Climate Systems Regional Report: Southern Africa
... the summer season in the Southern Hemisphere. Surface observations in Africa are poor, but this network indicates that temperatures have warmed through the 20th century, while drying has occurred over large areas. In the case of the Sahel, scientists have developed two possible causes for decadal tr ...
... the summer season in the Southern Hemisphere. Surface observations in Africa are poor, but this network indicates that temperatures have warmed through the 20th century, while drying has occurred over large areas. In the case of the Sahel, scientists have developed two possible causes for decadal tr ...
Northern Hemisphere glaciation and the evolution of Plio
... Received 29 July 2009; revised 3 December 2009; accepted 20 January 2010; published 4 August 2010. ...
... Received 29 July 2009; revised 3 December 2009; accepted 20 January 2010; published 4 August 2010. ...
English - Stockholm Convention
... precipitation form and pattern, cloudiness, salinity regime, fresh water run-off and soil erosion. The polar regions and Mountain zones will experience decreased snow cover, reduced glaciers and permafrost thawing, increased cloudiness and increased precipitation. The polar sea ice will break open a ...
... precipitation form and pattern, cloudiness, salinity regime, fresh water run-off and soil erosion. The polar regions and Mountain zones will experience decreased snow cover, reduced glaciers and permafrost thawing, increased cloudiness and increased precipitation. The polar sea ice will break open a ...
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... The frequency of circulation types over the Alpine region is explored using 20 different global and regional climate model chains. The projected changes in these circulation types are investigated for the 21st century using the SRES A1B scenario. The multi-model approach relies on the climate models ...
... The frequency of circulation types over the Alpine region is explored using 20 different global and regional climate model chains. The projected changes in these circulation types are investigated for the 21st century using the SRES A1B scenario. The multi-model approach relies on the climate models ...
- International Studies Association
... In their recent contribution, Mayer and Cournil (2016) argue that general human rights provisions3 provide many tools with which to protect the mobile people at the heart of the climate change and human mobility nexus, with the provisions contained within these documents being applicable, regardles ...
... In their recent contribution, Mayer and Cournil (2016) argue that general human rights provisions3 provide many tools with which to protect the mobile people at the heart of the climate change and human mobility nexus, with the provisions contained within these documents being applicable, regardles ...
Blöschl, G., A. Viglione and A. Montanari (2013)
... steadily during the day. While the dam was relatively small with 10 m height, the volume was 8.6 million cubic meters and posed considerable danger for the downstream villages of Tirlyan, Avzalovo, Kazylyarovo, and Alakagovo. One of the segment gates had been blocked years before because of concerns ...
... steadily during the day. While the dam was relatively small with 10 m height, the volume was 8.6 million cubic meters and posed considerable danger for the downstream villages of Tirlyan, Avzalovo, Kazylyarovo, and Alakagovo. One of the segment gates had been blocked years before because of concerns ...
Kazakhstan
... A draft National Concept on Adaptation to Climate Change was developed within the framework of the joint United Nations Development Programme and Ministry of Environment and Water Resources Project “Strengthening the capacity in the field of sustainable development through integration of climate ch ...
... A draft National Concept on Adaptation to Climate Change was developed within the framework of the joint United Nations Development Programme and Ministry of Environment and Water Resources Project “Strengthening the capacity in the field of sustainable development through integration of climate ch ...
Standard PDF - Wiley Online Library
... acidification, and present many ethical and moral issues. Further work is needed to quantify many of these factors to allow informed decision-making. Citation: Robock, A., A. Marquardt, B. Kravitz, and G. Stenchikov (2009), Benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering, Geophys. Res. Le ...
... acidification, and present many ethical and moral issues. Further work is needed to quantify many of these factors to allow informed decision-making. Citation: Robock, A., A. Marquardt, B. Kravitz, and G. Stenchikov (2009), Benefits, risks, and costs of stratospheric geoengineering, Geophys. Res. Le ...
- Wiley Online Library
... constructed and updates this dataset from observations at meteorological stations across the world0 s land areas. Harris et al. (2014) compared it with other datasets and found a very good agreement for South America. Gridded data matched observations of temperatures much better than those of precip ...
... constructed and updates this dataset from observations at meteorological stations across the world0 s land areas. Harris et al. (2014) compared it with other datasets and found a very good agreement for South America. Gridded data matched observations of temperatures much better than those of precip ...
DETR - Climate Change
... longer term. The goal is challenging, but that is its purpose. It is designed to give a clear signal of the direction in which policy is moving, allowing long term planning and stimulating innovative responses. The policies that can deliver this reduction are part of the Government’s wider drive for ...
... longer term. The goal is challenging, but that is its purpose. It is designed to give a clear signal of the direction in which policy is moving, allowing long term planning and stimulating innovative responses. The policies that can deliver this reduction are part of the Government’s wider drive for ...
Bewertung der Risiken des Klimawandels für
... The increasing likelihood and severity of extreme weather events will considerably increase the risk of crop failure. Climate change will also affect soil by depleting organic matter – a major contributor to soil fertility. Consideration should be given to the CAP providing an adequate framework for ...
... The increasing likelihood and severity of extreme weather events will considerably increase the risk of crop failure. Climate change will also affect soil by depleting organic matter – a major contributor to soil fertility. Consideration should be given to the CAP providing an adequate framework for ...
Conceptualising Climate Change Governance
... has already begun (e.g. Storbjörk 2007; Lemos and Agarwal 2006: 315). Within this, private households need to contribute as well as local authorities and businesses (cf. Hecht 2009: 162; Ostrom 2010: 27ff). Beyond that, non-governmental organisation (NGO) stakeholders play an important role by commu ...
