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MET 112 Global Climate Change- Lecture 13a30 April 2009
Observations and Predictions
Dr. Craig ClementsSan Jose State University
Temperature Changes in California: different emissions scenarios.
(California Climate Change Center, 2006)
Changes in California Snowpack
(California Climate Change Center, 2006)
Changes in Vegetation Cover and Forest Yields
Forest Yield = amount of timber products from a growing forest
(California Climate Change Center, 2006)
Wildfire Frequency in California
(California Climate Change Center, 2006)
Alpine Plant SpeciesAlpine and subalpine ecosystems are the most fragile and threatened-have limited opportunity to move “up slope”-will decline by as much as 60-80%