Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands (open access)

Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. Regions of Focus: North America, Hawaii, Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands

This document is part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan. Changes in extreme weather and climate events have significant impacts and are among the most serious challenges to society in coping with a changing climate. This Synthesis and Assessment Product (SAP 3.3) focuses on weather and climate extremes in a changing climate. Many extremes and their associated impacts are now changing. For example, in recent decades most of North America has been experiencing more unusually hot days and nights, fewer unusually cold days and nights, and fewer frost days. Heavy downpours have become more frequent and intense. Droughts are becoming more severe in some regions, though there are no clear trends for North America as a whole. The power and frequency of Atlantic hurricanes have increased substantially in recent decades, though North American mainland land-falling hurricanes do not appear to have increased over the past century. Outside the tropics, storm tracks are shifting northward and the strongest storms are becoming even stronger. It is well established through formal attribution studies that the global warming of the past 50 years is due primarily to human-induced increases in heat-trapping gases. Such …
Date: June 2008
Creator: U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources (open access)

Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources

The U.S. Government's Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) is responsible for providing the best science-based knowledge possible to inform management of the risks and opportunities associated with changes in the climate and related environmental systems. To support its mission, the CCSP has commissioned 21 "synthesis and assessment products" (SAPs) to advance decision making on climate change-related issues by providing current evaluations of climate change science and identifying priorities for research, observation, and decision support. This Report-SAP 4.4-focuses on federally managed lands and waters to provide a "Preliminary Review of Adaptation Options for Climate-Sensitive Ecosystems and Resources." It is one of seven reports that support Goal 4 of the CCSP Strategic Plan to understand the sensitivity and adaptability of different natural and managed ecosystems and human systems to climate and related global changes. The purpose of SAP 4.4 is to provide useful information on the state of knowledge regarding adaptation options for key, representative ecosystems and resources that may be sensitive to climate variability and change. As its title suggests, this report is a preliminary review, defined as "the process of collecting and reviewing available information about known or potential adaptation options."
Date: June 2008
Creator: U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Annual Report on the Environment and the Sound Material-Cycle Society in Japan 2008 (open access)

Annual Report on the Environment and the Sound Material-Cycle Society in Japan 2008

This document reports the global and Japanese trends in creating a low carbon, material-cycle society. It also describes the policy measures taken by Japan towards establishing such a society.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Japan. Kankyōshō.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scaling Up AFOLU Mitigation Activities in Non-Annex I Countries (open access)

Scaling Up AFOLU Mitigation Activities in Non-Annex I Countries

This paper is about reducing greenhouse gas emissions through land use policies in the agriculture and forestry sectors.
Date: June 12, 2008
Creator: Climate Strategies
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Web Archiving Workshop: Overview

This presentation gives a brief overview of the history of web archiving and explains key terms and concepts related to web archiving and harvesting with illustrated examples.
Date: June 4, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Using Archival Resource Keys (ARKs) for Persistent Identification

This presentation discusses the usefulness of an Archival Resource Key (ARK) and how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the Digital Projects Unit use ARKs in their system.
Date: June 5, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Building Digital Archives

This presentation is about the steps followed in the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Library infrastructure, the lessons learned along the way, and the opportunities that are available today.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Web Archiving Workshop: Tools Overview

This presentation offers a brief discussion of web archiving tools. Tools include Wget, HTTrack, Heritrix, Wayback, and NutchWAX.
Date: June 4, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ting and the Possible Futures (open access)

Ting and the Possible Futures

This is a children's book where the characters build a time machine that lets them visit alternate futures based on the decisions they make in the present. The story provides a glimpse of a post-apocalyptic dystopia as a result of severe global climate change, as well as a future utopian ideal that comes as a result of implementing massive changes to land use and food and energy production.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Douglis, Carole & Kennaway, Adrienne
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaboration in Practice: Megadata Happens

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how collaborations with other organizations has helped add to the collection. In this presentation, the author illustrates examples from The Portal to Texas History with information about metadata management, quality issues, and the automated systems in place by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Nuts & Bolts: Preserving Digital Content at the University of North Texas

This presentation discusses the preservation and digitization of content at the University of North Texas (UNT). The topics include a background of the digital initiatives at the UNT Libraries, the organization of the digital initiatives, the collaborative projects, the collections held by the UNT Libraries, and areas of research.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 2008 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 2008

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 5, 2008
Creator: Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 2008 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 2008

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 12, 2008
Creator: Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 2008 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 2008

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 19, 2008
Creator: Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 2008 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 2008

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Fort Worth, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 26, 2008
Creator: Wisch, Rene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Video on Demand: Streaming Media in Distance Education

This poster discusses streaming media in distance education.
Date: June 29, 2008
Creator: Parks, Sue & Stanton, Kimberly
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
British Columbia Climate Action for 21st Century (open access)

British Columbia Climate Action for 21st Century

The report fulfills the Greenhouse Gas Reductions Target Act requirements with respect to the progress, action and plans to achieve the emissions reduction targets.
Date: October 2010
Creator: Climate Action Secretariat staff
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 60, Number 9, June 2008 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 60, Number 9, June 2008

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: June 2008
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 66, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 2008 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 66, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 2008

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 12, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 59, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 2008 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 59, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 5, 2008

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 5, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 73, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 2008 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 73, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 19, 2008

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 19, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 80, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 2008 (open access)

The Greensheet (Arlington-Grand Prairie, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 80, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 26, 2008

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 26, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 209, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 209, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 4, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 245, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 25, 2008 (open access)

Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 245, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date: June 25, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History