The Keeling Lecture
Climate Change and the Forests of the West
UCTV - Perspectives on Ocean Science
Uploaded on Jun 10, 2010
Dr. Steve Running, a Regents Professor in the College of Forestry and Conservation at the University of Montana, discusses the paradox of why forests in the West are growing faster while simultaneously suffering from higher die-off rates.
Running was the IPCC lead author on a 2007 WG1 report analyzing North America's contribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide and its impacts on the global climate.
Series: "Perspectives on Ocean Science" [6/2010] [Science] [Show ID: 18197]
Running was the IPCC lead author on a 2007 WG1 report analyzing North America's contribution to atmospheric carbon dioxide and its impacts on the global climate.
Series: "Perspectives on Ocean Science" [6/2010] [Science] [Show ID: 18197]
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introduction to the "Keeling Curve" and CO2 observations…
and how that ties into understanding global growth patterns
introduction to the "Keeling Curve" and CO2 observations…
and how that ties into understanding global growth patterns
28:30 Great satellite view of ten years worth of the whole Earth's seasons unfurling.
32:20 two week longer growing season in Northern US
33:50 April snow pack (snow water equivalent) 1950 - 2000
33:50 April snow pack (snow water equivalent) 1950 - 2000
34:30 Tim Barnett, et al. 2008 paper, Western States spring snowpack 1950 - 2006
(Montana March temps are up 7°F )
38:00 Wild fire - Westerling, et al. 2006 - fire season 78 days longer - increased fires above 6500ft
43:00 Bark Beetles and warming winters
45:30 Montana absolute low temps have warmed 15°F in past 15 years!
48:40 Raffa, et al. - bark beetle study
49:00 Van Mantgem, et al 2009 - Background mortality rates Western forests
51:00 Stability of natural carbon sinks?
… Carbon Monitoring
53:30 Planetary Boundaries
55:00 A thank you to David Keeling.
