http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024741,39000642q,00.htm Most Recent Global Warming White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - silicon.com en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:50:33 +0000 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:50:33 +0000 http://www.silicon.com/i/s/feeds/simple_logo.gif http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024741,39000642q,00.htm 124 50 20 editorial@silicon.com (Met Office / Hadley Centre for Climate Predictions and Research) Recent observations of surface temperature continue to show a sizeable warming. On another page of this report we provide new results attempting to answer the question "what is responsible for... silicon/60020235 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60020235p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (California Forest Products Commission) The cycle of disturbance and recovery of lands and plant and animal species in northwest California is an integral part of the creation of natural resources valued by humans. The... silicon/60017259 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60017259p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Sat, 01 Jul 2000 00:00:00 +0000 This Special Report, which has been produced by Working Group II of the IPCC, builds on the Working Group’s contribution to the Second Assessment Report (SAR), and incorporates more recent... silicon/60020306 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60020306p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Mon, 01 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000 This Special Report discusses the global carbon cycle and how different land use and forestry activities currently affect standing carbon stocks and emissions of greenhouse gases. It also looks forward... silicon/60020302 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60020302p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Mon, 01 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000 These scenarios cover a wide range of the main driving forces of future emissions, from demographic to technological and economic developments. The scenarios encompass different future developments that might influence... silicon/60020303 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60020303p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Mon, 01 May 2000 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (ADL - Arthur D. Little) The global climate-change issue is poised to have a significant impact on business. International and regional momentum for regulatory action on this issue continues to build, despite the reservations of some... silicon/60021148 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60021148p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Sun, 02 Apr 2000 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Europa) This Green Paper is intended to launch a discussion on greenhouse gas emissions trading within the European Union, and on the relationship between emissions trading and other policies and measures... silicon/60018120 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60018120p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Wed, 08 Mar 2000 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Renewable Energy Policy Project) Renewable energy is a clean energy source. However, air regulations have furnished limited benefits to renewable energy markets. Fortunately the opportunity to integrate renewables into the Clean Air Act is... silicon/60018557 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60018557p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Renewable Energy Policy Project) As the world struggles to control energy-related greenhouse gases, electricity-starved rural families in the developing world toil to build decent lives. Photovoltaic systems provide a unified solution, bringing power to... silicon/60018337 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60018337p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Dell Computer) silicon/60045911 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60045911p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Dallas Semiconductor / Maxim Integrated) The classic professional rain gauge operates by filling and dumping two buckets, one mounted on either end of a beam that pivots around a central axle in a manner somewhat... silicon/60009591 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60009591p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)) The oceans play a vital role in our national security, act as a source for food and raw materials, and regulate the earth’s climate and weather. Sound is the most efficient... silicon/60012586 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60012586p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT) This 'white paper' was prepared by the above authors to help the international community in its planning of Atlantic programs in the context of CLIVAR. It briefly reviews the key... silicon/60010055 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60010055p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Dell Computer) Alors que les besoins informatiques continuent d'augmenter en complexit?t que les jeux de donn? ?nalyser sont de plus en plus volumineux, les clients recherchent des niveaux de capacit?nformatique plus ?v??es... silicon/60045981 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60045981p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Dell Computer) Le serveur PowerEdge 3250 utilise la famille de processeurs Intel Itanium et des technologies de cluster ?lutives pour offrir des solutions rentables et extensibles con?s pour des applications exigeantes en... silicon/60045984 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60045984p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Dell Computer) aa ??? ¾?¡ º¹"?v°?µ¥? º?® ±???v¸? °?µ? ?¾ ´:·?? °¡°?¸·?¸???¼?? ¿¬»?³¸® ´?€» ¿??°?´? HPCC´ ¸??·‡?¿¬»??´?€» f°? ¼??; f°??µ °??º´·?? ???¿?·?µ??? ?¼???¸¦ »??´  °?¡ º? ³?«³ª :·?? ?´? ¼¼? ³»¿? ¿???¹?