km2 Murray-Darling Basin in southeastern Australia. The project provided a rigorous and detailed basin-scale assessment of the anticipated impacts of climate ch ...
SEE Project-OrientGate: A structured network for integration of
... There is a large gain to be achieved by realizing a set of coordinated activities that would build on the existing knowledge, making it available, translating it in more useful terms. It is also urgent that we elaborate effective strategies and practices to insert this rapidly accumulating evidence ...
... There is a large gain to be achieved by realizing a set of coordinated activities that would build on the existing knowledge, making it available, translating it in more useful terms. It is also urgent that we elaborate effective strategies and practices to insert this rapidly accumulating evidence ...
Progress in Physical Geography Sea levels: resolution and uncertainty
... The complexity of dealing with these uncertainties led Rahmstorf (2007) to adopt a contrasting approach to projecting future sea-level rise. This employs a simple semiempirical model based on the relationship between global sea level (derived from Church and White, 2006) and temperature (derived fro ...
... The complexity of dealing with these uncertainties led Rahmstorf (2007) to adopt a contrasting approach to projecting future sea-level rise. This employs a simple semiempirical model based on the relationship between global sea level (derived from Church and White, 2006) and temperature (derived fro ...
- Surrey Research Insight Open Access
... interannual scales, on the UK tourism demand. The results showed that the United Kingdom’s outbound tourism demand is highly sensitive to climate variability within the preceding year, while the UK’s domestic tourism demand is exceptionally sensitive to climate variability within the travel year. Go ...
... interannual scales, on the UK tourism demand. The results showed that the United Kingdom’s outbound tourism demand is highly sensitive to climate variability within the preceding year, while the UK’s domestic tourism demand is exceptionally sensitive to climate variability within the travel year. Go ...
Producing the Climate: States, Scientists, and the
... However, as Wendt argues, this functionalist logic brackets the stage in which objective conditions are translated into an intersubjective problem that states can address.11 An explanation for the emergence of governance institutions is at best incomplete if it does not include an account of how the ...
... However, as Wendt argues, this functionalist logic brackets the stage in which objective conditions are translated into an intersubjective problem that states can address.11 An explanation for the emergence of governance institutions is at best incomplete if it does not include an account of how the ...
Climate variability and change: adaptation to drought in Bangladesh
... In Bangladesh where agriculture is the largest sector of the economy, agricultural production is under pressure from increasing demands for food. A large percentage of the population is already vulnerable to a range of natural hazards with increasing climate variability and climate change expected t ...
... In Bangladesh where agriculture is the largest sector of the economy, agricultural production is under pressure from increasing demands for food. A large percentage of the population is already vulnerable to a range of natural hazards with increasing climate variability and climate change expected t ...
Climate Change and US Interests
... the United States will fare better than most other countries has led some commentators to advance the climate change winner argument, claiming that it is irrational for the United States to take unilateral steps to mitigate climate change or to participate in a globally optimal international agreeme ...
... the United States will fare better than most other countries has led some commentators to advance the climate change winner argument, claiming that it is irrational for the United States to take unilateral steps to mitigate climate change or to participate in a globally optimal international agreeme ...
Lecture 1 CIP Module Montreal Conference Draft
... Figure 18 Observed changes in global average surface temperature, average sea level and Northern Hemisphere snow cover relative to period 1961–1990. ........................................ 39 Figure 19 Selected regional climate change observations. .................................................. ...
... Figure 18 Observed changes in global average surface temperature, average sea level and Northern Hemisphere snow cover relative to period 1961–1990. ........................................ 39 Figure 19 Selected regional climate change observations. .................................................. ...
Global Warming & Sea Level rise
... Source: Stronger Evidence but New Challenges: Climate Change Science 2001-2005;Will Steffen; Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) from 1998 through mid-2004 and, since then, as IGBP Chief Scientist and as Director of the Centre for Resource and Environmental S ...
... Source: Stronger Evidence but New Challenges: Climate Change Science 2001-2005;Will Steffen; Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) from 1998 through mid-2004 and, since then, as IGBP Chief Scientist and as Director of the Centre for Resource and Environmental S ...
Petition - Center for Biological Diversity
... authority, but also the clear legal duty, to take such action as is necessary to set the United States on a course towards reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations below dangerous levels. Designating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as criteria pollutants and setting appropriate s ...
... authority, but also the clear legal duty, to take such action as is necessary to set the United States on a course towards reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations below dangerous levels. Designating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as criteria pollutants and setting appropriate s ...
Making Marine Zoning Climate-Change Adaptable Robin Kundis Craig
... ecosystems and the socio-ecological systems of which they are a part will transition to new states of being that are productive and adaptive, rather than collapsing into the equivalent of decimated marine deserts. Marine spatial planning is a widely-promoted method for achieving at least the first t ...
... ecosystems and the socio-ecological systems of which they are a part will transition to new states of being that are productive and adaptive, rather than collapsing into the equivalent of decimated marine deserts. Marine spatial planning is a widely-promoted method for achieving at least the first t ...
