Sentences with phrase «noaa researchers»

There was an article about 1 - 2 years ago where two NOAA researchers were noting that it was not well understood why the intermediate levels of the ocean did not heat up.

The NOAA researchers think this «Agulhas Leakage» may compensate should the «normal» Atlantic Gulf Stream weaken as a result of climate change [and the influx of fresh Greenland melting water - or as a result of weakening Atlantic trade winds].

«No current comprehensive climate model projects that the AMOC will abruptly weaken or collapse in the 21st century,» wrote a team of NOAA researchers in 2008.

NOAA researchers are observing and taking photographs of endangered killer whale species with the technology.

Four endangered Hawaiian monk seals were recently transported by NOAA researchers from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and brought to The Marine Mammal Center's monk seal hospital, Ke Kai Ola, where they will receive rehabilitative care.

«Every step of the way — from the moment they were rescued by NOAA researchers on a remote beach to their time at Ke Kai Ola to their release back to the wild — these Hawaiian monk seals will receive the best medical support available.»

Although the policy has a fairly detailed to - do list for NOAA researchers, it's vague on exactly how it plans to regulate the industry — just hinting, for example, that it will prefer «only native or naturalized species in federal waters» unless other species are proved to be safe to the ecosystem.

The first clues appeared in 2007, when NOAA researchers noticed occasional plumes of pollutants including methane, butane and propane in air samples taken from a 300 - metre - high atmospheric monitoring tower north of Denver.

The NOAA researchers worked out the general direction that the pollution was coming from by monitoring winds, and in 2008, the team took advantage of new equipment and drove around the region, sampling the air in real time.

Meanwhile, NOAA researchers» assessment placed 2017 as the third warmest year, reporting global average temperatures as 1.51 degrees F (0.84 degrees C) above average.

NOAA researchers, in a study published last month, said reduced fishing pressure — not a warmer Atlantic — is the reason more fluke are found further north.

A new study by NOAA researchers suggests future warming of ocean waters off the Northeastern U.S. may be greater and occur at an even faster rate than previously projected.

In June 2015, NOAA researchers led by Thomas Karl published a paper in the journal Science comparing the new and previous NOAA sea surface temperature datasets, finding that the rate of global warming since 2000 had been underestimated and there was no so - called «hiatus» in warming in the first fifteen years of the 21st century.

Using a model of endangered Atlantic salmon in Maine's Penobscot River as a case study, NOAA researchers found that abundance, distribution and number of fish increased upstream when dams in the primary downstream segments of the river, also called «mainstem dams,» were removed or fish passage survival was increased.

On the North Slope of Alaska, snow is melting earlier in the spring and the snow - in date is happening later in the fall, according to a new study by CIRES and NOAA researchers.

CIRES and NOAA researchers and their colleagues analyzed long - term observations of snow cover and meteorology at the NOAA Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory outside of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska, along with other records of environmental variables in the region.

NOAA has been the target of congressional scrutiny from Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas), who has launched an inquiry into a 2015 paper in Science prepared by NOAA researchers that disputed the existence of a recent slowdown in the rate of global warming.

NOAA researchers aren't sure if this creature falls in the genus Amperima or Peniagone.

And currently there are about 10 tall towers that monitor greenhouse gases, whereas the original plan for the measurement network called for around 35, said Arlyn Andrews, a NOAA researcher at the Earth System Research Laboratory who is responsible for the tall tower network and was a co-author on the paper.

Steps Beach at the Tres Palmas Marine Reserve has the best stand of Elk Horn coral close into an island in the world (according to the NOAA researcher who's been following it for over 15 years!).

In 2006, Salon.com reported that the Bush administration sought to have Landsea speak to the media about hurricanes and global warming while stifling another NOAA researcher, Tom Knutson, whose research did suggest a link.

As NOAA researcher Marty Hoerling told the media in July, drought plus heat «is just going to make a bad situation that much worse,» since higher temperatures dry soils out much more rapidly.

Not exact matches

«We know that in particular that [the regions around] Houston, Louisiana, and Florida are prone to some of the most extreme precipitation events in the United States,» said Sarah Kapnick, a researcher at NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

NOAA Fisheries can look to Howard's math department for interns and researchers.

The researchers used two NOAA datasets, one containing tornado reports and the other observation - based estimates of meteorological quantities associated with tornado outbreaks.

The request is also likely to zero out several EPA and NOAA programs that fund competitive grants for university - based researchers.

