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... sensitivity of the UMRB using the SWAT model. They focused on streamflow only and used climate projections by seven global climate models. Their results indicated that the UMRB hydrology, as simulated by SWAT, is very sensitive to climate disturbance. Similar efforts on climate change assessment in ...
... sensitivity of the UMRB using the SWAT model. They focused on streamflow only and used climate projections by seven global climate models. Their results indicated that the UMRB hydrology, as simulated by SWAT, is very sensitive to climate disturbance. Similar efforts on climate change assessment in ...
Trace Gases and Their Effects
... from research and new developments in efficient ways to produce clean energy. Although there are parts of the scientific community that underestimate the factor of human-caused climate change, we believe it is making a severe impact on the earth. The human race will have to adapt to mitigate this im ...
... from research and new developments in efficient ways to produce clean energy. Although there are parts of the scientific community that underestimate the factor of human-caused climate change, we believe it is making a severe impact on the earth. The human race will have to adapt to mitigate this im ...
Anthropocene changes in desert area
... for the sensitivity of the results to the general circulation model used for the climate predictions. [3] Carbon dioxide fertilization of arid plants is a potentially important mechanism for changing the size of desert dust source regions [e.g., Mahowald et al., 1999]. Atmospheric carbon dioxide con ...
... for the sensitivity of the results to the general circulation model used for the climate predictions. [3] Carbon dioxide fertilization of arid plants is a potentially important mechanism for changing the size of desert dust source regions [e.g., Mahowald et al., 1999]. Atmospheric carbon dioxide con ...
Sensitivity of Crop Water Need to 2071–95
... As society begins to adapt to, plan for, and mitigate the impacts of climate change, it is clear that human activities linked closely to ecosystems or natural resources will be severely impacted (Solomon et al. 2007). Of particular concern for many developing regions is the impact of climate change ...
... As society begins to adapt to, plan for, and mitigate the impacts of climate change, it is clear that human activities linked closely to ecosystems or natural resources will be severely impacted (Solomon et al. 2007). Of particular concern for many developing regions is the impact of climate change ...
Unit Roots in the Climate: Is the Recent Warming Due to Persistent
... In recent years, scientists have become increasingly certain that the rise in global mean temperature is due in part to rising concentrations of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). Evidence has come from two directions, observation of the climate and greenhouse gas concentrations (detection of the climate cha ...
... In recent years, scientists have become increasingly certain that the rise in global mean temperature is due in part to rising concentrations of greenhouse gasses (GHGs). Evidence has come from two directions, observation of the climate and greenhouse gas concentrations (detection of the climate cha ...
Global Climate Change and Children`s Health
... Examples of the many aspects of the climate system in which changes have been formally attributed to human emissions of heat-trapping gases and particles by studies published in peer-reviewed science literature. For example, observed changes in surface air temperature at both the global and continen ...
... Examples of the many aspects of the climate system in which changes have been formally attributed to human emissions of heat-trapping gases and particles by studies published in peer-reviewed science literature. For example, observed changes in surface air temperature at both the global and continen ...
Extension Agents` Awareness of Climate Change in
... adaptation best suited for this study is given by Pielke (1998, 159) as ‘the adjustment in individual, group and institutional behaviour in order to reduce society’s vulnerabilities to climate’. Agrawal (2008) stresses that how people respond to the impacts of climate change and variability often de ...
... adaptation best suited for this study is given by Pielke (1998, 159) as ‘the adjustment in individual, group and institutional behaviour in order to reduce society’s vulnerabilities to climate’. Agrawal (2008) stresses that how people respond to the impacts of climate change and variability often de ...
Maintaining Stability
... by as much as 90 percent between 2000 and 2030 if no additional climate change mitigation policies are implemented. As a result, under “business as usual” scenarios, global temperatures could increase by as much as 1.7°C by 2050 and by up to 4.0°C by 2100. Actual emissions during recent years, howev ...
... by as much as 90 percent between 2000 and 2030 if no additional climate change mitigation policies are implemented. As a result, under “business as usual” scenarios, global temperatures could increase by as much as 1.7°C by 2050 and by up to 4.0°C by 2100. Actual emissions during recent years, howev ...
The Household Production Function Approach to Valuing Climate
... Van Praag (1998) use the responses of individuals asked to rate their happiness on a 110 scale to construct climatic equivalence scales for six Russian cities. The cost of living in Dudinka, located on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is almost two and a half times greater than the cost of living in M ...