... has already begun (e.g. Storbjörk 2007; Lemos and Agarwal 2006: 315). Within this, private households need to contribute as well as local authorities and businesses (cf. Hecht 2009: 162; Ostrom 2010: 27ff). Beyond that, non-governmental organisation (NGO) stakeholders play an important role by commu ...
Tropospheric adjustment induces a cloud component in
... The cloud components of forcing are surprising. Though of a smaller magnitude than FLN , both FLC and FSC are significantly different from zero at the 5% level; FLC < 0 and FSC > 0. As these terms have similar sizes, the net F = 3.3 ± 0.2 W m−2 is not very different from the clear-sky forcing. The p ...
... The cloud components of forcing are surprising. Though of a smaller magnitude than FLN , both FLC and FSC are significantly different from zero at the 5% level; FLC < 0 and FSC > 0. As these terms have similar sizes, the net F = 3.3 ± 0.2 W m−2 is not very different from the clear-sky forcing. The p ...
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... The Net Revenue equation is weighted by net cropped area, to adjust for heteroscedasticity. Standard errors have been estimated by White’s consistent estimator of the least squares covariance matrix, and the resultant estimated t-ratios are consistent. The problems of multicollinearity are likely to ...
... The Net Revenue equation is weighted by net cropped area, to adjust for heteroscedasticity. Standard errors have been estimated by White’s consistent estimator of the least squares covariance matrix, and the resultant estimated t-ratios are consistent. The problems of multicollinearity are likely to ...
Climate change in Australia | Rangelands cluster report
... some information on the impacts of climate change that communities, including the natural resource management sector, can use as a basis for future adaptation planning. Users can interactively explore a range of variables and their changes to the end of the 21st century. A ‘Climate Campus’ education ...
... some information on the impacts of climate change that communities, including the natural resource management sector, can use as a basis for future adaptation planning. Users can interactively explore a range of variables and their changes to the end of the 21st century. A ‘Climate Campus’ education ...
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... contribution in the interaction between climate and biodiversity actors. ...
... contribution in the interaction between climate and biodiversity actors. ...
Long-Term Climate Change - Ontario Power Generation
... In assessing the regional study area (RSA) and the Bruce nuclear site, it should be noted that this northern portion of the North American continent has been subjected to a series of intense continental scale glaciation and deglaciation events over the past million years of Earth history. This proce ...
... In assessing the regional study area (RSA) and the Bruce nuclear site, it should be noted that this northern portion of the North American continent has been subjected to a series of intense continental scale glaciation and deglaciation events over the past million years of Earth history. This proce ...
Climate impacts on flood and coastal erosion infrastructure
... The nature and sequencing of individual storm events in each cluster are important determinants of the associated impact on FCERMi and hence flood risk (Kilsby et al., 2007). Similarly, the frequency and duration of intermittent dry periods also impact flood defence infrastructure. Changes in the in ...
... The nature and sequencing of individual storm events in each cluster are important determinants of the associated impact on FCERMi and hence flood risk (Kilsby et al., 2007). Similarly, the frequency and duration of intermittent dry periods also impact flood defence infrastructure. Changes in the in ...
Key Steps: Mitigation
... enabled by technology, financing and capacitybuilding, in a Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable manner (MRV) International agreement will be major challenge ...
... enabled by technology, financing and capacitybuilding, in a Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable manner (MRV) International agreement will be major challenge ...
Climate change, wine, and conservation
... past climate change (9). Temperature and moisture regimes are among the primary elements of terroir (10, 11), with growing season temperature being particularly important in delimiting regions suitable for growing wine grapes (Vitis vinifera). Mediterranean climate regions (warm and dry summers; coo ...
... past climate change (9). Temperature and moisture regimes are among the primary elements of terroir (10, 11), with growing season temperature being particularly important in delimiting regions suitable for growing wine grapes (Vitis vinifera). Mediterranean climate regions (warm and dry summers; coo ...
Annex II Risk profile outline
... impact on the releases of hazardous substances into the environment, their long-range transport and environmental fate, and to human and environmental exposure. These climate change impacts may lead to higher health risks both for human populations and the environment from hazardous substances. To s ...
... impact on the releases of hazardous substances into the environment, their long-range transport and environmental fate, and to human and environmental exposure. These climate change impacts may lead to higher health risks both for human populations and the environment from hazardous substances. To s ...
environmental, economic and social impacts of
... First, the extreme meteorological phenomena and unprecedented natural calamities – such as typhoon “Katrina” which destroyed New Orleans, annual heat waves and floods in Europe, India and America – have recently become more frequent. Eventually it becomes more evitable that those events are not acci ...
... First, the extreme meteorological phenomena and unprecedented natural calamities – such as typhoon “Katrina” which destroyed New Orleans, annual heat waves and floods in Europe, India and America – have recently become more frequent. Eventually it becomes more evitable that those events are not acci ...
americans` attitudes about science and technology
... Research also suggests that discussion of science amplifies concern about problems like climate change. In a study tracking the discussion patterns of a nationally representative sample of Americans across two ...
... Research also suggests that discussion of science amplifies concern about problems like climate change. In a study tracking the discussion patterns of a nationally representative sample of Americans across two ...
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... as well as those living outside rangelands but who depend on livestock for protein (Blench and Sommer, 1999). Studies on degraded agro-ecosystems in the Sudan have shown that maintaining and promoting the use of biodiversity in grasslands can increase soil C sequestration, while sustaining pastoral ...
... as well as those living outside rangelands but who depend on livestock for protein (Blench and Sommer, 1999). Studies on degraded agro-ecosystems in the Sudan have shown that maintaining and promoting the use of biodiversity in grasslands can increase soil C sequestration, while sustaining pastoral ...