Sentences with phrase «earth system framework»

The global Human — Earth System framework we propose, and represent schematically in Fig. 6, combines not only data collection, analysis techniques, and Dynamic Modeling, but also Data Assimilation, to bidirectionally couple an ESM containing subsystems for Global Atmosphere, Land (including both Land — Vegetation and Land - Use models) and Ocean and Ice, to a Human System Model with subsystems for Population Demographics, Water, Energy, Agriculture, Industry, Construction, and Transportation.

Using an Earth system framework for the future, researchers will explore the combined effects of groundwater pumping, changing irrigated areas, and specific crop types and crop growth on global hydrology.

To address the above issues, the development of coupled global Human — Earth System frameworks that capture and represent the interactive dynamics of the key subsystems of the coupled human — nature system with two - way feedbacks are urgently needed.

The need for global Earth System frameworks coupled to population drivers has been recommended since the 1980s, in the pioneering report by the Earth System Sciences Committee of the NASA Advisory Council, chaired by Francis P. Bretherton [185].

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Another problem is that NASA earth science is more than people — it's buildings, systems, and machines that are now woven into the framework of the space agency and could not cheaply or efficiently be extracted.

In this research, the authors present extensive evidence of the need for a new paradigm of modeling that incorporates the feedbacks that the Earth System has on humans, and propose a framework for future modeling that would serve as a more realistic guide for policymaking and sustainable development.

To inform its Earth system models, the climate modeling community has a long history of using integrated assessment models — frameworks for describing humanity's impact on Earth, including the source of global greenhouse gases, land use and land cover change, and other resource - related drivers of anthropogenic climate change.

The planetary boundaries framework defines a safe operating space for humanity based on the intrinsic biophysical processes that regulate the stability of the Earth system.

Noah Diffenbaugh, a professor of earth system science at Stanford University, was the lead author of a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released last week detailing a four - step framework for testing whether global warming contributes to record - setting weather events.

Together, they will help us truly understand the natural sensitivity of Earth system and provide a better framework for predicting future climate change.»

This integrated scientific framework provides a challenge for integrated Earth system research, which in turn can provide a guide for global sustainability in the Anthropocene.

A scientific framework in support of global sustainability, emerging from Earth system science and resilience research, is the recent concept of Planetary Boundaries (Rockström et al., 2009).

The aim of this session is to provide a framework for reviewing the state - of - the - art on these issues and to identify possible interrelationships between Earth and the Sun and space weather by assessing the level of coupling in the relevant physical systems and processes.

Land Art used the earth as its material and the land as its medium, thereby creating works beyond the familiar spatial framework of the art system.

Land Art artists used the earth as their material and the land as their medium, thus creating works beyond the familiar spatial framework of the art system.

The work maps the frameworks of the various veining systems found in nature to create work that explores the balance, harmony and connectivity of life on Earth.

In particular, the PB framework is based on the fact — and I emphasise the word «fact» — that the relatively stable Holocene state of the Earth System (the past approximately 11,700 years) is the only state of the System that has allowed the development of agriculture, urban settlements and complex human societies.

The questions about origin of life and life shaping the earth (and vice versa) are integral to an overarching framework of how energy flow through the earth system drives the engine of evolution (physical, chemical, biological, and social).

While the stated objective of the PB framework is to «guide human societies» away from a state of the Earth system that is «less hospitable to the development of human societies», it offers little scientific evidence to support the connection between the global state of specific Earth system processes and human well - being.

Climateurope, a Horizon 2020 project established earlier this year will replace ECOMS, forming a larger activity to create and manage a framework for coordinating, integrating and supporting Europe's research and innovation activities in the fields of Earth - System modelling and climate services.

We have used the Grid ENabled Integrated Earth system modelling (GENIE) framework to undertake a systematic search for bi-stability of the ocean thermohaline circulation (THC) for different surface grids and resolutions of 3 - D ocean (GOLDSTEIN) under a 3 - D dynamical atmosphere model (IGCM).

Weng, E.S., S. Malyshev, J.W. Lichstein, C.E. Farrior, R. Dybzinski, T. Zhang, E. Shevliakova, and S.W. Pacala, 2015: Scaling from individual trees to forests in an Earth system modeling framework using a mathematically tractable model of height - structured competition.

Pekka, when you say Earth is not in thermal equilibrium, is that equivalent to saying that equilibrium thermodynamics isn't a sensible framework for analyzing earth system energy relationsEarth is not in thermal equilibrium, is that equivalent to saying that equilibrium thermodynamics isn't a sensible framework for analyzing earth system energy relationsearth system energy relationships?

The Joint Program IAM integrates a geospatially resolved physical representation of climate impacts into a coupled human and Earth system modeling framework.

In this paper, af - ter a brief tutorial on the basics of climate nonlinearity, we provide a number of illustrative examples and highlight key mechanisms that give rise to nonlinear behavior, address scale and methodological issues, suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies and, lastly, recommend a number of research priorities and the establishment of education programs in Earth Systems Science.

The planetary boundaries framework defines a safe operating space for humanity based on the intrinsic biophysical processes that regulate the stability of the Earth system.

The Planetary Boundaries framework proposes quantitative limits for human perturbation of critical Earth system processes, and a «safe operating space» within which human activity should attempt to stay in order to avert the risk of large - scale, possibly abrupt or irreversible environmental change.

«The Earth's climate system is highly nonlinear: inputs and outputs are not proportional, change is often episodic and abrupt, rather than slow and gradual, and multiple equilibria are the norm... there is a relatively poor understanding of the different types of nonlinearities, how they manifest under various conditions, and whether they reflect a climate system driven by astronomical forcings, by internal feedbacks, or by a combination of both... [We] suggest a robust alternative to prediction that is based on using integrated assessments within the framework of vulnerability studies... It is imperative that the Earth's climate system research community embraces this nonlinear paradigm if we are to move forward in the assessment of the human influence on climate.»

Instead, climate modelling efforts are moving in the direction of throwing more ancillary elements into an earth system modeling framework.

The Carbon Dioxide Removal Model Intercomparison Project (CDRMIP), which has just been endorsed by CMIP6, brings together models of the Earth system in a common framework to explore the potential, impacts, and challenges of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR).

A major challenge in implementing such a framework of a coupled Earth — Human System is that it requires tuning many parameters to approximately reproduce its past observed evolution.