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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)"”.
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Ahead of the Storm: Implications of Changing Parameters in U.S. Tropical Cyclone Likelihood and Damage Estimation Models in the Face of Global Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports tropical cyclones have been occurring with increasing intensity as a result of global climate change. We examine these projections using stochastic modeling of tropical cyclone frequency and damages over two time periods in the United …
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The place of international law and relevant bodies in addressing climate change displacement – the move towards cooperation
Anthropogenic climate change is no longer a debate. The Summary for Policymakers of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report states ‘it is extremely likely that human influence has been the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century.’ …
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Development of a Higher-Order Ice Sheet Model Using a Rescaled Coordinate System
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated between 9 and 88 cm of sea level rise over the next hundred years. Of this, only negative 19 to 11 cm is attributed to the largest ice masses on the planet, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Over the last decade, dramatic …
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Development of a Higher-Order Ice Sheet Model Using a Rescaled Coordinate System
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has estimated between 9 and 88 cm of sea level rise over the next hundred years. Of this, only negative 19 to 11 cm is attributed to the largest ice masses on the planet, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets. Over the last decade, dramatic …
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The Effects of Anthropogenic Warming on Changes of Extreme Precipitation Over Kansas City Metropolitan Area
When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report Global Warming of 1.5°C was released in 2018 it postulated about the devastating effects of a 2° C increase in global temperature, based on projections of coarse resolution global climate models (GCMs). While GCMs are useful …
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Evaluating the Time of Emergence of Heat Waves using Different Definitions
… extremes do not analyze how varying the definition of heat waves contribute to emergence. Using daily resolution of 10 CMIP6 era General Circulation Models forced by the SSP2-4.5 warming scenario, we evaluate the frequency of two definitions presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate …
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Laser-based method for black carbon determination in lake sediment cores and black carbon deposition in Greenland since 300 CE
Black carbon (BC) is a conservative tracer for industrial combustion and open biomass burning that has a significant contribution to Earth's radiative budget. Because BC is a dark, light-absorbing particle, BC is estimated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to have a forcing of …
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Design and Optimization of Post-Combustion CO2 Capture
This dissertation describes the design and optimization of a CO2-capture unit using aqueous amines to remove of carbon dioxide from the flue gas of a coal-fired power plant. In particular we construct a monolithic model of a carbon capture unit and conduct a rigorous optimization to find the lowest …
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Predicting Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) Range Expansion Near Missoula Montana Using Localized Climate and Elevation Data
… this plant species dominated more than five million acres in Montana, half of the total infestation of noxious weeds in the state. This project demonstrates the utility of using downscaled Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) data for predicting vegetation movement …
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Predicting Spotted Knapweed (Centaurea maculosa) Range Expansion Near Missoula Montana Using Localized Climate and Elevation Data
… this plant species dominated more than five million acres in Montana, half of the total infestation of noxious weeds in the state. This project demonstrates the utility of using downscaled Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model (PRISM) data for predicting vegetation movement …
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O discurso das mudanças climáticas globais abordadas nos livros didáticos de Geografia da Coleção Projeto Araribá.
… he performs as disseminator of ideas and concepts aims of this research was to identify the reading that it brings about the issue, either through texts properly said, reading suggestions or pictures. Knowledge on Climate Change is still living in the field of uncertainty, so it will be …
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Assessment of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production Potential Using Crop Allocation Optimization
Sustainable aviation Fuel (SAF) has been recognized as a viable solution in the near to medium future for decreasing carbon emissions in the aviation industry. Global SAF production, however, is limited and falls well short of the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) goal to achieve …
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Interpreting Global Emissions Scenarios into a Local Scale Urban Growth Model: Truckee Meadows Metropolitan Region, NV, USA
… uncertainties and help governments, organizations, and industries make plans that can withstand a wider range of potential future states. This research presents four distinct urban growth scenarios and modeled impacts for the Truckee Meadows metropolitan region in Nevada, USA. The urban growth …
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Projecting Future Local Hydroclimatology: A Framework for Local Water Resource Planners in the Animas River Basin at Durango, Colorado
… temperatures and decreasing precipitation have begun to affect the timing and magnitude of this process. This could begin to have serious implications for the region's water resources. Predicting future changes in hydroclimatology will provide a serious challenge for local water resource …
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Epistemic geographies of climate change: the IPCC and the spaces, boundaries and politics of knowing
… in and through space, and participates in the construction of the political and cultural geographies by which human interactions with the nonhuman come to be known, understood and governed. The phenomenon of climate change stands at this juncture of science, politics, and the elemental …
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How Much Does It Really Cost? A Dynamic Approach to Building Retrofit Costs for Decarbonization Pathways
Carbon emissions are driving the planet out of its delicate Goldilocks balance. Evidence and the call-to-action date back to 1896 with Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and his seminal paper that first predicted the effect of carbon dioxide on the global temperatures. With the Intergovernmental …
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Shallow water coral distribution and its response to climate change
<p>Shallow water corals are one of the main reef-building organisms that secrete carbonates as their skeletons, and therefore, are one of the major sinks of CO2 in the ocean. These reef builders are also very crucial to marine environments and human society. As the global energy demand continues …
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Taking responsibility for climate knowledge in a warming world: Exploring responsibility assembled in and around the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
This thesis interrogates what it means for expert climate knowledge holders to take responsibility for what they know in a warming world. ‘Responsibility’ in the context of climate change is often invoked around historical responsibility for emissions and cause-effect relations. However, conceptual …
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Pre-industrial to 2000 ppm; soybean response to increasing CO2
Many studies addressing the effects of rising carbon dioxide concentrations ([CO2]) on agricultural crops have demonstrated the critical role that this gas has on plant physiology. It is now essential to assess the responses of our major crop systems to even higher [CO2] as these photosynthetic and …
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Integrated Model-Based Impact Assessment of Climate Change and Land Use Change on the Occoquan Watershed
Forecasted changes to climate and land use were used to model variations in the streamflow characteristics of Occoquan watershed and water quality in the Occoquan reservoir. The combination of these two driving forces has created four themes and an integrated complexly-linked watershed-reservoir …
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