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... algorithm was run using statistical initialization starting with between eight and twelve classes. In all cases only six classes of events, with a minimum of five members, were produced by the algorithm. That is, the algorithm found it necessary to merge classes due to their similarity until only si ...
... algorithm was run using statistical initialization starting with between eight and twelve classes. In all cases only six classes of events, with a minimum of five members, were produced by the algorithm. That is, the algorithm found it necessary to merge classes due to their similarity until only si ...
Hawaii`s Changing Climate - School of Ocean and Earth Science
... Rainfall and Stream Discharge Perhaps nothing is as critical to life in the islands as rain, and in Hawai‘i there are two principal delivery systems: trade winds, and Kona storms. Cloud formation by trade winds is the most reliable and abundant source of water to the aquifers we rely upon. Although ...
... Rainfall and Stream Discharge Perhaps nothing is as critical to life in the islands as rain, and in Hawai‘i there are two principal delivery systems: trade winds, and Kona storms. Cloud formation by trade winds is the most reliable and abundant source of water to the aquifers we rely upon. Although ...
Protection and Planned Relocations in the Context of
... Climate change is expected to lead to increased human mobility in the forms of migration, displacement and planned relocation of communities as areas become uninhabitable because of the effects of global warming. While considerable attention has been directed toward the first two categories – partic ...
... Climate change is expected to lead to increased human mobility in the forms of migration, displacement and planned relocation of communities as areas become uninhabitable because of the effects of global warming. While considerable attention has been directed toward the first two categories – partic ...
How Climate Science Became a Victim of the Cold War
... Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University Press. ...
... Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University Press. ...
Sára Hrabovszky-Horváth The climate strategy aspects of the energy
... Climate change is one of the greatest challenges in our times and the built environment has both an active and a passive role in this. Its energy consumption – and thus the emission of greenhouse gasses – is partially responsible for climate change, while at the same time it is exposed to its effect ...
... Climate change is one of the greatest challenges in our times and the built environment has both an active and a passive role in this. Its energy consumption – and thus the emission of greenhouse gasses – is partially responsible for climate change, while at the same time it is exposed to its effect ...
AFGHANISTAN: CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE PERSPECTIVES
... scenario with limited Green House Gas (GHG) emissions (RCP 4.5) is projected to lead, with high certainty, to strong warming. Climate change projections for Afghanistan also show a temperature increase of around 1.4°C until 2050 and stabilization at the end of the century at around 2.6°C. Under a “p ...
... scenario with limited Green House Gas (GHG) emissions (RCP 4.5) is projected to lead, with high certainty, to strong warming. Climate change projections for Afghanistan also show a temperature increase of around 1.4°C until 2050 and stabilization at the end of the century at around 2.6°C. Under a “p ...
Climate Change and Conflict in the Southern Philippines
... to take advantage of opportunities, or to cope with consequences” as the system’s “adaptive capacity.”11 It is in the developing world, where vulnerability is often high, adaptive capacity regularly low, and livelihoods frequently closely tied to natural resources where climate change has the most a ...
... to take advantage of opportunities, or to cope with consequences” as the system’s “adaptive capacity.”11 It is in the developing world, where vulnerability is often high, adaptive capacity regularly low, and livelihoods frequently closely tied to natural resources where climate change has the most a ...
Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics and Climate
... feasible, but can only be realized by an operational predictive system incorporating coupled biophysical models and judicious injection of standard monitoring data via data assimilation. Near-term predictive capacity is a prerequisite to predicting the long-term effects of global climate change. U.S ...
... feasible, but can only be realized by an operational predictive system incorporating coupled biophysical models and judicious injection of standard monitoring data via data assimilation. Near-term predictive capacity is a prerequisite to predicting the long-term effects of global climate change. U.S ...
Task 4.2 Calculation of metrics - Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre
... Task 3.2 Simulations for idealised forcing perturbations ........................................................... 12 Task 3.3 Simulations for realistic forcings ................................................................................. 15 WP 4 Existing metrics ............................. ...
... Task 3.2 Simulations for idealised forcing perturbations ........................................................... 12 Task 3.3 Simulations for realistic forcings ................................................................................. 15 WP 4 Existing metrics ............................. ...
Divestment and Stranded Assets in the Low
... underlying macro-economic trends, as well as the uncertain response of financial markets once the transition is engaged. Recognising this risk, a range of individuals and investors has begun divesting assets in fossil fuel activities. Other stakeholders have been motivated by the observation that if ...
... underlying macro-economic trends, as well as the uncertain response of financial markets once the transition is engaged. Recognising this risk, a range of individuals and investors has begun divesting assets in fossil fuel activities. Other stakeholders have been motivated by the observation that if ...
