• The activity will combine a graduate-level summer school on state-of-the-science knowledge in Atlantic multi-decadal variability and tropical basin interactions, followed by a workshop on current research topics in the field on August 9th-11th. (ictp.it)
  • Variations in the Atlantic multi-decadal variability (AMV) can drive changes in the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans via atmospheric teleconnections, even modulating global warming. (ictp.it)
  • i) current theories for the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) variability and stability, governing mechanisms of AMV and role in TBIs (ii) mechanisms underlying tropical mean climate, ocean-atmosphere interactions at interannual to decadal timescales. (ictp.it)
  • Therefore, it remains uncertain whether past changes in tropical cyclone activity have exceeded the variability expected from natural causes. (nature.com)
  • Figure 3: Simulated versus observed Atlantic tropical cyclone interannual variability (approximately 1980-2006) using several methods. (nature.com)
  • As climate observations show that global warming leads to fewer but more intense rainfalls, a clearer understanding of how these sources are replenished is crucial for developing strategies for groundwater usage that are better adapted to the greater variability in rainfall and river discharge brought about by climate change. (phys.org)
  • There have been significant research progresses in tropical-subtropical weather and forecasting, climate variability and climate change predictability, and air-sea interactions and oceanic dynamics in recent years. (clivar.org)
  • The main reason for this is the gap between AFS ecosystems' complexity and variability and the modeling methods of the climate community and its Land Surface Models (LSM) relying on surface homogeneity hypotheses. (agropolis-fondation.fr)
  • Skill in simulating historical ET interannual variability in the North Atlantic and western North Pacific is ∼0.3, which is lower than for all tropical cyclones. (upc.edu)
  • We propose to validate the climatology and variability of tropical rainfall in the 20th Century reanalysis, version 2 (20CRv2, Compo et al. (noaa.gov)
  • Recent analysis from WRI shows emissions from primary tropical forest loss in 2020 alone were equivalent the annual emissions of 570 million cars. (wri.org)
  • But whereas the EU could cut emissions by only about 5 percent at $20-per-ton in 2020, [ii] reducing tropical deforestation could cut emissions by 4.5 times as much at that price. (cgdev.org)
  • Following the string of high intensity tropical cyclones in the Atlantic basin in 2017 and the devastating impacts on Small Island Developing States ( SIDS ), a number of questions have been raised about linkages between these cyclones and climate change. (climateanalytics.org)
  • This briefing provides clarity on scientifically-supported connections between existing tropical cyclones and climate change. (climateanalytics.org)
  • Other influences on groundwater storage including excessive pumpage, substantial changes in total precipitation, and land-use change can undermine and overwhelm this resilience of groundwater resources in the tropics to climate change. (phys.org)
  • Sustainable forest management can also help increase the resilience of forests and people to climate change by, for example, increasing productivity, conserving biodiversity, maintaining soils and water quality, and acting as buffers against floods, coastal storm surges and droughts. (itto.int)
  • Mitigation procedures that preserve ecosystem resistance and resilience to climate change are recommended as cost-effective and ecologically sound adaptation strategies. (cifor.org)
  • In turn, the need for collecting and communicating evidence on the climate resilience of communities has increasingly drawn questions concerning how to assess resilience. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • Yet datasets, methods and modalities that enable cross-case analyses that draw from individual local studies are still rare in climate resilience literature. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • We conclude that future exercises synthesizing cross-site empirical evidence in climate resilience could accelerate research to policy impact by using mixed methods, focusing on specific landscapes or regional scales, and facilitating research through the use of shared frameworks and learning exercises. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • Greenpeace's new report , Outsourcing Hot Air , could help to slow-or reverse-the progress of tropical states and provinces around the world in reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
