While climate variability in these regions is very complex, the goal of this study is to analyse the role played by unusually warm Indo–Pacific SSTs, where unusual is defined as a 1‐in‐6 year event.
Here, we compile and analyze riverine dissolved organic carbon concentration data from 1402 United States Geological Survey (USGS) gauge stations to examine the spatial variability and environmental controls of DOC concentrations in the United States surface waters.
Given the recent interest in food waste recycling from a sustainability perspective and the impending New York State (NYS) policy banning the disposal of food waste in landfills, the demand for food waste hauling services will soon increase in NYS.
We studied the fate of infectious double-stranded DNA BK human polyomavirus in hydrolyzed source-separated urine with infectivity assays and quantitative PCR.
Nitrous oxide is a potent greenhouse gas contributing to global warming, with the agriculture sector as the major source of anthropogenic N2O emissions due to excessive fertilizer use.
The sensitivity of agricultural productivity to climate has not been sufficiently quantified. The total factor productivity of the US agricultural economy has grown continuously for over half a century, with most of the growth typically attributed to technical change.
A large number of studies have been published examining the implications of climate change for agricultural productivity that, broadly speaking, can be divided into process-based modeling and statistical approaches. Despite a general perception that results from these methods differ substantially, there have been few direct comparisons.
Despite substantial advances in climate change impact research in recent years, the scientific basis for damage functions in economic models used to calculate the social cost of carbon (SCC) is either undocumented, difficult to trace, or based on a small number of dated studies.
Understanding the value of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions matters for policy decisions and climate risk management, but quantification is challenging because of the complex interactions and uncertainties in the Earth and human systems, as well as normative ethical considerations.
Some energy services and industrial processes—such as long-distance freight transport, air travel, highly reliable electricity, and steel and cement manufacturing—are particularly difficult to provide without adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere. Rapidly growing demand for these services, combined with long lead times for technology development and long lifetimes of energy infrastructure, make decarbonization of these services both essential and urgent.
This website was created with the cooperation of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville under the supervision of Dr. Jie (Joe) Zhuang, Dr. Frank Loeffler, and Dr. Gary Sayler.
This project was funded by a research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through a program called Innovations at the Nexus of Food, Energy and Water Systems (INFEWS). Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed on this website are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of NSF.
© Copyright FEWSTERN 2019 | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use