SpecieS and climate change
... small, if rapidly closing, window of opportunity to address climate change. It has also been suggested that corals may be able to adapt to climate change by gradually evolving greater tolerance to higher oxygen levels in their tissues and hence to higher temperatures. In general, however, such adapt ...
... small, if rapidly closing, window of opportunity to address climate change. It has also been suggested that corals may be able to adapt to climate change by gradually evolving greater tolerance to higher oxygen levels in their tissues and hence to higher temperatures. In general, however, such adapt ...
Report of the Working Group on Climate Change
... likely to be faced with extreme conditions in future as a result of climate change. There are many climatic factors affecting agro-ecosystems and thereby influencing crop yield in different magnitudes. Climate change and variability threatens to increase the frequency and the intensity of these fact ...
... likely to be faced with extreme conditions in future as a result of climate change. There are many climatic factors affecting agro-ecosystems and thereby influencing crop yield in different magnitudes. Climate change and variability threatens to increase the frequency and the intensity of these fact ...
The evolution of, and revolution in, land surface schemes designed
... model experiments, that the land surface is of central importance. This paper then reviews the development of land surface models designed for climate models from the early, very simple models through to recent efforts, which include a coupling of biophysical processes to represent carbon exchange. ...
... model experiments, that the land surface is of central importance. This paper then reviews the development of land surface models designed for climate models from the early, very simple models through to recent efforts, which include a coupling of biophysical processes to represent carbon exchange. ...
6 Climate change and urban transportation systems
... transported, the mode of transportation, and by its regulation and other institutional dimensions. Regarding what is being transported, the three subsectors in transportation – moving passengers, freight, or information – make different demands on transportation systems. Impacts on greenhouse gas em ...
... transported, the mode of transportation, and by its regulation and other institutional dimensions. Regarding what is being transported, the three subsectors in transportation – moving passengers, freight, or information – make different demands on transportation systems. Impacts on greenhouse gas em ...
The Global Climate Observing System Programme The Global
... ... in perspective and communication between development and climate community ... in evidence of impact of climate variability (cv) and climate change (cc) on MDG-related outcomes ... in evidence of utility of climate information to reduce impact of negative (and enhance positive) impact of cv and ...
... ... in perspective and communication between development and climate community ... in evidence of impact of climate variability (cv) and climate change (cc) on MDG-related outcomes ... in evidence of utility of climate information to reduce impact of negative (and enhance positive) impact of cv and ...
MNP Report 500116002/2007 Local air pollution and global climate
... Two major interrelated environmental policy problems of today, each with significant transboundary aspects, are global climate change (GCC) and local air pollution (LAP). Both are extensively discussed in the international political arena: the first, notably, in the United Nations Framework Conventi ...
... Two major interrelated environmental policy problems of today, each with significant transboundary aspects, are global climate change (GCC) and local air pollution (LAP). Both are extensively discussed in the international political arena: the first, notably, in the United Nations Framework Conventi ...
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... Climatic Data Center (NCDC) United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN), Version 2 (Menne et al., 2009). The 10th percentile, 25th percentile, 75th percentile, and 90th percentile values from model-based outcomes across the GCMs and Representative Concentration Pathways are shown. Decimal p ...
... Climatic Data Center (NCDC) United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN), Version 2 (Menne et al., 2009). The 10th percentile, 25th percentile, 75th percentile, and 90th percentile values from model-based outcomes across the GCMs and Representative Concentration Pathways are shown. Decimal p ...
V. Objectives of the Inter-Regional Technical Support Component
... financing options to sustain scaled-up adaptation remains a constraint; and (v) it is difficult for countries to learn from each other about their experiences with different approaches to adaptation. Under its $92 million programme “Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Chang ...
... financing options to sustain scaled-up adaptation remains a constraint; and (v) it is difficult for countries to learn from each other about their experiences with different approaches to adaptation. Under its $92 million programme “Supporting Integrated and Comprehensive Approaches to Climate Chang ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Houston
... Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) State of the Climate Report and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Surface Temperature Analysis indicate that the average atmospheric temperature has increased by about 1.2 – 1.4ºF (equivalent to 0.77 degrees Celsius) since 1900 ...
... Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) State of the Climate Report and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Surface Temperature Analysis indicate that the average atmospheric temperature has increased by about 1.2 – 1.4ºF (equivalent to 0.77 degrees Celsius) since 1900 ...
An independent and combined effect analysis of land use and
... change between two different land use categories. Subsequently, the allocation of the land use was based on a multi-objective land distribution. The semi-distributed hydrological model called the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was used for simulating streamflow. The analysis was done to assess ...
... change between two different land use categories. Subsequently, the allocation of the land use was based on a multi-objective land distribution. The semi-distributed hydrological model called the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) was used for simulating streamflow. The analysis was done to assess ...
KidsCall-Climate Change
... http://www.pik-potsdam.de/infodesk/climatechange-knowledge-in-a-nutshell ...
... http://www.pik-potsdam.de/infodesk/climatechange-knowledge-in-a-nutshell ...
Vulnerability, Environmental Security, and Adaptation Awareness in
... Aside from sea level rise, fluctuating temperature and precipitation rates also present examples of climate change dangerous for Samoa. Looking initially at general trends across the Pacific, the catalyzed greenhouse effects project a warming “between 0.6 and 3.5ºC in this century” (Hay, 2003). Whil ...
... Aside from sea level rise, fluctuating temperature and precipitation rates also present examples of climate change dangerous for Samoa. Looking initially at general trends across the Pacific, the catalyzed greenhouse effects project a warming “between 0.6 and 3.5ºC in this century” (Hay, 2003). Whil ...
Climate regulation in New Zealand: contribution of natural and
... for agriculture. However, carbon stocks are also at risk of being lost through degradation of natural ecosystems, and this requires active management and mitigation strategies. Key words: albedo, carbon, greenhouse gas inventory, managed ecosystems, national scale, natural ecosystems, managed ecosys ...
... for agriculture. However, carbon stocks are also at risk of being lost through degradation of natural ecosystems, and this requires active management and mitigation strategies. Key words: albedo, carbon, greenhouse gas inventory, managed ecosystems, national scale, natural ecosystems, managed ecosys ...
Chapter 14: Climate Phenomena and their Relevance for Future
... throughout the 21st c. will be the largest among all monsoons. There is low confidence in projections of changes in precipitation amounts for the NAMS and SAMS, but medium confidence that the NAMS will arrive and persist later in the annual cycle, and high confidence in expansion of the SAMS area. T ...
... throughout the 21st c. will be the largest among all monsoons. There is low confidence in projections of changes in precipitation amounts for the NAMS and SAMS, but medium confidence that the NAMS will arrive and persist later in the annual cycle, and high confidence in expansion of the SAMS area. T ...
Education sector responses to climate change - UNESDOC
... political and ethical choices as well as technical innovation. The world is changing rapidly – economically, ecologically, technologically, culturally; in terms of population, international relations, social structures, etc. These changes result in increased tension between development and sustainab ...
... political and ethical choices as well as technical innovation. The world is changing rapidly – economically, ecologically, technologically, culturally; in terms of population, international relations, social structures, etc. These changes result in increased tension between development and sustainab ...
CBDAMPIC
... Climate change does not only affect a government but its people and their physical environment. It has now emerged as one of the most urgent, critical and contemporary societal issues of global concern. Most countries are already experiencing disruptive changes consistent with many of the anticipate ...
... Climate change does not only affect a government but its people and their physical environment. It has now emerged as one of the most urgent, critical and contemporary societal issues of global concern. Most countries are already experiencing disruptive changes consistent with many of the anticipate ...
Black carbon aerosols and the third polar ice cap
... simulations that include the snow/ice albedo (SA) change due to black carbon (BC) deposition on snow/ice surfaces (D+I+SA). (4) To evaluate the influence of sea-surface temperature (SST) changes on snow/ice cover, we include SSTs averaged for 1993–2002 for Year 2000 aerosol emissions instead of the ...
