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... quantity and timing of precipitation, day length, soil type, and nutrient levels are just some of the factors, which are critical in determining crop yield (Lobell and Asner, 2003; Morison and Lawlor, 1999). Crop models have been used to show effects of increased CO2 on crop yields, growth and water ...
... quantity and timing of precipitation, day length, soil type, and nutrient levels are just some of the factors, which are critical in determining crop yield (Lobell and Asner, 2003; Morison and Lawlor, 1999). Crop models have been used to show effects of increased CO2 on crop yields, growth and water ...
Sensitivity of Amazon Regional Climate to Deforestation
... land covers and convection schemes, for example Xue et al. [60] that the new vegetated dataset (changes in particular in LAI, soil properties were deemed important) produced significantly different latent heat flux’s and surface temperatures which can cause a significantly different response in rain ...
... land covers and convection schemes, for example Xue et al. [60] that the new vegetated dataset (changes in particular in LAI, soil properties were deemed important) produced significantly different latent heat flux’s and surface temperatures which can cause a significantly different response in rain ...
Chapter 6- Canada in a Changing Climate: Sector Perspectives on
... research, monitoring, citizen science, public awareness, and visitor experience programs build understanding and help to engage the public in meaningful participatory decision-making. The conservation community recognizes the value of ecological restoration in strengthening the resilience of ecosyst ...
... research, monitoring, citizen science, public awareness, and visitor experience programs build understanding and help to engage the public in meaningful participatory decision-making. The conservation community recognizes the value of ecological restoration in strengthening the resilience of ecosyst ...
Chapter 2: An Overview of Canada`s Changing Climate
... seasonally, from year to year, and over periods of multiple years. The challenge for climate change analysis is to detect a persistent trend (in annual or seasonal temperature or precipitation, for example) over space and time that may not be readily obvious from the ‘noisy’ data. To do this well, l ...
... seasonally, from year to year, and over periods of multiple years. The challenge for climate change analysis is to detect a persistent trend (in annual or seasonal temperature or precipitation, for example) over space and time that may not be readily obvious from the ‘noisy’ data. To do this well, l ...
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... where within a region, individual risky damages are able to be reduced via different types of insurance or risk sharing schemes. Basically, the law of large numbers allows to achieve a reduction of individual risks via an insuring party. Only if all risks were perfectly correlated, risk sharing cann ...
... where within a region, individual risky damages are able to be reduced via different types of insurance or risk sharing schemes. Basically, the law of large numbers allows to achieve a reduction of individual risks via an insuring party. Only if all risks were perfectly correlated, risk sharing cann ...
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... models and their CC projections, outliers (i.e. the worst and best cases) should not be ignored, as they illustrate the (plausible) extreme responses. The best choice for a given impact study, therefore, is not to rely on the ensemble mean plus the single most extreme outliers in both directions. In ...
... models and their CC projections, outliers (i.e. the worst and best cases) should not be ignored, as they illustrate the (plausible) extreme responses. The best choice for a given impact study, therefore, is not to rely on the ensemble mean plus the single most extreme outliers in both directions. In ...
- The University of Liverpool Repository
... Kenya where data appears to indicate an increase in epidemic frequency due to warming temperatures, although these studies also highlighted the need to account for non-climatic factors. There has been debate regarding the attribution of these changes to anthropogenic climate change since the 2000s. ...
... Kenya where data appears to indicate an increase in epidemic frequency due to warming temperatures, although these studies also highlighted the need to account for non-climatic factors. There has been debate regarding the attribution of these changes to anthropogenic climate change since the 2000s. ...
2. Scope of a possible GMES Climate Change Contribution
... Key EU environmental policies International negotiations are under way to conclude a global agreement at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen (December 2009) for the period after 2012. The EU's objective is to ensure that the global average temperature does not increase more than 2°C above ...
... Key EU environmental policies International negotiations are under way to conclude a global agreement at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen (December 2009) for the period after 2012. The EU's objective is to ensure that the global average temperature does not increase more than 2°C above ...
