Increasing Mississippi river discharge throughout the 21st century
... make daily, spatially explicit estimates of carbon, nitrogen, water fluxes, and pool sizes in the terrestrial ecosystems from site to regional to global scales [Tian et al., 2010a, 2010b, 2011]. Recently, we updated the model to the DLEM version 2.0, which is characterized by cohort structure, multip ...
... make daily, spatially explicit estimates of carbon, nitrogen, water fluxes, and pool sizes in the terrestrial ecosystems from site to regional to global scales [Tian et al., 2010a, 2010b, 2011]. Recently, we updated the model to the DLEM version 2.0, which is characterized by cohort structure, multip ...
Philosophy of Climate Science Part II: Modelling
... Finally, let us mention three other problems about calibration and confirmation. First, a common practice is to rule out those models that do not show a close enough fit with the data and use those that are left (weighted equally) for predictions. Here again, the question arises why these prediction ...
... Finally, let us mention three other problems about calibration and confirmation. First, a common practice is to rule out those models that do not show a close enough fit with the data and use those that are left (weighted equally) for predictions. Here again, the question arises why these prediction ...
high confidence
... but future irrigation will be constrained by reduced runoff, demand from other sectors, and by economic costs By 2050s, irrigation will not be sufficient to prevent damage from heat waves to crops in some sub-regions [medium confidence]. System costs will increase under all climate scenarios [high c ...
... but future irrigation will be constrained by reduced runoff, demand from other sectors, and by economic costs By 2050s, irrigation will not be sufficient to prevent damage from heat waves to crops in some sub-regions [medium confidence]. System costs will increase under all climate scenarios [high c ...
Disaster risk reduction or climate change adaptation: Are we
... climate stimuli only and not targeting root causes. Conversely, the definition by UNISDR (2004) for DRR is much broader and indicates the need to tackle fundamental challenges. The DRR definition also gives scope for integrating and including climate change as one factor amongst many, which may be c ...
... climate stimuli only and not targeting root causes. Conversely, the definition by UNISDR (2004) for DRR is much broader and indicates the need to tackle fundamental challenges. The DRR definition also gives scope for integrating and including climate change as one factor amongst many, which may be c ...
fulltext pdf - Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics
... (MDGs) and efforts to reduce extreme poverty. It is a change in the state of the climate that can be identified by using statistical tests, by change in the mean and the variability of climatic properties that persist for an extended period typically decades or longer (Intergovernmental Panel on Cli ...
... (MDGs) and efforts to reduce extreme poverty. It is a change in the state of the climate that can be identified by using statistical tests, by change in the mean and the variability of climatic properties that persist for an extended period typically decades or longer (Intergovernmental Panel on Cli ...
PDF
... There are a number of cost-benefit models that calculate the so-called ‗social cost of carbon‘, which generally refers to the expected present value damage of a (metric) tonne of CO2 emissions along a particular path (e.g. business-as-usual). Examples include Nordhaus and Boyer (1999), Cline (1992), ...
... There are a number of cost-benefit models that calculate the so-called ‗social cost of carbon‘, which generally refers to the expected present value damage of a (metric) tonne of CO2 emissions along a particular path (e.g. business-as-usual). Examples include Nordhaus and Boyer (1999), Cline (1992), ...
The challenges of building cosmopolitan climate expertise
... by science alone. Thus challenges to the authority of the IPCC turn out to be part of a struggle to gain power and authority in global climate politics.18 The attacks on the IPCC, paradoxically, have not contributed to a loss of epistemic or political authority but—quite the contrary—to attracting m ...
... by science alone. Thus challenges to the authority of the IPCC turn out to be part of a struggle to gain power and authority in global climate politics.18 The attacks on the IPCC, paradoxically, have not contributed to a loss of epistemic or political authority but—quite the contrary—to attracting m ...
WRS-08 Presentation
... waves because they carry information about the environment they have been in contact. Radio-based measuring instruments called remote sensors are the main tools for obtaining information these data. Today radio-based remote sensing systems play the major role in climate monitoring, weather forec ...
... waves because they carry information about the environment they have been in contact. Radio-based measuring instruments called remote sensors are the main tools for obtaining information these data. Today radio-based remote sensing systems play the major role in climate monitoring, weather forec ...
Transcript
... Now the key man in this story, the man with a plan, is a guy called Matthew Fontaine Maury. Now Maury was a lieutenant in the US Navy and from even when he was a small boy was obsessed with mathematics and data and analysis. But in 1839 Maury had a coaching accident where he broke his thigh bone and ...
... Now the key man in this story, the man with a plan, is a guy called Matthew Fontaine Maury. Now Maury was a lieutenant in the US Navy and from even when he was a small boy was obsessed with mathematics and data and analysis. But in 1839 Maury had a coaching accident where he broke his thigh bone and ...
