• This study was done to determine whether seasonal variation exists in hospitalizations and deaths due to heart failure (HF) and to examine possible contributors to such variability. (nih.gov)
  • After the unusual thermal condition of the Bering Sea in 1997-1998, we found that the recent climate variability (1999-2010) in the Bering Sea is closely related to Pacific basin-scale atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns. (springer.com)
  • Further analysis reveals that the recent climate variability in the Bering and Chukchi Seas has strong covariability with large-scale climate modes in the Pacific, that is, the North Pacific Gyre Oscillation and the central Pacific El Niño. (springer.com)
  • In particular, its relationship with climate variability has long been the focus of attention (Grebmeier et al. (springer.com)
  • Therefore, studying the impacts of climate variability and human activity on droughts has very important scientific value and social significance in order to understand drought warnings and weaken the adverse impacts of droughts. (mdpi.com)
  • Improved understanding of the character, impacts, and potential forecasting of these types of extreme sea ice events has great societal relevance for Arctic marine access, seasonal forecasting, and climate variability. (noaa.gov)
  • We expect that in the future: (1) The variability of ice area will increase and its predictability will decrease, (2) Expanding open water area will promote more extreme cyclones, and (3-4) Regional sensitivity to extreme sea ice variations will change, as will the predictability of ice conditions relevant for marine access. (noaa.gov)
  • It is a part of normal climate variability in many climate zones. (magiran.com)
  • Knowledge about these and other processes is crucial for our understanding of climate variability and change both on global and regional scales, and to develop climate models for projections of future climates. (lu.se)
  • The case studies reveal how both internal and external inquiries have acted as catalysts for police attitudinal change for handling climate camp protests. (ojp.gov)
  • Although police and protesters maintain some traditional mutual suspicion of each other and although the police organizational structure is an anathema to climate-campers, the article stresses the importance of meaningful dialogue and negotiation between police and protesters for the successful facilitation of peaceful protest, especially in relation to ongoing climate change dissent. (ojp.gov)
  • Most analyses of detection of temperature increase assume a change which is linear in time or a linear variation to a change point after which the slope changes. (confex.com)
  • Has the puzzle of rapid climate change in the last ice age been solved? (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • The climate in the Northern Hemisphere became dramatically warmer within a few decades until, due to the retreat of the glaciers over North America and the renewed change in wind conditions, it began to cool off again. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • In doing so he illustrates the new study's significance with regards to contemporary climate change. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • Among the most widely predicted climate change-related impacts to biodiversity are geographic range shifts, whereby species shift their spatial distribution to track their climate niches. (cakex.org)
  • A series of commonly articulated hypotheses have emerged in the scientific literature suggesting species are expected to shift their distributions to higher latitudes, greater elevations, and deeper depths in response to rising temperatures associated with climate change. (cakex.org)
  • Here, we evaluate the impact of anthropogenic climate change (specifically, changes in temperature and precipitation) on species' ranges, and assess whether expected range shifts are supported by the body of empirical evidence. (cakex.org)
  • Despite growing evidence that species are shifting their ranges in response to climate change, substantial variation exists in the extent to which definitively empirical observations confirm these expectations. (cakex.org)
  • Journal of Water and Climate Change (2013) 4 (2): 110-117. (iwaponline.com)
  • Improved understanding of climate-growth relationships of multi-species is fundamental to understand and predict response of forest growth to future climate change. (preprints.org)
  • To detect growth response of multiple species to climate change, we developed residual chronologies of four major conifers, i.e. (preprints.org)
  • According to the prediction of climate models and our understanding in growth response of four species to climate variables, we may understand growth response to climate change at species level. (preprints.org)
  • It is difficult to predict future forest growth in the study area, since future climate change might cause both increases or decreases for four species and indirect effects of climate change on forest should be considered. (preprints.org)