Paper - Wharton Marketing
... and other environmental problems. In a pilot study, we found that individual differences in legacy motivation were positively associated with proenvironmental behaviors and intentions. In a subsequent experiment, we demonstrated that priming legacy motives increased donations to an environmental cha ...
... and other environmental problems. In a pilot study, we found that individual differences in legacy motivation were positively associated with proenvironmental behaviors and intentions. In a subsequent experiment, we demonstrated that priming legacy motives increased donations to an environmental cha ...
The Impact of Climate Change and Human Activity on Net Primary
... [9, 10]. In Tibet, the NPP decreased from southeast to northwest [11, 12] due to the different vegetation types [13]. As the research shows, the vegetation NPP responded to annual average temperature and annual precipitation in the Tibetan Plateau. Indeed, the variation of NPP may be influenced by h ...
... [9, 10]. In Tibet, the NPP decreased from southeast to northwest [11, 12] due to the different vegetation types [13]. As the research shows, the vegetation NPP responded to annual average temperature and annual precipitation in the Tibetan Plateau. Indeed, the variation of NPP may be influenced by h ...
Global Warming Index - Debate Central
... These figures amply illustrate how Western Europe and the United States are by far largely responsible for the effects of global warming we are seeing today. Contrastingly the regions least responsible are the ones that will bear the brunt of those effects (initially at any rate, until such time tha ...
... These figures amply illustrate how Western Europe and the United States are by far largely responsible for the effects of global warming we are seeing today. Contrastingly the regions least responsible are the ones that will bear the brunt of those effects (initially at any rate, until such time tha ...
Climate change in Australia | Monsoonal North cluster report
... Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is responsible for CMIP, and we thank the climate modelling groups for producing and making available their model output. For CMIP the U.S. Department of Energy's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison provides coordinating support and led d ...
... Working Group on Coupled Modelling, which is responsible for CMIP, and we thank the climate modelling groups for producing and making available their model output. For CMIP the U.S. Department of Energy's Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison provides coordinating support and led d ...
Effect of climate change on air quality
... Air quality is strongly dependent on weather and is therefore sensitive to climate change. Recent studies have provided estimates of this climate effect through correlations of air quality with meteorological variables, perturbation analyses in chemical transport models (CTMs), and CTM simulations d ...
... Air quality is strongly dependent on weather and is therefore sensitive to climate change. Recent studies have provided estimates of this climate effect through correlations of air quality with meteorological variables, perturbation analyses in chemical transport models (CTMs), and CTM simulations d ...
Climate variability over the last 2000 years
... between change in temperature and change in atmospheric circulation under natural conditions has not been examined as vigorously. This association is perhaps most critical to investigate in the polar latitudes, where future warming is expected to be the greatest (IPCC, 2001). Synthesis of ∼50 well-d ...
... between change in temperature and change in atmospheric circulation under natural conditions has not been examined as vigorously. This association is perhaps most critical to investigate in the polar latitudes, where future warming is expected to be the greatest (IPCC, 2001). Synthesis of ∼50 well-d ...
climate change: realities of relocation for alaska native villages
... through Newtok are eroding the permafrost on which the town is built. A 1983 assessment of erosion problems found that within 25 to 30 years, the erosion would begin to endanger the community. Since then, Newtok has worked on relocation efforts, and in 1994 started the relocation planning process ...
... through Newtok are eroding the permafrost on which the town is built. A 1983 assessment of erosion problems found that within 25 to 30 years, the erosion would begin to endanger the community. Since then, Newtok has worked on relocation efforts, and in 1994 started the relocation planning process ...
Background paper Africa WS
... The African continent is the largest of all tropical landmasses and is the second largest of the world’s seven continents with a land area of 30 million km2 - about 20 percent of the world’s total land area. Straddling the equator with roughly equal landmasses within both hemispheres. It stretches 8 ...
