Evidence for a Rapid Global Climate Shift across the Late 1960s
... (EOFs) have been constructed of precipitation in the Tropics (30°S–30°N) in the NCEP–NCAR reanalysis for several time periods. The EOFs have been computed using the singular value decomposition procedure, with algorithms provided by MATLAB. Attention is focused on the Northern Hemisphere summer seas ...
... (EOFs) have been constructed of precipitation in the Tropics (30°S–30°N) in the NCEP–NCAR reanalysis for several time periods. The EOFs have been computed using the singular value decomposition procedure, with algorithms provided by MATLAB. Attention is focused on the Northern Hemisphere summer seas ...
The Impact of Climate Change and Human Activity on Net Primary
... As the most sensitive area in the world to environmental change [8], the Tibetan Plateau has received considerable attention in terms of responses to climate factors. Many studies have focused on the dynamic distribution of vegetation NPP and the responses to climate factors [9, 10]. In Tibet, the N ...
... As the most sensitive area in the world to environmental change [8], the Tibetan Plateau has received considerable attention in terms of responses to climate factors. Many studies have focused on the dynamic distribution of vegetation NPP and the responses to climate factors [9, 10]. In Tibet, the N ...
Title Projected Range Contractions of European Protected Oceanic
... increasing warmth, to occupy areas of higher altitudes, or move their range northwards, becoming extinct in more southerly regions [5]. Many factors influence a species’ ability to alter its range in response to climate change, including dispersal ability and availability of suitable habitat. Specie ...
... increasing warmth, to occupy areas of higher altitudes, or move their range northwards, becoming extinct in more southerly regions [5]. Many factors influence a species’ ability to alter its range in response to climate change, including dispersal ability and availability of suitable habitat. Specie ...
Climate change and marine plankton Graeme C. Hays , Anthony J. Richardson
... the coast of California began to sample mesozooplankton during 1949 using ring nets deployed at a regular grid of stations [65]. However, by the 1970s, funding cuts meant that the spatial coverage was reduced, with no sampling conducted in some years [10]. The negative perception of long-term monito ...
... the coast of California began to sample mesozooplankton during 1949 using ring nets deployed at a regular grid of stations [65]. However, by the 1970s, funding cuts meant that the spatial coverage was reduced, with no sampling conducted in some years [10]. The negative perception of long-term monito ...
Climate change and marine plankton
... the coast of California began to sample mesozooplankton during 1949 using ring nets deployed at a regular grid of stations [65]. However, by the 1970s, funding cuts meant that the spatial coverage was reduced, with no sampling conducted in some years [10]. The negative perception of long-term monito ...
... the coast of California began to sample mesozooplankton during 1949 using ring nets deployed at a regular grid of stations [65]. However, by the 1970s, funding cuts meant that the spatial coverage was reduced, with no sampling conducted in some years [10]. The negative perception of long-term monito ...
Incorporating estuaries as a source or sink of sediment within
... marine climate drivers. However, along the New South Wales coast, many more people live on the margins of estuaries or other coastal water bodies than along the open shoreline. The impact of climate change will be felt differently within estuaries. Their response to climate change is mediated by est ...
... marine climate drivers. However, along the New South Wales coast, many more people live on the margins of estuaries or other coastal water bodies than along the open shoreline. The impact of climate change will be felt differently within estuaries. Their response to climate change is mediated by est ...
Progress in Physical Geography
... School of Natural Sciences, Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland I Introduction This year saw the publication of two major works in the fields of climate and environmental change. The first, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), pr ...
... School of Natural Sciences, Museum Building, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland I Introduction This year saw the publication of two major works in the fields of climate and environmental change. The first, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), pr ...
Climate: Observations, projections and impacts
... • The potential impacts of climate change, based on results from the UK’s Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change programme (AVOID) and supporting literature. For details visit: http://www.avoid.uk.net The assessment of impacts at the national level, both for the AVOID programme results and the cited supp ...
... • The potential impacts of climate change, based on results from the UK’s Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change programme (AVOID) and supporting literature. For details visit: http://www.avoid.uk.net The assessment of impacts at the national level, both for the AVOID programme results and the cited supp ...
