The effectiveness of a system of reserves may be compromised under climate change as species’ habitat shifts to nonreserved areas, a problem that may be compounded when well-studied vertebrate species are used as conservation umbrellas for other taxa. The Northwest Forest Plan was among the first efforts to integrate conservation of wideranging focal species and localized endemics into regional...

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BACKGROUND A regional-scale sensitivity study has been carried out to investigate the climatic effects of forest cover change in Europe. Applying REMO (regional climate model of the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology), the projected temperature and precipitation tendencies have been analysed for summer, based on the results of the A2 IPCC-SRES emission scenario simulation. For the end of the ...

The need for climate change information at the regional-to-local scale is one of the central issues within the global change debate. Such information is necessary in order to assess the impacts of climate change on human and natural systems and to develop suitable adaptation and mitigation strategies at the national level. The end-user and policy-making communities have long sought reliable reg...

JISAO Contribution #690 This publication is funded by the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO) under the NOAA Cooperative Agreement No. NA67RJ0155. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NOAA or any of its sub agencies. Abstract The Pacific Northwest (PNW) regional assessment is an integrated examination of th...

As climate changes due to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, agriculture will be one of the key human activities affected. Projections show that while overall global food production in the coming decades may keep pace with the food requirements of a growing world population, climate change might worsen existing regional disparities because it will reduce crop yields mo...

the objective of this paper is to develop an artificial neural network (ann) model which can beused to predict temperature rise due to climate change in regional scale. in the present work data recorded overyears 1985-2008 have been used at training and testing steps for ann model. the multilayer perceptron(mlp) network architecture is used for this purpose. three applied optimization methods a...

Simulations of present and future average regional ozone and PM2.5 concentrations over the United States were performed to investigate the potential impacts of global climate change and emissions on regional air quality using CMAQ. Various emissions and climate conditions with different biogenic emissions and domain resolutions were implemented to study the sensitivity of future air quality tre...

22 23 Trends in extreme temperature and precipitation in two regional climate model 24 simulations forced by two global climate models are compared with observed trends over 25 the western United States. The observed temperature extremes show substantial and 26 statistically significant trends across the western United States during the late 20th 27 century, with consistent results among indivi...

Climate change is expected to alter the geographic distribution of wildfire, a complex abiotic process that responds to a variety of spatial and environmental gradients. How future climate change may alter global wildfire activity, however, is still largely unknown. As a first step to quantifying potential change in global wildfire, we present a multivariate quantification of environmental driv...