climate_new
... oxygen that evaporates. More light oxygen is lost to evaporation in cold times, so low temperature sea water has high ratios of 18O/16O. Organisms growing in these waters take on the ambient oxygen ...
... oxygen that evaporates. More light oxygen is lost to evaporation in cold times, so low temperature sea water has high ratios of 18O/16O. Organisms growing in these waters take on the ambient oxygen ...
Demographics of true and false climate facts
... Beliefs about climate change divide the U.S. public along party lines more distinctly than hot social issues. Research finds that better-educated or informed respondents are more likely to align with their parties on climate change. This information–elite polarization resembles a process of biased a ...
... Beliefs about climate change divide the U.S. public along party lines more distinctly than hot social issues. Research finds that better-educated or informed respondents are more likely to align with their parties on climate change. This information–elite polarization resembles a process of biased a ...
Climate change and grasslands through the ages
... while reduction in summer rainfall over the northern Mediterranean could exceed 30%. Drought periods would be expected to shift in time and last longer. With 2 oC global warming, the whole southern part of the Mediterranean would likely be at risk from forest fires all year round. In other parts of ...
... while reduction in summer rainfall over the northern Mediterranean could exceed 30%. Drought periods would be expected to shift in time and last longer. With 2 oC global warming, the whole southern part of the Mediterranean would likely be at risk from forest fires all year round. In other parts of ...
Amundsen - The Journal of Ocean Technology
... mapping efforts represent the most extensive source of modern high-density bathymetric data in the Canadian Archipelago. Anticipating the Response of Arctic Marine Ecosystems to Climate Change and Development From declining sea-ice cover to the warming of the surface layer, from seawater acidificati ...
... mapping efforts represent the most extensive source of modern high-density bathymetric data in the Canadian Archipelago. Anticipating the Response of Arctic Marine Ecosystems to Climate Change and Development From declining sea-ice cover to the warming of the surface layer, from seawater acidificati ...
Download: swipa-spm - Arctic Monitoring and Assessment
... emissions can begin to stabilize some trends (albeit at higher levels than today) after that. Reversing trends would require reductions in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. • Compliance with the Paris Agreement will stabilize snow and permafrost losses, but there will still be much less sn ...
... emissions can begin to stabilize some trends (albeit at higher levels than today) after that. Reversing trends would require reductions in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. • Compliance with the Paris Agreement will stabilize snow and permafrost losses, but there will still be much less sn ...
CLIMATE_NRE_480_L09_Coherent_Convergent_20160209
... • Dynamic variability in the ocean (ocean-ice-landatmosphere interactions) • Most scenarios of abrupt climate change are related to a phase change in some way or another. Does the albedo change quickly? Is there a change in the fresh water in the ocean? Is there a release of gas stored in something ...
... • Dynamic variability in the ocean (ocean-ice-landatmosphere interactions) • Most scenarios of abrupt climate change are related to a phase change in some way or another. Does the albedo change quickly? Is there a change in the fresh water in the ocean? Is there a release of gas stored in something ...
A recent study published in Nature Climate Change
... rapid temperature rise in the near future highlights the need for both mitigation and adaptation. The report, as summarised in the Carbon Brief (see http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2015/03/earthentering-new-era-of-rapid-temperature-change-study-warns/), has been the subject of some comments on socia ...
... rapid temperature rise in the near future highlights the need for both mitigation and adaptation. The report, as summarised in the Carbon Brief (see http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2015/03/earthentering-new-era-of-rapid-temperature-change-study-warns/), has been the subject of some comments on socia ...
observed climate change in the caribbean
... pattern of warming during the past half century can be explained without external forcing, and very unlikely that it is due to known natural external causes alone. ...
... pattern of warming during the past half century can be explained without external forcing, and very unlikely that it is due to known natural external causes alone. ...
Rapid Climate Change in the Arctic: Polar Research as a
... tradition in Germany. The Arctic and Antarctic have a unique genesis and serve as archives of Earth’s evolution. The geological, biological and climatic processes that occur in these regions play an important role for global developments. The rapid climate change in parts of the Antarctic and in the ...
... tradition in Germany. The Arctic and Antarctic have a unique genesis and serve as archives of Earth’s evolution. The geological, biological and climatic processes that occur in these regions play an important role for global developments. The rapid climate change in parts of the Antarctic and in the ...
We Can Reduce the Threat of Climate Change (2)
... Because of Human Activities (1) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) • 90–99% likely that lower atmosphere is warming • 1906–2005: Ave. temp increased about 0.74˚C • 1970–2005: Annual greenhouse emissions up ...
... Because of Human Activities (1) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) • 90–99% likely that lower atmosphere is warming • 1906–2005: Ave. temp increased about 0.74˚C • 1970–2005: Annual greenhouse emissions up ...
REDUCED RISK OF NORTH AMERICAN COLD EXTREMES DUE
... past. The coldest day over this period occurred on 19 January 1994 (–20.3°C). During 1980–99, 20 days had a daily mean CENA temperature as cold or colder than –16.8°C, spread across six winters (Table 1). Such events have often occurred in clusters, with multiple days this cold in several years. Bas ...
... past. The coldest day over this period occurred on 19 January 1994 (–20.3°C). During 1980–99, 20 days had a daily mean CENA temperature as cold or colder than –16.8°C, spread across six winters (Table 1). Such events have often occurred in clusters, with multiple days this cold in several years. Bas ...
