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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"climate impacts"”.
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Past, present, and future climate impacts of aviation
… of the hardest-to-decarbonize contributors to climate change and accounts for approximately 5% of anthropogenic radiative forcing due to its CO₂ and non-CO₂ emissions. As the industry grows faster than its efficiency improvements, aligning its growth with international climate goals becomes …
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Attribution of stratospheric ozone change and associated climate impacts
… and solar variability. This thesis explores the climate impacts of stratospheric ozone depletion, and how we can attribute, with high confidence, the causes of observed changes in stratospheric ozone. First, the linkages between Antarctic ozone loss and midlatitude surface climate changes are …
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A Critical Analysis of the UK Climate Impacts Programme's Problematization of Adaption.
… analyses the problematization of adaptation to climate change that has emerged at the UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP). It finds that its problematization is based on a techno-scientific ontology and epistemology that occludes social forms of knowledge and social contingency. Its political …
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Statistical analysis and prediction of climate impacts on sugarcane yield in southeastern Africa
Sugarcane production is chiefly influenced by climate, but there are also farming operations that diminish the sugarcane yield. The study concentrated on discovering the statistical relationship between the climate and subsequent sugarcane yield by statistical analysis of monthly and annual data …
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Combined Steam Power Cycle and Turbofan Engine for Improvement in Aviation Climate Impacts
… of reducing aviation’s contribution to global climate change, future aircraft engine designers must consider concepts that stray from the traditional turbofan engine. In this thesis, I develop an engine cycle model combining the turbofan engine with a steam power cycle and use the model to …
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Climate impacts and adaptation in the Dungeness crab fishery: a social-ecological systems perspective
… associated extreme events. My research examined climate change impacts and adaptation in the Dungeness crab fishery by exploring the changing inter-relationships within and between coupled human and ecological communities. I first considered trophic-mediated climate risk to juvenile Dungeness …
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The climate impacts of high-speed rail and air transportation : a global comparative analysis
Growing concerns about the energy use and climate impacts of the transportation sector have prompted policymakers to consider a variety of options to meet the future mobility needs of the world's population, while simultaneously addressing the impact of these systems on our environment. This …
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Aviation environmental policy effects on national- and regional-scale air quality, noise, and climate impacts
… environmental Portfolio Management Tool - Impacts (APMT-Impacts) module has been developed to calculate physical damages from aviation's impact on ambient noise, local air quality, and climate change. The main objective of this thesis is the continued development of a framework for …
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The biodiversity and climate impacts of alternative approaches to meeting demands for tropical timber and forest restoration
… production, which already exerts substantial impacts on forest species and the climate through selective logging and the development of intensive tree plantations. Second is the restoration of large tracts of degraded lands in order to recover ecosystem services and biodiversity and support …
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Investigating Climate Impacts of Urbanization and the Potential for Cool Roofs to Mitigate the Kansas City Metropolitan Area’s Urban Heat Island Effect
An urban heat island (UHI) is a phenomenon where the temperatures within cities are greater than those of surrounding rural areas due to human activity and physical properties of urban surfaces. This effect can cause the annual mean temperature within cities to be up to 3oC more than its …
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Leading Climate Action Planning: A Case Study of Local Community Practices
<p>Given the increasing rate of anthropogenic climate change and the resulting climate impacts that communities around the world will be coping with over the next century, it is becoming increasingly important that communities, cities, and regions begin to develop climate action plans that will …
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Earth Mission Control: A Virtual Reality Platform for Bridging the Climate Science Communication Gap
… information about the Earth’s changing climate, yet scientists often use only one tool or modality to communicate their ideas about climate data, such as two-dimensional figures and graphs. With the rise of commercially available virtual reality (VR), we can leverage the affordances of …
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Climate impact on phytoplankton blooms in shallow lakes
… ecosystems across the globe have responded to climate warming of recent decades. However, correctly attributing observed changes to altered climatic conditions is complicated by multiple anthropogenic influences on lakes. This thesis contributes to a better understanding of climate impacts on …
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Regulatory benchmarking by machine learning: The case of climate resilience in electric utilities
… to benchmark, including electric utilities’ climate resilience (“utility resilience”) that are non-linear and highdimensional. Meanwhile, machine learning (ML) models have been developed, and continue to be developed, with desirable properties such as local optimality and data compression. To …
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Climate allies : how urban/military interdependence enables adaptation
As climate impacts escalate, U.S. cities and regions have attempted to fill the federal leadership vacuum in spite of their own resource constraints. In the midst of federal inertia, the Department of Defense (DoD) acknowledges climate risk, mainstreaming it into policy, while defense experts …
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Torrefied wood pellets as an alternative fuel to coal : climate benefits and social desirability of production and use
The objective of this thesis is to study the climate impacts and the social returns and social desirability of torrefied wood pellet production and use as an alternative fuel to coal. The raw material of torrefied pellets is forest chips and production and use are assumed to take place in Finland. …
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On the Edge: Climate change impacts on Irish coastal promontory forts
… by the sea at unprecedented rates due to the impacts of anthropogenic climate change. We must act now to manage this rich coastal cultural heritage resource and to access the insights these assets hold of past societies before they are irrevocably lost. Coastal promontory forts are among the …
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Evaluating soil productivity and climate change benefits of woody biochar soil amendments for the US Interior West
… that enhance productivity while reducing climate impacts. Proponents claim biochar soil amendments offer a comprehensive solution to enhance soil capacity to deliver water and nutrients to plants while decreasing climate impacts through reduced nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from fertilizer …
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Poor Economics and the Long Term: Empirical Essays on Energy and Economic Poverty
… access while considering environmental and climate impacts. The final two chapters analyze the long-term effects of transfer programs targeting poor rural households, aiming to overcome poverty traps. The dissertation expands the methodological toolkit typically used in economics, addressing …
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