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... method, Patnaik and Narayanan’s method and Iyenger and Sudarshan’s method, the results of Sudarshan and Iyenger’s method were retained for the present study. Additionally, Iyenger and Sudarshan’s method proved to be superior to both the method of simple averages and the Patnaik and Narayanan’s metho ...
... method, Patnaik and Narayanan’s method and Iyenger and Sudarshan’s method, the results of Sudarshan and Iyenger’s method were retained for the present study. Additionally, Iyenger and Sudarshan’s method proved to be superior to both the method of simple averages and the Patnaik and Narayanan’s metho ...
Update on Selected Climate Issues of Concern
... review of the significance of short-lived climate forcers and prospects for their mitigation, a new evaluation of the Arctic carbon cycle, and new initiatives to improve understanding of the cryosphere and the ability to model climate changes and impacts at the regional scale. The report does not co ...
... review of the significance of short-lived climate forcers and prospects for their mitigation, a new evaluation of the Arctic carbon cycle, and new initiatives to improve understanding of the cryosphere and the ability to model climate changes and impacts at the regional scale. The report does not co ...
Great Barrier Reef - Garnaut Climate Change Review
... The Great Barrier Reef has been affected by coral bleaching as a result of heat stress six times over the past 25 years. Recent episodes on the Great Barrier Reef have been the most intense and widespread. In 1998, the Great Barrier Reef experienced what was considered at the time as its worst case ...
... The Great Barrier Reef has been affected by coral bleaching as a result of heat stress six times over the past 25 years. Recent episodes on the Great Barrier Reef have been the most intense and widespread. In 1998, the Great Barrier Reef experienced what was considered at the time as its worst case ...
Scenario Planning for Solar Radiation Management
... kind of insurance policy in case mitigation efforts prove inadequate or the climate system starts exhibiting signs of severe instability. However, SRM is often seen—both by those who support research and those who oppose it—as laden with physical and political risks and uncertainties. While SRM is e ...
... kind of insurance policy in case mitigation efforts prove inadequate or the climate system starts exhibiting signs of severe instability. However, SRM is often seen—both by those who support research and those who oppose it—as laden with physical and political risks and uncertainties. While SRM is e ...
Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change
... contributing to the rise in sea levels. In the Arctic, in particular, over the last 100 years, temperatures have been increasing at almost twice the global average rate. For most of Canada, this translates into temperature increases both on a seasonal basis, with winters warming more than summers, a ...
... contributing to the rise in sea levels. In the Arctic, in particular, over the last 100 years, temperatures have been increasing at almost twice the global average rate. For most of Canada, this translates into temperature increases both on a seasonal basis, with winters warming more than summers, a ...
teaching manual - Live and Learn
... the burning of fossil fuels releases approximately 7 Gt carbon into the atmosphere annually. The total carbon in reserve is approximately 2000 Gt in land biota, soil, and detritus, 730 Gt in the atmosphere and 38,000 Gt in the oceans (IPCC, 2001). On long-time scales, atmospheric CO2 concentration i ...
... the burning of fossil fuels releases approximately 7 Gt carbon into the atmosphere annually. The total carbon in reserve is approximately 2000 Gt in land biota, soil, and detritus, 730 Gt in the atmosphere and 38,000 Gt in the oceans (IPCC, 2001). On long-time scales, atmospheric CO2 concentration i ...
The Economic Climate: Establishing Expert Consensus on the
... deviation of 3%. Essentially, results from Weitzman (2001) support the argument that the choice of expert group does not matter if an effort to achieve of a balance of views is made. These results are similar to Schauer (1995) – a previously discussed small-sample survey of economists. As part of th ...
... deviation of 3%. Essentially, results from Weitzman (2001) support the argument that the choice of expert group does not matter if an effort to achieve of a balance of views is made. These results are similar to Schauer (1995) – a previously discussed small-sample survey of economists. As part of th ...
Full-Text PDF
... Many researchers have conducted studies on NDVI trends of different ecosystems and their relationships to climate change at various scales, such as the global scale [4,25–30], high northern latitudes [10,31], North America [7,17], the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region [32], the African continent [33,34] a ...
... Many researchers have conducted studies on NDVI trends of different ecosystems and their relationships to climate change at various scales, such as the global scale [4,25–30], high northern latitudes [10,31], North America [7,17], the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region [32], the African continent [33,34] a ...
Analyzing precipitationsheds to understand the vulnerability of
... precipitation, in a geographically separate region. An important distinction is that precipitationshed boundaries are not deterministic (as with a watershed) but probabilistic. In other words, they do not have fixed and deterministic boundaries, but depend rather on a threshold of contribution, on t ...
... precipitation, in a geographically separate region. An important distinction is that precipitationshed boundaries are not deterministic (as with a watershed) but probabilistic. In other words, they do not have fixed and deterministic boundaries, but depend rather on a threshold of contribution, on t ...
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.