Sentences with phrase «under climate warming»
If permafrost soils thaw under climate warming they will release carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere.
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Our research indicates they will be more frequent under climate warming,» said Dr. Yang Gao, a post-doctoral researcher and atmospheric scientist at PNNL, «causing increased flooding events.»
Soil respiration under climate warming: differential response of heterotrophic and autotrophic respiration, Global Change Biology, 20: 3229 - 3237.
Furthermore, the sustained melting of Greenland ice and other ice stores under climate warming, coupled with the impacts of a possible abrupt shut - down of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC) after 2100, provide additional uncertainty to sea - level rise for Europe (Gregory et al., 2004; Levermann et al., 2005; Wigley, 2005; Meehl et al., 2007).
Uncertainty in predicting range dynamics of endemic alpine plants under climate warming.
Recent work by Ito et al. investigates the future evolution of Southern Ocean carbon storage under a climate warming scenario - the Representative Concentration Pathway 8.5 or RCP8.5 scenario - by analyzing a subset of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) models, and the mechanisms controlling such progression by performing a suite of sensitivity experiments.
The complexity of Arctic landscapes under climate warming means we have low confidence in which of these different processes might dominate on a regional scale.
«Well, we do have past records of ice sheet retreat under climates warmer than present so we decided to determine what those rates of retreat were.»