The preliminary results of this study have been on our website since the time the flooding happened, but now we have looked not only at the rainfall, but also the influence of anthropogenic greenhouse gas
emissions on the atmospheric circulation and how this propagates from rainfall, to river flow down to the direct impact of flooded houses in the river catchment zones.
Not exact matches
To derive the climate projections for this assessment, we employed 20 general
circulation models to consider two scenarios of global carbon
emissions: one where
atmospheric greenhouse gases are stabilized by the end of the century and the other where it grows
on its current path (the stabilization [RCP4.5] and business - as - usual [RCP8.5]
emission scenarios, respectively).
To investigate the effects of CO2
emissions on ocean pH, we forced the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ocean general -
circulation model (Fig. 1a) with the pressure of
atmospheric CO2 (pCO2) observed from 1975 to 2000, and with CO2
emissions from the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change's IS92a scenario1 for 2000 — 2100.
CO2 has no chance of changing total
atmospheric mass
on Earth significantly however much we produce so the only remaining question is as to how far our CO2
emissions could change the
circulation pattern.