Vulnerability of Sri Lanka Tea Production to Global Climate Change

1996 ◽  
pp. 87-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. A. Wijeratne
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Tea Production

scholarly journals Impacts of Global Climate Change on the Future Ocean Wave Power Potential: A Case Study from the Indian Ocean

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 3028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harshinie Karunarathna ◽  
Pravin Maduwantha ◽  
Bahareh Kamranzad ◽  
Harsha Rathnasooriya ◽  
Kasun De Silva
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Wave Model ◽  
Wave Power ◽  
South West ◽  
Wave Power Potential

This study investigates the impacts of global climate change on the future wave power potential, taking Sri Lanka as a case study from the northern Indian Ocean. The geographical location of Sri Lanka, which receives long-distance swell waves generated in the Southern Indian Ocean, favors wave energy-harvesting. Waves projected by a numerical wave model developed using Simulating Waves Nearshore Waves (SWAN) wave model, which is forced by atmospheric forcings generated by an Atmospheric Global Climate Model (AGCM) within two time slices that represent “present” and “future” (end of century) wave climates, are used to evaluate and compare present and future wave power potential around Sri Lanka. The results reveal that there will be a 12–20% reduction in average available wave power along the south-west and south-east coasts of Sri Lanka in future. This reduction is due mainly to changes to the tropical south-west monsoon system because of global climate change. The available wave power resource attributed to swell wave component remains largely unchanged. Although a detailed analysis of monthly and annual average wave power under both “present” and “future” climates reveals a strong seasonal and some degree of inter-annual variability of wave power, a notable decadal-scale trend of variability is not visible during the simulated 25-year periods. Finally, the results reveal that the wave power attributed to swell waves are very stable over the long term.

Global Climate Change, Ecological Stress, and Tea Production

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Selena Ahmed ◽  
Tim Griffin ◽  
Sean B. Cash ◽  
Wen-Yan Han ◽  
Corene Matyas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ecological Stress ◽  
Tea Production
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