Sentences with phrase «noaa study»

Meanwhile, on the foreign - policy front, the NOAA study projects «tensions between governments in the East and West [will] begin to fray as it is becoming clear that an entirely new level of commitment» — read: huge amounts of money — «will probably be needed to address the relationship between people and the planet.»

A NOAA study published in October 2011 showed that there was strong evidence that the recent prolonged period of drought in the Mediterranean littoral area, including the Middle East, is linked to climate change.

The deadly Russian heat wave of 2010 was due to a natural atmospheric phenomenon often associated with weather extremes, according to a new NOAA study.

His statement to The Daily Mail comes amid an investigation into the NOAA study by House Republicans on the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

The new study, published in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday, used an independent dataset of ocean temperatures to check the NOAA study.

The NOAA study, published in the prestigious journal Science, found that the slowdown in global warming never actually happened.

The «Watt's Up With That» blog fisks the NOAA study thoroughly.

All that is to say, the real lesson from last month's paper, as with the NOAA study before it, is that science is working, methodically grappling with the most complex problems of our time and inching closer to something we can understand as truth.

In 2015, the much - discussed NOAA study challenged earlier findings that said warming had slowed in the 21st century.

According to John Fyfe, senior research scientist at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modeling and Analysis, and the paper's 11 co-authors, the NOAA study failed to find evidence of a slowdown primarily because its methods were to compare this century's warming data against a 50 - year baseline, from 1950 to 1999.

According to a report in The Mail on Sunday, NOAA scientist Dr. John Bates has produced «irrefutable evidence» that the NOAA study denying the «pause» in global warming in the period since 1998 was based on false and misleading data.

This parallels a recent NOAA study of atmospheric methane measurements that found that «methane emissions from natural gas as a fraction of production have declined from approximately 8 per cent to approximately 2 per cent over the past three decades» — with production soaring in recent years.

The NOAA study was published in June 2015 by the journal Science under the title «Possible artifacts of data biases in the recent global surface warming hiatus.»

The announcement comes as research published by the National Academies shows that extreme heat waves can be attributed with near - certainty to climate change; a NOAA study links global warming to toxic algae blooms; and paleoclimatic research shows that Antarctic glaciers fluctuated with ancient CO2 levels, raising sea level tens of meters when CO2 levels were just 500 ppm.

Editor's note: This post was updated on Sept. 8, 2016, with results from a NOAA study on the Baton Rouge flood.

This issue is so important that a NOAA study is underway called «Temperature Trends in the Lower Atmosphere: Steps for Understanding and Reconciling Differences».

This NOAA study was widely mocked, quickly debunked and is now the subject of a Congressional investigation by Rep Lamar Smith.

Indeed the NSIDC / NOAA study I wrote about in February on methane release by the land - based permafrost itself doesn't even incorporate the carbon released by the permafrost carbon feedback into its warming model!

The NOAA study found sea levels rising at more than double the rate estimated during the 20th century, increasing to more than 0.13 inch annually.

Bates accused the NOAA study's lead author, Thomas Karl, of using unverified data sets, ignoring necessary agency procedures and failing to archive his research in a «blatant attempt to intensify the impact» of the study ahead of the climate conference.

But a NOAA study says CFC - 11 emissions began to rise after 2012.

«NOAA study finds fishing tops U.S. lightning death activities.»

The 2015 NOAA study «used flawed data, was rushed to publication in an effort to support the president's climate change agenda, and ignored NOAA's own standards for scientific study,» Smith said in a statement.

Not exact matches

Now, a new study, published in Science Advances, has confirmed what NOAA first discovered in 2015 — the oceans are indeed warming, and faster than we thought.

«At this point it's really uncertain if there's any detectable human influence on any hurricane or tropical cyclone metric,» Tom Knutson, an NOAA meteorologist who studies hurricanes, told Vox in October.

«At this point it's really uncertain if there's any detectable human influence on any hurricane or tropical cyclone metric,» Tom Knutson, an NOAA meteorologist who studies hurricanes, says.

