Center for Global Change Science: Recent submissions

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    • A Method for Calculating Reference Evapotranspiration on Daily Time Scales 

      Farmer, William; Strzepek, Ken; Schlosser, C. Adam; Droogers, Peter; Gao, Xiang (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2011-02)
      Measures of reference evapotranspiration are essential for applications of agricultural management and water resources engineering. Using numerous esoteric variables, one can calculate daily reference evapotranspiration ...

    • General Equilibrium, Electricity Generation Technologies and the Cost of Carbon Abatement 

      Lanz, Bruno, 1980-; Rausch, Sebastian (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2011-02)
      Electricity generation is a major contributor to carbon dioxide emissions, and a key determinant of abatement costs. Ex-ante assessments of carbon policies mainly rely on either of two modeling paradigms: (i) partial ...

    • What to Expect from Sectoral Trading: A U.S.–China Example 

      Gavard, Claire; Winchester, Niven; Jacoby, Henry D.; Paltsev, Sergey (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2011-02)
      In recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations, sectoral mechanisms were proposed as a way to encourage early action and spur investment in low carbon technologies in developing ...