Sentences with phrase «assessment synthesis report»

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In their 1998 synthesis of research, Black and Wiliam reported that formative assessment produced significant learning gains, with effect sizes between 0.4 and 0.7.

The year - long rollout of the latest assessment of climate change science and solutions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ended today in Copenhagen with the release of a final synthesis report offering an overview of the world's climate trajectories and choices.

With every assessment the group publishes four technical reports, each thousands of pages long — one on the basic science, and others on climate impacts and how to adapt to them, ways to curb emissions, and a synthesis of all the findings — as well as a 20 - page summary for policymakers that covers the material most relevant to world leaders and the public.

The IPCC's first analysis was included in its fifth scientific assessment of climate change, published in September 2013 and reiterated in the synthesis report released last Sunday.

The skeptics tend to pick out one aspect where there is perhaps not full agreement and fail to recognize that observations as well as models have shortcomings (witness the recent MSU [Microwave Sounding Unit] report's findings of shortcomings in the observational techniques, etc.)-- and that our best understanding must be based on a coherent integration of the many, many studies into a comprehensive synthesis — and this is what the IPCC assessments (and others) do.

The WGI contribution is the first in the series of four reports with the WGII assessment on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability scheduled for finalization in March 2014; the WGIII contribution on options for mitigating climate change to be finalized in April 2014, and the AR5 Synthesis Report to be completed in October 2014.

The other three are the WGII assessment on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (scheduled for endorsement in March 2014), the WGIII contribution on options for mitigating climate change (April 2014), and the Synthesis Report (October 2014).

Executive Summary and Synthesis chapter in Changing climate: Report of the carbon dioxide assessment committee

Each contribution was reviewed externally and within the editorial structure of Climatic Change for accuracy in its portrayal of historical context and underlying science, but every author has been allowed to express his or her own opinion about how well the IPCC in general and the uncertainty guidance documents in particular have served IPCC's various clients — readers of the full assessments, readers of the technical summaries, and readers who have confined their attention to the overarching summaries for policymakers and synthesis reports.

The cover of the IPCC's fourth assessment report to the U.N., «Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report,» more frequently referred to areport to the U.N., «Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report,» more frequently referred to aReport,» more frequently referred to as AR4.

> This Synthesis Report is based on the assessment carried out by the three Working Groups of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The French Academy of Medicine heard the Fédération Environment Durable which had publish a report gathering a sample of hundreds of testimonies of French residents showing major symptoms of disorders as well as an international synthesis report on health studies and risk assessments concerning this phenomenon.

The three Working Group contributions will be finalized in 2021, followed by a Synthesis Report in 2022, forming an up - to - date and comprehensive assessment of the scientific community's understanding of climate change.

The next opportunity for analysing reporting of the IPCC's activities will be the release of its synthesis report on the fourth assessment, which is due in November at a conference in Valencia, Spain.

Unlike the fourth assessment report, the IPCC's most recent synthesis document did not give a best estimate for climate sensitivity.

A single coherent synthesis scientific assessment report that explicitly addresses the eight topics enumerated in GCRA, on a regional basis, should also be produced at the earliest possible date.

This Synthesis Report repeats with greater certainty findings that have figured prominently in earlier IPCC assessments, that the Earth's climate is warming «unequivocally,» that the human influence in this process is «clear» and that the changing climate is very likely to bring impacts:» [w] ithout additional mitigation efforts beyond those in place today, and even with adaptation, warming by the end of the 21st century will lead to high to very high risk of severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts globally.»

As one of its series of 21 synthesis and assessment reports, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program published a report in June 2008 on Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate.

As the first in its series of synthesis and assessment products, the U.S. Climate Change Science Program published a report in April 2006 on Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere.

The TAR Synthesis Report (IPCC, 2001b) combined the assessment reports from the three Working Groups.