Center for Coastal Studies image taken under NOAA permit 633-1763 under the authority of the U.S. Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act

«This state - funded study in cooperation with NOAA will help us understand how small particles in the air affect precipitation and hydropower generation.

Richard Brodeur, a NOAA fisheries oceanographer and author on the study, said that while most of these fish will adapt to their new surroundings, some will move into less habitable waters with perhaps less available food.

It is more than half a world of circumnavigation away,» said Ryan Spackman, a NOAA atmospheric scientist familiar with the study.

Adds Harold Brooks, senior scientist at NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory, who was not involved with this project, «The study is important because it addresses one of the hypotheses that has been raised to explain the observed change in number of tornadoes in outbreaks.

The study was partially funded by Columbia University Research Initiatives for Science and Engineering (RISE) award; the Office of Naval Research; NOAA's Climate Program Office's Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections; Willis Research Network; and the National Science Foundation.

Aquarius must compete with other NOAA programs for a slice of the agency's annual budget of about $ 5.1 billion, most of it devoted to weather and satellite studies.

An example of such translational engagement is the NOAA - funded Climate Impacts Group at the University of Washington, Seattle, which studies the impacts of climate change on water, fishery, coastal, and forest resources in the Pacific Northwest.

The test is made up of 38 multiple choice assessment items that were originally developed by Project 2061 as part of a study funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

To get some idea of what climate change will likely mean for the reefs, the World Heritage Centre asked coral experts at NOAA and elsewhere to produce what they claim is a first of its kind study «that scientifically quantifies the scale of the issue, makes a prediction of where the future lies, and indicates effects up to the level of individual sites,» says Fanny Douvere, marine program coordinator at the center.

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.

«We found that there was a surface temperature impact due to changes in water vapor in a fairly narrow region of the stratosphere,» explains research meteorologist Karen Rosenlof of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Aeronomy Laboratory, one of the authors of the study.

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.

To conduct the study, the scientists used international data from 1982 to 2012, collected by NOAA's National Climactic Data Center.

«The pocket shark we found was only 5 and a half inches long, and was a recently born male,» said Mark Grace of NOAA Fisheries» Pascagoula, Miss., Laboratory, lead author of the new study, who noted the shark displayed an unhealed umbilical scar.

The so - called hiatus was disproved by a team of NOAA climate scientists in a 2015 study that found the data set supporting a pause was inaccurate because it relied on different methods of temperature collection.

According to a study published in the journal Conservation Biology by a group of scientists from the University of Notre Dame, Resources for the Future, U.S. Forest Service, University of Michigan and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Laboratory, if bighead and silver carp were to establish in Lake Erie, local fish biomass is not likely to change beyond observations recorded in the last 3 decades.

It was collected in the deep sea about 190 miles offshore Louisiana during a 2010 mission by the NOAA Ship Pisces to study sperm whale feeding.

«There is a lot of potential innovation with hybrid approaches,» said Katya Wowk, Ph.D., NOAA senior social scientist, and the third co-author of the study.

The rapid northerly shifts in spawning may offer a preview of future conditions if ocean warming continues, according to the new study published in Global Change Biology by scientists from the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Oregon State University and NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries Science Center.

«Coastal resiliency and disaster risk reduction have become a national priority, and healthy coastal ecosystems play an important role in building resilient communities,» said Holly Bamford, Ph.D., acting assistant secretary of commerce for conservation and management at NOAA, and co-author of the study.

«We have toxic algae events that result in shellfish closures off the Washington and Oregon coast every three to five years or so, but none of them have been as large as this one,» said lead author Ryan McCabe, a research scientist at the UW's Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, a collaborative center with NOAA.

The study by NOAA Fisheries scientists is the first to analyze changes in fish populations sea lions prey on for clues as to what is causing the record strandings.

But Richard Feely of NOAA, a co-author on the study, says that the site serves as a «harbinger» for what global seas will be experiencing decades hence.