Center for Global Change Science: Recent submissions

Now showing items 163-165 of 337

    • Analysis of Climate Policy Targets under Uncertainty 

      Jacoby, Henry D.; Prinn, Ronald G.; Melillo, Jerry M.; Sarofim, Marcus C.; Kicklighter, David W.; e.a. (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2009-09)
      Although policymaking in response to the climate change is essentially a challenge of risk management, most studies of the relation of emissions targets to desired climate outcomes are either deterministic or subject to a ...

    • Assessing Evapotranspiration Estimates from the Global Soil Wetness Project Phase 2 (GSWP-2) Simulations 

      Gao, Xiang; Schlosser, C. Adam (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2009-09)
      We assess the simulations of global-scale evapotranspiration from the Global Soil Wetness Project Phase 2 (GSWP-2) within a global water-budget framework. The scatter in the GSWP-2 global evapotranspiration estimates from ...

    • Measuring Welfare Loss Caused by Air Pollution in Europe: A CGE Analysis 

      Paltsev, Sergey; Reilly, John M.; Selin, Noelle E.; Nam, Kyung-Min (MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2009-08)
      To evaluate the socio-economic impacts of air pollution, we develop an integrated approach based on computable general equilibrium (CGE). Applying our approach to Europe shows that even there, where air quality is relatively ...