Sentences with phrase «university ocean physics»

Cambridge University ocean physics professor Peter Wadhams offered an even grimmer picture in an interview with the BBC on Monday.

Cambridge University ocean physics professor Peter Wadhams points to changes in the waters of the Greenland Sea.

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The study forms part of the GATEWAYS (www.gateways-itn.eu) project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, coordinated by Rainer Zahn, a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) and the UAB's Department of Physics, and taking part in it was Martin Ziegler, a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences of the University of Cardiff (UK) and scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (UK).

Starting in the 3rd year of his 5 - year degree at the University of Vigo, Ourense, in Spain, Añel spent 4 hours a week in Luis Gimeno's Group of Atmospheric and Ocean Physics at the university's Department of Applied Physics, computing climate change quantifiers using simple parameters such as precipitation and air teUniversity of Vigo, Ourense, in Spain, Añel spent 4 hours a week in Luis Gimeno's Group of Atmospheric and Ocean Physics at the university's Department of Applied Physics, computing climate change quantifiers using simple parameters such as precipitation and air teuniversity's Department of Applied Physics, computing climate change quantifiers using simple parameters such as precipitation and air temperature.

That figure will rapidly increase each year as warmer temperatures thin permafrost, Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge and co-author of the economic impact study, wrote in an e-mail.

Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

«Earth is losing a huge amount of ice to the ocean annually, and these new results will help us answer important questions in terms of both sea rise and how the planet's cold regions are responding to global change,» said University of Colorado Boulder physics professor John Wahr, who helped lead the study.

Speakers: Prof Peter Wadhams, Professor of Ocean Physics, University of Cambridge Prof Chris Rapley, Professor of Climate Science, University College London Prof David Vaughan, Glaciologist, British Antarctic Survey Dr Seymour Laxon, Reader in Climate Physics, University College London Prof Jonathan Bamber, Director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre, University of Bristol

But luckily for the members of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at the University of Cambridge, gathering the data means lots of exciting field work in the Arctic!

A new modeling study by the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington, replaying last summer's Arctic Ocean ice conditions with and without the storm, shows that the short - term influence of all that ice churning probably played almost no role in the final ice retreat in September.

Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA

«The Earth is losing an incredible amount of ice to the oceans annually, and these new results will help us answer important questions in terms of both sea rise and how the planet's cold regions are responding to global change,» study researcher John Wahr, a professor of physics at the University of Colorado, said in a press release issued by the Boulder campus.

Since 2000 he teaches Physics of the Oceans as a professor at Potsdam University.

Peter Wadhams, President of the International Association on Sea Ice and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group / Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, says: «It is quite urgent that we recognize what is going on... the ice has been getting thinner over the last 40 years since I have been measuring it, and it has lost about one - half of its thickness... five years ago the shrinkage started to accelerate.

Zhang (Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington); 4.1 ± 0.6; Model This is based on numerical ensemble predictions starting on 6/1/2011 using the Pan-arctic Ice - Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS).

He served as professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1971 — 94); distinguished research professor at the Institute for Space Science and Technology, Gainesville, FL (1989 — 94); chief scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987 — 89); vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Oceans and Atmosphere (NACOA)(1981 — 86); deputy assistant administrator for policy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970 — 71); deputy assistant secretary for water quality and research, U.S. Department of the Interior (1967 — 70); founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami (1964 — 67); first director of the National Weather Satellite Service (1962 — 64); and director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Maryland (1953 — 62).

The ice volume data used here is the Pan-Arctic Ice Ocean Modeling and Assimilation System (PIOMAS) calculated by the Polar Science Center at the Applied Physics Laboratory of the University of Washington.

Peter Wadhams, professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, who was branded «alarmist» after he first detected «substantial thinning» of sea ice in 1990, said: «The entire ice cover is now on the point of collapse.»

The team, led by James Morison of the University of Washington's Polar Science Center Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, used data from an Earth - observing satellite and from deep - sea pressure gauges to monitor Arctic Ocean circulation from 2002 to 2006.

Dr. Peter Wadhams of the Polar Ocean Physics Group at Cambridge University told The Independent more than a year ago that the central part of the Arctic and the North Pole could be ice - free within one to two years.

But Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics at the University of Cambridge, UK, called the study careful and persuasive, and said: «I think it shows clearly that the so - called «hiatus» does not exist and that global warming has continued over the past few years at the same rate as in earlier years.»

Stefan Rahmstorf is Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University and Department Head at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

Trevor Murdock is a climate scientist with an undergraduate degree in Physics and Astronomy Co-op from the University of Victoria (1995) and a MSc in Earth and Ocean Sciences from the University of Victoria (1997).

«We don't get any money; we do this in our free time,» said Realclimate.org contributor Stefan Rahmstorf, an ocean physics scientist at Potsdam University in Germany.

Asked if he thought hitmen might have been behind the deaths, Prof Wadhams, who is Professor of ocean physics at Cambridge University, told The Telegraph: «Yes.

Peter Wadhams, a professor of ocean physics, said that Seymour Laxon of University College London, Katherine Giles also at UCL and Tim Boyd of the Scottish Association for Marine Science had been murdered, after all three died within a few months of each other in 2013.

Mojib Latif is a Professor of Climate Physics at Kiel University and Head of the Ocean Circulation and Climate Dynamics Division of the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Germany.