¦... silicon/60045908 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60045908p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT) An integral part of our approach to the climate model development is to utilize theory and observations to understand the basic processes and mechanisms controlling the global environment. The aim... silicon/60010543 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60010543p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)) The Operational Multiscale Environment model with Grid Adaptivity OMEGA) was used in real-time to simulate the regional transport of smoke and haze in Southeast Asia resulting from extensive biomass burning... silicon/60016169 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60016169p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (American Geophysical Union (AGU)) Recently, Bretherton and Battisti (1999) have presented an interesting interpretation of ensemble experiments with atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) forced by observed sea surface temperature (SST) whose mean successfully simulates... silicon/60010064 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60010064p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Hewlett Packard) silicon/60045899 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60045899p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Hewlett Packard) Cette ?de de cas explique en d?il comment le superordinateur bas?ur Linux le plus rapide au monde, et exploitant des processeurs Intel Itanium 2, a permis ?acific Northwest National Laboratory... silicon/60045971 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60045971p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Hewlett Packard) Diese Fallstudie schildert, wie der weltweit schnellste Linux-basierte Supercomputer unter Ausf?ng auf Intel® Itanium® 2 Prozessoren das Pacific Northwest National Laboratory bei der raschen Berechnung komplexer Langzeitsimulationen unterst?e. Dieses Dokument ist... silicon/60046299 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60046299p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Hewlett Packard) Sloan Digital Sky Survey, le projet d'?de astronomique le plus ambitieux jamais entrepris, poursuit la longue et honorable tradition de surveillance du ciel. La progression permanente de ces projets astronomiques... silicon/60045970 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60045970p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Hewlett Packard) Sloan Digital Sky Survey, das ambitionierteste astronomische Beobachtungsprojekt aller Zeiten, setzt die alte und ehrw?ge Tradition der Himmelsbetrachtung fort. Der laufende Fortschritt solcher Astronomie-Projekte ist auf st?ige Verbesserungen in der... silicon/60046298 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60046298p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Zyvex) The maximum rate of global ecophagy by biovorous self-replicating nanorobots is fundamentally restricted by the replicative strategy employed; by the maximum dispersal velocity of mobile replicators; by operational energy and... silicon/60010118 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60010118p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Dell Computer) Angesichts zunehmend komplexer Rechenanforderungen und wachsender Datens?e verlangen die Kunden h?e Rechenkapazit?n zu geringeren Preisen. High Performance Computing Clustering (HPCC) stellt eine L?g dar, die eine leistungsf?ge Implementierung von Rechenleistung... silicon/60047307 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60047307p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Hewlett Packard) silicon/60045898 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60045898p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Dell Computer) Der PowerEdge 3250-Server setzt die Intel® Itanium®-Prozessorfamilie sowie skalierbare Cluster-Technologien f?ie Bereitstellung kosteneffizienter, skalierbarer L?gen f?echenintensive Anwendungen ein. Hier ein ?erblick, wie diese Technologie Preis-/Leistungsvorteile f?atenintensive Anwendungen bietet. Dieses Dokument... silicon/60047309 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60047309p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (American Petroleum Institute) At negotiations in Geneva, the Clinton Administration committed the United States to a legally binding agreement to reduce post-2000 greenhouse gas emissions. As a means of achieving reductions, the Administration... silicon/60021589 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60021589p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Thu, 21 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (American Petroleum Institute) For more than two decades, clean air has been one of our nation’s top environmental priorities. During these years, Americans have invested billions of dollars in clean air programs and technologies,... silicon/60021586 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60021586p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Thu, 21 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Renewable Energy Policy Project) Opponents of climate protection policies often assert that action to prevent global warming would cost too much, and suggest that world industry stands united against needless and exorbitant measures to... silicon/60018335 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60018335p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning) Worldwide concern for the global climate has emerged with the recognition of increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the atmosphere (including radiatively and chemically active trace gases) and with... silicon/60008511 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60008511p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (Massachusetts Institute of Technology - MIT) Novel approaches to both the hydrodynamical kernel of ocean models and the parametric representations of subgridscale processes .The resulting model - Marshall et al (1997a); Marshall et al (1997b) is... silicon/60010072 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60010072p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:00:00 +0000 editorial@silicon.com (US Department of Energy) Fuels and vehicle technologies including: electric, hybrid, natural gas/propane and alcohol-fueled, are included. This study of vehicle consumer purchases and trends was developed in response to a request by the... silicon/60010412 http://whitepapers.silicon.com/0,39024759,60010412p,00.htm?s_cid=562 Mon, 31 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0000