Vegetation–climate feedbacks modulate rainfall patterns in Africa
... feedbacks operate locally and may also generate teleconnections via heat and moisture advection, leading to altered atmospheric circulation (e.g. Avissar and Werth, 2005; Nogherotto et al., 2013). Previous studies have shown the importance of vegetation-mediated biophysical feedbacks for the past (e ...
... feedbacks operate locally and may also generate teleconnections via heat and moisture advection, leading to altered atmospheric circulation (e.g. Avissar and Werth, 2005; Nogherotto et al., 2013). Previous studies have shown the importance of vegetation-mediated biophysical feedbacks for the past (e ...
The Environmental Turning Point
... testing and weaponry. However, in many ways it was born more out of fear for personal safety than anger for the despoliation of the environment (Shabecoff, 2003), which started the intersection of social justice with environmentalism, something that would come to grow in strength in later waves. Com ...
... testing and weaponry. However, in many ways it was born more out of fear for personal safety than anger for the despoliation of the environment (Shabecoff, 2003), which started the intersection of social justice with environmentalism, something that would come to grow in strength in later waves. Com ...
Increasing water cycle extremes in California and in relation to
... has long been recognized as the prime climate modulator of precipitation and snowpack in California11–13. However, the winter of 2013–2014 was neither associated with an El Niño nor a La Niña event and yet, a record high-amplitude ridge developed and persisted over the Gulf of Alaska (referred to ...
... has long been recognized as the prime climate modulator of precipitation and snowpack in California11–13. However, the winter of 2013–2014 was neither associated with an El Niño nor a La Niña event and yet, a record high-amplitude ridge developed and persisted over the Gulf of Alaska (referred to ...
NPS SWAN report - UAF SNAP - University of Alaska Fairbanks
... change response strategies. Not only did this effort address the climate change response strategies of NPS, it also was in line with the mission of the Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning (SNAP), which is to connect planners and other individuals with credible data, in order to provide ...
... change response strategies. Not only did this effort address the climate change response strategies of NPS, it also was in line with the mission of the Scenarios Network for Alaska and Arctic Planning (SNAP), which is to connect planners and other individuals with credible data, in order to provide ...
Plans for the 2010 WMO/UNEP
... Technology/economics of options. Well-identified “customers”: Governments (via the Montreal Protocol); Industry; Public; Science community ...
... Technology/economics of options. Well-identified “customers”: Governments (via the Montreal Protocol); Industry; Public; Science community ...
Summary for Policymakers
... and environmental resources. In this report, the term hazard usually refers to climate-related physical events or trends or their physical impacts. Exposure: The presence of people, livelihoods, species or ecosystems, environmental functions, services, and resources, infrastructure, or economic, soc ...
... and environmental resources. In this report, the term hazard usually refers to climate-related physical events or trends or their physical impacts. Exposure: The presence of people, livelihoods, species or ecosystems, environmental functions, services, and resources, infrastructure, or economic, soc ...
Fossil Evidence for Evolution of the Shape and Color of
... wing bones as compared with those of other giant penguins [such as Icadyptes (11)]. Conservative estimates of body mass for Inkayacu (~54.6 to 59.7 kg) are approximately twice the average mass of the Emperor Penguin (12); it is among the largest described fossil penguins (10). Isolated contour feath ...
... wing bones as compared with those of other giant penguins [such as Icadyptes (11)]. Conservative estimates of body mass for Inkayacu (~54.6 to 59.7 kg) are approximately twice the average mass of the Emperor Penguin (12); it is among the largest described fossil penguins (10). Isolated contour feath ...
The social cost of carbon: Valuation estimates and
... major events) against impacts (market, non-market and socially contingent). From several lines of evidence, the current lower SCC value is considered a reasonable lower benchmark for a global decision committed to reducing the threat of dangerous climate change. An upper benchmark was more difficult ...
... major events) against impacts (market, non-market and socially contingent). From several lines of evidence, the current lower SCC value is considered a reasonable lower benchmark for a global decision committed to reducing the threat of dangerous climate change. An upper benchmark was more difficult ...
France - Met Office
... • The potential impacts of climate change, based on results from the UK’s Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change programme (AVOID) and supporting literature. For details visit: http://www.avoid.uk.net The assessment of impacts at the national level, both for the AVOID programme results and the cited supp ...