  • Improving the knowledge about feedback processes (from e.g. natural and human-induced vegetation changes), regional climate change or the influence of external natural forcing factors (e.g. solar forcing) will narrow down the uncertainties. (lu.se)
  • This will provide society and decision makers with a more solid basis to assess the urgency and necessary measures to mitigate future climate change. (lu.se)
  • How ectothermic animals will cope with global warming, especially more frequent and intense heatwaves, is a critical determinant of the ecological impacts of climate change. (biorxiv.org)
  • Intraspecific variation is a primary determinant of species vulnerability to climate change, with implications for global patterns of impacts of ongoing warming. (biorxiv.org)
  • This is evidence that tropical fish communities, worldwide, are especially vulnerable to ongoing climate change. (biorxiv.org)
  • The extent of variation in functional traits within species, particularly of physiological tolerances, is expected to have a profound influence on their vulnerability to global change 12 - 15 . (biorxiv.org)
  • But compared to what happens At the forefront of climate change The virus is less than an ant compared to a giant. (wireservice.ca)
  • Recent hydrological disasters in the WUS have been closely related to climate change [ 4 - 6 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Therefore, it is of great importance to conduct accurate and effective hydrological forecasting for the WUS within the context of climate change. (hindawi.com)
  • Climate change has affected the phenology of plants and animals throughout the world, but few studies have evaluated climate responses of fruit trees in East Asia. (uni-bonn.de)
  • All IPCC definitions taken from Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Greta Thunberg (at table, second from left) and other young activists filed a complaint with the United Nations in September, arguing that a lack of action on climate change violated their human rights. (sciencenews.org)
  • Accordingly, there is a lack of research clearly comparing the consequences of climate variation (short-term) and climate change (long-term). (eduhk.hk)
  • Climate change occurs when climate variations last for more than 30 yr. (eduhk.hk)
  • The accumulated effect of climate change on the agrarian economy ultimately resulted in an economic crisis in pre-industrial Europe. (eduhk.hk)
  • Clarifying the global- scale patterns of KS and its major drivers is needed to achieve a better understanding of how plants adapt to different environmental conditions, particularly under climate change scenarios. (columbia.edu)
  • This highlights an important role for KS in predicting shifts in community composition in the face of climate change. (columbia.edu)
  • ABSTRACT Rising rates of invasive fungal infections may be linked to global climate change. (who.int)
  • Where Was Climate Change at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health? (medscape.com)
  • In this commentary, the authors lament the lack of attention to the link between climate change and the food system at the recent White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health. (medscape.com)
  • Understanding the climate system is particularly topical today, as we observe that the climate system is currently undergoing rapid change. (lu.se)
  • Studies underline that these changes are predominantly caused by our way of living - how we travel, supply energy, produce goods, the food we eat, how we live - as these involve the use of fossil fuels and land use change, with concomitant emissions of greenhouse gases into the climate system. (lu.se)
  • Furthermore, climate change strongly links to other global grand challenges, such as poverty reduction, protection of biodiversity, economic growth and the overall pursuant of sustainability. (lu.se)
  • This informs us about the climate system in ways that cannot be addressed by direct observations, and contributes to our overall knowledge of climate under change. (lu.se)
  • 9 On a regional scale, a review of the impacts of climate change on human health provided more evidence of the burden of climate change-attributable diseases and emphasized the uncertainty in attributing diseases to climate change, owing to a lack of long-term, high-quality data. (who.int)
  • 10 Climate change is likely to affect the seasonal and geographical distribution of dengue fever in the Asia-Pacific region, but more studies are needed that adjust for regional and subregional socio-environmental factors in the assessment of climate effects on dengue transmission. (who.int)
  • He has worked on the hydrological modelling, hydro-environmental impacts of climate change and system dynamics approach for adaptation strategies development as for his PhD research. (lu.se)
  • Socioeconomic impacts of climate variations and policy responses in Brazil / Antonio R. Magalhaes and Michael H. Glantz, editors. (who.int)
  • Only a small number of quantitative studies have investigated the short- and long-term impacts of climate variations on society during Europe's pre-industrial era. (eduhk.hk)
