In 2010, Somnath Baidya Roy at the University of Illinois in Urbana - Champaign reported that wind farms
affect their local climate.
But I also think it is important to increase our efforts in making further progress in terms of our ability to get a clearer picture of how a global warming may
affect the local climate and what that may mean for adaptation.
Sihan joined the CPDN team in Oxford in April 2017 to work on the TNC project, using weather@home simulations to investigate the impacts of recent extreme weather events on the Amazonian biosphere, looking at what role climate change played in the likelihood of those extreme weather events, as well as how the change in biosphere would
affect the local climate.
When you look at the impacts of a climate change or specific adaptations to a climate change, you often need to know how a global warming will
affect the local climate.
The felling of forests, draining of swamps, building megacities and overgrazing with our livestock etc. does
affect local climate sometimes dangerously.
Not exact matches
These sanctuaries provide insight on how
climate change will
affect their communities, bringing a big global problem to a
local and more manageable scale.
When Andy Jarvis wants to explain to
locals how future
climate change will
affect agriculture in the tropics, he uses a familiar landmark: a mountain.
The data could not be showing a regional
climate change at the surface, but rather a
local change that
affected the ground above the two sites in different ways.
As a result, clearing forests can
affect local temperature, humidity and rainfall, but these effects can be difficult to quantify, said Luis Garcia - Carreras, a research fellow at the University of Leeds Institute for
Climate and Atmospheric Science and a co-author of the new study.
The goal of the new rule is to help
local governments identify vulnerable areas
affected by
climate change that they can show to federal and state officials as a way to obtain money for things like road rebuilding.
«The ability of invasive species to rapidly adapt to
local climate has not generally been considered to be an important factor
affecting spread.
«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how
climate change will
affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of
local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps
climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.
«How
local weather
affects the bats depends on the seasonal
climate,» she explains.
The team also compared the response of flies in cages (which experienced the
local temperature and humidity, but not interactions with other species) with the abundance of D. birchii in wild populations at the same sites along mountain gradients (where other species were also present), to test whether interactions among species
affect responses to
climate change.
The
affects of the Rift Valley formation on the
local climate was dramatic.
Extremes in
local and regional weather patterns and
climate variability have disrupted agricultural production in the past;
climate - related temperature rise is expected to increasingly
affect crop yields in many regions of the world.
However, we now know that
climate change is already
affecting regional circulation patterns and by extension helping to shape
local extreme weather.
Our new study links a framework for global and
local sea - level rise projections with simulations of two major mechanisms by which
climate change can
affect t...
This study links a framework for global and
local sea - level rise projections with simulations of two major mechanisms by which
climate change can
affect the vast Antarctic ice sheet.
In general, the rubber in a tyre should last 6 - 10 years, depending on circumstances (things like ambient temperature, whether it is kept in direct sunlight,
local climate etc all
affect it)- note that this would be from when it is manufactured, which could be several months before they were fitted to your car.
Right now, it's available only on the Toyota Sienna, which could
affect your choice if you buy cars to suit your
local climate.
However, it is possible to use a GCM to derive some information about the
local climate through downscaling, as it is
affected by both the
local geography (a more or less given constant) as well as the large - scale atmospheric conditions.
2) Anthropogenic global warming will not
affect the Arctic (or any other region) solely by increasing
local temperatures, but also by its complex effects on
climate as a whole, which includes
affects on patterns of wind and ocean currents.
These series have to be «homogeneous», meaning that they need to reflect the
local climate variable consistently through its span, not being
affected by changes in the
local environment, instrumentation, and measurement practices.
Climate change happens in real *
local * places, where it
affects real *
local * people.
Our
local tv news and newspaper often have reports on how
climate change is, or could
affect our lives here in Washington state.
Whatever the
local effects, few had imagined humans could
affect the
climate of the planet as a whole.
The Public and
Climate Change Since antiquity, people believed that human activity might alter a local climate, but could scarcely affect the grand balances that governed the planet o
Climate Change Since antiquity, people believed that human activity might alter a
local climate, but could scarcely affect the grand balances that governed the planet o
climate, but could scarcely
affect the grand balances that governed the planet overall.