... • The potential impacts of climate change, based on results from the UK’s Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change programme (AVOID) and supporting literature. For details visit: http://www.avoid.uk.net The assessment of impacts at the national level, both for the AVOID programme results and the cited supp ...
Climate change and the demise of Minoan civilization
... al., 2002), then in order to have a closure those two proxies should be consistent where they overlap. The top panel shows that the two proxies are in good agreement and the bottom panel that the El Nino events in the ENSO proxy starting at about 1450 BC are much stronger than those in the recent th ...
... al., 2002), then in order to have a closure those two proxies should be consistent where they overlap. The top panel shows that the two proxies are in good agreement and the bottom panel that the El Nino events in the ENSO proxy starting at about 1450 BC are much stronger than those in the recent th ...
Enhancing the resilience of inland fisheries and
... The aims of the paper are to raise awareness of the actual and potential importance of fisheries and aquaculture in these dryland contexts; to review how these production systems and their associated livelihoods are affected by, and adapted to, climate variability; and to propose how their resilienc ...
... The aims of the paper are to raise awareness of the actual and potential importance of fisheries and aquaculture in these dryland contexts; to review how these production systems and their associated livelihoods are affected by, and adapted to, climate variability; and to propose how their resilienc ...
small family farmers : at the heart of climate justice
... According to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in March 2014, there is no longer any doubt that global warming is caused by humans. Agriculture is closely linked to the issue of global warming (CHAPTER 1). On the one hand, this sector is responsible ...
... According to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in March 2014, there is no longer any doubt that global warming is caused by humans. Agriculture is closely linked to the issue of global warming (CHAPTER 1). On the one hand, this sector is responsible ...
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... been the prediction of overall impacts by accounting for adaptation implicitly (e.g., Mendelsohn et al., 1994; Deschênes and Greenstone, 2007). While avoiding unpacking adaptation mechanisms may seem to simplify empirical investigation, it increases vulnerability to unknown confounding factors (Sch ...
... been the prediction of overall impacts by accounting for adaptation implicitly (e.g., Mendelsohn et al., 1994; Deschênes and Greenstone, 2007). While avoiding unpacking adaptation mechanisms may seem to simplify empirical investigation, it increases vulnerability to unknown confounding factors (Sch ...
climate change in the work of the committee on economic, social
... States, arid and semi‐arid regions, arctic regions, and small‐island States, where global warming will have its most negative impacts and where adaptive capacity is already low. Most at risk are the rights of already vulnerable groups, such as indigenous peoples, minorities, women ...
... States, arid and semi‐arid regions, arctic regions, and small‐island States, where global warming will have its most negative impacts and where adaptive capacity is already low. Most at risk are the rights of already vulnerable groups, such as indigenous peoples, minorities, women ...
kenya national climate change policy
... instances, there maybe concurrent performance of climate change related functions by the two levels of government. It is therefore necessary to review the overall legislative and institutional arrangements that govern climate change actions. Various sectoral laws and policies that will provide the l ...
... instances, there maybe concurrent performance of climate change related functions by the two levels of government. It is therefore necessary to review the overall legislative and institutional arrangements that govern climate change actions. Various sectoral laws and policies that will provide the l ...
View PDF - Hofstra Law
... what follows deals with climate change concern. When the following indicators are included in predictive models, measures of environmental group membership22 and pro-environmental values23 have quite strong positive effects on climate change concern. Results are less consistent for self-reported und ...
... what follows deals with climate change concern. When the following indicators are included in predictive models, measures of environmental group membership22 and pro-environmental values23 have quite strong positive effects on climate change concern. Results are less consistent for self-reported und ...
Climate Change Threats and Effects: Challenges for Agriculture and
... the environment, natural resources (land, crops, animals and water) and peoples. These interactions are likely to change the ecological and agricultural landscape, and therefore influence agricultural production Analyses of the issues involved and well informed opinions clearly indicate that the loo ...
... the environment, natural resources (land, crops, animals and water) and peoples. These interactions are likely to change the ecological and agricultural landscape, and therefore influence agricultural production Analyses of the issues involved and well informed opinions clearly indicate that the loo ...