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An Environmental Risk Assessment/Management Framework for Climate Change Impact Assessments
This paper presents an environmental risk assessment/risk management framework to assess the impacts of climate change on individual exposure units...
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In the Grip of the Arctic
I arrived in Tromsø while the sun was shining day and night. I soon found that Tromsø, with only 10,000 inhabitants, was a cultural center out of all...
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Severe Convective Storms—An Overview
In general, convection, refers to the transport of some property by fluid movement, most often with reference to heat transport. As such, it is one...
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Cladoceran and chironomid assemblages as qualitative indicators of water depth in subarctic Fennoscandian lakes
The relationship between surface-sediment cladoceran and chironomid communities to lake depth was analysed in 53 lakes distributed across timberline...
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The Urban Heat Island Effect at Fairbanks, Alaska
Using climatic data from Fairbanks and rurally situated Eielson Air Force Base in Interior Alaska, the growth of the Fairbanks heat island was...
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The Potential Impacts of Climate Change
Concern over the potential impacts of future climate change on both natural and human systems drives research into the enhanced greenhouse effect....
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Image analysis as a method to quantify sediment components
Varved lake sediments, with their annual to seasonal resolution, have a high potential for inferring past environmental and climatic conditions. To...
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Abrupt climate changes: from the past to the future – a review
A review of climatic variability is given with a focus on abrupt changes during the last glacial. Evidence from palaeoclimatic archives suggests...
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Workshop on Indices and Indicators for Climate Extremes, Asheville, NC, USA, 3–6 June 1997 Breakout Group C: Temperature Indices for Climate Extremes
The “temperature” breakout group at the 1997 Asheville Workshop on Indicators and Indices for Climate Extremes reviewed and developed the rationale...
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Long-Term Observations for Monitoring Extremes in the Americas
In this paper we discuss data available from Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Canada that are suitable for the analysis of extreme...
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Sun, climate, hunger, and mass migration
Paleoclimatic studies indicate four epochs of global cooling during the last 4 000 years, i. e. during the few centuries before and after 2000 BC,...
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D.G. Frey and E.S. Deevey Review 1: Numerical tools in palaeolimnology – Progress, potentialities, and problems
In the last decade, palaeolimnology has shifted emphasis from being a predominantly qualitative, descriptive subject to being a quantitative,...
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The Effects of Climate on Welfare and Well-Being in Russia
This paper measures the concepts of welfare and well-being in Russia on the basis of two large Russian household surveys, carried out in 1993 and...
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The Role of the Oceans in Southern Hemisphere Climate
Atmospheric circulation is strongly influenced by details of the sea surface temperature. In many parts of the World Ocean, SST is fairly well...
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Surface sediment Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) distributions along an ecotonal transect in subarctic Fennoscandia: develo** a tool for palaeotemperature reconstructions
We used multivariate statistical techniques to analyse the distributions of surface sediment chironomid assemblages with respect to surface-water...
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The Climates of the “Polar Regions”
Polar regions have some unique climatic peculiarities:...
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Possible Impact on Agriculture Due to Climatic Change and Variability in South America
Climatic fluctuations are a risk factor in agriculture. They hinder agricultural development in extensive and and semi-arid tropical areas of South...