Sentences with phrase «model societal impacts»

Not exact matches

Modelling the impacts of long power outages during extreme weather conditions is important for societal preparedness.

A study published earlier this year and led by Prestemon used both climate models and projections of societal changes, like population growth and development, to look at how they might impact wildfire projections.

Members of the German research network BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) are developing a model that links ecosystem changes triggered by ocean acidification and climate change with their economic and societal consequences.

This take - make - dispose model not only leads to an economic value loss of over $ 500 billion per year, but also has numerous negative environmental and societal impacts.

Specific examples of additional impacts include a reduction in capital equipment acquisitions across the entire lab with computing alone sliding from $ 7 million to $ 3 million, the elimination of NCAR's lidar research facility as well as the extra-solar planet program, delays in computer modeling and prediction efforts for both weather and climate, reductions in the solar coronal observing program, a reduction in the number of post doctoral appointments, reduction of the societal impacts program, and widespread deferred maintenance and delays in equipment and instrument acquisition and replacement.

In many studies projecting impacts from global warming, societal responses are depicted through data crunching and modeling.

Because these types of distortions impose societal costs beyond those of a simple carbon tax, the economic impacts modeled here will, if anything, be lower than would actually occur in a regulatory scheme.

Otherwise, we should use the reanalyeses for these impact studies, with, as one set of applications, perturbations prescribed in the impact models to assess at what level of change in climate statistics would result in a negative threshold being crossed in one or more key societal and / or environmental resources.

Modelling exercises can shed lights on the Earth System impacts of different farming systems and on the prospects for smallholder farming evolution under global societal and environmental change.

Modelling the impacts of long power outages during extreme weather conditions is important for societal preparedness.

She has been working on analysing climate change impacts on societal sectors for several years, focusing on the analysis of human - environmental systems, using conceptual as well as quantitative modelling approaches and spatial analysis methods.

My favorite quote from that paper is: «Because ENSO is the dominant mode of climate variability at interannual time scales, the lack of consistency in the model predictions of the response of ENSO to global warming currently limits our confidence in using these predictions to address adaptive societal concerns, such as regional impacts or extremes (Joseph and Nigam 2006; Power et al. 2006).»

Furthermore, expertise in social sciences and humanities is crucial not only in addressing societal challenges, but also in expanding our understanding of impact and innovation beyond oversimplified linear models.