  • If Brazilian Amazon states are to continue their remarkable progress in slowing deforestation and mitigating climate change, they urgently need a signal that their efforts are recognized and that some portion of their costs will be recovered. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
  • Washington, DC (April 22, 2021) - Today, as part of the Leaders' Summit on Climate, a group of governments and multinational corporation announced the Lowering Emissions by Accelerating Forest Finance ( LEAF ) Coalition, which seeks to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by providing substantial financial support to tropical and subtropical countries that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. (wri.org)
  • The LEAF Coalition offers the financial assurance needed for countries to start prioritizing policies and investments that reduce deforestation and protect their tropical forests. (wri.org)
  • This has given rise-in negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change-to the concept of REDD+ as a mechanism to encourage developing countries to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and to conserve and enhance carbon stocks through forest restoration and SFM. (itto.int)
  • Deforestation leading to a potential lack of forest cover means that tropical butterflies may have to rely on physiological thermal tolerance methods. (britishecologicalsociety.org)
  • Our numbers suggest that reducing tropical deforestation offers a large and cheap way to fight climate change relative to other sources of emissions. (cgdev.org)
  • Tropical deforestation produced nearly as many annual emissions as the European Union from 2001 to 2012. (cgdev.org)
  • Relative to California, another jurisdiction with carbon pricing in place, reducing tropical deforestation offers about 55 times as many low-cost emission reductions (see figure 1) [iii] . (cgdev.org)
  • We project that if all tropical countries put in place anti-deforestation policies as effective as those enacted by Brazil in the Amazon in the last decade, one-third of future tropical forest loss and associated emissions would be avoided. (cgdev.org)
  • This can also inform decisions at the 2021 UN world climate summit, COP26, which will be an occasion to re-consider the insufficient Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement: "The current NDCs scenario would lead to about two degrees of warming around mid-century and a continuous rise of warming thereafter," says Katja Frieler, co-lead of PIK's Research Department on Transformation Pathways. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Zonally contrasting shifts of the tropical rain belt in response to climate change, Nature Climate Change (2021). (phys.org)
  • During the last ice age, temperatures over tropical Africa were 21°C, about 4°C lower than today, whereas the tropical Atlantic Ocean was only about 2.5°C colder. (science20.com)
  • [ 6 ] The prevalent use of alcohol in colder climates is a factor as well. (medscape.com)
  • However, future projections based on theory and high-resolution dynamical models consistently indicate that greenhouse warming will cause the globally averaged intensity of tropical cyclones to shift towards stronger storms, with intensity increases of 2-11% by 2100. (nature.com)
  • An average of 20 tropical storms hit the Philippines annually. (aljazeera.com)
  • Scientists have warned that such storms, which also kill livestock and destroy key infrastructure, are becoming more powerful as the world gets warmer because of climate change. (aljazeera.com)
  • Two tropical storms have formed in the Atlantic in June for the first time since records began. (sky.com)
  • Gray WM (1968) Global view of the origin of tropical disturbances and storms. (springer.com)
  • However, a robust increase of the most devastating storms with climate change is evident. (climateanalytics.org)
  • Not only will climate change directly impact forests and the other natural systems that maintain critical water-related ecosystem services, climate impacts will be experienced largely through the medium of water - melting glaciers, changing rainfall patterns, increased water stress and drought from higher temperatures, more severe storms - resulting in increased water and food insecurity, and constraints on economic opportunity. (forest-trends.org)
  • Climate Council CEO Amanda McKenzie said climate change is driving increasing intense storms, including Tropical Storm Harvey. (climatecouncil.org.au)
  • Climate change is now super-charging extreme weather events including storms, bushfires, heavy rainfall and floods," she said. (climatecouncil.org.au)
  • The record for most tropical cyclones to hit Madagascar in one year occurred in 1975, when five named storms and three tropical depressions hit the island. (capeweather.com)
