نتایج جستجو برای: local climate alteration

تعداد نتایج: 731458  

2013
Peter D. Howe Anthony Leiserowitz

This paper explores the phenomenon of local climate perception and the extent to which public perceptions match climate conditions as recorded in instrumental climate data. We further examine whether perceptions of changes in local climates are influenced by prior beliefs about global warming, through the process of motivated reasoning. Using national survey data collected in the United States ...

Journal: :Disasters 2012
Christine Wamsler Nigel Lawson

Climate change and disasters pose a serious risk to sustainable development. In the South, local coping strategies are an important element of adaptation to climate and disaster risk. Such strategies have emerged because of the limited assistance provided by urban actors and associated social security and governance systems. In the North, in contrast, local coping strategies are comparatively p...

2013
Jun Wang Daniel G. Brown Arun Agrawal

Climate variability has been evident on the Mongolian plateau in recent decades. Livelihood adaptation to climate variability is important for local sustainable development. This paper applies an analytical framework focused on adaptation, institutions, and livelihoods to study climate adaptation in the Mongolian grasslands. A household survey was designed and implemented in each of three broad...

1999
F. STUART CHAPIN WERNER EUGSTER JOSEPH P. MCFADDEN AMANDA H. LYNCH DONALD A. WALKER

Biome differences in surface energy balance strongly affect climate. However, arctic vegetation is considered sufficiently uniform that only a single arctic land surface type is generally used in climate models. Field measurements in northern Alaska show large differences among arctic ecosystem types in summer energy absorption and partitioning. Simulations with the Arctic Regional Climate Syst...

2015
Yan Li Maosheng Zhao Safa Motesharrei Qiaozhen Mu Eugenia Kalnay Shuangcheng Li

The biophysical effects of forests on climate have been extensively studied with climate models. However, models cannot accurately reproduce local climate effects due to their coarse spatial resolution and uncertainties, and field observations are valuable but often insufficient due to their limited coverage. Here we present new evidence acquired from global satellite data to analyse the biophy...

Journal: :Ecology letters 2009
Robert R Dunn Donat Agosti Alan N Andersen Xavier Arnan Carsten A Bruhl Xim Cerdá Aaron M Ellison Brian L Fisher Matthew C Fitzpatrick Heloise Gibb Nicholas J Gotelli Aaron D Gove Benoit Guenard Milan Janda Michael Kaspari Edward J Laurent Jean-Philippe Lessard John T Longino Jonathan D Majer Sean B Menke Terrence P McGlynn Catherine L Parr Stacy M Philpott Martin Pfeiffer Javier Retana Andrew V Suarez Heraldo L Vasconcelos Michael D Weiser Nathan J Sanders

Although many taxa show a latitudinal gradient in richness, the relationship between latitude and species richness is often asymmetrical between the northern and southern hemispheres. Here we examine the latitudinal pattern of species richness across 1003 local ant assemblages. We find latitudinal asymmetry, with southern hemisphere sites being more diverse than northern hemisphere sites. Most ...

پایان نامه :وزارت علوم، تحقیقات و فناوری - دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز - دانشکده مهندسی علوم آب 1393

drought is transient phenomenon , slow , repetitive and integral part of the climate of each region. drought begins with a substantial reduction in precipitation over the long-term average rainfall and over time, reduced soil moisture and surface and ground water resources will continue to decrease. this phenomenon is the most important in bakhtegan basin because of its importance in strategic ...

2016
Jason H. Knouft Melissa M. Anthony

Identifying factors regulating variation in numbers of individuals among populations across a species' distribution is a fundamental goal in ecology. A common prediction, often referred to as the abundant-centre hypothesis, suggests that abundance is highest near the centre of a species' range. However, because of the primary focus on the geographical position of a population, this framework pr...

2014
N. M. Mahowald

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2013
Mark G. Flanner

[1] Recent attention has focused on the impact of black carbon (BC) on Arctic climate. Here, idealized equilibrium climate experiments are conducted to explore the dependence of Arctic temperature change on the altitude and season of local BC forcing. BC residing in the lowest atmospheric layer produces very strong Arctic warming per unit mass and forcing [2.8 ̇ 0.5 K (W m–2)–1] because of low c...

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