Sentences with phrase «global climate projections»

This understanding will help scientists improve global climate projections and predictions of extreme weather and climate change.
They used this data compilation to evaluate the quality of their regional atmospheric climate model, based on global climate projections that included several scenarios of anticipated climate change.
Basically, global fire research is at quite an early stage... There really are very few attempts to do this, due to the complexity of the problem and the number of global climate projections to incorporate.
Arid and semi-arid regions are projected to experience the most adverse impacts of climate change; intensifying drought and precipitation extremes are found in the observational record and current global climate projections from the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
Arid and semi-arid regions are projected to experience the most adverse impacts of climate change, and intensifying drought and precipitation extremes are found in the observational record and current global climate projections of the IPCC report.
To evaluate the range of possible outcomes, ecologists John Williams of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, and Stephen Jackson of the University of Wyoming, along with U.W. Madison climatologist John Kutzbach compared global climate projections published last month by the fourth IPCC with current regional climates, looking specifically at average summer and winter temperatures and precipitation.
The IPCC takes the sensible position that establishing a «business - as - usual» (BAU) baseline for making long - term global climate projections is a pretty tricky endeavor because it means figuring out how the population and economy of the entire world is going to develop over the next century or more.
Radiative forcing agents in the multi-model global climate projections.
Global climate projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, showing temperature and precipitation trends for two different future scenarios, as described in the Climate chapter of this assessment (IPCC 2014a).
«New source of global nitrogen discovered: Rocks could hold key to carbon storage and improved global climate projections
Giorgi & Bi [6] analysed temperature and precipitation changes for 26 land regions using an ensemble of global climate projections that were forced by the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) A1B scenario [7].
Since 1880, 531 gigatons have been emitted and emissions should not exceed 800 gigatons of C for a better than 50 - 50 chance at keeping global temperature rise below 2 degree C.) «We can not emit more than 1000 billion tons of carbon,» Stocker says, noting that the IPCC numbers on which such regional and global climate projections are made will be available to anyone.
305: 932 - 934) reported Gerald Meehl as polling the 14 models expected to be included in the IPCC assessment and finding that a span of 2.6 — 4.0 ºC in the 8 model results then available (Gerald Meehl and Thomas Stocker are the coordinating lead authors of the «Global Climate Projections» chapter of the AR4 scientific report, and James Murphy is a lead author of the same chapter).
Why It Matters: To arrive at regional and global climate projections, scientists must consider thousands of complex variables to simulate climate processes.
«Global Climate Projections
Co-Chair Stocker highlighted an innovative feature of the AR5 WGI report — an Atlas of Regional and Global Climate Projections — which aims to increase the accessibility of scientific information to users.
There have been previous analyses of regional climate change from global climate projections and identification of areas most strongly affected.
The consensus of the global climate projections is that the recent warming of the tropical Atlantic relative to the tropical mean will not continue into the future — that is, it is not thought to be part of the response to increasing greenhouse gases.
There are also several pages on future glacier decline in Chapter 10 («Global Climate Projections»), where the proper projections are used e.g. to estimate future sea level rise.
However, I might suggest that the implications of the study for global climate projections have been overstated.
Meehl, G. A., T. F. Stocker, W.D. Collins, P. Friedlingstein, A.T. Gaye, J.M. Gregory, A. Kitoh, R. Knutti, J.M. Murphy, A. Noda, S.C.B. Raper, I.G. Watterson, A.J. Weaver, and Z. — C. Zhao, 2007: Global Climate Projections.
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