Sentences with phrase «which climate change models»

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Ribal et al. (2015) describe an optimization model (goal programming), which was used to design meals for school canteens by taking into account nutritional, climate change, and economic aspects.

With your support, we will create a wildlife sanctuary for exploration and education, which will become a national model for protecting restored lands and showcasing promising response to climate change.

Roger Helmer MEP (TP, December) lists a series of «facts» on climate change which apparently shows that «reality defies computer models».

«We have to think of religious identity as the central mental model and framework and belief system by which many Americans, if not a majority of Americans, are going to come to understand climate change,» he said.

After plugging all this information into computer models, they found that access to scientific information has a minimal effect on the public's opinion about climate change, while weather extremes have no noticeable effect whatsoever (which slightly contrasts with a 2011 study).

If similar limits could be established for other species, that data could be incorporated into climate models to better understand which species will likely be able to survive the coming environmental changes.

A 2005 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on carbon capture and storage, which guided Shaffer's modeling, said it was «very likely» that 99 percent of stored C02 would stay in place over the first 100 years and «likely» that the same percentage would stay in place over 1,000 years.

«There is a growing need for modeling activities by which we can assess the impacts of climate change in the different parts of the world,» Pachauri says.

To predict which creatures are in danger of extinction, the teams used computer modeling and information from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to compare the way habitats look today with how they may be altered by climate Climate Change to compare the way habitats look today with how they may be altered by climate cChange to compare the way habitats look today with how they may be altered by climate climate changechange.

Some climate change deniers have taken encouragement from the pause, saying they show warming predictions are flawed, but Mann, a co-author on the study, notes that «there have been various explanations for why [the slowdown is happening], none of which involve climate models being fundamentally wrong.»

To model the projected impact of climate change on marine biodiversity, the researchers used climate - velocity trajectories, a measurement which combines the rate and direction of movement of ocean temperature bands over time, together with information about thermal tolerance and habitat preference.

The global climate models assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which are used to project global and regional climate change, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dyclimate models assessed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which are used to project global and regional climate change, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dyClimate Change (IPCC), which are used to project global and regional climate change, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dynChange (IPCC), which are used to project global and regional climate change, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dyclimate change, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dynchange, are coarse resolution models based on a roughly 100 - kilometer or 62 - mile grid, to simulate ocean and atmospheric dynamics.

Also, the new mortality estimates, while dramatically higher than the approximately 150,000 annual deaths attributed to climate change stress in WHO's last assessment in 2004, are not directly comparable to earlier studies, which relied on different models and different underlying scenarios.

However, a new measurement model of the data, which recognizes the changes in how that information is collected and categorized, indicates that the human rights climate is actually improving.

The analysis showed that changes in cloud cover can serve as a proxy in climate models for wind velocity in the atmosphere, which can not be directly measured.

To find out whether the climate - driven hypothesis was possible, Olive and his colleagues modeled three different ways in which such rapid pulses of magma might change the face of the sea floor.

Results from the model will also contribute to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, which provides foundational material for climate change assessment repmodel will also contribute to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project, which provides foundational material for climate change assessment repModel Intercomparison Project, which provides foundational material for climate change assessment reports.

«The model we developed and applied couples biospheric feedbacks from oceans, atmosphere, and land with human activities, such as fossil fuel emissions, agriculture, and land use, which eliminates important sources of uncertainty from projected climate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science Insclimate outcomes,» said Thornton, leader of the Terrestrial Systems Modeling group in ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division and deputy director of ORNL's Climate Change Science InsClimate Change Science Institute.

To get a sense for how this probability, or risk of such a storm, will change in the future, he performed the same analysis, this time embedding the hurricane model within six global climate models, and running each model from the years 2081 to 2100, under a future scenario in which the world's climate changes as a result of unmitigated growth of greenhouse gas emissions.

The researchers showed that the climate change models used by the IPCC underestimate Africa's emissions, which could account for 20 - 55 % of global anthropogenic emissions of gaseous and particulate pollutants by 2030.

«As Earth continues to warm, it may be approaching a critical climate threshold beyond which rapid and potentially permanent — at least on a human time - scale — changes not anticipated by climate models tuned to modern conditions may occur,» the report says.

This work, which will be used in future publications by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), will help develop improved models.

O'Gorman studied daily snowfall across the Northern Hemisphere using 20 different climate models, each of which projected climate change over a 100 - year period, given certain levels of greenhouse gas emissions.

«With these new observations we can determine which models reproduce the most accurate response to changes in the global climate.

This technique lays the foundation for much improved parameterizations of climate change and global vegetation models, which will tell what the future holds in store.