... Van Praag (1998) use the responses of individuals asked to rate their happiness on a 110 scale to construct climatic equivalence scales for six Russian cities. The cost of living in Dudinka, located on the edge of the Arctic Circle, is almost two and a half times greater than the cost of living in M ...
Dynamics of Culture and Climate Change and their Implications on
... In this paper, we speak of culture as comprising values, beliefs, practices and material artifacts that condition the production of tangible including intangible goods and services needed for the satisfaction of a human group’s needs and wants. Certainly, we should not think of cultures as neat, hom ...
... In this paper, we speak of culture as comprising values, beliefs, practices and material artifacts that condition the production of tangible including intangible goods and services needed for the satisfaction of a human group’s needs and wants. Certainly, we should not think of cultures as neat, hom ...
Climate Change: Implementation of the
... France: +1 France has fully complied with its commitment to implement all of the provisions of the Copenhagen Accord by taking significant legislative and funding actions on both adaptation and mitigation strategies. France has implemented a verifiable system for measuring and reporting greenhouse g ...
... France: +1 France has fully complied with its commitment to implement all of the provisions of the Copenhagen Accord by taking significant legislative and funding actions on both adaptation and mitigation strategies. France has implemented a verifiable system for measuring and reporting greenhouse g ...
National Conference on Climate Change and Water Safety for
... of environmental changes wherein a lot of factors contributed to the increasing human pressure that led to increasing impact on health such as stratospheric ozone depletion, forest clearance and land cover changes, land degradation and desertification, freshwater depletion and contamination, loss an ...
... of environmental changes wherein a lot of factors contributed to the increasing human pressure that led to increasing impact on health such as stratospheric ozone depletion, forest clearance and land cover changes, land degradation and desertification, freshwater depletion and contamination, loss an ...
Greenhouse Gases and Global Warming Potential Values
... Although the Earth’s atmosphere consists mainly of oxygen and nitrogen, neither plays a significant role in enhancing the greenhouse effect because both are essentially transparent to terrestrial radiation. The greenhouse effect is primarily a function of the concentration of water vapor, carbon dio ...
... Although the Earth’s atmosphere consists mainly of oxygen and nitrogen, neither plays a significant role in enhancing the greenhouse effect because both are essentially transparent to terrestrial radiation. The greenhouse effect is primarily a function of the concentration of water vapor, carbon dio ...
Physical and ecological impacts of climate change relevant to
... river run off. Increased vertical stratification and water column stability in oceans and lakes is likely to reduce nutrient availability to the euphotic zone and thus primary and secondary production in a warmed world. However, in high latitudes the residence time of particles in the euphotic zone ...
... river run off. Increased vertical stratification and water column stability in oceans and lakes is likely to reduce nutrient availability to the euphotic zone and thus primary and secondary production in a warmed world. However, in high latitudes the residence time of particles in the euphotic zone ...
Towards a typology for constrained climate model forecasts
... [2, 62, 63], this has been referred to as the ASK (Allen-Stott-Kettleborough) approach. The crucial assumption (which is also implicit in attribution studies) is that fractional errors in model-simulated responses persist over time [2], so a model that underestimates the past response to a given for ...
... [2, 62, 63], this has been referred to as the ASK (Allen-Stott-Kettleborough) approach. The crucial assumption (which is also implicit in attribution studies) is that fractional errors in model-simulated responses persist over time [2], so a model that underestimates the past response to a given for ...
Risks from Climate Feedbacks
... global warming. A climate feedback is a change to a component of the climate system that causes a knock-on effect which further alters the original change. An amplifying feedback (also referred to as a ‘positive feedback’) increases the rate of global warming. For example, as the climate warms it ...
... global warming. A climate feedback is a change to a component of the climate system that causes a knock-on effect which further alters the original change. An amplifying feedback (also referred to as a ‘positive feedback’) increases the rate of global warming. For example, as the climate warms it ...
Consulta: creatorFacets:"Wu, Ximing" Registros recuperados: 11
... Investigation into the relations between market fundamentals and US natural gas prices is carried out in the regime-switching framework. To test the hypothesis that US natural gas market may switch between two states of market: bullish market and bearish market, a 2-state regime-switching model with ...
