Sentences with phrase «predict changes in vegetation»

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«Most climate models that incorporate vegetation are built on short - term observations, for example of photosynthesis, but they are used to predict long - term events,» said Bond - Lamberty, who works at the Joint Global Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.&Change Research Institute, a collaboration between PNNL and the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. «We need to understand forests in the long term, but forests change slowly and researchers don't live that long.&change slowly and researchers don't live that long.»

Complex as they may be, the activities and effects of consumers should be incorporated into global vegetation models in order to accurately predict the likely consequences of global change.

Given the inverse relationship observed between their values, it has been possible to determine the additional area of vegetation needed (in this case of green roofs) necessary to reduce the temperature by the same amount as it is predicted to rise in different climate change models for Seville.

«Our finding that vegetation plays a key role future in terrestrial hydrologic response and water stress is of utmost importance to properly predict future dryness and water resources,» says Gentine, whose research focuses on the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science, land / atmosphere interaction, and its impact on climate change.

Changes in ocean chemistry, which can be described through the Revelle buffer factor [1], limit oceanic removal of CO2 [2], while the potential for terrestrial vegetation to take up CO2 is also predicted by some models to fall as the climate warms [3], although the size of this feedback is uncertain [4].

In addition, Earth system models predict carbon loss by placing vegetation at a given point, and then changing various climate properties above it.

Now a new study in Nature Climate Change predicts that vegetation cover in the Arctic could expand by over 50 percent by 2050.

In short there are difficult to predict volcano eruptions, varying ocean circulation, clouds and more clouds, a varying sun (both TSI and larger frequency deltas), changing vegetation albedo, atmospheric albedo including 03, earth's position and orientation and more including cosmic rays.