Sentences with phrase «combined with a climate»

The annual variability and trends in loggerhead nesting numbers in Florida are associated with long - term survival at sea from hatchling to maturity, combined with climate - driven changes in mature female foraging areas within a year or two before nesting.»

Combined with climate change, hotter cities impact the health, quality of life, and environment for all that live within them.

That model can be combined with a climate model, to see how the two interact.

This, combined with climate change and a growing population means the Ganges River basin faces some serious water issues in the years ahead.

Using precipitation data from the University of East Anglia and ocean temperatures from the Hadley Centre combined with climate models, the researchers were able to add or omit the oceanic temperatures and compare the two sets of results.

In Bolivia, drought has combined with a climate change driven removal of key mountain glaciers that has produced an endemic state of water scarcity.

Uses datasets of observed tropical Pacific and Atlantic near - surface salinity combined with climate model simulations to assess the possible causes and significance of salinity changes over the late twentieth century

I should add that there is considerable uncertainty associated with the models suggesting decreases in rainfall, and uncertainty as to how Amazon forests may react (especially when one considers the impacts of deforestation, logging, and fire combined with climate change impacts).

Not exact matches

«Alberta's new climate strategy, combined with a new federal government that is a true climate change partner for the provinces and territories, positions Canada to enter the Paris conference with a united voice.»

The combined budget for the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, would fall by 28 %, with funding cuts for the United Nations, climate change and cultural exchange programs.

GreenBuilt searched for a healthy, durable, climate resilient material that could provide high - quality permanent housing as well as temporary shelter, and hempcrete (a bio-composite made of the hemp plant's inner woody core combined with a lime - based binder) appeared to be a superior option because of its sustainability and carbon sequestration properties, as well as its potential to spur economic development.

We contracted Navius Research to model what the policies in the climate plan would achieve when combined with a federal carbon price.

Combined with the hot, humid climate and rich soil, hand pollination by the country's skilled and patient farmers has enabled Madagascar to become the world's top vanilla producer in both quantity and quality.

The combined pressures of climate change and epidemics sweeping through intensive animal agriculture such as H5N2 avian flu and porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) are growing challenges for industrial agriculture, and workers organizing to demand fair pay and conditions combined with increasing consumer pressure for greater transparency and better treatment of land, animals, and workers, are having an effect.

It is also a reaction against the highly medicalized climate of hospital births, which, they say, has contributed to a Caesarean - section rate of more than 1 in 3 births in New York City, Westchester County and Long Island combined, with some hospitals having rates above 40 percent.

Finally, the Social Liberals, currently faring slightly better at the polls than the other small parties, runs on a platform combining individual and economic freedom with a focus on climate and the environment.

But Skelos» Nassau County district has more Democrats then Republicans, unlike the Binghamton district, and his high - profile conviction, combined with ongoing investigations of possible corruption by other Nassau Republican officials, has created the climate for a major Democratic win, insiders from both parties agree.

This comforter combines with the BedJet Climate Comfort System to actively heat or cool each side of the comforter separately.

So Jones and his colleagues combined data from 11 standard climate change models with their own models on projected population patterns.

Combining new data with those garnered previously from another stalagmite from the same cave provides a continuous climate chronicle that stretches back more than 5700 years, the researchers report today in Science Advances.

When combined with overfishing, climate change, fertilizer runoff — induced dead zones and other human impacts on ocean fishes, a watery evolutionary stage has been set for a jellyfish takeover — dubbed the «gelatinous ocean» by some scientists.

Combined with a decrease in atmospheric water vapor and a weaker sun due to the most recent solar cycle, the aerosol finding may explain why climate change has not been accelerating as fast as it did in the 1990s.

Combining observations from satellites and ground stations with climate models, they evaluated different factors that affect telescope vision, such as the amount of water vapour, wind speeds and atmospheric turbulence.

In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

Using census data, election data and village boundary information, combined with weather and climate data from the African desk of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, they managed to fuse village details with satellite rainfall data over the past 34 years.

