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... consists of viewing the Sun–Earth–Universe assembly as an extraterrestrial power plant the power output of which is used for the purpose of forcing the atmosphere and hydrosphere to ... See full document

... quality of global sea level pressure pat- terns has been assessed for simulations by 23 coupled cli- mate ...latitudes and for each month of the ...assessment of their simulations ... See full document

... 1996) and their pos- sible feedbacks on the climate system (Friedlingstein et ...productivity and export are not well constrained by direct ob- servations, making it difficult to validate ... See full document

... gate climate on a retrograde rotating earth may actually provide an interesting test for the falsification of view ...3) of the global MOC on a retrograde rotating earth using the coupled ... See full document

... formance of global atmospheric/climate ...analysis of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) model is given in Tenenbaum (1975), where indirect conclusions concerning unresolved ... See full document

... work and displayed in Figure ...combining and varying features such as mechanical and natural ventilation techniques for heating and cooling, the thickness of external envelope thermal ... See full document

... one of the coldest periods in the last two millennia ...records of both hemispheres (mainly Europe, North America, and eastern China; Chambers et ...a global phenomenon (Rhodes et ...period ... See full document

... series of new techniques to understand the conservation of Cerrado tree species in the face of climate ...field of ecological niche modeling to develop a first-pass assessment of ... See full document

... (y-axis) and MISR- MODIS optical depths (x-axis) for unadjusted case (blue dots/line) and adjusted case (black ...) and adjusted emissions (B ...E) and (c) Equatorial ... See full document

... Navarra and Boccaletti [18] , used ECHAM4 (a very recent GCM of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecast (ECMRWF), Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg), to investigate the sensitivity ... See full document

... cycle and ni- trate particle formation are introduced into the LMDz-INCA global three-dimensional climate–chemistry ...partitioning of nitrate and ammonium between the gas phase ... See full document

... capability of FAMOUS, which is a reduced resolution, and hence faster running, version of the Hadley Centre Climate model, ...surface and one for the ...day and past ... See full document

... developed and developing countries came to a head, each side pointing the finger of blame for climate change at the ...leaders of the BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India and ... See full document

... Because of the importance of the Amazon in Brazilian carbon emissions is convenient to look in a more detailed way to the Cardoso administration ...cropping and transportation; low capacity to punish ... See full document

... meta-analysis of pub- lished data and suggested that changes in microbial struc- ture and function are ...carbon and nitrogen cycles may be ...contributor of new nitrogen in ... See full document

... viability of the climate regime depends strongly on the engagement, in some kind of meaningful commitment, to improve the profile of their carbon emissions, by the most important carbon ... See full document

... A thermodynamic model of an endoreversible intercooled regenerative Brayton heat and power cogeneration plant coupled to constant-temperature heat reservoirs is established by using finite time ... See full document

... aspects of weather and climate dealt with in print media over a period of 10 ...diversity of contexts in which weather and climate information is taken up in a newspaper’s ... See full document

... structural and thermochemical properties of gaseous ...size and flexible nature of this molecule, the computational cost of an exhaustive scan of its conformational space is ... See full document

... proximity of relatively warm ocean surface current (WGC) to the Green- land ice sheet (Chen et ...contrasting climate, the local vegetation of these sites is ...(Betula) and heaths ... See full document