Sentences with phrase «climate studies represent»

Climate studies represent an exciting and highly topical challenge, and what we learn can affect public policy and mankind directly.

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The study, published by the Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Climate Corps program, says that solar and wind jobs have grown at rates of about 20 % annually in recent years, and sustainability now collectively represents four to four and a half million jobs in the U.S., up from 3.4 million in 2011.

The nine studies attempt to go beyond purely material losses and shed light on under - represented social and cultural losses incurred due to climate change.

Climate models, which are central to attribution studies, have also improved and are able to represent the current climate and that of the recent past with considerable fiClimate models, which are central to attribution studies, have also improved and are able to represent the current climate and that of the recent past with considerable ficlimate and that of the recent past with considerable fidelity.

Dr Nathan Mayne, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics at the University of Exeter and one of the authors of the study said: «This research is not only important in developing our understanding of this exotic class of planets, but also represents the first steps to building a deeper understanding of how planetary atmospheres and climates work across a range of conditions, including those more conducive to life.

As they split, studied, and sampled this core, they realized it resolved into thousands of distinctive layers, each representing a different climate regime.

«This study addresses the necessity for developing a new method to represent dust heating in climate models.»

The study, published online April 6 in the journal Climate Dynamics, represents a new approach to the question of whether global warming in the industrial era has been caused largely by man - made emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

Subsequently cited in 54 papers, the Science study showed that even using the lower end of 23 climate models suggested that in the tropics at the end of the century, «the hottest seasons on record will represent the future norm in many locations,» with the devastating impacts on wheat and rice yields.

«Ice cores contain little air bubbles and, thus, represent the only direct archive of the composition of the past atmosphere,» says Hubertus Fischer, an experimental climate physics professor at the University of Bern in Switzerland and lead author of the study.

Moving the chemical complexity of the ocean to the laboratory represented a major advance that will enable many new studies to be performed,» said Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment, who led the team of more than 30 scientists involved in this project.

The situation would also represent a new type of climate dispute, one that offers a glimpse of the kinds of multigenerational and multinational challenges society can expect to encounter, says Liam Colgan, a glaciologist at York University in Toronto, Canada, and lead author of the study, published today in Geophysical Research Letters.

In summary the projections of the IPCC — Met office models and all the impact studies (especially the Stern report) which derive from them are based on specifically structurally flawed and inherently useless models.They deserve no place in any serious discussion of future climate trends and represent an enormous waste of time and money.As a basis for public policy their forecasts are grossly in error and therefore worse than useless.For further discussion and an estimate of the coming cooling see http://climatesense-norpag.blogspot.com

Tornadoes are far too small and brief to be represented in climate models, but the conditions that produce them can be studied.

Daniel Crawford, a cello - playing undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, came up with a new way to describe the trend and variations that both characterize our warming climate — a solo composition, «Song of Our Warming Planet,» in which notes represent annual temperature readings from 1880 to 2012 as charted by NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies.

Of course these models had to be excluded from the final study — they did not represent pre-industrial climate accurately!â??

Pearce makes the assertion (that I've also seen advanced by other authors) that IPCC models (that is, those upon which it bases its reports along with study reviews) do not adequately represent non-linearities in the climate system, & in particular do not correctly represent the potential for abrupt & rapid phase transitions.

The findings of V+S represent an important contribution to the ongoing scientific discourse on the issue of climate change impacts on tropical cyclones, and the study should spur additional work looking at the complicated issues involved in greater detail.

The new revision 3 (Easterling et al. 1996) data represent the best available data from the United States for analyzing long - term climate trends on a regional scale and may be used for studies attempting to determine the climatic impacts of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases.

Studies with climate models have noted that the ITCZ width depends on interactions between radiation and clouds (Voigt & Shaw 2015) and how the model represents sub-grid scale convection (Kang et al. 2009), but a physical understanding of why the ITCZ width is affected by these processes is lacking.

