Sentences with phrase «yield change estimates»

Not exact matches

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

In a further setback to reducing U.S. carbon emissions, the U.S Environmental Protection Agency has proposed lowering the U.S. government's «social cost» of carbon, or the estimated cost of sea - level rise, lower crop yields, and other climate - change related economic damages, from $ 42 per ton by 2020 to a low of $ 1 per ton.

In estimating climate sensitivity such effects must be controlled for, and subtracted out to yield the portion of climate change attributable to CO2.

It is important to regard the LGM studies as just one set of points in the cloud yielded by other climate sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a period for which there is a lot of data from varied sources, climate was significantly different from today, and we have considerable information about the important drivers — like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent, vegetation changes etc..

While they reflect credible prior ranges of ECS, expert priors may also be influenced by knowledge about observed climate change, and thus may yield overly confident estimates when combined with the same data (Supplementary Material, Appendix 9.

I took the Treasury yield curves since 1953, and used an optimization model to estimate 10 representative curves for monthly changes in the yield curve, and the probability of each one occurring.

It has all of the usual time value of money calculators: Present value, future value, payments, number of compounding periods, interest rate, monthly loan amortizer, net present value, life expectancy, estimated capital needed vs. weekly income needs, gross wage calculators, human life value, final expenses calculator, tax - free yield converter, CD early withdrawal penalty calculators, percent change calculators, fixed annuity income eroder, calculate the true yield of a fixed annuity, rule of 72 calculator, a driving time calculator, and more.

(This estimate assumes no reinvestment of interest payments and that neither the yield nor the price of the fund changes further in years 6 through 10.)

and barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in field trialsconducted in eastern Canada are explored and then used to estimate potential impacts of climate change scenarios on anticipated average yields and total production of these commodities for the Atlantic region for the 2040 to 2069 period.

In contrast, EPA's estimate for the total gains from avoided climate change damages as well as other factors (such as reduced macroeconomic volatility from reduced reliance on oil imports), might yield as little as $ 29 billion in the year 2040, in the scenario where the «social cost of carbon» is relatively low.

A simple response function (Green's function) calculation [64] yields an estimate of global mean temperature change in response to a specified time series for global climate forcing.

Summary of estimated impacts of observed climate changes on yields over 1960 - 2013 for four major crops in temperate and tropical regions.

Crop model simulations were conducted for the baseline climate and for each of the three climate scenarios, with and without CO2 enrichment (to estimate the relative contributions of CO2 and climate to crop yield changes), and assuming different levels of adaptation capacity.

The method adopted involved estimating the change in yield of major crop staples under various scenarios using crop models at 112 representative sites distributed across the major agricultural regions of the world.

The Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation estimates the net effect on yields to be small worldwide at 2 °C, although regional changes are possible.

Global temperature change obtained by multiplying the sum of the two climate forcings in figure 5c by a sensitivity of 3/4 °C per W m − 2 yields a remarkably good fit to «observations» (figure 6), where the observed temperature is 2 × ΔTdo, with 2 being the scale factor required to yield the estimated 4.5 °C LGM — Holocene surface temperature change.

Additionally, such an observing system, by measuring the temporal and spatial variability of the AMOC for approximately a decade, would provide essential ground truth to AMOC model estimates and would also yield insight into whether AMOC changes or other atmospheric / oceanic variability have the dominant impact on interannual sea surface temperature (SST) variability.