  • Appropriate Building Construction in Tropical and Subtropical Regions (SKAT, 1993, 324 p.): 1. (nzdl.org)
  • Climate Responsive Building - Appropriate Building Construction in Tropical and Subtropical Regions (SKAT, 1993, 324 p. (nzdl.org)
  • CIFOR publishes over 400 publications every year on forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy, agroforestry and much more in multiple languages. (cifor.org)
  • Large amplitude fluctuations in the frequency and intensity of tropical cyclones greatly complicate both the detection of long-term trends and their attribution to rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases. (nature.com)
  • Meeting at the United Nations, a group of countries which share about half of the world's tropical rainforests today urged measures to combat climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (un.org)
  • The team made the assessment by examining computer simulations from 27 state-of-the-art climate models and measuring the tropical rain belt's response to a future scenario in which greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise through the end of the current century. (phys.org)
  • Under increasing greenhouse gas forcing, the tropical Atlantic warms by up to 4.5∘C locally, and maritime precipitation increases in boreal winter and spring. (knmi.nl)
  • Integrating climate policy, forest and biodiversity conservation, post-2015 SDGs, water management, and agriculture and energy development will be critical to success. (forest-trends.org)
  • Sunlight is intense in these climates. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tropical groundwater may prove to be a climate-resilient source of freshwater in the tropics as intense rainfall favours the replenishment of these resources, according to a new study published in Environmental Research Letters . (phys.org)
  • As the global population is projected to peak around mid-century, more people will face more intense cyclones, due to climate change -- putting that higher population at greater risk. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Hoarau K, Bernard J, Chalonge L (2012) Intense tropical cyclone activities in the northern Indian Ocean. (springer.com)
  • Regions that contain tropical rainforest climate mainly include the upper Amazon basin of South America, the Northern Zaire (Congo) basin of Africa, and the islands of the East Indies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scientists from the NIOZ Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research obtained for the first time a detailed temperature record for tropical central Africa over the past 25,000 years. (science20.com)
  • The results show that the land environment of tropical Africa was cooled more than the adjacent Atlantic Ocean during the last ice-age. (science20.com)
  • These findings provide further insight in natural variations in climate and the possible consequences of a warming earth on precipitation in central Africa. (science20.com)
  • Since the Congo River drains a large part of tropical central Africa, the land derived material gives an integrated signal for a very large area. (science20.com)
  • This occurred during the last ice age and, as a consequence, the land climate in tropical Africa was drier than it is in today's world, where it favours the growth of a lush rainforest. (science20.com)
  • According to the study, a northward shift of the tropical rain belt over the eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean will result in future increases of drought stress in southeastern Africa and Madagascar, in addition to intensified flooding in southern India. (phys.org)
  • There are normally only two seasons in tropical climates, a wet (rainy / monsoon) season and a dry season. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are three basic types of tropical climates within the tropical climate group: tropical rainforest climate (Af), tropical monsoon climate (Am) and tropical wet and dry climate or tropical savannah (Aw for dry winters, and As for dry summers), which are classified and distinguished by the precipitation and the precipitation levels of the driest month in those regions. (wikipedia.org)
  • In Group A, there are three types of this climate: the tropical rainforest climate (Af), tropical monsoon climate (Am) and tropical wet and dry or savanna climate (Aw or As). (wikipedia.org)