  • A parsimonious model reveals that high mean DIC arises from soil CO 2 accumulation when rates of DIC‐generating reactions are relatively high compared to its export fluxes in arid climates. (nsf.gov)
  • Using the simulations performed with our climate model, we were able to demonstrate that the climate system can respond to small changes with abrupt climate swings," explains Professor Gerrit Lohmann, leader of the Paleoclimate Dynamics group at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • Our understanding of DIC dynamics across gradients of climate, geology, and vegetation conditions however have remained elusive. (nsf.gov)
  • This study focuses on the close relationship between climate variations and the dynamics of the agrarian economy in Europe during the period of 1500 to 1800 AD. (eduhk.hk)
  • Climate-driven variation in mosquito density predicts the spatiotemporal dynamics of dengue. (bvsalud.org)
  • Although the climate - epidemic association and outbreak risks have been assessed using both statistical and mathematical models , local mosquito population dynamics have not been incorporated in a unified predictive framework. (bvsalud.org)
  • Here, we use mosquito surveillance data from 2005 to 2015 in China to integrate a generalized additive model of mosquito dynamics with a susceptible-infected-recovered (SIR) compartmental model of viral transmission to establish a predictive model linking climate and seasonal dengue risk . (bvsalud.org)
  • The findings illustrate that spatiotemporal dynamics of dengue are predictable from the local vector dynamics, which in turn, can be predicted by climate conditions. (bvsalud.org)
  • The negative climatic variations in the short-term caused grain prices to increase. (eduhk.hk)
  • We included in our analysis only countries with a temperate climate. (cdc.gov)
  • Objective: To study whether vasopressin concentration varies by season in a temperate climate. (lu.se)
  • Forests are mainly composed of conifers in Northwestern Yunnan Plateau, but variations of growth response to climates among the species are not well understood. (preprints.org)
  • Click here to watch an animation of variations in sea ice in the Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. (windows2universe.org)
  • Notably, freshwater tropical species have lower variation in tolerance than temperate species in the northern hemisphere, which implies increased vulnerability to impacts of thermal stress. (biorxiv.org)
  • They also underscore the importance of characterizing subsurface CO 2 distribution to illuminate belowground processes in order to project the future of water and carbon cycles in a warming climate. (nsf.gov)
  • They find, 'some identified cycles correspond to variations in the Moons' orbit around Earth' and 'some identified cycles correspond to solar variations. (climatedepot.com)
  • The mainstream media is busy informing citizens Now worn out Information confusion about the risk of delta variation (and the need to complete vaccination cycles) for a year and a half, news Temperature of 50 degrees Registration Canada Send correctly on the third or fourth page (if everything goes well). (wireservice.ca)
  • On the basis of the similar epidemiology and transmission cycles, we believe that this integrated approach and the finer mosquito surveillance data provide a framework that can be extended to predict outbreak risk of other mosquito-borne diseases as well as project dengue risk maps for future climate scenarios. (bvsalud.org)
  • The climate system encompasses the global atmosphere, oceans, land surface, cryosphere (snow, sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets), vegetation and various biogeochemical processes such as the carbon and nitrogen cycles. (lu.se)
  • 2 These cycles are thought to be influenced by the circulating viral serotypes, host immunity and climate oscillations. (who.int)
  • Atmospheric and oceanic parameters in the Bering Sea vary over a wide range of time scales, from interannual to multi-decadal scales, including trends or climate regime shifts. (springer.com)
  • At medium sea levels, powerful forces, such as the dramatic acceleration of polar ice cap melting, are not necessary to result in abrupt climate shifts and associated drastic temperature changes. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • We found that less than half of all range-shift observations (46.60%) documented shifts towards higher latitudes, higher elevations, and greater marine depths, demonstrating significant variation in the empirical evidence for general range shift expectations. (cakex.org)
  • Finally, we identified important variation across dimensions of range shifts (e.g., greater support for latitude and elevation shifts than depth), parameters (e.g., leading edge shifts faster than trailing edge for latitude), and taxonomic groups (e.g., faster latitudinal shifts for insects than plants). (cakex.org)
  • Variation across dimensions and parameters of range shifts, as well as differences across taxonomic groups and variation driven by methodological factors, should be considered when assessing overall confidence in range-shift hypotheses. (cakex.org)
