Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea BasinSpringer Science & Business Media, 2008 M01 22 - 474 pages This book offers an up-to-date overview of the latest scientific findings in regional climate research on the Baltic Sea basin. This includes climate changes in the recent past, climate projections up until 2100 using the most sophisticated regional climate models available, and an assessment of climate change impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems. The authors demonstrate that the regional climate has already started to change, and will continue to do so. |
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... dynamics and of climate change on the global scale. These efforts culminated in the famous assertion of the IPCC, according to which the hypothesis that recent climate change is entirely due to natural causes can be rejected with very ...
... dynamics and of climate change on the global scale. These efforts culminated in the famous assertion of the IPCC, according to which the hypothesis that recent climate change is entirely due to natural causes can be rejected with very ...
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... dynamic and strongly influenced by largescale atmospheric circulation, hydrological processes in the catchment area and by the restricted water exchange due to its narrow entrance area. It can. 4A detailed description of the Baltic Sea ...
... dynamic and strongly influenced by largescale atmospheric circulation, hydrological processes in the catchment area and by the restricted water exchange due to its narrow entrance area. It can. 4A detailed description of the Baltic Sea ...
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... dynamics and to identify the most probable causes of the systematic changes. The technical terms are “detection” and “attribution” (Hasselmann 1993; Zwiers 1999;. 6The complaints that weather is less predictable than it was in the old ...
... dynamics and to identify the most probable causes of the systematic changes. The technical terms are “detection” and “attribution” (Hasselmann 1993; Zwiers 1999;. 6The complaints that weather is less predictable than it was in the old ...
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... dynamics on spatial scales12 of, say, 1000km and more. They do not resolve the key geographical features of the ... Dynamic features larger than the grid domain then need to be prescribed, while features below about ten times the grid ...
... dynamics on spatial scales12 of, say, 1000km and more. They do not resolve the key geographical features of the ... Dynamic features larger than the grid domain then need to be prescribed, while features below about ten times the grid ...
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... dynamics of the dates of the start and ending of ice events and the duration of ice coverage for the rivers of the Russian part of the Baltic Sea Basin showed a stable positive trend from the middle of the 20th century to its end. As to ...
... dynamics of the dates of the start and ending of ice events and the duration of ice coverage for the rivers of the Russian part of the Baltic Sea Basin showed a stable positive trend from the middle of the 20th century to its end. As to ...
Contents
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Past and Current Climate Change | 35 |
Projections of Future Anthropogenic Climate Change | 133 |
Climaterelated Change in Terrestrial and Freshwater Ecosystems | 221 |
Climaterelated Marine Ecosystem Change | 309 |
A Annexes | 379 |
Acronyms and Abbreviations | 469 |
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