  • Tropical monsoon climate's Pdry should be in the range from ( 100 − m e a n a n n u a l p r e c i p i t a t i o n i n m m 25 ) {\displaystyle (100-{\tfrac {mean\ annual\ precipitation\ in\ mm}{25}})} to 60 mm. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Köppen classification tool identifies tropical monsoon climate as having small annual temperature ranges, high temperatures, and plentiful precipitation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Thailand has a tropical climate with monsoon rains that come every summer. (cdc.gov)
  • The tropical plant gardener in temperate climate zones has to adjust the plants and growing conditions to fit his or her local garden parameters. (pioneerthinking.com)
  • Climate Matters is a reporting resource program that helps meteorologists and journalists report on climate impacts and solutions in ways that are local, immediate, and personal - grounded in the latest science. (climatecentral.org)
  • Stay in the know about climate impacts and solutions. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
  • Indian coasts are often influenced by life-threatening water levels caused by tropical cyclones. (springer.com)
  • skin on hot, humid days, or in tropical climates. (cdc.gov)
  • It is more harmful to the skin on hot, humid days, or in tropical climates. (cdc.gov)
  • Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. (nature.com)
  • Our findings most likely also hold true for a variety of other climate extremes whose occurrence only depends on absolute warming and not on the timing. (sciencedaily.com)
  • This study combines the engineering approach of system's thinking with data analytics and climate science to reveal subtle and previously unrecognized manifestations of global warming on regional precipitation dynamics and extremes. (phys.org)
  • Forced and unforced ocean temperature changes in Atlantic and Pacific tropical cyclogenesis regions. (nature.com)
  • As Tim explains, a retractable roof system is ideal in tropical regions that experience high light intensity, humidity, and temperatures. (freshplaza.com)
  • The tropical and subtropical regions are important areas where severe weather and climate events and oceanic variations frequently occur. (clivar.org)
  • In Asia, projected reductions in aerosol emissions, glacier melting in the Himalayas and loss of snow cover in northern areas brought on by climate change will cause the atmosphere to heat up faster than in other regions," he said. (phys.org)
  • Present trends in construction in tropical and subtropical regions still show little awareness about energy conservation. (nzdl.org)
  • This publication provides the required information for the planning and construction of settlements and buildings in tropical and subtropical regions with respect to natural climate control by passive methods ( i.e. without energy consuming appliances). (nzdl.org)
  • The Appendix contains the physical data required to assess the properties of the main building materials and other useful lists such as an extensive bibliography, solar ecliptic charts for tropical and subtropical regions, conversion factors, an English / German dictionary of technical terms and a list of possible plant species. (nzdl.org)
  • Your support empowers critical plant science and conservation in tropical regions around the world. (ntbg.org)
  • Roy, does the CMIP5 data also just cover the tropical regions? (drroyspencer.com)
  • This is especially true in tropical and subtropical regions that are vulnerable to greater intensity, frequency, and duration of extreme weather, such as hurricanes, drought, and increases in heat, as a result of climate change. (climatechangecommunication.org)
  • Protecting the public's health in these regions from serious-potentially catastrophic-harm associated with climate change requires coordinated response from tropical medicine and global health professionals, and from leaders of civil society more broadly. (climatechangecommunication.org)
  • Tropical sprue is confined to geographic regions, but it is observed in individuals of all races who live in or visit those regions. (medscape.com)
  • Unchecked, these trends mean 2.9 million square kilometers (one-seventh the area of the world's tropical forests circa 2000) will be cleared by 2050. (cgdev.org)
  • Lead author Dr Martin Sullivan , from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, said: "International programmes often encourage the conservation of forests with high carbon stocks, because their focus is to try to slow climate change. (enn.com)
  • Conservation and reducing degradation to tropical wetlands are both sound mitigation approaches and important adaptation strategies. (cifor.org)
  • We then estimated how tropical land users would respond to forest conservation policies based on how land users responded to changes in agricultural commodity prices in the recent past. (cgdev.org)
  • Coalition members should adopt this standard to ensure these additional investments enhance, and don't detract from, the overall pace of global climate ambition. (wri.org)
