Sentences with phrase «pnnl earth systems scientist»

This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.

«This kind of long - term time series is really essential to understanding global environmental change,» says Carrie Masiello, an Earth systems scientist at Rice University in Houston, Texas, who was not involved in the study.

Warmer weather may increase the frequency of an unusual climatic condition called a rain - on - snow event, says earth system scientist Jaakko Putkonen of the University of Washington, Seattle.

«It's a true firestorm — extremely fast moving, generating its own weather conditions, and burning literally everything in its path,» Daniel Swain, a climate earth system scientist at Stanford University, said.

«The paper correctly highlights that other human stressors, not only the climate ones, are very important for long - term sustainability, including the need to reduce inequality», said Carlos Nobre (not a co-author), one of the world's leading Earth System scientists, who recently won the prestigious Volvo Environment Prize in Sustainability for his role in understanding and protecting the Amazon.

«The WRI commentary is correct,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra who is also executive director of the Global Carbon Project, which tracks greenhouse gas pollution.

«There is no doubt that the authors have made a significant step forward» in characterizing China's emissions, and the country's effort to improve the quality of its climate data «is very welcome,» says Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Canberra.

Josep Canadell, an earth system scientist at Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Canberra, calls the study «a very significant step» in understanding the health implications of international trade.

«[This] study has important global implications, because we know early plants cooled the climate and increased the oxygen level in the Earth's atmosphere,» conditions that supported the expansion of terrestrial animal life, says Tim Lenton, an earth system scientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom who was not involved with the work.

«Less spatially detailed models often struggle to simulate the jet stream's complex behavior,» said Dr. Jian Lu, PNNL Earth systems scientist, lead author of the paper.

If we listen to what Earth system scientists, including climate scientists, are telling us, the warming of the Earth due to human causes is a slowly unfolding catastrophe.

The two scientists collaborated on an essay for a newsletterfor Earth systems scientists.

For we have entered a new phase of the world, termed the Anthropocene by the world's Earth system scientists.

«International efforts all center on what we emit every year, but that misses the point,» said Steven Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine, and the study's co-author.

This is the first time anyone has examined regional climate change in the central United States by directly comparing the influence of greenhouse gas emissions to agriculture, says Nathan Mueller, an earth systems scientist at the University of California (UC), Irvine, who was not involved with this study.

«Given the quantifiable impacts of climate change in India and other developing nations in the coming decades, both rich and poor countries should be ramping up our efforts to combat global climate change instead of turning our backs on commitments we have made to the international community,» said Steven J. Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California Irvine and one of the partners in the Science Advances study.

The Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) community unifies early career researchers in an influential network and communication platform to promote local and global exchange across multiple disciplines related to Earth system sciences.

Moreover, Earth System scientists have been telling us that it is no longer possible to isolate the climate system from the rest of the Earth system.

So profound has been the influence of humans that Earth system scientists have proposed that the Earth has entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.

«North Greenland glaciers are changing rapidly,» said Jeremie Mouginot, an earth system scientist at the University of California, Irvine, who led the study.

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Many of the transitions in the DO and Bond cycles were rapid and abrupt, and they are being studied intensely by paleoclimatologists and Earth system scientists to understand the driving mechanisms of such dramatic climatic variations.

However, orbital forcing is by itself insufficient to explain all of this variation, and Earth system scientists are focusing their attention on the interactions and feedbacks between the myriad components of the Earth system.

Not exact matches

Elon Musk's far - fetched plan not only to get humans to Mars, but to inhabit it, has evidently driven interest in the Red Planet: A team of NASA scientists will talk about the challenges of living on Earth's neighbor, while Lockheed Martin and NASA will combine to talk about the interplanetary travel systems that will take us there.

Studying storms such as this and comparing them to similar events on other planets (think Jupiter's Great Red Spot) help scientists better understand weather patterns throughout the solar system, even here on Earth.

