Climate change

Climate change

The phenomenon of climate's temperature and rainfall slowly changing year by year.

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El Niño

Natural environment; Climate change

El Niño, in its original sense, is a warm water current that periodically flows along the coast of Ecuador and Peru, disrupting the local fishery. This oceanic event is associated with a fluctuation ...

parts per million by volume (ppmv)

Natural environment; Climate change

Number of parts of a chemical found in one million parts of a particular gas, liquid, or solid.

landfill

Natural environment; Climate change

Land waste disposal site in which waste is generally spread in thin layers, compacted, and covered with a fresh layer of soil each day.

megacities

Natural environment; Climate change

Cities with populations over 10 million.

desertification

Natural environment; Climate change

Land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. Further, the UNCCD (The United Nations Convention to ...

Annex I Countries

Natural environment; Climate change

Group of countries included in Annex I (as amended in 1998) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including all the developed countries in the Organization of Economic ...

natural variability

Natural environment; Climate change

Variations in the mean state and other statistics (such as standard deviations or statistics of extremes) of the climate on all time and space scales beyond that of individual weather events. Natural ...