Sentences with phrase «underlying emissions scenario»

There can be more than one underlying emissions scenario capable of producing the concentration pathway.

Not exact matches

A new framework for climate scenarios research brings an integrated view of economics, demography, and greenhouse gas emissions to the development of emissions scenarios that underlie climate models.

Especially if you are versed in the underlying science, you'll see that it presents two kinds of uncertainties — those inherent in climate models, and those in the emission scenarios that are fed into the models.

The underlying integrated assessment model outputs for land use, atmospheric emissions and concentration data were harmonized across models and scenarios to ensure consistency with historical observations while preserving individual scenario trends.

Representative Concentration Pathways, are referred to as pathways in order to emphasize that they are not definitive scenarios, but rather internally consistent sets of time - dependent forcing projections that could potentially be realized with more than one underlying socioeconomic scenario... They are representative in that they are one of several different scenarios, sampling the full range of published scenarios (including mitigation scenarios) at the time they were defined, that have similar RF and emissions characteristics.

If, however, the underlying world oil prices are below $ 90 per barrel during the next two decades, then none of the policy scenarios modeled achieves the desired targets for annual U.S. CO2 emissions.

The 40 SRES scenarios cover the full range of GHG and SO2 emissions consistent with the storylines and underlying ranges of driving forces from studies in the literature as documented in the SRES database.