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Building resilience for adaptation to climate change in the agriculture sector : Proceedings of a Joint FAO/OECD Workshop
FAO, 2012
Building resilience for adaptation to climate change in the agriculture sector: Proceedings of a Joint FAO/OECD Workshop
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Available online: http://www.fao.org/3/i3084e/i3084e00.htm
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ; Food and Agriculture Organization (Rome, Italia)
Event: Building resilience for adaptation to climate change in the agriculture sector (23–24 April 2012)
Published by: FAO ; 2012Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free)Tags: Climate ; Climate change ; Agroclimatology ; Adaptation ; Case/ Case study ; Italy ; European Union ; United States of America ; Australia ; Netherlands ; Switzerland ; Japan ; South East Asia
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Analysis of South Asian Monsoons within the Context of Increasing Regional Black Carbon Aerosols
Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters, Volume 3 Number 4. Mahmood Rashed; Yao Jin-Feng - Science Press, 2010South Asian monsoons were analyzed within the context of increasing emissions of black carbon (BC) aerosols using a global atmospheric general circulation model. The BC aerosols were allowed to increase only over the south Asian domain to analyze the impacts of regional black carbon over the climatological patterns of monsoons. The black carbon significantly absorbed the incoming short wave radiation in the atmosphere, a result that is consistent with previous studies. Pre-monsoon (March-April-May) rainfall showed positive anomalies, particularly for some coastal regions of India. The summer ( ...
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Available online: http://www.iapjournals.ac.cn/aosl/ch/reader/view_abstract.aspx?file_no=AOSL10037
in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science Letters > Volume 3 Number 4 (16 July 2010) . - p.224-231South Asian monsoons were analyzed within the context of increasing emissions of black carbon (BC) aerosols using a global atmospheric general circulation model. The BC aerosols were allowed to increase only over the south Asian domain to analyze the impacts of regional black carbon over the climatological patterns of monsoons. The black carbon significantly absorbed the incoming short wave radiation in the atmosphere, a result that is consistent with previous studies. Pre-monsoon (March-April-May) rainfall showed positive anomalies, particularly for some coastal regions of India. The summer (June-July-August) rainfall anomalies were negative over the northern Himalayas, Myanmar, southern China and most of the regions below 20°N due to the decrease in temperature gradients induced by the absorption of BC aerosols. The vertical wind speed anomalies indicated that these regions experienced less convection, which reduces the precipitation efficiency of the monsoon system in South Asia.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free), Hard copyTags: Aerosols ; Atmosphere ; Climate ; Monsoon ; Acid rain ; Research ; Region II - Asia ; South East Asia
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Improved seasonal climate forecasts of the South Asian summer monsoon using a suite of 13 coupled ocean-atmosphere models
Several modeling studies have shown that the south Asian monsoon region has the lowest skill for seasonal forecasts compared with many other domains of the world. This paper demonstrates that a multimodel synthetic superensemble approach, when constructed with any set of coupled atmosphere-ocean models, can provide improved skill in seasonal climate prediction compared with single-member models or their ensemble mean for the south Asian summer monsoon region. However, performance of the superensemble tends to improve when a better set of input member models are used. As many as 13 state-of-the ...
Improved seasonal climate forecasts of the South Asian summer monsoon using a suite of 13 coupled ocean-atmosphere models
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Available online: http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/events/indo_us/PDFs/0701_Krishnamurti_NCAR05.pdf
Arindam Chakraborty ; T.N. Krishnamurti ; Florida State University (United States)
Published by: FSU ; 2006Several modeling studies have shown that the south Asian monsoon region has the lowest skill for seasonal forecasts compared with many other domains of the world. This paper demonstrates that a multimodel synthetic superensemble approach, when constructed with any set of coupled atmosphere-ocean models, can provide improved skill in seasonal climate prediction compared with single-member models or their ensemble mean for the south Asian summer monsoon region. However, performance of the superensemble tends to improve when a better set of input member models are used. As many as 13 state-of-the-art coupled atmosphere-ocean models were used in the synthetic superensemble algorithm. The merit of this technique lies in assigning differential weights to the member models. The rms errors, anomaly correlations, case studies of extreme events, and probabilistic skill scores are used here to assess these forecast skills. It was found that over the south Asian region the seasonal forecasts from the superensemble are, in general, superior to the forecasts of the individual member models, and their bias-removed ensemble mean at a significance level of 95% or more (based on a Student's t test) during the 13 yr of forecasts. Moreover, the skill of the superensemble was found to be better than those of the ensemble mean over smaller domains as well as during extreme events that were monitored, especially during the switch on and off of the Indian Ocean dipole, which seems to modulate the Indian monsoon rainfall. The results of this paper suggest that the superensemble provides somewhat consistent forecasts on the seasonal time scale. This methodology needs to be tested for real-time seasonal climate forecasting over the south Asian region.
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free) (ill., charts, maps)Tags: Oceans ; Seasonal forecast ; Monsoon ; National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS) ; Coupled atmosphere/ocean models ; South East Asia
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Meteorological and hydrological education and training for disaster prevention and mitigation: SYMET-X, abstracts
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Published by: WMO ; 2006
Language(s): English, French, Spanish
Format: Hard copyTags: Natural hazards ; Capacity development ; Disaster prevention and preparedness ; National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS) ; France ; China ; Pakistan ; Nigeria ; Russian Federation ; Philippines ; South East Asia ; Mauritius ; Jordan ; Peru ; Kenya
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GCOS, 80. Report of the GCOS Regional Workshop for East and Southeast Asia on Improving Observing System for Climate
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC); et al. - WMO, 2003 (WMO/TD-No. 1140)
Report of the GCOS Regional Workshop for East and Southeast Asia on Improving Observing System for Climate
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World Meteorological Organization (WMO) ; United Nations Environment Programme ; Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission ; International Council for Science ; United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ; United Nations Development Programme ; Global Environment Facility
Published by: WMO ; 2003Collection(s) and Series: WMO/TD- No. 1140; GCOS- No. 80
Language(s): English
Format: Digital (Free), Hard copyTags: Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) ; Capacity development ; Climate monitoring ; Region II - Asia ; South East Asia
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Community Involvement in and Management of Forest Fires in South East Asia
Karki Sameer; European Commission ; International Union for Conservation of Nature IUCN - IUCN, 2002This review is guided by the aim of Project FireFight South East Asia (PFFSEA) to document successful community experiences with forest fires and analyse the political, institutional, cultural and economic elements that enable local communities to actively engage in preventing uncontrolled burning. The case studies in this review show that successful community involvement in forest fire management depends on many factors including a community’s attachment or ownership of and dependence on forest resources; traditional knowledge of the local biophysical environment and fire usage; and absence o ...
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Keynote address at the opening of the WMO Workshop on Regional Transboundary Smoke and Haze in South-East Asia
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