Sentences with phrase «on climate variability»

The platform will complement existing GMES / Copernicus pre-operational components, but will focus on datasets which provide information on climate variability on decadal to centennial time scales from observed and projected climate change impacts in Europe, and will provide a toolbox to generate, compare and rank key indicators.

approach to quantify solar influence on climate variability based on different proxy studies — they don't try to explain the recent decadal temperatures in detail.

«Global mean sea level rise estimated from satellite altimetry provides a strong constraint on climate variability and change and is expected to accelerate as the rates of both ocean warming and cryospheric mass loss increase over time.

Global warming was not yet an issue at the KNMI where the focus was much more on climate variability, which explains why the article of Hansen et al. was unnoticed at that time by the second author.

Even though the observed ice loss has accelerated over the last decade, the fate of sea ice over the next decade depends not only on human activity but also on climate variability that can not be predicted.

Whether it slips to nominally above or nominally below 2015, that may depend on some climate variability factors like the strength of the La Niña,» Arndt said.

British astronomer William Herschel observed in 1801, a direct correlation between the historical record of sunspots and grain prices — indicating that the solar cycles do have a strong impact on climate variability.

The reasons include a lack of relevant city policies and action plans; existence of regulations on urban planning and environment which have not been adjusted to manage climate change; slow response to climate disasters due to lack of capacity and resources; and lack of public awareness on climate variability and climate change - induced hazard mitigation.

We thank Julio Bentancourt, Michael Crimmins, and Gregg Garfin for input on climate variability and climate change, Charlie Ester for input on water management in the Salt - Verde River watersheds, and Robert Steidl for advice on statistical analyses.

A one hour tutorial on Climate variability, change and water resources from MetEd (requires free registration).

To bring together climate stakeholders, regional climate service providers, climate scientists and the media to discuss communication approaches, scientific tools, stakeholder needs and the role of mass media in shaping perspectives on climate variability and change.

In 2001, the IPCC was Mann, as Lead Author on climate variability, and a handful of cronies.

I co-edited and contributed to the 2003 American Geophysical Union Monograph: The North Atlantic Oscillation: significance and environmental impact and was one of the authors of the 1995 National Academies report on Climate Variability on Decade - to - Century Time Scales.

It precludes a focus on climate variability over time as well the risk of impacts from slow onset events, such as sea level rise and rising temperatures.

It appears that little credence was given to the role of variations in solar activity and the poleward redistribution of solar energy on climate variability.

-- Policy Statement on Climate Variability and Change by the American Association of State Climatologists (AASC)

Folks might be interested, especially given claims that Cat 4/5 hurricanes are increasing, in Chris Landsea's talk a AMS's 22nd Conference on Climate Variability and Change (2010):

Kay added that «the fate of sea ice over the next decade depends not only on human activity but also on climate variability that can not be predicted.»

«Near - term financial decisions have long - term implications for the United States» social and economic well - being that depend, in part, on climate variability and change,» said Paul Higgins, director of the AMS Policy Program.

Contributions from the following topics (but not exclusively) are invited: • Solar irradiance and energetic particle impacts on the atmosphere • Upper atmospheric dynamical variability and coupling between atmospheric layers • Solar variations and stratosphere - troposphere coupling • Solar influence on climate variability • Solar irradiance (spectral and total irradiance) variations

23rd Conference on Climate Variability and Change, January 2011.

The objective of the ACIA - as defined in the Arctic Council Ministers «Barrow Declaration» - was «to evaluate and synthesize knowledge on climate variability and change and increased ultraviolet radiation, and support policy - making processes and the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).»