  • These results demonstrate that the models are generally more sensitive to variation in climate and weather as compared with terrain complexity and fuel pattern, although the sensitivity to these latter factors in a small number of models demonstrates the importance of representing key processes. (gc.ca)
  • The spread of the temperature projections for the next century indicates a considerable uncertainty range for climate sensitivity of different climate models. (lu.se)
  • We investigated the causes for this warming by testing the sensitivity of the meridional overturning circulation (MOC) to variations in freshwater forcing location, and then analysing in detail the causes of the warming. (mpg.de)
  • Furthermore, the AGB response to the human and climate factors modeled by GWR exhibited significant spatial variations. (emich.edu)
  • Drought is one of the most important natural disasters that is called lack of rainfall in a long period Drought is a natural phenomenon that has a significant impact on Human life exists and its temporal and spatial variations can be effective in dealing with the effects of this phenomenon. (magiran.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the drought process using SPI and Mann-Kendal test as well as meteorological drought spatial variations in Lorestan province using GIS. (magiran.com)
  • These measures were developed through a collaborative project that was funded by the NASA National Climate Assessment (NCA) Program among the following organizations: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), Universities Space Research Association (USRA), University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) and CDC. (cdc.gov)
  • However, the cold period was repeatedly interrupted by much warmer climate conditions. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • A generally north to south spreading direction was found in these B. hybridum populations, towards a drier and warmer climate exhibiting higher moisture deficit for plant growth. (osti.gov)
  • However, there is still limited research into spatial and temporal variation patterns of bacterial community assemblages in mangrove soils. (frontiersin.org)
  • An increased understanding of the spatial and temporal variation of bacterial communities is critical when assessing delivery of ecosystem services and their role in soil biogeochemical processes. (frontiersin.org)
  • Temporal variation of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) epidemics was recently reported to be determined by the dominant RSV subtype. (cdc.gov)
  • However, when we repeated the analysis for 4 countries in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the dominant subtype did not seem to affect temporal variation of RSV epidemics. (cdc.gov)
  • Although it is generally accepted that RSV epidemics in temperate climates occur in winter, some temporal variation of epidemics remains unexplained ( 3 ). (cdc.gov)
  • 13 years of age) with pneumonia at the Beijing Children's Hospital (Beijing, China) during July 2007-June 2015 and reported that temporal variation is partly explained by seasonal differences in virus subtype dominance ( 4 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Temporal variation in respiratory syncytial virus, defined by using 10% positivity threshold, by dominant virus subtype, country, and season. (cdc.gov)
  • The alleviation may be attributable to vegetation adaptation to high human-climate stresses, to human adaptation to climate conditions or/and to recent vegetation restoration programs in the highly degraded areas. (emich.edu)
  • Although seasonal variation in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction and sudden death is well recognized, it is less well documented in HF. (nih.gov)
  • Dengue is a climate -sensitive mosquito-borne disease with increasing geographic extent and human incidence . (bvsalud.org)
  • This study aims to enhance the capacity of dengue prediction by investigating the relationship of dengue incidence with climate and environmental factors in the Mekong Delta region (MDR) of Viet Nam by using remote sensing data. (who.int)
  • Furthermore, they will be helpful in the evaluation and improvement of hydrological and climate models. (hindawi.com)
  • Intraspecific trait variation within natural populations (i.e. intra-population trait variation, IPTV) is the basic source for selection and can have significant ecological consequences. (osti.gov)
  • There has been extensive study of upper thermal tolerance limits among fish species but how intraspecific variation in tolerance may be affected by habitat characteristics and evolutionary history has not been considered. (biorxiv.org)
  • The significance of intraspecific variation in tolerance remains to be explored. (biorxiv.org)
  • The immediate and long-term effects of climate variations over the study period can add up to significantly influence agrarian economies. (eduhk.hk)
  • The global mean temperature increase since 1880 as observed to date and forecast through 2070 is approximately exponential in nature, with interannual variations, some of which are decadal in length. (confex.com)
