Fast Facts -Male beluga whales can weigh up to 1,600 kg (3,528 lbs
... Threatened by climate change, increased shipping traffic and water pollution In Canada, six of the seven (86%) beluga whale populations are at risk of extinction. Many of these populations are threatened with issues specific to their regions, but there are a few challenges that all belugas in Canada ...
... Threatened by climate change, increased shipping traffic and water pollution In Canada, six of the seven (86%) beluga whale populations are at risk of extinction. Many of these populations are threatened with issues specific to their regions, but there are a few challenges that all belugas in Canada ...
Global Warming - tfss-g4p
... ▪ Examples: lamp, television, computers (a server computer may produce as much carbon dioxide as an SUV). ...
... ▪ Examples: lamp, television, computers (a server computer may produce as much carbon dioxide as an SUV). ...
Topic 8: Energy, power, climate change
... State what is meant by the enhanced greenhouse effect. The Milankovitch cycles These extraterrestrial factors were enumerated in 1941 by Serbian Milutin Milankovitch in his great work on ice ages. Milankovitch’s work was not recognized until the late 1960s because it was in Serbian. In the 60s ju ...
... State what is meant by the enhanced greenhouse effect. The Milankovitch cycles These extraterrestrial factors were enumerated in 1941 by Serbian Milutin Milankovitch in his great work on ice ages. Milankovitch’s work was not recognized until the late 1960s because it was in Serbian. In the 60s ju ...
Global Warming Primer - National Center for Policy Analysis
... While ice has melted at the edges and thinned in other locations on Greenland and Antarctica, much of their interiors have thickened due in part to increased annual snowpack. Estimates of the net effect range from ice gains to ice losses. At most, ice loss in the two regions since 1993 has contribut ...
... While ice has melted at the edges and thinned in other locations on Greenland and Antarctica, much of their interiors have thickened due in part to increased annual snowpack. Estimates of the net effect range from ice gains to ice losses. At most, ice loss in the two regions since 1993 has contribut ...
Salluit - Canadian Institute of Planners
... Canadian and international climate models predict that northern regions will undergo accelerated warming in the 21st century. The Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis predicts increases in average annual temperatures of 1° to 2°C over the next 25 years. Actual temperature records indic ...
... Canadian and international climate models predict that northern regions will undergo accelerated warming in the 21st century. The Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis predicts increases in average annual temperatures of 1° to 2°C over the next 25 years. Actual temperature records indic ...
Water-mass transformation by sea ice in the
... ice freezing and melt. In Fig. 3 we plot the temporal variability over the six-year SOSE period of the dominant freshwater transformation components: direct evaporation/precipitation/runoff/glacial ice melt (Fig. 3a), sea-ice freezing and melt (Fig. 3b), and the vertical mixing of salinity (Fig. 3c) ...
... ice freezing and melt. In Fig. 3 we plot the temporal variability over the six-year SOSE period of the dominant freshwater transformation components: direct evaporation/precipitation/runoff/glacial ice melt (Fig. 3a), sea-ice freezing and melt (Fig. 3b), and the vertical mixing of salinity (Fig. 3c) ...
the Beaufort Sea - Pêches et Océans Canada
... Figure 10. Salinity of water near the seabed at locations near the edge (Site 2: 110 m), middle (Site 1: 55 m) and inner (Site 11: 35 m) Mackenzie Shelf. .......................... 18 Figure 11. Sea-surface temperature and salinity along the path of CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier in late September-early O ...
... Figure 10. Salinity of water near the seabed at locations near the edge (Site 2: 110 m), middle (Site 1: 55 m) and inner (Site 11: 35 m) Mackenzie Shelf. .......................... 18 Figure 11. Sea-surface temperature and salinity along the path of CCGS Sir Wilfrid Laurier in late September-early O ...
Global Warming
... Strong northward movement of near-surface waters are cooled when they arrive near Greenland The water cools, becomes saltier and denser, and it sinks to the bottom Current then flows southward around Africa Huge amounts of warm water keep Europe warmer than it would be otherwise © 2012 Pears ...
... Strong northward movement of near-surface waters are cooled when they arrive near Greenland The water cools, becomes saltier and denser, and it sinks to the bottom Current then flows southward around Africa Huge amounts of warm water keep Europe warmer than it would be otherwise © 2012 Pears ...
Aug 14, 2010 - Science and Environmental Policy Project
... done for no other reason than to imply that these weather extremes were caused by global warming, which flies in the face of their earlier contention that record-breaking low temperatures in any year say nothing about the long-term thermal tendency of the planet. Last of all, the Report states that ...
... done for no other reason than to imply that these weather extremes were caused by global warming, which flies in the face of their earlier contention that record-breaking low temperatures in any year say nothing about the long-term thermal tendency of the planet. Last of all, the Report states that ...
Region or Sub
... Managers and decision makers make better decisions with validated forecasts Will help management of Alaska fisheries Forecasting is essential under climate change, particularly in the Arctic where signal is amplified Who Recreational marine users benefit from better daily forecasts of winds ...
... Managers and decision makers make better decisions with validated forecasts Will help management of Alaska fisheries Forecasting is essential under climate change, particularly in the Arctic where signal is amplified Who Recreational marine users benefit from better daily forecasts of winds ...
AGENDA
... and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University Evaluation of 20th Century Simulations of Western Atlantic Winter Storms in CMIP5 and other Regional Climate Ensembles Analysis CMIP5 model performances in detecting global “warming holes” in the 20th century and future climates Consistency of obs ...
... and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University Evaluation of 20th Century Simulations of Western Atlantic Winter Storms in CMIP5 and other Regional Climate Ensembles Analysis CMIP5 model performances in detecting global “warming holes” in the 20th century and future climates Consistency of obs ...