  • Sea surface temperature (SST) biases in the tropical Atlantic are a long-standing problem among coupled global climate models (CGCMs). (knmi.nl)
  • Climate Analytics is a global climate science and policy institute engaged around the world in driving and supporting climate action aligned to the 1.5°C warming limit. (climateanalytics.org)
  • Urban climatology and its applications with special regard to tropical areas : proceedings of the Technical Conference organized by the World Meteorological Organization and co-sponsored by the World Health Organization, Mexico D.F., 26-30 November 1984 / scientific editor, T. R. Oke. (who.int)
  • Dataset All reanalysis data for tropical cyclone tracking (vorticity, wind fields, and sea-level pressure) and cyclone phase-space analysis (geopotential) are available from https://rda.ucar.edu or https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov. (upc.edu)
  • Figure 4: Sensitivity of projected tropical cyclone activity to different climate models providing downscaling conditions. (nature.com)
  • The tropical rainforest climate differs from other subtypes of tropical climates as it has more kinds of trees due to its precipitation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Here, we also explore the forecast skill of the CFS in predicting key oceanic variables at subseasonal lead times that may affect the genesis and the intensity of tropical systems. (confex.com)
  • Multimodel consensus about climate change responses is clearer for frequency metrics than for intensity metrics. (upc.edu)
  • The low improved during 13 March and reached tropical cyclone intensity at 0000 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) 14 March (UTC=Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) - 8 hours). (bom.gov.au)
  • An area of tropical forest the size of India will be deforested in the next 35 years, burning through more than one-sixth of the remaining carbon that can be emitted if global warming is to be kept below 2 degrees Celsius (the "planetary carbon budget"), but many of these emissions could be cheaply avoided by putting a price on carbon. (cgdev.org)
  • Figure 2: Tropical Atlantic indices. (nature.com)
  • Swanson, K. Nonlocality of Atlantic tropical cyclone intensities. (nature.com)
  • Co-author James Randerson, UCI's Ralph J. & Carol M. Cicerone Chair in Earth System Science, explained that climate change causes the atmosphere to heat up by different amounts over Asia and the North Atlantic Ocean. (phys.org)
  • He added that the weakening of the Gulf Stream current and deep-water formation in the North Atlantic is likely to have the opposite effect, causing a southward shift in the tropical rain belt across the Western Hemisphere. (phys.org)
  • Enhanced mixing in historical simulation mode (MixUppr) reduces the SST bias in the tropical Atlantic compared to the control experiment (Controlpr). (knmi.nl)
  • Using the Tropical Rain Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI) SSTs available from Remote Sensing Systems (all 15 GB worth), here I will statistically adjust tropical SSTs for El Nino and La Nina activity, and see how the resulting trend since 1998 compares to the latest crop of IPCC CMIP5 model runs. (drroyspencer.com)
  • Note that I have now averaged the monthly data to yearly, and this last plot also shows an average of 35 CMIP5 climate models SSTs during 1998-2012 for the same (tropical) latitude band, courtesy of John Christy and the KNMI climate explorer website . (drroyspencer.com)
  • On Sunday evening, the tropical cyclone had maximum sustained winds equivalent to a Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale. (aljazeera.com)
  • Northern parts of Vanuatu will suffer the worst of Tropical Cyclone Harold's strong winds and rain, with a further 300mm of rain forecast in the coming days. (aljazeera.com)
  • The tropical storm, which has maximum sustained winds of 95km (59 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 160kph (99.4 mph), made landfall in the eastern Catanduanes province early on Saturday. (aljazeera.com)
  • Emnati had weakened from its Sunday peak as a category 4 storm with 130 mph winds because of an eyewall replacement cycle, combined with the influence of cooler waters near the coast of Madagascar (stirred up by the passage of three other tropical cyclones over the past month). (capeweather.com)
  • Only 16 days ago, Madagascar endured a devastating landfall by Tropical Cyclone Batsirai, which made landfall on the island's east central coast near on February 5 as a category 3 storm with 115 mph winds, according to the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. (capeweather.com)