... simulations that include the snow/ice albedo (SA) change due to black carbon (BC) deposition on snow/ice surfaces (D+I+SA). (4) To evaluate the influence of sea-surface temperature (SST) changes on snow/ice cover, we include SSTs averaged for 1993–2002 for Year 2000 aerosol emissions instead of the ...
water - Evian
... for combating climate change, by helping to limit its effects, especially thanks to wetlands and their properties. In fact, wetlands can capture more carbon than any other ecosystem on earth, and therefore play a key role in maintaining the water cycle and biodiversity. They also slow the deteriorat ...
... for combating climate change, by helping to limit its effects, especially thanks to wetlands and their properties. In fact, wetlands can capture more carbon than any other ecosystem on earth, and therefore play a key role in maintaining the water cycle and biodiversity. They also slow the deteriorat ...
Deliverable 2F3 Full Costs of Climate Change WP 2F
... 2. Background: Role of ecosystems and forests for the human welfare Ecosystems directly and indirectly provide various goods and services to humans; these range from regulating services such as climate regulation to food and fresh water provisioning and recreative values. A first attempt to assess ...
... 2. Background: Role of ecosystems and forests for the human welfare Ecosystems directly and indirectly provide various goods and services to humans; these range from regulating services such as climate regulation to food and fresh water provisioning and recreative values. A first attempt to assess ...
Chapter 1: Introduction - Committee on Climate Change
... Implications of the vote to leave the European Union This chapter was written before the results of the EU Referendum were known. Leaving the European Union is unlikely to change the overall scale of current and future risks from climate change, but in some areas it may affect policies and programme ...
... Implications of the vote to leave the European Union This chapter was written before the results of the EU Referendum were known. Leaving the European Union is unlikely to change the overall scale of current and future risks from climate change, but in some areas it may affect policies and programme ...
Co-management institutions, knowledge, and learning: Adapting to
... Institutions are important in this regard because they are pathways for knowledge development and social learning that can help reduce vulnerability, build resilience, and increase adaptive capacity (Armitage et al. 2009). Co-management institutions developing since the 1980s have the potential to c ...
... Institutions are important in this regard because they are pathways for knowledge development and social learning that can help reduce vulnerability, build resilience, and increase adaptive capacity (Armitage et al. 2009). Co-management institutions developing since the 1980s have the potential to c ...
Chapter 3: Natural Resources - Ressources naturelles Canada
... examples of processes that can help advance adaptation actions in future. These processes allow governments, investors and the public to evaluate industry understanding of changing climate risks and influence the steps taken to address those risks. While awareness of climate change impacts and imple ...
... examples of processes that can help advance adaptation actions in future. These processes allow governments, investors and the public to evaluate industry understanding of changing climate risks and influence the steps taken to address those risks. While awareness of climate change impacts and imple ...
STRIVE Elucidating the Impact of Report Series No.52
... in this publication, complete accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Neither the Environmental Protection Agency nor the authors accept any responsibility whatsoever for loss or damage occasioned or claimed to have been occasioned, in part or in full, as a consequence of any person acting, or refraining fro ...
... in this publication, complete accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Neither the Environmental Protection Agency nor the authors accept any responsibility whatsoever for loss or damage occasioned or claimed to have been occasioned, in part or in full, as a consequence of any person acting, or refraining fro ...
Paleoclimate Implications for Human-Made Climate Change
... Rates of outgassing and burial of CO2 are each typically 1012-1013 mol C/year (Staudigel et al., 1989; Edmond and Huh, 2003; Berner, 2004). The imbalance between outgassing and burial is limited by negative feedbacks in the geochemical carbon cycle (Berner and Caldeira, 1997), but a net natural imba ...
... Rates of outgassing and burial of CO2 are each typically 1012-1013 mol C/year (Staudigel et al., 1989; Edmond and Huh, 2003; Berner, 2004). The imbalance between outgassing and burial is limited by negative feedbacks in the geochemical carbon cycle (Berner and Caldeira, 1997), but a net natural imba ...