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.»

The research in the paper combined the latest climate predictions from the Met Office Hadley Centre, including a high resolution climate model for the UK, with two phosphorus transfer models of different complexity.

The resulting outburst of methane produced effects similar to those predicted by current models of global climate change: a sudden, extreme rise in temperatures, combined with acidification of the oceans.

The researchers then used a mathematical model that combined the conflict data with temperature and rainfall projections through 2050 to come up with predictions about the likelihood of climate - related violence in the future.

The vigorous, vehement and vexed reactions to any piece I have written that mentions climate change, combined with the power of greed on the one hand and the struggle for subsistence on the other, have convinced me there is no chance that governments will significantly reduce the output of industrial greenhouse gases in time to stave off considerable change to the planet's climate and to human habitats.

He is typical of plant - genome scientists, whose work often combines a passion for understanding their subjects» inner workings with a belief that their findings will help counter some of humanity's most urgent problems: hunger and malnutrition, the demand for renewable energy, and climate change.

Using a hierarchical model, the authors combine information from these various sources to obtain an ensemble estimate of current and future climate along with an associated measure of uncertainty.

Zeebe and co-authors Andy Ridgwell (University of Bristol / University of California) and James Zachos (University of California) combined analyses of chemical properties of PETM sediment cores with numerical simulations of Earth's climate and carbon cycle.

Unfortunately, current simulation models, which combine global climate models with aerosol transport models, consistently underestimate the amount of these aerosols in the Arctic compared to actual measurements during the spring and winter seasons, making it difficult to accurately assess the impact of these substances on the climate.

Combining their numbers with climate data, they found that during the El Niño years (1992 - 93 and 1997 - 98), which bring cooler, wetter conditions to the birds» Central American wintering sites, juveniles born that season outnumbered adults 2 or 3 to 1.

Climate change combined with building on floodplains has set Europe on the path to more flood damage in the coming decades

The method combines a model for systems such as weather or climate with real - world data points to develop predictions about the future.

For Gates, statistics like those, combined with the facts of climate change, make the pursuit of assisted evolution necessary and urgent.

That could include crop diseases which, combined with substantial climate shifts, might cause famine.

By combining this data with Ridgwell's global climate model, the team deduced the amount of carbon added to the ocean and atmosphere and concluded that volcanic activity during the opening of the North Atlantic was the dominant force behind the PETM.

The gap in views on climate change is caused in part by how individuals combine scientific facts with their own personal values, Morton said.

To model the projected impact of climate change on marine biodiversity, the researchers used climate - velocity trajectories, a measurement which combines the rate and direction of movement of ocean temperature bands over time, together with information about thermal tolerance and habitat preference.

He said the recent controversies, combined with the unusual heavy snowfall in Britain last winter, may explain why there has been a small decrease in the percentage of people who believe that the climate is changing.

«Only a plan that combines carbon pricing with ambitious regulations in every sector of the economy will result in emissions reductions deep enough to reach our current climate targets and put Canada on a path to exceeding those targets.»

«That suggests there was more greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, which would produce a warmer climate combined with increased weathering, because carbon dioxide creates carbonic acid and acid rain, which speeds chemical weathering.»

«Our study suggests that the cumulative survival from hatchling to maturity, which may take 30 years, combined with present - day climate effects on mature females, has a greater influence on annual nesting population size than does the exclusive impact of survival during the first year of life as hatchlings,» Saba said.

Combining climate variability with high levels of fishing greatly increases the risk of collapse, Pinsky says.

Delia Villagrasa, a senior adviser for the European Climate Foundation in Brussels, says that the talks are moving towards this bottom - up approach, which would be combined with a formal review to assess commitments and identify ways to scale them up.

The fact that the number of residential buildings in coastal areas has increased significantly combined with the increasing risks of impacts of due climate change means that the cost of damage to coastal developments are likely to continue to rise.

«When combined with other threats, such as land use, climate change, cats, and buildings, it's no wonder we're seeing such strong declines in so many bird species across the United States.»