Petition to the World Heritage Committee
... climate forcer, black carbon – distinguishes it from past petitions to list sites due to the general impacts of climate change. Previous petitions and reports have not addressed the global warming impacts of the short-lived pollutant black carbon. As a result, the Committee has been unnecessarily li ...
... climate forcer, black carbon – distinguishes it from past petitions to list sites due to the general impacts of climate change. Previous petitions and reports have not addressed the global warming impacts of the short-lived pollutant black carbon. As a result, the Committee has been unnecessarily li ...
Precipitation response of monsoon low
... the Clausius-Clapeyron (CC) ratio, and this is because of the constraint imposed by the atmospheric energy budget rather than the moisture. However, the extreme precipitation increases at a higher rate than mean precipitation [Pall et al., 2007; O’Gorman and Schneider, 2009]. Loriaux et al. [2013] s ...
... the Clausius-Clapeyron (CC) ratio, and this is because of the constraint imposed by the atmospheric energy budget rather than the moisture. However, the extreme precipitation increases at a higher rate than mean precipitation [Pall et al., 2007; O’Gorman and Schneider, 2009]. Loriaux et al. [2013] s ...
Climate Scenario Development
... conform to sets of circumstances or constraints within which they occur (Hammond, 1996). The true purpose of scenarios is to illuminate uncertainty, as they help in determining the possible ramifications of an issue (in this case, climate change) along one or more plausible (but indeterminate) paths ...
... conform to sets of circumstances or constraints within which they occur (Hammond, 1996). The true purpose of scenarios is to illuminate uncertainty, as they help in determining the possible ramifications of an issue (in this case, climate change) along one or more plausible (but indeterminate) paths ...
Land Cover Land Use Change and Soil Organic Carbon Under
... the 9 LCLU classes and the SOC modeled for the corresponding spatially explicit model inputs for those classes. White shows areas where no SOC was modeled (water bodies, clouds, cloud shadows, settlement areas, or no Landsat data). ......................................... 77 Figure 6 Histograms of ...
... the 9 LCLU classes and the SOC modeled for the corresponding spatially explicit model inputs for those classes. White shows areas where no SOC was modeled (water bodies, clouds, cloud shadows, settlement areas, or no Landsat data). ......................................... 77 Figure 6 Histograms of ...
Annals of the Association of American Geographers Climate
... Karakoram, Pakistan', Annals of the Association of American Geographers,, First published on: 19 August 2010 (iFirst) To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2010.500521 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2010.500521 ...
... Karakoram, Pakistan', Annals of the Association of American Geographers,, First published on: 19 August 2010 (iFirst) To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2010.500521 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2010.500521 ...
Learning to Live in a Changing Climate
... warming to “well below 2°C1” as agreed last year in the UNFCCC Paris agreement; and crucially also to create space for some increase in emissions from developing countries in order to support poverty reduction and address global inequality. Even with concerted action on mitigation, adapting to clima ...
... warming to “well below 2°C1” as agreed last year in the UNFCCC Paris agreement; and crucially also to create space for some increase in emissions from developing countries in order to support poverty reduction and address global inequality. Even with concerted action on mitigation, adapting to clima ...
A Review of Downscaling Methods for Climate
... To respond to the needs of decision makers to plan for climate change, a variety of reports, tools, and datasets provide projected climate impacts at spatial and temporal scales much finer than those at which the projections are made. It is important to recognize the variety of assumptions behind th ...
... To respond to the needs of decision makers to plan for climate change, a variety of reports, tools, and datasets provide projected climate impacts at spatial and temporal scales much finer than those at which the projections are made. It is important to recognize the variety of assumptions behind th ...
PROJECT / PROGRAMME CONCEPT NOTE GREEN CLIMATE
... and social aspirations of MMA coastal communities, if no risks reduction measures are immediately taken. Recognizing the above issues, reducing climate change risks in costal zones has been retained by Liberia as the most urgent adaptation intervention in the NAPA (2007), the INC (2013) and the INDC ...
... and social aspirations of MMA coastal communities, if no risks reduction measures are immediately taken. Recognizing the above issues, reducing climate change risks in costal zones has been retained by Liberia as the most urgent adaptation intervention in the NAPA (2007), the INC (2013) and the INDC ...
