Sentences with phrase «local coastal changes»

These effects in turn drive local coastal changes, which can be drastically different depending on which side of the Pacific they are occurring.

Not exact matches

Based on research led by University of Cincinnati geologist Eva Enkelmann in the St. Elias Mountain Range — located along the Pacific coastal region of North America — the way a mountain range moves and behaves topographically can also change and create its local climate by redirecting wind and precipitation.

In turn, sharing scientific and indigenous predictive capabilities is meant to improve coastal ice interpretation and prediction based on satellite imagery, assist communities refining public safety measures, and to add local sea ice to parameters used in assessing global climate change in the Arctic.

Organizers hope the strategy to mobilize a local community will catch on as more and more coastal towns face the effects of climate change and the need to protect their shorelines.

This research is part of multi-pronged project funded in 2014 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation aimed at partnering with local organizations to develop science - based climate change solutions for coastal communities.

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

I know where I live, in the Pacific coastal fog belt, we're not experiencing much local change.

Follow up with relentless and overwhelming numbers of photos of the effects, from Greenland ice moulins to coastal storms to droughts, with comments from locals experiencing these changes..

Key elements include curbing human carbon dioxide emissions to the atmosphere, improved control of local pollution sources, reducing coastal habitat destruction, and better preparing coastal human communities to withstand the amount of ocean acidification and climate change that is unavoidable.

The overarching goal of this WCRP research effort, led by WCRP's Core Project «Climate and Ocean Variability, Predictability and Change» (CLIVAR) as a Research Focus, is to establish a quantitative understanding of the natural and anthropogenic mechanisms of regional to local sea level variability; to promote advances in observing systems required for an integrated sea level monitoring; and to foster the development of sea level predictions and projections that are of increasing benefit for coastal zone management.

A new study helps clarify how past and future coastal sea level changes are related to local winds and large - scale ocean circulation.

Strategy 4: Support Local Planning for Addressing Sea - Level Rise Impacts by 2011, all coastal jurisdictions should begin development of amended Local Coastal Programs and general plans that include climate change impacts.

A new study, published in Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans, helps clarify how past and future coastal sea level changes are related to local winds and large - scale ocean circulation.

I could only laugh as ridiculous CO2 alarmists who metamorphosed a local disaster, brought about by ignorance of natural coastal changes, into a global warming «crystal ball».

At last, a responsible government has recognised that global average sea - level change is no more relevant to coastal management than average global temperatures are to the design of residential heating and cooling systems — local weather and local sea - level change is what matters.

All of these factors affect the projections of local sea level change that coastal planners must prepare.

The workshops, which featured talks by Director Susan Hassol, climate scientists Michael Mann and Tom Peterson, popular broadcast meteorologist Greg Fishel, as well as local researchers, were designed to provide a forum for media professionals to learn about climate change and its impacts in coastal North Carolina.

I have lived in tropical coastal areas and noticed quite large changes in local humidity but no particular change in local temperature.

«Scenic Hudson is enthusiastic about working with the governor, secretary and Legislature to secure the needed resources and capabilities for the Coastal Management Program so it's responsive to the dramatically changing economic and environmental conditions of New York's coastal regions and support local government.

They have to hold as many workshops with real input from stakeholders in climate change, industries, local government, insurance, farmers, coastal interests, academics, environmentalists, etc., and base their report on their input, like the NCA did.

We wanted to share this story because Surfer's Point is a perfect example of how local communities can work together to proactively fight coastal erosion and adapt to climate change impacts.

Surfrider is at the forefront of efforts to help coastal communities adapt to a changing climate; and we are working with scientists and local communities to curb ocean acidification.

Lawmakers passed a bill that restricts local planning agencies» abilities to use climate change science to predict sea - level rise in 20 coastal counties.

A canonical paradigm of anthropogenic impacts on seawater pH can more effectively be used to formulate policies to conserve vulnerable calcifying organisms by acknowledging the various anthropogenic drivers of change in pH, identifying regional and even local actions that may help vulnerable coastal organisms adapt to the impacts of OA by anthropogenic CO2 (Kelly et al. 2011) in parallel to global mitigation efforts.