  • Tasmania can be broadly divided into two distinct regions, eastern and western, that exhibit major differences in climate, geology and vegetation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Tasmania has a wide range of vegetation types for its size, which is reflective of its varied geology, topography and climate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Now, for the first time, a group of researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have been able to reconstruct these climate changes during the last ice age using a series of model simulations. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • Climate model simulations also generate such large and rapid summertime ice loss events in the near future. (noaa.gov)
  • The results presented by the AWI researchers can explain the history of climate changes during glacial periods, comparing simulated model data with that retrieved from ice cores and marine sediments. (wattsupwiththat.com)
  • Click here to see the predictions that global climate models make about future changes in sea ice extent. (windows2universe.org)
  • If governments and citizens are weakly rational, another is likely More dramatic The alarm bells of a frantic climate must lead to the immediate implementation of drastic measures in all countries of the world to control global warming. (wireservice.ca)
  • The data suggests solar activity is influencing the global climate causing the world to get warmer. (skepticalscience.com)
  • A second wave of student-led protests coincided with the September Climate Action Summit, with a record-breaking 7.6 million people participating in a global climate strike. (sciencenews.org)
  • Growing-season temperature and growing-season precipitation drove global variation in KS independently. (columbia.edu)
  • We examined whether similar patterns in the dominant RSV subtype and timing of RSV epidemics were found in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres by using a large dataset from the Global Epidemiology of RSV in the Community and Hospitalised Care study ( https://www.nivel.nl/en/geri ). (cdc.gov)
  • Construction of space probes to search for life in the solar system · mechanisms for global climate changes. (lu.se)
  • In this study, physical connections among the recent climate variations in the Bering and Chukchi Seas, the NPO pattern and the Pacific large-scale climate patterns are investigated via cyclostationary empirical orthogonal function analysis. (springer.com)
  • In this project we aim to investigate if wood lice in urban gardens/parks have different genetic variation/alleles compared to individuals that reside in nature reserves or national parks. (lu.se)
  • In addition, it is possible to have additional parameters analysed if there is interest/time allows, where levels of heavy metals or other contaminants can be identified and compared to the genetic variation results. (lu.se)
  • However, the reciprocal influences of variation in environmental conditions and phenotypic trait expression in spreading plant populations are not clearly defined. (osti.gov)
  • Models generally exhibited a trend of increasing area burned from observed, through warmer and wetter, to warmer and drier climates with a 23-fold increase in area burned, on average, from the observed to the warmer, drier climate. (gc.ca)
  • The case study showed that the human and climate factors imposed a significant and negative impact on the AGB and that their interaction alleviated to some extent the threat from the intensified human-climate pressure. (emich.edu)
  • The extent of variation in CT max among fish species has a strong phylogenetic signal, which may indicate a constraint on evolvability to rising temperatures in tropical fishes. (biorxiv.org)
  • The vegetation changes occur principally due to variations in soil types, which are a result of the geological composition, and the vast difference in climate across the state. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this project we will assess the processes responsible for, and the predictability of, rapid Arctic sea ice variations, with an emphasis on the implications for marine navigation and extreme weather. (noaa.gov)
  • Variation in KS has implications for plant transpiration and photosynthesis, growth and survival, and also the geographic distribution of species. (columbia.edu)
  • Many of the earlier predictions of climate research have now become reality. (realclimate.org)
  • Climate Research, 56(2), 169-180. (eduhk.hk)
  • Studies into past climates, today's climate, and alternative future climates are research areas, which complement each other and together underline comprehensive understanding of the climate system. (lu.se)
  • The data include interannual variations and errors, so that a and tau are random variables. (confex.com)
  • For the second part of the study, climate oscillations of various periods are assumed. (confex.com)