Testing the hypothesis of dangerous human
... occur before changes in the presumed effect (temperature increase). Data from Antarctic ice cores show unequivocally that the answer to this question also is “no”, i.e. the presumed effect predates the presumed cause. TEST 4 asks whether a close correlation exists between the monotonic increase seen ...
... occur before changes in the presumed effect (temperature increase). Data from Antarctic ice cores show unequivocally that the answer to this question also is “no”, i.e. the presumed effect predates the presumed cause. TEST 4 asks whether a close correlation exists between the monotonic increase seen ...
Climate-System Tipping Points and Extreme Weather Events
... years, red lines may soon be reached or even have been crossed already. For the Northern ice sheet on Greenland, the most determinant parameter is the surface temperature, which, in contrast to most of Antarctica, is high enough to instigate melting. In Greenland, the melt water can reach the base o ...
... years, red lines may soon be reached or even have been crossed already. For the Northern ice sheet on Greenland, the most determinant parameter is the surface temperature, which, in contrast to most of Antarctica, is high enough to instigate melting. In Greenland, the melt water can reach the base o ...
Variability and Trends of Air Temperature and Pressure in the
... (Gates et al. 1996). The implications that these modelto-model differences have for the simulation of realistic Arctic climate change and variability may be significant. Spectacular changes have occurred in the Arctic over the last few decades. Arctic SAT shows warming (Martin et al. 1997; Rigor et ...
... (Gates et al. 1996). The implications that these modelto-model differences have for the simulation of realistic Arctic climate change and variability may be significant. Spectacular changes have occurred in the Arctic over the last few decades. Arctic SAT shows warming (Martin et al. 1997; Rigor et ...
Impacts of warming
... Here we use analysis of the Met Office’s Earth system model, HadGEM2-ES, to show how some impacts differ at certain levels of warming. The results are taken for a single high emissions scenario as global temperatures pass 1.5 °C, 2 °C and 4 °C of warming above pre-industrial levels. Information on o ...
... Here we use analysis of the Met Office’s Earth system model, HadGEM2-ES, to show how some impacts differ at certain levels of warming. The results are taken for a single high emissions scenario as global temperatures pass 1.5 °C, 2 °C and 4 °C of warming above pre-industrial levels. Information on o ...
Document
... • 90–99% likely that lower atmosphere is warming • Especially since 1960 • Mostly from human-caused increases in greenhouse gases • Earth’s climate is now changing from increased greenhouse gases ...
... • 90–99% likely that lower atmosphere is warming • Especially since 1960 • Mostly from human-caused increases in greenhouse gases • Earth’s climate is now changing from increased greenhouse gases ...
Shelf Seas - International Arctic Science Committee
... Arctic. This long-term development is complicated by the extensive interannual and regional variation that characterizes arctic shelves. Ecological changes naturally follow ecosystem alteration associated with global warming. For example, Atlantic-invasion species, such as the blue mussel and blue w ...
... Arctic. This long-term development is complicated by the extensive interannual and regional variation that characterizes arctic shelves. Ecological changes naturally follow ecosystem alteration associated with global warming. For example, Atlantic-invasion species, such as the blue mussel and blue w ...
chapter 12 - glaciers and glaciation
... Glacial ice is similar to metamorphic rock. Snow is compacted into granular ice called firn. Continued compaction, thawing and refreezing causes recrystallization and welding of ice crystals into glacial ice. Ice accumulates in the upper part of a glacier (zone of accumulation), moves by gravity and ...
... Glacial ice is similar to metamorphic rock. Snow is compacted into granular ice called firn. Continued compaction, thawing and refreezing causes recrystallization and welding of ice crystals into glacial ice. Ice accumulates in the upper part of a glacier (zone of accumulation), moves by gravity and ...
Document 1 - City of Hallandale Beach
... RESOLUTION NO. 2013 A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY ...
... RESOLUTION NO. 2013 A RESOLUTION OF THE MAYOR AND CITY ...
1) Indications of changes in global temperatures
... – Wow, this year is really hot! – Wow, this year is really rainy! – Wow, the last two years we’ve had bad hurricanes! Longer baselines are needed to justify such statements. Huge ice deposits (such as glaciers or arctic/antarctic ice fields) help monitor overall global temperatures because… – They h ...
... – Wow, this year is really hot! – Wow, this year is really rainy! – Wow, the last two years we’ve had bad hurricanes! Longer baselines are needed to justify such statements. Huge ice deposits (such as glaciers or arctic/antarctic ice fields) help monitor overall global temperatures because… – They h ...
Climate change issues for 2012
... Isn’t climate change making floods more severe? Peer-reviewed studies reject these claims, too. “Are US floods increasing? The answer is still ‘No,’” says a new scientific paper by Roger Pielke, Jr. The evidence demonstrates that “flooding has not increased in U.S. over records of 85 to 127 years. T ...
... Isn’t climate change making floods more severe? Peer-reviewed studies reject these claims, too. “Are US floods increasing? The answer is still ‘No,’” says a new scientific paper by Roger Pielke, Jr. The evidence demonstrates that “flooding has not increased in U.S. over records of 85 to 127 years. T ...
Recent sea-level rise
... into the ocean interior – if heat is taken up more readily, climate change is retarded but sea level rises more rapidly ...
... into the ocean interior – if heat is taken up more readily, climate change is retarded but sea level rises more rapidly ...