Sentences with phrase «understanding of the climate system»

However, with recent advances in understanding of the climate system, some potential abrupt changes once thought to be imminent threats are now considered unlikely to occur this century.

Due to our lack of understanding of the climate system and limitations of computational power, climate models are far from perfect.

These expectations are based on physical understanding of the climate system.

This is paradigm shift in our most fundamental understanding of the climate system.

I think this article is a worth - while read, telling a fascinating story about how new satellite missions lead to greater understanding of our climate system.

Climate models help improve our conceptual understandings of climate systems and the forces that drive climate change.

The degree of this internal consistency is a critical factor in assessing the level of confidence in the current understanding of the climate system.

Climate models, physical understanding of the climate system and statistical tools, including formal climate change detection and attribution methods, are used to interpret observed changes where possible.

The observations we have taken since the start of 20th century have confirmed our fundamental understanding of the climate system.

- Exploiting Essential Climate Variable (ECV) products generated by the ESA.s Climate Change Initiative (CCI) for improved understanding of the climate system.

Conversely, any future decision about albedo modification will be judged primarily on questions of risk, and there are many opportunities to conduct research that furthers basic understanding of the climate system and its human dimensions — without imposing the risks of large - scale deployment — that would better inform societal considerations.

But the issue of ineffective negotiations and lack of in - depth understanding of the climate system from regions of the world, developing and developed alike, pose a threat to achieving a low temperature increase that is sustainable for livelihoods and in eliminating greenhouse gas emissions.

Cohen demonstrated a sophisticated understanding of the climate system.

«The fact that there is a distribution of future climate changes arises not only because of incomplete understanding of the climate system (e.g. the unknown value of the climate sensitivity, different climate model responses, etc.), but also because of the inherent unpredictability of climate (e.g. unknowable future climate forcings and regional differences in the climate system response to a given forcing because of chaos).

Focus: Long - standing model biases (at least a few of them); Understand how model errors or shortcomings impact projections and predictions; Gain physical understanding of the climate system through model development.

C - ROADS is designed to broaden decision - maker understanding of the climate system's responses to human intervention through rapid - cycle - time simulation.

For climate change research, the body of research in the literature is very large and the dependence on any one set of research results to the comprehensive understanding of the climate system is very, very small.

«We're not getting any free lunch from additional understanding of the climate system.»

Given those findings and the rest of the improved understanding of the climate system, the IPCC projects that if carbon dioxide gas emissions — the primary cause of warming — continue to grow at the recent rate, the world would warm 2oC above 19th - century levels by the middle of this century.

It opposed deployment of albedo - modification techniques, but recommended further research, particularly «multiple - benefit» research that simultaneously advances basic understanding of the climate system and quantifies the technologies» potential costs, intended and unintended consequences, and risks.

Some surprises in the climate system may be inevitable, but with improved scientific monitoring and a better understanding of the climate system it could be possible to anticipate abrupt change before it occurs and reduce the potential consequences.

This approach explicitly ties scientific understanding of the climate system to policy imperatives, while acknowledging that policymakers need flexibility to design politically feasible emissions reduction strategies.

This discrepancy may result from a gap in our understanding of the climate system or from what we know about the Eocene, said David Evans, the study's lead author and Leverhulme Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews» School of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

These characteristics make the Eocene a good period on which to test our understanding of the climate system, said Laura Cotton, study co-author and curator of micropaleontology at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

And the evidence of change has mounted as climate records have grown longer, as our understanding of the climate system has improved and as climate models have become ever more reliable.

Co-author of the study Professor Ian Hall, from the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, said: «Our results highlight the challenge of basing our understanding of the climate system on generally short observational records.

So understanding why you would have this brief hiatus in sea - level rise is really key to our understanding of the climate system and being able to monitor the system,» he said.

It casts doubt upon our understanding of the climate system and ability to predict future climate changes.»

This is evident from the increasing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, positive radiative forcing, observed warming, and understanding of the climate system.

Although the report does say that achieving a concentration of 400ppm of carbon dioxide by 2100 gives the best chance (80 % according to the Baer research; see footnote 14) of preventing a 2 degree C rise, the Taskforce members are well aware that other emission pathways are possible and that between now and 2100 our understanding of the climate system will improve.

The magnitude looks consistent with our understanding of the climate system.