Search Results - "Wong, Tony E"
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Comprehensive evidence implies a higher social cost of CO2
Published in Nature (London) (27-10-2022)“…The social cost of carbon dioxide (SC-CO 2 ) measures the monetized value of the damages to society caused by an incremental metric tonne of CO 2 emissions and…”
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A tighter constraint on Earth-system sensitivity from long-term temperature and carbon-cycle observations
Published in Nature communications (26-05-2021)“…The long-term temperature response to a given change in CO 2 forcing, or Earth-system sensitivity (ESS), is a key parameter quantifying our understanding about…”
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Evaluating hydrological processes in the Community Atmosphere Model Version 5 (CAM5) using stable isotope ratios of water
Published in Journal of advances in modeling earth systems (01-06-2017)“…Water isotope‐enabled climate and earth system models are able to directly simulate paleoclimate proxy records to aid in climate reconstruction. A less used…”
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Sea-level projections representing the deeply uncertain contribution of the West Antarctic ice sheet
Published in Scientific reports (20-06-2017)“…There is a growing awareness that uncertainties surrounding future sea-level projections may be much larger than typically perceived. Recently published…”
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Deep Uncertainty Surrounding Coastal Flood Risk Projections: A Case Study for New Orleans
Published in Earth's future (01-10-2017)“…Key Points We characterize key deep uncertainties surrounding flood risk projections for a levee ring in New Orleans using 18 probabilistic scenarios The levee…”
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Assessing the Impact of Retreat Mechanisms in a Simple Antarctic Ice Sheet Model Using Bayesian Calibration
Published in PloS one (12-01-2017)“…The response of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) to changing climate forcings is an important driver of sea-level changes. Anthropogenic climate change may drive…”
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Improving models for student retention and graduation using Markov chains
Published in PloS one (26-06-2023)“…Graduation rates are a key measure of the long-term efficacy of academic interventions. However, challenges to using traditional estimates of graduation rates…”
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Neglecting model structural uncertainty underestimates upper tails of flood hazard
Published in Environmental research letters (01-07-2018)“…Coastal flooding drives considerable risks to many communities, but projections of future flood risks are deeply uncertain. The paucity of observations of…”
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Probabilistic inversion of expert assessments to inform projections about Antarctic ice sheet responses
Published in PloS one (29-12-2017)“…The response of the Antarctic ice sheet (AIS) to changing global temperatures is a key component of sea-level projections. Current projections of the AIS…”
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Assessing parameter sensitivity in a university campus COVID-19 model with vaccinations
Published in Infectious disease modelling (01-06-2023)“…From the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, universities have experienced unique challenges due to their dual nature as a place of education and residence…”
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A multi-objective decision-making approach to the journal submission problem
Published in PloS one (05-06-2017)“…When researchers complete a manuscript, they need to choose a journal to which they will submit the study. This decision requires to navigate trade-offs…”
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Investigating the Direct Meltwater Effect in Terrestrial Oxygen‐Isotope Paleoclimate Records Using an Isotope‐Enabled Earth System Model
Published in Geophysical research letters (28-12-2017)“…Variations in terrestrial oxygen‐isotope reconstructions from ice cores and speleothems have been primarily attributed to climatic changes of surface air…”
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Uncertainty Analysis in Multi‐Sector Systems: Considerations for Risk Analysis, Projection, and Planning for Complex Systems
Published in Earth's future (01-08-2022)“…Simulation models of multi‐sector systems are increasingly used to understand societal resilience to climate and economic shocks and change. However,…”
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Evaluating the sensitivity of SARS-CoV-2 infection rates on college campuses to wastewater surveillance
Published in Infectious disease modelling (01-01-2021)“…As college campuses reopened in fall 2020, we saw a large-scale experiment unfold on the efficacy of various strategies to contain the SARS-CoV-2 virus…”
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Lasting coastal hazards from past greenhouse gas emissions
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Impacts of Observational Constraints Related to Sea Level on Estimates of Climate Sensitivity
Published in Earth's future (01-06-2019)“…Reduced complexity climate models are useful tools for quantifying decision‐relevant uncertainties, given their flexibility, computational efficiency, and…”
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Impacts of Antarctic fast dynamics on sea-level projections and coastal flood defense
Published in Climatic change (01-09-2017)“…Strategies to manage the risks posed by future sea-level rise hinge on a sound characterization of the inherent uncertainties. One of the major uncertainties…”
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Evaluation of modeled land‐atmosphere exchanges with a comprehensive water isotope fractionation scheme in version 4 of the Community Land Model
Published in Journal of advances in modeling earth systems (01-06-2017)“…All physical process models and field observations are inherently imperfect, so there is a need to both (1) obtain measurements capable of constraining…”
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Interpreting Precession‐Driven δ18O Variability in the South Asian Monsoon Region
Published in Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres (16-06-2018)“…Speleothem records from the South Asian summer monsoon (SASM) region display variability in the ratio of 18O and 16O (δ18O) in calcium carbonate at orbital…”
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How efficient are they really? A simple testing method of small-scale gold miners’ gravity separation systems
Published in Minerals engineering (01-05-2017)“…•Efficiency testing method for small-scale alluvial gold mining.•Determines that some small-scale mining is more efficient than previously reported•Estimates…”
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