Not exact matches
Report
Modelling the
Impact of the
Climate Leadership Plan & Federal Carbon Price
on British Columbia's Greenhouse Gas Emissions (December 2016)
Dr. Richard Lindzen of MIT, served
on IPCC: ««One of the things the scientific community is pretty agreed
on is those things will have virtually no
impact on climate no matter what the
models say.
Stefan Rahmstorf and Georg Feulner of the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research in Germany
modelled what would happen to temperatures
on Earth if a grand minimum started now and lasted until 2100.
Planning meetings for the Global Seed Vault in Norway spawned the idea of looking at average summer temperatures, which
climate models can project relatively reliably and which have a large
impact on crop yields — between 2.5 and 16 percent less wheat, corn, soy or other crops are produced for every 1.8 — degree F (1 — degree C) rise.
Similar conclusions were reached about
impacts of
climate change
on wheat in the UK, where
climate change
models are predicting warmer, wetter winters for the country.
Smith and his former research assistant Andrew Mizrahi used a PNNL computer
model, the Global Change Assessment Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's cli
model, the Global Change Assessment
Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the impact of reducing soot and methane emissions on Earth's cli
Model, or GCAM, to evaluate the
impact of reducing soot and methane emissions
on Earth's
climate.
Nadeau also studies the potential
impacts of
climate change
on species around the globe, using
modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative
impacts of
climate change
on animal populations.
In the study, the researchers used a 3D computer
model of the atmosphere to determine the
impact of VSLS
on ozone and
climate.
«I take what the
models tell us may happen to our
climate at large scales and try to understand what
impacts these changes could have
on society.
Which part of town goes underwater first?Part of the challenge for city officials is that
climate models are uncertain, and unable to give a precise picture of
impacts on a local area.
At the Environmental Change Institute in Oxford, researchers Nathalie Schaller and Friederike Otto analysed results from almost 40,000
climate model calculations to test the
impact of
climate change
on Britain's winter rains.
Agent - based
modeling is also used to explore the
impact humans can have
on their environment during periods of
climate change.
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.
Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from
climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions
impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.
The results could have consequences not only for future
climate models, but may also
impact current policies
on land use intended to promote fungi.
In a study published in the journal Nature
Climate Change an international research team modelled the impacts of a changing climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously s
Climate Change an international research team
modelled the
impacts of a changing
climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously s
climate on the distribution of almost 13 thousand marine species, more than twelve times as many species as previously studied.
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.
During a Friday morning session titled «Fire and
Climate,» Meg Krawchuk, a UC Berkeley «pyrogeographer,» described her efforts to
model the
impacts of global warming
on fire patterns across the world.
«Most
modeling studies that look at the
impact of
climate change
on crop yield and the fate of agriculture don't take into account whether the water available for irrigation will change,» Monier says.
Saba, who has conducted
modeling studies
on the
impacts of
climate change
on endangered leatherback turtles in the eastern Pacific Ocean, says the Northwest Atlantic loggerhead study offers a new approach in understanding how
climate variability affects sea turtle populations.
For example, when examining hurricanes and typhoons, the lack of a high - quality, long - term historical record, uncertainty regarding the
impact of
climate change
on storm frequency and inability to accurately simulate these storms in most global
climate models raises significant challenges when attributing assessing the
impact of
climate change
on any single storm.
Other studies have resorted to
modeling to understand the effects of contrails, which have shown that they can have an appreciable
impact on global
climate, despite their transient nature.
For Tom Osborne of Reading University, senior research scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric Science who
models the global
impacts of
climate change
on agriculture, farmers have no choice; they have to adapt where they can and change where they can't.
«Factors affecting extinction and origination of species are surprisingly different, with past
climate change having the highest
impact on extinction but not
on originations,» notes researcher Daniele Silvestro from the GGBC who developed the mathematical
model used in the study.
Subsequently cited in 54 papers, the Science study showed that even using the lower end of 23
climate models suggested that in the tropics at the end of the century, «the hottest seasons
on record will represent the future norm in many locations,» with the devastating
impacts on wheat and rice yields.
The new
model developed at Princeton has the power to examine a number of
climate - related scenarios, and their
impacts on varying populations,
on a finer - tuned scale.
«Of course, we can not predict individual rainstorms in California and their local
impacts months or seasons ahead, but we can use our
climate computer
model to determine whether
on average the next year will have drier or wetter soils or more or less wildfires.