  • Ana crossed over Madagascar in January as a tropical depression with 35 mph winds, bringing floods that killed 48 people and left 71,000 people homeless. (capeweather.com)
  • Ana also killed 18 people in Mozambique and 29 in Malawi, after making landfall in Mozambique as a tropical storm with 60 mph winds. (capeweather.com)
  • Tropical-storm-force winds were restricted mainly to the north side of Karl. (yaleclimateconnections.org)
  • Research that addresses critical information gaps and communicates the results on land use and carbon dynamics in tropical wetlands is needed to inform sound policy decisions. (cifor.org)
  • The Joint Typhoon Warning Center has reported Tropical Cyclone Harold made landfall over Vanuatu just south of Elia at 22:15 GMT on Sunday. (aljazeera.com)
  • And just last week, Tropical Storm Dumako made landfall in northeastern Madagascar, on February 15. (capeweather.com)
  • Noteworthy that newly-formed #Karl will make landfall as a tropical storm in Mexico very near where a 2010 version of Karl made landfall as a Category 3 #hurricane . (yaleclimateconnections.org)
  • Sustainably managed tropical forests, and their associated legal and sustainable supply chains, can be cornerstones of efforts to combat climate change and develop a more circular economy. (itto.int)
  • If we add population growth to two degree Celsius global warming, in 2050 we could even see an increase of ca. 40 percent more people exposed to cyclones," says Tobias Geiger, researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), lead author of the new study to be published in Nature Climate Change . (sciencedaily.com)
  • In a study published today in Nature Climate Change , the interdisciplinary team of environmental engineers, Earth system scientists and data science experts stressed that not all parts of the tropics will be affected equally. (phys.org)
  • Just months before Lima hosts over 190 countries to advance international climate negotiations at COP 20, Katoomba XX - Peru will identify opportunities for climate policy and finance to align with other public and private investments and commitments to ensure that forests and other ecosystems continue to provide critical support for stable climate and resilient societies. (forest-trends.org)
  • Well-managed tropical forests act as a vast carbon sink. (itto.int)
  • Well-managed tropical forests act as a vast carbon sink, and sustainably produced tropical wood can be used as a renewable, low-carbon substitute for carbon-intensive materials. (itto.int)
  • Emanuel, K. Environmental factors affecting tropical cyclone power dissipation. (nature.com)
  • Flooding and damage in Madagascar after the February 5 landfall of Tropical Cyclone Batsirai. (capeweather.com)
  • Tropical cyclone (TC)-ocean interactions are crucial in TC evolution. (confex.com)
  • Afocus on policies to conserve tropical forests for their carbon storage value may imperil some of the world's most biologically rich tropical forests. (enn.com)
  • Many countries have climate-protection policies designed to conserve tropical forests to keep their carbon locked up in trees. (enn.com)
  • Evan AT, Kossin JP, Ramanathan V (2011) Arabian Sea tropical cyclones intensified by emissions of black carbon and other aerosols. (springer.com)
  • Tropical wetlands, especially peatlands and mangroves, are important in global carbon cycling. (cifor.org)
  • Well, look at this, it turns out tropical forests aren't carbon sinks to help us get control of the carbon in the atmosphere. (politicalforum.com)
  • A surprising scientific study released Thursday presents troubling news about the enormous forests of the planet's tropical midsection - suggesting that they are releasing hundreds of millions of tons of carbon to the atmosphere, rather than storing it in the trunks of trees and other vegetation. (politicalforum.com)
  • The 169 billion tons of future emissions would be reduced by about one-quarter in response to a $20-per-ton carbon price in tropical forest countries (equivalent to a $9-per-ton average cost to land users, as explained below), or by nearly half in response to a $50-per-ton carbon price ($21-per-ton average cost). (cgdev.org)
  • That tropical forests offer so many low-cost emission reductions shows the potential benefits of international carbon payments, whereby rich countries pay tropical countries for keeping their forests standing. (cgdev.org)
  • Mamalakis said the sweeping shift detected in his work was disguised in previous modelling studies that provided a global average of the influence of climate change on the tropical rain belt. (phys.org)