The new study is a departure from the typical climate science paper, both for the wide variety of fields represented in the list of co-authors, which includes economist Jeffrey Sachs, as well as for the policy implications it raises, something climate scientists tend to shy away from.

«Meat production represents 18 percent of global human - induced GHG emissions... While the world is looking for sharp reductions in greenhouse gases responsible for climate change, growing global meat production is going to severely compromise future efforts... a study from the University of Chicago showed that if Americans were to reduce meat consumption by 20 percent it would be as if they switched from a standard sedan to the ultra-efficient Prius.»

«While these increases are most likely due to Earth's changing climate, uncertainty exists as to whether they are the product of human - induced greenhouse warming or represent variations related to natural multi-decadal climate cycles,» Ruggiero's study said.

«These examples showcase the responsiveness, consistency and multisectoral capability of our approach, which we believe represents a promising direction for the climate impact modeling community,» says Sergey Paltsev, a co-author of the study and deputy director of the MIT Joint Program, as well as a senior research scientist at the MIT Energy Initiative and the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

The 15 U.S. - based organizations – 350.org, Climate Hawks Vote, CREDO, Earth Guardians, Friends of the Earth, Green America, Honor the Earth, Institute for Policy Studies, League of Conservation Voters, The Hip Hop Caucus, Oil Change International, Potlach Fund, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, and the U.S. Climate Action Network (USCAN)-- represent more than 13 million combined supporters.

The Wallace et al. 2016 study represents a new and interesting approach to climate science research which should yield very interesting and much more valid results since the weight given to each likely variable is determined by available evidence rather than the guesses of carefully selected «experts» and incorporated into their largely arbitrary computer models.

The study says the global ocean heat content record robustly represents the signature of global warming, and is affected less by weather - related «noise» and climate variability such as El Niño and La Niña events.

Her study accounted for propagation of organized storms, and also included correct daily precipitation cycles across the U.S., neither of which are accurately represented in current climate models.

But the findings, in recent studies led by Princeton and Cornell universities, represent an identifiable future cost of climate change under the business - as - usual scenario, in which fossil fuel combustion continues to increase at present rates.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change uses such studies to inform their greenhouse gas accounting, but these lab - sourced values may not accurately represent actual emissions from peatland fires.

The new coupled system will represent a major contribution towards giving the Norwegian research community a leading role in studying the Arctic climate system.

Take a look at this figure from the IPCC AR4, which represents the pdfs or relative likelihoods for equilibrium climate sensitive from a range of studies (both models and observations).

Surely after decades of satellite measurements, countless field experiments, and numerous finescale modeling studies that have repeatedly highlighted basic deficiencies in the ability of comprehensive climate models to represent processes contributing to atmospheric aerosol forcing, it is time to give up on the fantasy that somehow their output can be accepted at face value.»

Our study stresses the importance of those internal connections between tropical Pacific Ocean SSTs, the ENSO system, and the American Southwest hydroclimatic conditions and supports the contention that: (1) internal variability of the ocean - atmosphere system may not be accurately represented in current global climate models, and (2) enhanced variability as a result of these stochastic events should be further considered.

The climate study involved scientists representing 17 of Europe's and America's premiere research institutes.