Carbon Cycling, Climate Regulation, and Disturbances in Canadian
... the ecosystems goods and services they provide, and discuss the role played by logging, fire, and insect outbreaks. In the third section, we discuss five principles that reflect the most important aspects of our current understanding of carbon cycling, climate regulation, and disturbances in CMF. In ...
... the ecosystems goods and services they provide, and discuss the role played by logging, fire, and insect outbreaks. In the third section, we discuss five principles that reflect the most important aspects of our current understanding of carbon cycling, climate regulation, and disturbances in CMF. In ...
2. Reconciling adaptation and migration
... Climate migration is increasingly identified as one of the major challenges resulting from climate change,2 while its scope is only very roughly estimated between 50 million and 1 billion climate migrants by 2050.3 Climate migration results in particular from a rise of the sea level threatening low ...
... Climate migration is increasingly identified as one of the major challenges resulting from climate change,2 while its scope is only very roughly estimated between 50 million and 1 billion climate migrants by 2050.3 Climate migration results in particular from a rise of the sea level threatening low ...
Insights from the ocean carbon cycle
... In the last 1000 years the global climate system underwent substantial changes [e.g., Lehner et al., 2013], and the current anthropogenic warming is projected to continue [e.g., Stocker et al., 2013]. These climatic changes might have the potential to substantially affect modes of natural variability ...
... In the last 1000 years the global climate system underwent substantial changes [e.g., Lehner et al., 2013], and the current anthropogenic warming is projected to continue [e.g., Stocker et al., 2013]. These climatic changes might have the potential to substantially affect modes of natural variability ...
Strengthening Sovereignty
... reason and plentiful opportunity for preventative, collaborative solutions focused broadly on adaptation to climate change, most particularly the effects of “ecomigration”. Nations must work together across the whole of government and with all instruments of national power to create conditions for h ...
... reason and plentiful opportunity for preventative, collaborative solutions focused broadly on adaptation to climate change, most particularly the effects of “ecomigration”. Nations must work together across the whole of government and with all instruments of national power to create conditions for h ...
An Agent Based Model of Climate Change and Conflict
... and increase the fertility of these parcels through their efforts. In this model, we assume that farmers are engaged in sedentary subsistence agricultural production and can produce enough food to meet the need of their family from their parcel land. What is important to this behavior is that farmer ...
... and increase the fertility of these parcels through their efforts. In this model, we assume that farmers are engaged in sedentary subsistence agricultural production and can produce enough food to meet the need of their family from their parcel land. What is important to this behavior is that farmer ...
Migration as a sustainable adaptation strategy
... Climate migration is increasingly identified as one of the major challenges resulting from climate change,2 while its scope is only very roughly estimated between 50 million and 1 billion climate migrants by 2050.3 Climate migration results in particular from a rise of the sea level threatening low ...
... Climate migration is increasingly identified as one of the major challenges resulting from climate change,2 while its scope is only very roughly estimated between 50 million and 1 billion climate migrants by 2050.3 Climate migration results in particular from a rise of the sea level threatening low ...
Why Physical Geography matters - School of Geography and the
... 8 reasons why desert dust is very important and why we need to know more about it A critical part of the linked land‐sea‐air global system ...
... 8 reasons why desert dust is very important and why we need to know more about it A critical part of the linked land‐sea‐air global system ...
Peatland Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
... Aletta Bonn & Clifton Bain IUCN UK Peatland Programme ...
... Aletta Bonn & Clifton Bain IUCN UK Peatland Programme ...
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... from a wide range of disturbances, and for retention of its ecological resiliency, while meeting the current and future needs of people for desired levels of values, uses, products, and services [21]. Pramova and Locatelli [14] state that to reduce the risks of climate change on forest ecosystems, i ...
... from a wide range of disturbances, and for retention of its ecological resiliency, while meeting the current and future needs of people for desired levels of values, uses, products, and services [21]. Pramova and Locatelli [14] state that to reduce the risks of climate change on forest ecosystems, i ...
Money Talks
... In the context of significant progress that still amounts to inadequate achievement, the importance of the distinction between reducing emissions, and reducing emissions enough, quickly enough, can hardly be overstated.6 The essence of the climate challenge appears to have subtly shifted in the last ...
... In the context of significant progress that still amounts to inadequate achievement, the importance of the distinction between reducing emissions, and reducing emissions enough, quickly enough, can hardly be overstated.6 The essence of the climate challenge appears to have subtly shifted in the last ...
Farmers` Risk Perception towards Climate Change: A Case of the
... other [1] and outcomes from this interaction are important for both sides in terms of sustainability. Global warming and climate change are occupying the world’s agenda as important problems. Many areas of the world experience variability as a part of their normal climate over both short and long pe ...
... other [1] and outcomes from this interaction are important for both sides in terms of sustainability. Global warming and climate change are occupying the world’s agenda as important problems. Many areas of the world experience variability as a part of their normal climate over both short and long pe ...