The researchers, from the University of New Hampshire's (UNH's) Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) in Durham and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), wanted to try sonar because its wide view can look at entire swaths of ocean at the same time.

Researchers at NOAA Fisheries Milford Laboratory in Milford, Connecticut began the two - year pilot project in June 2011.

Silver Award: Alex Kuffner The Providence Journal «Rising seas, rising stakes» Nov. 20, 2016 «Losing ground» March 19, 2017 «On the brink» July 9, 2017 Judges praised Alex Kuffner for his comprehensive look at the risks facing Rhode Island communities from either a once - in - a-century hurricane or a sea level rise of seven feet by the end of the century, as projected in a worst - case scenario by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

NOAA Fisheries researchers used the model to look at the impacts of 15 FERC - licensed hydroelectric dams in the Penobscot River watershed.

Photo of the related Opisthoteuthis californiana; image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons / Ed Bowlby, NOAA / Olympic Coast NMS; NOAA / OAR / Office of Ocean Exploration The many octopus species that live beyond the reach of vacationing snorkelers, scuba diving researchers and even near - shore commercial fisheries are relative unknowns compared with the more familiar shallow - water species.

Grace, who was part of that mission after the rare shark was collected, and upon uncovering the sample at the lab years later, recruited Tulane University researchers Michael Doosey and Henry Bart, and NOAA Ocean Service genetics expert Gavin Naylor, to give the specimen an up - close examination.

In future work, the researchers would like to improve the accuracy of their predictions to enhance the rogue wave prediction algorithms used by NOAA.

OSU participated in this expedition with researchers from a number of other universities, in work supported by Nova Southeastern University, the Guy Harvey Foundation, NOAA, and other agencies.

Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, energy researcher Jonathan Koomey, who wasn't involved in the work, agrees that the NOAA team's assumptions are generally cautious.

Researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Alaska Ecosystems Program announced findings this week that may explain what the marine mammals are looking for when they swim hundreds of kilometers from land in search of food.

Chris W. Landsea is a researcher at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory / Hurricane Research Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), located in Miami, Fla..

By remotely «combing» the atmosphere with a custom laser - based instrument, researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), have developed a new technique that can accurately measure — over a sizeable distance — amounts of several of the major «greenhouse» gases implicated in climate change.

The scientific team included researchers from NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, NOAA's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, the Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, the Bernice P. Bishop Museum, and Divers Alert Network.

Kinner just finished two days at a meeting of government officials and scientists from the EPA, the NOAA, the Coast Guard, and researchers from Canada and Norway.

«This year, our balloon - borne instruments measured nearly 100 percent ozone depletion in the layer above South Pole Station, Antarctica, that was 14 to 19 kilometers (9 to 12 miles) above Earth's surface,» said Bryan Johnson, a researcher at NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.

Each station is accompanied by thoughtful videos featuring researchers from organizations like NASA and NOAA explaining the connections to real - life science.

The researchers compared data collected during NOAA's Marine Resources Monitoring Assessment and Prediction Program from 1977 to 1987, with a similar NOAA data set from 1999 to 2008 that was collected by its Ecosystem Monitoring Program (which continues into the present).

In a paper published in Science today, researchers from ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University (JCU) and the University of Queensland (UQ), as well as the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) investigated what this warming pattern means for GBR coral bleaching events into the future.

Session attendee Colin Quinn helped draft NOAA's new policy, part of its revamped Scientific Integrity Policy, which has gotten a lot of envious looks from researchers on both sides of the border.

Researchers are currently making these measurements using the Limb Profiler instrument, part of Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite (OMPS) instrument, currently flying on the joint NASA / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)-RRB- / Department of Defense Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, launched in October 2011.

Led by researchers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Colorado, Boulder, the study estimates that natural - gas producers in an area known as the Denver - Julesburg Basin are losing about 4 % of their gas to the atmosphere — not including additional losses in the pipeline and distribution system.

«A single power plant has the potential to stress surface supplies in a local area,» said co-author James Meldrum, a researcher in the Western Water Assessment, a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and CIRES.

NOAA will also host a visiting scientist program open to foreign researchers.

The researchers, which include U.S. teams from NOAA, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the University of New Hampshire, will be collecting seismic data from this region by bouncing sound blasts off the sea floor to determine its sediment makeup, as well conducting a multibeam analysis that will give them an idea of the shape of the ridge.