Winter 2016
... was more interested and actively engaged in every presentation and group discussion,” Petrik said. “I was astonished by how pervasive trait-based approaches were in lab, field, and modeling studies from viruses all the way up to fishes. Workshops like this one will no doubt lead to highly collaborat ...
... was more interested and actively engaged in every presentation and group discussion,” Petrik said. “I was astonished by how pervasive trait-based approaches were in lab, field, and modeling studies from viruses all the way up to fishes. Workshops like this one will no doubt lead to highly collaborat ...
Climate Impact Research in the BSR: State of the Art
... are new body bags, 10,000 in all. If a big, slow-moving hurricane crossed the Gulf of Mexico on the right track, it would drive a sea surge that would drown New Orleans under twenty feet of water. "As the water recedes", says Walter Maestri, a local emergency management director, "we expect to find ...
... are new body bags, 10,000 in all. If a big, slow-moving hurricane crossed the Gulf of Mexico on the right track, it would drive a sea surge that would drown New Orleans under twenty feet of water. "As the water recedes", says Walter Maestri, a local emergency management director, "we expect to find ...
Quaternary climate changes explain diversity among reptiles and
... variants) and historic climatic stability. Variation due to historic climate stability was seen to be greater than variation explained due to factors associated with contemporary climate, despite important shared variance between the two components (Table 2). This was true both for partial regressio ...
... variants) and historic climatic stability. Variation due to historic climate stability was seen to be greater than variation explained due to factors associated with contemporary climate, despite important shared variance between the two components (Table 2). This was true both for partial regressio ...
Public health and climate change in the Republic of Kiribati
... talked on many topics, ranging from the nation’s states of health, economy and human rights to the nation’s precarious position in a globalizing world. The country had long been experiencing new weather patterns and higher tides by the time the nation had gained UN membership. He briefly touched upo ...
... talked on many topics, ranging from the nation’s states of health, economy and human rights to the nation’s precarious position in a globalizing world. The country had long been experiencing new weather patterns and higher tides by the time the nation had gained UN membership. He briefly touched upo ...
Federal Decision-Making on the Uncertain Impacts of Climate Change
... associated with the information currently available for decisions that can have either minor or significant climate implications. The paper draws a clear distinction between policies with incremental climate effects and those with larger impacts that are designed to manage climate change. The pap ...
... associated with the information currently available for decisions that can have either minor or significant climate implications. The paper draws a clear distinction between policies with incremental climate effects and those with larger impacts that are designed to manage climate change. The pap ...
StudyQuestions4
... overuse and diversion of surface water supplies? Explain using examples. 9.What is desalination? Why do people use this option even though it is relatively costly? Can desalination have any negative environmental effects? 10. What can be done to reduce our consumption of water resources? How can was ...
... overuse and diversion of surface water supplies? Explain using examples. 9.What is desalination? Why do people use this option even though it is relatively costly? Can desalination have any negative environmental effects? 10. What can be done to reduce our consumption of water resources? How can was ...
Water Quality and Quantity, Climate Change and Public Health
... Winter temperatures have been rising about twice as fast as annual average temperatures Minimum or 'overnight low' temperatures have been rising faster than the maximum temperature, or ‘daytime high’ Since the early 1980s, the temperature has risen slightly over 1°F in southern Minnesota to a ...
... Winter temperatures have been rising about twice as fast as annual average temperatures Minimum or 'overnight low' temperatures have been rising faster than the maximum temperature, or ‘daytime high’ Since the early 1980s, the temperature has risen slightly over 1°F in southern Minnesota to a ...
River Floods - ClimateCost
... regional climate models. There is a wide range of future drivers and emissions paths associated with the scenarios. Thus, the degree of climate change varies significantly, which has a major effect on the results. The ClimateCost study focused on two scenarios. The first is the SRES A1B scenario. Th ...
