Atmospheric Ice Nucleation by Glassy Organic Compounds: A Review
... climate, and public health [5]. Atmospheric aerosols play a vital role on Earth’s climate by directly scattering and absorbing solar and terrestrial radiation [6-8]. As a direct effect, the aerosols absorb and scatter sunlight directly back into space while indirectly in the lower atmosphere, aeroso ...
... climate, and public health [5]. Atmospheric aerosols play a vital role on Earth’s climate by directly scattering and absorbing solar and terrestrial radiation [6-8]. As a direct effect, the aerosols absorb and scatter sunlight directly back into space while indirectly in the lower atmosphere, aeroso ...
Simulating Transient Climate Evolution of the Last
... people. I am deeply indebted to my adviser, Professor Zhengyu Liu, who brought me into the fascinating field of paleoclimatology and provided me his full trust in carrying out one of the most epic numerical modeling in the climate community to date. I am always encouraged by his passion for science ...
... people. I am deeply indebted to my adviser, Professor Zhengyu Liu, who brought me into the fascinating field of paleoclimatology and provided me his full trust in carrying out one of the most epic numerical modeling in the climate community to date. I am always encouraged by his passion for science ...
Treeline advance – driving processes and adverse factors
... Forest advance upwards and northwards primarily depends on successful regeneration and survival of young growth rather than on increasing growth rates of mature trees. Every assessment of treeline response to future climate change must consider the effects of local site conditions and feedbacks of i ...
... Forest advance upwards and northwards primarily depends on successful regeneration and survival of young growth rather than on increasing growth rates of mature trees. Every assessment of treeline response to future climate change must consider the effects of local site conditions and feedbacks of i ...
An Overview of the Causes and Effects of Sea Level Rise
... of land can have a noticeable effect on local sea level. For example, Louisiana is currently losing over one hundred square kilometers (approximately fifty square miles) of land per year, largely because of subsidence estimated at one meter per century (Boesch, 1982). In contrast, emergence has caus ...
... of land can have a noticeable effect on local sea level. For example, Louisiana is currently losing over one hundred square kilometers (approximately fifty square miles) of land per year, largely because of subsidence estimated at one meter per century (Boesch, 1982). In contrast, emergence has caus ...
Global Climate Projections
... corroborate those given in the Third Assessment Report (TAR). Continued greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates will cause further warming and induce many changes in the global climate system during the 21st century that would very likely be larger than those observed during the 20th cent ...
... corroborate those given in the Third Assessment Report (TAR). Continued greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates will cause further warming and induce many changes in the global climate system during the 21st century that would very likely be larger than those observed during the 20th cent ...
Assessing the Consequences of Climate Change for Alaska and the
... Changes in costs and opportunities due to changes in weather and ice conditions Costs of retooling It is reasonable to assume that climate change could halve or double average harvests of any given species. This suggests that climate change could decrease or increase the total ex-vessel and wholesal ...
... Changes in costs and opportunities due to changes in weather and ice conditions Costs of retooling It is reasonable to assume that climate change could halve or double average harvests of any given species. This suggests that climate change could decrease or increase the total ex-vessel and wholesal ...
the ASTA Booklet - Australian Antarctic Division
... Antarctica is the southern-most continent. It is also the driest, coldest, windiest, highest continent on Earth, an environment so hostile and remote that it has no permanent inhabitants. Antarctica is made up of the continent and over twenty six surrounding island groups – coastal islands surroundi ...
... Antarctica is the southern-most continent. It is also the driest, coldest, windiest, highest continent on Earth, an environment so hostile and remote that it has no permanent inhabitants. Antarctica is made up of the continent and over twenty six surrounding island groups – coastal islands surroundi ...
Ocean Acidification
... The carbonate systems of all the worlds oceans are changing rapidly, due to ocean acidification. Previous, mass extinction events have been linked to ocean acidification and the current rate of change in seawater chemistry has never been seen before. Studies suggest that the vast changes will have g ...
... The carbonate systems of all the worlds oceans are changing rapidly, due to ocean acidification. Previous, mass extinction events have been linked to ocean acidification and the current rate of change in seawater chemistry has never been seen before. Studies suggest that the vast changes will have g ...
