Ocean heat uptake and the global surface temperature record
... analysis employed11, but even taking the choice of start date and analysis methods into account there may have been a slowdown in surface temperature rise over the last decade. In this paper we consider the contribution that changing ocean heat uptake could have made to this hiatus. The rate of temp ...
... analysis employed11, but even taking the choice of start date and analysis methods into account there may have been a slowdown in surface temperature rise over the last decade. In this paper we consider the contribution that changing ocean heat uptake could have made to this hiatus. The rate of temp ...
Effects of Global Warming Lesson Plan
... zones heat up — animals may simply go extinct. A recent study in Science demonstrates how that can happen. Robert Colwell, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut, analyzed data from nearly 2,000 species of plants, insects and fungi in the tropics, where organisms often lack the a ...
... zones heat up — animals may simply go extinct. A recent study in Science demonstrates how that can happen. Robert Colwell, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Connecticut, analyzed data from nearly 2,000 species of plants, insects and fungi in the tropics, where organisms often lack the a ...
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... physical and chemical changes in the biosphere, and probable reductions in biodiversity expected to occur as a result of climate change. In the second part, I’ll discuss some of the social consequences of global warming and its impacts on bio-industries, and its economic consequences as forecast in ...
... physical and chemical changes in the biosphere, and probable reductions in biodiversity expected to occur as a result of climate change. In the second part, I’ll discuss some of the social consequences of global warming and its impacts on bio-industries, and its economic consequences as forecast in ...
Meteorology 2 - Camosun College
... weatherfax in weather, satellite, sea state and ice charts; Understanding of synoptic surface analysis charts; Understanding of surface progs; Understanding of wave charts, analysis, forecast; Understanding of ice charts. The main types of floating ice, their origins and movements Freezing of fresh ...
... weatherfax in weather, satellite, sea state and ice charts; Understanding of synoptic surface analysis charts; Understanding of surface progs; Understanding of wave charts, analysis, forecast; Understanding of ice charts. The main types of floating ice, their origins and movements Freezing of fresh ...
climate change influences on antarctic bird populations
... the decrease in Adélie and chinstrap penguins observed there. Gentoo penguins because of their more flexible diet are not as strongly dependent on krill. Their population increase in the Antarctic Peninsula region can be caused by reduced sea ice and better conditions for this non-migratory species w ...
... the decrease in Adélie and chinstrap penguins observed there. Gentoo penguins because of their more flexible diet are not as strongly dependent on krill. Their population increase in the Antarctic Peninsula region can be caused by reduced sea ice and better conditions for this non-migratory species w ...
Differential climate impacts for policy
... global community to that challenge laid out in the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) provides a promising framework for global climate protection (UNFCCC, 2015). Specifically, the Agreement includes two long-term global goals (LTGGs): “holding t ...
... global community to that challenge laid out in the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) provides a promising framework for global climate protection (UNFCCC, 2015). Specifically, the Agreement includes two long-term global goals (LTGGs): “holding t ...
Is the melting Arctic changing midlatitude weather?
... of Arctic air was higher than it has ever been— about 2.5 °C above the value measured at the beginning of the 20th century. Global temperatures have also risen over the past century, but the upward trend has not been uniform. Since 1980 the Arctic’s temperature rose at a rate more than double that o ...
... of Arctic air was higher than it has ever been— about 2.5 °C above the value measured at the beginning of the 20th century. Global temperatures have also risen over the past century, but the upward trend has not been uniform. Since 1980 the Arctic’s temperature rose at a rate more than double that o ...
Future sea level
The rate of global mean sea-level rise (~3 mm/yr; SLR) has accelerated compared to the mean of the 20th century (~2 mm/yr), but the rate of rise is locally variable. Factors contributing to SLR include decreased global ice volume and warming of the ocean. On Greenland, the deficiency between annual ice gained and lost tripled between 1996 and 2007. On Antarctica the deficiency increased by 75%. Mountain glaciers are retreating and the cumulative mean thickness change has accelerated from about −1.8 to −4 m in 1965 to 1970 to about −12 to −14 m in the first decade of the 21st century. From 1961 to 2003, ocean temperatures to a depth of 700 m increased and portions of the deeper ocean are warming.The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) projected sea level would reach 0.18 to 0.59 m above present by the end of the 21st century but lacked an estimate of ice flow dynamics calving. Calving was added by Pfeffer et al. (2008) indicating 0.8 to 2 m of SLR by 2100 (favouring the low end of this range). Rahmstorf (2007) estimated SLR will reach 0.5 to 1.4 m by the end of the century. Pielke (2008) points out that observed SLR has exceeded the best case projections thus far. These approximations and others indicate that global mean SLR may reach 1 m by the end of this century. However, sea level is highly variable and planners considering local impacts must take this variability into account.