... regional climate models. There is a wide range of future drivers and emissions paths associated with the scenarios. Thus, the degree of climate change varies significantly, which has a major effect on the results. The ClimateCost study focused on two scenarios. The first is the SRES A1B scenario. Th ...
international, national, and state responses to climate change
... Successfully addressing global climate change presents a profound long-term challenge for governments, businesses, and society at large. Unlike other types of air pollutants which have primarily local or regional effects, greenhouse gas emissions contribute to a problem that is global in nature. Man ...
... Successfully addressing global climate change presents a profound long-term challenge for governments, businesses, and society at large. Unlike other types of air pollutants which have primarily local or regional effects, greenhouse gas emissions contribute to a problem that is global in nature. Man ...
LCCARL263_en.pdf
... changes in climate would eventually lead to a loss in welfare, and that that loss would be disproportionately spread across the various regions of the world. Temperature is considered to be the most important climate variable in the analysis of tourism demand because, outside a certain range, it aff ...
... changes in climate would eventually lead to a loss in welfare, and that that loss would be disproportionately spread across the various regions of the world. Temperature is considered to be the most important climate variable in the analysis of tourism demand because, outside a certain range, it aff ...
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... Since 1900, hurricanes and tropical storms (tropical cyclones) making landfall in the United States (U.S.) have resulted in over a trillion dollars in economic damage, adjusted to 2005 levels of inflation, wealth, and population distribution (Pielke et al. 2008). These natural disasters clearly have ...
... Since 1900, hurricanes and tropical storms (tropical cyclones) making landfall in the United States (U.S.) have resulted in over a trillion dollars in economic damage, adjusted to 2005 levels of inflation, wealth, and population distribution (Pielke et al. 2008). These natural disasters clearly have ...
Mega-Stress for Mega-Cities
... many of them see a rapid growth trend. Taken together, all cities and urban areas worldwide use 75% of the world’s energy and are responsible for 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Without major breakthroughs on energy efficiency and emission reductions in cities, we will fail to avoid dangerou ...
... many of them see a rapid growth trend. Taken together, all cities and urban areas worldwide use 75% of the world’s energy and are responsible for 75% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Without major breakthroughs on energy efficiency and emission reductions in cities, we will fail to avoid dangerou ...
Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change for the
... Urbanization will likely continue to convert forest and agricultural land,while continued movement of land from a griculture to forest is also expected. Under more extreme climate scenarios,land reallocation could possibly be more dramatic as the productivity of land-based activities such as forestr ...
... Urbanization will likely continue to convert forest and agricultural land,while continued movement of land from a griculture to forest is also expected. Under more extreme climate scenarios,land reallocation could possibly be more dramatic as the productivity of land-based activities such as forestr ...
Climate Change and Forests in the Great Plains
... not only higher than elsewhere but also fluctuate annually. Criteria for a model of Great P1ains fore .. ts. The spatial heterogeneity and locally variable water availability inherent in Great Plains landscapes impose a number of requirements on models of climate-influenced forest dynamics: Spatiall ...
... not only higher than elsewhere but also fluctuate annually. Criteria for a model of Great P1ains fore .. ts. The spatial heterogeneity and locally variable water availability inherent in Great Plains landscapes impose a number of requirements on models of climate-influenced forest dynamics: Spatiall ...
Climate Change: Overview and Implications for Wildlife
... Research in the field and in laboratories provides an understanding about various processes affecting the subcomponents of the Earth system. This understanding can be put into mathematical expressions, which, when combined, form a model of the behavior of particular components of the Earth system. I ...
... Research in the field and in laboratories provides an understanding about various processes affecting the subcomponents of the Earth system. This understanding can be put into mathematical expressions, which, when combined, form a model of the behavior of particular components of the Earth system. I ...
Vulnerability and climate change hotspots in Africa
... climate. The rainfall is highly variable in space. The coefficient of variation of rainfall is mapped in this paper and it revealed that rainfall variability is large in drought prone areas of the continent. The African rainfall is dominated by inter-annual and decadal variability for the past; howe ...
... climate. The rainfall is highly variable in space. The coefficient of variation of rainfall is mapped in this paper and it revealed that rainfall variability is large in drought prone areas of the continent. The African rainfall is dominated by inter-annual and decadal variability for the past; howe ...
