Sentences with phrase «climate modelers»
"Climate modelers" refers to scientists who create computer simulations, or models, to understand and predict how Earth's climate system works. They use data and equations to study patterns and processes of the atmosphere, oceans, land, and ice to help make informed predictions about future climate changes. Full definition
A recent paper by climate modelers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography argues that the supposed pause in global warming can be explained entirely by recent variations in the El Nino - La Nina cycle in the tropical Pacific.
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In 1980, Exxon assembled a team of climate modelers who investigated fundamental questions about the climate's sensitivity to the buildup of carbon dioxide in the air.
Interactions with climate modelers of the Met Office (potential users of the land cover product) will also take place.
«We may have to wait 20 or 30 years before the data set in the 21st century is good enough to pin down sensitivity,» says climate modeler Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
The study also calls into question many of the assumptions made by climate modelers in designing state of the art computer models, since the study shows that these models may be underestimating the speed and magnitude of ocean current trends in the North Atlantic.
Dr. Tim Palmer, leading climate modeler at the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts, summed the situation up well in a 2008 New Scientist magazine article:
Some flights will try to stay on a particular line of latitude or longitude, no matter what the clouds and smoke are doing that day, because climate modelers need data collected along a transect.
Of course, this kind of uncertainty is why climate modelers don't presume to «predict» at all and get irritated when model scenarios are taken as predictions.
The more we know about natural rapid climate change, the better we can help climate modelers forecast how climate might change in the future now that human activity is added to the mix.»
Flannery was one of Exxon's top climate modelers after he joined the company in 1980.
To better understand factors affecting the range of habitable conditions of exoplanets, GISS climate modelers go back in time to simulate the «Snowball Earth» conditions of 720 to 635 million years ago and find that complete freeze - over is hard to achieve.
Because the CO2 levels were so high, «it's not surprising to see a negative impact, since it's like putting a bird cage near a smokestack,» says climate modeler Ken Caldeira of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.
The Cost of Action Just as there is a rough consensus among climate modelers about the likely trajectory of temperatures if we do not act to cut the emissions of greenhouse gases, there is a rough consensus among economic modelers about the costs of action.
You can be like most AGW assholes and bury your head in the warm sand, or you can be like many money grubbing AGW climate modelers who could not find their way out of a paper bag with scissors and a match, or you can accept that I just laid out the absolute fact to you.
«Most climate modelers generally have a hard time dealing with small - scale measurements in both space and time, so using ARM measurements could be difficult for them,» says Fan.
If water vapor has an amplifying effect as climate modelers claim, why is the daily mean temperature in a dry, desert area warmer (in spite of nighttime cooling) than a humid tropical area at the same latitude?
Which explains why climate modeler Andrew Weaver thinks it's perfectly OK to be a candidate for the Green Party of British Columbia (one of Canada's provinces) at the same time that he's serving as a lead author for the IPCC.
Beckwith replies it's almost a battle between climate modelers, like David Archer, and researchers with observations on the ground, like Shakhova and here Russian counterparts.
Moreover, it reaches this goal without making (as many climate modelers do) desperate assumptions about horrifically large - scale deployment of bioenergy - based carbon capture and storage systems (the acronym is BECCS) that generate fantastic amounts of «negative emissions.»
The three climate modelers also worked at quantitatively assessing the relevance and usefulness of the delivered information for different climate models.
Again, like climate modelers, they rely both on theory (e.g. higher interest rates should generally mean lower stock prices) as well as observed correlations in the historic data set.
Just two weeks ago, a top IPCC climate modeler dropped a bombshell and told the world that global warming is kaput.
However a few climate modelers began arguing CO2, not heat transport, was the ultimate climate control knob.
The idea is the brainchild of Leonard Ornstein, a cell biologist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, who partnered with climate modelers David Rind and Igor Aleinov of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, all in New York City.
So GISS climate modeler Michael Way took a topographic map of Venus based on findings from another mission, filled in the lowlands with an ocean of water, and ran the global climate model to simulate the climate of ancient days on Venus.
Climate modelers bet on negative emissions technologies, but are they as risky as the problems they're designed to fix?
But to date, when climate modelers try to project future warming for the Arctic, the numbers are lower than expected; for reasons not yet fully understood, they don't reflect the region's accelerating warming.
In addition, the study doesn't address larger concerns about geoengineering, says climate modeler Raymond Pierrehumbert of the University of Chicago in Illinois.