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- initialism Special report on emissions scenarios
- initialism Signed RESponse to authentication challenge. A term used in GSM mobile networks. The network sends a challenge to the mobile at each connection, and the mobile must send a SRES back to the network before it will allow access.
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In addition to SEG, Starwood sponsors Starwood Real Estate Securities ( "SRES"), a long-short global real estate securities hedge fund.
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Google "SRES" for the IPCC report on the scenarios used in the TAR.
RealClimate 2009
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I tend to agree with the more optimistic of the IPCC (well, SRES, the economic assumptions behind IPCC) scenarios.
Sustainability, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And to answer Lind's question, can 9 billion people live at that level of wealth, well, the SRES does try to look at that and finds no resource restriction to stop it.
Sustainability, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Have a look at the SRES (the economic models upon which the IPCC process is based).
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According to the IPCC Special Report on Emission Scenarios (SRES), by the end of the 21st century, we could expect to see carbon dioxide concentrations of anywhere from 490 to 1260 ppm (75-350% above the pre-industrial concentration).
Duck, It's Hillary! 2008
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However, the SRES model that came out just a few hours early indicated a 80-90% chance of more than 0.5" melted liquid - which would equate to more than 5" of snow.
Snow may be closer to 3" than 6" Jason Samenow 2010
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It should be noted that no probabilities were assigned to the various SRES emissions scenarios.
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The SRES emissions scenarios were built around four basic paths of development that the world may take in the 21st century.
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During the initial stage of the ACIA process, to stay coordinated with current IPCC efforts, it was agreed that the ACIA should work from IPCC SRES emissions scenarios [10].
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