Simulated versus observed patterns of warming over the
... Fig. 2. Maps and zonally averaged meridional profiles showing rates of warming over the historical reference interval 1965–2000 expressed in units of °C per 36 years: (A, B) boreal cold season; (C, D) boreal warm season. The left column (A, C) is based on the NOAA MLOST dataset and the right column ...
... Fig. 2. Maps and zonally averaged meridional profiles showing rates of warming over the historical reference interval 1965–2000 expressed in units of °C per 36 years: (A, B) boreal cold season; (C, D) boreal warm season. The left column (A, C) is based on the NOAA MLOST dataset and the right column ...
climate variable mapping and agriculture
... Deriving average temperatures is independent of the variation in the measurements. Over a period of time, average temperatures can remain constant while there can be changes to the variability of the data reflecting an increased magnitude of extreme temperature events. To ascertain if the variabilit ...
... Deriving average temperatures is independent of the variation in the measurements. Over a period of time, average temperatures can remain constant while there can be changes to the variability of the data reflecting an increased magnitude of extreme temperature events. To ascertain if the variabilit ...
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 ...
Cosmic Rays, Carbon Dioxide, and Climate
... CRF reconstruction with a reconstruction of sea surface temperature based on oxygen isotope data from calcite shells from various lowlatitude sites.The temperature proxy data were detrended and smoothed with a 50-m.y.window to emphasize variations on the ~150 m.y. period of the CRF model.The CRF mod ...
... CRF reconstruction with a reconstruction of sea surface temperature based on oxygen isotope data from calcite shells from various lowlatitude sites.The temperature proxy data were detrended and smoothed with a 50-m.y.window to emphasize variations on the ~150 m.y. period of the CRF model.The CRF mod ...
Bronze Age Review - ePrints Soton
... C relative production rate/solar activity including solar events such as the Homeric minimum (850-550 cal BC) which has been correlated with a major wet phase across North West Europe (van Geel et al., 1996; Mauquoy et al., 2004). Mauquoy et al. (2008) have shown that at two sites, one in northern E ...
... C relative production rate/solar activity including solar events such as the Homeric minimum (850-550 cal BC) which has been correlated with a major wet phase across North West Europe (van Geel et al., 1996; Mauquoy et al., 2004). Mauquoy et al. (2008) have shown that at two sites, one in northern E ...
Public perceptions of unusually warm weather in the UK: impacts
... Netherlands of a range of environmental issues including global warming, and they found environmental awareness to be generally higher in The Netherlands. However, Rudig (1995) working with respondents in the same countries, and addressing global warming specifically, found greater concern in the UK ...
... Netherlands of a range of environmental issues including global warming, and they found environmental awareness to be generally higher in The Netherlands. However, Rudig (1995) working with respondents in the same countries, and addressing global warming specifically, found greater concern in the UK ...
wetland news - Association of State Wetland Managers
... 30th Anniversary of ASWM This year the Association of State Wetland Managers is celebrating its 30th Anniversary. The organization was formed in the early 1980s to provide an opportunity for states to talk to one another about the challenges they were addressing in the respective state programs. We ...
... 30th Anniversary of ASWM This year the Association of State Wetland Managers is celebrating its 30th Anniversary. The organization was formed in the early 1980s to provide an opportunity for states to talk to one another about the challenges they were addressing in the respective state programs. We ...
Sahelian climate
... Our definition of the Sahel region, corresponds to an area characterised by a single rainy season per year with an annual maximum precipitation occurring in August. Such a circumstance allowed a simplification in the analysis: by analysing only precipitation occurring during the wet season seasonal ...
... Our definition of the Sahel region, corresponds to an area characterised by a single rainy season per year with an annual maximum precipitation occurring in August. Such a circumstance allowed a simplification in the analysis: by analysing only precipitation occurring during the wet season seasonal ...
Drivers of adaptation: Responses to weather
... lightning), while floods (including landslides) and severe storms occurred at similar rates in Utah. ...
... lightning), while floods (including landslides) and severe storms occurred at similar rates in Utah. ...
Results Part A: amount of appearances
... “Climate change in IPCC usage refers to a change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g. using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. It refers to any change in climat ...
... “Climate change in IPCC usage refers to a change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g. using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties, and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. It refers to any change in climat ...
Climate Change Impacts in the United States
... A. How can we predict what climate will be like in 100 years if we can’t even predict the weather next week? Predicting how climate will change in future decades is a different scientific issue from predicting weather a few weeks from now. Weather is short term and chaotic, largely determined by wha ...
... A. How can we predict what climate will be like in 100 years if we can’t even predict the weather next week? Predicting how climate will change in future decades is a different scientific issue from predicting weather a few weeks from now. Weather is short term and chaotic, largely determined by wha ...
planned relocations, disasters and climate change
... requires people to step outside their comfort zones and to think in different ways. There is also an undercurrent of resistance to considering issues of planned relocations now out of a concern that doing so would take pressure off national and international actors to implement mitigation measures w ...
... requires people to step outside their comfort zones and to think in different ways. There is also an undercurrent of resistance to considering issues of planned relocations now out of a concern that doing so would take pressure off national and international actors to implement mitigation measures w ...
- Wiley Online Library
... a necessary step in the process of attributing a particular change to a specific cause, such as the observed rise in greenhouse gas concentrations [Hegerl et al., 2007]. A headline conclusion from the IPCC AR4 was that “most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th ...