... The African continent is the largest of all tropical landmasses and is the second largest of the world’s seven continents with a land area of 30 million km2 - about 20 percent of the world’s total land area. Straddling the equator with roughly equal landmasses within both hemispheres. It stretches 8 ...
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... commercial refrigeration equipment (“the Rule”), 79 Fed. Reg. 17,726 (Mar. 28, 2014), will reduce carbon pollution, help mitigate climate change, and so generate billions of dollars in quantifiable benefits to economic welfare, public health, national security, and environmental quality. DOE quantif ...
... commercial refrigeration equipment (“the Rule”), 79 Fed. Reg. 17,726 (Mar. 28, 2014), will reduce carbon pollution, help mitigate climate change, and so generate billions of dollars in quantifiable benefits to economic welfare, public health, national security, and environmental quality. DOE quantif ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Plant Growth, Ecosystem Services
... water availability can have additional negative effects as well as positive impacts on different processes in earth and human systems. For these and many other reasons, we need to protect our benefits through practicing adaptation measures. The response of humans to climate change includes two basic ...
... water availability can have additional negative effects as well as positive impacts on different processes in earth and human systems. For these and many other reasons, we need to protect our benefits through practicing adaptation measures. The response of humans to climate change includes two basic ...
The effects of climate changes on aquifer storage
... and (b). In practice, a good estimate of the value of c is likely to be available, while b may be chosen as some reasonable value based on expert knowledge. The parameter b is not fundamental, and may be replaced by other shape parameters if a different pattern of change in transmissivity is thought ...
... and (b). In practice, a good estimate of the value of c is likely to be available, while b may be chosen as some reasonable value based on expert knowledge. The parameter b is not fundamental, and may be replaced by other shape parameters if a different pattern of change in transmissivity is thought ...
Natural Hazards and Climate Change in European Regions
... characteristics, as for example the exposure of a region to natural hazards and the population density, are decisive for the vulnerability of a region. Consequently local decision making is central to the delivery of territorially defined place-based policies addressing natural hazards and climate c ...
... characteristics, as for example the exposure of a region to natural hazards and the population density, are decisive for the vulnerability of a region. Consequently local decision making is central to the delivery of territorially defined place-based policies addressing natural hazards and climate c ...
A Sign of Things to Come? Examining four major climate
... in East Africa, and a typhoon in the Philippines – that represent a range of extreme weather. It analyses the impact of these extreme weather events on food security, by considering when and why threats emerge. This involves characterization of the weather events, examination of the vulnerable group ...
... in East Africa, and a typhoon in the Philippines – that represent a range of extreme weather. It analyses the impact of these extreme weather events on food security, by considering when and why threats emerge. This involves characterization of the weather events, examination of the vulnerable group ...
A Preventable Crisis: El Niño and La Niña events need earlier
... The 2015–16 El Niño has now dissipated, but its devastating impacts will be felt well into 2017. As a result of droughts caused or exacerbated by El Niño, people across four continents, particularly those dependent on rain-fed agriculture, are suffering from severe food and water shortages; lost inc ...
... The 2015–16 El Niño has now dissipated, but its devastating impacts will be felt well into 2017. As a result of droughts caused or exacerbated by El Niño, people across four continents, particularly those dependent on rain-fed agriculture, are suffering from severe food and water shortages; lost inc ...
Seasonal hydrologic responses to climate change in the Pacific
... 2010; Hamlet et al., 2010; Luce et al., 2013; Safeeq et al., 2014]. The motivations for these studies stem from the region’s vast hydropower resources [Lee et al., 2009], dangers of flooding [Payne et al., 2004], endangered species issues related to anadromous fish [Mantua et al., 2010], agricultural ...
... 2010; Hamlet et al., 2010; Luce et al., 2013; Safeeq et al., 2014]. The motivations for these studies stem from the region’s vast hydropower resources [Lee et al., 2009], dangers of flooding [Payne et al., 2004], endangered species issues related to anadromous fish [Mantua et al., 2010], agricultural ...