Impacts of Climate Related Geo-engineering on Biological Diversity
... 4. Sequestration of carbon as biomass and its subsequent storage: through, for example, biochar or long term storage of crop residue; and 5. Direct capture of carbon from the atmosphere and its subsequent storage, for example, using “artificial trees” and storage in geological formations or in the d ...
... 4. Sequestration of carbon as biomass and its subsequent storage: through, for example, biochar or long term storage of crop residue; and 5. Direct capture of carbon from the atmosphere and its subsequent storage, for example, using “artificial trees” and storage in geological formations or in the d ...
Development of a Coastal Community Climate Change Action Plan
... I would also like to thank my advisors, Professor Thomas Henley, Dr. Helen Fast, Dr. Peter Kulchyski and Mr. Denis DePape, for their support, guidance and assistance. Thank you to all of the agencies that provided support and financial contributions to this project: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Mani ...
... I would also like to thank my advisors, Professor Thomas Henley, Dr. Helen Fast, Dr. Peter Kulchyski and Mr. Denis DePape, for their support, guidance and assistance. Thank you to all of the agencies that provided support and financial contributions to this project: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Mani ...
ACIA Ch01 Final - Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
... help guide the individual and collective responses of the Arctic countries to the challenges posed by climate change and UV radiation.The ACIA Policy Document (ACIA, 2004b) accomplishes this task. An assessment of expected impacts is a difficult and long-term undertaking.The conclusions presented he ...
... help guide the individual and collective responses of the Arctic countries to the challenges posed by climate change and UV radiation.The ACIA Policy Document (ACIA, 2004b) accomplishes this task. An assessment of expected impacts is a difficult and long-term undertaking.The conclusions presented he ...
Climates of suspicion - Geoengineering Governance Research
... increasing amount of technical literature addressing the potential impacts and feasibility of the various techniques being discussed under this label, there is a growing social scientific literature examining the emergent politics and ethics of aspirations to global climate control (Gardiner et al. ...
... increasing amount of technical literature addressing the potential impacts and feasibility of the various techniques being discussed under this label, there is a growing social scientific literature examining the emergent politics and ethics of aspirations to global climate control (Gardiner et al. ...
climate change and ocean acidification
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) synthesized research regarding observed and projected impacts of climate change on physical and biological processes in the oceans, at both global and regional levels. The impacts of these changes on human health and ...
... Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) synthesized research regarding observed and projected impacts of climate change on physical and biological processes in the oceans, at both global and regional levels. The impacts of these changes on human health and ...
MURARI LAL (INDIA), HIDEO HARASAWA (JAPAN), AND DANIEL
... low-probability/high-consequence events vs. high-probability/ high-consequence events, risk perceptions). To understand which adaptation opportunities will be most cost-effective and have the greatest value, emphasis must be given to characteristics of system vulnerability such as resilience, critic ...
... low-probability/high-consequence events vs. high-probability/ high-consequence events, risk perceptions). To understand which adaptation opportunities will be most cost-effective and have the greatest value, emphasis must be given to characteristics of system vulnerability such as resilience, critic ...
Ozone hole and Southern Hemisphere climate change
... [5] Consider first how stratospheric ozone affects lower stratospheric temperatures in the southern high latitudes. Figure 1a shows polar-cap temperature trends, at 100 hPa, integrated south of 70°S, during October – January (ONDJ). In the absence of ozone depletion and recovery (green) polar-cap te ...
... [5] Consider first how stratospheric ozone affects lower stratospheric temperatures in the southern high latitudes. Figure 1a shows polar-cap temperature trends, at 100 hPa, integrated south of 70°S, during October – January (ONDJ). In the absence of ozone depletion and recovery (green) polar-cap te ...
Project Document for CEO Approval
... Development Report (2002), more than half of the country does not have access to improved water sources, 53% lives below the national poverty line, and 44% of all children under five years of age are underweight. ...
... Development Report (2002), more than half of the country does not have access to improved water sources, 53% lives below the national poverty line, and 44% of all children under five years of age are underweight. ...