13.5.1 Key Uncertainties in Climate Scenarios 13.5.1.1 Specifying alternative emissions futures 13.5.1.2 Uncertainties in converting emissions to concentrations 13.5.1.3 Uncertainties in converting concentrations to radiative forcing 13.5.1.4 Uncertainties in modelling the climate response to a given forcing 13.5.1.5 Uncertainties in converting model response into inputs for impact studies 13.5.2 Approaches for Representing Uncertainties 13.5.2.1 Scaling climate model response patterns 13.5.2.2 Defining climate change signals 13.5.2.3 Risk assessment approaches 13.5.2.4 Annotation of climate scClimate Scenarios 13.5.1.1 Specifying alternative emissions futures 13.5.1.2 Uncertainties in converting emissions to concentrations 13.5.1.3 Uncertainties in converting concentrations to radiative forcing 13.5.1.4 Uncertainties in modelling the climate response to a given forcing 13.5.1.5 Uncertainties in converting model response into inputs for impact studies 13.5.2 Approaches for Representing Uncertainties 13.5.2.1 Scaling climate model response patterns 13.5.2.2 Defining climate change signals 13.5.2.3 Risk assessment approaches 13.5.2.4 Annotation of climate scclimate response to a given forcing 13.5.1.5 Uncertainties in converting model response into inputs for impact studies 13.5.2 Approaches for Representing Uncertainties 13.5.2.1 Scaling climate model response patterns 13.5.2.2 Defining climate change signals 13.5.2.3 Risk assessment approaches 13.5.2.4 Annotation of climate scclimate model response patterns 13.5.2.2 Defining climate change signals 13.5.2.3 Risk assessment approaches 13.5.2.4 Annotation of climate scclimate change signals 13.5.2.3 Risk assessment approaches 13.5.2.4 Annotation of climate scclimate scenarios

As the spring warming over west Antarctica represents the only significant trend in the interior of Antarctica (excluding Peninsula) for 1979 - present, it deserves consideration in studies that seek to understand and model Antarctic climate change.

A 67 - page study compiled by UN officials says the intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) from governments represent a significant shift in attitudes towards tackling climate change.

Furthermore, although we acknowledge that climate change represents a serious threat to biodiversity, and likely influences endemic host — pathogen systems, the available data simply do not support the hypothesis that climate change has driven the spread of Bd in our study area.

Consequently, many impact studies of climate change that ignore land - use and other global change trends (see also Section 4.2.2) may represent inadequate estimates of projected ecosystem responses.

Our study highlights important challenges in representing the seasonal cycle of rainfall in climate simulations.

The framework of the study is represented, on the one hand, by the scientific assessment of climate change, with its impacts and associated effects on human and natural systems, and, on the other hand, by the international response to this challenge.

Some studies suggest that current climate finance provides between 30 % to 60 % of the 100 billion USD that countries have pledged, and this represents only a fraction of the financial requirements to meet global mitigation and adaptation goals.

Although it has been a common practice in studying paleoclimate data to use proxy data from, for example, an ice core in Antarctica, to represent global climate after dividing the former by a factor of ∼ 2 or by a model - determined, latitude - dependent scaling factor, theoretical justification is only beginning to be emphasized (22).

His study, published online Dec. 28 by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, indicates that the ratio of silt to clay particles is two to eight times greater than represented in climate models.

Such issues are of particular significance for studies of climate impacts, which may, for example, represent linkages between physical and social science, as well as feedbacks among physical, chemical and biological systems.

The study didn't explore anything like full ranges of key climate parameters: equilibrium climate sensitivities below 2 K were not included in the ensemble, only a limited range of ocean heat uptake levels appears to have been considered, and it is unclear to me to what extent the possibility of aerosol forcing being small was represented.

The central conclusion of this study is that to disregard the low values of effective climate sensitivity (≈ 1 °C) given by observations on the grounds that they do not agree with the larger values of equilibrium, or effective, climate sensitivity given by GCMs, while the GCMs themselves do not properly represent the observed value of the tropical radiative response coefficient, is a standpoint that needs to be reconsidered.

He studies extreme climate events from the earth's history and is among the scientists who suspect that methane hydrates represent one of the planet's instabilities.

Prior studies have provided compelling demonstrations of the importance of linkages between climate change and air quality valuation (e.g. (Caplan and Silva 2005; Nemet et al. 2010; Tollefsen et al. 2009)-RRB- and of the incorporation of economics into emission metrics (e.g. (Johansson 2012; Tanaka et al. 2013)-RRB-, but typically have not fully represented the climate impact of short - lived emissions, especially aerosols and methane (e.g. (International Monetary Fund 2013; Muller et al. 2011; NRC 2010)-RRB-.