Sentences with phrase «anthropogenic pollutants»

Motivated by basic and applied questions, our research seeks to understand the sources, fate and ecological implications of anthropogenic pollutants in freshwater and marine ecosystems.

As we increase the amount of anthropogenic pollutants in the air, we trap heat within our atmosphere.

She notes that VOCs, natural components of the atmosphere, react with other anthropogenic pollutants (particularly nitrogen oxides) to form these greenhouse gases.

Next, the researchers will be looking at how anthropogenic pollutants, by modifying the PDO and large scale weather systems, have affected precipitation in the Southwest United States, including Southern California.

«The reversal of the PDO, in turn, may be related to the global increase in anthropogenic pollutant emissions prior to the ~ early 1980s,» Allen said.

Dr. John Shilling and Dr. Jiumeng Liu synthesized the brown carbon particles by mixing the common anthropogenic pollutant toluene with nitrogen oxides inside PNNL's environmental chamber.

The main anthropogenic pollutant is carbon dioxide, which is emitted by burning fossil fuels.

As the ice sheets melt due to climate change, they have the potential not only to increase sea level, but also pollute the environment around them through the release of other anthropogenic pollutants that have accumulated in them.»

Mammals are likely to be susceptible to the potential effects of anthropogenic pollutants and global warming.

«Although this widening is considered a «natural» mode of climate variability, implying tropical widening is primarily driven by internal dynamics of the climate system, we also show that anthropogenic pollutants have driven trends in the PDO,» Allen said.

It also includes, the researchers say, anthropogenic pollutants, which act to modify the PDO.

«Thus, tropical widening is related to both the PDO and anthropogenic pollutants.»

«Although the PDO is considered a «natural» mode of climate variability, implying tropical widening is primarily driven by internal dynamics of the climate system, we also show that anthropogenic pollutants have driven trends in the PDO,» Allen said.

UC Riverside - led research points to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and anthropogenic pollutants

This variability includes the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (a long - lived El Niño - like pattern of Pacific climate variability) and anthropogenic pollutants, which act to modify the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.