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Climate Terms (A)
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Abrupt Climate Change
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A large-scale change in the climate system that takes place over ...
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Access to Food
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One of the three components underpinning food security, the other ...
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Acclimatization
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A change in functional or morphological traits occurring once or ...
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adaptability
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See Adaptive capacity.
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adaptation
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The process of adjustment to actual or expected climate and its e ...
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Adaptation Assessment
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The practice of identifying options to adapt to climate change an ...
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Adaptation Constraint
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Factors that make it harder to plan and implement adaptation acti ...
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Adaptation Deficit
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The gap between the current state of a system and a state that mi ...
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Adaptation Limit
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The point at which an actor’s objectives (or system needs) cannot ...
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Adaptation Needs
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The circumstances requiring action to ensure safety of population ...
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Adaptation Opportunity
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Factors that make it easier to plan and implement adaptation acti ...
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Adaptation Options
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The array of strategies and measures that are available and appro ...
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Adaptive Capacity
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The ability of systems, institutions, humans, and other organisms ...
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Adaptive Management
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A process of iteratively planning, implementing, and modifying st ...
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Aggregate Impacts
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Total impacts integrated across sectors and/or regions. The aggre ...
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Ancillary Benefits
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See Co-benefits.
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anomaly
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The deviation of a variable from its value averaged over a refere ...
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Anthropogenic
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Resulting from or produced by human activities.
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Anthropogenic Emissions
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Emissions of greenhouse gases, greenhouse gas precursors, and aer ...
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Arctic Oscillation
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The Arctic oscillation (AO) or Northern Annular Mode/Northern Hem ...
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arid zone
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Areas where vegetation growth is severely constrained due to limi ...
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Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation/Variability
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A multi-decadal (65- to 75-year) fluctuation in the North Atlanti ...
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Atmosphere-Ocean General Circulation Model
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See Climate model.
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Attribution
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See Detection and attribution.
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Autonomous Adaptation
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Adaptation in response to experienced climate and its effects, wi ...
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