A Summary of Climate Change Risks for London
... sea level rise. Changes in levels of rainfall are expected to impact on surface water flooding, sewer flooding and groundwater flooding. Surface water flooding occurs when heavy rainfall overcomes the drainage system. It is an area of climate risk which is particularly increased in urban areas such ...
... sea level rise. Changes in levels of rainfall are expected to impact on surface water flooding, sewer flooding and groundwater flooding. Surface water flooding occurs when heavy rainfall overcomes the drainage system. It is an area of climate risk which is particularly increased in urban areas such ...
Climate Change Report for Gulf of the Farallones and
... larger organisms, influencing size structure and species interactions that depend on size. However, the relationship between offshore significant wave height and hydrodynamic force is not simple. Although local wave height inside the surf zone is a good predictor of wave velocity and force (Gaylord ...
... larger organisms, influencing size structure and species interactions that depend on size. However, the relationship between offshore significant wave height and hydrodynamic force is not simple. Although local wave height inside the surf zone is a good predictor of wave velocity and force (Gaylord ...
How much disease could climate change cause?
... Given the clear evidence that many health outcomes are highly sensitive to climate variations, it is inevitable that long-term climate change will have some effect on global population health. Climate change is likely to affect not only health but also many aspects of ecological and social systems, ...
... Given the clear evidence that many health outcomes are highly sensitive to climate variations, it is inevitable that long-term climate change will have some effect on global population health. Climate change is likely to affect not only health but also many aspects of ecological and social systems, ...
An Initial Assessment of Winter Climate Change Adaptation
... emerging as an increasingly important response to political inaction and gridlock. Local officials are embracing a growing number of policies, incentives, and regulations to reduce greenhouse gas ...
... emerging as an increasingly important response to political inaction and gridlock. Local officials are embracing a growing number of policies, incentives, and regulations to reduce greenhouse gas ...
Climate Change Scenarios for New Zealand Rainfall
... to lie between 1.4° and 5.8°C, relative to 1990 levels (Cubasch et al. 2001). In global terms, the hydrological cycle is expected to increase in intensity with rising temperatures. All general circulation model (GCM) simulations used in the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment o ...
... to lie between 1.4° and 5.8°C, relative to 1990 levels (Cubasch et al. 2001). In global terms, the hydrological cycle is expected to increase in intensity with rising temperatures. All general circulation model (GCM) simulations used in the last Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment o ...
15A.3 THE IMPACT OF FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE ON
... As expected from the increase in precipitation and latent heat release in future simulations, stronger diabatic PV production results in stronger diabatic PV towers in those simulations (Fig. 9), with the strength of the lowertropospheric portion of the PV tower strongest in the A2 and A1B simulatio ...
... As expected from the increase in precipitation and latent heat release in future simulations, stronger diabatic PV production results in stronger diabatic PV towers in those simulations (Fig. 9), with the strength of the lowertropospheric portion of the PV tower strongest in the A2 and A1B simulatio ...
Mapping vulnerability to multiple stressors: climate change and
... case studies in selected districts. This method may be used to assess differential vulnerability for any particular sector within a nation or region, and it can serve as a basis for targeting policy interventions. We focus on India’s agricultural vulnerability to two stressors: climate change and ec ...
... case studies in selected districts. This method may be used to assess differential vulnerability for any particular sector within a nation or region, and it can serve as a basis for targeting policy interventions. We focus on India’s agricultural vulnerability to two stressors: climate change and ec ...
Climate Change Riparian Restoration
... Riparian Systems Climate change is projected to lead to increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events, which will likely result in more frequent and severe floods as well as more intense droughts (Easterling et al. 2000). The rate at which ecological systems recover from disturbance wil ...
... Riparian Systems Climate change is projected to lead to increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events, which will likely result in more frequent and severe floods as well as more intense droughts (Easterling et al. 2000). The rate at which ecological systems recover from disturbance wil ...
