Sentences with phrase «giss climate modelers»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

«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).

There is no independent record of historical aerosol levels, which (e.g. the prominent GISS series by Hansen's group) have primarily been developed by climate modelers seeking to explain the long hiatus.

Climate modeler Dr. Gavin Schmidt of NASA GISS comments on the failure of models to match real world observations.