Draft Discussion Paper Ilaria Carrozza ESCAP/FfD/04/2015
... vulnerability index, which assesses each country’s exposure and capacity to cope with economic crises, and the World Risk Index, which assesses the risk to natural disasters, when combined identified that countries the most at risk to disasters are the least developed countries and the Small Island ...
... vulnerability index, which assesses each country’s exposure and capacity to cope with economic crises, and the World Risk Index, which assesses the risk to natural disasters, when combined identified that countries the most at risk to disasters are the least developed countries and the Small Island ...
Pedro DiNezio: Climate Response of the Equatorial Pacific to Global
... shows enhanced warming concentrated in the equatorial Pacific in all models (Fig. 1a), with SSTs increasing by about the magnitude of tropical sensitivity and extending west of the date line (Fig. 1b). This enhanced equatorial warming (EEW) has been linked to enhanced evaporative cooling in the subt ...
... shows enhanced warming concentrated in the equatorial Pacific in all models (Fig. 1a), with SSTs increasing by about the magnitude of tropical sensitivity and extending west of the date line (Fig. 1b). This enhanced equatorial warming (EEW) has been linked to enhanced evaporative cooling in the subt ...
http://www.fao.org/docrep/011/i0203e/i0203e00.pdf
... misuse of these aquatic resources but also by factors external to the sector, such as pollution runoff, land use transformation, other aquatic resources uses and climatic changes. As significant coastal inhabitants (whether riparian, lacustrine or marine), fishers and fish-farmers are particularly v ...
... misuse of these aquatic resources but also by factors external to the sector, such as pollution runoff, land use transformation, other aquatic resources uses and climatic changes. As significant coastal inhabitants (whether riparian, lacustrine or marine), fishers and fish-farmers are particularly v ...
The Kyoto Protocol, Citizens` Suits under the Clean Air Act, and the
... Act 12 provides a way to reduce carbon emissions without international commitments.13 One team of commentators noted, "The question of whether EPA has the authority to address the climate problem to any extent under the Clean Air Act should not be confused with the issue of implementing the terms of ...
... Act 12 provides a way to reduce carbon emissions without international commitments.13 One team of commentators noted, "The question of whether EPA has the authority to address the climate problem to any extent under the Clean Air Act should not be confused with the issue of implementing the terms of ...
hewitson_regionalcl
... • The chosen predictors represent / contain the climate change signal. For example (empirical downscaling): if local temperature is well determined by synoptic scale sea level pressure (SLP), which shows minimal change into the future. An effective empirical downscaling may be derived, but, what if ...
... • The chosen predictors represent / contain the climate change signal. For example (empirical downscaling): if local temperature is well determined by synoptic scale sea level pressure (SLP), which shows minimal change into the future. An effective empirical downscaling may be derived, but, what if ...
the heat is on
... Government policy will be critical to shaping the global transition to decarbonisation. However, this initiative focuses on steps leading companies can take rather than exploring policy measures missing from government actions, or the lesser ambitions of their peers. For this reason, we do not focus ...
... Government policy will be critical to shaping the global transition to decarbonisation. However, this initiative focuses on steps leading companies can take rather than exploring policy measures missing from government actions, or the lesser ambitions of their peers. For this reason, we do not focus ...
Earth`s energy imbalance and implications
... “Fast feedbacks” appear almost immediately in response to global temperature change. For example, as Earth becomes warmer the atmosphere holds more water vapor. Water vapor is an amplifying fast feedback, because water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas. Other fast feedbacks include clouds, natural ...
... “Fast feedbacks” appear almost immediately in response to global temperature change. For example, as Earth becomes warmer the atmosphere holds more water vapor. Water vapor is an amplifying fast feedback, because water vapor is a powerful greenhouse gas. Other fast feedbacks include clouds, natural ...
Sustainable Land-use Practices in European Mountain Regions
... of alternative policy solutions and institutional reforms to mitigate the negative effects of climate change; thus, the feedback between ecological effects of climate change, land-use changes, and policy could be closed. 4. The methods chosen, e.g., formative scenario analysis to downscale scenarios ...
... of alternative policy solutions and institutional reforms to mitigate the negative effects of climate change; thus, the feedback between ecological effects of climate change, land-use changes, and policy could be closed. 4. The methods chosen, e.g., formative scenario analysis to downscale scenarios ...