Sentences with phrase «environmental research atmospheric»

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Natural gas combined - cycle power plants are already heavily favored by utilities to the near exclusion of coal, said Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric scientist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

That?s in addition to the many who remain in geological research in fields that include earth and atmospheric sciences, environmental sciences, marine science, renewable energy, and fossil fuels.

The BER program contains two main components, biological systems sciences, which fund research such as genomics and advanced biofuel, and earth and environmental systems sciences (EESE), which funds research such as atmospheric monitoring and modeling.

In the new paper, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, Höglund - Isaksson estimated global methane emissions from oil and gas systems in over 100 countries over a 32 - year period, using a variety of country - specific data ranging from reported volumes of associated gas to satellite imagery that can show flaring, as well as atmospheric measurements of ethane, a gas which is released along with methane and easier to link more directly to oil and gas activities.

Last week's decision by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) has infuriated scientists in fields ranging from atmospheric and polar sciences to freshwater biology.

Research ranges from atmospheric sciences to microbiology, climate, oceanography, environmental chemistry, water management, and international environmental policy.

The school is one of the largest atmospheric and environmental academic research centers in Britain.

Dr. Susannah Burrows, atmospheric researcher at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was quoted in the IOP community website, environmentalresearchweb for her recent co-authored paper, «Prospects for Simulating Macromolecular Surfactant Chemistry at the Ocean - Atmosphere Boundary» published in Environmental Research Letters.

Cohen, an atmospheric scientist with Atmospheric and Environmental Research, was also not involved in the study.

His research in atmospheric chemistry, climate change and energy has involved him in shaping science and environmental policy at the highest levels nationally and internationally.

[1] K. Caldeira and N. Myhrvold, «Projections of the pace of warming following an abrupt increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration,» Environmental Research Letters, vol.

Cicerone was an atmospheric scientist whose research placed him at the forefront in shaping science and environmental policy, both nationally and internationally.

To get the latest thinking, I consulted with Judah Cohen, a meteorologist at Atmospheric and Environmental Research who blogs about important atmospheric patterns shaping temperate and higher - latitude weather, including the polar vortex and Arctic oscillation.

The vast majority of research in recent decades on the carbon dioxide buildup has been focused on the atmospheric impacts of the accumulating greenhouse - gas blanket even though the vast majority of the heated trapped by these gases has gone first into the seas — and the drop in seawater pH driven by CO2 has been a clear signal of substantial environmental change.

1 - A review of the research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th and early 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects upon Earth's weather and climate.

When the reseachers at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo (CICERO) applied their computer «model and statistics to analyse temperature readings from the air and ocean for the period ending in 2000, they found that climate sensitivity to a doubling of atmospheric CO2 concentration will most likely be 3.7 °C, which is somewhat higher than the IPCC prognosis.»

Takigawa, M., M. Takahashi, and H. Akiyoshi, 1999: Simulation of ozone and other chemical species using a Center for Climate Systems Research / National Institute for Environmental Studies atmospheric GCM with coupled stratospheric chemistry, J. Geophys.

They lead international research in climate change, natural hazards and volcanology, geography, atmospheric and ocean sciences, geochemistry, natural resource management, ecology, biodiversity conservation, environmental biology, environmental policy, environmental economics, sustainability and geographical information systems.

The report's authors include Salvatore Pascale, an associate research scholar in atmospheric and oceanic sciences (AOS); Tom Delworth, a lecturer in geosciences and AOS and research scientist at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL); Sarah Kapnick, a 2004 Princeton alumna and former AOS postdoc who is currently a research physical scientist at GFDL; AOS associate research scholar Hiroyuki Murakami; and Gabriel Vecchi, a professor of geosciences and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

«The anomalous atmospheric circulation moves the Pacific storm track eastward and southward, steering more storms toward southwestern North America, including central and southern California,» explained Jong, whose findings are published in Environmental Research Letters (ERL).

«Changes in the atmosphere, specifically atmospheric pressure around the world, and the motions of the winds that may be related to such climate signals as El Niño are strong enough that their effect is observed in the Earth's rotation signal,» said David A. Salstein, an atmospheric scientist from Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., of Lexington, Mass., who led a recent study.

A review of research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th and 21st centuries have produced no deleterious effects on Earth's weather or climate.

Singer is an atmospheric and space physicist, the first director of the U.S. Weather Satellite Center, a research professor at George Mason University (USA) and professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Virginia (USA).

However, using National Centers for Environmental Prediction − National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP - NCAR) reanalysis data (41), Petoukhov et al. (34) showed that, during a number of recent NH extremes in July and August, certain persistent high - amplitude atmospheric wave patterns with barotropic vertical structure evolved, to which the quasistationary component of midlatitude barotropic free waves with zonal wave numbers k ≈ 6 − 8 made an exceptionally large contribution.

As early as November, 1979, Shaw had told Harold Weinberg in a memo on atmospheric research that environmental groups «have already attempted to curb the budding synfuels industry because it could accelerate the buildup of CO2 in the atmosphere.»

To explain the difference between data collected by any other research and HIPPO, the project's chief investigator, Steven Wofsy, a professor of atmospheric and environmental science at Harvard University, said It's like looking at an X-ray from the 60s versus a CAT scan today.

In a novel application of space - based atmospheric measurements, Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), in collaboration with GeoOptics Inc., is investigating the use of radio occultation measurements to improve severe weather forecasting.

He also has a Master of Science in environmental sciences and policy from Johns Hopkins University, where he concentrated his research and study in environmental fate and transport, oceanic and atmospheric processes, hydrology and the ecological effects of pollutants.