Mitigation - European Capacity Building Initiative
... The reactions from most of the Annex I countries include: the need to make progress on technical issues in order to guarantee the environmental integrity of the outcome in Cancun and as it is a common concern, there is a need to have synergies between the two AWGs improve understanding and incre ...
... The reactions from most of the Annex I countries include: the need to make progress on technical issues in order to guarantee the environmental integrity of the outcome in Cancun and as it is a common concern, there is a need to have synergies between the two AWGs improve understanding and incre ...
Supply-side climate policy: the road less taken
... The emissions accounting frameworks used by nations, sub-national entities, and institutions are almost exclusively territorial and demand-based, drawing largely from the methods established in the UNFCCC. In general, countries track only the greenhouse gases emitted within their territorial boundar ...
... The emissions accounting frameworks used by nations, sub-national entities, and institutions are almost exclusively territorial and demand-based, drawing largely from the methods established in the UNFCCC. In general, countries track only the greenhouse gases emitted within their territorial boundar ...
Monitoring Chemical Climate Change in America
... SO4/NH4/NH3/NO3/HNO3 Inorganic SO4 has low volatility & reacts readily with NH3 to form stable salts • (NH4)2SO4 : NH4/SO4 = 1.00 • (NH4)3H(SO4)2 : NH4/SO4 = 0.75 • (NH4)HSO4 : NH4/SO4 = 0.50 • H2SO4 : NH4/SO4 = 0.00 Ammonia-rich environment: NH4/SO4>1.00 (Seinfeld, Saxena,Tanner,etal.) ...
... SO4/NH4/NH3/NO3/HNO3 Inorganic SO4 has low volatility & reacts readily with NH3 to form stable salts • (NH4)2SO4 : NH4/SO4 = 1.00 • (NH4)3H(SO4)2 : NH4/SO4 = 0.75 • (NH4)HSO4 : NH4/SO4 = 0.50 • H2SO4 : NH4/SO4 = 0.00 Ammonia-rich environment: NH4/SO4>1.00 (Seinfeld, Saxena,Tanner,etal.) ...
Assessing knowledge of social representations of climate change
... The importance of tourism in the world economy, and the undeniable links which exist between tourism and atmospheric elements, suggest that climate change should be considered in all its aspects [3]. Accordingly, it is worth noting that weather and climate are important elements of many of the touri ...
... The importance of tourism in the world economy, and the undeniable links which exist between tourism and atmospheric elements, suggest that climate change should be considered in all its aspects [3]. Accordingly, it is worth noting that weather and climate are important elements of many of the touri ...
INTEGRATING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION INTO
... carbon emissions to significant reductions over the remainder of the twenty-first century. AR5 then assesses probability of outcomes for specific factors (such as temperature or sea level) related to these carbon emission scenarios. Annex II to the Working Group 1 report provides regional projection ...
... carbon emissions to significant reductions over the remainder of the twenty-first century. AR5 then assesses probability of outcomes for specific factors (such as temperature or sea level) related to these carbon emission scenarios. Annex II to the Working Group 1 report provides regional projection ...
Protected area needs in a changing climate
... protea plant family of the Cape Floristic Province. Araújo et al. (2004) explored effects of climate change sure for investigating whether protected areas are an effec- on plants in Europe, also using GAM. These studies have tive conservation response to climate change. If all species indicated larg ...
... protea plant family of the Cape Floristic Province. Araújo et al. (2004) explored effects of climate change sure for investigating whether protected areas are an effec- on plants in Europe, also using GAM. These studies have tive conservation response to climate change. If all species indicated larg ...
1. Climate Change and Insect Pest Distribution Range, Andrea
... studies reporting the outcomes of modelling attempts, most often in the form of species distribution models (also referred to as envelope models), with the primary aim of predicting future changes in species ranges but with little or no evidence of actual range change occurring. One could perhaps ar ...
... studies reporting the outcomes of modelling attempts, most often in the form of species distribution models (also referred to as envelope models), with the primary aim of predicting future changes in species ranges but with little or no evidence of actual range change occurring. One could perhaps ar ...