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Showing 1 to 20 of 686 for “"Global climate"”.
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Uncertainty & Learning in Global Climate Analysis
… Herausforderung des 21. Jahrhunderts für globale Kooperation, ist gekennzeichnet durch enorme Unsicherheiten im wissenschaftlichen Verständnis des Klimasystems, klimainduzierter Veränderungen natürlicher und sozialer Systeme sowie der Folgen dieser Veränderungen für menschliches …
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Role Conflict Analysis in Global Climate Governance
What are states’ roles in global climate governance? How do they emerge, evolve, and interact with each other? Characterising states with roles is a commonly employed rhetoric which seeks to reflect both the performance of individual players whilst articulating the international community's …
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A mode-based metric for evaluating global climate models
Climate models are software tools that simulate the climate system and require evaluation to assess their skill, guide their development, and assist in selecting model simulations from among the many different ones available. There are a variety of methods and approaches that can be used to …
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Climate predictability and simulation with a global climate model.
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology.
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Glocalizing Forests: Transnational Networks and the Geography of Global Climate Policy
Discussions of global climate policy center on proposals for reform of theUnited Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiating process. The focus on state actors to the exclusion of other types oforganizations active in global climate policy, however, glosses over the …
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Global Climate Mitigation Finance: The Determinants of its Provision and Allocation
… been" allocated" for" the" mitigation"of"climate"change,"often"diverting"funding"from"more"traditional" development" purposes" such" as" poverty" alleviation." To" the" author’s" knowledge" no" other" study" identifies" the" determinants" of" the" increasing" provision" of" official" …
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On the use of multivariate statistics to validate global climate models
… and compare those to the counterpart modes in a Global Climate Model (GCM). As a means to accomplish this, a multivariate statistical technique introduced for the first time to the atmospheric sciences, orthogonal Procrustes Target Analysis (PTA) was applied. A four dimensional analysis of the …
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The influence of volcanic stratospheric aerosols on interannual global climate variations
… 1989). This mechanism is based on the normal global annual cycle resulting from the normal annual cycle in the distribution of incoming solar radiation. The presence of a volcanic stratospheric aerosol, which backscatters incoming solar radiation, is hypothesized to trigger the ENSO through an …
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Development and Stakeholder-informed Evaluation of Global Climate Temperature Response Functions
Modern climate models allow for accurate simulation over a range of future climate scenarios. However, there exists a significant gap in terms of speed, accuracy, and overall intuitiveness between the stateof-the-art and more generally accessible tools, especially in tools used for climate …
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The Impact of Global Climate Change on Tropical Forest Biodiversity in Amazonia
… of environmental conditions, especially climate, and their history of dispersal since speciation. Previous studies of the potential impact of climate change on biodiversity have been biased towards species of high latitudes. This situation results from a lack of detailed knowledge about …
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Influence of high latitude anomalies on tropical climate phenomena and global climate
… active and very important region of the globe. Climate phenomena such as El Ni˜no (Philander, 1990), the Tropical Atlantic Dipole, and the Indian Ocean Dipole, play an important role in global climate variability. The tropical atmospheric boundary layer is very sensitive to even small changes in …
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Physiological and transcriptomic responses of soybean reproductive development to global climate change
… in many of the world’s growing regions, and global climate and atmospheric change will exacerbate these challenges in a way that may limit the ability of the world to sustain adequate food production. Current research on climate change effects on crop yield have focused on leaf-level …
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Development of a quantile-based approach to statistically downscale global climate models
… circulation models give us an idea of how the climate may possibly develop over the future century. These models generally simulate the large-scale and global mean climate well; however, when applied to localized regions their output does not provide sufficient detail to perform local and …
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Consensus Messaging Using Scholarly Literature: Impacts on Students' Conceptions of Global Climate Change
<p>Despite near-unanimous consensus among climate scientists, the misconception of substantial scientific disagreement over the reality of human-induced global climate change persists among members of the general public. Within the research literature on climate science, there exists robust work …
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Water Relations of Ponderosa Pine in Contrasting Environments: Implications for Global Climate Change
… I used stands of ponderosa pine growing along a climate gradient (desert v. montane) in the western United States as a model system to determine the effects these climate-related shifts in biomass allocation on the water relations of mature trees. I found that desert trees, because of larger …
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Uncertain inference, estimation, and decision-making in integrated assessments of global climate change
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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The economic impact of global climate and tropospheric oxone on world agricultural production
… impact on agriculture production from changes in climate and tropospheric ozone, and related policy interventions. The analysis makes use of the Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA) model, a computable general equilibrium model of the world economy and crop yield results from the …
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The climatic significance of tropical forest edges and their representation in global climate models
An emerging theme in global climate modelling is whether land covers created in the clearance of tropical humid forests influence water exchange between remnant forest patches and the atmosphere, and, if so, how this affects regional and global water exchange. Fieldwork presented in this thesis …
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