Effects of UV radiation on aquatic ecosystems and interactions with
... Melting snow and ice: aquatic productivity under high solar radiation Over the last few decades, rising temperatures have reduced sea and freshwater ice and snow cover with important consequences for underwater exposure to UV radiation. The global ocean temperature has increased by about 1 °C over t ...
... Melting snow and ice: aquatic productivity under high solar radiation Over the last few decades, rising temperatures have reduced sea and freshwater ice and snow cover with important consequences for underwater exposure to UV radiation. The global ocean temperature has increased by about 1 °C over t ...
Impact of climate change on Antarctic krill
... they are at present, with inherent regional variability. Significant warming (0.75 to almost 2.00°C in all seasons) is predicted at the surface between 40 and 60° S, in the core region of the ACC. Regardless of season, the bottom waters from the surface down to 4000 m along the continental margin ar ...
... they are at present, with inherent regional variability. Significant warming (0.75 to almost 2.00°C in all seasons) is predicted at the surface between 40 and 60° S, in the core region of the ACC. Regardless of season, the bottom waters from the surface down to 4000 m along the continental margin ar ...
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... Melting snow and ice: aquatic productivity under high solar radiation Over the last few decades, rising temperatures have reduced sea and freshwater ice and snow cover with important consequences for underwater exposure to UV radiation. The global ocean temperature has increased by about 1 °C over t ...
... Melting snow and ice: aquatic productivity under high solar radiation Over the last few decades, rising temperatures have reduced sea and freshwater ice and snow cover with important consequences for underwater exposure to UV radiation. The global ocean temperature has increased by about 1 °C over t ...
Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic Ocean
... of the δ 15 N tracer agrees well with that of our AMOC index (Fig. 5). Ref. 25 reports four more data points from ancient corals preceding the twentieth century, the oldest one from AD ∼500. These lie all above 10.5h, providing (albeit limited) evidence that the downward excursion to values below 10 ...
... of the δ 15 N tracer agrees well with that of our AMOC index (Fig. 5). Ref. 25 reports four more data points from ancient corals preceding the twentieth century, the oldest one from AD ∼500. These lie all above 10.5h, providing (albeit limited) evidence that the downward excursion to values below 10 ...
Exceptional twentieth-century slowdown in Atlantic
... of the δ 15 N tracer agrees well with that of our AMOC index (Fig. 5). Ref. 25 reports four more data points from ancient corals preceding the twentieth century, the oldest one from AD ∼500. These lie all above 10.5h, providing (albeit limited) evidence that the downward excursion to values below 10 ...
... of the δ 15 N tracer agrees well with that of our AMOC index (Fig. 5). Ref. 25 reports four more data points from ancient corals preceding the twentieth century, the oldest one from AD ∼500. These lie all above 10.5h, providing (albeit limited) evidence that the downward excursion to values below 10 ...
The Northeast Asia mountain glaciers in the near
... Krenke, 2005). Comparison of data obtained between the late 1950s and 2001 about the glaciers of northeast Asia and their mass exchange, shows that they have undergone appreciable changes – as revealed through retreat of their termini, surface lowering, formation of new morainic deposits, etc. By ou ...
... Krenke, 2005). Comparison of data obtained between the late 1950s and 2001 about the glaciers of northeast Asia and their mass exchange, shows that they have undergone appreciable changes – as revealed through retreat of their termini, surface lowering, formation of new morainic deposits, etc. By ou ...
Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Area
... The potential decrease in salinity projected in some of the simulations would have a direct influence on the composition and distribution of species in the Baltic Sea, particularly for plankton and zoobenthos. The zooplankton species composition, in turn, has an influence on their predators, plankti ...
... The potential decrease in salinity projected in some of the simulations would have a direct influence on the composition and distribution of species in the Baltic Sea, particularly for plankton and zoobenthos. The zooplankton species composition, in turn, has an influence on their predators, plankti ...
Stratospheric Aerosol Geoengineering
... sulfur have been suggested, for example soot, but soot would be terribly damaging to stratospheric ozone because it would absorb sunlight, heating the stratosphere, and enhancing ozone destruction reactions.9 This would produce large enhancements of dangerous ultraviolet (UV) flux to the surface. Ot ...