Full-Text PDF
... decomposes a time-dependent periodic phenomenon into a series of sinusoidal functions, each defined by unique amplitude and phase values. The proportion of variance in the original time-series data set accounted for by each term of the harmonic analysis can also be calculated [25,26]. The first orde ...
... decomposes a time-dependent periodic phenomenon into a series of sinusoidal functions, each defined by unique amplitude and phase values. The proportion of variance in the original time-series data set accounted for by each term of the harmonic analysis can also be calculated [25,26]. The first orde ...
Building Resilience and Reducing Emissions
... The World Bank has done analyses of some countries in LAC using DesInventar data (more data points but fewer countries are covered) that indicates that EM DAT probably underestimates the cost of damages by at least 50%. Climate change can lead to a significant reduction in agricultural productivity: ...
... The World Bank has done analyses of some countries in LAC using DesInventar data (more data points but fewer countries are covered) that indicates that EM DAT probably underestimates the cost of damages by at least 50%. Climate change can lead to a significant reduction in agricultural productivity: ...
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... negative, but other omitted impacts may be positive. This paper does not argue “we don’t know and therefore …”. Rather, it surveys the missing climate change impact estimates, speculates why we should worry about them, and sketches what research will need to be done to quantify these impacts. I do n ...
... negative, but other omitted impacts may be positive. This paper does not argue “we don’t know and therefore …”. Rather, it surveys the missing climate change impact estimates, speculates why we should worry about them, and sketches what research will need to be done to quantify these impacts. I do n ...
Agricultural production, food security, climate change, rainfall
... surface water, flora and fauna resources on land (FME, 2004; Obioha, 2008). This makes people to exploit more previously undisturbed lands leading to depletion of the forest cover and increase on sand dunes/Aeolian deposits in the Northern axis of Nigeria. On the other hand, those in coastal region ...
... surface water, flora and fauna resources on land (FME, 2004; Obioha, 2008). This makes people to exploit more previously undisturbed lands leading to depletion of the forest cover and increase on sand dunes/Aeolian deposits in the Northern axis of Nigeria. On the other hand, those in coastal region ...
Shaping National Climate Change Legislation in Uganda, May 2015
... Integrating climate change in government sectors has been a challenge to many countries. This is largely because climate change is a recent global challenge and there is uncertainty as to how some sectors should address it. Integrating climate change in government sectors means incorporating measure ...
... Integrating climate change in government sectors has been a challenge to many countries. This is largely because climate change is a recent global challenge and there is uncertainty as to how some sectors should address it. Integrating climate change in government sectors means incorporating measure ...
Climate Change is a Geographic Problem
... applications. For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) uses GIS to monitor the world's storm activity; the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) uses GIS to collect and analyze data about volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) uses ...
... applications. For example, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) uses GIS to monitor the world's storm activity; the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) uses GIS to collect and analyze data about volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) uses ...
Climate change, natural disasters and human displacement
... UNHCR is a leading agency of the United Nations responsible for and possessing the expertise in the area of forced displacement. It is projected that climate change will over time trigger larger and more complex movements of population, both within and across borders, and has the potential to rende ...
... UNHCR is a leading agency of the United Nations responsible for and possessing the expertise in the area of forced displacement. It is projected that climate change will over time trigger larger and more complex movements of population, both within and across borders, and has the potential to rende ...
A Two-Step Flow of Influence? Opinion-Leader
... in this article we synthesize the relevant findings from the several dozen studies on self-designated opinion leadership that have been published over the past five decades. We clarify confusing differences in conceptualization and measurement, provide guidance on how research can be translated into ...
... in this article we synthesize the relevant findings from the several dozen studies on self-designated opinion leadership that have been published over the past five decades. We clarify confusing differences in conceptualization and measurement, provide guidance on how research can be translated into ...
The Hartwell Paper - Eureka
... consensus.1 Yvo de Boer, the long‐serving chairman of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), who had guided the process through meeting after increasingly inconclusive meeting in recent years, has since announced his resignation and future plans to work in the priv ...
... consensus.1 Yvo de Boer, the long‐serving chairman of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), who had guided the process through meeting after increasingly inconclusive meeting in recent years, has since announced his resignation and future plans to work in the priv ...
Climate change. - Institut für Kommunikations
... First step: Identification of the relevant pages via the Visual Web Spider A specific page becomes part of the sample if one of the search terms (see above) is mentioned somewhere on the page and if the document includes at least one actorframe sequence, i.e. an actor putting forward at least a prob ...
... First step: Identification of the relevant pages via the Visual Web Spider A specific page becomes part of the sample if one of the search terms (see above) is mentioned somewhere on the page and if the document includes at least one actorframe sequence, i.e. an actor putting forward at least a prob ...
