Sentences with phrase «understanding climate impacts»

It is also increasingly clear that interaction between physical, chemical, and biological components are critical not only for understanding climate impacts but also for understanding feedbacks in the system.

The 4th International Symposium will bring together experts from around the world to better understand climate impacts on ocean ecosystems — and...

The overall goal of this sympsoium is to bring together experts from around the world to better understand climate impacts on ocean ecosystems — and how to respond.

Understanding the climate impact of natural atmospheric particles An international team of scientists, led by the University of Leeds, has quantified the relationship between natural sources of particles in the atmosphere and climate change.

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To help meet the challenges of the changing climate, the Climate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuclimate, the Climate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuClimate Resilience Toolkit allows users to find resources and frameworks to understand and address climate issues that impact people and their commuclimate issues that impact people and their communities.

The government has created an online Global Calculator to help people understand how their lifestyles and energy use impact on the climate — and which underlines the importance of eating less meat.

Mass Audubon sanctuaries are beautiful places where visitors can come to understand the local impacts of climate change and how to take action.

With data collected over time, the study will increase our understanding of the local impacts of climate change and contribute to the natural history of Great Lakes fish.

«I understand fruits and vegetables and the impact of radical climate change.

Trustees understand risks, and there are risks associated with specific fossil fuel companies and, of course, with climate impact.

«In order to understand coastal impacts under current and future climate and socio - economic conditions, we do not only need robust projections of mean sea level rise but also a profound knowledge of present - day and future extreme sea levels, because these events drive the impacts,» Wahl said.

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In addition, climate impacts on frogs, toads and salamanders are well - understood.

This special section of Science focuses on the current state of knowledge about the effects of climate change on natural systems, with particular emphasis on how knowledge of the past is helping us to understand potential biological impacts and improve predictive power.

The timing of such uplift is important in helping scientists to understand how mountains form, how they erode and what impact this may have on global atmospheric circulation patterns and climate.

So, figuring this out could potentially be important for understanding the impacts of climate change.»

It's important to understand how agricultural activity can have «surprisingly strong» impacts on climate change, he says.

The project studies water resources in the Phoenix area with the goal of understanding decisions about scarce water resources and their impacts: How do water managers think about climate uncertainty?

And beyond a basic understanding, «we need to understand how to adapt to the impacts of climate change,» he continues.

The diverse panel of experts who participated in the briefing — including scientists, artists, policymakers, and former astronauts — emphasized the need for understanding changes taking place in the Arctic and Antarctic regions and for investing in geoscience research on a sustained basis, including in tools to detect and track climate change and to assess potential impacts.

The impacts of climate change are broadly understood, the research says, but there's no telling exactly where, when and how hard these impacts will strike.

With climate change transforming the Arctic, biologists are scrambling to understand the impact on gray whales and other creatures living in the region

«I take what the models tell us may happen to our climate at large scales and try to understand what impacts these changes could have on society.

At the heart of the initiative is the «What We Know» report, an assessment of current climate science and impacts that emphasizes the need to understand and recognize possible high - risk scenarios.

By focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and climate change, on the local ecosystem.

«We understand these fears,» she says, «but if contraception and family planning were made available to all those who want it, this would slow population growth and have a huge impact on climate change.»

«By understanding past climate transitions, we can better understand the present, and predict impacts for the future.»

Understanding these unique areas is important because there are many examples of naturally occurring hybrid zones, and new hybrid zones will form in the future as climate change and human impacts cause species distributions to shift and come into contact.

«If the natural concentration had been a factor of two or more lower, the climate impacts of fossil fuel carbon dioxide release would have occurred about 50 or more years sooner, making it much more challenging for the developing human society to scientifically understand the phenomenon of humanmade climate change in time to prevent it,» he says.

It was, however, only after the advent of the computer that a modern understanding emerged of how fossil fuel use would impact the climate.

«It is important to take the global projections and zoom them in to regional and local levels to better understand the societal impacts of climate change,» Pal says.

Portland State University professor Angela Strecker says understanding where species may live in the future given climate change impacts is an important consideration for conservation science.

«Understanding climate change impacts is vital to help protect marine ecosystem services that humans rely on so heavily such as fisheries, aquaculture and tourism» said Dr. Rob Ellis, an ecological physiologist also based at Exeter University.

A scientific study to understand the impact of climate change and other factors on plant - pollinator interactions, geographic distributions and seasonal abundances

«By doing this, we can better understand and predict the future of HABs and water safety in the Lake Erie community with the impact of changing climate and environmental factors.»

Track, report and follow the spring hummingbird migration to better understand how climate change is impacting hummingbirds

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that integrating evidence from historical writings with paleoclimate data can advance both our understanding of how the climate system functions, and how climatic changes impacted past human societies.

«Study reshapes understanding of climate change's impact on early societies.»

IPCC has been established to assess scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.

The impact of these results is wide - reaching, and Dr Pullen suggests that it may even change how we think about global climate data: «Climate models need to incorporate genetic elements because at present most do not, and their predictions would be much improved with a better understanding of plant carbon demand.climate data: «Climate models need to incorporate genetic elements because at present most do not, and their predictions would be much improved with a better understanding of plant carbon demand.Climate models need to incorporate genetic elements because at present most do not, and their predictions would be much improved with a better understanding of plant carbon demand.»

Saba, who has conducted modeling studies on the impacts of climate change on endangered leatherback turtles in the eastern Pacific Ocean, says the Northwest Atlantic loggerhead study offers a new approach in understanding how climate variability affects sea turtle populations.

«Ice age vertebrates had mixed responses to climate change: New study contradicts idea of uniform population change, has significance for understanding global warming impact.»

«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.

Other studies have resorted to modeling to understand the effects of contrails, which have shown that they can have an appreciable impact on global climate, despite their transient nature.

The aim is to better understand economic flows and to thereby induce a transformation of our supply chains into a stable, climate - smart network that renders our societies less vulnerable to future climate impacts.

«Understanding the impact of these storms will help us gain ground truth for improving the chemistry — climate models we use to project future climate,» she says.

One of the report's lead authors, Monash University Professor Steven Chown, said key areas for scientific research in the region over the next two decades included looking at human impact on the region, understanding the evolution of Antarctic life, looking at the region's history, and the impact of climate change in the area.

Understanding how climate change might influence flooding has been a tricky endeavor because so many other factors, like urbanization, deforestation or the dredging of rivers, also impact how often floods occur and how big they are, muddying the picture.

«To understand the impacts of deforestation and climate change, we need reliable long - term data on the fauna from around the world,» explained Dr. Aide.

«It's obvious now that the climate is changing, so it's a good time to get [the information] in front of transportation folks to help them understand the climate issue, what is transportation's role in it, and what can be done to both adapt to a changing climate and reduce the impact,» she said.