Climate Tracking: Applications of a Novel Technique to Sustainability
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Climate Tracking: Applications of a Novel Technique to Sustainability
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2012-07-24
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Abstract
Climate
change
has
profound
implications
for
the
sustainability
of
society
and
the
environment,
yet
estimates
of
climate
change
cover
times
scales
which
make
results
difficult
to
verify,
are
often
computationally
expensive
to
make,
and
have
uncertainties
which
are
not
easily
communicated,
especially
outside
the
area
of
computational
meteorology
and
mathematics.
We
present
a
method
of
quantifying
climate
change
over
the
past
century
and
into
the
near‐future
which
bypasses
many
of
these
problems.
Using
historical
weather
data
and
a
surface‐fitting
algorithm,
we
are
able
to
extract
"climate
velocities",
representing
the
surface
speed
and
direction
of
the
climate
for
any
location.
Projections
from
these
velocities
can
be
used
to
extract
possible
future
locations
and
direction‐of‐movement
of
biomes,
biofuel
hotspots,
and
agricultural
productivity,
with
implications
for
conservation
parkways,
preemptive
revegetation,
agricultural
policy.
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Barnes, Richard; Lehman, Clarence; Williams, Shelby; Frelich, Lee. (2012). Climate Tracking: Applications of a Novel Technique to Sustainability. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/128894.
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