Sentences with phrase «under a high emissions scenario»

These model experiments include the historical period up to 2005, and a future period under a high emissions scenario.
Average winter temperatures will still allow for snow under a high emissions scenario.
Taos County can expect an average of 141 days per year of sub-freezing temperatures through late century under a high emissions scenario, compared to 198 32 oF days on average from 1981 to 2001.
These results and the emerging additional regions of highest climate change vulnerability under high emissions scenarios (Figures S7, S8, S9) suggest that global policies that mitigate greenhouse gas emissions will substantially reduce species» climate change vulnerability.
Other marine - based drainage systems become unstable under higher emission scenarios, until most of the marine ice is eventually lost to the self - reinforcing feedback after about 2500 GtC of cumulative carbon release
Mountainous areas will face glacier retreat, reduced snow cover and winter tourism, and extensive species losses (in some areas up to 60 % under high emission scenarios by 2080).
Under a low emission scenario, the number of extremes will stabilise by 2040, whereas under a high emission scenario, the land area affected by extremes will increase by one per cent a year after 2040.
Even for South Africa, the increases under the high emissions scenarios are modest at under 10 % (Strzepek and McCluskey, 2006).
The county can expect an average of 15 weeks per year at or below freezing by late century under a high emissions scenario, compared to about 23 weeks of those temperatures from 1981 to 2010.
«Under a high emissions scenario, where we don't make significant changes to our fossil fuel use, applications could increase by 188 percent — nearly tripling.»
By late century the number of sub-freezing days declines by 41 %, under a high emissions scenario, and average winter temperatures are projected to rise to 37 oF.
Under a high emissions scenario, Blaine County can expect a 40 % decline in the number of days at or below freezing by late century, falling from a historical annual average of more than 200 days to about 120.
Under a high emissions scenario, Summit County can expect late century winters to feel about 10oF warmer with 25 % fewer average annual days at or below 32oF.
The county can expect a 28 % decline in the annual average amount of sub-freezing days, slipping from the equivalent of 28 weeks to around 20 under a high emissions scenario, and 24 weeks under a moderate emissions scenario.
The name «Nevada» is Spanish for «snow - capped,» but winter temperatures in the county are projected to average just shy of 50oF by late century under a high emissions scenario, which could leave mountainous areas like Donner Summit covered in brown, not white.
Under the high emissions scenario, for example, the difference in average projected end - of - century warming between the two groups of models is less than 0.1 C; a tiny fraction of the projected 5C global warming if emissions are not curbed.
Under a high emission scenario, the projections show that by 2100, 3 - sigma heat waves will cover 85 per cent of the global land area and five - sigma heat waves will cover around 60 per cent of global land.
Under a high emissions scenario (RCP8.5), the analysis suggests we would reach this point in the year 2044.
For example, it's now easy to see that in all these scenarios, we pass the 2 °C threshold well before the end of the century (whereas the IPCC graph above completely obscures this point), and under the higher emissions scenarios, we get to 3 °C by the end of the century.
Change in land carbon storage projections from CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) models, under a high emissions scenario (RCP8.5).
Change in net primary productivity (plant growth) projections from CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) models, under a high emissions scenario (RCP8.5).
Lower map shows model projections of the change in storage by 2100 as a result of nitrogen and phosphorus limits, under a high emissions scenario (RCP8.5).
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