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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Facility•Potsdam, Germany•
About: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research is a facility organization based out in Potsdam, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Climate change & Global warming. The organization has 1519 authors who have published 5098 publications receiving 367023 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the Elbe 2002 flood is described in its historical context and the potential role of global warming in severe flooding of this kind is also discussed, and future flood protection and prevention planning must also consider the potential global warming.
Abstract: Several extreme floods have occurred in Central European rivers (including the Rhine, Danube, Odra, and Wisla), culminating in the disastrous August 2002 flood in the Elbe River basin and parts of the Danube basin. Rough cost estimates for the Elbe 2002 flood alone are ~$3 billion in the Czech Republic and >$9 billion in Germany--the worst flood ever in Europe. In this [Policy Forum][1], the Elbe 2002 flood is described in its historical context. Future flood protection and prevention planning must also consider the potential role of global warming in severe flooding of this kind.
[1]: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/300/5622/1099
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss how regional level impacts of transient climate change on forest growth are assessed with process-based models and how these responses are scaled up to country and European level using national forest inventory data in combination with the European forest information scenario (EFISCEN) model.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose diagnostic indicators to characterize model responses to carbon price signals and test these in a diagnostic study of 11 global models, showing a correlation among indicators suggesting that models can be classified into groups based on common patterns of behavior in response to carbon pricing.
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Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency1, International Institute of Minnesota2, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research3, Joint Global Change Research Institute4, Wageningen University and Research Centre5, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation6, International Food Policy Research Institute7, Ritsumeikan University8, National Institute for Environmental Studies9, Kyoto University10, Humboldt University of Berlin11
TL;DR: How different long-term drivers determine land use and food availability projections is explored and it is shown that the key determinants population growth and improvements in agricultural efficiency are also shown.
Abstract: Land use is at the core of various sustainable development goals. Long-term climate foresight studies have structured their recent analyses around five socio-economic pathways (SSPs), with consistent storylines of future macroeconomic and societal developments; however, model quantification of these scenarios shows substantial heterogeneity in land-use projections. Here we build on a recently developed sensitivity approach to identify how future land use depends on six distinct socio-economic drivers (population, wealth, consumption preferences, agricultural productivity, land-use regulation, and trade) and their interactions. Spread across models arises mostly from diverging sensitivities to long-term drivers and from various representations of land-use regulation and trade, calling for reconciliation efforts and more empirical research. Most influential determinants for future cropland and pasture extent are population and agricultural efficiency. Furthermore, land-use regulation and consumption changes can play a key role in reducing both land use and food-security risks, and need to be central elements in sustainable development strategies.
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TL;DR: In this article, the performance of the gap model FORCLIM has been examined using two possible explanations: (1) the parameters denoting the drought tolerance of the tree species need to be estimated more accurately, and (2) the soil water balance estimation schemes used in most gap models are not capable of tracking soil moisture content under dry conditions sufficiently well to reflect its influence on tree growth.
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carl Folke | 133 | 360 | 125990 |
| Adam Drewnowski | 106 | 486 | 41107 |
| Jürgen Kurths | 105 | 1038 | 62179 |
| Markus Reichstein | 103 | 386 | 53385 |
| Stephen Polasky | 99 | 354 | 59148 |
| Sandy P. Harrison | 96 | 329 | 34004 |
| Owen B. Toon | 94 | 424 | 32237 |
| Stephen Sitch | 94 | 262 | 52236 |
| Yong Xu | 88 | 1391 | 39268 |
| Dieter Neher | 85 | 424 | 26225 |
| Johan Rockström | 85 | 236 | 57842 |
| Jonathan A. Foley | 85 | 144 | 70710 |
| Robert J. Scholes | 84 | 253 | 37019 |
| Christoph Müller | 82 | 457 | 27274 |
| Robert J. Nicholls | 79 | 515 | 35729 |