Not exact matches
Published this week
in Nature
Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta,
with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise
projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change.
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.
According to Irving Mintzer, a senior associate
with the Energy and
Climate Project of the World Resources Institute
in Washington, there is another reason to be leery of
projections for regional agricultural benefits.
«Any soil moisture increases consistent
with climate model
projections are expected to increase soil respiration
in both vegetation types.
On March 31 Muller testified
in front of Congress and confirmed what mainstream
climate scientists had been saying: Earth is warming
in line
with the
projections of
climate models.
With this study we could show that small changes
in one area can have large impacts
in remote places, something that should be considered
in future assessments of
climate projections.»
The trends driven by earlier snowmelt are likely to as they are «are very much
in line
with the
projections of future
climate» from
climate models, study co-author Berit Arheimer of the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute said.
«This quantitative attribution of human and natural
climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence
in the understanding of the causes of past changes as well as for
projections of future changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor
with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.
Emerging evidence for variability
in the coral calcification response to acidification, geographical variation
in bleaching susceptibility and recovery, responses to past
climate change, and potential rates of adaptation to rapid warming supports an alternative scenario
in which reef degradation occurs
with greater temporal and spatial heterogeneity than current
projections suggest.
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Decisions made today are made
in the context of confident
projections of future warming
with continued emissions, but clearly there is more to do to better characterize the human and economic consequences of delaying action on
climate change and how to frame these issues
in the context of other concerns.
With no insight into how
climate projections are judged, the public could take away from situations such as the IPCC's uncertain conclusion about Antarctica
in 2007 that the problems of
climate change are inconsequential or that scientists do not know enough to justify the effort (and possible expense) of a public - policy response, he said.
Throughout its
climate modeling phase, Exxon researchers, like outside scientists, grappled
with the uncertainties inherent
in climate model
projections.
An overall objective, aside from the desire to assess alternative means to combine human social system models
with climate models, is to provide a rational basis to determine whether human risk perception and associated changes
in behaviors can significantly affect
climate projections.
«Many of California's water managers are now working
with projections of a one foot rise by mid-century and a three to four foot rise by 2100, slightly above the levels projected
in the higher emissions scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC)...»
Having better economic models should increase confidence
in projections of the effects of various policies, and greatly improve communication
with climate modelers.
Consequently,
in the chapter that follows we emphasize and place higher confidence
in projections that are consistent
with current
climate trends and supported by agricultural data.
Climate model
projections show a warmer Montana
in the future,
with mixed changes
in precipitation, more extreme events, and mixed certainty on upcoming drought.
Our older
projections, which were developed to be consistent
with some key findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC)'s Fifth Assessment Report, assumed a steady increase
in the rate of ice - sheet shrinkage.
As we discussed recently
in connection
with climate «forecasting `, the kinds of simulations used
in AR4 are all «
projections» i.e. runs that attempt to estimate the forced response of the
climate to emission changes, but that don't attempt to estimate the trajectory of the unforced «weather».
Scientists are using airborne observations of atmospheric trace gases, aerosols, and cloud properties from the North Slopes of Alaska to improve their understanding of global
climate,
with the goal of reducing the uncertainty
in global and regional
climate simulations and
projections.
James Screen, a
climate researcher at the University of Exeter, said
in an email that while the findings are consistent
with model
projections and look more robust than the studies linking warming to the larger fluctuations of the jet stream, «I'd be cautious pinning the blame on Arctic warming.»
Combining the
Climate Impact Lab sectoral models with probabilistic climate projections allows for quantitative risk analysis in the covered s
Climate Impact Lab sectoral models
with probabilistic
climate projections allows for quantitative risk analysis in the covered s
climate projections allows for quantitative risk analysis
in the covered sectors.
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Her current work, WATERSHED is a public art
projection dealing
with Climate Change that will be projected on the face of the National Theater on the Thames as part of the Totally Thames Festival
in September 2015.
We have also done experiments
with PIOMAS
in a
climate projection mode by scaling atmospheric forcing data from a reanalysis to 2xC02
projections from the CMIP3 models (Zhang et al. 2010).
(
in general, whether for future
projections or historical reconstructions or estimates of
climate sensitivity, I tend to be sympathetic to arguments of more rather than less uncertainty because I feel like
in general, models and statistical approaches are not exhaustive and it is «plausible» that additional factors could lead to either higher or lower estimates than seen
with a single approach.
Does this prediction and the confidence
with which it is made «The quasi-regularity of some natural
climate forcing mechanisms, combined
with knowledge of human - made forcings, allows
projection of near - term global temperature trends
with reasonably high confidence», reflect the consensus of
climate scientists,
in your opinion?
Global
climate model
projections (
in CMIP3 at least) appear to underestimate sea ice extent losses
with respect to observations, though this is not universally true for all models and some of them actually have ensemble spreads that are compatible
with PIOMAS ice volume estimates and satellite observations of sea ice extent.
There are many current attempts to improve the short - term predictability
in climate models
in line
with the best weather models, though it is unclear what impact that will have on
projections.
Well, it is a very ambitions and painstaking project which has managed to bring together all the aforementioned modeling groups which run specified model experiments
with very similar forcings and then performed coordinated diagnostic analyses to evaluate these model simulations and determine the uncertainty
in the future
climate projections in their models.
