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... Flash floods and seasonal river floods pose a significant challenge to the country’s vulnerable institutions. Flash floods occur regularly throughout the country, particularly after a long dry spell. More recently, in the years 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 2006, major floods inflicted significa ...
... Flash floods and seasonal river floods pose a significant challenge to the country’s vulnerable institutions. Flash floods occur regularly throughout the country, particularly after a long dry spell. More recently, in the years 1988, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, and 2006, major floods inflicted significa ...
Climate in the Heartland
... waste operations must process greater quantities of debris, and services such as public transportation can be disrupted. Other hazardous weather events, such as tornadoes, wind, hail, drought, heat waves, and winter storms come with their own range of impacts. Over the past century, governments evol ...
... waste operations must process greater quantities of debris, and services such as public transportation can be disrupted. Other hazardous weather events, such as tornadoes, wind, hail, drought, heat waves, and winter storms come with their own range of impacts. Over the past century, governments evol ...
amazonia mapping essential natural capital
... ecosystems, and ecological processes—is fundamental to the planet’s health and humanity’s survival. It is the essential base of natural capital which supports human well-being and economic activity. The Amazonian region is one of the richest areas of biodiversity on the planet, containing around 2.5 ...
... ecosystems, and ecological processes—is fundamental to the planet’s health and humanity’s survival. It is the essential base of natural capital which supports human well-being and economic activity. The Amazonian region is one of the richest areas of biodiversity on the planet, containing around 2.5 ...
Downscaling Tools - University of Victoria
... Limitations of LARS-WG (and weather generators in general) ... • Temporal downscaling only • Designed for use at individual sites only (no spatial correlation) • Can only represent events in calibration data set • Generally underestimate variability ...
... Limitations of LARS-WG (and weather generators in general) ... • Temporal downscaling only • Designed for use at individual sites only (no spatial correlation) • Can only represent events in calibration data set • Generally underestimate variability ...
Temperature Change in New England: 1895-2012
... extreme downpours and snowfalls. Since 1984 extreme downpour and snowfall events have increases by 85%. These events are likely to continue to increase in the future and cause damaging floods. However they will be spread out and there will potentially be longer periods where water will be scarce whi ...
... extreme downpours and snowfalls. Since 1984 extreme downpour and snowfall events have increases by 85%. These events are likely to continue to increase in the future and cause damaging floods. However they will be spread out and there will potentially be longer periods where water will be scarce whi ...
Assessing the adequacy of current fisheries
... Climate change is likely to have a significant impact on both target and non-target marine stocks worldwide, with the concomitant need for management strategies capable of sustaining fishing in future. We use several southern hemisphere fisheries to highlight the likely impacts of climate change at a r ...
... Climate change is likely to have a significant impact on both target and non-target marine stocks worldwide, with the concomitant need for management strategies capable of sustaining fishing in future. We use several southern hemisphere fisheries to highlight the likely impacts of climate change at a r ...
How Climate Change Will Affect People Around the World
... of loss of native pollinators, greater risks of pest outbreaks, reduced water supply, and greater incidence of heatwaves could lead to much greater declines in food production than through the individual effects themselves (see Table 3.2 later in chapter). The consequences of climate change will dep ...
... of loss of native pollinators, greater risks of pest outbreaks, reduced water supply, and greater incidence of heatwaves could lead to much greater declines in food production than through the individual effects themselves (see Table 3.2 later in chapter). The consequences of climate change will dep ...
indigenous strategies and empirical models for adaptability of the
... hoods are agriculture and natural resource dependant (Cooper et al., 2008). As a result, food production is almost entirely dependent on rainfall and therefore is highly vulnerable to changes in precipitation and the occurrence of drought (World Bank, 2013). Due to the changes of the environment the ...
... hoods are agriculture and natural resource dependant (Cooper et al., 2008). As a result, food production is almost entirely dependent on rainfall and therefore is highly vulnerable to changes in precipitation and the occurrence of drought (World Bank, 2013). Due to the changes of the environment the ...
climate change: the missing topic in zimbabwean secondary school
... Climate change is one of the most important global challenges that are currently affecting humanity. Climate change has impacts on man, animals, plants and their environment resulting to health, economic and social consequences (Victor-Ishikaku and Nyenwe, 2014). As a result climate change has recei ...