The model shows that climate change that significantly decreases plant quality grants a competitive advantage to larger invertebrate herbivores, such as grasshoppers, ants and other insects, which are able to convert the foliage to energy more efficiently than smaller herbivores.

When it comes to climate change, however, the procedure by which experts assess the accuracy of models projecting potentially ruinous outcomes for the planet and society is surprisingly informal, Oppenheimer said.

Decadal forecasting, which began in 2007, uses the same climate models that are normally run to simulate changes across many decades, but only goes up to one decade out.

While the new formula, which accounts for both temperature and salinity, can be used to forecast tropical cyclone intensity in real time, it can also be applied to the results of climate modeling to provide scientists with a framework to evaluate changes in future tropical cyclone activity.

Computational models that simulate the climate such as CAM5, which is the atmosphere component of the Community Earth System Model used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment, are used to predict future climate changes, such as the Arctic sea icclimate such as CAM5, which is the atmosphere component of the Community Earth System Model used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 5th Assessment, are used to predict future climate changes, such as the Arctic sea icClimate Change 5th Assessment, are used to predict future climate changes, such as the Arctic sea icclimate changes, such as the Arctic sea ice loss.

These simulations, which project climate change into the future, are called general circulation models (GCMs; see sidebar)

Jiacan Yuan is a climatologist who is interested in understanding the fundamental dynamical processes in the atmosphere and improving climate models, which could give us better predictive power and risk assessment of the changing climate.

Studies of the link between orbital parameters and past climate changes include spectral analysis of palaeoclimatic records and the identification of orbital periodicities; precise dating of specific climatic transitions; and modelling of the climate response to orbital forcing, which highlights the role of climatic and biogeochemical feedbacks.

The study uses climate modelling to predict three possible futures - the low, medium and high impact scenarios, which describe the severity of outcomes that could be expected in a changed climate.

AmazonFACE is particularly interesting to me due to my involvement in modelling studies, which suggested the potential for very severe impacts of climate change on the Amazon forests, even with CO2 fertilisation taken into account.

This seems to be associated with particular patterns of change in sea surface temperature in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a teleconnection which is well - captured in climate models on seasonal timescales.

The Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling project, which involves Climate Central staff and aims to track changes underway surrounding Antarctica, has developed improved pH sensors that could operate for five years or more on autonomous diving instruments.

It is a permanent part of the German Max Planck Instituut's climate system model, which is used for global climate change simulations in the IPCC reports and elsewhere.

Climate change made it 175 times more likely that the surface waters of the Coral Sea, which off the Queensland coastline is home to Australia's Great Barrier Reef, would reach the record - breaking temperatures last month that bleached reefs, modeling analysis showed.

Until now, models have predicted something for the future... but it was something that seemed very distant,» said Oltmanns, the lead scientist behind the research, which was published this week in Nature Climate Change.

Insect outbreaks such as this represent an important mechanism by which climate change may undermine the ability of northern forests to take up and store atmospheric carbon, and such impacts should be accounted for in large - scale modelling analyses.

A model bill for the «Parent Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating climate change denial.

Apart from these changes, the A-Spec is a typical TL SH - AWD model equipped with the technology package, which throws in virtually all the bells and whistles Acura offers — navigation, voice - activated controls, premium Milano leather seating, an upgraded sound system, and GPS - linked climate controls.

The Golf's modular chassis architecture, which will spread to other VW models, permits the consecutive assembly of climate - change - denying Golfs fitted with combustion engines and eco-models riding along the line on yoga mats while using an app to chart the melting of glaciers.

Interior changes include a new color touchscreen display for audio systems (on certain models), as well as redesigned dual - zone automatic climate controls, which now incorporate a small LCD display.

I have seen a couple of papers, admittedly only in the blogosphere, which try and model the bit between climate change and weather based on AMO ENSO and CO2.

The other point is that attribution studies evaluate the extent to which patterns of model response to external forcing (i.e., fingerprints) simulations explain climate change in * observations.

The model results (which are based on driving various climate models with estimated solar, volcanic, and anthropogenic radiative forcing changes over this timeframe) are, by in large, remarkably consistent with the reconstructions, taking into account the statistical uncertainties.

Knutson et al project future changes in Atlantic TC behavior by using a regional climate model (RCM) which produces tropical cyclones (though ones that are too weak — see discussion below) to «downscale» climate change impacts.

Assessing the ability of climate models to reproduce this change is an important part of determining the fidelity with which the models can be expected to forecast the way climate will change in response to future increases in greenhouse gas content.