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Analysis of U.S. Water Resources under Climate Change
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2013-02)
The MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) framework, extended to include a Water Resource System (WRS) component, is applied to an integrated assessment of effects of alternative climate policy scenarios on U.S. water ...
Modeling Water Resource Systems under Climate Change: IGSM-WRS
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-12)
Through the integration of a Water Resource System (WRS) component, the MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) framework has been enhanced to study the effects of climate change on managed water-resource systems. ...
Water Body Temperature Model for Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Thermal Cooling
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2015-05)
We develop and test a physically based semi-Lagrangian water body temperature model to apply climatological data and thermal pollution from river-based power plants to historical river flow data in order to better understand ...
Permafrost, Lakes, and Climate-Warming Methane Feedback: What is the Worst We Can Expect?
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-05)
Permafrost degradation is likely enhanced by climate warming. Subsequent landscape subsidence and
hydrologic changes support expansion of lakes and wetlands. Their anaerobic environments can act as
strong emission sources ...
Characterization of Wind Power Resource in the United States and its Intermittency
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2011-12)
Wind resource in the continental and offshore United States has been reconstructed and characterized using metrics that describe, apart from abundance, its availability, persistence and intermittency. The Modern Era ...
21st Century Changes in U.S. Heavy Precipitation Frequency Based on Resolved Atmospheric Patterns
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2016-10)
Gridded precipitation-gauge observations and global atmospheric reanalysis are combined to develop an analogue method for detecting the occurrence of heavy precipitation events based on the prevailing large-scale atmospheric ...
Characterization of the Solar Power Resource in Europe and Assessing Benefits of Co-Location with Wind Power Installations
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-10)
The extent, availability and reliability of solar power generation are assessed over Europe, and—following a previously developed methodology—special attention is given to the intermittency of solar power. Combined with ...
Process Modeling of Global Soil Nitrous Oxide Emissions
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2011-09-01)
Nitrous oxide is an important greenhouse gas and is a major ozone-depleting substance. To understand and
quantify soil nitrous oxide emissions, we expanded the Community Land Model with prognostic Carbon
and Nitrogen ...
CliCrop: a Crop Water-Stress and Irrigation Demand Model for an Integrated Global Assessment Model Approach
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2012-04)
This paper describes the use of the CliCrop model in the context of climate change general assessment
modeling. The MIT Integrated Global System Model (IGSM) framework is a global integrated assessment
modeling framework ...
Characterization of the Wind Power Resource in Europe and its Intermittency
(MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2014-03)
Wind power is assessed over Europe, with special attention given to the quantification of intermittency. Using the methodology developed in Gunturu and Schlosser (2011), the MERRA boundary flux data was used to compute ...