... Investigation into the relations between market fundamentals and US natural gas prices is carried out in the regime-switching framework. To test the hypothesis that US natural gas market may switch between two states of market: bullish market and bearish market, a 2-state regime-switching model with ...
S TAT E O F T H E WO R... Into a Warming World 2 0
... region hardest hit and most affected by natural disasters, accounting for 37 percent of reported disasters and 90 percent of all the reported victims. Human-induced climate change is likely to have the heaviest impact on small island developing states, the poorest countries in the world, and African ...
... region hardest hit and most affected by natural disasters, accounting for 37 percent of reported disasters and 90 percent of all the reported victims. Human-induced climate change is likely to have the heaviest impact on small island developing states, the poorest countries in the world, and African ...
Public perceptions of unusually warm weather in the UK: impacts
... perceived risks and benefits of recent extremes, and the perceived potential risks and benefits of such anomalies becoming more common in the future. The impacts of climate extremes were assessed with regard to (1) the individual’s ‘everyday life’ and (2) the national ‘good’. The responses indicate ...
... perceived risks and benefits of recent extremes, and the perceived potential risks and benefits of such anomalies becoming more common in the future. The impacts of climate extremes were assessed with regard to (1) the individual’s ‘everyday life’ and (2) the national ‘good’. The responses indicate ...
Shrinking of fishes exacerbates impacts of global ocean changes on
... organism’s capacity to adapt to environmental changes through phenotypic and evolutionary changes3,6 . Although consideration of such factors may reduce species’ sensitivity to environmental changes, there is currently little evidence that fishes would adapt to compensate completely for warming. In ...
... organism’s capacity to adapt to environmental changes through phenotypic and evolutionary changes3,6 . Although consideration of such factors may reduce species’ sensitivity to environmental changes, there is currently little evidence that fishes would adapt to compensate completely for warming. In ...
CLIMATE OF DISPLACEMENT, CLIMATE FOR PROTECTION
... practice was adjusted and eventually included landless people who came from areas where there was a lack of food and who would be in a particularly vulnerable position upon return. At a minimum, the human rights principle of non-refoulement may provide some basic protection against return in the oth ...
... practice was adjusted and eventually included landless people who came from areas where there was a lack of food and who would be in a particularly vulnerable position upon return. At a minimum, the human rights principle of non-refoulement may provide some basic protection against return in the oth ...
Observed Climate Change and the Negligible Global Effect of
... Global-scale influences are much harder to detect and their influence on regionalscale changes is uncertain. In fact, global climate models which project changes in future climate are unable to reliably model local and regional changes—the most important ones in our daily lives. Therefore, efforts t ...
... Global-scale influences are much harder to detect and their influence on regionalscale changes is uncertain. In fact, global climate models which project changes in future climate are unable to reliably model local and regional changes—the most important ones in our daily lives. Therefore, efforts t ...
Mexico City - World Bank
... instruments including direct investment from Mexico City, regulation, economic incentives, voluntary carbon markets, and education and information campaigns. The Inter‐institutional Climate Change Commission of Mexico City is in charge of coordinating and evaluating the MCCAP. This ...
... instruments including direct investment from Mexico City, regulation, economic incentives, voluntary carbon markets, and education and information campaigns. The Inter‐institutional Climate Change Commission of Mexico City is in charge of coordinating and evaluating the MCCAP. This ...
Greenhouse gas emissions and the role of the Kyoto Protocol
... Global warming is an important issue for all people in the world. Once greenhouse gases (GHGs) are generated, they accumulate in the atmosphere for a very long period. For this reason, the scope of their impact is not only limited to the present generation, but will continue to affect generations to ...
... Global warming is an important issue for all people in the world. Once greenhouse gases (GHGs) are generated, they accumulate in the atmosphere for a very long period. For this reason, the scope of their impact is not only limited to the present generation, but will continue to affect generations to ...
pdf version - Geophysical Institute
... In our study, we used version 5 of a relatively highresolution Arctic mesoscale model (MM5) for dynamical downscaling of global climate simulations, which gave us the temperature and precipitation inputs for the precipitation–temperature–area– altitude (PTAA) glacier mass balance model.12 The Polar ...
... In our study, we used version 5 of a relatively highresolution Arctic mesoscale model (MM5) for dynamical downscaling of global climate simulations, which gave us the temperature and precipitation inputs for the precipitation–temperature–area– altitude (PTAA) glacier mass balance model.12 The Polar ...