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Impacts of Europe's changing climate

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Publication Created 17 Aug 2004 Published 17 Aug 2004
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This report presents past trends in Europe's climate, its current state and possible future changes as well as the impacts of climate change on the European environment and society. The report is aimed at the general interested public and decision-makers, especially those who wish to understand which natural systems and societal sectors are most vulnerable to climate change and its impacts.

Impacts of Europe's changing climate

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Publication Created 17 Aug 2004 Published 17 Aug 2004
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This report presents past trends in Europe's climate, its current state and possible future changes as well as the impacts of climate change on the European environment and society. The report is aimed at the general interested public and decision-makers, especially those who wish to understand which natural systems and societal sectors are most vulnerable to climate change and its impacts.
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Deviations of monthly snow cover extent over the northern hemisphere lands (including Greenland) Note: Deviations are compared to a 30 year average
Changes in frequencies of groups of plant species adapted to "warm" and "cold" conditions in the Netherlands and Norway Note: Low numbers on the y-axis represent plant groups that are accustomed to cold conditions, high numbers are groups accustomed to warm growing conditions (according to Ellenberg numbers)
Changes in frequency of very wet days in Europe between 1976 and 1999 Note: Very wet days are defined as days with precipitation above 20 mm.
Observed changes in growing season length Note: Observed data from the International Phenological Gardens in Europe except France, the Iberian peninsula, mid and southern Italy, and Greece.
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Changes in species composition between a cold temperate and a warm temperate species of copepod in the North Sea
Reconstructed record of the global average temperature and atmospheric CO2 concentration over the last 400.000 years Geographical coverage note: World Temporal coverage: The last 400 000 years
Change of sea level at selected stations in Europe from 1896 to 1996 Note: Data are corrected for post-glacial processes.
Regional changes of mean sea ice draft in the Arctic Note: Sea ice draft is the subsurface fraction of the ice thickness.
Survival of grey heron and common buzzard .
Tick prevalence (white dots) in central and northern Sweden Note: White dots show prevalence, comparing the early 1980s and the mid 1990s in the same region (black line).
Number of reported deaths and minimum and maximum temperature in Paris during the heatwave in summer 2003 Notes: Reported deaths (bars on left axis), temperature (lines, right axis).
Share of stable species in 2100, compared with 1990 Note: Percentage of total number of species in 1990
The potential response by 2100 of three currently common mountain species to climate change Note: Snow dock (Rumex nivalis), mountain bladder fern (Cystopteris montana), and mountain buttercup (Ranunculus montanus)
Sea level rise at selected European gauge stations Note: Data are corrected for postglacial processes.
Annual carbon uptake of the terrestrial biosphere Note: The biosphere of countries with positive values absorbs more carbon than it emits (carbon sink); those with negative values emit more than they absorb (carbon source).
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Change in annual average river discharge for European river basins in the 2070s compared with 2000 Note: Two different climate models (ECHAM4 and HadCM3).
Change in species richness on 30 high summits of the eastern Alps during the twentieth century .
Weather and climate related disasters in Europe .
Change in frequency of summer days in Europe, in the period 1976-1999 (days with temperatures above 25 oC) Positive values indicate increase and negative values indicate decrease of annaul summer days per decade
Rise of greenhouse gases concentration compared with the year 1750
Projected increase of GHG concentration in the atmosphere for four different possible futures
Deviations of winter and summer sea surface temperature in the North Sea Deviations of winter and summer sea surface temperature in the North Sea
Projected change in summer precipitation in Europe up to 2080 Note: Summer precipitation change (%)
Projected no. of growing days Note: Growing season is defined here as the number of consecutive days per year with average temperatures of more than 5 degrees Celcius.
Sea surface temperature in winter and summer in the Norwegian Sea, the Baltic Sea and the western Mediterranean Sea Note: Deviations are from long-term averages.
Inter-annual variation in European carbon fluxes from the biosphere to the atmosphere Note: The lines represent the results of two ecosystem models (LPJ and SLAVE), and the range (minimum, mean, maximum) of calculated terrestrial C flux (based on so-called inversed calculations considering atmospheric CO2 calculation)
Carbon balance of the terrestrial biosphere Notes: Atmospheric carbon (in the form of CO2) is absorbed by plants in the process of photosynthesis

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