  • Tropical climate is the first of the five major climate groups in the Köppen climate classification identified with the letter A. Tropical climates are defined by a monthly average temperature of 18 °C (64.4 °F) or higher in the coolest month, and feature hot temperatures all year-round. (wikipedia.org)
  • The annual temperature range in tropical climates is normally very small. (wikipedia.org)
  • It defines a tropical climate as a region where the mean temperature of the coldest month is greater than or equal to 18 °C (64.4 °F) and does not fit into the criteria for B-group climates, classifying them as an A-group (tropical climate group). (wikipedia.org)
  • Tropical rainforest climates have high temperatures: the yearly average temperature is normally between 21 °C and 30 °C ( 70 °F and 85 °F ). The precipitation can reach over 100 inches a year. (wikipedia.org)
  • We have integrated observations of tropospheric ozone, very short-lived (VSL) halocarbons and reactive iodine and bromine species from a wide variety of tropical data sources with the global CAM-Chem chemistry-climate model and offline radiative transfer calculations to compute the contribution of halogen chemistry to ozone loss and associated radiative impact in the tropical marine troposphere. (nasa.gov)
  • The inclusion of tropospheric halogen chemistry in CAM-Chem leads to an annually averaged depletion of around 10 % (∼2.5 Dobson units) of the tropical tropospheric ozone column, with largest effects in the middle to upper troposphere. (nasa.gov)
  • We find that the implementation of oceanic halogen sources and chemistry in climate models is an important component of the natural background ozone budget and we suggest that it needs to be considered when estimating both preindustrial ozone baseline levels and long term changes in tropospheric ozone. (nasa.gov)
  • To have a better long-term planning for the coastal districts due to tropical cyclones, the extreme water levels for different climate change scenarios are important to compute. (springer.com)
  • This proposal aims to open the way to large-scale simulation of the climate change mitigation potential of agroforestry systems (AFS) by setting a proof-of-concept. (agropolis-fondation.fr)
  • Tropical sprue occurs in both epidemic and endemic forms, primarily in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean. (medscape.com)
  • Tropical sprue is primarily an adult disease, but it has been described in children. (medscape.com)
  • Standardised methods and protocols are needed for effective monitoring, reporting and verification of emissions from land use and land cover change in tropical wetlands. (cifor.org)
  • Future research will explore how the combination of climate change and pumping will impact the availability of groundwater supplies across the tropics. (phys.org)
  • Dr. Daniel Nepstad, a scientist and member of the California REDD Offsets Working Group, responds to a recent Greenpeace report that criticizes a climate change prevention initiative claiming it will at best have a neutral impact on the atmosphere. (ecosystemmarketplace.com)
  • Considering the joint impact of climate change and population growth provides an untapped potential to protect a changing world population. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Johannes Gütschow adds: "Basically, our computer model can calculate the impact of any given warming scenario, on a global and country scale, and its implications for the number of people at risk by tropical cyclones. (sciencedaily.com)
  • We perform sensitivity experiments to examine the effect of enhanced vertical mixing on the SST bias in quasi equilibrium present day climate and its impact on projected climate change. (knmi.nl)
  • Climate impact of tropical agroforestry. (agropolis-fondation.fr)
  • Home / Actions supported / Projects / Climate impact of tropical agroforestry. (agropolis-fondation.fr)
  • This project will thus pave the road for a process-based assessment of the climate impact of agroforestry practices. (agropolis-fondation.fr)
  • The island nation of Madagascar, already reeling from the impact of three previous tropical cyclones this year, plus a devastating drought in southern parts of the nation, is bracing for the expected arrival of Tropical Cyclone Emnati on Tuesday. (capeweather.com)
  • Before Batsirai, Madagascar was already suffering from the impact of Tropical Storm Ana, the first named storm of the Southwest Indian Ocean cyclone season. (capeweather.com)
  • We standardized data into an aggregated dataset to explore how key demographic factors affected the impact of climate shocks, modeled as crop loss. (whiterose.ac.uk)
  • Tropical Cyclone Billy tracked over open waters of the Indian Ocean and had no impact on the Western Australian mainland or island territories. (bom.gov.au)