Extreme Weather and Climate Change
... from natural disasters as a whole, however, and the results are quite different. Data from Munich Re, one of the world’s largest re-insurance firms, show that direct economic losses (in 1992 U.S. dollars) from natural disasters worldwide increased by a factor of 43 between the last half of the 1960s ...
... from natural disasters as a whole, however, and the results are quite different. Data from Munich Re, one of the world’s largest re-insurance firms, show that direct economic losses (in 1992 U.S. dollars) from natural disasters worldwide increased by a factor of 43 between the last half of the 1960s ...
Provenance Trials in Alpine Range – Review and Perspectives for
... The impact of adaptive traits on forest management, conservation biology and genetics, and on climate adaptation is tremendous: for example, in forest management adaptive traits are the basis for the delineation of breeding zones and provenance regions, for ex‐ ample see [59, 60]. In conservation bi ...
... The impact of adaptive traits on forest management, conservation biology and genetics, and on climate adaptation is tremendous: for example, in forest management adaptive traits are the basis for the delineation of breeding zones and provenance regions, for ex‐ ample see [59, 60]. In conservation bi ...
Biodiversity information pack
... way the ecosystem functions and which species live there. Eutrophication can occur through natural processes, for example if light levels increase. However, human activities such as agriculture and sewage treatment are increasingly the cause. Phosphorous and nitrogen compounds are particularly signi ...
... way the ecosystem functions and which species live there. Eutrophication can occur through natural processes, for example if light levels increase. However, human activities such as agriculture and sewage treatment are increasingly the cause. Phosphorous and nitrogen compounds are particularly signi ...
Chapter 4: NSW Snowy Mountains region
... play in the development of sensible management decisions, particularly in response to reducing feral animal numbers, such as horses and deer. Successful community engagement is required in order to address any future changes in policy with regard to these matters. ...
... play in the development of sensible management decisions, particularly in response to reducing feral animal numbers, such as horses and deer. Successful community engagement is required in order to address any future changes in policy with regard to these matters. ...
NSW and ACT Regional Climate Model: Project scope
... their skill in modelling major climate variables for this region of the globe1. GCMs are based on physical processes (e.g. how solar radiation, the atmosphere, land and oceans interact to generate weather and climate) and evolve over time (hence ‘dynamical’). GCM projections do have a number of limi ...
... their skill in modelling major climate variables for this region of the globe1. GCMs are based on physical processes (e.g. how solar radiation, the atmosphere, land and oceans interact to generate weather and climate) and evolve over time (hence ‘dynamical’). GCM projections do have a number of limi ...
The limits to biogeographical distributions: insights from the
... limitation by a suite of environmental factors determines where population distributions reach their limit. When the environment changes, the physiological barrier to individual survival and reproduction is moved, and distributional limits shift. Although this relatively simple view of shifts in spe ...
... limitation by a suite of environmental factors determines where population distributions reach their limit. When the environment changes, the physiological barrier to individual survival and reproduction is moved, and distributional limits shift. Although this relatively simple view of shifts in spe ...
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... could be the impact of these climatic changes on food security in Mt. Kilimanjaro?” Agricultural production on Mt. Kilimanjaro provides a unique setting to analyze the impact of climate change. The variation of precipitation and temperature across altitudes provides a setting for a natural experimen ...
... could be the impact of these climatic changes on food security in Mt. Kilimanjaro?” Agricultural production on Mt. Kilimanjaro provides a unique setting to analyze the impact of climate change. The variation of precipitation and temperature across altitudes provides a setting for a natural experimen ...
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... also highly likely to increase in all areas due to higher temperatures. These increases will be larger in regions and seasons in which rainfall decreases. Increases in open water evaporation will affect wetlands and water storages. The combination of generally declining rainfall and increased evapor ...
... also highly likely to increase in all areas due to higher temperatures. These increases will be larger in regions and seasons in which rainfall decreases. Increases in open water evaporation will affect wetlands and water storages. The combination of generally declining rainfall and increased evapor ...