... Climate change is one of the most important global challenges that are currently affecting humanity. Climate change has impacts on man, animals, plants and their environment resulting to health, economic and social consequences (Victor-Ishikaku and Nyenwe, 2014). As a result climate change has recei ...
Heat Turn Down the Confronting
... Across the three regions studied in this report, record-breaking temperatures are occurring more frequently, rainfall has increased in intensity in some places, while drought-prone regions like the Mediterranean are getting dryer. A significant increase in tropical North Atlantic cyclone activity is ...
... Across the three regions studied in this report, record-breaking temperatures are occurring more frequently, rainfall has increased in intensity in some places, while drought-prone regions like the Mediterranean are getting dryer. A significant increase in tropical North Atlantic cyclone activity is ...
South Asian Regional Study on Climate Change Impacts and
... water stressed. Rapid depletion of water resource is already a cause for concern in many countries within the region. Figure 3 highlights that in South Asia alone, 2.5 billion people will be affected with water stress and scarcity by the year 2050 (HDR, 2006). While estimating these numbers, however ...
... water stressed. Rapid depletion of water resource is already a cause for concern in many countries within the region. Figure 3 highlights that in South Asia alone, 2.5 billion people will be affected with water stress and scarcity by the year 2050 (HDR, 2006). While estimating these numbers, however ...
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... cm depth, followed by every 2 cm thereafter. For each interval, a minimum of 300 diatom valves was identified primarily to species level using a LEICA DMRB microscope equipped with Nomarski DIC optics under oil immersion at 1000X magnification. Taxonomy is based primarily upon Krammer and Lange-Bert ...
... cm depth, followed by every 2 cm thereafter. For each interval, a minimum of 300 diatom valves was identified primarily to species level using a LEICA DMRB microscope equipped with Nomarski DIC optics under oil immersion at 1000X magnification. Taxonomy is based primarily upon Krammer and Lange-Bert ...
How far are biodiversity loss and climate change similar as policy
... below), but biodiversity loss is not directly perceived by ordinary people. More than half the world’s population is now urban by residence and has no direct daily engagement with nature. Biodiversity is already lost in urban environments, so further loss in some remote location is beyond direct exp ...
... below), but biodiversity loss is not directly perceived by ordinary people. More than half the world’s population is now urban by residence and has no direct daily engagement with nature. Biodiversity is already lost in urban environments, so further loss in some remote location is beyond direct exp ...
Assessing the effects of climate and volcanism on diatom and
... The tropical Andes are undergoing climate changes that rival those occurring anywhere else on the planet, and are likely to have profound consequences for ecosystems. Paleolimnological investigations of remote mountain lakes can provide details of past environmental change, especially where monitori ...
... The tropical Andes are undergoing climate changes that rival those occurring anywhere else on the planet, and are likely to have profound consequences for ecosystems. Paleolimnological investigations of remote mountain lakes can provide details of past environmental change, especially where monitori ...
Future Climate: Projected extremes
... is the exception, as it naturally focuses on river basins. Drought in the Colorado River Basin, which encompasses a large swath of the Southwest and channels a large part of its water supply, was the focus of a recent drought projection study (Cayan et al. 2010). As a state, California has probably ...
... is the exception, as it naturally focuses on river basins. Drought in the Colorado River Basin, which encompasses a large swath of the Southwest and channels a large part of its water supply, was the focus of a recent drought projection study (Cayan et al. 2010). As a state, California has probably ...
Pattern scaling using ClimGen: monthly
... concentrations of greenhouses gases, and hence different future global temperature changes (Huntingford et al. 2010); or (iii) time periods for which suitable simulations have not been undertaken (e.g., to use RCM simulations of the late 21st century to provide projections for the early or mid 21st ...
... concentrations of greenhouses gases, and hence different future global temperature changes (Huntingford et al. 2010); or (iii) time periods for which suitable simulations have not been undertaken (e.g., to use RCM simulations of the late 21st century to provide projections for the early or mid 21st ...
Temperature (Word) - Narragansett Bay Estuary Program
... conclusions of Morrill and colleagues, as the river has warmed 0.95°C (1.7°F) from 1946-2008, driven by warming air temperatures (Seekell and Pace 2011). According to climate models produced through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Climate System Research Center at the Un ...