  • CESM1 simulates 20th-century Arctic sea ice very realistically and will be used to examine the predictability of Arctic sea ice cover, especially rapid and extreme sea ice variations. (noaa.gov)
  • Advanced statistical methods, including spatial statistics (RA4), are applied to interpret paleoclimatic information and to fill the gaps in the point datasets of pollen-based vegetation reconstructions to obtain spatially explicit land-cover descriptions that can be used in climate models. (lu.se)
  • Weathering depends on physical processes governed partly by surface temperature, which allows for the potential that climate-tectonic coupling can buffer the surface conditions of a planet in a manner that allows liquid water to exist over extended timescales (a condition that allows a planet to be habitable by life as we know it). (rice.edu)
  • Reconstruction of past climates, beyond the period in time for which there are direct measurements is one means to better understand basic climate processes and how the climate system responds to forcing. (lu.se)
  • The climate we experience results from and is mediated by the action of a host of processes in the atmosphere, soils, oceans, and snow and ice components. (lu.se)
  • Contemporary Camps for Climate Action in the United Kingdom have produced a range of police attitudes and responses to changing protest events. (ojp.gov)
  • We accounted for methodological attributes at the study level as potential sources of variation. (cakex.org)
  • A study was made of the trend of ophthalmic fungal corneal keratitis in the greater Cairo area of Egypt and its association with climate records during the same period. (who.int)
  • Recentincreasesintheaveragetemper- orperforationoftheeye,cornealulceris Climate study atureoftheatmosphereneartheearth's consideredanophthalmicemergency. (who.int)
  • In addition to these challenges, ethnic variations may present different thresholds for iPTH activation at different vitamin D cut off levels. (biomedcentral.com)
  • RA2's overall aim is to use empirical proxydata of past climate and land cover to evaluate and develop Earth system models and regional, coupled vegetation-climate models. (lu.se)
  • Climate factors, in addition to multiple human, biological and ecological determinants, influence the emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases, including dengue, 5 which is transmitted by both the primary vector Aedes aegypti and the secondary vector Aedes albopictus. (who.int)
  • A range of approaches, including statistical modelling, mathematical modelling and spatial analysis, have been applied to demonstrate relationships between dengue and climate variables and to predict dengue cases and outbreaks. (who.int)
  • Further analysis revealed that the variation of snow accumulation anomaly had strong lead correlation with the variation of streamflow anomaly. (hindawi.com)
  • Therefore, streamflow variation in the WUS has strong correlation with changes in snowpack accumulation and rainfall and has obvious seasonal variation [ 11 - 14 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Except for those that researched atmospheric-oceanic circulations, most of the studies on the seasonal variation of streamflow focused on the relationship between runoff and snowmelt during the melting season. (hindawi.com)
  • There is also a significant variation in the circulating levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 in nonequatorial regions. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Thus, the regional ecology and economy are both vulnerable to water resource anomalies caused by seasonal hydroclimatic variations [ 3 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Modelled area burned was most sensitive to climate and variation in weather, with four models sensitive to each of these factors and three models sensitive to their interaction. (gc.ca)
  • Cooperation within MERGE RA2 provides real-world data from the past that is crucial for testing the climate and dynamic vegetation models developed within RA1. (lu.se)
  • J Climate 19(8):1365-1387, 2006), a number of the GCMs investigated showed a localised warming response in the high-latitude North Atlantic, as opposed to the cooling that the other models showed. (mpg.de)
  • We investigated seasonal variation of copeptin concentration and adjusted for confounders in sinusoidal models. (lu.se)
  • Investigators analyzed these activities and attributed the differences in nursing care quality with variation in the quality of hospital care environments . (ahrq.gov)
  • The first Martian year and a half of observations by the Mars Climate Sounder aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed new details of the thermal structure and distributions of dust and water ice in the atmosphere. (open.ac.uk)
  • Although instantaneous and mean DIC concentrations similarly decrease with increasing discharge, results here highlight their distinct drivers: daily to seasonal‐scale instantaneous concentration variations (C) are controlled by subsurface CO 2 distribution over depth (from below), whereas long‐term mean concentrations ( C m ) are regulated by climate (from above). (nsf.gov)