Climate Terms (A)

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