Sentences with phrase «university atmospheric sciences»

Texas A&M University atmospheric sciences professor John Nielsen - Gammon said recently that models he's analyzed show temperatures rising as much as 1 degree each decade, meaning that by 2060, temperatures around the state would be 5 degrees hotter than now.

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Darin Toohey, a professor at the University of Colorado's atmospheric and oceanic sciences department and one of the paper's authors, says black carbon absorbs shortwave radiation from the sun, causing the atmosphere to heat up.

Originally from St. Louis, Timm graduated with a bachelor's degree in atmospheric science and an MBA in finance from the University of Missouri - Columbia.

On Sunday, February 18 at 5:15 p.m., atmospheric scientist Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, will discuss «When Facts Are Not Enough.»

Her interest in science persisted, leading her eventually to a Ph.D. in atmospheric science, in 2000, from the University of Washington, Seattle.

«Clouds are one of the major feedbacks in cooling and heating the surface» of the ice, said Nate Miller, an atmospheric science graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

These findings illustrate one way geoengineering could be «potentially hazardous,» said Jim Haywood, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Exeter and a lead author on the study.

Jonathan Foley, an associate professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, likes to think that he's on a hot streak.

An increasing body of research reveals that these weather events can be linked to loss of sea ice in the Arctic, said Charles Greene, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell University, who contributed to the article.

So climatologist James Elsner of Florida State University in Tallahassee and his colleagues looked for ties between hurricane tracks and the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), a seesaw shift in atmospheric pressures over the ocean (Science, 12 February 1999, p. 948).

«Both the mosquitos that transmit Zika and the virus itself are climate - sensitive,» said co-author Ángel Muñoz, a postdoctoral research associate in atmospheric and oceanic science at Princeton University, in an email.

And by carefully measuring and modeling the resulting changes in atmospheric composition, scientists could improve their estimate of how sensitive Earth's climate is to CO2, said lead author Joyce Penner, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Michigan whose work focuses on improving global climate models and their ability to model the interplay between clouds and aerosol particles.

«This is the first time we have seen atmospheric bands and waves in brown dwarfs,» said lead author Daniel Apai, associate professor of astronomy and planetary sciences at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

New research published today in Nature Geoscience by Richard Zeebe, professor at the University of Hawai'i — Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST), and colleagues looks at changes of Earth's temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) since the end of the age of the dinosaurs.

The study shows, with 90 percent confidence, that such extreme summers in Australia are five times more likely due to an increase in greenhouse gases, said paper co-author David Karoly, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Melbourne and the Australian Research Council Center of Excellence for Climate System Science.

The findings reveal a crucial and underappreciated role that animals have in ocean chemistry on a global scale, explained first author Daniele Bianchi, a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University who began the project as a doctoral student of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at Princeton.

University of Georgia geography and atmospheric sciences researchers provide the first detailed climatological analysis of Southeastern atmospheric rivers in a new study published in the International Journal of Climatology.

«It's almost like it's a new ball game every year between March and May,» says John Wallace, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Washington.

When at sea, we were treated to some 25 sessions with a diverse faculty, including Larry Cahill, neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine; Robert Fovell, atmospheric and oceanic scientist at U.C.L.A.; James Gillies, head of communications at CERN; Peter Smith, professor emeritus of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona; and David Stevenson, planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology.

«OH tends to get ignored a bit in discussions even in the science community,» says Michael Newland, an atmospheric chemist who recently completed a postdoc at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K.

These categories describe two low - probability but statistically significant scenarios that could play out by century's end, in a new study by Veerabhadran Ramanathan, a distinguished professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego, and his former Scripps graduate student Yangyang Xu, now an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

In the current issue of Science (vol 269, p 822) Asish Basu of the University of Rochester, Robert Poreda, and colleagues from the US and Russia report that the ratio of helium - 3 to helium - 4 in Siberian rocks is up to 12.7 times the atmospheric value.

«The two groups took turns setting up their posters,» says participant Dave Randall, professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University.

«We found high levels of PCBs in a region of the world where we wouldn't expect to find them,» says Rosalinda Gioia, an atmospheric pollution researcher at Lancaster University, UK, and the lead author of the report of the high levels in Environmental Science & Technology.

Paul Dirmeyer, a professor in the department of atmospheric, oceanic and earth sciences at George Mason University who was not involved in the study, notes: «Green et al. put forward an intriguing and exciting new idea, expanding our measures of land - atmospheric feedbacks from mainly a phenomenon of the water and energy cycles to include the biosphere, both as a response to climate forcing and a forcing to climate response.»