... a necessary step in the process of attributing a particular change to a specific cause, such as the observed rise in greenhouse gas concentrations [Hegerl et al., 2007]. A headline conclusion from the IPCC AR4 was that “most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th ...
Author`s personal copy - University of Alberta
... mediated through the atmosphere, and emissions from fossil fuel combustion are the primary cause of much of the resulting recent global change. However, historically, concern about long-range atmospheric impacts did not arise because of greenhouse-gas emissions, but rather because of strong acid emi ...
... mediated through the atmosphere, and emissions from fossil fuel combustion are the primary cause of much of the resulting recent global change. However, historically, concern about long-range atmospheric impacts did not arise because of greenhouse-gas emissions, but rather because of strong acid emi ...
Georgia`s Climate Variability vs Climate Change
... http://clinton.senate.gov/issues/environment/index.cfm?topic=climate ...
... http://clinton.senate.gov/issues/environment/index.cfm?topic=climate ...
Sample pages 2 PDF
... expressed by a villager who vividly recalled, “Initially relocating was not an option to us at all but climate change came like an enemy that chased us away by taking our land, taking our food, taking everything” (Vunidogoloa village interviewee, personal communication, 28 January 2016, Savusavu, Fi ...
... expressed by a villager who vividly recalled, “Initially relocating was not an option to us at all but climate change came like an enemy that chased us away by taking our land, taking our food, taking everything” (Vunidogoloa village interviewee, personal communication, 28 January 2016, Savusavu, Fi ...
Towards Adaptive Spatial Planning for Climate Change
... (4) The various networks (infrastructure, energy, transport, IT). However, the question is whether our current way of organizing spatial planning (in terms of design, decision-making and implementation) enables or supports the realization of climate adaptation. In this paper we explore the challeng ...
... (4) The various networks (infrastructure, energy, transport, IT). However, the question is whether our current way of organizing spatial planning (in terms of design, decision-making and implementation) enables or supports the realization of climate adaptation. In this paper we explore the challeng ...
Miocene tectonics and climate forcing of biodiversity, western United
... and Range block faulting; 3—mid-Miocene cooling; 4—uplift of northern, northeastern, and eastern sectors of Tibetan Plateau; 5—changes in deformation rates on southern, eastern, and northern margins of Indo-Asian orogen, change in Indian plate motion; 6—rapid uplift of Altiplano, strengthening of Ca ...
... and Range block faulting; 3—mid-Miocene cooling; 4—uplift of northern, northeastern, and eastern sectors of Tibetan Plateau; 5—changes in deformation rates on southern, eastern, and northern margins of Indo-Asian orogen, change in Indian plate motion; 6—rapid uplift of Altiplano, strengthening of Ca ...
... environment and meet the needs/wants of various nations. They explain their idea of an environmental policy paradox in which scientists identify several appropriate solutions that could be applied to an environmental problem, but often, those solutions are not used. The solutions are often not used ...
The Real Truth about Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change:
... years ago, that is widely agreed (although timing and values are still quite uncertain), but he neglects to add that the global climate then was very different, being warm enough for what is now tropical vegetation in polar latitudes. In addition, all indications are that those very high concentrati ...
... years ago, that is widely agreed (although timing and values are still quite uncertain), but he neglects to add that the global climate then was very different, being warm enough for what is now tropical vegetation in polar latitudes. In addition, all indications are that those very high concentrati ...
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... argued in this paper. Azar and Sterner (1996) and Azar (1999) present the most complete theoretical treatment of equity weights in the context of climate change. However, the quantitative results in these papers are based on a stylised two region model, and hence do not provide reliable estimates of ...
... argued in this paper. Azar and Sterner (1996) and Azar (1999) present the most complete theoretical treatment of equity weights in the context of climate change. However, the quantitative results in these papers are based on a stylised two region model, and hence do not provide reliable estimates of ...
The equilibrium sensitivity of the Earth`s temperature to radiation
... where f is the feedback factor amplifying (if 0 < f < 1) or damping the initial blackbody response of ∆T0 = 1.2 °C for a CO2 doubling. The total feedback can be phrased as the sum of all individual feedbacks9 (see Fig. 2; examples of feedbacks are increases in the greenhouse gas water vapour with wa ...
... where f is the feedback factor amplifying (if 0 < f < 1) or damping the initial blackbody response of ∆T0 = 1.2 °C for a CO2 doubling. The total feedback can be phrased as the sum of all individual feedbacks9 (see Fig. 2; examples of feedbacks are increases in the greenhouse gas water vapour with wa ...
The potential impacts of climate change on the mid
... (1% yr–1 CO2 equivalent) and sulfate aerosols (the ‘IS92a’ scenario, Houghton et al. 1996). For more details on the models, see Johns et al. (1997), Mitchell et al. (1995), Mitchell & Johns (1997), Boer et al. (1984, 1992, 2000a,b), Flato et al. (2000) and McFarlane et al. (1992). Following National ...
... (1% yr–1 CO2 equivalent) and sulfate aerosols (the ‘IS92a’ scenario, Houghton et al. 1996). For more details on the models, see Johns et al. (1997), Mitchell et al. (1995), Mitchell & Johns (1997), Boer et al. (1984, 1992, 2000a,b), Flato et al. (2000) and McFarlane et al. (1992). Following National ...
ILEAPS presentation
... • Qualitative agreement between RCM experiments and analysis of IPCC AR4 GCMs ...
... • Qualitative agreement between RCM experiments and analysis of IPCC AR4 GCMs ...