April Cover.qxd - KNAW Research Portal
... Advances in ecological stoichiometry, a rapidly expanding research field investigating the elemental composition of organisms and their environment, have shed new light on the impacts of climate change on freshwater and marine ecosystems. Current changes in the Earth’s climate alter the availability ...
... Advances in ecological stoichiometry, a rapidly expanding research field investigating the elemental composition of organisms and their environment, have shed new light on the impacts of climate change on freshwater and marine ecosystems. Current changes in the Earth’s climate alter the availability ...
A Just Climate: Our Responsibility To Act
... First and foremost, Caritas Australia believes that effective development is founded in our duty to be good stewards of the earth’s resources, in our commitment to the common good, and in our determination to protect human dignity in the most vulnerable communities with which we work in partnership. ...
... First and foremost, Caritas Australia believes that effective development is founded in our duty to be good stewards of the earth’s resources, in our commitment to the common good, and in our determination to protect human dignity in the most vulnerable communities with which we work in partnership. ...
- White Rose Research Online
... Challinor, AJ, Wheeler, TR, Garforth, C, Craufurd, P and Kassam, A (2007) Assessing the vulnerability of food crop systems in Africa to climate change. ...
... Challinor, AJ, Wheeler, TR, Garforth, C, Craufurd, P and Kassam, A (2007) Assessing the vulnerability of food crop systems in Africa to climate change. ...
Current and future ozone risks to global terrestrial biodiversity and
... mented, but implications for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem processes have received insufficient attention. This is an important gap because feedbacks to the atmosphere may change as future O3 levels increase or decrease, depending on air quality and climate policies. Global simulation of O3 ...
... mented, but implications for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem processes have received insufficient attention. This is an important gap because feedbacks to the atmosphere may change as future O3 levels increase or decrease, depending on air quality and climate policies. Global simulation of O3 ...
Demographic models and IPCC climate projections predict the
... we note that the 56-year penguin observation period includes 10 warm events, for a frequency of w! o " 10/56 " 0.18 (dotted line of Fig. 2B). Thus, for each climate model, we calculated the SIE threshold that produced a frequency of w! o " 0.18 over the observation period; these thresholds range fro ...
... we note that the 56-year penguin observation period includes 10 warm events, for a frequency of w! o " 10/56 " 0.18 (dotted line of Fig. 2B). Thus, for each climate model, we calculated the SIE threshold that produced a frequency of w! o " 0.18 over the observation period; these thresholds range fro ...
Functional traits predict relationship between plant abundance
... increased temperature would promote the abundance of nutrient-acquisitive species (26) that typically have large leaves with high SLA (26). In contrast, we found no links with leaf area and detected a positive association with temperature increase in species with low SLA. Low SLA (sclerophylly) is u ...
... increased temperature would promote the abundance of nutrient-acquisitive species (26) that typically have large leaves with high SLA (26). In contrast, we found no links with leaf area and detected a positive association with temperature increase in species with low SLA. Low SLA (sclerophylly) is u ...
Conclusions and recommendations for action
... UNFCCC strengthens the international response to climate change (Box 2). The evidence relating to the existence of human-induced global climate change has become compelling: the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report concluded that human-induced warming has begun. Global average temperature is rising faster ...
... UNFCCC strengthens the international response to climate change (Box 2). The evidence relating to the existence of human-induced global climate change has become compelling: the IPCC’s Third Assessment Report concluded that human-induced warming has begun. Global average temperature is rising faster ...
Climate Change and US Agriculture
... may have on agriculture in the United States. Its aim is to elucidate how warmer temperatures and an increase in extreme weather events (including spells of very high temperatures, torrential rains and flooding, and droughts) may affect a) crop yields, b) the incidence of weeds, insects, and plant d ...
... may have on agriculture in the United States. Its aim is to elucidate how warmer temperatures and an increase in extreme weather events (including spells of very high temperatures, torrential rains and flooding, and droughts) may affect a) crop yields, b) the incidence of weeds, insects, and plant d ...
Tales of future weather
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... LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Onli ...