«We then combined and analyzed the data for each intersection to create high - resolution maps of pollutant concentrations along the blocks,» said Choi, an assistant professor of environmental atmospheric sciences at South Korea's Pusan National University.

Defining those linkages, however, is an obviously complex task, according to Ross Salawitch, a University of Maryland, College Park, professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences and another principal investigator.

«It may even be possible to predict sea ice cover a year in advance with high - quality observations of sea ice thickness and snow cover over the whole Arctic,» said Cecilia Bitz, co-author and professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.

«What they've done is identify the chain of events from seeding to precipitation on the ground, which has been sorely needed for the last 80 years,» says William Cotton, a former professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University in Fort Collins who was not involved with the research.

John Cushman, Purdue University distinguished professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary science and a professor of mathematics, presented the research findings «Redox reactions in immiscible - fluids in porous media — membraneless battery applications» at the recent International Society for Porous Media 9th International Conference in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Another video of the fireball streaking through the sky was captured by a camera on the roof of the University of Wisconsin - Madison's atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences building.

John Cushman, Purdue University distinguished professor of earth, atmospheric and planetary science and a professor of mathematics, is commercializing a technology that could provide an «instantly rechargeable» method forelectric and hybrid vehicle batteries through a quick and easy process similar to refueling a car at a gas station.

«We can do something about this,» said Donald Wuebbles, a co-author and professor of atmospheric science at the University of Illinois.

Smit, a professor in UBC's department of earth, ocean & atmospheric sciences, and colleague, professor Klaus Mezger of the University of Bern, were aware that the composition of continents also changed during this period.

The research team led by Yoshitaka Oishi of Fukui Prefectural University and Professor Tsutomu Hiura of Hokkaido University's Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere studied how bryophytes can be a tool for evaluating complex atmospheric conditions in urban areas.

The analysis, led by Scot Miller, a doctoral student in atmospheric science at Harvard University, points to underestimates in emissions from livestock and fossil fuel activities as the primary reason for the disparity.

«The [Europeans] are better at this because their simulation system is better, and they use more data than we do,» says Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington.

«My thesis advisor, Prof Marcia Baker at the University of Washington [UW, Seattle], instilled in me the importance of knowing what specific question you are trying to answer,» writes Majeed, who did a Ph.D. at UW Seattle in atmospheric sciences, in an e-mail.

Meredith Hastings, an atmospheric chemist at Brown University and co-principal investigator on a $ 1.1 million National Science Foundation grant aimed at curbing sexual harassment in the geosciences, says she is «excited that [Boston] University is stepping forward and taking some type of action — that they were able to come to the conclusion that he has harassed her.»

The center, which sits in a research park developed by the University of Maryland, will also oversee a partnership with the school that will pair undergraduates studying atmospheric and oceanic science with federal researchers, and enable the students to become government - certified meteorologists and oceanographers.

Though the list of known toxins released into the air keeps expanding, it doesn't deter the ongoing investigations of Thomas Cahill, a professor of physics and atmospheric sciences at the University of California at Davis.

A study published this year by Bradley Udall, senior water and climate research scientist with the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University, and Jonathan Overpeck, professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, found that during the drought years of 2000 - 2014, the river surrendered a third of its flow because of higher temperatures in the upper basin.

The IBM system, operated by NCAR and supported by funding from the NSF and the University of Wyoming, is one of the world's most powerful computers specifically dedicated to research in the atmospheric and related sciences.

«I've been doing some Bali simulations with the U.K. Met office climate model as «what ifs», and also some geo - engineering simulations,» said Jim Haywood, professor of atmospheric science at the University of Exeter.

However, Prof Michael Mann, distinguished professor of atmospheric science at Penn State University, who wasn't involved in the study, says the researchers may have got their conclusion the wrong way around.

He received his B.A. from Rutgers College and both his M.S. (1988) and Ph.D. (1991) in atmospheric sciences from New York University.

Katharine Hayhoe is an atmospheric scientist who is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University.

Michael Mann — Professor, atmospheric science, Director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State Uniscience, Director, Earth System Science Center, Penn State UniScience Center, Penn State University

Sherwood, Steven Steven Sherwood is a Professor of atmospheric sciences at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a contributing author to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.

«What virtually every major science organization is warning us about is worrisome,» said Marshall Shepherd, a past - president of the American Meteorological Society and professor of atmospheric science at the University of Georgia.