... conclusions of Morrill and colleagues, as the river has warmed 0.95°C (1.7°F) from 1946-2008, driven by warming air temperatures (Seekell and Pace 2011). According to climate models produced through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Climate System Research Center at the Un ...
ahead of the storm
... WHY IS ADAPTATION NECESSARY? It is widely recognized that the world’s climate will continue to change for years to come as a result of the greenhouse gases already in our atmosphere. In the last decade, Toronto has experienced more extreme heat, storms, floods and droughts as well as the invasion of ...
... WHY IS ADAPTATION NECESSARY? It is widely recognized that the world’s climate will continue to change for years to come as a result of the greenhouse gases already in our atmosphere. In the last decade, Toronto has experienced more extreme heat, storms, floods and droughts as well as the invasion of ...
3.47 MB - Asian Development Bank
... serious problem for national economy and environment. The need of water will increase at the same time when the river discharges will diminish. This situation may generate water management disputes and conflicts between people living in the mountains and plains. Therefore, the decision-makers of the ...
... serious problem for national economy and environment. The need of water will increase at the same time when the river discharges will diminish. This situation may generate water management disputes and conflicts between people living in the mountains and plains. Therefore, the decision-makers of the ...
Assessing the impact of deforestation and climate change on the
... models were derived with fewer than 10 localities, we highlight these species and emphasize results from EOO data. Maxent estimates a species’ distribution by determining the distribution of maximum entropy (i.e. that is closest to uniform) under the constraint that the expected value of each climat ...
... models were derived with fewer than 10 localities, we highlight these species and emphasize results from EOO data. Maxent estimates a species’ distribution by determining the distribution of maximum entropy (i.e. that is closest to uniform) under the constraint that the expected value of each climat ...
Cooling of US Midwest summer temperature extremes from cropland
... pronounced for high-temperature days when evaporative demand is the greatest43 , consistent with observed temperature trends. To quantitatively evaluate whether changes in agricultural intensity correspond with the observed spatial pattern and magnitude of cooling across the US, we calculate an inde ...
... pronounced for high-temperature days when evaporative demand is the greatest43 , consistent with observed temperature trends. To quantitatively evaluate whether changes in agricultural intensity correspond with the observed spatial pattern and magnitude of cooling across the US, we calculate an inde ...
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... location in Sub-Saharan Africa, which already has characteristically high temperatures, an increase in the mean temperature and varying extremes of precipitation due to global warming will have detrimental effects on the Nigerian economy. The coastal regions of Nigeria are also susceptible to severe ...
... location in Sub-Saharan Africa, which already has characteristically high temperatures, an increase in the mean temperature and varying extremes of precipitation due to global warming will have detrimental effects on the Nigerian economy. The coastal regions of Nigeria are also susceptible to severe ...
Towards Climate Change Adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region
... Rīga, the capital city of Latvia, is of major importance for sustainable development of the country, it is the major centre of economic development and where most of the inhabitants of Latvia live. At the same time, Rīga is especially vulnerable to impacts of climate change due to its location in th ...
... Rīga, the capital city of Latvia, is of major importance for sustainable development of the country, it is the major centre of economic development and where most of the inhabitants of Latvia live. At the same time, Rīga is especially vulnerable to impacts of climate change due to its location in th ...
Adapted from a Public Briefing
... downpours are projected to further increase in frequency and intensity. Substantial areas of North America are likely to have more frequent droughts of greater severity. Hurricane wind speeds, rainfall intensity, and storm surge levels are projected to increase. The strongest cold season storms are ...
... downpours are projected to further increase in frequency and intensity. Substantial areas of North America are likely to have more frequent droughts of greater severity. Hurricane wind speeds, rainfall intensity, and storm surge levels are projected to increase. The strongest cold season storms are ...
Regional assessment of climate change impacts on maize
... possible impact of climate change on production risks is therefore necessary to help decision makers and stakeholders identify and implement suitable measures of adaptation. The key aspect for quantifying production risk is how the frequency distribution of yield responds to changes in the climatic ...
... possible impact of climate change on production risks is therefore necessary to help decision makers and stakeholders identify and implement suitable measures of adaptation. The key aspect for quantifying production risk is how the frequency distribution of yield responds to changes in the climatic ...