A change in
local rainfall may
affect human society more than a change in global temperature, so we should beware of equating the size of the projected global warming with the potential seriousness of the
climate change problem.
Even among those who say the Earth is warming, Republicans are less inclined than Democrats to see
climate change
affecting their
local community.
Among the general public, perceptions of whether and how much
climate change is
affecting their
local community are tied to political party and ideology.
And roughly six - in - ten (59 %) think
climate change is
affecting their
local community either a great deal (22 %) or some (37 %).
Introduction: There is a great concern about
climate change, but
climate change
affects local regions very differently.
Respondents who said
climate change has
affected their community were then asked how they felt their
local area was
affected.
Abrupt
climate changes have repeatedly
affected the planet, including
local changes of as much as a 10 °C in a decade and changes in hydrology by a factor of two.
In the past few years, unusually warm air in the Arctic has driven winter storm tracks south into the United States, reflecting the complex and sometimes counteracting ways that
climate change may
affect local weather extremes.
Mr. Steele teaches about the enormous and often decades - or even centuries - long
climate trends that directly
affect our
local weather, such as the very complex interaction of the El Nino - La Nina Oscillation and global zones of high pressure.
Seven years ago, Missouri Botanical Garden senior curator of ethnobotany Jan Salick traveled to the Himalayas to begin a study of how
climate change is
affecting alpine plants — and the
local people who depend on them.
Despite strong support from both Rousseff and Temer, pre-salt oil extraction remains under debate in Brazil due to its impact on the
climate, fears over a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and how it could
affect local fisherman.
Meso - scale (larger than
local, smaller than global) topology of Earth's surface can also
affect local weather /
climate.
A total absence of ice in the Arctic would not just
affect local wildlife and indigenous communities but could also have huge implications for the global
climate.
James Slevin, President, Utility Workers Union of America
Local 1 - 2, said, «As a union leader who represents thousands of workers currently employed in New York's energy system and whose livelihoods depend on those jobs, I am very concerned about protecting their jobs and addressing
climate change which
affects my members, their families and their communities.
He and colleagues recently tried to calculate the possible dates at which
local climates could shift inexorably in different parts of the world, and tried also to build a picture of how ocean warming and acidification would
affect incomes everywhere.
Changes in
climate at the local to regional scale can be influenced by natural variability for multiple decades.28 This can affect the interpretation of climate trends observed regionally across the U.S. (see Appendix 3: Climate Science Suppl
climate at the
local to regional scale can be influenced by natural variability for multiple decades.28 This can
affect the interpretation of
climate trends observed regionally across the U.S. (see Appendix 3: Climate Science Suppl
climate trends observed regionally across the U.S. (see Appendix 3:
Climate Science Suppl
Climate Science Supplement).
Climate change has the potential to both positively and negatively
affect the location, timing, and productivity of crop, livestock, and fishery systems at
local, national, and global scales.
We find that the reported discrepancy can be traced to two main issues: (1) unforced internal
climate variability strongly
affects local wetness and dryness trends and can obscure underlying agreement with WWDD, and (2) dry land regions are not constrained to become drier by enhanced moisture divergence since evaporation can not exceed precipitation over multiannual time scales.
Given the coarse resolution of global
climate models, downscaling techniques are often needed to generate finer scale projections of variables
affected by
local - scale processes such as precipitation.
This study links a framework for global and
local sea - level rise projections with simulations of two major mechanisms by which
climate change can
affect the vast Antarctic ice sheet.
To understand how
local climate change had affected wildlife in California's Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains, I had examined data from stations that make up the US Historical Climate Network (
climate change had
affected wildlife in California's Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains, I had examined data from stations that make up the US Historical
Climate Network (
Climate Network (USHCN).
Clearly human activities can
affect climates — we all grew up learning that the desertification of much of North Africa was due to goats, and we know that some
local climates are determined by human activities in the region — but human activity is unlikely to have caused the Viking period warming, the great cooling after 1300, the Little Ice Age, and such; and the warming beginning in 1800 or so is very unlikely to have been caused by human activities.