This data product will be useful
in future studies, including as a benchmark for comparisons
with climate - model simulations that attempt to account for both anthropogenic and natural factors
in projections of future
climate.
Regardless of what we think about D - O events, I am
in complete agreement
with Stefan that there is no evidence of any kind at present that the present
climate suffers any kind of initial - condition sensitivity that would compromise the value of
projections of response of statistical quantities to increases
in GHG's.
Those
projections are detailed
in Zhang et al, 2010 «Arctic sea ice response to atmospheric forcings
with varying levels of anthropogenic warming and
climate variability.»
It conveys the issues
with some great examples, including looking at the challenges facing a water manager
in Ghana given the deeply conflicting
projections of rainfall and drying pattens generated by different
climate simulations:
The new
projections, published this month
in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of
Climate, indicate a median probability of surface warming of 5.2 degrees Celsius by 2100,
with a 90 % probability range of 3.5 to 7.4 degrees.
The Times has published an article by Jonah Engel Bromwich assessing the storm's consistency
with climate change projections, but also noting that the South was not among the areas identified in the 2014 National Climate Assessment as most at risk from more dow
climate change
projections, but also noting that the South was not among the areas identified
in the 2014 National
Climate Assessment as most at risk from more dow
Climate Assessment as most at risk from more downpours.
We used new satellite records of fire incidence to create fire models which we then drove
with a broad range of future
climate model scenarios to get a sense of where the
climate projections agreed on the sign of the change
in fire frequency and where they did not.
For
projections of maximum expected
climate change, we estimate species - level extinction across species included
in the study to be 21â $ «32 % (range of the three methods)
with universal dispersal, and 38â $ «52 % for no dispersal (Table 1).
In Addendum: Climate Change Impacts in the United States (pp. 26 - 28), Michaels and his colleague Chip Knappenberger discuss those studies in greater detail and also illustrate with two graphs how the IPCC AR4 warming projections should be adjusted in light of more recent climate sensitivity researc
In Addendum:
Climate Change Impacts in the United States (pp. 26 - 28), Michaels and his colleague Chip Knappenberger discuss those studies in greater detail and also illustrate with two graphs how the IPCC AR4 warming projections should be adjusted in light of more recent climate sensitivity re
Climate Change Impacts
in the United States (pp. 26 - 28), Michaels and his colleague Chip Knappenberger discuss those studies in greater detail and also illustrate with two graphs how the IPCC AR4 warming projections should be adjusted in light of more recent climate sensitivity researc
in the United States (pp. 26 - 28), Michaels and his colleague Chip Knappenberger discuss those studies
in greater detail and also illustrate with two graphs how the IPCC AR4 warming projections should be adjusted in light of more recent climate sensitivity researc
in greater detail and also illustrate
with two graphs how the IPCC AR4 warming
projections should be adjusted
in light of more recent climate sensitivity researc
in light of more recent
climate sensitivity re
climate sensitivity research.
Dr. Judith Curry notes «The most recent
climate model simulations used
in the AR5 indicate that the warming stagnation since 1998 is no longer consistent
with model
projections even at the 2 % confidence level» This means the hypothesis upon which these models have been built is wrong and should be abandoned.
Skipjack tuna fisheries
in the western Pacific warm pool will not be drastically impacted by
climate change
in the next 50 years, according to
projections with an ocean model that divides the ocean into a high - resolution 10 km grid.
With this service, seasonal predictions, reanalyses and
climate projections will be provided free of charge
in the form of global and regional plots
in real time.
In fact, uncertainties in how clouds change with warming are the primary source of the large spread in climate projections for the next century (Bony and Dufresne 2005; Vial et al. 2013; Brient and Schneider 2016
In fact, uncertainties
in how clouds change with warming are the primary source of the large spread in climate projections for the next century (Bony and Dufresne 2005; Vial et al. 2013; Brient and Schneider 2016
in how clouds change
with warming are the primary source of the large spread
in climate projections for the next century (Bony and Dufresne 2005; Vial et al. 2013; Brient and Schneider 2016
in climate projections for the next century (Bony and Dufresne 2005; Vial et al. 2013; Brient and Schneider 2016).
We want anyone
with an interest
in how
climate projections are made and how they can be improved to be able to keep up to date
with the exciting research going on under the EMBRACE project.
And further still
with: «Recent research, presented at the Copenhagen
climate congress
in March 2009, projected sea - level rise from 75 centimetres to 190 centimetres relative to 1990,
with 110 — 120 centimetres the mid-range of the
projection.
This is all good news
in light of Audubon's
climate model
projection that the species may lose 96 percent of its current summer range by 2080,
with a limited chance of expansion.
• Representation of
climate processes
in models, especially feedbacks associated
with clouds, oceans, sea ice and vegetation,
in order to improve
projections of rates and regional patterns of
climate change.
Applying up - to - date solar PV and EV cost
projections, along
with climate policy effort
in line
with the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), should now be the starting point for any scenario analysis.
Paleo -
climate studies by Glikson and Brook (
in prep) indicate sea level rise rates of well over 5 metres per 1 degree C, consistent
with these
projections.