Sentences with phrase «regional impacts climate»

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His main fields of scientific interest include food and nutrition security, sustainable agricultural, food system analysis, regional and urban food systems, sustainable transitions, ecosystem services, climate change impacts, and climate change adaptation.

It states, in part, «Creating a sustainable regional food system that meets [the $ 1 billion] demand and offers equal access to nutritious food will improve public health, bolster the city's «good food» economy, build resilience in the wake of extreme weather events and reduce the city's «foodprint» as a way to mitigate the impacts of climate change.»

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Kirstin Dow puts her research into action by convening local and regional decision - makers and community members to jointly explore solutions to climate change impacts.

To determine the impact of greenhouse gases, the researchers used tens of thousands of citizen computers, each running a regional climate simulation in a sort of crowd - sourced supercomputer.

KATHARINE HAYHOE is an atmospheric scientist at Texas Tech University, where she studies climate modeling and the regional impacts of global warming.

The U.S. government is launching a $ 50 - million effort to enable supercomputer - powered climate models to deliver regional impacts

The potentially severe impacts of climate change in the Arctic may threaten regional wildlife.

Professor Jim Haywood, from the Mathematics department at the University of Exeter and co-author of the study added: «This research shows how a global temperature target such as 1.5 or 2C needs to be combined with information on a more regional scale to properly assess the full range of climate impacts.»

However, the potential impact is less clear at regional scales, but it is likely that climate variability and change will exacerbate food insecurity in areas currently vulnerable to hunger and undernutrition.

«It is important to take the global projections and zoom them in to regional and local levels to better understand the societal impacts of climate change,» Pal says.

Jacobson said it also highlights the regional impact of brown carbon, which is not included as a heating component in most climate models.

Plugging such weather data into a regional climate model revealed that the impacts were likely due to the increased mixing of the near - surface and higher - atmosphere air thanks to the wind turbines.

Even if global warming is limited to these levels, changes in regional temperatures (and therefore climate change impacts) can vary significantly from the global average.

Overeem's technique «has the potential to give good quantitative rainfall estimates for real - time hazards forecasting, as well as regional and global climate model analysis in regions of the world where the impact could be great,» Baeck says.

Pokorny's work, coupled with a controversial new theory called the «biotic pump,» suggests that transforming landscapes from forest to field has at least as big an impact on regional climate as greenhouse gas — induced global warming.

However, shifts in the average climate of the tropical oceans could change the relative amounts of expansion in these two adjoining oceans, and ultimately modulate the long - term change in the IPWP impact on regional rainfall amounts.

«Climate responsive design» «No studies had looked at how cities could mitigate those impacts through what we would call «climate responsive design,»» said Brian Stone Jr., an associate professor of city and regional planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology and lead author of the Climate responsive design» «No studies had looked at how cities could mitigate those impacts through what we would call «climate responsive design,»» said Brian Stone Jr., an associate professor of city and regional planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology and lead author of the climate responsive design,»» said Brian Stone Jr., an associate professor of city and regional planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology and lead author of the report.

Some may argue these regional impacts are insignificant compared to the global ramifications of climate change, but they illustrate that nuclear power can actually worsen its impact.

That cooling can have a profound impact on regional climate.

Had regional temperature cooled by ∼ 4 °C, as has been estimated from climate models of the eruption's impact (14), the lake would likely have experienced massive overturn of the water column, a major iron oxidation event, and extermination of much of the biota in the upper water column.

Climatic impacts resulting from the massive conversion of natural forests into agricultural areas are accompanied by a change of regional climate.

«Changing climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.climate conditions are already happening,» says Eileen Claussen, president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.Climate Change, which today released a report on regional impacts in the U.S. «It is clear that there is an immediate need for strong national and international policy action.»

But one impact of the new finding is already clear, Stott says: «a regional change in climate can propagate into a global response.»

Scientists are involved in the evaluation of global - scale climate models, regional studies of the coupled atmosphere / ocean / ice systems, regional severe weather detection and prediction, measuring the local and global impact of the aerosols and pollutants, detecting lightning from space and the general development of remotely - sensed data bases.

The objective of this study is to assess the contribution of emissions sourced from major industrial carbon producers to regional scale climate impacts.

