Sentences with phrase «gradual changes in extreme»

Since NRC, 2002 was published, the potential for abrupt impacts associated with gradual changes in extreme events — such as abrupt changes in terrestrial ecosystems due to droughts and storms — has been studied extensively (e.g., Hutyra et al., 2005; Saatchi et al., 2013).

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Dr Lal said more collaboration could help reduce the number of cases of human parasitic infection (cryptosporidiosis) primarily spread through water in extreme weather events or due to gradual climate change.

Steven's covers the artist's long life, extreme success, then gradual decline in attention from critics in an art world that changed dramatically from one of comradeship and conviviality in the 1950s into a market - driven art commodities scene in the l980s.

Climate change will affect fisheries and aquaculture through gradual warming, ocean acidification and through changes in the frequency, intensity and location of extreme events.

Most land - use scenario assessments are based on gradual changes in socio - economic and climatic conditions, although responses to extreme weather events such as Hurricane Mitch in Central America have also been assessed (Kok and Winograd, 2002).

Natural disasters would probably include extremes of weather Faustino but I agree that climate change would generally manifest itself in a much more gradual way and would impact on vulnerable regions, rather than globally.

While extreme events per se are not abrupt climate changes as defined in this report, changes in extreme events could lead to abrupt changes in two ways: (1) an abrupt change in a weather or climate extremes regime, for example a sudden shift to persistent drought conditions; or (2) a gradual trend in the frequency or severity of extremes that causes abrupt impacts when societal or ecological thresholds are crossed, as illustrated in Figure 2.10.

In all of these connections, effects can be positive as well as negative; but extreme climate events and other abrupt changes tend to affect human systems more severely than gradual change, because they offer less time for adaptation, although gradual changes may also reach thresholds at which effects are notable.