We need to revise our economies «to reduce wealth inequality and ensure that prices, taxation, and incentive systems take into account the real costs which consumption patterns impose on our environment,» the scientists said, adding: «We must recognize, in our day - to - day lives and in our governing institutions, that Earth with all its life is our only home.»

The cyclones were discovered as the Juno spacecraft made the first of at least 12 planned close encounters with Jupiter, which scientists believe set the stage for the development of Earth and other planets in the solar system.

If successful, scientists could determine if Alpha Centauri, a star system about 25 trillion miles away, contains an Earth - like planet capable of sustaining life.

As the craft continues to transmit photos back to Earth, scientists are learning more about the fascinating dwarf planet at the edge of our solar system.

Collaboration with Earth scientists to identify the systems — from climate science, materials science, biology, and other areas — which can be codified to apply reinforcement learning for scientific progress and discovery is vital.

Be it in the form of solar system supporting life on planet earth or in the works of a scientist who is researching, Creativity a force, a constance presence is eternally at work.

Scientists know that the Earth exists because of the sun, as well as the other planets and debris floating around in the solar system.

Nevertheless, scientists have been able to determine the probable age of the Solar System and to calculate an age for the Earth by assuming that the Earth and the rest of the solid bodies in the Solar System formed at the same time and are, therefore, of the same age.

When scientists weren't advanced enough to realize these things were based upon the rotation of the earth and solar system, they rationalized that someone powerful was orchestrating it.

The rare spectacle of a total solar eclipse has given scientists throughout history fleeting opportunities to delve into everything from the sun's chemistry to Einsteinian relativity to Earth's place in the solar system.

Most scientists think that the moon formed in the earliest days of the solar system, around 4.5 billion years ago, when a Mars - sized protoplanet called Theia whacked into the young Earth.

Murali Haran, a professor in the department of statistics at Penn State University; Won Chang, an assistant professor in the department of mathematical sciences at the University of Cincinnati; Klaus Keller, a professor in the department of geosciences and director of sustainable climate risk management at Penn State University; Rob Nicholas, a research associate at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University; and David Pollard, a senior scientist at Earth and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn State University detail how parameters and initial values drive an ice sheet model, whose output describes the behavior of the ice sheet through time.

The collection will help scientists to better understand not only how the atmospheres of the outer planets function, but also the atmospheres of Earth and planets beyond the solar system.

Scientists could seek to understand the subtle pressure of light that causes asteroids to change their spin, and could retrieve samples for dating and chemical analysis that would offer a clearer picture of Solar System material than do meteorites, which, although they are pieces of asteroids, are altered during their fall through Earth's atmosphere.

It was conducted by a team of scientists at the University of Colorado, Boulder, the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory.

Scientists hope that studying asteroids might reveal more about the evolution of the solar system, as well as the origin of life on Earth.

Using an earth system modeling approach, Deutsch and scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and the Georgia Institute of Technology mapped out changing oxygen levels across the world's oceans through the end of the 21st century.

«We're actually changing and continuing to change how the Earth system functions and leaving markers that could still be found in a million years time,» says Earth scientist Karen Bacon of the University of Leeds in England.

Southwest Research Institute scientists posit a violent birth of the tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos, but on a much smaller scale than the giant impact thought to have resulted in the Earth - Moon system.

In the past year scientists have been forced to reconsider how they identify life in the most ancient rocks on earth — and elsewhere in the solar system

In addition to the analysis published in Nature Climate Change, the scientists working under the Global Carbon Project umbrella published a more detailed technical analysis of the world's CO2 emissions yesterday in the journal Earth System Science Data Discussions.

This in turn helps scientists understand the processes by which Earth's tectonic plates are built, as well as the deep plumbing of volcanic systems.

The information the craft sends back to Earth should give scientists valuable clues to how the solar system formed and where Earth got its chemicals.

As more and more of the Earth's surface sees these traditional biological zones transformed into «anthropogenic biomes» dominated by humans, Earth - system scientists expect the planet's functioning to become steadily more unstable.

Scientists have long pondered how rocky bodies in the solar system — including our own Earth — got their metal cores.