Sentences with phrase «change in the climate system»

The changes to the deep convection discovered in the study suggested a dynamic change in the climate system was responsible for the change in rainfall.

Policy changes can potentially be reversed or scaled back if needed, whereas many adverse changes in the climate system would be difficult or impossible to «undo».

Within this framework, the possibility for irreversible changes in the climate system exists.

That's because the risk of triggering abrupt changes in the climate system — such as rapid sea level rise or widespread droughts — becomes high above one of two degrees warming.

The World Climate Research Programme s Open Science Conference taking place this week aims to increase understanding of the naturally occurring variability and human influenced change in our climate system and its impact on our society and ecosystems.

Abrupt climate change is defined as a large scale change in the climate system which takes place over a few decades or less and is anticipated to persist for at least a few decades, and causes substantial disruption in human and natural systems.

Dramatic and unprecedented warming in the Arctic is driving sea level rise, affecting weather patterns around the world and may trigger even more changes in the climate system.

If you are looking to see changes in the climate system, then look at climate data, not loss data (climate data can however be used to test the fidelity of loss normalization methodologies)

The 1 - D climate model uses physically based equations to determine changes in the climate system as a result of changes in solar intensity, ice reflectance and greenhouse gas changes.

Pu, B. & Dickinson, R. E. Hydrological changes in the climate system from leaf responses to increasing CO2.

In episode 53 of Forecast, Mike talks with Julia Pongratz from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology about the role of land cover and land use change in the climate system.

The flap about sea level is a reminder that I.P.C.C. doesn't work well on topics that are outside the normal bounds of consensus science — yet those «extremes» are key to understanding the tails of the distributions, especially those that relate to possible catastrophic changes in climate systems.

It's the long - term range (30 - plus year cycles) that scientists look at to determine real changes in the climate system, and the changes scientists see are unmistakable.

The agencies» report also gives emphasis to the possibility of unanticipated and impossible - to - manage changes in the climate system in the next century.

The study, appearing this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, also ties the shifting monsoon to changes in Earth's orbit and other periodic changes in the climate system.

Several studies have found that some models were not getting the timing right of the kind of short - term natural changes in the climate system that can happen over the course of a decade or so, such as volcanic eruptions that have a cooling effect or El Niño weather patterns that have a warming effect.

N (1) Natural mechanisms play well more than a negligible role (as claimed by the IPCC) in the net changes in the climate system, which includes temperature variations, precipitation patterns, weather events, etc., and the influence of increased CO2 concentrations on climatic changes are less pronounced than currently imagined.

Source (s): World Meteorological Organization (WMO) The World Climate Research Programme s Open Science Conference taking place this week aims to increase understanding of the naturally occurring variability and human influenced change in our climate system and its impact on our society and ecosystems.

Denman, K.L., G. Brasseur, A. Chidthaisong, P. Ciais, P.M. Cox, R.E. Dickinson, D. Hauglustaine, C. Heinze, E. Holland, D. Jacob, U. Lohmann, S Ramachandran, P.L. da Silva Dias, S.C. Wofsy and X. Zhang, 2007: Couplings Between Changes in the Climate System and Biogeochemistry.

The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) says: «Dramatic and unprecedented warming in the Arctic is driving sea level rise, affecting weather patterns around the world and may trigger even more changes in the climate system.

This suggests the tendency for recurrent dry conditions is less related to variations such as El Niño, and more due to other changes in the climate system.

I'd venture to say that even if we stopped producing all forms of GHG emissions TOMORROW, we'd still experience the changes in the climate system that will determine how we live our lives in the future.

Most will eventually be faced with the reality that changes in the climate system are impacting the programs they manage.

This is a very good case for studying how quickly the Earth's temperature responds to changes in the climate system.

Press Trust of India: Continuous emissions of greenhouse gases will cause further warming and changes in the climate system, R K Pachauri, the head of the UN body of climate change has said and called for effective risk management to mitigate global warming.

New text was added by delegates to the chapeau of this section as a result of related discussions on global temperature increase under the section «Observed changes in the climate system.»