After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated with using coarse grid global climate models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative impact of the Mexico City particulates on the local and regional climate.

By taking a «close - in» view, the study revealed that the occurrence of clouds too small for climate models to detect individually can have a big impact on regional surface solar radiation and, therefore, on brightening or dimming.

An international reputation for expertise in regional climate modeling and analysis led to the Laboratory's participation in the project directed by the University of Washington's Climate Impactsclimate modeling and analysis led to the Laboratory's participation in the project directed by the University of Washington's Climate ImpactsClimate Impacts Group.

Future work will extend the time periods and increase the area studied to assess the impact of irrigation on regional climate and the water cycle.

«Our results expose a specific regional hot spot where climate change, in the absence of significant [carbon cuts], is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future,» said Jeremy Pal and Elfatih Eltahir of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing in the journal Nature Climate climate change, in the absence of significant [carbon cuts], is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future,» said Jeremy Pal and Elfatih Eltahir of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing in the journal Nature Climate Climate Change.

In collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Leung has been developing and applying advanced regional climate models that will help improve the predictions of climate change and its impacts.

Connections between climate and ecosystems, regional impacts and feedbacks of physical properties and the development of regional - to - global numerical models.

Walsh, K.J.E., K.C. Nguyen and J.L. McGregor, 2004: Fine - resolution regional climate model simulations of the impact of climate change on tropical cyclones near Australia.

«And the regional information is critical for climate forecasts and understanding future global warming impacts.»

These changes made China a unique region to investigate the impact of aerosols on regional climate and the hydrological cycle.

The impacts of land use and land management for food production and forestry have been shown to have considerable influence on local and regional climate, particularly for climate extremes.

Within the integrated Earth system science paradigm, our major research thrusts include the physics and chemistry of aerosols, clouds and precipitation; integrating our understanding of climate, energy, and other human and natural systems through the development and application of models that span a wide range of spatial scales; and determining the impacts of and informing responses to climate and other global and regional environmental changes.

Cally Carswell, a contributing editor at High Country News, won NASW's Science in Society Award for science reporting for a local or regional market in 2014 for this tale of dying trees in New Mexico — and what they tell us about the future impact of climate change.

«For the United States, climate change impacts include greater threats of extreme weather events, sea level rise, and increased risk of regional water scarcity, heat waves, wildfires, and the disturbance of biological systems,» the updated 2016 letter says.

Based on regional studies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change bClimate Change (IPCC) estimated that 20 — 30 % of the world's species are likely to be at increasingly high risk of extinction from climate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change bclimate change impacts within this century if global mean temperatures exceed 2 — 3 °C above pre-industrial levels [6], while Thomas et al. [5] predicted that 15 — 37 % of species could be «committed to extinction» due to climate change bclimate change by 2050.

Fellows will work with local government agencies, civil society groups, and universities to discuss regional impacts of climate change and energy policy, and develop relationships for continued multi-lateral cooperation.

Such research is now becoming urgent as regional climate change is already impacting upon areas of West Antarctica and the Antarctic Peninsula [30] and colonies in this region may already be affected by the consequent loss of sea ice [8].

«Significant» rain event to dump flooding rains on inland regions, spare Sydney Impacts of uplift of northern Tibetan Plateau and formation of Asian inland deserts on regional climate and environment

Eric André Impacts of uplift of northern Tibetan Plateau and formation of Asian inland deserts on regional climate and environment

IntroductionThis page provides a huge range skill - based activities and well chosen videos to explore the global and regional patterns of climate change impacts both in the last 100 years and projected into the future.

This page provides a huge range skill - based activities and well chosen videos to explore the global and regional patterns of climate change impacts both in the last 100 years and projected into the future.

Half the increase in urban land across the world over the next 20 years will occur in Asia, with the most extensive change expected to take place in India and China Urban areas modify their local and regional climate through the urban heat island effect and by altering precipitation patterns, which together will have significant impacts on net primary production, ecos...

In sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, South America and East Asia, AgMIP regional research teams (RRTs) are conducting integrated assessments to improve understanding of agricultural impacts of climate change (including biophysical and economic impacts) at national and regional scales.

According to Amane, this research was conducted to examine the impact of climate variability, particularly drought on the regional security in Kenya, with the supports of the Wangari Maathai Institute and United Nations University.