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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"global mean temperature"”.
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Climate Change and the Exhaustion of Fossil Energy and Mineral Resources
… the atmosphere and therefore constraints future global warming. Here we assess the implications of fossil fuels depletion on future changes of atmospheric CO2 concentration and global-mean temperature. We find that, despite the exhaustion of fossil fuels, future global warming will likely reach a …
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Effects of rate and timing of short-lived climate forcer mitigation on cumulative warming and temperature targets
… as input and calculates radiative forcing and global mean temperature change. Impulse response functions were used to calculate the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and the global mean temperature change. The resulting temperature change was used to evaluate the effects of SLCF …
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Imprecise probability analysis for integrated assessment of climate change
… balance climate model that parameterises the global mean temperature response to secular trends in the radiative forcing in terms of climate sensitivity and effective vertical ocean heat diffusivity. We compare the model behaviour to the 20th century temperature record in order to derive a …
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Uncertainties in climate data analysis
… between different factors that influence the global mean temperature (GMT). Paleoclimate studies critically rely on `proxy variables' that record climatic signals in natural archives. However, such proxy records inherently involve uncertainties in determining the age of the signal. We present …
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Assessment of the impacts of climate change, land cover transition, and internal climate variability on the hydrology of a forested watershed
… and future time frames corresponding to global mean temperature increases of 1.5, 2, 2.5, 3, 3.5 and 4 °C compared to the preindustrial (1851-1900) level. The historical trends of land cover changes are extended to develop future LC scenarios including changes from coniferous to deciduous …
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Estimating global warming from anthropogenic heat emissions
… produces a direct climate warming. Today, the globally averaged AHF is negligibly small compared to the indirect forcing from greenhouse gas emissions. Locally or regionally, though, it has a significant impact. Historical observations show a constant exponential growth of worldwide energy …
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Understanding the role of stochastic atmospheric forcing in tropical Pacific decadal variability and ENSO modulation
… variability of the tropical Pacific affects global hydroclimate and ecosystem and is suggested to modulate global mean temperature in the past century. It has been long acknowledged that Pacific decadal variability can be generated in the extratropics through integration of stochastic …
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Climate change and global crop yield: impacts, uncertainties and adaptation
As global mean temperature continues to rise steadily, agricultural systems are projected to face unprecedented challenges to cope with climate change. However, understanding of climate change impacts on global crop yield, and of farmers’ adaptive capacity, remains incomplete as previous global …
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Developing energy-loss test techniques for large buildings.
… During the 20th Century there was an observed global mean temperature rise of around 0.6 °C. Analysis of these two coinciding events has resulted in the now widely accepted theory of "the greenhouse effect". In 1997 the UK Government signed up to the Kyoto Treaty. This stipulated that all …
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Semi-empirical sea-level modelling
… motivated empirical relationships between global sea level and certain drivers, in the following global mean temperature. This model class evolved as a supplement to process-based models (Rahmstorf (2007)) which were unable to fully represent all relevant processes. They thus failed to …
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Integrated assessment of global agricultural land and water resources in a changing world
… wise management practices to adapt with the global changes in both the environment and the human society. This dissertation develops an integrated framework for characterizing interactions within the complex CWF system. The aim of this framework is to optimize agricultural land and water …
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Dynamics of soil processes under extreme meteorological boundary conditions - response of below-ground carbon, sulfur, and iron cycling in fen soils
… peatlands store approximately 30 % of the global soil carbon stocks. On the other hand, peatlands contribute about 3-10 % to the global methane burden into the atmosphere. Climate predictions foresee not only an increase in the global mean temperature, but also a change in precipitation …
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Technoeconomic and mechanistic insights into the electroreduction of carbon dioxide to value added chemicals
… a tremendous stress on the energy supply driving global economic growth. Historically, such increased energy demands have been satisfied by the combustion (burning) of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas. However, the increased utilization of fossil fuels has come with a penalty: a …