... sulfur have been suggested, for example soot, but soot would be terribly damaging to stratospheric ozone because it would absorb sunlight, heating the stratosphere, and enhancing ozone destruction reactions.9 This would produce large enhancements of dangerous ultraviolet (UV) flux to the surface. Ot ...
Target Atmospheric CO : Where Should Humanity Aim?
... as ice sheets and forest cover, were fixed. Long-lived GHGs, except for the specified CO2 change, were also fixed, not responding to climate change. The Charney problem thus provides a measure of climate sensitivity including only the effect of ‘fast’ feedback processes, such as changes of water vap ...
... as ice sheets and forest cover, were fixed. Long-lived GHGs, except for the specified CO2 change, were also fixed, not responding to climate change. The Charney problem thus provides a measure of climate sensitivity including only the effect of ‘fast’ feedback processes, such as changes of water vap ...
Soil temperature response to 21st century global warming: the role
... widespread decline in the areas classified as permafrost, soil temperatures in peatlands respond more slowly to increases in air temperature owing to the insulating properties of peat. We estimate that an additional 670 km3 of peat soils in North America, containing ∼33 Pg C, could be seasonally tha ...
... widespread decline in the areas classified as permafrost, soil temperatures in peatlands respond more slowly to increases in air temperature owing to the insulating properties of peat. We estimate that an additional 670 km3 of peat soils in North America, containing ∼33 Pg C, could be seasonally tha ...
climate change in the american mind
... threat, but most perceived global warming as a relatively distant problem that will primarily impact other people, places and species far away. Americans, however, did perceive it as an imminent threat: 51 percent said global warming is already having dangerous impacts on people around the world, or ...
... threat, but most perceived global warming as a relatively distant problem that will primarily impact other people, places and species far away. Americans, however, did perceive it as an imminent threat: 51 percent said global warming is already having dangerous impacts on people around the world, or ...
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... CH4, thereby offsetting some of the greenhouse warming potential of soil CO2 emissions. Climate change is also likely to increase winter precipitation and snow depth in boreal ...
... CH4, thereby offsetting some of the greenhouse warming potential of soil CO2 emissions. Climate change is also likely to increase winter precipitation and snow depth in boreal ...
Effects of permafrost degradation on ecosystems
... is estimated at about 1.5×106 km2 and account for 69.77% the total permafrost area in china[11]. Permafrost controlled by air temperature in the thickness, presence and geographic extent reacts sensitively to changes in atmospheric temperature and permafrost is identified as one of the key cryospher ...
... is estimated at about 1.5×106 km2 and account for 69.77% the total permafrost area in china[11]. Permafrost controlled by air temperature in the thickness, presence and geographic extent reacts sensitively to changes in atmospheric temperature and permafrost is identified as one of the key cryospher ...
Annex I Annex D in the Convention
... of POPs to the Arctic and other remote regions. Climate change is also predicted to exacerbate the adverse effects of POPs with increasing temperatures and salinities; this may particularly be of relevance for the areas in subtropical and tropical regions that have been observed to experience increa ...
... of POPs to the Arctic and other remote regions. Climate change is also predicted to exacerbate the adverse effects of POPs with increasing temperatures and salinities; this may particularly be of relevance for the areas in subtropical and tropical regions that have been observed to experience increa ...
Effect of outdoor temperature, heat primes and anchoring on belief
... to the communication process can affect belief in global warming (i.e., heuristics and cognitive primes). Heuristics are cognitive short cuts or quick decision rules that people use to guide their decisions when evaluating overwhelming risks or difficult problems, whereas cognitive primes are stimuli ...
... to the communication process can affect belief in global warming (i.e., heuristics and cognitive primes). Heuristics are cognitive short cuts or quick decision rules that people use to guide their decisions when evaluating overwhelming risks or difficult problems, whereas cognitive primes are stimuli ...
Curriculum vitae PDF
... Research Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering (INE) School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (joint appointment) International Arctic Research Center (joint appointment with INE) ...
... Research Assistant Professor, University of Alaska, Fairbanks Institute of Northern Engineering (INE) School of Natural Resources and Agricultural Sciences (joint appointment) International Arctic Research Center (joint appointment with INE) ...