The biggest concern: that the Accelerated
Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project, meant to forecast local impacts of climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model
Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project, meant to forecast local
impacts of
climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model
climate change and to be used
on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System
Model (CESM).
But most
models have focused
on short - term timescales, decades or a few centuries at most, says Anders Levermann, a
climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-author of the new
climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for
Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-author of the new
Climate Impact Research in Germany and co-author of the new paper.
To inform its Earth system
models, the
climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment
models — frameworks for describing humanity's
impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic
climate change.
This work, published
on 11 March 2014 in the journal Environment Research Letters, will help not only to improve existing
climate models, but also to assess the health
impacts of pollution in Africa's urban areas.
Air pollutant emission inventories are essential in measuring the
impact of pollution
on air quality and the
climate, as they are fed into atmospheric and
climate models to make projections for the future.
In fact, Salmon doesn't think that the National Science Foundation (NSF) should be funding her research
on tea as a
model system for understanding how a warming
climate is putting stress
on specialty crops and the
impact of those changes
on farmers.
«These world - first results will have significant
impact on the development of
climate models around the world,» said one of the study's authors, Prof Andy Pitman, Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Systems Science a
climate models around the world,» said one of the study's authors, Prof Andy Pitman, Director of the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for
Climate Systems Science a
Climate Systems Science at UNSW.
«So we should probably be using [these economic and
climate]
models to examine the
impact of future
climate change
on various migrant - employing sectors of the southwestern U.S. economy.»
The results so far show only a correlation between fires and water cycle indicators, but the data gathered from the study is allowing scientists to improve
climate models to be able to establish a more direct relationship between biomass burning and its
impacts on drought.
Lloyd, S. J., R. S. Kovats, and Z. Chalabi, 2011:
Climate change, crop yields, and undernutrition: Development of a model to quantify the impact of climate scenarios on child undernut
Climate change, crop yields, and undernutrition: Development of a
model to quantify the
impact of
climate scenarios on child undernut
climate scenarios
on child undernutrition.
In summary the projections of the IPCC — Met office
models and all the
impact studies (especially the Stern report) which derive from them are based
on specifically structurally flawed and inherently useless
models.They deserve no place in any serious discussion of future
climate trends and represent an enormous waste of time and money.As a basis for public policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com
This study is focused
on three specific aspects: to assess the
impact of vegetation density
on energy efficiency of a roof located at a Mediterranean coastal
climate; develop a simplified numeral
model that can estimate thermal resistance values equivalent to plants and substrates, and finally, to verify the numerical
model by using experimental data.
This is the inescapable conclusion of a landmark paper, published in Nature Geoscience, which finally admits that the computer
models have overstated the
impact of carbon dioxide
on climate and that the planet is warming more slowly than predicted.
The major carbon producers data can be applied to
climate models to derive the carbon input's effect
on climate change
impacts including global average temperature, sea level rise, and extreme events such as heat waves.
That may be true if you are talking about
climate models, but in determining the
impact of higher temperatures
on ecosystems and agriculture, knowledge about the MWP and other past temperature extremes is likely very interesting.
After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated with using coarse grid global
climate models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative
impact of the Mexico City particulates
on the local and regional
climate.
By taking a «close - in» view, the study revealed that the occurrence of clouds too small for
climate models to detect individually can have a big
impact on regional surface solar radiation and, therefore,
on brightening or dimming.
Also, for those interested,
on page 41 of the Arctic
Climate Impact Assessment Synthesis Report, is found a description of their Key Finding # 2 which includes the statement «
Climate models indicate that the local warming over Greenland is likely to be one to three times the global average.»
Because small - scale
climate features, such as clouds and atmospheric aerosol particles, have a large
impact on global
climate, it's important to improve the methods used to represent those
climate features in the
models.
The combined
model created as a result of the research also provides more accurate estimates
on the
climate impacts of human activity - caused particulates.
In one sentence: Regions that depend primarily
on irrigation from surface water will be more vulnerable to drought as the
impacts of irrigation
on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow, according to
climate modeling research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
He is particularly interested in the role of aerosols and clouds in the atmosphere, and has worked
on the processes that describe these components of the atmosphere, the computational details that are needed to describe them in computer
models, and
on their
impact on climate.
The Division conducts research
on the longâ $ term
impact of human activities
on climate and natural resources using a research strategy that starts with measurements and carries that information into
models, with a goal of improving the nation's ability to predict
climate change.