Climate sCienCe
... Because of internal variability in the climate system, such decade-long pauses are to be expected.17 The early and mid-20th century even saw periods of cooling. In their AR5 report, the IPCC attributed the recent hiatus to a combination of three things – internal variability, cooling by airborne par ...
... Because of internal variability in the climate system, such decade-long pauses are to be expected.17 The early and mid-20th century even saw periods of cooling. In their AR5 report, the IPCC attributed the recent hiatus to a combination of three things – internal variability, cooling by airborne par ...
Updating the World on the Latest Climate Science
... continues in a business-as-usual way throughout this century. The risk of transgressing critical thresholds (“tipping points”) increases strongly with ongoing climate change. Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are re ...
... continues in a business-as-usual way throughout this century. The risk of transgressing critical thresholds (“tipping points”) increases strongly with ongoing climate change. Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are re ...
The Copenhagen Diagnosis - Climate Change Research Centre
... continues in a business-as-usual way throughout this century. The risk of transgressing critical thresholds (“tipping points”) increases strongly with ongoing climate change. Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are re ...
... continues in a business-as-usual way throughout this century. The risk of transgressing critical thresholds (“tipping points”) increases strongly with ongoing climate change. Thus waiting for higher levels of scientific certainty could mean that some tipping points will be crossed before they are re ...
Demographic, ecological, and physiological responses of
... measure cortisol levels representing stress (Trana et al., 2014). Cortisol measures from Arviat seals were not available in 2013. Four separate general linear models were used to investigate relationships between environmental (i.e., duration of the open water period, ENSO, NAO, and AO indices) and ...
... measure cortisol levels representing stress (Trana et al., 2014). Cortisol measures from Arviat seals were not available in 2013. Four separate general linear models were used to investigate relationships between environmental (i.e., duration of the open water period, ENSO, NAO, and AO indices) and ...
powerpoint presentation
... tectonics (plate motion) greenhouse gases (to the extent that they are not part of the climate system itself) land surface (likewise with respect to the climate system) Internal forcing: looking at each element of the climate system and how it is forced by another element (e.g. winds forcing ocean, ...
... tectonics (plate motion) greenhouse gases (to the extent that they are not part of the climate system itself) land surface (likewise with respect to the climate system) Internal forcing: looking at each element of the climate system and how it is forced by another element (e.g. winds forcing ocean, ...
20090302_SPM_Discuss..
... This is an advance since the TAR’s conclusion that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continentalaverage tempe ...
... This is an advance since the TAR’s conclusion that “most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is likely to have been due to the increase in greenhouse gas concentrations”. Discernible human influences now extend to other aspects of climate, including ocean warming, continentalaverage tempe ...
Methane, the Gakkel Ridge and human survival.
... Earth it could not be called a rare occurrence. I have selected one of these events to illustrate what happens, Fig. 5. It shows in three graphs the relationship between methane, carbon dioxide and temperature. Time is measured from left to right. First there is a steep jump in CO2 without much impa ...
... Earth it could not be called a rare occurrence. I have selected one of these events to illustrate what happens, Fig. 5. It shows in three graphs the relationship between methane, carbon dioxide and temperature. Time is measured from left to right. First there is a steep jump in CO2 without much impa ...
Climate and Weather - AHS * Humanities 11
... http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-noaa-analyses-revealrecord-shattering-global-warm-temperatures-in-2015 ...
... http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-noaa-analyses-revealrecord-shattering-global-warm-temperatures-in-2015 ...
Managing biodiversity in the light of climate change
... history, thereby affecting the distribution of fauna and flora. For example, dramatic climatic events are implicated in mass extinctions at the conclusion of both the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic, 245 and 65 million years ago, respectively. During the Pleistocene Epoch, since the Olduvai– Matuyama bounda ...
... history, thereby affecting the distribution of fauna and flora. For example, dramatic climatic events are implicated in mass extinctions at the conclusion of both the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic, 245 and 65 million years ago, respectively. During the Pleistocene Epoch, since the Olduvai– Matuyama bounda ...
rapporter.ffi.no
... much in evidence. The melting of the polar ice cap is opening up previously inaccessible parts of the region to ship traffic and resource exploration, and issues pertaining to maritime jurisdiction and boundaries in the Arctic Ocean and its adjacent seas are literally coming to the surface. These de ...
... much in evidence. The melting of the polar ice cap is opening up previously inaccessible parts of the region to ship traffic and resource exploration, and issues pertaining to maritime jurisdiction and boundaries in the Arctic Ocean and its adjacent seas are literally coming to the surface. These de ...
1994 arctic ocean section - CCHDO - University of California San
... July 1994 the Louis S. St-Laurent and the Polar Sea steamed northward from Nome to start the Canada–U.S. 1994 Arctic Ocean Section. From the beginning the scientific goal of the undertaking had been to substantially increase the observational base necessary for understanding the role of the Arctic i ...
... July 1994 the Louis S. St-Laurent and the Polar Sea steamed northward from Nome to start the Canada–U.S. 1994 Arctic Ocean Section. From the beginning the scientific goal of the undertaking had been to substantially increase the observational base necessary for understanding the role of the Arctic i ...
Organizational learning in regional governance: A study of the Arctic
... as part of the cognitive work that circumpolar cooperation has enabled (Schram Stokke 2006; Nilsson 2012). It is often heralded as an example of successful Arctic cooperation, and is therefore a useful example for analyzing whether there are particular features of Arctic cooperation that have facili ...
... as part of the cognitive work that circumpolar cooperation has enabled (Schram Stokke 2006; Nilsson 2012). It is often heralded as an example of successful Arctic cooperation, and is therefore a useful example for analyzing whether there are particular features of Arctic cooperation that have facili ...